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Can anyone recommend a program that can read the Marriage Date and Place from a GEDCOM file produced by Genopro.
I frequently export a GEDCOM of all or part of a Genopro file to distant relatives and they all come back with the same complaint.
"No marriage date or place imported".
I thought at first I had omitted selecting an option to include marriage data in the export but I can't find one.
Am I missing something?
Most of the relatives I send GEDCOM files use either "Personal Ancestor File" or "Legacy".
Neither of these programs can read marriage data from a GEDCOM produced by Genopro.
They seemed a bit surprised that such basic data could not be read - they don't experience the problem with imports from other programs.
Can someone recommend a program that will read marriage data from a Genopro GEDCOM file?
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| I'm not sure that the problem is with the recieving software. I checked a GEDCOM which was exported from Legacy and compared it to the one I exported from GenoPro. This is from Legacy:
0 @F69@ FAM
1 HUSB @I119@
1 WIFE @I240@
1 MARR
2 DATE 12 Dec 2000
2 PLAC Jerusalem, Israel
2 SOUR @S28@
3 PAGE No. 859410
3 QUAY 4
1 CHIL @I827@
1 CHIL @I1433@ |
And this is from GenoPro:
0 @fam00016@ FAM
1 LABEL m. 12 Dec 2000
1 RELATION Marriage
1 MARRIAGES @marr00012@
1 HUSB @ind00073@
1 WIFE @ind00076@
1 CHIL @ind00077@
1 CHIL @ind00078@0 @marr00012@ Marriage
1 TYPE Religious
1 DATE 12 DEC 2000 |
You can see the differences where the Marriage date is. In Legacy it is under the Tag 1 MARR and then 2 DATE and 2 PLAC. While in GenoPro theres only 1 DATE. I guess that Legacy is searching in the Import for the same tags and can't find them. Most of the GEDCOMs I saw had the pattern the Legacy produces, but, unfortunatelly, the GEDCOM protocol gives the programmer a lot of free space to play with those tags. I guess that Dan will solve this little problem...
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Quote:
"Most of the GEDCOMs I saw had the pattern the Legacy produces, ...."
My experience is the same.
Isn't the purpose of GEDCOM to enable transfer of data between Genealogy software programs.
I can understand a developer using internal tags for their own purpose but surely this can be converted to a common format when exporting to GEDCOM .
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| Matter of interest, what happens when you import the Legacy gedcom to GenoPro?
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appleshaw (9/27/2006)
Matter of interest, what happens when you import the Legacy gedcom to GenoPro?GenoPro imports the Legacy GEDCOM with the marriage (Union) date and place correctly.
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And as a follow up to my previous post I found this reference to Genopro on the "Lost Cousins" website.
FAMILY TREE SOFTWARE There are many family tree programs, some of which can be downloaded free of charge. Two free programs that I have used are Genopro (www.genopro.com), and Personal Ancestral File, which can be downloaded from www.familysearch.org. Family Historian (www.family-historian.co.uk) is not free, but has received rave reviews - it is also a British program written with local requirements in mind. All of these programs, even the free ones, will allow you to create family trees on screen, and print them out. All support GEDCOM files (GEDCOM is the standard format for the interchange of genealogical data), although Genopro uses its own file format internally, and does not offer all GEDCOM features.
It appears that I am not the only one to have noticed that.
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If you want to send a gedcom file with marriage information, use Ron's gn2xml2ged.vbs utility. As the name implies it converts the xml file to a gedcom. I have just tested it and my (free) copy of Legacy 6 imported it with marriage location & date.
Only change with 2.19 is that the xml file is zipped into the .gno file and so you have to extract it before conversion. Hopefully GenoPro will put the improved gedcom high on the list of updates. I have often noticed in reviews of genealogical software that a poor gedcom feature attracts bad comments
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I hope to soon complete a JavaScript version of my gnoxml2ged utility that can be run as a report skin within GenoPro.
'lego audio video erro ergo disco' or "I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn"
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| Where can I get this utility? I 've got the same problem!
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