Dennis, An all-details Legacy GEDCOM would be useful only for transfer to the same or newer version of Legacy. Anyone who tried Legacy location notes soon found they were lost in a transfer to a different program with place notes. Same program moves Legacy name sources to general sources. Child-mother and child-father relationships can have sources in Legacy but PAF is limited to child-marriage relationships.
PAF to Legacy can result in multiple sets of parents without relationships. If any non-bio relationships are entered for purposes of book reports and wall charts, they need to be clearly explained in notes that will survive transfers. Legacy allows you to add yourself as your own ancestor but an importing program might object! PAF allows different relationships of a child to the same parent with multiple marriages. If you have used advanced features like custom sentences in Legacy 6, what is left in a standard GED 5.5 to your favorite web site software or PAF 5? PAF is a good program for testing GEDCOM transfers because it is often used by people with limited computers or limited Internet service. 10 mb download for the last update of PAF 5 in July 2002 compared to nearly 26 mb for Legacy 6 with frequent updates. PAF omits marriage notes from book reports. Event notes might be out of logical order even if they were kept. My preference is to avoid event sentences in any genealogy program along with avoiding Master Locations with place holder commas. The time to test GEDCOM exports is *during* data entry. Users of Generations, UFT and other discontinued programs ignored GEDCOM issues. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis It seems like there should be an option on gedcom exports to export the "nifty" event sentences with all substitutions filled in appropriately. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
