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From: "Jim Byram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons??
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:23:09 -0500
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> >Robert Marshall Wrote:
> >
> > > I have been debating with myself how I should handle the
> > > growing number of entries in a spreadsheet for
> > > appearances in City Directories. I thought about creating
> > > a custom "City Directory" tag, a la the "Census" tag that
> > > already exists. If I do, will that get exported in gedcom
> > > if I ever need to do an export?

Yes. Custom tags should be assigned a GEDCOM export tag type of 1 EVEN 2
TYPE and are so assigned by default. Set up like this, the custom tags will
be exported in a format perfectly compliant with the GEDCOM 5.5 standard and
will be correctly imported by almost all other programs.

Jim

This thread:

• [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons?? by Robert Marshall <>
  • RE: [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons?? by "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
    • RE: [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons?? by "Kevin Sholder" <>
      • RE: [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons?? by Terry Reigel <>
        • RE: [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons?? by Kevin Sholder <>
    • RE: [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons?? by Terry Reigel <>
      • RE: [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons?? by Lee Hoffman <>

        • Re: [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons?? by "Jim Byram" <>

        • Tax list great for deterring death year was RE: [TMG] custom "City Directory" tag vs. standard "Residence" tag. Pros and cons?? by "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>