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John

John Report 5 Nov 2009 13:55

Ron - thank you for takng the time to reply.

The problem I am trying to understand is why some of the dd/mm/ccyy dates on my GR tree have been imported into my free PAF tree with the prefix ABT and others have been imported with no prefix.

Do you know what the problem is with a date formatted as dd/mm/ccyy eg 05/11/2009 ?

John

Ron

Ron Report 5 Nov 2009 00:00

It should not be a problem, the dates get corrupted because people do not enter them correctly, never, ever put 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. into your date, just 1 November for example, if you are not sure then enter abt or about. This is standard gedcom format and will not get corrupted.

Ron
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John

John Report 4 Nov 2009 19:26

Hawkwind you are right. PAF reported several problems when importing my tree. They were all to do with husbands and wives being the wrong sex. I ran a check/repair on it and those problems appear to be fixed. However some of my dd/mm/ccyy dates appear in my PAF tree with the prefix ABT while other dd/mm/ccyy dates do not have this prefix.

Surely somebody else must have exported their tree from GR, amended it in PAF and reimported it back successfully.

John

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 4 Nov 2009 14:53

Just a word of caution.

Whilst I can't speak first hand but some members have reported that gedcom files exported from GR sometimes have the dates corrupted.

Try it and see, but as Jim says, don't trash your original until you are sure it is all ok.

John

John Report 4 Nov 2009 14:49

Jim, Thank you for replying so quickly. I was just hoping some clever person had already succesfully exported and imported their family trees. I will give it a go as you suggest.

John

Thelma

Thelma Report 4 Nov 2009 14:34

If you do not get an answer and even if you do.
The gedcom will be sent to you in an email
open it with familysearch
See if you can amend it
Open a second free GR account
load it there
If you are happy with it
Override your present tree
If you are still happy
delete the free tree.

John

John Report 4 Nov 2009 13:50

Hello Folks,

Is it possible to export your tree from GR, amend it via the free PAF software from familysearch.org and reload it back into GR without losing any information? If all my dates on GR are in the format dd/mm/ccyy or ??/??/ccyy will this cause problems? Are there any PAF preferences I should specify? Please be gentle as I am a PAF novice.

John