James, I looked at my data again, and found most (but not all) of the people in my file had a name (e.g. Paul Gray) and a sort string (e.g. Gray, Paul) in the address associated with their individual record. Nothing else like street, city, province. I never input this, not sure how it got there, but it's there nonetheless. I had been focussing on those few records where I had addresses related to events, never thought of looking at individuals.
It's turning out to be a bit of a non issue, because I am importing into FTM2009 and it doesn't seem to handle the ADDR tag very well anyway, as it doesn't have the 'full address' that Legacy has (or at least I couldn't find it). So, I will take your suggestion about excluding the address information from the export, and manually input the few that I have. And I'll reconsider putting hospital names, cemetery names and their addresses into the location field. (No need to hash out the pros and cons of this, it's been covered in detail before). Thanks, Paul Gray -----Original Message----- From: James Cook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: January-16-11 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incorrect Extra GEDCOM Tags Are you sure it's a problem with Living people, or perhaps its with people you've added address information for (which is likely just living people, right?). At any rate, when exporting your GEDCOM, there's a customize button in the lower right. From there you can check the box to EXCLUDE address information. On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Paul Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Using Legacy 7.4.0.45 Win7 64 Bit > > When creating a GEDCOM 5.5 I am getting the 'full name' repeated twice at > the end the end of each individual, with incorrect tags. The first is an > ADDR tag, the second is an _NAME tag. The name is the same as the NAME tag > near the beginning, but it does not have slashes around the surname. > > Also, this only happens to living people, but it appears to be happening to > all living people. > > The NAME, GIVN, and SURN tags are present and correct. > > Example: > > 1 NAME Paul /Gray/ > 2 GIVN Paul > 2 SURN Gray > > Other tags (e.g. birth date, birth location) deleted for privacy, then at > the end of the person....... > > 1 ADDR Paul Gray > 2 _NAME Paul Gray > > Has anybody else experienced this or know of a way to stop it? > > > Thanks, > Paul Gray > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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 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
