Family Historian User Group

What I did with the RM family Residence tags was to change them from 1 RESI to 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Residence (fam) in the GEDCOM before import. I extracted the family records section from the GEDCOM, did a global search and replace in LibreOffice Writer, and then added the family records section back into...

Mike, Here's how TMG exports a dummy citation to GEDCOM 5.5. 2 SOUR @S1@ 3 PAGE citation detail; citation reference 3 NOTE citation memo 3 QUAY 1 The citation reference export is optional and is appended to the citation detail if selected. TMG doesn't follow the GEDCOM specs and will extend the PAGE...

Mike, If you export a GEDCOM from TMG and then import that GEDCOM to FH, the data will be in appropriate fields. <g> The TMG 'Citation Detail' should go to the FH 'Where within source' field. The TMG 'Citation memo' could go to either the FH 'Text from Source' or Note field. FH has two fields in tha...

I see exactly the same issue with the TMG citation fields being imported to incorrect FH fields after doing a direct import with FH v6.04. It was very easy to repair my FH database by globally editing the FH GEDCOM since my citation data is simple and absolutely consistent. For many users, however, ...