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From: "Ronald D. Merchant" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] GEDCOM Failier
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:26:36 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000807214948.00bfdd10@pop.mis.net>


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Lee

Here is the first few lines of a GEDCOM as downloadws from FamilySearch
and before being imported into TMJ. I hope someone can solve my problem!!

0 HEAD
1 SOUR ANSTFILE
2 NAME Ancestral File
2 VERS 4.19
2 CORP The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
3 ADDR 50 East North Temple Street
4 CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150
2 DATA Ancestral File (R)
3 DATE 5 January 1998
3 COPR Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
4 CONT All Rights Reserved.
1 DEST PAF
1 DATE 28 JUL 2000
2 TIME 20:24:57
1 FILE GEDCOM4.ged
1 GEDC
2 VERS GEDCOM 5.5
2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
1 CHAR ANSEL
1 SUBM @SUB01@
1 SUBN @N01@
0 @SUB01@ SUBM
1 NAME Created by FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
1 ADDR 50 East North Temple Street
2 CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150
0 @S01@ SOUR
1 AUTH The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1 TITL Ancestral File (R)
1 PUBL Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
1 REPO @R01@
0 @R01@ REPO
1 NAME Family History Library
1 ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
2 CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
0 @N01@ SUBN
1 DESC 4
1 ORDI N
0 @I1XCR-MSH@ INDI
1 NAME Oliver /LESPERANCE/
2 GIVN Oliver
2 SURN LESPERANCE
1 AFN 1XCR-MSH
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S01@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 Mar 1802
2 PLAC Assumption, Sandwich, Michigan
1 FAMS @F12292511@
0 @I1XCR-MGF@ INDI
1 NAME Monica Seguin Dit /LADEROUTE/
2 GIVN Monica Seguin Dit
2 SURN LADEROUTE
1 AFN 1XCR-MGF
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S01@

Thanks any help and/or advice.

Ron
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At 10:11 PM 8/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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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>Lee Hoffman/KY
>E-mail:
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