That was something I did not know about TMG which I used for a few months and then changed over to Legacy. I will be interested to hear if he can do what you want, it is worth knowing that it can be done. My apologies too, I just went back through your original post and I see you did say that you had received the file from a TMG user who had converted it to Legacy. I did not see that when I replied, I just looked at Sherry's reply and then yours to her. Mea culpa
Colin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Crockett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 5:00 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Baptism event > Let me be a bit clearer. > > I just made contact with a 6th cousin. Prior to this neither of us knew of > each other's existence. He uses TMG and kindly used some function in TMG > to make a Legacy compatible file. I don't know if he did this as a GEDCOM > or what, but he downloaded the Legacy program and sent me a Legacy file > with his family data. The only problem I had was with the baptisms. I have > just emailed him to see if he did it through a GEDCOM and if so, could he > re-import it into Legacy using the steps Sherry suggested. > > Regards, > > Jennifer > http://colston-wenck.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Colin Liddell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, 20 April 2012 3:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Baptism event > > Jennifer, unless I am misreading what you have written, it would appear > that > the file (Legacy) you received is setup the way the other person likes > Legacy to be, so I should not think they would want to change their Legacy > settings for you. > I think in this case it is up to you to change the file settings now that > you have the file. > If it was a GEDCOM file sent to you, then it is a fair ask. > Please let me know if I have read this wrong and that you can send a > Legacy > file as Sherry suggested they do with a GEDCOM. > > Colin. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jennifer Crockett" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:16 AM > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Baptism event > > >>I understand, Sherry, but I did not receive the file as a GEDCOM, but as a >>Legacy file. I will ask the person who sent it if he can do it again using >>the settings you suggest. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jennifer >> >> From: Sherry/Support [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, 20 April 2012 12:32 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Baptism event >> >> Legacy imported correctly. >> When you're doing the import, click on the Customize button and select >> the >> option "Convert the GEDCOM tab BAPM to CHR while importing" >> Then those events will be correctly imported into Legacy. >> If you leave it as BAPM, the data imports as an event. >> The Help file for 'GEDCOM Items to Import: states >> Baptism versus Christening >> Some genealogy programs export christening information into a GEDCOM file >> using the BAPM tag instead of CHR. You can have Legacy put this >> information into the Christening fields during the import rather than >> having a Baptism event created in the Event List by selecting this >> option. >> >> >> >> If you created a new file with the gedcom (as you always should before >> importing that into your main Family File), just delete that import and >> start over. >> >> If you imported directly into your Family File, restore the backup you >> created before you did the import and try again with the setting >> mentioned >> above. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> Sherry >> Technical Support >> Legacy Family Tree >> >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Jennifer Crockett >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have received a file from a TMG user who converted it into a Legacy >> compatible file. I opened it as a separate Legacy file and need to tidy >> it >> up quite a bit. >> >> One thing is that all the Baptism events have ended up in Events/Facts >> and >> I >> want to convert them to be listed with the main data under Born. I know >> how >> to do this individually, but there are hundreds. Any ideas on how to do >> it >> more easily and quickly? >> >> Regards, >> >> Jennifer >> http://colston-wenck.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 > > > 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
