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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] GEDCOM Failier
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:11:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000807193452.0089fce0@pop.voyager.net>


Ronald D. Merchant wrote:
>I have been trying to import some GEDCOMS from the LDS FamilySearch site.
>When I import the downloaded GEDCOM all that shows up in TMJ is "Unknown"
>as the name for all the individuals. When I look at the GEDCOM with Notepad
>all the names are there. Why doesn't TMJ pick up the names. Each name and
>piece of data is preceded with a line number and a "0". Also, starting with
>line 2 is says "the following lines were not processed". I have found a
>pedigree in FamilySearch which runs over 25 pages and hope I don't have to
>manualy key in all the data.
>
>Can anyone help me or at least explain what is happining?

A GEDCOM file will be single-spaced and will NOT have line numbers. What
you are looking at is the error listing and any line numbers are only to
help you determine the problem. You might post the first dozen or so lines
of the GEDCOM file (not of the error list) in a message here and see if we
can see the problem.


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