James, With respect, you are absolutely wrong. It is recognised by all that since the GEDCOM has been around since the Stone Age it is now so out dated, and unable to recognise modern formats and conventions, that is is of very limited use.
There is little or no movement to change it, nor is a successor on the horizon, so it will become increasingly more unfit for purpose. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: James Cook Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: Determining and Defining Types of Sources On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Sherry/Support <[email protected]> wrote: > That's because other programs don't support SourceWriter features. > It's not defined in the gedcom standards. I respectfully disagree with this phrasing. The statements I would agree are factual, but I disagree with the point of view. The way I look at it is that Source Writer does/did not appreciate/accommodate the GEDCOM standard when it was developed. Like it or not, GEDCOM is still a widely used method of sharing ones data, and the mistake that was made was that the developers of Source Writer seemed to ignore it. As an example, there is no way to upload a Legacy file to Ancestry.com. It accepts GEDCOM only. > However, your sources will be exported in the standard Gedcom format > for sources and they will import just fine into other programs. It's true that it exports something, and that something will be imported just fin. The problem with it, and the reason for my caution, is that (perhaps arguably) the conversion from Source Writer to GEDCOM is horrible. The more I share with 3rd parties, the more I consider dropping Source Writer and going with the Basic system. As my caution was directly related to sharing the data via GEDCOM, I still think it is a fair warning to proceed with caution with Source Writer. -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
