Hello Robert,
If I understand you correctly, you want ‘events’ or ‘facts’ called title. In your first export example that did not work as you wished , the level 1 tag is not 1 EVEN. Looking at the second example that did work as you wanted, level 1 is EVEN and level 2 is TYPE of ‘Style’. If you want Legacy to treat them them the same (create events or tags) I would think the export would need to have level 1 of EVEN and level 2 of TYPE with value of Title or something similar. To create an event/fact for title, I suspect Legacy needs level 1 needs to be EVEN. Paul Gray From: Robert Stewart [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: April-08-14 11:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Bad TITL import 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? _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4355 / Virus Database: 3882/7318 - Release Date: 04/08/14 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). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
