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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.

Comment by David L Plaskett on August 1, 2010 at 4:20pm

Ron
I have gone about as far as I can go in my lineage but keep on trying. My family originates in Portsmouth, but there are many loose strings in the surrounding area, so I collect them in a separate file and look for connections, such as brothers, etc.
I was looking for a way to take these (unattached) names and put them in a time line to see if some fit together.
Maybe I am just not sure how to do it in Legacy
Dave

Comment by Ron Ferguson on August 1, 2010 at 1:47pm

Dave, I am not really with you here, what would be in the GEDCOM?

You can easily have a look at the Legacy Timelines, which are text files, and hence can be opened in any text editor. Often when constructing a timeline for Legacy I will make it in the OOo Spreadsheet, and then copy it to Legacy\Timelines.

I don't see the advantage of using a GEDCOM; all the tags would have to be removed and correct separators included etc. Perhaps you could illustrate your intention by telling us what you are intending to do.

Comment by David L Plaskett on August 1, 2010 at 12:37pm

Ron
Do you know of a way to import a complete GEDCoM into a time line??
A long way back I had such a program and cannot find it
Dave

Comment by Ron Ferguson on August 1, 2010 at 9:12am

There are many timelines available in the Legacy program. They will be found at View>Timelines.

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