You actually don't have to make any changes to the Ancestry.com GEDCOM file itself. When you tell Legacy to Import-GEDCOM, it will tell you that some of the information is unrecognized. Legacy will ask if you want to see details on the mystery information; say 'yes'. A dialog box will pop-up showing the tags that were unrecognized in the Ancestry.com file. So far, the only ones that have shown up for me are "UID" and "APID". You will need to select the UID entry and press the button that says "Remap...". Another box will pop up with a list of tags Legacy understands; scroll down and pick the entry "_UID"and click OK. That will tell Legacy to treat the information it finds marked as UID the way Legacy normally does for _UID. You can then proceed with the import. But please note, do NOT assign an autosource to the import records, or every record in the file will look like it's changed to Legacy.
I do not know what Ancestry.com uses the APID tag for, so I skip mapping that tag. If anyone knows, it might be interesting info. As far as the sequence of records in the Ancestry.com GEDCOM file, I do not know. It's the same in the small files I've compared so far, but that may not be generally true. Since there's no need to monkey with the GEDCOM file itself, does it really matter? Once you do the import, Intellishare takes care of the record matching for you. Hope that helps. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2 Robert I have to do what you did - thanks for pioneering and providing a map of admirable clarity - plus several similar tasks. How does Ancestry label the UID in a gedcom, and how did you re-map? Also, is the positioning in the ancestry gedcom identical or equivalent, so a simple global replace of Ancestry's tag with _UID a text editor like GEDIT would work? Related, using Intellishare Merge, can't one fix the UID, import into a file copy, and just flag the wanted data as each match is presented - editing as desired as you go? (Most of my Intellishare Merges are updates or deletions, jjust selection of whether right or left field survives, but some require combination of data from both, easy to do at that point using cut-and-paste or even a complete rewrite of the intended survivor field, and much helped by the provision of all individual views and family structure on the far right.) kb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Mann" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:03:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2 snip 5) Import the new GEDCOM file to a Legacy database, making sure to re-map the field Ancestry.com calls UID to the field Legacy calls _UID. Legacy will remind you to do this, because it does not recognize Ancestry.com's name for the field. snip 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
