Migrating PAF5 to FH4

Post by **alananne** » 08 Oct 2011 00:42

I am taking a second look at FH with the 30 day trial.
Last time I gave up within a few days but want to make a more extensive effort to assess it.
I abandonded FTM decade before last and basically dumped everything in PAF5 and let it grow.
My GEDCOM test to FH produced a daunting log file that I have been trying to read through and noted the tip on UID but I seem also to have triggered problems with my older notes fields which have started with symbol '@'
Is this disliked universally or just as lead character in notes?
I also was suprised to find I have 'divorced' entry alongside my marriage date. This is not my current marital status in PAF5 or in life. Is this a known error or am I misreading the entry? It does not appear on the few records I have examined in my test material apart from a relative who is divorced

Alan

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 08 Oct 2011 09:24

PAF adds a UID number to every record and these can be safely ignored.

@ has special meaning a gedcom file and should be doubled when ever it's not a record marker. So the easy fix is to search for them and either remove them or make them @@.

If you post the section of your gedcom file for your Family Record we can probably spot why you are showing as divorced. I presume you are seeing this on the Marriage Status box?

Post by **alananne** » 08 Oct 2011 14:23

I have edited my PAF records for the symbol @ and retested up to 5 times now but I am still 'divorced'. This is the sequence that appears to apply to me. I have snipped personal detail as indicated but the rest is as GEDCOM report.

0 @F19@ FAM
1 _UID 43209DB0F4A5F342BDD52CC5A56CD97A658D
1 HUSB @I24@
1 WIFE @I35@
1 CHIL @I68@
1 CHIL @I124@
1 MARR
2 DATE [snip]
2 PLAC [snip]
2 SOUR @S13@
3 OBJE
4 FORM jpg
4 FILE C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner\My Documents\Family History\Family Names\6 - Certificate Images\[snip].jpg
4 TITL
4 NOTE
4 _SCBK N
4 _PRIM N
4 _TYPE PHOTO
1 NOTE Witnesses to the marriage were [snip]
2 CONC [snip]
1 DIV

I have checked the fields in PAF 5 for spaces and accidental typing errors but cannot see anything in these fields being transferred.
I have checked about a dozen others divorces showing in the GEDCOM and all are valid entries. Most appear as
1 DIV Y

Post by **tatewise** » 08 Oct 2011 15:59

A valid DIVorce event has the format shown at the end of your GEDCOM:
1 DIV
It would often be followed by 2 DATE, 2 PLAC, and other details similar to your 1 MARRiage event shown in the GEDCOM.
There should never be anything else on the same line as 1 DIV.
(Unless it is DIVorce Filed event that has the form 1 DIVF)

If only a few of these exceptions exist, then in FH V4 simply open the Individual Property Box, and on the Facts tab, delete the Divorced event for each individual that is in error.
Cannot explain why PAF5 would include these superfluous DIVorce events with no associated data.

Post by **alananne** » 08 Oct 2011 22:16

That is not encouraging.

I have found 2 further entries
1 DIV
for people who are not divorced and a number of entries
1 DIV Y
which do not follow the sequence that you laid out as standard in FH.
I think on that basis I will end my little trial and stick with PAF for the moment.

Thanks for the responses and information.

Post by **tatewise** » 09 Oct 2011 13:43

What I was referring to was not a standard in FH but The GEDCOM Standard, Release 5.5 available online at
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ... 5gctoc.htm
and as a PDF download at
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~simms/gene ... dcom55.pdf.
It would appear that PAF5 is not adhering to this standard, as the GEDCOM code 1 DIV Y is invalid.
Also PAF5 is creating the GEDCOM with code 1 DIV, not FH, which is simply honouring what it finds in the GEDCOM you have loaded into it.
I believe you should look more closely at why PAF5 is creating these codes.
Scouring the Internet does appear to suggest that PAF has had issues with the DIV tag/flag in the past and has used DIV Y instead.

Please check, when exporting from PAF5 that you choose the Other GEDCOM 5.5 option and select character set ANSI.

Post by **alananne** » 10 Oct 2011 00:21

I understood your response but was a little careless in saying 'standard'. My interest was in the migration not FH4. Having been through 2 previously into and out of FTM the GEDCOM was the interest and any known implications.

I am not wanting to spend time on a GEDCOM exercise so may be I will not drop Christmas hints for FH and settle for what Santa brings me.

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