Hi All, Thanks to everyone for their input on my earlier question. Since then I have found out a few new things by experimentation that I want to share. Plus, a new question has come up.
The question: does anyone know how to access or search on the _UID field? Every person and marriage is marked with such a field in a GEDCOM file generated by Legacy, at least one that was prepared for GEDCOM 5.5 or for Legacy use. That field is a Unique Identifier that I think is supposed to be universally unique across the whole universe of genealogy trees. Ancestry.com seems to preserve that field and puts it back out with a GEDCOM created from one of its trees. If the tree originally came from Legacy, it appears the UID's will still match when the GEDCOM from Ancestry.com is re-imported to Legacy. If I could get access to them, they are a way to match records between two files. I have discovered a couple of other things about GEDCOM files coming from Ancestry.com: -The RIN's get changed for some reason, so they are no good for matching records. -The source and other field identifiers also seem to be changed. If you take an Ancestry.com GEDCOM, import it into Legacy as a new file, then immediately re-export it as a new GEDCOM from Legacy, you can compare the new file to an original Legacy GEDCOM file. I used MSWord's tool to compare and merge two files to find and highlight changes between the two GEDCOM files. It does a good job of making them standout and I can gather a list of the UID's of the records that changed. (The RIN's, as mentioned above, are unfortunately changed and are useless to find anything in the original Legacy file.) If I can figure out how to use the UID in Legacy, I may be able to focus on the records that changed, and nothing else. 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
