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Dora Smith

These programs include whole families of ancestors with mult

Legg inn av Dora Smith » 06 okt 2006 03:27:44

The following programs import your dates exactly as you enter them, and/or
print entire families of ancestors with multiple marriages instead of
assuming you only want certain spouse and children known, in an ancestor
report.

I have found that it is amazing what the existence of choices does for
product developers when all intelligence, common sense, and ability to
listen to customers fail.

PAF, PAF Companion, Legacy, Roots Magic, Ancestral Quest, The Master
Genealogist, adn The Complete Genealogical Reporter (a utility), all import
your dates from your GEDCOM or database exactly as you entered them and
leave them unaltered, no matter what you entered.

The Complete Genealogical Reporter truncates whatever date text exceeds a
certain length, but it does leave "abt 1835" and standard dual dates alone.
In addition, he seems reasonable and to want to please, so I asked him if he
could please lengthen that field.

Two utilities that work with your GEDCOM; Brother's Keeper and The Complete
Genealogical Reporter, include all the children of all the marriages of each
ancestor in ancestor reports.

Brother's Keeper makes you add spacing and bold text and font changes, but
that goes alot faster than having to cut and paste in the missing
information from all your French Canadian families with multiple marriages
and then end up with no index!

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Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com

Nigel Bufton

Re: These programs include whole families of ancestors with

Legg inn av Nigel Bufton » 06 okt 2006 07:36:36

"Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:AajVg.37355$DU3.570@tornado.texas.rr.com...
...<snip
The Complete Genealogical Reporter truncates whatever date text exceeds a
certain length, but it does leave "abt 1835" and standard dual dates
alone. In addition, he seems reasonable and to want to please, so I asked
him if he could please lengthen that field.
...<snip

To clarify the handling of dates in The Complete Genealogy Reporter.

1. TCGR handles all DATE tags that conform to the GEDCOM standard. e.g., 6
Oct 2006
2. Because many people enter date information with more flexibility, TCGR
contains comprehensive date parsing logic to interpret dates that are
expressed as dates, but not to the recommended standard. e.g. 2006-10-6.
3. When interpreting an non-standard date, TCGR will omit (truncate)
additional data that is not descriptive of an actual date specification.
e.g, Oct 2006 or possibly a couple of years earlier.
4. If TCGR cannot parse the date, it will report it as found. e.g.,
Sometime after the war.

There is also a "no interpretation" option to report all DATA tag data
exactly as read from the GEDCOM file.

Nigel

Dora Smith

Re: These programs include whole families of ancestors with

Legg inn av Dora Smith » 07 okt 2006 06:34:15

Uh-huh.

You can enter your data into PAF for free. The only charge for PAF is if
you want them to send you an installation CD.

--
Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
"Dennis Lee Bieber" <bieber.genealogy@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:SynVg.5627$Y24.4241@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net...
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:27:44 GMT, "Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com
declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:


Two utilities that work with your GEDCOM; Brother's Keeper and The
Complete
Genealogical Reporter, include all the children of all the marriages of
each
ancestor in ancestor reports.

Of course, to create that GEDCOM implies that you are using some
other program for data entry... GEDCOM itself is only a text format
created for transferring a specific set (a set meant for submittal to
the LDS, anything beyond that is not guaranteed) between programs.
--
bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber
HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

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