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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: GEDCOM Import problem
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 16:48:21 -0400


Tony wrote:
> Today I received a gedcom file that was produced by Family Reunion for
>windows v5.0. Every line was terminated with <cr><cr><lf> instead of the
>normal <cr><lf> carriage return line feed pair. When this file is viewed
>with the TMG editor the file appears to be double spaced because of the
>double carriage return.
> Does anyone know how to get TMG to import this file correctly? What
>should the person that generated the file be doing differently?

Probably the easiest way is to read the GEDCOM into a word processor and
use the search/replace feature to replace the <cr><cr><lf> with <cr><lf>.
Be sure to save the result as text only (ASCII only) so that you word
processor codes don't get added in.

I don't know what the original export settings should have been. As a pure
guess, it may be that there was an option for double-spacing the GEDCOM for
ease of reading. I have seen a couple of GEDCOM utilities that will do
that for you although I never really found it useful.

> To get around this problem I imported the gedcom into another
>genealogy program and then imported the resulting file into TMG with
>genbridge.

That is probably as good a choice as any. Depends if the import into your
other program lost any data. If you didn't lose anything, then no use
re-doing it.


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Lee Hoffman/KY
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