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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Recording Multiple Marriages
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:27:18 -0400
In-Reply-To: <193.1b1a2d9f.2c0c720e@aol.com>
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 05:25:34 EDT, wrote:
>My gt grandfather married twice. I imported to TMG from
>generations 8 where the two wives are shown in the right
>order. There were marriage event tags with places and
>dates for each marriage so import to TMG seems fine.
>However on my Palm using GEDWISE (via TMG GEDCOM) the
>second marriage is now shown as the first, and the first
>as the second.
>I do not think this is simply a GEDWISE issue. A test
>reimport of the same TMG gedcom into an empty Generations
>file shows the same reversal of the two wives, with the
>second now coming first. Any suggestions why this should
>be?
They appear in the right order in TMG because they have dates, or
more specifically, sort dates, that appear in the correct order.
Are you saying that the other two programs import the marriages via
GEDCOM complete with dates and still sequence them incorrectly? If
so, that suggests to me they are relying on the order in which they
appear in the GEDCOM rather than the dates. As I recall, Bob Velke
has several times cited GEDCOM specs that explicitly say that the
order of events in GEDCOM is NOT to be interpreted to have any
significance.
Terry Reigel
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