On certain family tree records I find notations like "@N125@" or "@N126@. I suspect that these codes relate to occupations or religious affiliation or some such. Does anyone know of an idex to these codes somewhere?
Jerry
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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I believe these codes are a carry over from some other Gedcom file. If you look at any Gedcome file with a text editor, like Notebook, you will see many codes like "@N215@" or perhaps "@F5@". Most genealogical files are relational data bases, which contain many tables and lots of keys to the entries in these tables. For example, Legacy files are actually Access db files.
ReplyDeleteIn the process of converting one of these DBs to a Gedcom file, @s are used, kind of like quotation marks, to set off each KEY. The table is given a one letter code ("N" for Notes, "F" for Family code, etc.) and each entry in the table is given a sequential number.
I believe that some program has converted a Gedcom file and did not handle the Note records correctly. It just left the key to the note, rather than the actual note.
Bob Richardson