1/ Darrin could "fix" it, but that is not the right fix. And he says it would not be an easy fix. He claims that only me and 1 other person has ever noticed.
2/ No, there is no easy fix to the Gedcom.
3/ What you (and other can do) is to submit a suggestion at LegacyFT web site to update Legacy go Gedcom export of Child Status is useful. Please reference that I am submitting a detailed suggestion.
4/ Tell Darrin that this is a problem for you. Please feel free to send a message to the TNG users list so more Legacy users may become aware of the issue.
I am sure that 100s, maybe 1000s, of users are importing Legacy Gedcoms into TNG and most have never noticed that this status (actually an attribute) field is not getting imported.
thanks for your message,
john.
At 07:28 PM 3/25/2015, Jay Wilpolt wrote:
John,
I was unaware of this as well.
I hope Darrin will fix it or is there an easy was to change the gedcom contents before importing into TNG?
I am always frustrated when creating a gedcom in Legacy for "Changed" persons, and then importing that (appending to an existing database) into TNG ALWAYS screws up the family group
Legacy has a check to add Parents and Spouses and Children, BUT what about SIBLINGS!!Â
so in TNG the FAMC gets replaced with only those included in the gedcom.
so frustrating.....
Let me know what I can do to help, as I am sure there are many Legacy Users importing into TNG.
Thanks
Jay
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:49 PM, John B. Lisle <[email protected]> wrote:
- Hi,
- A user recently reported to me that Child Status attributes, such as
- Stillborn, Twin, Adopted, etc., were not being imported into his TNG
- web site from a Legacy Gedcom file.
- Analysis shows that Legacy is exporting the Child Status in Gedcom,
- and can import those Legacy Gedcoms properly back into in Legacy. But
- the TNG web publishing application that many Legacy users use does
- not import the tag that Legacy uses to report Child Status. (Legacy
- currently exports it as an attribute of the child in the family structure.)
- --> IE, none of your Child Status attributes have EVER been imported
- into TNG. Maybe this OK with you? Maybe you have never noticed?
- Further analysis shows that Legacy's approach to Child Status seems
- to be unique among the major genealogy products and, although the
- best (as far as I am concerned) actually, may not be optimal. In
- reality, there is no consistency in how various products implement
- Child Status attributes, if they handle them at all.
- Consequently, the TNG developer has less incentive to provide the fix
- for this mis-match with Legacy.
- As this has been a problem for 10+ years with, supposedly, only
- myself and one other user expressing concern over this to Legacy, I
- would like to know if other users have seen this and would like to
- see this resolved. Getting something resolved - and quickly - will
- require having many folks second that this is an issue for them.
- --> Let me emphasize that this is not a Legacy bug. Legacy itself
- works fine. This is a mis-match in the interface between two products.
- Also, do you know of any other programs where the current Child
- Status implementation is causing a problem from Legacy Gedcoms?
- Thanks for listening,
- john.
- nashua, new hampshire
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