Thanks Brett. I haven't had the chance tonight to give it the full try, but walking through the steps you described it looks good. I really appreciated receiving your input. Thank you again for taking the time to lay it out for me.
Garnet BMcL Robinson wrote: > Hi Garnet > > Try exporting the second time, not importing, to exclude the tag you mapped > to. If you use the export/gedcom/customise sequence you should be able to > delete the tag you used for _APID, and then import the gedcom you created > into a new legacy file. > > Cheers, Brett > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garnet Quigley" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 6:58 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the _APID Gedcom Tag? > > > 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 >> > > > 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
