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Sent: Tue, Jan 12, 2010 2:05 pm
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2
You actually don't have to make any changes to the Ancestry.com GEDCOM
file
itself. When you tell Legacy to Import-GEDCOM, it will tell you that
some of the
information is unrecognized. Legacy
On Jan 13 Mike Fry wrote:
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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. O
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
ssage -
From: "Robert Mann"
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Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:51:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2
I can't say I understand what you are getting at. As I said, I have only used
small tes
Mann"
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Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:01:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2
... imported the Ancestry GEDCOM into Legacy (remapping UID) and immediately
exported it back out as a new GEDCOM ... ... T
tandardize UIDs, ideally to
values adopted by IGI - if that ever happens. Can't do that in Legacy. Just
examples...
kb
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From: "Robert Mann"
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Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:01:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
nuary 12, 2010 6:34 PM
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I hear y'all - no one with sense messes with a GEDCOM unless he has to. I may
have to.
I only had a couple of small Ancestry GEDCOMs handy to look at. Only two user
defined field
I hear y'all - no one with sense messes with a GEDCOM unless he has to. I may
have to.
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 w
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Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2
On 2010/01/13 00:13, Robert Mann set forth the following:
> As I said before, Legacy can take care of things if you just point the way
> with the
On 2010/01/13 00:13, Robert Mann set forth the following:
> As I said before, Legacy can take care of things if you just point the way
> with the "remapping" tool. However, I would bet that you could do a global
> search and replace with any text editor on the Ancestry.com GEDCOM file to
> change
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2
Thanks Robert, that may help a lot. My memory is that the GEDCOM 5.5
"standard" requires the underline prefix for all user defined fields, so
it's a valuable heads up that Ancestry may not follow that at all. I may
, January 12, 2010 4:05:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2
... tags that were unrecognized in the Ancestry.com file... ... are "UID" and
"APID". ... ... and pick the entry "_UID"... ...But please note, do N
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From: britton...@comcast.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:38 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2
Robert
I have to do what you did - thanks for pioneering and providing a map of
admirable clarity - plus several simi
ure on the far right.)
kb
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From: "Robert Mann"
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Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:03:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2
snip
5) Import the new GEDCOM file to a Leg
wn tremendously
on the work needed to update the Legacy files.
Thanks again.
Robert Mann
Sandy Springs, GA
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From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:49 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG
The UID field is not universally unique within the world of genealogy
trees as you think. In Legacy the UID is called the Intellishare number.
you can use it when merging people who are imported into your data.
People with the same UID/Intellishare number who have identical
information can be autom
Hi All,
Thanks to everyone for their input on my earlier question. Since then I have
found out a few new things by experimentation that I want to share. Plus, a
new question has come up.
The question: does anyone know how to access or search on the _UID field?
Every person and marriage is marked
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