I have used Legacy for nine years and routinely exchange data with other genealogists via GEDCOM. However, I have recently started using Ancestry.com to do broad-based searches through their records and I have found it to be very difficult to easily re-import information from an Ancestry.com tree to a Legacy tree.
Does any one know any tricks--similar to Intellishare, for example--that make it easier to identify records that have changed between an on-line tree and one in Legacy? There is a feature in Legacy to "Upload to Ancestry Online Family Tree..." but I can't figure out how it differs from a regular GEDCOM upload. Furthermore, since there does not seem to be a corresponding "Import from Ancestry..." I don't know if it will help. The Legacy Help File is curiously thin on information about it. Perhaps an example might make my question clearer. I export a GEDCOM file from Legacy and upload it to Ancestry.com as a new online tree. I use Ancestry.com to locate historical sources and info on people in my online tree and attach that info. Then, I export the online tree back from Ancestry.com as a new GEDCOM file and I want to compare and merge it back to my original Legacy file. I have done this cycle once, and the return merge was a mess; it took a great deal of time and entailed manual examination of a large percentage of my records. The historical sources on Ancestry.com are very helpful, though I find the "user trees" virtually worthless, because they are rarely sourced. But, if I can't figure out how to make this process easier, it's going to severely limit how much I am going to be able to get out of it. Thanks for any help you can share. Robert Mann Sandy Springs, GA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
