> >Guess until they invent a GEDCOM "not married" event, I have to see people > >married no matter what. It is quite evident when you upload a GEDCOM to > >Rootsweb World Connect Project. > Yes, you are correct. There are no GEDCOM standard events to indicate that > people are not married. Actually "not married" could be indicated by using the TYPE tag subordinate to the MARR tag. This is a legitimate use of the TYPE tag but few programs support it. Bill

At 09:33 PM 9/6/01 -0600, you wrote: > >> >Guess until they invent a GEDCOM "not married" event, I have to see >people >> >married no matter what. It is quite evident when you upload a GEDCOM to >> >Rootsweb World Connect Project. >> Yes, you are correct. There are no GEDCOM standard events to indicate that >> people are not married. > >Actually "not married" could be indicated by using the TYPE tag subordinate >to >the MARR tag. This is a legitimate use of the TYPE tag but few programs >support it. Yes, and that is what CFT-Win does to NOTM (not married) or LTOG (lived together) or CLM (common law marriage) tags - place them under the TYPE tag. The problem is that other programs don't recognize what these TYPE tags really are. They are simply unrecognized "events" to other programs. I have the same problem when CFT gets a TYPE tag created by another program. It really doesn't know what they are supposed to be for. Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043

> Yes, and that is what CFT-Win does to NOTM (not married) or LTOG (lived > together) or CLM (common law marriage) tags - place them under the TYPE > tag. The problem is that other programs don't recognize what these TYPE > tags really are. They are simply unrecognized "events" to other programs. I > have the same problem when CFT gets a TYPE tag created by another program. > It really doesn't know what they are supposed to be for. When the miscellaneous tag EVEN is used with the subordinate TYPE, the descriptor used with TYPE usually imports as the event description. I don't recall seeing anyone use the TYPE tag subordinate to the MARR tag although it is legal to use it with any event or attribute tag. In checking a number of GEDCOM files for the GEDCOM Testbook Project it has been a real eye-opener to see how few of the legitimate tags and structures are actually used by the various programs. It would appear most developers only chose to import the tags and structures they use for export. Bill

>When the miscellaneous tag EVEN is used with the subordinate TYPE, the descriptor >used with TYPE usually imports as the event description. I don't recall seeing anyone >use the TYPE tag subordinate to the MARR tag although it is legal to use it with any >event or attribute tag. In checking a number of GEDCOM files for the GEDCOM >Testbook Project it has been a real eye-opener to see how few of the >legitimate tags and >structures are actually used by the various programs. It would appear most developers >only chose to import the tags and structures they use for export. I would suppose that the reason they only import tags they use for export is because the internal database is structured only to hold those particular tags which are exported. So these other tags (which are unknown to the program) the program has no idea what to do with them. This would especially be true for a program that does not allow user defined events, but can be true with any program in many small details. I have struggled with this a lot myself. CFT-Win can drop "unknown" tags to the note field, but then months later a user notices this funny stuff in someone's note and wonders what it is doing there and then says they didn't want it there. It is difficult to know how to handle all situations for all people. Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043