Re: [LegacyUG] What is the _APID Gedcom Tag?
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=uki1871h=14518996ti=5538indiv=trygss=pt NOTE DATA TEXT Name: James W P WallBirth: abt 1865 in Cley, Norfolk, EnglandDeath: _APID 7619::14518996 -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] What is the _APID Gedcom Tag?
or (A)ncestry (P)erson ID Bert - Original Message - From: Evert van Dijken evandij...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the _APID Gedcom Tag? 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=uki1871h=14518996ti=5538indiv=trygss=pt NOTE DATA TEXT Name: James W P WallBirth: abt 1865 in Cley, Norfolk, EnglandDeath: _APID 7619::14518996 -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] What is the _APID Gedcom Tag?
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=uki1871h=14518996ti=5538indiv=trygss=pt NOTE DATA TEXT Name: James W P WallBirth: abt 1865 in Cley, Norfolk, EnglandDeath: _APID 7619::14518996 -- Best regards, Mike Fry Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
