On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:42:25 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) wrote: >I tried PAF years ago and gave up on it quickly. Maybe I'll give it >another go as a second program to Legacy if gedcoms will transfer >precisely. I left out something I do about that, because it doesn't affect the original poster's request, but it relates to GEDCOM transfers. I use a third program, Family History System (FHS), by Philip Brown, 1993 version. I use it for entering data in my main file, and still do it because it does nice text file reports that I can post in mailing lists and newsgroups. I enter the stuff in there, and then transfer it to Legacy. But when I import the GEDCOM into Legacy, it scrambles the RINs. So I export the desired range of records, saw 17392 to 17843 from FHS, and import them into PAF 4 as a file called TRANSFER.PAF. I then import that file into Legacy, and it does it without scrampling the RINs. records 17392 and 17843, and all the ones in between, are exactly the same in FHS and Legacy. So I can use either program, depending on which kinds of reports I want. In other words, I use PAF to make up for deficiencies in the way Legacy imports GEDCOM files. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:50:26 +0200, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote: >On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:42:25 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) >wrote: > >>I tried PAF years ago and gave up on it quickly. Maybe I'll give it >>another go as a second program to Legacy if gedcoms will transfer >>precisely. > >I left out something I do about that, because it doesn't affect the original >poster's request, but it relates to GEDCOM transfers. > >I use a third program, Family History System (FHS), by Philip Brown, 1993 >version. > >I use it for entering data in my main file, and still do it because it does >nice text file reports that I can post in mailing lists and newsgroups. I >enter the stuff in there, and then transfer it to Legacy. > >But when I import the GEDCOM into Legacy, it scrambles the RINs. > >So I export the desired range of records, saw 17392 to 17843 from FHS, and >import them into PAF 4 as a file called TRANSFER.PAF. I then import that file >into Legacy, and it does it without scrampling the RINs. records 17392 and >17843, and all the ones in between, are exactly the same in FHS and Legacy. So >I can use either program, depending on which kinds of reports I want. > >In other words, I use PAF to make up for deficiencies in the way Legacy >imports GEDCOM files. Thanks, Steve. I'm an old man. I may have been that good once, but I'm not now. Hugh