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From: "Paul E. Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: GEDCOM Problem
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 22:51:55 -0500
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All of my census tags are primary. I don't do gedcoms so I can't comment
there....


At 09:25 PM 9/2/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Is there any reason that all Census, Census1790, Census1800......Census1880
>etc. can not all be primary? The GEDCOM tag is not used to determine if a
>tag is primary or not.
>
>Myrnice
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cheri Casper" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 9:19 PM
>Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: GEDCOM Problem
>
>
> > Marilyn - Why not try some different GEDCOM tags. Instead of CE, why not
> > just use the year 1870, 1880, etc. Surely anyone would understand what
>that
> > meant if they have done any genealogy at all. Or use C870, C880 so that
> > when you got to the 1900's, you could use C910.
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marilyn Lane" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 4:47 PM
> > Subject: [TMG] Re: GEDCOM Problem
> >
> >
> > > I tried Terry Reigel's suggestion (see below) but it doesn't work. I
> > > think the problem is that you can only have one CENS tag. If you use
> > > the GEDCOM tag CENS on both the Census1870 and the Census1880 tags and a
> > > person has both those events in their life, only one will show up.
> > >
> > > I looked at events in my UFT database and I see that the GEDCOM tags
> > > allow more characters than TMG. For instance, the GEDCOM tag for the
> > > 1870 census is CE1870. However, in TMG it is CE18 because TMG won't
> > > allow more than four characters.
> > >
> > > An interesting thing is that I decided to generate a GEDCOM in UFT to
> > > see how it handled census events. They didn't even show up in the
> > > GEDCOM. I guess that I was able to get them all into TMG because I used
> > > Genbridge. It looks to me like the only solution to the problem would
> > > be to change all my census tags to "plain-old census" which I'm not
> > > willing to do at this time.
> > >
> > > Have any of you are former UFT users experienced a problem having your
> > > census tags show up?
> > >
> > > Marilyn Lane
> > >
> > > "Terry Reigel wrote:
> > >
> > > I would think that changing the GEDCOM code for the of your custom
> > > census tags to CENS would do the trick. Why don't you try one or two and
> > > see if it does the trick? They do not have to all be primary as long as
> > > you don't use the Primary Only setting for tags on the GEDCOM export
> > > definition.
> > >
> > >
> > > Terry Reigel"
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Marilyn Lane wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>I have created a GEDCOM file which I hot-synced to the GedWise
>program
> > > >>on my Palm M105. I could not figure out why my census events were
>not
> > > >>showing up as they are supposed to. I contacted the GedWise folks
>and
> > > >>was told to see if CENS events are showing up in my GEDCOM. They are
> > > >>not and I think I know why. I imported my TMG database from UFT. My
> > > >>census tags, therefore, show up as Census1870, Census1880, etc. I
> > > like >>this because I can tell at a glance what censuses I have and what
> > > I am >>missing. However, my GEDCOM census tags read as CE18, C188, etc.
> > > My >>question is: Should I change all the GEDCOM tags to CENS? If I
> > > do so,>>will this solve the problem or can there be only one tag with
> > > CENS as >>part of it?
> > >
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Paul E. Lawrence

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