AGC is not recognizing Gedcom junk - Solved

Question

I’m trying to clean up the junk from a Gedcom import (Jamie 2010_2010-04-10.ged). I have AGC installed but when I go to edit any of the profiles the button does not show up so I have been manually deleting everything and starting from scratch. I’m just wondering why the AGC button is not there.

Answer 1

AGC is not recognizing it because of an unusual form of the first line:

When this person was created on 14 April 2010 through the import of Jamie 2010_2010-04-10.ged, certain information could not be interpreted. Could you help clean this up?

If you remove the "When " at the start and capitalize the T of this, like so:

This person was created on 14 April 2010 through the import of Jamie 2010_2010-04-10.ged, certain information could not be interpreted. Could you help clean this up?

Then the AGC button will appear.

I modified this profile like that so that I could test that this worked.

However, pressing the AGC button did not do much. This is a VERY old GEDCOM import using a format from April 2010. I guess AGC doesn't support this format yet.

Comments

Thanks Rob. I was curious and wondered what was wrong. I will go back to just deleting all the junk and starting over since I have to find sources anyway.

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Rob - Yes, based on my testing AGC does not yet support this format.