I am rather upset by this email from 'Robacis'. If Ancestral Sources did indeed corrupt your file why on earth have you not made any kind of contact with me to let me know? On the help menu of Ancestral Sources there are links to email for support and also to go the Ancestral Sources forum to ask for help. I don't use this mailing list - it is a Calico Pie mailing list and A.S. is not a Calico Pie product so it would be wrong of me to use it for support and I *really* don't want to upset Calico. I hope they'll forgive me for answering this one. I have just this afternoon been informed that you've emailed all the people on the list to warn them about using Ancestral Sources, suggesting it does nasty things losing multimedia, etc. This seems very unfair when I've been given no chance at all to investigate it or prove/disprove the claim. If indeed there is a problem then I should be able to fix it. I haven't had any similar reports that I can remember with Version 2 of Ancestral Sources. It certainly isn't 'essential' to run the Census Date Check before entering data into Ancestral Sources. You only need to do this if you are allocating census flags. Ancestral Sources (and Gedcom Census before it) is something that I spend a lot of time working on in my limited spare time, I provide it free of charge (though many people kindly donate money) and I go out of my way to help people who ask for support. For example, on several occasions in the past I've even sent people their own unique version of my software just to solve a particular issue for them ahead of an 'official' release. Perhaps Robert you could send me some information about what went wrong and maybe a copy of a GEDCOM file that can illustrate the problem that you had so that I can investigate further, and if AS does have a problem I can try to fix it in Version 3 which should be out soon. Nick -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Robert Sent: 07 February 2012 12:01 To: FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS@rootsweb.com Subject: [FHU] Problem with flags Some weeks ago I raised the issue of Ancestral Sources apparently corrupting the FH gedcom file and doing some nasty things such a losing some multimedia from FH. Some kind contributors mentioned various ways to solve the problem and I grateful for the suggestions, but to no avail. I now seem to have solved the problem so this message for the benefit of those who find themselves in the same position. It stems from the fact that the original gedcom file was created in Family Tree Maker and the Census dates were shown as the year of the census not the actual date. Ancestral Sources seemed not to like this and hence corrupted the file. The solution is to run "Census date check" in Ancestral Sources before trying to update the flags. by saving the Census data. Having run this check and reallocated the censuses by the actual date, once this had been done Ancestral Sources happily updated the gedcom file correctly and all the correct flags were shown in FH. So for anyone importing a file to FH or anyone using AS for the first time it seems essential to run this check before trying to input data Robacis