Garnet, From the original post the _APID is related to a source so I am not sure what tag would be appropriate.
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. Garnet Quigley wrote: > What is the best way to handle the _APID when importing the ged from > Ancestry.com into Legacy 7.4 Deluxe? A couple of years ago there used > to be another problem tag, _EID if I remember correctly, for which I > used Legacy's substitute tag _UID for the conversion. And it seemed to > either solve the problem or at least remove it from sight. I tried > using the same _UID as a substitute tag this time, but Legacy still > created hundreds of notes for the unrecognized _APID. Thanks for a > solution if there is one. > > Garnet > > > Robert Carneal USA wrote: >> That might be it, Evert. I was thinking: >> A[ncestry] P[erson]ID. I was comparing them to RINs. >> >> Robert >> >> At 2009-11-04 09:41 AM, you wrote: >>> just a gues A (ncestry) P (ublication) ID >>> Evert >>> >>> 2009/11/4 Mike Fry <[email protected]>: >>>> Like one or two others, I have been experimenting with downloading >>> a GEDCOM >>>> file from Ancestry to see how the sources are imported. >>>> >>>> Well, the first thing to note is that they import in Basic Format! >>>> >>>> Having said that, I notice that the import procedure seems to have >>> one or >>>> two problems with a particular, Ancestry-defined tag - _APID. Does >>> anyone >>>> have any idea what this tag is trying to convey? It's not al all >>> obvious >>>> from an examination of the downloaded GEDCOM text, what the tag is all >>>> about. >>>> >>>> In the a g file generated from the import procedure, I see many >>> messages of >>>> the following form:- >>>> >>>> Main Record: 0 @S1029350835@ SOUR >>>> * Unrecog. Line for a Source Record: 1 _APID 7572 >>>> Placed in Note : _APID 7572 >>>> >>>> These, together with one or two more explicit errors that I can't >>> correct >>>> Main Record: 0 @P4193015077@ INDI >>>> Sub Section: 1 SEX M >>>> * Unrecog. Line for an Individual Record: 2 SOUR @S1029764659@ >>>> Placed in Note - James W P Wall: SEX: SOUR @S1029764659@ >>>> PAGE Class: RG10; Piece: 1800; Folio: 159; Page: 28; GSU roll: >>> 838798. >>>> NOTE >>>> >>> http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1871&h=14518996&ti=5538&indiv=try&gss=pt >>> >>>> NOTE >>>> DATA >>>> TEXT Name: James W P WallBirth: abt 1865 in Cley, Norfolk, >>> EnglandDeath: >>>> _APID 7619::14518996 >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best regards, >>>> Mike Fry > > > > > 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
