You will laugh when I tell you why I could not get the converter to run on my gedcom file. The converter even has a nice little link at the bottom to prompt you to use the new converted file. Yes, I am using the new gedcom created by the converter to upload into TNG. But in my opinion there is still a lot of room for improvement. I absolutely adore TNG and have been using it and I have been buying upgrades since version 10 years ago. All media are packed together in that source and not withy the citation they go with etc). while sources are properly named, and citations are shown correctly on a person page, in any source list they only get a number that says nothing. Yet TNG does not treat the media as it should (and citations, for that matter. Gedcom standard also permits adding media to a citation rather than a person or source. Yet TNG seems to import them into a general note field attached to the person, not the event it's supposed to go with. These notes can be attached to a fact/event. Gedcom rules for very long descriptions (longer than 255 characters) are to put it in a note in stead.
There's no reason why TNG needs to cut a text after about 40 characters and only import half of a description field. For example, a standard gedcom line can have 255 characters.
I just don't understand why TNG does not import certain things.
Maybe a silly remark, but I need to ask: you do make sure that after converting the file, you import the *new* gedcom that is created, right? And not the original gedcom you uploaded? The original one remains unchanged, when passing it through the convertor mod, a new gedcom is created.Īlso (for Chris): as far as I know, the gedcom output of FTM is completely in line with gedcom standards.
I do it like that all the time, and it works very well. Use Converter Mod to convert file to compatible TNG file.Īnyone do this method that would like to share? TIA!! Hope So Genviewer ($20) is some kind of clean-up utility for Gedcoms? Does it convert the entire file FTM file so that it can be used in TNG? The website for it does not explain what it does exactly " GENViewgedcom er is a utility that adds new ways to search, sort, analyze, and manage your genealogy family files anywhere on your computer." I thought the Gedcom Converter Mod was supposed to match FTM 2017 gedcom output to the TNG gedcom.
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