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Hi again Nigel Have decided to convert my family RESI events to familiy EVEN (residence) as putting event information and both man & wife doesn't cover everything as the event notes also mention children who are also resident. As I indicated I've made my own version of the REUNION Apple Script...

thanks again Nigel you have given me much more to digest so I'll need time to study your replies and I've still a lot to learn about GEDCOM. Certainly this whole exercise has been very enlightning, not only for GEDCOM but for Apple Scripts and I am now thinking about writing other scripts for ...

Hi Nigel (and anyone elso who might be interested) Using GEDitCOM II I was able to, after quite a learning process, create an apple script which changed my family RESI records into family EVEN records with a TYPE "residence". I used an amended version of an Apple Script that comes with GEDitCOM whic...

Hi Nigel, Have tried GEMitCOM II - nice program. I've hundreds of changes that would need to be made but comparing my GEDCOM from Reunion to a test one I created in iFamily I might be able to change my family RESI events into family EVEN in ifamily by making the following change changing "1 RESI"...

Hi Nigel

Once again thanks for your suggestion. I don&#39t know GEDitCOM IIbut will investigate.

regards

Thanks again Nigel. Your comments related to the GEDCOM standard and draft standard clarify why the problem exists. I will have to give this more thought before I do anything. I believe these events are family ones and best kept that way and I would hate to have to add each family event to all the i...

Thanks Nigel for your replies. I'll try to explain better. I'm definitely talking about RESI fields. In Reunion you can enter events relating to the Husband & wife (I call this a family) in addition to the marriage specific fields. I have hundreds of RESI fields relating to my family groups. I...

Import from Reunion via Gedcom generally went well except for one significant problem. I have in Reunion many family (husband & wife events) which have not been loaded into iFamily. These are often "residence" events for the family. How can I import this information? I would have several hundred suc...