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From: Joe Makowiec <>
Subject: [TMG] GEDCOM and transfer (was Re: Witness and Roles and V5.0)
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:48:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: <35.2174e297.298c3574@aol.com>


At 01:16 PM 2-1-2002 -0500, wrote:
>I won't go into my opinion of Roots Web except to say "No Comment". Why
>can not they also accept narrative report texts?

I've been given "narrative text reports" (at least something which should
have been largely *text* and asked to post them to the 'Web. The person
who created them did them in Publisher, and because of the way they did
them, they wound up as all *images*, the page size was about 500K (about
10x what one wants it to be) and it took me about 2 hours to do what should
have been a 10 minute job. Most of it I wound up retyping. At least if
you require GEDCOM, even given the varying quality of GEDCOMs from various
programs, you're guaranteed to have plain text that the program which
auto-creates pages can (probably) understand.

> It allows ANY type of data to be transmitted although it DOES require a
> bit more work to put it into a program-which is not always a bad thing.
> I'd no more dream of importing GEDCOM data into my database that I would
> playing Russian Roulette. Yes, it does take time to do hand entry but I
> know it will be entered as *I* want it to be.

Agreed. I've given up posting GEDCOMs in favor of .pdfs - If you want my
data badly enough, you'll rekey it (or at least cut and paste).

Joe
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