Jennifer, I cannot really understand why, given Sherry's extract from the Help Files. I have never tried this myself, in fact until Sherry pointed it out I had not realised the option was there.
If I was you I would contact Sherry direct, giving full details of what you did (baby steps), and asking for her to test for you. It may be that there is a bug in the process. I'm afraid that I cannot do it myself at present since I have 6 pages of location links to change on my website, thanks to Bing changing the URLs, and it takes a day per page! (with odd breaks like this one :-).) Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Crockett Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 1:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Baptism event Tried that – didn’t work. Regards, Jennifer http://colston-wenck.com From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 20 April 2012 8:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Baptism event Jennifer, In which case couldn’t you create a full GEDCOM, change it as suggested by Sherry, and import into a new Legacy file? Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Crockett Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:00 AM To: [email protected] 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
