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From: Linda Lawhon <>
Subject: [TMG] GEDCOM to WorldConnect prob
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 19:14:12 -0500
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Hi,

I have tried to submit a stripped down GEDCOM to WorldConnect --
because any effort to include sources results in a B___ ugly report
on WC. Now I have this problem. I have a man who married several
times. I did not learn of the wives in the order he married them --
but they each have the date of marriage and the sort date is the
same. This is the result I get on World Connect:

Name: John Morgan Boyd Sex: M Change Date: 18 OCT 1999 Birth: 29 JUL
1836 in Rutherford County, Tennessee Death: 26 DEC 1907 in Lambert,
Parker County, Texas

Marriage 1 Talitha Jane Love b: 11 DEC 1850 in McDonald County, Missouri
·Married: 27 NOV 1870 in Newton Co., Missouri

Marriage 2 Frances Arbell Griffin b: 17 SEP 1866 in Pike County,
Arkansas
·Married: 12 DEC 1886 in Pike County, Arkansas

Marriage 3 Sarah L. Davidson b: 27 JAN 1840
·Married: 02 JAN 1856

Marriage 4 Mary E. Barnes
·Married: 12 FEB 1884
======

You will note that marriage #3 should be #1 and marriage #4 should be
marriage # 3 and so on.

I wrote to them and they said:
>>GEDCOMs are often produced by the genealogy software program using
the
date entered for events, rather that the date of the event. Your program
may have an option to sort events in date order, which may fix the
problem.
If not, most users find that they have to delete the events that are out
of order, then re-enter them in the correct sequence.<<

And: >>I'd suggest you check with TMG's technical support - Bob Velke
probably has a ready solution to the problem.<<

I have absolutely NO intention of going in to my dataset and
reentering each marriage (in those people who have multiple
marriages) so the marriages will be sequential to whatever assinine
rule that controls this. Does anyone know of a way to correct this
problem??

Thanks,
Linda



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