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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: (no subject)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:38:10 -0500


wrote:
>regarding my "extra" spouse problem- it appears they occured when my
>"marriage" information and a "marriage note" also appeared in my Paf
>information. They are shown as 2 separate tags in TMG and the "marriage
>note" doesn't have a spouse assigned to it so TMG assumes another spouse and
>puts the unknown spouse in the 1st position. When I added the correct
>spouse's number to the primary area it appears to correct the problem BUT I
>have thousands of people in my files. PLEASE, PLEASE tell me I don't have to
>manually change every one of them. Also, all of my notes show up in the memo
>area instead of the citation area. Since I haven't used this program much I
>don't know if this will be a problem in the future. Has anyone been in this
>position and do you think it's worth changing some of them to citations?

It sounds to me like the marriage notes in PAF are attached to one person
rather than to both or to the marriage. In that case, there may not be
much that Wholly Genes can do for the future although they may be able to
help with what you have now.

Looking back at your earlier message, it appears that you imported your
data directly from your PAF database (or its backup) using TMG's GenBridge
rather than through GEDCOM. If that is the case, I would suggest that you
contact Tech Support as they might want to see what the problem is with the
view of possibly changing future TMG versions.

If the import was via GEDCOM, you might want to edit the GEDCOM file to
correct the problem and then try the import again. Naturally, this is not
much of an option if you have done much work in TMG that you don't want to
lose.

Hope this helps -

P.S. My wife has about the same name -- spelled differently. The one on
'Dallas ' was not the original. <g>



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