Doris, Rootsweb is now owned by Ancestry.com, but part of their agreement when they bought it was to keep it free. Kirsten was, I believe, referring to the Rootsweb Worldconnect Project, which is separate from Ancestry Public Member trees. Besides the relative ease of uploading a gedcom file to Worldconnect, no one will have to pay to see it, plus you can remove it at any time.
We're getting dangerously close to being off-topic now, I suspect:-) Connie --- On Tue, 5/11/10, Doris Beck <doris...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Isn't RootsWeb now a part of Ancestry.com? I did see in > Legacy the list to add or remove items from the Gedcom 5.5 > creation. As mentioned, I want only B/M/D simple facts to > show. Whenever I have tried in the past, "by just doing", it > includes items, notes, comments, etc. that I don't want > posted. I will gladly share my research with others, but > because including relatives that are still living has proven > successful to me in finding additional cousins and family > lines, I want to try my best to protect their privacy, I > want only minimal information posted by me. It is proving > cumbersome to keep adding individuals the way I am doing it > now. Therefore, I was hoping for a more efficient method. > > Thanks for your input! > Doris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kirsten Bowman [mailto:vik...@rvi.net] > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:05 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Use of Gedcom Files > > Doris: > > If you investigate the Legacy process for creating a > GEDCOM, you'll find that under the GEDCOM 5.5 option > > Customize, you're given a list of all the GEDCOM codes and > can select the items you want to include or exclude. > You must take care with your selections, though, to avoid > unintended consequences. > > I post at RootsWeb rather than Ancestry.com and have found > it very easy to create and post a GEDCOM from Legacy. > It's possible to make the database private and view it to > see the results. When you're satisfied with the > information included, you can then make the database > viewable. It takes a little tinkering around, but once > you have it, you can save and reuse your selection in Legacy > and do updates to the online database any time you wish. > > Kirsten > 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
