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adding AKA's and other facts..

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2004-05-11
2004-05-12
  • Willem Bastein

    Willem Bastein - 2004-05-11

    I have 2 fact "sorting" related questions:

    how do i correctly add an AKA 2 show up in the name?
    i added _AKA to the $textfact and $nondatesfacts arrays and it now creates a fact with the aka which shows in the listed facts:
    1 NAME Maria /Jansen/
    2 SURN Jansen
    2 GIVN Maria
    1 _AKA Maria Janssen

    but i would really like to add it to the name..
    1 NAME Maria /Jansen/
    2 SURN Jansen
    2 GIVN Maria
    2 _AKA Maria Janssen

    same sort of problem with sources :
    this is what pgv creates when i add notes to a fact..

    1 SOME FACT
    2 SOUR @S1@
    3 PAGE  http://www.url.com
    2 NOTE  blah blah
    3 CONT more blah

    and i would like 2 have:

    1 SOME FACT
    2 DATE 16 May 1799
    2 PLAC Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
    2 SOUR @S1@
    3 NOTE http://www.url.com/
    4 CONT blah blah about this link or source

    it just looks better ;)
    any hints?

    bdw.. direct "text" a editing a full gedcom record would really be nice ;)

     
    • KosherJava

      KosherJava - 2004-05-11

      I don't think the GDBI client can add a nick name.
      By the way the proper gedcom way to do that would be to use 2 name tags:

      1 NAME John /Doe/
      1 NAME Jack /Doe/

       
      • Willem Bastein

        Willem Bastein - 2004-05-12

        My 3000 people database is exported from paf and contains a lot of these AKA's ..
        it would be nice if I could keep my database consistent, and i don't like the idea of changing the _AKA's to names by  hand ;) ..

        same thing for the second problem:
        when exported from PAF the source notes and url are hidden until i click the + ..
        but when i add data using pgv it shows up directly beneath the source. the + doesn't work.. and the link isn't 'active'.
        that's why i would like the other "order".

        this is a record created in paf :
        http://genealogy.bastein.biz/individual.php?pid=I38
        and this is created in pgv.. note the AKA and the different behaviour of the source fields
        http://genealogie.bastein.biz/individual.php?pid=I168

         
    • KosherJava

      KosherJava - 2004-05-12

      The RFE you created for direct editing of GEDCOMs
      [ 952484 ] text editing a full record.
      http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=952484&group_id=55456&atid=477082 will probably give you the control you want if and when it is implemented.

       

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