In the long run, gedcom x is being developed. I see no other way to improve the situation that has been described. I hope all commercial vendors like Legacy do all they can to promote, encourage and help in this effort. See link.
https://familysearch.org/developers/docs/guides/gedcom-x ChasH On 8/1/2013 7:08 PM, Ward Walker wrote: > It is a common problem, but I think that it is one that Millennia should > seriously consider providing an optional workaround. Information will be > lost. Legacy should include an option on export to unlink the shared events > into separate, standard events in the GEDCOM. By not doing so, it forces > Legacy users to consider avoiding this new feature if we ever expect to > share data with relatives who do not use Legacy. > > I see this as similar to the problem with SourceWriter sources. Legacy > should have an option to reformat the source citation so that it makes sense > when converted into a Basic source in the GEDCOM. > > In general, proprietary features are great, as long as there is always an > optional way to mash them into the current, inadequate GEDCOM standard. > > Ward > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian/Support > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 5:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] ? about the new shared even feature > > Legacy will export the information to share the event but, as with any > non-standard GEDCOM feature, we use custom GEDCOM tags for that data. > > Legacy 8 will re-import the shared events correctly but programs that do > not support shared events and possibly even those that do but which do > not correctly interpret the custom tags from Legacy will not know how to > import that shared event data. > > This is a common problem when programs have features which are not > supported by the GEDCOM standards. > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [email protected] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.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
