I miss CCPM. LOL On Fri, 22 Dec 2023, 21:13 , <sarrazingeor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What about PDP8 (Digital) and programming using wires 😊 > > > > *De :* LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> *De la > part de* L S > *Envoyé :* 22 décembre 2023 15:53 > *À :* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > *Objet :* Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms - asking for a miracle > > > > Lol. Sometimes I miss DOS and PLC! > > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 3:48 PM <jcl...@cox.net> wrote: > > Whew! You have been having fun. Thanks for such detail. It was quite a > story. I, too, have been using a computer since before Windows. Dos was > interesting. > > > > Jane in Phoenix > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> *On > Behalf Of *L S > *Sent:* Friday, December 22, 2023 11:44 AM > *To:* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms - asking for a miracle > > > > According to their old blog, when MyHeritage purchased Legacy, they > created a synch feature. > > https://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2017/08/legacy-family-tree-has-a-new-home-with-myheritage.html > <https://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2017/08/legacy-family-tree-has-a-new-home-with-myheritage.html> > > > > It is NOT POSSIBLE to synch Legacy with Ancestry.com because Legacy is now > owned by Ancestry's competitor, MyHeritage. RootsMagic is also not able to > synch with Legacy because they are both competitor software. You can > download a gedcom from any of those sites and upload the gedcom to any of > the other sites but it will not synch - so no media will transfer. > > > > You can only synch with Ancestry to RootsMagic or Family Tree Maker. Or, > you can synch with Legacy to MyHeritage. > > > > I can't say any one is better than another. I only used Ancestry.com as my > primary because that is what I started with after FamilySearch.org, in the > late 1990s, got rid of paf files. By then, I had used a few software > programs on cartridges for TI-84 computers but none transferred to the > internet so I went with FamilySearch because it was free. Then they got rid > of paf files and I once again had to start over. I then used Rootsweb, > which Ancestry bought. I decided to just pay for Ancestry annually, which > is pricey, and keep my tree there thinking they would keep being innovative > so maybe I wouldn't have to keep reinventing my tree. > > > > Then, Ancestry got a little wonky and was up for sale and I got scared > that I'd lose everything. I purchased Family Tree Maker for the synching > with Ancestry. Then FTM stopped working. Ancestry blamed FTM and vice > versa. I then bought RootsMagic to synch and I quit using FTM. RootsMagic > had glitches so I decided, when I retired, I would scan everything I had > and save by the persons noted in what I was scanned (like > letters/diaries/divorce docs you can't get online, etc.). Lots, but not > all, I had already saved to Ancestry's Gallery but I wanted everything in > one place by the person that I could always access if any of the sites > closed. I realized that no software was ever going to work well > permanently. I also was living in Florida and was afraid that I'd lose > everything in the event of a hurricane. We had already lost everything once > but it was when we were young and didn't affect the genealogy artifacts. I > had so much stuff it would have filled our entire car with no room for > anything else. It took me 6 months of daily scanning to get it all saved. I > keep that in Dropbox (a cloud) that I pay yearly for the account and in a > stand alone hard drive. The stand alone hard drive gets updated annually > and I give it to one of my kids to keep at their house. > > > > All was well until it wasn't! (we moved from Florida so I now don't worry > about moving the stuff but the next generation will want things digitally > so it wasn't a waste of time). I decided last January to update my tree on > MyHeritage. I had gotten a deal on the membership because I am a member of > the National Genealogical Society. Then MyHeritage offered me a deal for 10 > years which worked out to less than $100/year. I had not had a problem in > the past with deleting a tree and updating with a new gedcom from Ancestry > but couldn't do it in January. It wouldn't let me delete the old or add a > new one on MyHeritage. I decided to wait until after I travelled in April > to mess with it further. I tried repeatedly in May and then spoke in person > in June with David Horowitz at a conference I attended. He told me I'd lose > all the DNA matches (I also had uploaded my DNA from Ancestry and 23andMe) > which was fine with me as I figured I would just re upload those, too. He > was unable to delete my tree. Told me to bring my gedcom on a thumbdrive > and he'd upload it. He couldn't do it. I gave him permission to copy my > gedcom and take it to IT. By August, I hadn't heard anything from anyone at > MyHeritage so I wrote to him. He forwarded my concern to someone in IT who > deleted my tree and told me to use Family Tree Builder to upload but it > didn't work. We went round and round and then he gave me to someone else > who didn't read any of the email chain and told me to do what I'd already > tried multiple times. I got an attitude and then I got pawned off on > another IT person who again tried to tell me to do what had already been > tried. That's when I asked if I could just send them my gedcom (Have no > idea what David Horowitz did with the one I gave him in June). That IT guy > sent me a special link to send it to them. Then, he