Best to not save!
Jay Ingalls
On 1/15/2018 8:18 AM, Mary Leek wrote:
Valerie,
If you happen to open this file in a word processor such as Word or Word
Perfect to have a look, be certain when you close it, it is saved as plain
text (ASCII format).
Mary
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From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Wendy Howard
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 5:16 PM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
GEDCOM files are plain text, so you can open them in any word processor or
notepad program, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, or Windows
Notepad.
The first few lines will look something like this one, which I created from
Legacy:
0 HEAD
1 SOUR Legacy
2 VERS 9.0
2 NAME Legacy (R)
2 CORP Millennia Corp.
3 ADDR PO Box 9410
4 CONT Surprise, AZ 85374
1 DEST Legacy
1 DATE 20 Jun 2017
You'll be able to see people's names and other text displayed in various
lines, along with other lines that will seem to be gobbledegook but contain
information that relates to the people named.
1 NAME William /Hargreaves/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Hargreaves
2 SOUR @S3@
So if you can open this .ged file you've been sent in an appropriate program
and see similar lines, you have a GEDCOM file, which you should be able to
IMPORT into Legacy.
It's good practice to import files like this into a new Legacy file before
merging the data with your existing file. You may want to look at things
like Locations, and tidy them up to the way you record them before taking
the data further.
Hope this helps. :-)
Wendy
(in a sunny/cloudy/windy Kaiwaka, New Zealand, thankfully a cooler summer's
day to some we've had recently, not yet over 30C at midday Monday).
Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 11:34:
I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow
researcher who has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file
is a gedcom one and for me to " read up on how to add it to my program
- the file was " DNA File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic
file and not a gedcom one.
Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is
meant to be her family back 6 generations ?
Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I
have confused you.
Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney
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