tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post9047401123822588953..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Comparing Genealogy Software - Legacy Family Tree 7 - Part 1Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-73026776570499650592009-07-23T21:52:39.748-07:002009-07-23T21:52:39.748-07:00Randy,
I was excited to see your comments about L...Randy,<br /><br />I was excited to see your comments about Legacy. I am one of the developers of the program so I thought I would make a few comments about your GEDCOM import test.<br /><br />A GEDCOM file is made up of several different kinds of "Records." These include individual records, family records, source records, and others. When Legacy imports a GEDCOM file it looks through the file and counts how many individuals, families, and sources are included. These are the actual counts that are shown to the user.<br /><br />If you opened your FTM GEDCOM file in a text editor and counted the family records (a family record starts with "0 @Fxxxx@ FAM") you would find that there were 15,129 of them. So, the question isn't where Legacy came up with an extra 8 families, the question is where is FTM hiding them? They exported 15,129 family records but within FTM they are only showing that there are 15,121.<br /><br />Master sources are also exported as records into a GEDCOM file. Your GEDCOM file included 298 master source records. This is the number that Legacy shows. These master sources can, of course, be cited many times each throughout your file but Legacy doesn't display the total number of citations when importing. I would suspect that with a file containing over 38 thousand people, as yours does, you would indeed have many more than the 1466 sources that FTM is reporting. The number is way to high for the master source count and way too low for a total citation count. You will have to figure that one out with FTM...<br /><br />As far as the images go, most genealogy programs include the full file path names for each media file linked to events within your file. This lets the importing program, like Legacy, relink and display them as a matter of course. But, for some reason, FTM does not include these links in their exported GEDCOM files. A shame.<br /><br />I hope this has answered the questions you raised.Dave Berdannoreply@blogger.com