On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:09:01 -0600, Charlie Hoffpauir <invalid@invalid.com> wrote: >That's an interesting suggestion, but I don't think it addresses the >problem that the OP was seeing. If I understand his problem correctly, >entering the name(s) as 'James Hugh "Hugh" Sullivan' would simply >cause the name to appear as 'James Hugh "Hugh" "Hugh" Sullivan' when >it transferred into the other program. That would be my opinion. > >I downloaded a copy of the free version of Legacy, and imported my >data into it to play around with this. Legacy does indeed put the name >in quote marks into the GEDCOM in a field labeled as "NICK". The >interesting thing is, I can't find anywhere in Legacy where you can >actually enter a Nickname. It's easy to add another name, but it shows >up as an alternate name. (But I'm not a Legacy user, so I'm not >familiar with the program.) My guess is that Legacy (somewhere) >advocates the user entering a nickname in quotes.... if that's the >case, then the OP is actually creating the problem by the technique he >uses. I have not seen that tactic but it may exist. All else has not failed so I have not read the instructions. > >Now if Hugh doesn't use the quote marks as defining a nickname for any >other entries, the editing the GEDCOM to correct the problem becomes >much easier.... ie, simply remove any instance of the NICK field. I'll look at that. Gracias. Hugh Hugh