As far as I know, you should have no problems with the use of the ? with gedcoms. I use Legacy and transfer information similar to my TNG website and the ? comes across just fine. You can search for every instance of ? in your database and you know where you have missing names.
What you might want to do is to download the free version of PAF, since you are concerned how your transfer would come across from Legacy to PAF, and experiment a bit with that. Just a suggestion... Jerry Boor - http://www.MerriamFamilyTree.org On 03/15/2012 09:41 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Thanks David, I'd never have thought that Legacy would accept just a question > mark in a field and propagate it into charts and GEDCOMS. That's the best > scheme yet for my private and other Legacy users, but it might not propagate > quietly to programs like PAF and database trees in LDS or Ancestry, which I > can't test. > > kb > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David C Abernathy"<[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:12:26 PM > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Persons with only assumed/acquired surnames > > I use what info I have about the couple, i.e., "Mary ?" or "? Smith". Then > add in (Wife of John Smith), or (Husband of Jane Doe). YES, I use question > (?) marks instead of "Unknown" > > This helps in finding the person within the database, and tells me that more > research is needed when seeing them listed with the person index of the > program. > > I have NOT had issues with any GEDCOM files in doing this. When I find more > data, all I need to do edit the name. Yes it may look funny within a pedigree > chart and some reports, but the message come across loud and clear. I have > had people comment that they saw that I was missing the information, because > they saw what I had done. The use of some of the other suggest methods, do > not make them stand out, so that others may offer some help. > > > > > 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 > > 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
