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Jane

Jane Report 6 Apr 2006 20:32

I have got in a real mess with this new programme that I exported from GR. It doesn`t show relatives on the diagram even though their full details are in the Individuals boxes. It also doesn`t always put first and second wives to the right when I set it to do so. I`ve got loads of saved rubbish now and I feel like giving up on it. Is it possible to export it from GR again and start over. I think what I did wrong was after I did the validation I told it to correct everything and lots of links got broken. I`ve got about 700 relatives on there and wondered if its too many. Kind regards, Jane

Carol

Carol Report 6 Apr 2006 22:46

Just delete the gedcom file you are using that's got messed up, download your gedcom from Genes again and then re-import it into FH3. FH3 is probably the best program around for reading gedcom files, it's gedcom format exceeds the standard specification for gedcom and I doubt if that's whats caused the errors. Carol www*genealogyprinters*com

Rachel

Rachel Report 6 Apr 2006 23:19

Hi Jane I've had Family Historian since last September. The first thing I did after I installed it was to export my tree from GR. When I did this a message came up saying the tree hadn't been trailered properly by GR. I realised what this meant when I opened up the file, information was missing and some relatives were unlinked. Another lady on this board had the same problem exporting her tree from GR and used a different software - so it must be a GR problem. You could try again, however I suspect that the same thing will happen. Even now I'm correcting records that were messed up when exporting from GR. Family Historian is an excellent software package - it produces really professional reports and trees, and the new upgrade has improved it even further. Register for the email mailing list - you're get lots of emails, but its invaluable advice. Rachel

Jane

Jane Report 6 Apr 2006 23:34

Thanks so much Carol and Rachel - there is hope! In the last couple of hours I had a glass of wine to calm myself down and have managed to go back to the least messed up file and join a lot of the links - its looking better now. At least I know I can re-export the GR file. Yes, I have subscribed to FH3 emailing list. I think it will turn out to be a fantastic programme once I get the hang of things. Thank you both. Kind regards, Jane