Connie, The reason is now clear, he had not updated Legacy!
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ Connie Sheets wrote: > Ward, > > That is curious because I'm not having that problem at all. I too > just experimented with another GEDCOM 5.5 export, to make sure what I > had tried yesterday worked with different templates. Specifically, I > exported an individual and about 40 of his descendants in 5.5 format, > then imported into RM4 from the GEDCOM. With a SourceWriter template > for E-mail > Grouped by correspondent, my citation in Legacy looks > like this: > > Martha Doe, Decatur, Illinois [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE,] to > Connie Sheets, e-mail, 15 Sep 1994, "More Allen/Slatten"; privately > held by Sheets; citing "a Casey Co., KY History by Faye Bastin Paivey > Cornett, publ. in 1992." > > In RootsMagic, it looks like this: > > Doe, Martha, E-mail correspondence with Connie Sheets. Privately held > by Sheets, Martha Doe, Decatur, Illinois [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE > USE,] to Connie Sheets, e-mail<; privately held by Sheets., 15 Sep > 1994>, "More Allen/Slatten,"..citing "a Casey Co., KY History by Faye > Bastin Paivey Cornett, publ. in 1992." > > Badly scrambled, yes, but everything is there. No details (or text > comments) are missing. > > Looking at the GEDCOM file itself, I can see why someone might think > the details are missing, because the source at the beginning of the > file looks like this: > > 0 @S818@ SOUR > 1 ABBR Correspondence: Doe, Martha > 1 TITL E-mail correspondence with Connie Sheets. Privately held b > 2 CONC y Sheets, Martha Pulliam, Decatur, Illinois [(E-ADDRESS) FO > 2 CONC R PRIVATE USE,] to Connie Sheets, e-mail<; privately held b > 2 CONC y Sheets. > 1 AUTH Doe, Martha > > The details are stored with the individual, as I presume they should > be, for example: > > 1 NAME James /ALLEN/ > 2 GIVN James > 2 SURN ALLEN > 2 SOUR @S818@ > 3 PAGE 15 Sep 1994>, "More Allen/Slatten," > 3 QUAY 3 > 3 DATA > 4 TEXT citing "a Casey Co., KY History by Faye Bastin Paivey Corne > 5 CONC tt, publ. in 1992." > > It still seems to me the issue is not Legacy's ability to create a > GEDCOM that contains all of the information; the issue is most likely > a "receiving program" issue. [Although perhaps Legacy can do > something to ease the problem, it isn't true the details do not > export, at least on my set-up] with the templates I have looked at so > far. > > Connie > > Ward Walker wrote: > > "Dave, Ron, and Connie, > > I just tried a 1-individual GEDCOM 5.5 export. The > source details were completely missing from the SW-originated > citations, > although the text from the Text/Comments tab of the Detail was > present. (The source details from a Basic-originated citation were > not missing.) The 2 SW templates involved in this test were: Internet > > Website, generic (as in Dave's test) and Email > Grouped by > corresponent. > > The templates that I had investigated last year all > had the details in the export. I don't recall if I looked at these 2. > Perhaps > Legacy has changed such that details are now missing for ALL > templates! If so, a > serious, but understandable, problem has evolved into a major > defect. > > Ward > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
