Priscilla, Relative to the spaces in the Notes, this article from our Knowledge Base explains it
http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00514 *How Notes Are Formatted in a GEDCOM File:* In a GEDCOM file, multiple-line notes are supposed to be *broken in the middle of a word at the end of each line*. For example, this is how a small note might look in the file: Aunt Mary spent most of her ti me knitting. When she wasn't kni tting something, she was cooking. In the past, however, most programs would *break the lines between words instead of in the middle of words*. For example: Aunt Mary spent most of her time knitting. When she wasn't knitting something, she was cooking. A problem arises if the old style is imported with the new rules. This results in *some words being put together without any space between them*. For example, the note might look like this: Aunt Mary spent most of her timeknitting. When she wasn't knittingsomething,she was cooking. Or, if the new style is imported with the old rules you end up with *spaces in the middle of words*: Aunt Mary spent most of her ti me knitting. When she wasn't kni tting something, she was cooking. Legacy keeps an internal list of how all genealogy programs export note blocks into GEDCOM files. This allows Legacy to decide how to put the line back together again when the notes are imported. Sometimes a GEDCOM file comes along that came from a program that Legacy never heard of. In this case, Legacy might guess incorrectly as to how the note lines are formatted. *SOLUTION:* If, after importing a GEDCOM file, you find that the notes either have spaces in the middle of some of the words, or that some words don't have a space between them, you can tell Legacy to change the method it is using. You can choose between: • Let Legacy decide how lines are broken • Lines are broken in the middle of words • Lines are broken between words Relative to the Event Sentences, those can be edited by going to View > Master Lists > Event Definition to edit the definition to read the way you'd like to see it as well as using the Sentence Override for changing a specific wording. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Stu and Priscilla Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: > I switched from FTM, but 2006 or somewhere back there. I am still in the > process of moving over to Legacy 8 via GEDCOM. My trees are much smaller, > and I am certainly not a Legacy architect. I am just bumbling along. So > far, I have noticed that in the General Notes, there are a lot of spaces in > the middle of words that need to be fixed. In trying the Descendant > Narrative Book Report, some information comes out in a strange and less > than complete form. I believe it was the area in FTM where you could put > in "Religion", "Residence", "Occupation", or "Education", etc. and then a > date and information. In the Legacy report I get "She had a religion > between 1943 and 1950. She had a religion between 1975 and 1995." "He had > a residence between 1943 and 1965." I figured that my only option was to > rewrite this information and put it into the General Notes. If anyone has > any better ideas, I'd love to hear them. I don't have tons of this sort of > information in my trees, but it would be easier if I did not have to > rewrite. > Priscilla > > > 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
