Sherry, Do keep me in mind when it comes time to test the importer.
Jamie On 12/1/2014 12:13 PM, Sherry/Support wrote: > The programmer is still working on the direct import. > > We'd be happy to have you as a tester when it's available, if you'd > like to volunteer. > > Thanks for your interest in Legacy! > > Sincerely, > Sherry > Technical Support > Legacy Family Tree > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Jamie Poindexter > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Dawn, > > I, too, am looking at eventually moving from TMG to another > program. I came across the announcement a couple of months ago > about Legacy building an import tool for TMG users. I couldn't > find any updates on its status so recently joined this forum in > hopes of learning more about the tool's development. > > Discussion I have had with Wholly Genes and with Second Site > creator John Cardinal trend to suggest that TMG 9 will continue to > function on Windows platforms for several years of advancements > with the Windows platform. So we don't have to rush to Legacy or > another application, we have time for Legacy to fully develop the > importer. My goal is to be able to import TMG tables into a new > application without going through a gedcom. I fear the gedcom > standard hasn't caught up to apps like TMG capabilities and we > could loose or misidentify a lot of our TMG data importing to > another app via a gedcom. > > I'd like to hear more from Barbara on how she converted TMG to > Legacy and was it an accurate transfer. She blazed a trail I'm > not ready to travel. If we can learn from her and others where > the potholes are on that path, we can experience a better transition. > > I also use Second Site, the third party app to TMG for converting > the data to html pages for my web site so our organization's > members can access the tree. So any replacement to TMG must have > a solution for converting to web pages. > > Jamie Diana Poindexter, Research Committee co-chair & webmaster > Poindexter Descendants Association > www.poindexterfamily.org <http://www.poindexterfamily.org> > > > > 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
