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From: "Pat" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Genbox Lat/Long values
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:41:33 -0700
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I didn't know that Bill.
I will check their site for details.
Do you happen to know if they use a PLAC string or use the GEDCOM variables
PLAC, LATI, LONG, ADDR, ADR1, ADR2, CITY, STAE, POST, CTRY, PHON etc ?

Thanks you so much for the info.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bienia" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Genbox Lat/Long values


> Pat,
> Brother's Keeper also uses witnesses.
>
> Bill
>
> Bill Bienia, PLCGS
> www.CobblestoneLegacies.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Pat
> Sent: 8-Jul-08 4:39 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Genbox Lat/Long values
>
> Hi Denise,
>
> Hope that Bill will take a look at this GEDCOM import question since, to
> my knowledge, TMG and Genbox are the only programs that presently use
> Witness info. I am sure that people, presently using TMG, would want
> Genbox to import as much of the TMG GEDCOM format as possible before
> they will consider importing their GEDCOM compatible information into
> Genbox.
>
> Thanks for the checks since I find that some of my PLAC line information
> is not being imported into Genbox (ie the Lat/Long information)
>
> Pat
>
> Denise L. Moss-Fritch wrote:
>> Evening Pat,
>>
>> I did a bit of testing once I arrived home. As you will see from the
>> listings that follow, the Legacy 7 database exports Lat/Long from a
> database
>> in three tag lines (MAP, LATI, LONG). TMG 7 uses a different format for
>> recording Lat/Long in the database and includes that Lat/Long to the end
> of
>> a PLAC line in a GEDCOM.
>>
>> Whether Bill's GEDCOM import for Genbox is set to handle the TMG Lat/Long
>> listing I cannot say.
>>
>> From Legacy 7 database
>> 3 MAP
>> 4 LATI N42.2708333333333
>> 4 LONG W83.7263888888889
>>
>> TMG7
>> In database - 421615N0834335W
>> In GEDCOM - 2 PLAC St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital, , Ann Arbor, Washtenaw,
>> Michigan, USA, , , 421615N0834335W,
>> Best,
>>
>> Denise
>
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