Hi,
Did some more checking, because i wondered why in that online program, for other tree-owners, names looked correct.
I checked the gedcom from 2 Dutch programs:
Aldfaer:This is the most wellknown Dutch program. I looked in my own tree, because there are a lot of people with a lot of fisrts and lastnames.
And the 5.5.1 gedco, coming from Aldfaer, has NO GIVN-tags. Not one!!!
ALL info about first and lastnames is inside a NAME tag, so i can have things like:
1 RIN 1063876987
1 NAME Willem Jans (Jan)/Haijes (Haeijes, Heijes, Heije, Hais)/
2 _SURNAS Hayes
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE BEF 1778
I cannot check how that might look inside that online service, because i dont use that.
And i didnot check if this is according to the gedcom specs.
GensDataPro3This is also a wellknow Dutch program but not used as much as Aldfaer.
Example from there:
1 NAME Bernhard Leopold Frederik Everhard Julius Coert Karel Godfried Pieter/van Lippe Biesterfeld/
2 GIVN Bernhard Leopold Frederik Everhard Julius Coert Karel Godfried Pieter
2 SURN van Lippe Biesterfeld
2 NOTE prins der Nederlanden, graaf van Lippe, vorst zur Lippe, prins zur Lippe-Biesterfeld
This is certainly NOT according to the gedcom specs either, because there are no comma's.
Conclusion (carefully, because this is just a very quick lookup) it seems gedcoms from other programs do not have a comma inside the GIVN tag, or have names and surnames etc NOT in a GIVN tag, so the error might never happen with data coming from other programs.
No idea further yet.
Tineke