Jay, I have reread this several times and cannot understand what point you are making.
1. To clarify, I have not exported any data to any online software. My point was simply that it makes no difference whether my newly-found cousin maintains their tree online or on their computer. If they want to add my branch of the family, I need to create a GEDCOM export. 2. I hope it is clear to all that when Legacy exports SW sources to GEDCOM, it irreversibly changes the data (in the process of creating GEDCOM-compatible, ‘basic’ style sources). There is nothing that the target software can do about it. The desired formatting of the citation cannot be recreated, even if re-imported to Legacy. 3. How could this be resolved? It sounds like there are two approaches: (a) bury the intelligent formatting data in custom GEDCOM codes that certain target systems are then programmed to unbury and use; or (b) make do with a compromise workaround that is transparent to the target system and thus works for all target systems. The latter is what I had been advocating, for SW. The Subject line is about Shared Events. Today’s e-mails raise questions about whether there is even a problem. Leonard’s observation suggests that perhaps approach (b), above, has already been implemented for this feature. (That would be that, while the structure of shared events is lost, at least the events are copied to all applicable individuals.) And yesterday’s comments suggest that approach (a) was also done, for RM. Ward From: Jay 1FamilyTree Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 11:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Exporting Shared Events [WAS: Re: [LegacyUG] Shared vital Events] I will add one comment on this subject and then move on.... In one of the previous messages was stated Collaborating Online: I would think that exporting a significant chunk of Legacy data to a web-based tree usually involves the same GEDCOM interchange, aside from special implementations like FamilySearch Family Tree. Anyway, if a newly-found cousin/researcher wants to import a significant portion of my tree, seeing it online won’t help them. I have to send them a file. Usually they barely know how to operate the software that they have (often FTM) and are not open to starting over with a new product just to accommodate me. If their tree is only online (e.g., Ancestry), then yes, they could grant me access to add my branch interactively. Painful. The reason you have to send your new cousin / researcher a file, is because whatever online software you exported your Gedcom to did NOT properly import or use all of the data that was in a Legacy created gedcom. 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
