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From: David Bryant <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG Version 4.0C GEDCOM Import Problem
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:47:03 -0700
References: <NEBBJEHGCCNKFDKGHMMNGEKFCJAA.JoeHarrington@alum.emory.edu>


Great Joe,

Your memory serves you well. I ran a test using two small "TEST" data files.
One that had Suffix and Prefix data and one that did not. I compared the way my
old genealogy program exported that file and the way TMG exported the file (with
identical data entered from the TMG screens).

I was surprised to see that TMG considers my OLD PROGRAM'S GEDCOM labels, "NPFX"
and "NSFX" (which are the prefix and suffix names), as TMG "Name-Var". And that
was where I was getting all the weird alternate names of "Sr.", "Jr.", "Doctor"
and so forth.

I think I have the problem pretty well figured out but have no idea of how to
eliminate the problem with my OLD PROGRAM'S exports (short of manually removing
them from the old program's database).

And you're absolutely correct on the TITL label. Apparently that is the "Title"
label and tells the program what should be used for the individual's Title.

I am not to sharp on GEDCOM so please take my comments with a grain of salt.
Just learning and enjoying every minute of it.

Later,
David


Joe Harrington wrote:

> I ran into that as well. I was importing a very small GEDCOM, don't
> remember whether it was one downloaded from FamilySearch or one that someone
> had emailed me (i think it was the latter). It only had about 10
> individuals, so I just manually fixed them in TMG.
>
> I saw that some said it was the way the TITL field was handled. What should
> be there, where should prefix & suffix be?
>
> joe harrington
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bryant [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:40 AM
> To:
> Subject: [TMG] TMG Version 4.0C GEDCOM Import Problem
> Importance: High
>
> I wonder if anyone has noticed this GEDCOM import problem:
>
> 1) I tried to import a GEDCOM 5.5 file into TMG V4.0C
> 2) My GEDCOM file has a number of PREFIX and/or SUFFIX abbreviations
> such as Dr., Mrs., Jr., Sr. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, I, II, III etc.
> 3) I find that TMG has generated a LARGE NUMBER of NAME-VAR tags which
> contain nothing but the PREFIX and/or SUFFIX abbreviations. This makes
> it very hard to keep a CLEAN database.
>
> Question:
> 1) Am I the only one that has run into this problem?
> 2) If not, is there someway that I can ask TMG to ignore the Dr., Mrs.,
> Jr., Sr. etc. and NOT MAKE NAME-VAR tags for these prefix and/or suffix
> abbreviations?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated since I am REALLY NEW to TMG.
>
> Thanks,
> David

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