I had included a source in my previous e-mail that FAM is a GEDCOM 5.5 standard event. It is not ficticious, as you have noted. ------ from previous e-mail ---------- source: http://www.gendex.com/gedcom55/55gcappa.htm The GEDCOM Standard Release 5.5 Appendix A Lineage-Linked GEDCOM Tag Definition FAM {FAMILY}: = Identifies a legal, common law, or other customary relationship of man and woman and their children, if any, or a family created by virtue of the birth of a child to its biological father and mother. --------------- end of clip ---------------- Shouldn't CFTW recognize 5.5 GEDCOM standards? Karen Pastuzyn In a message dated 9/4/01 9:18:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << If the "not married" tag is being interperted as a marriage tag by other programs (which would not be a very bright idea if I was programming them) then I can almost certainly believe that any fictitious non-GED tag (such as FAM) will also be interpreted by other programs as a marriage tag. In other words, when CFT writes a GED neither NOTM not FAM are GEDCOM standards and they are treated the same way. So why another program would treat these two "unknown" tags is beyond me. >>
Yes, FAM is a GEDCOM tag -- (wasn't thinking about this) BUT it is NOT an event. It is a special identifier automatically generated by all programs during GED export showing the links between family members. Your FAM user defined event is not the same as the FAM GEDCOM tag. CFT-Win will not treat your FAM event the same as the GEDCOM FAM tag. Not sure what you were trying to - but could really confuse programs if you ever created a FAM event and then checked the box that said this was a GEDCOM standard tag. This will only result in havoc. Ira At 10:18 AM 9/4/01 -0400, you wrote: >I had included a source in my previous e-mail that FAM is a GEDCOM 5.5 >standard event. It is not ficticious, as you have noted. > >------ from previous e-mail ---------- >source: >http://www.gendex.com/gedcom55/55gcappa.htm > >The GEDCOM Standard Release 5.5 >Appendix A > >Lineage-Linked GEDCOM Tag Definition > >FAM {FAMILY}: = >Identifies a legal, common law, or other customary relationship of man and >woman and their children, if any, or a family created by virtue of the birth >of a child to its biological father and mother. > >--------------- end of clip ---------------- > >Shouldn't CFTW recognize 5.5 GEDCOM standards? > > >Karen Pastuzyn > >In a message dated 9/4/01 9:18:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< > If the "not married" tag is being interperted as a marriage tag by other > programs (which would not be a very bright idea if I was programming them) > then I can almost certainly believe that any fictitious non-GED tag (such > as FAM) will also be interpreted by other programs as a marriage tag. In > other words, when CFT writes a GED neither NOTM not FAM are GEDCOM > standards and they are treated the same way. So why another program would > treat these two "unknown" tags is beyond me. >> ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043