Hi! I am just starting with getting my first file ready to enter into the Clooz program. My first question is about the Personal ID numbers. Since I have chosen to make a separate file for each main surname in my Family Treemaker Program, I have used ID numbers that have both a letter (the first letter of the surname) and the usual numbers assigned by the program. That means that for people that overlap from one file to the next (me!), they would have more than one ID number. Even if I use the ID number from their main file (without the numerical prefix) that number might already be assigned to another person in another file. My husband suggested using numbers to identify the different files (e.g. 11 for my Harrisons; 12 for my Linharts, etc.). So a number might end up being 11950. Is the ID field limited in the number of characters it will take? Or is there a better way to handle this situation? I guess what I am really asking is if all the files that you enter ev! en! tually get put together in one l arge file on Clooz, or do they remain separate? The second question I have is about the number of fields. I do have the marriage date for many of the people in my files, and would like to include that field in my data, but what do I do about those people for whom I have no marriage data - especially since that data field comes between the birth and death fields? Thanks for any help you can give at this moment, as I am a bit confused. Nancy in DE [email protected]

At 09:32 AM 6/19/01 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >Hi! > I am just starting with getting my first file ready to enter into > the Clooz program. My first question is about the Personal ID > numbers. Since I have chosen to make a separate file for each main > surname in my Family Treemaker Program, I have used ID numbers that have > both a letter (the first letter of the surname) and the usual numbers > assigned by the program. That means that for people that overlap from > one file to the next (me!), they would have more than one ID > number. Even if I use the ID number from their main file (without the > numerical prefix) that number might already be assigned to another person > in another file. My husband suggested using numbers to identify the > different files (e.g. 11 for my Harrisons; 12 for my Linharts, etc.). So > a number might end up being 11950. Is the ID field limited in the number > of characters it will take? Or is there a better way to handle this > situation? I guess what I am really asking is if all the files that you > enter ev! >en! >tually get put together in one l >arge file on Clooz, or do they remain separate? You might consider making separate files for each main surname in Clooz like you have in FTM. That's how I have mine set up. Then you don't need to worry about the problem above. You can have multiple databases in Clooz and this is discussed in the manual. The ID file that you import into the PersonID field can only be numeric. If you want instead to import the ID numbers you've created with the alphanumeric text, I recommend importing them into the AlternatePersonID field. This is also discussed in the manual. > The second question I have is about the number of fields. I do have > the marriage date for many of the people in my files, and would like to > include that field in my data, but what do I do about those people for > whom I have no marriage data - especially since that data field comes > between the birth and death fields? Clooz places data in fields based on how you set up the first row with the field names. Every row of data has to have the same number of commas as that first row because the commas tell Clooz where one field of data stops and another one starts. Setting up an export from FTM is very difficult. I strongly recommend that you download the free copy of Legacy from http://www.legacyfamilytree.com, import your GEDCOM into Legacy, and then do an export to Clooz (File/Export/Export to Clooz). Legacy puts your data in the exact format it needs to be in and you don't need to fuss with your data or pull your hair out. If you don't want to keep Legacy on your computer, uninstall it after you're done. It's free and will save you a huge headache! The next version of Clooz will have a GEDCOM import. This procedure for exporting from Legacy is explained on the Clooz Knowledge Base page at http://www.clooz.com/kbsa.htm under "The Import Process is too Hard." Liz Kelley Kerstens, CGRS, CGL Ancestor Detective, LLC http://www.ancestordetective.com Creator of Clooz, http://www.clooz.com Editor of Genealogical Computing, http://www.ancestry.com