Brian,Thanks for your reply. I tried that but still no source details! Ron, to respond to some of your points:
You wrote: 1) "By generic, do you mean a generic GEDCOM as selected from the drop-down list." Ans.: YES! 2) "Ah!!! I just realised that you are probably using Source Writer " Ans.: Now I usually use source writer but MANY of my entries are in the basic,original syste.-- I don't know what it's called. Doesn't matter-- I don't have ANY source details. 3) "Even if the GEDCOM contains the Source Details the chances of them being imported into another program are just about zero." Ans.: I am exporting from Legacy & into Legacy. (I chose the generic style because I want to upload eventually into WikiTree. I don't EVER remember anybody discussing this before -- if the source details are dropped then one has to become an extreme splitter or else the sourcing info will be extremely vague. I have zillions of entries under Findagrave, for example, with only the Detail info to distinguish one entry from another. Also, it seems to me we should be warned if Legacy introduces something new that means it will no longer "travel" via .gedcom, but that may be asking too much. The more I work with Legacy, the more I realize how complicated it all is!! Pat On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot <[email protected] > wrote: > Here is one more thing to check. **** > > ** ** > > When you bring up the “GEDCOM Export” window to create your file try > clicking on the “Customize”. 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 As Ron said, the GEDCOM standards are old and outdated but they are the 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 <[email protected]> **** > > *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 > 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). 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