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From: "Jim Byram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes - Epilogue
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:28:45 -0500
References: <B1006824531@hdflem01.fl.hostdepot.net>


Greg,

> This means and can only mean one thing: FTM's GEDCOM export (and the file
> itself which TMG can directly import) is indeed differentiating between
the
> Citation box and the Footnote box, and TMG's import engine is not built to
> accommodate this GEDCOM element.

Two points...
1) The Rootsmagic GEDCOM import is differentiating between the TEXT and NOTE
tags subordinate to the SOUR tag. It imports the data from the TEXT tag to
the citation text field and the data from the NOTE tag to the citation
comments field. The Rootsmagic GEDCOM import knows nothing about the FTM
citation text and citation footnote fields.
2) From my tests, TMG imports both the data from the GEDCOM TEXT tag and the
data from the GEDCOM NOTE tag to the citation detail field.

If you are getting different GEDCOM import results, it is because of the
structure of the _GEDCOM_ file. I offered to look at the GEDCOM file import
for you and got no response. The offer is still open.

Jim




Unfortunately, RM's interface and features
> aren't nearly as sophisticated as TMG's, so I can't really consider this
> application as meeting my needs. But it's good to know that all that
would
> have to be done to TMG is fix the import mapping to send the GEDCOM (or
> original FTM) data to the Citation Detail field and everything would work.
> (I still haven't been able to understand why the Footnote data from FTM
> isn't even imported to the Citation Detail area of TMG when it's obviously
> there - and clear and distinct - in RootsMagic.)
>
> Greg
>
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