Thanks once more Brett. Bad news is when you highlight the unrecognized _APID and then click Remove you just get a warning popup that "No item is selected".
Worse news was my accidental inclusion of a hyperlink....I had cut and paste it from the notepad list Legacy offered up and failed to notice it was there, it did not highlight itself while composing the message, only after hitting Send....My apologies to the LegacyUserGroup. However I just tried the hyperlink and was taken to the screen where I had been merging data for the individual in someone else's tree to the individual in my tree....possibly a clue that the _APID relates to the act of merging of two (or more) individuals/individuals data on Ancestry.com I tried your suggestion to map to a recognized item with the extra export and import cycle as it seems most logical. Problem is that when I tried the second import I wasn't kicked back to the screen where you can control or remove items.....because there were not longer unrecognized items to trigger the screen. I will play around some more to see if there is another way to get back into that screen. And if that doesn't work I will take solice from Sherry's advice that Support are working on it, and work on other things until Support has found a solution. Thanks to everyone for their input. Garnet BMcL Robinson wrote: > Hi Garnet > > Just going through the import gedcom process - select file (Legacy does an > analysis), untick "Put unrecognised items into notes field", click > "customise" (you should now get the unrecognised items, that you need to > move to "items not to be imported" - I don't have a file to play with, so > assume you simply highlight the _APID tag and then click "remove" to move > from one box to the other - or drag it there). Alternatively if you map to a > recognised item pick something like research notes or to do, then do another > export and import cycle to exclude that tag on the second run - you will be > doing a convert it on the first run. > > Is the hyperlink quoted below ending up in the right place? > > Cheers, Brett > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garnet Quigley" S > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 5:14 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the _APID Gedcom Tag? > > > Thanks for the input Brett. Not sure if it is just me, but I can't seem > to find a way to exclude something from the "unrecognized items" box. I > see how to exclude from those items that Legacy offers to import. I > experimented with mapping the unrecogized item _APID to one that Legacy > does recognize then excluding that item from import, but probably not > surprisingly that did not work. And I would up with hundreds or more of > the following errors: > > >> Record: 0 @P281953773@ INDI >> Sub Section: 3 TEXT >> >> * Unrecog. Line for an Individual Record: 2 _APID 1030::0 >> Placed in Note - Argotta Franks: TEXT: _APID 1030::0 >> > I am creating a new dataset so merging with an existing dataset is not > an issue. I tried again with a fresh dataset, and clicked the "Clear > the unrecognized media list before each import" just in case that was > somehow relevant. But again no luck. > > Before throwing in the towel and moving on to option 3, perhaps you or > Brian in support could tell me if excluding something from the > "unrecognized items" box is possible. Thanks to both of you for your > efforts. > > Garnet > > BMcL Robinson wrote: > >> Hi Garnet >> >> I am not sure of exactly the problem you are having, but working through >> it >> "logically": >> 1 When you import the custom tag (starting with underscore) should come >> up for either excluding or mapping to a Legacy standard tag. Given that >> the >> tag appears to be an Ancestry ID tag that you may never want you could >> exclude it (= the simple answer). >> 2 If you want the data imported that you could map it to a tag in the >> available Legacy set (either std GEDCOM 5.5 or Legacy custom) during the >> import - perhaps something like Research notes, where the data could be >> out >> of "harms way". >> 3 Both 1 and 2 above assume things are working in Legacy as they >> should, >> and the data will either not appear at all, or be imported to the chosen >> location (tag). However if this is not the case then you can introduce an >> intermediate step to edit the gedcom file you have from Ancestry (a copy >> of >> course!!). This will definitely fix the problem, but can take a bit of >> investigation depending on the extent of the "corruption". In essence you >> use a text editor (eg MS Word, saving as a .TXT file, then renaming as a >> .GED file) to find the tag you don't want and replace with the one that >> you >> do. Then the import into Legacy will be with your edited and hence "clean" >> file and import anomalies should be prevented. If you want to go down this >> path and need a bit more help let me know. >> 4 I assume that you will do the import in two stages - first import the >> .GED into a new empty Legacy dataset, then secondly merge what you want >> (all >> <-> nothing) with your existing data. >> >> Cheers, Brett >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > > >> 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. 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