Brian, It is not my practice to make the same point twice on a thread, but my main point was that the GEDCOM standard does not support Source Writer, period.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Brian L. Lightfoot Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 1:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] does gedcom drop source details??? Here is one more thing to check. When you bring up the “GEDCOM Export†window to create your file try clicking on the “Customizeâ€. In the resulting “Items to Include…†window, look in the right side list of items and scroll down to see if SOUR (Source) item is included. If you don’t see it there, find it on the left side, highlight it, click on “Include†to move it over to the right side list. Once satisfied that your list of items to include in your GEDCOM is complete, then click OK, which will take you back to the main “GEDCOM Export†window. Then just click the large “Start…†I know that a lot of people that create GEDCOM files from within Legacy never bother going this far in the menu options but you’d be surprised at the things that one can include. If that works for you then you can try going back into that “Items to include…†window, customizing your list, and save it off as a .GEL file which you can always reload for future exports. As Ron said, the GEDCOM standards are old and outdated but they are the closest thing to a common denominator when every other genealogical program on the market wants to create their own proprietary file structure. HTH Brian in CA From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] does gedcom drop source details??? Pat, By generic, do you mean a generic GEDCOM as selected from the drop-down list, if so then it should include Sources. Ah!!! I just realised that you are probably using Source Writer when I expect the Source Details to be dropped by pretty well all of them except for Legacy GEDCOMs, and I’m not even sure about that one! Even if the GEDCOM contains the Source Details the chances of them being imported into another program are just about zero. The GEDCOM standards are old, out-dated, and past it! This is nothing to do with Legacy just inertia by the GEDCOM standards committee (or what have you). Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Pat Hickin Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 8:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] does gedcom drop source details??? I am checking a newly-created (by me) generic gedcom and it seems to have dropped ALL my source details!! Should that have happened? Is there a way to avoid it? If that's the norm, then one should certainly be a "splitter"!! Thanks, Pat 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
