The GEDCOM will contain a different set of "fields" depending on what
options you have chosen as the destination and whether you have excluded
anything in the Customize section.
For a default export of a GEDCOM destined for Legacy just about all data
included in the family file will be include
Thank you both. It worked and the first file, while only 20 pages goes
back to the early 1600's in New England. On to the next two files.
Thanks so much!
Margaret
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:44 PM Evelyn .. wrote:
> I would import the GEDCOM into an new Legacy file. Then you can look at
> wha
I would import the GEDCOM into an new Legacy file. Then you can look at
what's there and decide to move the people from the new Legacy file to your
existing Legacy file... then again, I tend to be cautious.
Importing the GEDCOM doesn't erase the GEDCOM information so you can import
it as many time
Since the GEDCOM format is a standardized format created by FamilySearch it
will be possible to import it into any genealogy system, with the only
issue being the ability of the originator to create extra structures with
the GEDCOM format. In practice that would not be a problem since Legacy
would
On 16/12/2020 05:49, Joy L wrote:
Earlier in 2020 IO was given instructions on how to do Ancestor and
Descendent reports.
When I did it as either Descendant Reports or Ancestor Reports as per
the instructions by Alan it came out exactly how I wanted it to. That is
fine if I want to send or prin
Ian,
I have not used the Blog Decoder. I assume it decodes (and exports?)
embedded media objects. Embedded media objects are a rarely-used GEDCOM 5.5
capability that was removed in GEDCOM 5.5.1. None of the popular programs
embed media objects. Instead, programs include references to media file
John Cardinal
Sent: Friday, 22 February 2019 3:25 AM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM Validator
Ian,
I have used GEDCOM Validator by Chronoplex. I forget exactly where I found it,
but I did not get it via the Windows Store. I use it with Windows 7.
Ian,
I have used GEDCOM Validator by Chronoplex. I forget exactly where I found
it, but I did not get it via the Windows Store. I use it with Windows 7.
The "Best Practice" mode is going to show issues with most GEDCOM files.
Best practices are not requirements, and there is not 100% agreem
Fascinating and scary, I have tried several things with gedcom files and
most fail or at the very least are confusing.
I sortof gave up using them except within legacy to legacy transactions.
I am now concerned about passing on data in the future so look forward to
any reports on this topic
My f
a copy of the file, as downloaded, to my email address above.
Regards
Chris
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I can
uot;
This seems to be my problem so what do I do now please ?
Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney. DNA - A086848, T756083,
H947365, MyHeritage & gedmatch
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Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2019 12:01 PM
To: Valerie Garton
Subject:
email
> providers will also work but you will have to give them a try.
>
>
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Hey Valerie,
Have you checked your Downloads folder?
Jennie
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:37 AM Valerie Garton mailto:vbgar...@gmail.com> > wrote:
* Family tree in findmypast called " Mt Jerome Cemetery Family Tree to find
? " which has 40 pe
Sydney. DNA - A086848,
T756083, H947365, MyHeritage & gedmatch
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Jennie Matheson
Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2019 11:08 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] gedcom
Hey Valerie,
Have you checked your Downloads folder?
Jennie
On
Hey Valerie,
Have you checked your Downloads folder?
Jennie
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:37 AM Valerie Garton wrote:
>
> * Family tree in findmypast called " Mt Jerome Cemetery Family Tree to find
> ? " which has 40 people. In the list of trees I selected this tree and then
> selected download in
Behalf Of
Rune Mattsson
Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2018 6:05 p.m.
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom files uploading to web site.
A question:
How do you prevent the notes from being exported?
I’ve done as Cathy suggested
Customize-> Export items-> Export these ite
Rune,
It depends what kind of note
If you want Events and not Event Notes, I don't think you can do that
without editing the Gedcom.
If you mean General, Research and/or Medical Notes they can be omitted
via the Checkboxes to exclude things. I think here Regular Notes means
General. Are you
A question:
How do you prevent the notes from being exported?
I’ve done as Cathy suggested
Customize-> Export items-> Export these items and removed NOTE and MNOTE
without success, all notes are still exåported
So now I use "brute force" with Notepad++-, I’ve created a macro that
removes all l
You don't use privacy to strip out notes etc from a gedcom, you use the
Gedcom customise options. They control which gedcom tags are exported.
See the Customise button on the right. This includes an exclude option
for address/phone and Notes of various kinds. I don't know whether that
is just m
If you're wanting to see what you actually exported, you might want to
import as a new Legacy file.
OR you can open it in Notepad so long as you don't change the format and
re-save. A gedcom is just a specially formatted text file.
Or get GenViewer from http://www.mudcreeksoftware.com/
Note the
Chris
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To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Sent: 23/04/2018 18:40:09
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] gedcom from Legacy to ancestry
Chris,
Your step 8 has an error. If there are multiple lines in a focus group
all the people selected by all the
Chris,
Your step 8 has an error. If there are multiple lines in a focus group
all the people selected by all the lines will be included in the group.
It works this way so you can assemble a focus group from many different
criteria such as including the descendants of more than one person. That
Chris,
Your step 8 has an error. If there are multiple lines in a focus group
all the people selected by all the lines will be included in the group.
It works this way so you can assemble a focus group from many different
criteria such as including the descendants of more than one person. That
Hi Valerie
I rather suspect you are raising this because you have tried to do
it and it is not working.
It SHOULD work like this:
1. Export to GEDCOM and select the Ancestry target.
2. Make any options on the main display and on Customise regarding which
items you want to include.
3
Thanks, Cathy that has done the trick. Kiwi Alan
From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of
Cathy Pinner
Sent: Friday, 30 March 2018 1:37 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GedCom Unlinked person
Kiwi Alan,
1) Why are you using a Gedcom? If you are going from Legacy to Legacy
Kiwi Alan,
1) Why are you using a Gedcom? If you are going from Legacy to Legacy
export a Legacy file. The only exception is if you are going to an
earlier version of Legacy. In exporting to a Legacy file you get the
choices to export only part of your file after you've given a name for
the e
Thank you for your help Elsie. I was able to fix it with the help of
someone at Legacy who was very patient and knowledgeable. We did it all by
email.
Gloria
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 9:12 AM, wrote:
> Perhaps you are using your father as the start person? If so, it will
> show his line. Try usin
Perhaps you are using your father as the start person? If so, it will show his
line. Try using one of his children as the start person. Hope that helps, good
luck.
Elsie
From: Gloria DeSousa
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:21 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: [LegacyUG] Gedcom shows only on
1. Is your mother living? If so her line may have been kept out of your
GEDCOM by the privacy settings you used when creating your GEDCOM.
2. Do you have your mother marked as private or invisible? That will
also affect the export of her line. You will have to turn on the
override of privacy s
David,
At this stage you are trying to do something that can't be done.
The media has to be attached one by one in Legacy.
The Gedcom is giving the location and name of the media in your
MyHeritage tree.
Currently being worked on is a sync between MyHeritage trees and Legacy.
It will take at l
Dale,
Yes Legacy has events from a Gedcom and of course imports births, deaths
etc from a properly formed gedcom.
TMG did things differently and allowed users to do things differently as
well.
I understand that TMG doesn't include all your data in a Gedcom which is
why it was/is difficult to
Did you use the merge options?
Johnson from TN?
Jay
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>
>
> Henry, thanks for the advice. Do you do this each time you add something
> to your
: [LegacyUG] gedcom
Henry, thanks for the advice. Do you do this each time you add something to
your genealogy?
On June 23, 2017 at 1:23 PM "Henry T. Peterson Jr." mailto:hpete...@cox.net> > wrote:
Susan
I have a routine that has worked for me for decades.
I do the maj
Henry, thanks for the advice. Do you do this each time you add something to
your genealogy?
> On June 23, 2017 at 1:23 PM "Henry T. Peterson Jr." wrote:
>
>
> Susan
>
> I have a routine that has worked for me for decades.
>
>
>
> I do the majority of my work on my desk
I would not use a gedcom at all. If both are Legacy Files then use the
split screen view to do a side by side comparison of the two files. You
can use drag and drop then to copy new people into whichever file you
decide is the most recent/best choice for use as a master. For data
changes you ha
Susan
I have a routine that has worked for me for decades.
I do the majority of my work on my desktop. At the end of each session I copy
the fdb file to many different locations (dropbox, BoxSync, OneDrive, etc.)
also other folders and an external hard drive and a flash drive.
This way I ha
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nderson
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 5:10 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM help
I does seem complicated. I had to practice at first. For me - my father's line
is not connected in any way with my mothers. That made Tagging easy for me.
The GEDCOM is the hard one for
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> *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On
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> *Subject:* Re: [Le
On 20-Feb-17 03:49 PM, Leonard J. McCown wrote:
*There is actually little help (or seems to me). Maybe I am too old to
use Legacy. I usually manage to do things if I have clear instructions
on how to do them *
You're never too old, Leonard!
If you are fairly new to Legacy I suggest you work th
Burke, 1790
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM help
First create to a temporary file, and
On 20 Feb 2017 at 16:23, Cathy Pinner wrote:
> I very rarely to never these days import a file into my real file.
> But I'd never do it direct. Always to a new Legacy file and check it
> over and clean it up there.
> Just the way I and many others work.
Neither do I.
I was just pointing out th
Steve,
I very rarely to never these days import a file into my real file.
But I'd never do it direct. Always to a new Legacy file and check it
over and clean it up there.
Just the way I and many others work.
Cathy
Steve Hayes wrote:
On 20 Feb 2017 at 13:40, Cathy Pinner wrote:
If you are
On 20 Feb 2017 at 13:40, Cathy Pinner wrote:
> If you are transferring from PAF to Legacy why do you need to revert to
> Gedcom if you do it again? Are you saying you can't choose the name of
> the Legacy file that is saved? That would be the only reason.
Yes, it is possible to transfer two or
Michele,
I don't use the Geo Location Database that you can download.
Is that what you mean?
It includes map co-ordinates for the locations it covers but you have to
learn to use it and it works best if you learn to make Alt files for it,
I understand. I haven't bothered as it's not good for lo
Thank you for your answers. I have followed your advice and done a file
maintenance operation. This has cleaned up 11 'issues'
Could you please give some thought to my 'map' / GPS issue, above?
Michele
On 20 February 2017 at 16:40, Cathy Pinner wrote:
> Steve,
>
> If you are transferring fro
Steve,
If you are transferring from PAF to Legacy why do you need to revert to
Gedcom if you do it again? Are you saying you can't choose the name of
the Legacy file that is saved? That would be the only reason.
If you are transferring from Legacy on one computer to Legacy on another
you sho
On 20 Feb 2017 at 10:56, Cathy Pinner wrote:
> Michele,
> Legacy has direct import for PAF.
> See in Legacy: File - Import and choose your PAF version.
But only for one file.
All subsequent file import need to use Gedcom.
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On 20 Feb 2017 at 13:04, Michele Morrison wrote:
> I have transferred via GEDCOM two PAF files from my old laptop to my new one.
> All went well in the transfer. But on opening the files. I see that there
> are many instances where M or F is not marked (as I had done in PAF) and both
> choices
Michele,
Legacy has direct import for PAF.
See in Legacy: File - Import and choose your PAF version.
That may work better than going via Gedcom from PAF to Legacy.
M/F choices are greyed out in Legacy 8 when someone is married.
In Legacy 9 you can enter same sex relationships so they are no long
You might unlink yourself from your mother and father. Go to your sister and
do advanced Tag 1 (clear all tags prior) on Decedents and all everyone up and
down. Then export Tag 1 folks to a Gedcom
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> On Feb 19, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Ar
First create to a temporary file, and work on the temporary.
I go to Advanced Tagging. I tagged the line I want to output with Tag 1,
and named it Sister.
You will see the variety of types of tagging. Practice the different types
of family, Ancestors, descendants. Not do Everyone or Entire famil
[mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On
> Behalf Of *R G Strong-genes
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2016 8:24 AM
> *To:* Legacy User Group
> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] GedCom Viewers
>
>
>
> GenViewer is a good one from MudCreek at http://www.mudcreeksoftwa
I love GenViewer! I take it to the library on a USB and all my information is
right there.
Judith
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of R G Strong-genes
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 8:24 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GedCom
GenViewer is a good one from MudCreek at http://www.mudcreeksoftware.com/
From: Martha Graham
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 9:21 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: [LegacyUG] GedCom Viewers
Gloria,
There are quite a few of them here:
http://listoffreeware.com/best-free-gedcom-file-viewer-softwa
I find GENViewer Lite from Mudcreek quite sufficient for double-checking or
troubleshooting GEDCOMs.
Ward
From: Martha Graham
Sent: Wednesday, 29 June, 2016 9:21 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: [LegacyUG] GedCom Viewers
Gloria,
There are quite a few of them here:
http://listoffreeware.co
Tony,
Transferring your data from FTM to Legacy wouldn't change anything in FTM.
Transferring your data is straightforward or not depending on how you've
been using FTM and whether you've done a full sync with Ancestry which
includes your images.
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Michele Simm
On 11 Sep 2015 at 8:11, William Hoff wrote:
> Thanks much. One other question though. Before converting to Legacy I was
> using Family Tree Maker which when a new version of the software was purchased
> gave me problems I could not overcome. Somehow when converting to Legacy I
> brought along most
Yes I did install on the same computer. Your logic seems reasonable. Thanks
for the help. I have too many media files to transfer manually to the Ancestry
Gedcom generated file so I'll take advice and create a smaller version and
attach media to that; just doing this for some of the family an
If you installed Legacy on the same computer where you had FTM, the media
files were already on your computer. It sounds like the FTM gedcom included
paths to them so Legacy was able to locate them.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:11 AM, William H
Thanks much. One other question though. Before converting to Legacy I was using
Family Tree Maker which when a new version of the software was purchased gave
me problems I could not overcome. Somehow when converting to Legacy I brought
along most of my media files. Many were not associated with
Nothing, GEDCOM file will not include media files.
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From: William Hoff
Sent: Thu Sep 10 20:23:24 PDT 2015
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Gedcom
Not that good with working with files
gedcom files don't do media, they are a text only document format.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:23 PM, William Hoff wrote:
> Not that good with working with files and need help. Loaded a Legacy file,
> Gedcom format into Ancestry.com. All worked except no media files loaded.
> What did I do wrong?
Nothing. Media files are not transferred via Gedcom, At best a Gedcom
includes the name of the media file and where it resides on your
computer - the file path.
It's time I deleted my Ancestry file and uploaded a new one.
If you want media on your Ancestry file you upload it one file at a
time. It
Hello Stuart,
Sunday, March 29, 2015, 4:02:12 PM, you wrote:
... not only are Sealings to Parents not being imported consistently,
but when they are, the source citation for that event is not imported.
Initiatories are not being imported as LDS events. But in this case,
the GEDCOM tag I have pro
On 18/01/2015 05:48, BobsTree2-Gmail wrote:
> The good news is that although I still have the problem, I now know
> that it only occurs with SourceWriter formats, and not with Basic
> source formats. So I think I am closer to locating a solition.
Does the same problem occur if you start a new fil
Hi Cathy
My case is unusual. I was ((and still am) having a problem with my file.
Repair did nothing.
support was unable to duplicate it. So I was curious to see if converting it
might correct the problem.
So, I did an export to a new file, but still had the problem. So I thought
perhaps u
The question is why did you use a Gedcom to go from Legacy to Legacy?
There is an export to Legacy file - though it doesn't have as many
options to customise the fields, it does transfer all the data.
The only time you'd consider using a gedcom to go from Legacy to Legacy
is when for some reason yo
Yes. This is normal behaviour, GEDCOMs cannot support any Source Writer type of
sourcing.
Ron Ferguson.
Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone
Genealogy Bob wrote:
>In trying to solve another problem, I ran into an unexpected issue.
>
>I exported a Legacy 8 file to GEDCOM, for Legacy use.
>Then I im
That explains it, thanks Sherry.
I do think that a paragraph should be added to the Export Help screen
that specifically mentions that SourceWriter formats will be converted
to Basic Source format. But thanks for clarifying that for me.
(In my case, it actually helped me to isolate the cause of
Gedcom doesn't support SourceWriter format. In fact, we've had people
on the list who wanted to convert all the sources to basic and using
gedcom was recommended by others on the list.
You should not use Gedcom to share files between Legacy - it should
only be used for sharing data with others who
So how do I get the gedcom to include the spouses, which I want!
Pat
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Brian/Support
wrote:
> The "All Spouses" selection on the focus group form applies only to the
> starting person for the focus group. It is meant to be used when the
> starting person has more
The "All Spouses" selection on the focus group form applies only to the
starting person for the focus group. It is meant to be used when the
starting person has more than one spouse. It does not mean all spouses
of the descendants of that starting person.
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporati
If you have your locations in a standard order in the Master Locations table,
you can select the locations that contain Denmark, show list and tag them on an
un-used tag. If you just want those born in Denmark, do detailed search for
birth place containing Denmark, options, advanced tagging, an
Liz,
You do not say which people from your file you want to include.
I would start with going to your name in the file
Select Tools> Set Relationships
Clear ALL first
Then Set Relationships (with your name in the selected person box)
Now anyone in the file that is related to you is marked as
That is where it is.
Thank you,
Dale
On 8/27/2014 6:40 PM, Cathy Pinner wrote:
> Hi Dale,
>
> Try the Death Notes field. You access it by clicking the plus sign at
> the end of the Death input line on the Individual Information screen.
>
> Cathy
>
> Dale E O'Connor wrote:
>>
>> The Gedcom was pr
Hi Dale,
Try the Death Notes field. You access it by clicking the plus sign at
the end of the Death input line on the Individual Information screen.
Cathy
Dale E O'Connor wrote:
>
> The Gedcom was produced in The Master Genealogist(TMG). It was on the
> Tag Entry for his death. It was a Memo. It
The Gedcom was produced in The Master Genealogist(TMG). It was on the
Tag Entry for his death. It was a Memo. It came out in the Gedcom as a
Note. I looked at General, Research and Medical Notes. It wasn't in any
of these. I don't know yet how to look at the other note fields. I
haven't found
Hi Dale,
You haven't said where the Gedcom came from. You also haven't said what
the missing notes were attached to originally. Legacy has a lot of
different note fields. Vital event notes, Special Event notes as well as
General, Research and Medical Notes.
It's highly unlikely you've exceeded a
I did some further checking and found that some of the notes are
there(General Notes). I don't know why some are there and some are
not. Maybe they exceeded the maximum size or something.
When I did the GEDCOM import I only had one error. It was a date. There
were no errors on notes.
I found a
On 26 Aug 2014 20:08, Dale E O'Connor wrote:
> Where did my Notes go? They are in my GEDCOM file under NOTE. In
> Legacy I looked under Notes and sources. Is there an option to import
> Notes or did they get put some place I haven't looked?
When importing a GEDCOM file, Legacy generally needs
Hi Bena,
A GEDCOM (.ged) file is a plain text file, that lays out family tree
data in a format that genealogy programs know how to interpret. Being
plain text, you can open it in any text editor (Word, Notepad...) to
look at its content, while at the same time its special layout means any
genealog
I suppose you do realize that you can create a website direct from Legacy (v.8)
here: in the menus Select Internet, then choose type of website you want from
the choices. Legacy will create the pages. If you are savvy with html you can
tweak them or accept what’s provided. I’m sure others will p
Hi Kirsty,
There are export problems with the current build.
You'll need to wait for the next build/update
Cathy
At 07:22 AM 14/12/2013, you wrote:
>I'm having trouble importing a gedcom (in 5.51 format) into a new
>file in Legacy version 8. After it goes through reading the gedcom,
>it asks a
om: William Boswell
[
mailto:whbosw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 6:13 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM
All I did was copy my 7.5 data files over to a new data folder for 8 then
had 8 convert it. Anyone who exports to a GEDCOM is going to have a
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM
All I did was copy my 7.5 data files over to a new data folder for 8 then had 8
convert it. Anyone who exports to a GEDCOM is going to have a lot of work
ahead of them. I remember exporting to a GEDCOM from FTM back in 2009 and I'm
still fixing all the proble
x27;t like users to transfer
to a better program without giving you more headaches.
Bill Boswell
From: Eliz Hanebury [mailto:elizhg...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 9:01 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM
Syble you can just leave your previo
Syble you can just leave your previous version "locked and loaded" making a
new Legacy file (NOT a gedcom) load it to V 8 and you will have two totally
different options <>G
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjo
Syble
Using L7.5, open your file and go to File > Save Family File As. Give it a
different name, something like Smith-Copy, and use Smith-Copy in L8 to play
with. That way, you still have your original L7.5 file that you can go back
to any time.
Mary
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Syble Glass
I certainly don't want the program to become stagnant either, and I was excited
to hear about v.8, but from being on the list for a number of years, I've
observed each release with numerous problems. More to the point, how can I
get my data into v.8 ?
In the past, I have downloaded updates
Syble,
You NEVER usually go from Legacy to Legacy via a Gedcom but with a Legacy File.
Legacy 8 opens and converts to the new format all earlier Legacy
files perfectly well. You don't have to go anywhere near a Gedcom.
Some people use Gedcoms regularly to use other programs to publish on the web
erGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM
Re: Ron's comments:
" Legacy cannot satisfactorily import its own GEDCOM."
I'm not one to be among the first to download and update, nor to buy an
update due to the many problems that I've read about since I began using
Sybil,
Regardless of how much testing is done, you will never see a program
released that is 100% error free. In fact, if any company were to hold off
releasing a program until it was 100% error free, the program would never
get released.
That being said, the problems that have been encountered a
Gedcoms should only be used to transfer data between different
genealogy programs or to upload to websites.
They were never intended to use to transfer data between the same
program such as Legacy to Legacy.
The only time you would need to do that is if you need to open the
Legacy Family File in
Re: Ron's comments:
" Legacy cannot satisfactorily import its own GEDCOM."
I'm not one to be among the first to download and update, nor to buy an update
due to the many problems that I've read about since I began using Legacy years
ago starting with version 5 or 6. I'm not as computer litera
If, as you imply when you say your censuses are set up individually, you
have not used the predefined census event with "UK census 1881" in the
Description then those custom event names are exported in the GEDCOM as
an EVEN tag with your custom name "UK census 1881" as a subordinate TYPE
tag.
A Ce
Thanks Kathy
From: Kathy Thompson
Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 8:21 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom export
I think from memory FTA looks for two event names - Census (with nothing
extra), and Residence. The other field it will look for is more for the
I think from memory FTA looks for two event names - Census (with nothing
extra), and Residence. The other field it will look for is more for the Lost
Cousins website, and that field is "Lost Cousins"
I recall when I had US Census and England Census as field names it didn't find
those entries, b
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