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From: "Sutton, Scot G." <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:30:55 -0500


Greg,

Saying that converting to TMG from FTM is not a trivial undertaking is, at best, an understatement. I have been trying to make the conversion for over 2 years now and, even though a few bugs have been fixed, I am still not comfortable with the GenBridge conversion. There are still several instances where the conversion process can alter or even omit data during the conversion. The problem you have observed (your footnotes being converted to sources and truncated) is one such case. If I remember correctly, this happens to all manually edited footnotes from FTM Source-Citations. This is one of the import problems I have lobbied to have fixed or improved but, so far, I have seen no change. So far the attitude of WG toward most of my FTM conversion problems has basically been "that is the way it works and that is good enough for us". Also, if you are using an older version of FTM (pre version 8, I believe) then you should convert your FTM file(s) to a newer version or your FTM t!
o TMG conversion will probably not be worth the effort. In addition, if you enter a footnote on the FTM Source-Citations box without a source (which is perfectly legal in FTM), your conversion to TMG may contain blank inaccessible sources that will totally screw up the sources in the resulting TMG file. Finally, if you have any WFT-Est dates in you FTM file, they will be incorrectly converted to circa dates and there will be no way to track which data items are altered by GenBridge during the conversion. Unfortunately WG does not publish the known problems/shortcomings with their GenBridge conversion modules. Doing so would save users trying to convert to TMG a great deal of frustration. Good luck.

Scot


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