The UID field is not universally unique within the world of genealogy trees as you think. In Legacy the UID is called the Intellishare number. you can use it when merging people who are imported into your data. People with the same UID/Intellishare number who have identical information can be automatically merged. There is a help file topic on using Intellishare to share research tasks that explains how to use intellishare for this.
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Robert Mann wrote: > 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 > > > > 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
