On 16 Dec 2015 at 16:34, 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.
It sounds like the sort of problem that could be fixed by processing the GEDCOM file with an AWK script. I don't know enough about AWK to do it, but maybe somebody else knows somebody who could do it. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [email protected] Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 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
