Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms - asking for a miracle

[jclinx]

Oddly enough, that’s how I saw the computer room. The son of old family friends 
worked in Denver for IBM and was in Tucson on business.

 

Jane in Phoenix

 

From: LegacyUserGroup  On Behalf Of 
Ian Macaulay
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2024 4:38 PM
To: Legacy User Group 
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms - asking for a miracle

 

Ok Well in 1949 I became IBM and have been ever since.   :-)

 

Ian B Macaulay

 

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 8:03 PM mailto:jcl...@cox.net> > wrote:

Oh, yes. Way back (1959) I got to look at the U of A’s computer building. Rooms 
of tape machines. Who knew then what I’d be typing on today.

 

Jane L

 

From: LegacyUserGroup mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> > On Behalf Of Mary Young
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2024 5:53 PM
To: Legacy User Group mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> >
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms - asking for a miracle

 

I miss CCPM. LOL

 

On Fri, 22 Dec 2023, 21:13 , mailto:sarrazingeor...@gmail.com> > wrote:

What about PDP8 (Digital) and programming using wires 

 

De : LegacyUserGroup mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> > De la part de L S
Envoyé : 22 décembre 2023 15:53
À : Legacy User Group mailto: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 mailto: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 mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> > On Behalf Of L S
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 11:44 AM
To: Legacy User Group mailto: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

 

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 

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms - asking for a miracle

[Ian Macaulay]

Ok Well in 1949 I became IBM and have been ever since.   :-)

Ian B Macaulay

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 8:03 PM  wrote:

> Oh, yes. Way back (1959) I got to look at the U of A’s computer building.
> Rooms of tape machines. Who knew then what I’d be typing on today.
>
>
>
> Jane L
>
>
>
> *From:* LegacyUserGroup  *On
> Behalf Of *Mary Young
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 28, 2024 5:53 PM
> *To:* Legacy User Group 
> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms - asking for a miracle
>
>
>
> I miss CCPM. LOL
>
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2023, 21:13 ,  wrote:
>
> What about PDP8 (Digital) and programming using wires 
>
>
>
> *De :* LegacyUserGroup  *De la
> part de* L S
> *Envoyé :* 22 décembre 2023 15:53
> *À :* Legacy User Group 
> *Objet :* Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms - asking for a miracle
>
>
>
> Lol. Sometimes I miss DOS and PLC!
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 3:48 PM  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  *On
> Behalf Of *L S
> *Sent:* Friday, December 22, 2023 11:44 AM
> *To:* Legacy User Group 
> *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
> 
>
>
>
> 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 

[LegacyUG] No evidence of marriage

[Jennifer Crockett]

I would prefer to have a different expression for this leaving out the work
"evidence". What happened to the simple "This couple did not marry."

Can I tweak that anywhere?

Jennifer Crockett
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