Brian: Aha! I definitely did NOT look at the options available when importing my GEDCOM into Legacy and your thoughts/suggestion make good sense. Fortunately, I haven't input any new data into Legacy so wiping the slate clean and importing a new GEDCOM is no problem. I would even be willing to sort through each of my 3,000 or so individuals if necessary to make sure location/description information goes to the right place.
Many thanks. Dick Felts -------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian/Support" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 6:28 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] FTM User - Hidden Field in Baptism Event > Some versions of FTM misused a singe Comments field for descriptions, > comments/notes and locations. Those versions of FTM export this > multi-purpose field using the GEDCOM tag for a PLAC(e) ie. Location. > Your FTM 2010 may be one of those versions. > > When you import a FTM GEDCOM into Legacy the first time it reads a PLAC > tag Legacy offers you a set of options on how to handle the PLAC tag. > The default is to place all the PLAC data into the event description. If > you have consistently used the field for locations one of the options is > to always put the PLAC data into Locations. You can however tell Legacy > to let you decide for each event or event type (useful if you have a mix > of Description/Note/Locations entered in this field and need to decide > for each case where the data belongs). if you choose the Ask me options > you will be shown the content of the FTM PLAC and there are buttons to > store it as Notes, Place, Description or split it apart (if the field > has more than one type of date like "Farmer in Flint, Michigan, USA" in > that case you would want to store the Farmer in the Description and > Flint, Michigan, USA in the location. > > I suggest that you delete your existing file (or rename it using File > > Rename File) the import your > GEDCOM again. This time read the option screen carefully and make your > choice on how to handle the PLAC data. > > Specifically your CHR/Baptism Event may have the PLAC data stored in the > Baptism Notes. Look for a dark blue plus sign to the right of the > Chr/Bapt line on the individual information screen. > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [email protected] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > On 16/12/2015 4:34 PM, Dick and Leslie Felts wrote: >> I recently switched from FTM 2010 by creating a GEDCOM and opening it in >> Legacy 8.0. All data seem to have been transferred OK but I'll be >> working through various issues for a long time. >> >> Specifically, my Baptism events appear correctly in the Individual View >> with a date in the "Date" column and a location in the "Desc/Place/Notes" >> column. However, when I click the "Edit" button for the Baptism event, >> the location that transferred from FTM (and which DOES appear in the >> Individual View) is nowhere to be found. I want to find it so I can move >> it to its proper field, namely the "Place" field in the Baptism event. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> This may be the tip of the iceberg for me. Looking at other Events, such >> as Residence, all of my location information from FTM now appears in the >> "Description" field while the "Location" field is blank. The display in >> the Individual View is OK because it looks like data from the >> "Description" and "Location" fields all appear under the >> "Desc/Place/Notes" column but I foresee a problem down the road. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Dick Felts > > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
