On Jan 13 Mike Fry wrote: <I think APID may stand for... wait for it....
<(A)ncestry (P)erson (ID) Could it actually be Ancestral Person ID as in the number used in the Ancestral File on www.familysearch.org? If so, Legacy calls that AFN. Charlotte Really weird, just tried to reply to this message and found out I was unsubscribed three days ago. Got that fixed, anyone else having same problem.? Charlotte -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fry <mike...@iafrica.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, Jan 13, 2010 3:08 am Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2 On 2010/01/13 01:34, britton...@comcast.net set forth the following: > I only had a couple of small Ancestry GEDCOMs handy to look at. Only two > user defined fields, properly distinguished by a leading underline - _PREF > and _MEDI. Then I thought to look at the header. The date was Nov 2008, but > Legacy version 3! OK, Legacy does things right and did so long ago, but > what Robert got back could have been sourced by any program providing a > GEDCOM that Ancestry could (sort of) read. Since Nov 2008 is only two years > ago, probably Ancestry is not the origin of either the UID or APID tags > seen. > > Since clearly oddities may be encountered, cautions against blithe editing > of GEDCOMs are further supported. That said, how else other than looking at > the GEDCOM is one to have confidence how to instruct Legacy to remap? Was > there a sensible mapping for APID? Was UID just a standard field lacking > the underline prefix for it's tag, or something oddball now imported into > Legacy? If standard and a rare or unique case with others _UID, Is that a > warning of possible corruption elsewhere in that download? I think APID may stand for... wait for it.... (A)ncestry (P)erson (ID) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
