There are TMG things for which RM has no equivalent (and vice versa) and there are TMG things that RM's direct import mistranslates. There are steps you can take in TMG to prepare your project for best possible import by RM. There are steps you can take in RM after the import to improve the results. Some of the latter are described on these pages: http://sqlitetoolsforrootsmagic.wikispaces.com/space/content?tag=TMG Tom > On Feb 6, 2015, at 3:39 PM, John and Lee Wood via <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am new to RM and am having trouble converting from TMG, especially > with fact type sentences. For example, in TMG the marriage tag hasthis > sentence: [RP:Groom] married [R:Bride] <[PARO]><[L]> <[D]>. <[M].>. > <[PARO]> is the parents of the spouse. [D] is the place detail. When I > do a direct import to RM from my TMG database the marriage sentence > appears as [Person] married [Spouse] <[PARO]> <[Date]> <[Place]>. > > In TMG the marriage sentence appears in reports as He married Margaret > Eleanor Spaulding, daughter of John Albert Spaulding and Orpha Livona > Jenks, in the Methodist Church, Poultney, Rutland, Vermont on 01 Mar > 1936. In RM the sentence appears as Roger Clinton Wood married Margaret > Eleanor Spaulding [PARO] on 1 Mar 1936 in Poultney, Rutland, Vermont. > The place detail (in the Methodist Church) is also lost in the transfer > > Am I doing something wrong, or is this a problem with RM? > > Thanks for any suggestions. > John Wood > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message