Genealogy Chat

Can someone help pls. I have 'gedcom'ed my tree from FTM 05 back to genes, but somewhere along the pixel outerspace some dates have changed. Now I have a birth date for 'Isabel' of 1899, and no dates at all for her children - but - genes wont let me change anything. Isabel should be 1846, cant change that cuz her children are born ***** blank, no date in there at all ! Cant change her children cuz they are 'younger' than mum. Do I need to go back to FTM and send another one?? (oh I hope not - Im so proud I did the one lol) Lorna - very new, very lost and now very anti gedcom

Many members including myself use FTM to upload files, usually without too many problems It is just possible you used the wrong format for your gedcom. Have a look at Glen's Gedcom thread, ther just might be something on there that will help.

sorry I went off to try and fix it. Thank you for your help Peter. Lorna

copied n pasted from Glens thread.....hope this helps Lorna Added by Peter Morgalla on 22/02/2007 17:30:49 My tree on GR is only a part of what I have on my FMT database, so when I upload it I usually create a version which only has our direct descendants in it and related cousins. To do this I create a number of FTM files using the report/export function and then merge them together into a single file which I then export as a gedcom for uploading to GR. Last time I did this I thought that I would try using gedcoms rather than FTM files for the extracts. One thing that I did find though was that if you export a gedcom of an FTM file and then load it back in, the results are not necessarily the same. I did not spend too much time trying to find out why but suspect it is because certain FTM fields don't map directly to the gedcom format and are ''doctored'' to fit. So, when you reload the gedcom back you dont get the same result that you started out with. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Added by Glen In fresh Tinsel Knickers on 22/02/2007 18:26:53 Each data field is 'tagged' (titled if you prefer). These tags can be either abbreviated or longhand, for instance one programme maye have the tag 'occupation' and another 'occu'. The difficulty is where the exporting programme and the receiving programme use the different tags, this can cause some items to either transfer incorrectly or not transfer at all. In total there are 256 different tags available but the more basic tree builder used by GR cannot use abbreviated tags or the entire 256 different tags available. If the limits of the 'lesser' programme are known it is possible to examine a gedcom file in Word and replace the tags with the alternative versions. Not a quick process for a large file though. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ah thanks aunty g lol xxxx