RM6 exports a citation that appears in the Person row of its Edit Person table at the same GEDCOM level as Name or any Event. Therefore it is not a Name citation but a citation for the Individual. For example: 0 @I252@ INDI 1 NAME Elizabeth Emily /Holden/ ... 1 SOUR @S1@ 1 REFN Groves261 ... There is no way to enter a citation for the Name, only for the Indi. You can add citations to Alternate Names. On import, citations against the primary Name are stored in the database against the Name but are not outputted to reports. They might, though, be re-exported to GEDCOM. You could verify that by bouncing a GEDCOM from Legacy to the free RM6 Essentials and back. I would recommend you explore for yourself. It might be possible with a scripting language with multiline regular expression search and replace capability to batch revise a GEDCOM so that such INDI citations become NAME citations. In fact, it might lend itself readily to a BASIC script. It's simply a matter of finding every "1 SOUR" line within a body of lines beginning "0 @I", changing the "1 SOUR" to "2 SOUR" and relocating them between the 1 NAME and the next line beginning with 1. I encountered the disappearance of Name citations on importing from Ancestry and Family Tree Maker and have reported that as a "bug". Using SQLite, I converted them to Person citations in the RM database. The reverse should also be possible so, if RM exports its hidden Name citations, one could maintain this particular GEDCOM compatibility in both directions by flipping between Person and Name citations within the RM database, using these complementary SQLite queries. Tom -----Original Message----- From: J. Hugh Sullivan Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 10:17 AM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] ROOTSMAGIC-USERS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 341 For several years I used both FO/RM and Legacy. I could switch from one to the other because files export/gedcom between programs with no changes (I thought). Then I noticed a problem. Legacy allows me to record a source for name. RM sources a name for print purposes but exports to Legacy as an unassigned source. Suddenly I found myself having to move the unassigned source in Legacy to the name in several thousand instances individually. So I quit using RM at RM4 and have not upgraded since. I'm surprised that RM does not allow sourcing of name that will export as name source. Does the newest version of RM assign a source for name that will export to Legacy as name or does it still export to unassigned source? Hugh =================================== 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 ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The short answer is that citations entered in RootsMagic6 attached to the Person field end up in Legacy 7.5 attached to the Unspecified rather than Name field. I know because I just tried it. Why that happens I do not understand (or care to understand;-) The other problem you will have is that if you use source templates in either program (other than Free-Form in RootsMagic and Basic in Legacy), the citations will be garbled when transferred to the other program. I've found no loss of data, i.e. the citation elements transfer, but the citation "sentence" will print in a different sequence than one would hope for because of the limitations of GEDCOM. Connie