On 21 Nov 2011, at 17:09, Robert Warnock wrote: > I am contemplating changing from GenBox to Family Historian and am at > present playing with the free trial of the latter. > In GenBox I have the transcripts of many BMD certificates as notes which > print out fine with each separate event. However when I export my database > as a Gedcom file and then use this with FH all the notes run on after the > other and have various lines such as Date \tab 14 February 1861. I can not > find the text of these notes anywhere in FH and would like to know how to > export from GenBox correctly. Looking at the Gedcom file the lines seem to > be things like > 3 CONT BIRTH > 3 CONT \b0 Name\tab William Smith > 3 CONT Date\tab West Calder ..... > > (I believe from the GenBox user group that v5 of FH will be able to import > directly form GenBox so it's probably not worth bothering too much with v4 > if it involves too much work. Will the new version be able to import notes > correctly?) > > Any help greatly appreciated > > Bob Warnock > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Bob I have just converted to F H from Genbox. I had a problem with Gedcom in that after transfer to F H there were extra, blank, boxes attached to married couples. Usually the female. Not dramatic - easily removed. Everything else, including media, transferred ok. I understand the Gedcom Spec is for guidance and not a mandatory format. Hence there can be a "mix & match" approach to it's use. A "mix" export and a "match" inport gives problems. There does seem to be quite a learning curve with FH but I like the charting presentation - if I can get consistant results - still struggling there. Cheers Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Payne" <johnrav@tiscali.co.uk> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [FHU] Notes imported from GenBox > > On 21 Nov 2011, at 17:09, Robert Warnock wrote: > >> I am contemplating changing from GenBox to Family Historian and am at >> present playing with the free trial of the latter. >> In GenBox I have the transcripts of many BMD certificates as notes which >> print out fine with each separate event. However when I export my >> database >> as a Gedcom file and then use this with FH all the notes run on after the >> other and have various lines such as Date \tab 14 February 1861. I can >> not >> find the text of these notes anywhere in FH and would like to know how to >> export from GenBox correctly. Looking at the Gedcom file the lines seem >> to >> be things like >> 3 CONT BIRTH >> 3 CONT \b0 Name\tab William Smith >> 3 CONT Date\tab West Calder ..... >> >> (I believe from the GenBox user group that v5 of FH will be able to >> import >> directly form GenBox so it's probably not worth bothering too much with >> v4 >> if it involves too much work. Will the new version be able to import >> notes >> correctly?) >> >> Any help greatly appreciated >> >> Bob Warnock >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message