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Comment by Ron Ferguson on August 3, 2010 at 2:31pm

Stephanie, how have you set up the date in your spreadsheet (which is it btw)? I am wondering if you have it set to only display the last two numbers in the year.

I have had a look at my own GEDCOM and in Gedxlate created a csv file, following which I imported into OOo. Like you only the last two digits of the year displayed until I reformatted the Date style for that column.

Comment by Sarah Coles on August 3, 2010 at 1:19pm

Hi again,

Was checking out my spreadsheet here that I made from using the Gedxlate. Problem is with the date format. When I enter my dates into Ancestry.com I use the day, month, year formula (ex.: 6 Apr 1900). In cases where I don't know the day I put in Apr 1900 and other times I might not even be sure of the year so I'd put in "abt 1900." Well, in my spreadsheet the date 6 Apr 1900 appears as 4/6/00. Not good as that doesn't tell me if it's1900, 1800, 2000 or whatever.

Any ideas on a workaround?

Comment by Sarah Coles on August 3, 2010 at 8:48am

Well, just downloaded a GED from Ancestry.com and opened it in Gedxlate after selecting the fields I wanted included. I then saved it out to open in Open Office as a CSV file and it worked like a charm. I did some reformatting on the dates and checked out a few things and it seems to be fine. I love it! I'm going to find this quite useful. Thanks for the great tip, Ron!

Comment by Ron Ferguson on August 3, 2010 at 8:29am

Stephanie, I don't know much about this program except that I do use it from time to time.

David, I can only suggest that you have a look at the GEDCOM file in Notepad, or any text editor - Notepad2 or PSPad would be better and see if the date is in the GEDCOM - I cannot see how the program can invent a date :-)

Comment by David L Plaskett on August 3, 2010 at 7:51am

Stephanie
I am running it on Windows 7 and had no trouble installing it. I am having problems with accuracy. I have a bunch of dates that show up as 1907 when there is no such date in the file
Dave

Comment by Sarah Coles on August 3, 2010 at 7:48am

Ron,

Just discovered the problem. Gedxlate won't run under Windows 7 so I had to make it compatible by running under Windows XP, SP2. It opened this time so looks like it's good to go after I download a GED file into it.

Comment by Sarah Coles on August 3, 2010 at 7:28am

Hi Ron,

I thought this Gedxlate sounded great and I installed it only to get a run-time error '339'--"component comct132.ocx not correctly registered file is missing or invalid." Sorry to say it won't run on my computer. I uninstalled it and tried again to no avail. Disappointed. Any thoughts on this?

Comment by David L Plaskett on August 2, 2010 at 7:06pm

Ron and William
I appreciate your replies and tried the gedmagic. I think I can work with it
thanks
Dave

Comment by Ron Ferguson on August 2, 2010 at 5:17pm

Dave, I have been having a think about this, on and off, and I think this can be done by creating your GEDCOMs and using Gedxlate from http://www.gedmagic.com/GEDxlate.htm. This is free, but it reads the GEDCOM and will convert to various formats including Excel or CSV.

I would think that be playing around a little one would be able to compare the two files. My own thinking would be to convert to CSV, import into Open Office spreadsheets and compare them. I haven't tried this but it would be the way I would have a crack at it.

Comment by William Whalley on August 2, 2010 at 9:54am

Here is one way. Make a copy of your Legacy file and import your candidates Legacy file into that copy. In the copy, hook the youngest member of each of your candidates lines to your father as a sibling. Generate the timeline chart for yourself. All your candidates will be on the timeline chart, but you will have to figure out which family they really belong to.

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