RIN data appearing even though deselected on Import

[Steve J]

I am importing a GEDCOM file which is purported to be v5.5 compliant.

In the Import dialogue, under the Optional Fields tab, I am de-selecting Import for both Person and Family RIN fields. Upon Import, I notice RINs appearing throughout Memo fields for most persons.

Consider, for example, the following fragment:


1 NAME Kathryn Margaret /HOLMES/
1 BIRT
2 TYPE B02 Birth
2 DATE 3 JUL 1982
2 PLAC Quilpie, Queensland, Australia
2 RIN 167
2 NOTE Born at around 8:45PM.

In the Birth event for this person, the Memo field for the event reads:
"B02 Birth, 167, Born at around 8:45PM."

Clearly, the RIN is being imported despite my de-selecting it for Import. Is this normal behaviour (in which case I will have a great deal of cleaning up to do), or some issue with either the GEDCOM construction or GEDCOM handling?

[theKiwi]

Re: RIN data appearing even though deselected on Import

The RIN here is being imported because it is not a top level tag - it has level 2, so is under the immediately above Level 1 tag for BIRT

Why it's there is anyone's guess.

You could probably clean it up using for example TextWrangler and a grep find and replace - find all instances of

2 RIN [0-9]*\r

and replace with nothing

should zap out all those lines I think.

Roger

[Steve J]

Re: RIN data appearing even though deselected on Import

The RIN here is being imported because it is not a top level tag - it has level 2, so is under the immediately above Level 1 tag for BIRT

Why it's there is anyone's guess.

You could probably clean it up using for example TextWrangler and a grep find and replace - find all instances of

2 RIN [0-9]*\r

and replace with nothing

should zap out all those lines I think.

Roger

Thanks Roger. Clearly I am going to need to familairise myself with the GEDCOM std and syntax. Is there any recommended text on the subject?

[John Hill]

Re: RIN data appearing even though deselected on Import

Thanks Roger. Clearly I am going to need to familairise myself with the GEDCOM std and syntax. Is there any recommended text on the subject?

If you go to

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gctoc.htm

you will find the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. You can also get the draft 5.5.1 standard as a .pdf file, at http://phpgedview.sourceforge.net/ged551-5.pdf

Not all family history applications adhere to it as closely as they should! Though Reunion does pretty well.

I have in my time written and used a GEDCOM syntax analyser, but it will only run really well under OS 7.5 and moderately well under OS 9.2, so I can't exactly recommend it as a starting point...

[Steve J]

Re: RIN data appearing even though deselected on Import

Super, thanks John.