GEDCOM's can contain as little or as much information as you want. Each fact, including User Defined, has controls as to when it is used. If something appears wrong, check the controls for the fact by Lists menu, then Fact Types, then select the specific fact and click Edit. The controls are check boxes in the center of the screen. Your sentence structure information and some of the User Defined fact naming information is lost during GEDCOM export. This is because the GEDCOM standards do not provide for it. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "MScheffler" <figaro@dreamscape.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [FO] Info lost in gedcom??? > I almost panicked when I read the information below about possibly > losing marriage facts in a gedcom export when no place or date was > listed for the marriage since every month or so, since I export my > entire database of 37,000+ names, delete the original database and > rename and reimport. > > So, I tried it out -- exported the entire database to a gedcom, > deleted the current database, renamed a new one the same name, and > imported the gedcom I had just made. > > I had a couple marriages I added last night with only a source, no > place or date. When I reimported the gedcom the marriage the marriage > facts remain as well as their source. > > Does anyone know for sure if there is ANYTHING other than user > defined facts that gets lost in a gedcom export and import within the > current versions of FO? Occasionally I have to re-enter my preparer > information, but that is the only thing I have ever discovered missing. > Obviously, when one goes from one program to another or from a current > version of FO back to one of the really early ones, data that does not > conform to the programs structure could well be lost. > > Margaret Scheffler > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <LouPero@aol.com> > Subject: Re: [FO] Info lost in gedcom??? > > > > One thing you lose in a GEDCOM is marriage links where there is no > date or place. That is, when FO asks you if you want to establish a > marriage even if you don't know where or when so you say yes and leave > everything blank, the names will still be linked in the new database, > but it won't say they are married. Have I explained that right? > > > > Another thing that gets lost is information you put in custom fact > types, if you don't establish the custom fact types in the new > database............ > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Very basic Windows: http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/created4/COMPUTERBASICS.html > basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB