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From: "Gene Stuff" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Exporting Witness Tags
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:40:25 +0000


>From:
>
>In a message dated 7/15/02 11:13:51 AM Central Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
>
> > 3) All we're asking is that TMG export witnesses to GEDCOM. I have yet
>to
> > see a reasonable explanation for why this cannot be done.
> >
>
>Since it wasn't done before the LDS said they were not supporting GEDCOM
>anymore the chances of WG taking time to do this now (assuming Bob found a
>way to do it that he felt comfortable with) that it will no longer be
>supported are, to my mind at least, *very* slim. I can't see them taking
>the
>time writing something for something that is on the way out- it would fall
>into the same catagory as them doing an update for the DOS version of TMG.

This is an argument I can understand, but not one I've heard from Bob Velke
who argued that TMG "could not" export witnesses to GEDCOM. If TMG is
abandoning GEDCOM then that would be a very important thing for its
customers to know, especially since there is currently no alternative.

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