Re: Marriage dates appear as missing in FTM 2010

Russ

I have the same problem as this.
When downloading into FTM 2010 from Ancestry - the "Import.log" text file created for errors - has mostly :

Line 2437: error 4 : Invalid tag: MARR. Line ignored.
Line 4413: error 4 : Invalid tag: MARR. Line ignored.
Line 5105: error 4 : Invalid tag: MARR. Line ignored.
Line 5397: error 4 : Invalid tag: MARR. Line ignored.
Line 5400: error 4 : Invalid tag: MARR. Line ignored.
Line 6211: error 4 : Invalid tag: MARR. Line ignored.
Line 6481: error 4 : Invalid tag: MARR. Line ignored.
Line 6905: error 4 : Invalid tag: MARR. Line ignored.
Line 7058: error 4 : Invalid tag: MARR. Line ignored.

There are 33 of them for me. Whilst I havent checked them all as yet - I suppose some can be records that have NO DATE - and can understand that. But its not consistent.

When I run the FTM 2010 DATA ERRORS REPORT I see "The marriage date is missing" - and then check that person's record at Ancestry - there ARE marriage dates there.

Any clue as to what part of this process is causing some records to not fit the Gedcom format for Marriage Dates ?

My file had 64 marriages - and 31 of them downloaded ok with dates.

The ones that did download correctly included: "day / month / year" and "month / year" and "year" only and "Unknown". So it doesnt seem to be any one particular date format that causes a problem.

The Family View for these records FTM 2010 has a blank for the Marriage Date which is consistent with Data Error Report and Import.log error file.

Lindsay