wrote that there was a > problem with it and they couldn't get it to load. What was really strange > was when I would go on to MyHeritage my DNA matches were still showing, > with no tree associated with it. I thought maybe it was picking it up from > Family Tree Builder so I deleted that. No, the IT guy said the DNA matches > stay permanently. That was not what Daniel Horowitz said nor an email I got > from another IT person. > > > > I really don't think they know what is going on as it's a new company that > bought MyHeritage so those that built it are likely gone. At that point I > asked who I contacted to cancel my account. Within a day they magically > fixed the problem and my tree is now available again. > > > > In October, Ancestry started getting weird again and RootsMagic was not > synching with their newer versions (8 & 9), though my tree worked well with > version7 but they were going to stop supporting that. Then Ancestry added > their two factor idenification which didn't work at all with RootsMagic. > Ancestry didn't respond but RootsMagic gave me a work around. > FamilyTreeMaker offered a special deal. I blog and several of my readers > recommended that I repurchase FTM to synch. I did that and it worked well. > > > > I would use FamilySearch.org if other people didn't have the ability to > change the information I enter. That has made me nuts (I have a family > member who keeps putting a Civil War record on an individual who died in > the early 1700s. I take it out with an explanation and a few days later > it's back. > > > > So, from my experiences since the 1990s, there is no one way to go. I just > keep being flexible with backups to backups. > > > Lori Samuelson, NBCT Emeritus & Genealogist > > > > Visit me at https://GenealogyAtHeart.com <http://GenealogyAtHeart.com> > > > > > > > > > <http://genealogyatheart.blogspot.com/2015/04/springing-into-genealogy.html> > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 7:40 AM Gloria DeSousa <gdesou...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thank you Lori! Are you saying that I could synch Legacy to myheritage.com? > Is syncing from Legacy possible with Ancestry.com or Roots Magic? If > there's a synch option in Legacy, I can't find it. I use only Legacy and > myheritage.com for my genealogy, and have no experience with Roots Magic. > I have an Ancestry account but don't use it. Are any of these other sites > better for syncing? Forgive me if I'm not asking the right questions. What > Cloud service do you use? > > > > Thanks again, > > Gloria > > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 6:19 PM Lori Samuelson <genealogyathe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > A gedcom can transfer the data. A synch transfers the media. I use the > following to maintain my years of work which has individuals close to the > number in your tree....I use Ancestry.com as my main place to save both > data and media. I synch to RootsMagic and Family TreeMaker. I do that > because the programs offer different options and if one stops working I > have the backup of the other. This has happened in the past and I don't > want to go through that again. I can save a gedcom from Ancestry.com and > upload to Legacy, which I also use, since there is no synch option. It took > me 10 months and way too much time with MyHeritage's IT Department to get > that gedcom working on their site. I like MyHeritage but I don't like > their Family Tree Builder which has a known bug. Even so, I was told > several times by MyHeritage to just follow the directions to use Family > Tree Builder. Finally, I requested that I upload my gedcom to IT and have > them do it. They agreed and then said there was a problem with the gedcom. > Odd that none of the other software companies had issues with it. So, I > asked for my money back. Within a week they were able to get the gedcom > uploaded. Amazing, right?! Since I don't update the MyHeritage tree, in the > past, I'd just delete the old tree and then upload the newer gedcom every > year or so. Never had a problem until this past January. Took until October > for them to figure it out. I wouldn't have been persistent over this if I > didn't find it useful to connect with my eastern European family who uses > it. I also save to a stand alone hard drive and Cloud. Paranoia works when > trying to preserve your hard work. > > > > On December 21, 2023, at 5:27 PM, Gloria DeSousa <gdesou...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I know from asking this group many years ago that media is not uploaded > with gedcoms. I've asked myheritage.com is there any way of using all the > work I've done with numerous certificates and photos for most if not all > individuals in my 60,000 and growing tree, to be uploaded without their > cumbersome one-by-one loading of media? I was told to upload my Legacy 9 > software to their FamilyTreeMaker, and that it would transfer the media as > I have it in each individual's Media Gallery. I didn't spend more than 5 > seconds to see that it didn't work. The first thing that jumped out is that > I am married when I have marked in the Marriage Box the line that says "No > Evidence that this couple ever married". Is there a way to change that? I'd > rather it say "This couple didn't marry". > > > > So I'm asking for a miracle - Is there a way that I can share what I have > in Legacy 9 with others besides the tree with no media on myheritage? Or is > there some wiz out there that would love to develop the necessary software? > > > > Best to all, > > Gloria > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >
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