Reunion GEDCOM to PAF

[BRT]

I am having problems importing a Reunion GEDCOM file into PAF (Personal Ancestral File). While most of the data seems to import without a problem - there are two types of import errors I cannot seem to resolve (see error messages below)...any one out there encountered and figured out a way to have Reunion 8 ADDRESS info import into the most recent version of PAF ?

ERROR 1: Tonge.GED, line 19598: MRIN 12: Unexpected tag 'ADDR' in Family Record.

1 ADDR Barry & Spouse TONGE
209 WALL St.,
Saint John, N.B. EY7 1A9
Canada


ERROR 2: Tonge.GED, line 19618: MRIN 13: Unexpected tag 'PHON' in Family Record.

1 PHON (403) 461-3988


I can think of work arounds like dumping this info into other fields like notes but undertand PAF has ADDRR and PHONE fields - can I export /import in a way to get this REUNION 8 GEDCOM data into the PAF fields ?

Thanks in advance ,

Barry Tonge

[John Hill]

I am having problems importing a Reunion GEDCOM file into PAF (Personal Ancestral File).
I too have experienced problems exporting from Reunion to PAF - so much that I wrote a little application (it only runs under Classic, though) to "purge" the files. This reduces the number of erors (in a largish GEDCOM file) from over a thousand to just a few.
Whether it would work for your errors is another matter. I had particular problems with sources in notes, for example, but I don't have many addresses to worry about.
I had to chage HIST tags and EDUC tags to NOTE. You may have to do the same for ADDR tags and PHON tags. Of course, that makes them Notes in the PAF version :-(
That done, I had to alter the NOTE sections - my programming notes read "Reunion outputs Memo fields in Events as NOTE. PAF accepts this, but not Reunion's technique of putting CONT (continuation) at the same level, so they must be demoted". This applied to CONC also.
Then I deleted all sources from NOTE fields, and then in the remaining SOUR sections I changed any TEXT tags to PAGE.
All this was developed pragmatically and may not be the only solution! I believe it is possible to tell PAF what fields you are going to use and include the necessary code in the GEDCOM file to do this, but I could never figure it out - not having easy access to PAF didn't help.
John (Bournemouth).