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GEDCOM help needed

  • Thread starter Thread starter At home in NZ
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At home in NZ

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I want to create a GEDCOM that does not include the Fact Description fields. Does anybody know if it is possible? If so, how do I do it?
Thanks.
 
Which family tree program(s) do you own? Most allow you to decide what goes into a GEDCOM.

Family Tree Analyzer might also do the job - well worth checking. There was a program called Res Privata but I believe it has not been updated for many years.
 
peter said:
Which family tree program(s) do you own? Most allow you to decide what goes into a GEDCOM.

Family Tree Analyzer might also do the job - well worth checking. There was a program called Res Privata but I believe it has not been updated for many years.
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I use Ancestry and it doesn't have the facility to choose what you want to include.
I have FTM, the choices are limited to what to include and to select certain individuals.
According to what I found in Google Res Privata is A financial department of the Roman state etc.
Putting genealogy after Res Privata reveals a website with a note to say it was discontinued in mid 2007.

I'll check FTA but don't recall reading anything about it in the manual but my memory can be flawed at times. It's too late to do it now, it's past my bedtime.
 
At home in NZ said:
Putting genealogy after Res Privata reveals a website with a note to say it was discontinued in mid 2007.
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Some of the software I use hasn't been updated since 2007 (or earlier). It doesn't necessarily mean that it won't work.
 
At home in NZ said:
I use Ancestry and it doesn't have the facility to choose what you want to include.
I have FTM, the choices are limited to what to include and to select certain individuals.
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Unfortunately, Ancestry (and therefore FTM) do not seem to comply with the GEDCOM standard. If you load an Ancestry GEDCOM into Family Historian you get a load of warnings and the "Description field" is transferred to a "+1" NOTE record (NOTE is not available in Ancestry's "drop down" list) - then you can delete all "NOTE" records. Other (free?) compliant programs may do something similar.

Edit: FTM does allow NOTE records but cannot convert Descriptions to to a separate record
 
peter said:
Some of the software I use hasn't been updated since 2007 (or earlier). It doesn't necessarily mean that it won't work.
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I know what you mean, because I have a chart making program that is way out of support but, how does one purchase something that is discontinued?
 
At home in NZ said:
I'll check FTA but don't recall reading anything about it in the manual but my memory can be flawed at times. It's too late to do it now, it's past my bedtime.
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I have checked FTA, it doesn't help. I've found another way of achieving what I want, i.e. an overview of my tree for somebody. Ancestor and descendant charts fit the bill.
 
peter said:
I carried out the same search as you did before mentioning Res Privata and one of the search results (from FHUG, I think) had a download link.
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I found it here, although some of the language is double Dutch to me. I will investigate if the need arises.
Thanks.
 
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