# Ignored Lines in my GEDCOM file **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas\ **Created:** [February 3, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/ignored-lines-in-my-gedcom-file/6907 "2025-02-03T11:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/ignored-lines-in-my-gedcom-file/6907/2 "2025-02-03T13:31:07Z")
> [@amhines](#): > > without compromising the quality of the contents This may not be true. Those lines meant the GEDCOM line was unrecognizable _to the importer plugin_ but would probably be recognizable to a human. So a note was created with that tag, its data and and what fault occurred. Gramps goes to painful lengths to create such notes to do the exact opposite of blindly discarding potentially useful data. > [@Are GEDCOM imports reversible dialects?](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/are-gedcom-imports-reversible-dialects/3626): > > When the Gramps GEDCOM importer plugin sees a custom tag, it adds the unrecognized content as a Note. Is this content reversible? That is to say, will the GEDCOM Export write the custom tag back to the same place in the structured data? WikiTree is an example. They break out a Middle name in their internal data structure and do not include that name the standard GIVN Given Name value. Instead they write a \_MIDN custom tag with that portion of the GIVN data. This content is preserved as a Not… You may have deleted 100,000 line of real data … but we cannot tell from your description. --- _[View the full topic](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/ignored-lines-in-my-gedcom-file/6907)._