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From: "Jim Byram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:22:27 -0500
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Greg,

> (Interestingly, your notes posted backward to the
> mailing list according to the date-time stamp!)

I got my first message back 10 hours after sending it.

Regarding GEDCOM import...

> However,
> there is a huge listing of import errors and drops and this shows big time
> in other areas of the file.

Most of the information in the GEDCOM import file will be noise caused by
the relationship flags from the FTM Lineage tab. The data is not imported
and the list file says so.

> 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.

That's a clear error but I would need to have the GEDCOM file to test and a
list of examples to look at to comment further.

> 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.

Again, I'd need to do the import and look at examples to understand exactly
what you are saying.

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

Walt says that he believes so but you should test to determine the best
approach. Many people on this list have moved from FTM to TMG. It will take
some cleanup effort after the import... particularly with the sources.
Moving data from one program to another is not a trivial undertaking.

Jim

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