Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

2018-01-15 Thread Cathy Pinner 

Ward,

I have a gedcom from a cousin of just over 100 people with some notes 
and sources and it is only 37KB. It's one of the most useful gedcoms 
I've ever received.


Cathy

Ward Walker wrote:


Besides inspecting the file with Notepad, you can further verify the
integrity of the file by opening it in one of the simple, free GEDCOM
viewer programs, such as GENViewer Lite.

Even though GEDCOM files contain no images, the file size of 31KB does
sound too small to contain much of a tree.

Ward

-Original Message- From: Valerie Garton
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 8:54 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

I am still trying to do this and I am now asked " is this a multiple disk
gedcom file ". I don't know the answer so do I say yes or no or have
to go
back to the not so helpful owner ?

Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney

-Original Message-
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Wendy Howard
Sent: Monday, 15 January 2018 10:16 AM
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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Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

2018-01-15 Thread J.M. "Jay" Ingalls 

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


-Original Message-
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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Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

2018-01-15 Thread Ward Walker 
Besides inspecting the file with Notepad, you can further verify the 
integrity of the file by opening it in one of the simple, free GEDCOM viewer 
programs, such as GENViewer Lite.


Even though GEDCOM files contain no images, the file size of 31KB does sound 
too small to contain much of a tree.


  Ward

-Original Message- 
From: Valerie Garton

Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 8:54 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

I am still trying to do this and I am now asked " is this a multiple disk
gedcom file ". I don't know the answer so do I say yes or no or have to go
back to the not so helpful owner ?

Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney

-Original Message-
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Wendy Howard
Sent: Monday, 15 January 2018 10:16 AM
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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Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

2018-01-15 Thread Mary Leek 
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


-Original Message-
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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Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

2018-01-14 Thread Wendy Howard 
When were you asked this?  When you were importing it into Legacy, or 
something else?


If you're importing it into Legacy, I can't see that there's any harm in 
saying 'no' and seeing what happens - at worst, it doesn't work and you 
have to start again.  Make sure you are importing it into a new, empty, 
file, so it does not get an opportunity to affect your other data 
file(s) until you're ready to combine them.


File > New File > Import From Another Program > A different program (via 
GEDCOM) > Next Step > ...


Wendy

Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 14:54:

I am still trying to do this and I am now asked " is this a multiple disk
gedcom file ". I don't know the answer so do I say yes or no or have to go
back to the not so helpful owner ?

Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney

-Original Message-
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Wendy Howard
Sent: Monday, 15 January 2018 10:16 AM
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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Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

2018-01-14 Thread Valerie Garton 
I am still trying to do this and I am now asked " is this a multiple disk
gedcom file ". I don't know the answer so do I say yes or no or have to go
back to the not so helpful owner ?

Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney

-Original Message-
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Wendy Howard
Sent: Monday, 15 January 2018 10:16 AM
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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Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

2018-01-14 Thread Wendy Howard 
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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Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

2018-01-14 Thread Leon Chapman 
Just open Legacy and try to import it into a new file - File import Gedcom. If 
that works, it is a Gedcom file

Sent from my iPhone
Leon Chapman
chap...@gmail.com
623-271-1206

> On Jan 14, 2018, at 3:34 PM, Valerie Garton  wrote:
> 
> 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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[LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file

2018-01-14 Thread Valerie Garton 
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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