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From: "Marion & Helene Pockrus" <>
Subject: Re: Brothers Keeper
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:14:47 -0600

Thanks so much! Maybe we will have a good convesation and discussion with
this new info.
Helene

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> From: Wayne League <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: Brothers Keeper
> Date: Friday, August 01, 1997 12:59 AM
>
> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 23:29:26 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >Can anyone tell me if a gedcom can be made from Brother's Keeper that
can
> >be gedcomed into FO5. And the opposite. I have a phone call coming in
> >long distance tomorrow night and we are going to try to exchange info.
> >Helene
>
> Gedcoms from Brothers Keeper will go into FO just fine -- no problems.
> Gedcoms from FO to Brothers Keeper are a different story. FO has many
> fields which BK has no place for. All of the basic data and general
> notes from FO will go into BK OK. When making an FO gedcom for BK,
> uncheck the "preserve wordwrap" option, for BK does not recognize the
> CONC tag. Here are some of the things that will not transfer to BK.
> FO has an almost unlimited number of possible fact types but BK has
> only two or three extra fields besides the basic events that can be
> designated to receive extra fact types.
> BK will pick up sources for individual facts but not general sources.
> But its source space is only three lines, so FO sources may be
> truncated.
> BK will not get notes attached to individual facts nor will it get
> family notes. Only general notes will transfer.
> BK will get the name suffixes such as Jr. or Sr. but will not get the
> prefixes such as Capt. unless the BK user designates one of its extra
> fields to receive the NPFX tag.
>
> A BK user who is "up" on gedcoms could globally change the *problem
> tags in an FO gedcom so that all that data would go into the general
> notes area and thereby at least get all the data into its database.
> *(Problem tags for BK, that is)
>
> There is a shareware program called GIM that will import an FO gedcom
> file and then export a new v4 gedcom in PAF format that will put all
> the FO extra data into the notes in BK.
> ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/dblaine/gimdos/
>
> Wayne League

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