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From: Robin Lamacraft <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] GEDCOM to WorldConnect prob
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 11:25:01 +0930
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Hi Linda,

I have seen this problem before - it is to do with the fact that (at some
stage) TMG would output marriage partners in the order that their data was
entered. I experimented with this on charts and on descendancy reports but
not in GEDCOMs. Also, look at the ID numbers for each partner. I think that
one way I fixed this was to renumber the Spice so that their ID# were in
the correct date sequence. This certainly was a bug in an earlier version -
has it crept back in.

To quote - the chief non-employee "I hope that helps"
Robin Lamacraft

At 19:14 1/09/01 -0500, Linda wrote:
>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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