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From: "Gregory Winters" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:28:12 -0500
In-Reply-To: <00e201c3ffb7$9d94ab50$6401a8c0@charliexv>


Jim:

Thanks for responding to my question. This is horrible news for me,
however. This means that I am married to FTM forever unless I want to
re-renter all of that text into TMG. In your other note, you suggested that
I do a GEDCOM import, which I have been advised against doing from other
TMGers for other reasons. (Interestingly, your notes posted backward to the
mailing list according to the date-time stamp!) This I have previously
done, and yes, those footnotes appear in the Citation Detail. However,
there is a huge listing of import errors and drops and this shows big time
in other areas of the file. For example, instead of the over ~500 footnotes
which I am expecting in the Endnotes report (like I get with the regular FTM
import), I get less than thirty of which the majority of these are **Error**
Source #0. But that isn't the worst of it. TMG has taken each and every
one of those FTM footnotes and created a source of it! When I look at the
Master Source List, all of my footnotes are there, all truncated and
force-fit into the Source fields model. This is the point I got to when it
was suggested that I do a direct import from FTM into TMG, not the GEDCOM.

Maybe if I painstakingly copy the data in FTM from the Footnotes field to
the Citation Text field everything will import properly?!

This REALLY is bad. Does TMG give refunds? :-)

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Byram [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:04 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes

Gregory Winters wrote:

> For those of
> you not familiar, FTM allows the user to perform a Ctrl+S on any
> database field and insert a Source. The source box consists of three main
areas:
> the Master Source (which populates the Bibliography), the Citation
> (which
is
> the direct application of the Source to the field), and a place to
> type footnotes that are neither Sources or Citations. FTM will repeat
> the Source/Citation in the footnote if the user so desires (which I do).

They are not imported nor are they exported by FTM in any manner that I'm
aware of.

The data intended to be used is really intended to be in the citation
detail. The point of the footnote is to customize the footnote while using
the citation detail. The footnote is really an output customization for FTM
much like TMG's footnote template.

I know of no way to deal with this except on a footnote-by-footnote basis.

Jim



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