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I am also trying to import a Legacy v8 database, even the sample database returns an error. I specifically am getting the error "Declare DLL call caused an exception 1023 GBMAIN". I saw your response Jim, saying Legacy v8 is not supported. Is there any plans to add support for the Legacy v8 format? I was specifically hoping to regularly import my legacy v8 databases just like I did with Legacy v7. I can try the GEDCOM import option as you suggest but I am worried about loss of fidelity with that approach. Would you say I should expect an equivalent import with GEDCOM? or is there most likely going to be a loss of information as compared to a native Legacy import? Thanks for your help. Regards, Occhio Orsini

I am also trying to import a Legacy v8 database, even the sample database returns an error. I specifically am getting the error "Declare DLL call caused an exception 1023 GBMAIN". I saw your response Jim, saying Legacy v8 is not supported. Is there any plans to add support for the Legacy v8 format? I was specifically hoping to regularly import my legacy v8 databases just like I did with Legacy v7. I can try the GEDCOM import option as you suggest but I am worried about loss of fidelity with that approach. Would you say I should expect an equivalent import with GEDCOM? or is there most likely going to be a loss of information as compared to a native Legacy import? Thanks for your help. Regards, Occhio Orsini

I am using Family Tree SuperTools v2 and have imported from Legacy 7.5. I am printing reports where I have included the data tag "DeathCause* Memo" under Box Contents. The problem is that the tag doesn't print for descendant and ancestor reports. It does seem to inconsistently print on hourglass reports. Alternatively I have selected data tag "DeathCause* Label: Memo" and this tag seems to work perfectly on all reports. This is a good workaround for me so not looking for an immediate fix but letting you know that some of the "DeathCause" data tags are not working on reports.

I had some additional challenges with the DeathCause tag printing on all my reports this week when I was doing my yearly print of our genealogy reports. Through experimenting further I figured out a better workaround and verfied further aspects of this issue I see. What I have discovered is that every time I create a new Project and reimport from Legacy into the new FTST2 project, the DeathCause tags are broken on all reports. Now all I need to do is go into the Data Type panel for each type of person on each type of report and reset the DeathCause tag "DeathCause* Label: Memo". All other tags are working fine and there is no difference between DeathCause* Memo or DeathCause* Label: Memo, they both have this issue. One potential theory is that I have a lot of invalid Death dates in my family tree and maybe they are causing corruption during the import. I will fix these when I get a chance and see if this is causing the issue. BTW, thanks for the additional testing you did on this issue to verify that this tag SHOULD be working correctly.

I have loaded a Family Tree SuperTools v2 project from a Legacy 7.5 file. Within Legacy I maintain alternate names for some individuals. It appears as if alternate names are correctly imported as I can view a few while viewing individuals. However, under report options > Data Types > box contents > tag types, I can't find any tag that will print the alternate names. Is there a tag which will print this in the charts? Thanks, Occhio

Thanks for the hint about pressing the asterisk key, I didn't know about that. Because I am importing from Legacy, the data set is locked and I can't seem to unlock it. So it doesn't appear that I can press the asterisk key on an alternate property. BTW, the property that contains the alternate name is "Name-Var". Thanks for suggestion to look at Visual Chartform forum. - Occhio

Thanks for all the suggestions! Actually after the import, only the chart reports are enabled in my environment. I presume there is no carriage returns at the beginning of the memo as they print without a carriage return when I use "DeathCause* Label: Memo". I haven't found anything else to change yet that would resolve the above issue.