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    1. Re: GEDCOM problem
    2. Ira J. Lund
    3. >I can confirm that I also experienced a similar problem about a month ago. >At first I thought it was a quirk of my data, until I discovered that it had >passed through several generations of GEDCOM exports and subsequent imports >as I moved data around between databases. > >The problem was noticed when I read the GEDCOM into an external utility >program, as the misplaced MARR tag caused some confusion in the program. >After contacting the author of the program, he updated it to highlight such >entries, and advised that the genealogy program he used checked for >anomolies like this one. > >I do not think that CFTW created the problem, but it certainly passes it on. >In my case the MARR tag occurred within the 0 @I individual records, not the >0 @F family ones. A MARR tag within an INDIVIDUAL record is incorrect. But the excerpt Max showed was not this particular problem. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com

    07/14/1998 04:40:07