Hi John Some of the notes are attached to Events and some are on the Notes tab on Edit, & all are internal text files. All the Notes seem to be included in the gedcom OK, and are showing up when I'm viewing individuals in my gedcom viewer program, but in the viewer's General Information about the gedcom, with all the gedcoms I've created with BK, it shows them as having zero Notes. Gedcoms created by other programs, however, are shown in the General Information report as having notes (where there are any). I guess it's not a major issue as the Notes seem to be exporting into the Gedcom OK, but I just wondered why my gedcom viewer program is counting the notes in gedcoms created by other programs, but not in BK gedcoms, even when created from the same original data, and if this indicated something amiss somewhere. Many thanks Pauline On 24/06/2012 13:43, John Steed wrote: > To Pauline akpak@balmnet.co.uk > > When you say Notes do you mean the notes under the Notes tab on Edit > or do you mean something on the Source screen? > > Go to Edit to view the person and see exactly where the note is located. > > There are general notes on the Notes tab for either Individual or Family > > There are also Event Notes attached to the Events grid on the N column. > > And there are notes you can type into a Source for an event. > > When you make a Gedcom file, if you have BK6.4 or 6.5, then turn on > the option there to pick which fields of the source to export. You can > turn off Abbreviation there since some programs will duplicate it when > importing the gedcom file. > > John Steed > > www.bkwin.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pauline & Arthur Kennedy" > <akpak@balmnet.co.uk> > To: <BK@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:39 AM > Subject: [BK] Creating Gedcoms > > >> Using the latest update to BK, yesterday I created some Gedcoms from >> some old BK databases which haven't been touched since conversion to BK6 >> in 2004, and noticed a couple of issues when viewing them in a gedcom >> reader program. >> >> 1) All of the databases included notes and these all appear to be >> displaying in my gedcom reader program, but the general information >> section which details the number of people, families, sources etc in the >> gedcom shows the number of notes as zero for each gedcom, which seems >> odd. Some of the gedcoms I created yesterday were from databases >> initially created by importing gedcoms from other researchers into BK - >> I still have some of these old gedcoms and when I view these in my >> gedcom viewer the notes are listed as existing in the general >> information. I haven't edited these notes in any way, so why are they >> being counted as notes in the original gedcoms, but not in the ones >> created yesterday by BK? >> >> 2. Some of the gedcoms I created yesterday were from data I entered into >> BK myself (ie not by importing someone else's gedcoms), and when viewing >> these in my gedcom reader, all the source information is duplicated (eg. >> "Parish Register, Parish Register"). I suspect that this may be >> something to do with the way I entered my source information back then, >> as the gedcoms I created from other people's data do not have this >> problem. Viewing the gedcom in Notepad I see that each source is listed >> with the same text under ABBR & NOTE. In BK this information was entered >> only once in the Source, under Abbreviation (which is ticked), so why is >> it being duplicated when the gedcom is created? >> >> Can anyone advise, please? >> >> Many thanks >> Pauline >

Pauline What gedcom viewer are you using? Jim Hi John Some of the notes are attached to Events and some are on the Notes tab on Edit, & all are internal text files. All the Notes seem to be included in the gedcom OK, and are showing up when I'm viewing individuals in my gedcom viewer program, but in the viewer's General Information about the gedcom, with all the gedcoms I've created with BK, it shows them as having zero Notes. Gedcoms created by other programs, however, are shown in the General Information report as having notes (where there are any). I guess it's not a major issue as the Notes seem to be exporting into the Gedcom OK, but I just wondered why my gedcom viewer program is counting the notes in gedcoms created by other programs, but not in BK gedcoms, even when created from the same original data, and if this indicated something amiss somewhere. Many thanks Pauline On 24/06/2012 13:43, John Steed wrote: > To Pauline akpak@balmnet.co.uk > > When you say Notes do you mean the notes under the Notes tab on Edit > or do you mean something on the Source screen? > > Go to Edit to view the person and see exactly where the note is located. > > There are general notes on the Notes tab for either Individual or > Family > > There are also Event Notes attached to the Events grid on the N column. > > And there are notes you can type into a Source for an event. > > When you make a Gedcom file, if you have BK6.4 or 6.5, then turn on > the option there to pick which fields of the source to export. You can > turn off Abbreviation there since some programs will duplicate it when > importing the gedcom file. > > John Steed > > www.bkwin.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pauline & Arthur Kennedy" > <akpak@balmnet.co.uk> > To: <BK@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:39 AM > Subject: [BK] Creating Gedcoms > > >> Using the latest update to BK, yesterday I created some Gedcoms from >> some old BK databases which haven't been touched since conversion to >> BK6 in 2004, and noticed a couple of issues when viewing them in a >> gedcom reader program. >> >> 1) All of the databases included notes and these all appear to be >> displaying in my gedcom reader program, but the general information >> section which details the number of people, families, sources etc in >> the gedcom shows the number of notes as zero for each gedcom, which >> seems odd. Some of the gedcoms I created yesterday were from >> databases initially created by importing gedcoms from other >> researchers into BK - I still have some of these old gedcoms and when >> I view these in my gedcom viewer the notes are listed as existing in >> the general information. I haven't edited these notes in any way, so >> why are they being counted as notes in the original gedcoms, but not >> in the ones created yesterday by BK? >> >> 2. Some of the gedcoms I created yesterday were from data I entered >> into BK myself (ie not by importing someone else's gedcoms), and when >> viewing these in my gedcom reader, all the source information is duplicated (eg. >> "Parish Register, Parish Register"). I suspect that this may be >> something to do with the way I entered my source information back >> then, as the gedcoms I created from other people's data do not have >> this problem. Viewing the gedcom in Notepad I see that each source is >> listed with the same text under ABBR & NOTE. In BK this information >> was entered only once in the Source, under Abbreviation (which is >> ticked), so why is it being duplicated when the gedcom is created? >> >> Can anyone advise, please? >> >> Many thanks >> Pauline >