On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:07:08 -0500, "Dale H. Cook" <radiotest@plymouthcolony.net> wrote: >At 05:47 AM 1/9/2012, Otto Jørgensen wrote: > >>Before 1959 they was two different countries > >A correction - they were not two different >countries. Hawaii was a territory of the United >States (as Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa >still are). Hawaii has not been a nation since >1898, when the Republic of Hawaii was annexed by >the US and it became a territory. > OK, My american history are not at the top level, but anyway sometimes before Hawaii have no teritoriall connection to USA :) >>e.g. also move from New York to Alaska. How to mark that? > >I track that on the Notes tab. Nopte are the same as history and as we use it that is a part of Edit and we have used Biography as that is the histyr part of a person an the part we mostly presents in reports to family etc. It is too many Note(s) area in the program and only one of them are the Biography :) >>I know this can be told in biography, but as >>short events to be presented by a gedcom? > >Although GEDCOM is an open standard, attempts by >one program to extend its functions often meet >with problems because other programs may not >understand those extensions. In the GEDCOM 5.5 >standard perhaps the only tags that would be >appropriate would be the EMIG or IMMI tags to >show emigration or immigration, or perhaps the >EVEN, FACT or NOTE tags. I do not know how BK >handles any of those tags because I stopped >GEDCOM a couple of decades ago, and use only Register reports for sharing data. The main problem is when doing other type of presentation where using EXCEL or similar og Grafic presentation we take certain events as (Emigrated ) EMIG and ( Immigrated ) IMMI and use that for statistic information and noe of the Tag mention are to be used EVEN is a common Tag for many purpose and so are the other as well. Facts and Notes are also desciption -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON