That might be it, Evert. I was thinking:
A[ncestry] P[erson]ID. I was comparing them to RINs.
Robert
At 2009-11-04 09:41 AM, you wrote:
just a gues A (ncestry) P (ublication) ID
Evert
2009/11/4 Mike Fry <mike...@iafrica.com>:
> Like one or two others, I have been experimenting with downloading a GEDCOM
> file from Ancestry to see how the sources are imported.
>
> Well, the first thing to note is that they import in Basic Format!
>
> Having said that, I notice that the import procedure seems to have one or
> two problems with a particular, Ancestry-defined tag - _APID. Does anyone
> have any idea what this tag is trying to convey? It's not al all obvious
> from an examination of the downloaded GEDCOM text, what the tag is all
> about.
>
> In the a g file generated from the import procedure, I see many
messages of
> the following form:-
>
> Main Record: 0 @S1029350835@ SOUR
> * Unrecog. Line for a Source Record: 1 _APID 7572
> Placed in Note : _APID 7572
>
> These, together with one or two more explicit errors that I can't correct
>
> Main Record: 0 @P4193015077@ INDI
> Sub Section: 1 SEX M
> * Unrecog. Line for an Individual Record: 2 SOUR @S1029764659@
> Placed in Note - James W P Wall: SEX: SOUR @S1029764659@
> PAGE Class: RG10; Piece: 1800; Folio: 159; Page: 28; GSU roll: 838798.
> NOTE
>
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1871&h=14518996&ti=5538&indiv=try&gss=pt
> NOTE
> DATA
> TEXT Name: James W P WallBirth: abt 1865 in Cley, Norfolk, EnglandDeath:
> _APID 7619::14518996
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Mike Fry
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