TITL is a standard Gedcom 5.5 tag.
>From the gedcom I exported from RootMagic 6 and imported into Legacy 8, I
have two examples of titles. One uses the TITL tag, the other was a custom
tag I created called Style.
1 TITL Earl of Mercia
2 DATE ABT 886
2 SOUR @S438@
3 PAGE pg. xlix
3 _TMPLT
4 FIELD
5 NAME Page
5 VALUE pg. xlix
This is how it is exported.
But upon being imported by Legacy, "Earl of Mercia" is now the tag. (And
the 1000s of other titles I've created are now also custom tags, each one of
them, quite obscuring the "real" tags I want to use.)
I also, at some point, created a tag, called it Style, and it imported
correctly.
It works, it displays as it ought to, and I've got a Style tag on the list
to choose from, build a sentence around, etc.
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Style
2 DATE 1177
2 NOTE Dei Gratia Rex Anglorum, dux Normannorum, dux Aquitanorum et comes
Ande
3 CONC gavorum, dominus Hiberniae
I understand that this is still an EVENT but the type has the event called
Style where a name is required.
But TITL is on the same level as EVEN (Will, Probate, etc.) in the gedcom
5.5 standard. Why isn't it treated the same way by Legacy?
TITL {TITLE}: =
A description of a specific writing or other work, such as the title of a
book when used in a source context, or a formal designation used by an
individual in connection with positions of royalty or other social status,
such as Grand Duke.
EVEN {EVENT}: =
A noteworthy happening related to an individual, a group, or an
organization.
TYPE {TYPE}: =
A further qualification to the meaning of the associated superior tag. The
value does not have any computer processing reliability. It is more in the
form of a short one or two word note that should be displayed any time the
associated data is displayed.
Another example:
1 TITL Lieutenant-Colonel, U.S. Army
2 DATE 20 FEB 1968
2 SOUR @S485@
3 _TMPLT
4 FIELD
5 NAME Page
Created a tag called "Lieutenant-Colonel, U.S. Army".
1 DSCR Height 6 ft 2 in, Weight 185 lbs, Color of Eyes Blue, Color of Hair
Red/B
2 DATE 3 MAY 1972
2 SOUR @S460@
3 _TMPLT
4 FIELD
5 NAME Page
Does not create a tag called "Height 6 ft 2 in, Weight 185 lbs, Color of
Eyes Blue, Color of Hair Red/B".
I don't see how I can make RootsMagic export these TITLs more "properly"
into a gedcom that Legacy will read and process correctly so that these
1,000s of titles, now tags, are all handled by one tag called Title.
Creating a dummy file in Legacy, and looking to add tags, I see 62 tags to
pick from, albeit Title is not one of them. Physical Description (DSCR) is.
Is there software that will convert
1 TITL Lieutenant-Colonel, U.S. Army
in a gedcom to
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Title
2 NOTE Lieutenant-Colonel, U.S. Army
That's where LTools could come in? A global replace, with wildcards, and
multiple lines?
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