Export witnesses w/ gedcom?
In my TMG file, I usually have the parents as the 'principals' in an event tag (like the census) and then include all of the children as 'witnesses'. This is much easier than having to copy the same event tag to each individual. When I export the file to gedcom, I would like these witnessed events to appear with each child but they don't. Is there any way to do this?
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Re: Export witnesses w/ gedcom?
In a word- no.
Witnesses are one of the many advanced features of TMG that GEDCOM has no way to handle (either export or import).
The more one uses the advanced features of any genealogical program the less likely it is that that information will be avaliable to transfer by GEDCOM.
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That's too bad. I wouldn't think that it would be that hard for TMG to include certain witnessed events in a gedcom....
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The problem is not with TMG it is with the antiquated protocol of gedcom.
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Angela,
The GEDCOM specifications do not allow a way to add witnesses. If you think it would be easy then you obviously know nothing about GEDCOM coding and the arcaness thereof.
GEDCOM is an outdated, flawed, and generally worthless (except when conveying basic birth, death, marriage info) piece of coding that all modern programs should avoid if at all possible.
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Re: Export witnesses w/ gedcom?
You are correct that I don't know anything about gedcom coding but I think you misunderstood my comment. I would think that TMG would be capable of changing certain witnessed events (like census tags) to primary tags and exporting them such that the archaic, outdated, etc etc gedcom would include that information properly.
Gedcom is everything you say it is, but for now we are stuck with it as a method for transferring data in certain situations.
I don't know why you felt it necessary to respond with such vitriol.
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Re: Export witnesses w/ gedcom?
Angela,
This particular topic has been discussed several times on the TMG-L Rootsweb mailing list as to why this can't be done. The long and short of it is that the TMG developers say it can't be done so that is that.
I'm sorry if my tone was brusque but I am sick unto death of people saying they think something could be done about something when they know nothing about what it takes to do the actual doing.
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I searched the message board for this subject but didn't think to search the list archives. I'll do that to catch up on the discussion.
Sorry about making assumptions. My expertise is only with Access relational databases and not with Foxpro.
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AGHatchett3rd obviously knows nothing about gedcom coding. Here's what a census tag from a gedcom file looks like: 1 CENS 2 DATE 1940 2 PLAC Normal, McLean Co, IL 2 NOTE ancestry.com indexed them as "Rull" 2 SOUR @S149@ There is nothing in the tag about the "role", so whether TMG calls the person a principal, a witness, or anything else is not relevant, and there is no logical reason why the census tag should not show up in the gedcom file under each and every person to whom it is attached in my TMG data file. In TMG I have 5 census events for my grandmother, from 1900 to 1940: 3 as principal, 1 as witness, and 1 as resident. Only 2 of these were exported to the gedcom file, from TMG8 to gedcom 5.5 with "all events" selected. This is obviously NOT a limitation of the gedcom standard but a bug in TMG's export algoritm.
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Amazing that you would resurrect a 4 year old posting!
I strongly suggest you contact Mr. Bob Velke as to how and why TMG does what it does.
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