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From: "Paul E. Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Witness Memo's don't transfer
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:14:30 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200510042131.j94LVdxO024408@mx01.mesh.net>


At 04:31 PM 10/4/2005 -0500, Jerry Jordan wrote:
>My own Wright family resided in Overton Co, TN. In my newest project for
>Wright's of Overton Co, TN I have added census data for some of the
>descendants which was NOT included in my own family Project. I made a focus
>group of those families and exported it to a GEDCOM. Next, I imported that
>GEDCOM into my family project. I made all the "moves" and "merges" and that
>worked fine. However, the witnesses that I had in census tags did not move,
>so I am having to manually add all of this information again. Is there some
>way that the witness tags can be exported along with the GEDCOM?

GEDCOM makes no provisions for witnesses...why use GEDCOM? You can create a
new data set or project from the Focus Group using the List of People
report and then merge this with you family project. See Terry's site for
detail information for merging projects and data sets.
http://tmg.reigelridge.com/



Paul E. Lawrence


My Lawrence Genealogy web page is located at the following URL:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lawrpaul/index.htm

User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) http://www.whollygenes.com/index.htm

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