Robert
Could you describe the kinds of changes you made in Ancestry? IF Legacy's original export was not faulty, then it had no plain UID tag, and I much doubt an APID one. It follows that their source was almost certainly Ancestry, by processing error, systematic action, or as a consequence of the changes you made. If you were importing individuals into your tree while in Ancestry, then the tags may have been included. Your import and reexport might indicate something not readily apparent by the kind of comparison you made. A change in RINs might just reflect the import settings, and/or personnel deletion in Ancestry. I can't remember whether the source numbers are mapped from individual's data, or are file line locations. Either way, it looks like some significant size and/or structural arrangement change occurred during the re-import. Might just reflect elimination of the APID tagged line(s) and any depending CONC ones, but you'd need a more discriminating comparison to easily identify that. Re. messing with GEDCOMS: Intellishare seems to promote multiplication of parents. I've got 300-500 sets to delete, at something like 10 keystrokes each if I do it via Legacy. If I can locate and fix the links in the GEDCOM, I'll only need a handful of UIDs to find them. Things like that come up often. If one works with others using disparate programs and independently entered matching individuals, there's good reason to standardize UIDs, ideally to values adopted by IGI - if that ever happens. Can't do that in Legacy. Just examples... kb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Mann" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:01:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2 ... imported the Ancestry GEDCOM into Legacy (remapping UID) and immediately exported it back out as a new GEDCOM ... ... The RIN's were different, and the source ID numbers were changed. I can't see any reason to mess with the GEDCOM files, unless there is something else you are trying to do besides transferring the data from Ancestry 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
