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    1. Re: [FHU] Source fields
    2. Derek Woodman
    3. Martyn: I moved from Generations (v8.5a in my case) to Family Historian about 4 years ago and recall at the time encountering various conversion issues, including that of source fields. After experimenting, I found that the problem of unnamed sources could be mitigated by working in Generations prior to export by mapping the various Generations source fields to the most appropriate FH (and hence standard GEDCOM) source field. As a help to familiarising myself with GEDCOM tags, I made (in FH) a test file for John Doe and his wife Jane with a single source for which I filled in all available options in the source pane within FH. I then printed out as a text file using Notepad the resulting GEDCOM to see how the various source fields appeared. This showed the following correlation: Author AUTH Title TITL Short Title ABBR Type _TYPE Pub Info PUBL Actual Text TEXT Repository REPO Note NOTE If in your version of Generations you have a dialogue for defining source fields (in 8.5 it is Options>Define>Sources Fields) you will see that for each of the available fields in Generations, there is a box for GEDCOM tag. If you make sure that for the fields with a tick in the active box, only the tags set out above are used (spare information can be tagged NOTE initially) and only then export to FH, you should find that a lot of work is thereby saved. I hope this helps. Incidentally, I found that the Generations source numbering was carried over to FH so if you produce from Generations a source report and save it to your drive, that should be a useful way of identifying any FH sources still requiring attention since the FH source Record ID should be the same as the Generations source number if your version of Generations behaves in the same way as 8.5. I'm happy to try and help with any other conversion issues you encounter. Derek

    03/05/2012 08:38:09