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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:12:47 -0500
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Gregory Winters wrote:

> Greetings to all from a TMG newbie. I've outgrown Family Tree Maker, so
> I've decided to work with TMG.

Welcome to TMG and TMG-L. I made that journey myself a few years back and
understand some of the issues you will have. There are some tips on importing,
with emphasis on on imporint from FTM on my website, at http://tmg.reigelridge.
com/Importing.htm that may be helpful.


>
> I have used the footnotes feature in FTM extensively for the 3700+ members
> of my database. Many of these footnotes include lengthy text including
> anecdotes, obituaries, family lore, etc. When I performed an import into
> TMG (both GEDCOM and driectly from the FTW file), all of the footnote
> *references* appear, but when I check the content, only the Source/Citation
> information has come into TMG. None of the text is there. Thus, my
> Endnotes section in my Descendant Narrative report includes only Source data
> (and a zillion Ibid's). Did the footnotes import into TMG? If so, where
> are they and why can't I display them? If they didn't, how do I get them in
> there?

TMG offfers, in concept, similar citation and source capabities as FTM, with
much more flexibility. Your sources and citations should appear in the imported
file just as they were entered in FTM. To see the individual citations, open any
tag that has a source citation (double click on the name of the tag in the
Person view), and click on the "Citations" tab. There you should see all your
citations for that tag - double click on any of them to open the citation.

To see the sources that are being cited, open the Master Source List, from the
Tools menu. They will all be listed, and again, double click on any of them to
open the source defintion screen for it.

It sounds like you are describing how the notes appear in reports. I'm not quite
clear on what's missing. The Ibids are there because Ibid is turned on in the
report defintion - you can turn if off in Options on the report definiton screen
for the report you are using.

If some of the text from your sources is not appearing, that may be because of
the way the import mapped those sources. All the information should be in the
source when you look at it in the Master Source List, but it may not be assigned
in a way that causes it to appear in the output. If you can give a couple of
specific examples, we can help you straighten it out.

Terry Reigel

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