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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] unknown spouse
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 08:07:36 -0700
In-Reply-To: <46110A88.5030404@scs.uiuc.edu>


Doug, Pierre - I imported over 4,000 people from TMG and didn't have any
problems such as the two of you are mentioning. Bizarre entry methods? I
don't know what you mean. I find the data entry very easy and am a very
happy customer after having tried almost all of the better known players out
there -- FTM, TMG, PAF, Legacy, RootsMagic. This is the best of the bunch.

CheriC

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]On
Behalf Of Doug McDonald
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 6:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [GENBOX] unknown spouse


Pierre Vivequin wrote:
> After further testing, it would seem that the Genbox charting program,
while
> it links the partners adjacent box pair together correctly, under rare
> circumstances the descendants are linked to a single box as though the box
> pairs were not adjacent.
> Here Genbox chose to link the descendants of adjacent pairs to the guy
only,
> which unfortunately was the least favoured choice!...


There is a reason behind this. I tried Genbox once and gave up
because of this problem. It has to do with how the people are
entered at the very first, or imported. It can be fixed, but
doing so is excruciatingly difficult. It's all tied up
with the bizarre entry methods of Genbox. It's the reason I
completely gave up. The whole method of people entry is
why Genbox is so flawed it will never be popular.

Doug McDonald

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