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Import from another genealogy program

12 bytes added, 17:21, 3 June 2014
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* Any information regarding a citation is put into a "Source Note" in Gramps. The "Source Note" is associated with both the "Source" itself and the specific "Citation," so all the information is there. This leaves the "Volume/Page" field in the "Citation" blank, even if it is a volume or page number.
* If two people are married, the "Family" screen in Gramps indicates in "Relationship Information" that their "Type" of relationship is "Unknown" rather than "Married." An example of the ramifications of this are that when printing a Narrated Website Report of John Doe who in reality was married to Jane Doe, and they had children, Jane Doe will not appear on the chart and the chart will not indicate that they were a married couple, though the marriage itself will be indicated as an "Event." Further to this, when a GEDCOM from Gramps of this data is generated, and John Doe and Jane Doe didn't have any children, it will list the marriage "Event," but not the spouse when looking up John Doe or Jane Doe in the exported Gedcom file. If they did have children, the spouse will be listed. The problem also manifests itself in displaying "Disconnected Individuals" in Gramps when in fact the individual at issue may well be connected by marriage. To fix this issue, an adjustment must be made prior to importing the tmg2gramps generated XML file to Gramps. Under Gramps {{man menu|Edit -> Preferences -> Display, }} the "Default family relationship" can be set to "Married" (or any of the others). Upon importing the database, all Family Relationship Information "Types" will then be set to "Married." Of course any Family unions that are not marriages will then need to be corrected, but you can set the default "Type" to be whatever the majority of your Families are.
* Any external media files may not be found. This can be resolved by correcting their path using the Gramps Media Manager.
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