As I said before, Legacy can take care of things if you just point the way with the "remapping" tool. However, I would bet that you could do a global search and replace with any text editor on the Ancestry.com GEDCOM file to change "UID" to "_UID" and that Legacy would then read the file OK. I have compared the Legacy and Ancestry files side by side and the DATA beside the UID tags is the same in both files.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2 Thanks Robert, that may help a lot. My memory is that the GEDCOM 5.5 "standard" requires the underline prefix for all user defined fields, so it's a valuable heads up that Ancestry may not follow that at all. I may have to work with GEDCOMS to do things where Legacy doesn't provide a mechanism, like changing UIDs. I'll download an Ancestry GEDCOM, look at it to see what's what, and try to dope out APID. Thanks also for the Autosource warning. kb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Mann" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:05:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2 ... tags that were unrecognized in the Ancestry.com file... ... are "UID" and "APID". ... ... and pick the entry "_UID"... ...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. 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
