Ron: I never merged a GEDCOM into an existing file. That would be a nightmare since things have gotten corrupt exporting from TMG. I always import a fresh GEDCOM and start from scratch. This time I had Legacy ignore all image links. I think it works better that way. I can relink them later.
Early this morning I relinked and updated my grave photo descriptions. I'm using that TMG-to-Legacy file to create a report of media items since FTM will not cooperate and has limited reporting capabilities. I'm going to use that to copy and paste the information back into this new file when I get around to relinking images. I'm doing light cleanup now then I'm moving onto sources and locations. I wish I could import my locations from the old file to this one since I fixed all of them. If I could, I would have to go through and merge them. I do like all the features that Legacy has that most other programs don't. It's just going to take time to learn all of them and find things. Bill -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Ron Ferguson Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:42 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] More Major Problems With Legacy--Role Reversal Bill, Have you done as suggested by others and loaded your GEDCOM, as recommended, into a new Legacy file before merging it into your main Legacy DB? Whilst I have never needed to load a large an FTM generated GEDCOM into Legacy, I do know that those who have recommend this practice. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: William H. Boswell To: Legacy Family Tree List Sent: 22 September 2009 18:59 Subject: [LegacyUG] More Major Problems With Legacy--Role Reversal After practically giving up on my last GEDCOM import into Legacy, I did a new one that is just as messed up as the first. I just discovered that I have a person Marie G. Kelly who married Samuel E. Boswell. I'm finding two Marie Kelly's: one with a husband and one without. She is not listed twice in the index for some strange reason. With the husband, she's listed as the husband and her husband is listed as the wife. When I tried to attach her husband, it said I couldn't attach a wife to a female. I'm am so frustrated with this transition from FTM 2009 that I'm ready to say the hell with it. Last night I updated all of the cemetery photo information and relinked everything. All grave images are linked, but the other thousands will have to be relinked anyway because there's tons of duplicates. I wish someone would scrap GEDCOM and come out with a workable solution to converting between genealogy programs. It's getting so genealogy is not fun anymore and not worth all this work. It's more of a pain having to relink over 8,000 images and I'm not a big fan of Legacy's way of organizing images. It needs improvement. Ninety nine percent of my problem I blame on FTM 2009. Bill Boswell 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
