Thank you! On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Drew Smith via < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Kathy Tye via > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Where on the RM site is the best place to refresh my memory about > > converting other programs into RM? What will import seamlessly, sources > > conversion, etc. > > By definition, nothing can import from one program into another > program "seamlessly", since programs written by different companies > use different underlying data models. For instance, Ancestry.com > trees and Family Tree Maker can theoretically exchange data seamlessly > because they are under the control of the same programmers, but the > same cannot be said regarding RootsMagic and trees from other > companies. > > And because sources are managed by different source templates in > different programs, what is going to happen in many cases is that > sources imported from other programs will be imported into RootsMagic > as free-form citations. (There are no doubt exceptions to this.) > > Having said all that, the following data formats should import into > RootsMagic with issues as minimal as practical: > > Family Tree Maker (version 16 and earlier) > PAF (versions 2.x and later) > Family Origins (versions 4 and later) > Legacy (versions 2 and later) > TMG > GEDCOM 5.5 > FamilySearch Family Tree > > Drew Smith > > > =================================== > 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 >