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I too have been experiencing this since I
upgraded to Windows me. I just checked the LDS site and found the solution. As
someone else mentioned. Do the following:
After you have selected the files you wish,
click the download GEDCOM on the page.
When the window opens with the two radio
buttons, click the top one that says "open this file from its current location"
and click OK
The same window will open again. This time leave
it as it opens with the lower radio button selected for save this file to disk.
and click OK.
The correct file name will now display in the
next window that opens with the location for saving the file.
Lill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, 14 May, 2001 20:14
Subject: Fw: [LegacyUG] importing a ged
file
Thank you Liz......I don't know what I'm doing
because I am so new to this genealogy stuff. At least I'm doing it right
and you are getting the same as me. Surely someone has done a dl from
the lds site. Come on guys! tell Liz and I the secret. This user
group is wonderful. I read all the emails that come in and I got an
answer to a question I hadn't asked about the split screen view opening 2
different family files. Thanks whomever :-)
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] importing a ged file
I
too am getting an html file not a gedcom. It is very
frustrating!
Your instructions sound easy enough Lloyd, but
when I dl the from a family group record it creates a file named
frameset-search.asp (HTML doc) not with a ged extension. What am
I doing wrong. It sounds so easy. Am I really such a
dummy?
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] importing a ged file
At 12:55 PM 05/14/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Hi
all,
I need help please with
dl a gedcom from a family group record from www.familysearch When I click on
download gedcom a dialog box comes up asking if I want to open from
current location or save file to disk. I chose save file to disk to 'My
Documents folder. From there I don't have a clue. This is a
dumb question I know but I am new to this sort of thing. I had
started my genealogy on myfamily.com but wanted it on my hd. A
friend exported it from there to Legacy3 (free version) The file we
exported is fine. Now I want to dl family record that I don't have
rather than enter the info name by name and I want to learn how to do it
myself. The original file we dl is in Mydocuments/legacy/data.
The file that I want to put in is called
frameset_search.asp.
Somebody
PLEASE Help and ole lady.
Thanks a bunch,
Carolyn
Hi Carolyn,
You're doing fine
so far.
Open Legacy, click on File.
Then Import, then from
gedcom.
Browse until you've found the file to import.
Choose open a
new file - do not import to your existing Legacy file, especially from
Ancestral File.
After importing into a new file, look it over very
carefully. Fix any locations, names, anything else.
Then click on
View, Split Screen View.
Open your original file.
Bring the common
person up on both files.
Then click on the name of the common person in
the new file so that the title of the new file has color (default is
blue).
Then hold down the left mouse key on that common person and move
the cursor over the common person in the original file.
Then choose what
you want to copy into the original file; individual, family, ancestors,
descendants, everyone.
You will probably want everyone. Indicate
the source, e.g. ANcestral File.
After they are moved, you may want to
print the list of those in the new file before you close the new file.
I do that so that I can check and see that everyone possible has been
merged. You will get the merge screen for the common person.
After
the merging, you are finished and have everyone entered.
I'm away
from Tues to Thurs this week, but feel free to send questions before or
after.
Lloyd A. Horrocks
Columbus, Ohio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
member: Ohio Gen. Soc., NEHGS, Ohio Hist. Soc., Firelands Hist.
Soc. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~horrocks
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