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Jim: Thanks! I'll give this a try and see what else I may be able to correct via text editing of the GEDCOM file. -Bob

Jim: Thanks for the reply. Ouch, so there are no edits I can make to my FTW sources/citations that will make them survive the TMG import? I'm curious if I had to use GEDCOM for my imports if there was any text pre-processing I could do on the GEDCOM before importing it into TMG that would change those bits of data that are treated as places to be handled differently? Is there any third party application that could be used as an intermediate step that might keep things in order?

I hope to move my FTW 2005 database of about 19,000 individuals over to TMG. I've been trying different import options with TMG and have not had the kind of success I was expecting. Maybe you have a suggestion on how to improve my results? Maybe there is something I can do in FTW to help smooth things out before I import to TMG? Here are some of the issues so far: In FTW I have 270 sources - after import of my .FTW file into TMG I get only 36. All census data merged from Ancestry.com is missing as are many other sources. If I import a GEDCOM of the same file I get all of the missing sources in TMG. If I import my data via GEDCOM all Social Security Numbers and other data types import as places (in the Country field). The import wizard doesn't allow me to map tag types as is available when I import .FTW files. If I import my data as a .FTW then SSN numbers and other data come across OK after I've mapped things properly. Thanks for any suggestions. -Bob