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From: "Ann Carson" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Thank you and another question re strange importation.
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:11:05 +1100
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030131103007.0343fef8@pop3.norton.antivirus>

Thank you Lee for your advice re Preferences and also re the witnesses.
I appreciate it.

The witnesses one is so obvious now that I feel a bit of a dope but I
was desperately looking for some explanation for my dilemma! Am still
struggling - as per previous message - with my import but have emailed
support at WG.

There is no categorising of people in my Generations file (or in
Generations) that would account for the failure to import 75% of them.
No cards are marked, no people are distinguished in any way as far as I
can ascertain. Have been trying all day to do this and am slowly going
crazy. Elizabeth, who also had Generations 8 (but not the UK version)
says she had no trouble at all importing to TMG so there must be
something in my files or procedure that is making it fail.

Thanks once again for your advice

Ann Carson (Sydney, Australia)


Lee wrote:
> There are two things in Preferences that you may wish to select that
will
> have a bearing on your import. These are the Custom Styles options
under
> Program Options. If you select either or both Custom Styles and then
click
> on the Modify Custom Styles button, you can change the Styles as
> desired. You may be fine with the Name style and leave it set to U.S.
> Standard, but you will likely want to change to the Custom Place Style
and
> change those entries in the Custom Style modification window. The
Styles
> selected (and modified) will be used to apply to any imported data as
well
> as (by default) any new data entered.
>
> >Does anyone have any ideas why my Generations file clearly shows
20,453
> >people but when I import via Genbridge it says there are 4111 people!
> >(ie at the moment I select the file for import) I did the import
> >regardless of this, just to see what happened. If I check the
Project
> >Summary it says there are 4111 people and names - and 15, 050
witnesses!
> >Even though the figures don't add up could this be the cause of the
> >problem? How on earth did I get witnesses -an unknown feature in
> >Generations? And how do I discover who these 15,000+ witnesses are as
I
> >understand from the Reports menu that I can't create a witness list.
> >(I'm still over 1000 people short so won't do it but is there a need
to
> >turn witnesses into principals somehow?)
>
> I can give you some help on the TMG side. For example, I have a
project
> with a single data set containing 216 People and 673 Witnesses.
These 216
> people have 277 names meaning some people have two or more names. Now
> there are 510 Events (Tags) that can have either one or two
> Principals. Also the Events can also have zero or more Witnesses
> attached. Now in TMG, all persons are witnesses in some way to the
Events
> (Tags) to which they are attached. So a Principal (of a Tag) is a
witness
> and a Witness (of a Tag) is a witness. Note there is a difference in
my
> use of "Witness" and "witness". So the 673 Witnesses noted in the
> summary will be the 216 people assigned to the 510 events as either a
> Principal or a Witness and thus are all witnesses.
>
> As for the Generations side, I will have to let someone else answer
> that. But I think there is a similar thing happening there. Although
> there may be some other factor involved. For example, you may need to
go
> into Generations and do some things before doing the import in order
to
> make the best import.

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