Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-05-09 Thread William H. Boswell
gacyUG] Ancestry Merge I was in the same boat... I finely resign to the fast that the only way around this was to delete the Ancestry tree, then upload a new tree from Legacy. With over 17,000 in my Legacy data base, all my work is done in Legacy. Then upload, via a Gedcom, once a year to An

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-05-01 Thread Steve Hayes
On 1 May 2016 at 17:04, Don Quigley wrote: > I pretty much do it the same way as you, although I upload a gedcom from > Legacy to Ancestry (and MyHeritaeg) about every few weeks because the new data > help with searches in the online databases. I´m not sure why I don´t also > upload a gedcom to

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-05-01 Thread Don Quigley
rGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Walter V. Munza Sent: Sunday, May 1, 2016 4:49 AM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge I was in the same boat... I finely resign to the fast that the onl

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-05-01 Thread Walter V. Munza
Of *Ginger > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:31 PM > *To:* legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge > > > > Hi, > > > > I've been working quite a bit in Ancestry and wanted to merge the > information I've added and correct

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-04-30 Thread William Boswell
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge Hi, I've been working quite a bit in Ancestry and wanted to merge the information I've added and corrected into my Legacy file. I made a copy of my family file in case something went haywire and then I downloaded a GedCom file from

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-04-27 Thread Cathy Pinner
I hand enter all information I find into Legacy. Even if the merging were easier, the format it comes in from Ancestry doesn't meet my standards. if you really want to merge in an Ancestry gedcom, at least when importing it, use the option to give a start number for the RINs and choose one

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-04-27 Thread I Macaulay via LegacyUserGroup
egacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge How would you be able to 'tell' Legacy which person of the potential duplicates you want to keep/merge? The best way I know (and use often) to resolve duplicates is

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-04-27 Thread Evelyn ..
How would you be able to 'tell' Legacy which person of the potential duplicates you want to keep/merge? The best way I know (and use often) to resolve duplicates is the "merge duplicates" function in Legacy. It shows me potential duplicates in sets of 2 individualss and I can research them, then

[LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-04-27 Thread Ginger
Hi, I've been working quite a bit in Ancestry and wanted to merge the information I've added and corrected into my Legacy file. I made a copy of my family file in case something went haywire and then I downloaded a GedCom file from Legacy. I assumed (ugh) that it would merge the duplicates