I have all the programs, and have had for some time. I've been contemplating this jump for years, really. Besides RootsMagic and Legacy, I also have MacFamilyTree, FTM, and Reunion, all for Mac. If I have to GEDcom out it would be a boon to me to be able to get off the PC and back onto my native system. Apart from the things we know of--tags that don't export to GEDcom, witnesses, split CDs and the like (maybe we should make a list somewhere), I have another issue. I have a lot of foreign names and naming conventions that don't export well--I've just finished restructuring my Norwegian names to better export to GEDcom, and cleaning up spellings and the like. But every time I export I have to convert to UTF-8 and then check the file before importing it anywhere else. I figure there is a lot I can do to clean up citations, witnesses, names, and the like, before I ever have to choose a destination program. And in the meantime, cleaning that up makes it easier to publish to Ancestry, FamilySearch, etc. -- Barbara Zanzig Kirkland, WA Zanzig one name study
On 8/28/14, 2:35 AM, Barbara Zanzig via wrote: > I have all the programs, and have had for some time. I've been > contemplating this jump for years, really. Besides RootsMagic and > Legacy, I also have MacFamilyTree, FTM, and Reunion, all for Mac. If I > have to GEDcom out it would be a boon to me to be able to get off the > PC and back onto my native system. > > Apart from the things we know of--tags that don't export to GEDcom, > witnesses, split CDs and the like (maybe we should make a list > somewhere), I have another issue. I have a lot of foreign names and > naming conventions that don't export well--I've just finished > restructuring my Norwegian names to better export to GEDcom, and > cleaning up spellings and the like. But every time I export I have to > convert to UTF-8 and then check the file before importing it anywhere > else. > > I figure there is a lot I can do to clean up citations, witnesses, > names, and the like, before I ever have to choose a destination > program. And in the meantime, cleaning that up makes it easier to > publish to Ancestry, FamilySearch, etc. > A little curious what clean-up you are getting done by converting to UTF-8? Is the issue that you aren't using the default character set, so that the GEDCOM is encoding special characters wrong? -- Richard Damon