Sorry! Yes, this is about importing a tree from Ancestry.com. And then how to maintain their record I'd for later upload and automagic reattachment.
While I did not have any problems with importing Ancestry's _APID into Legacy, it seems other posters have in the past. On Jan 11, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Kathy Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow; this is definitely over my head but intriguing if I'm reading this right. > > In your first paragraph you discuss "....Legacy had problems importing > this field. That does not appear to be the case anymore" > > What were you importing into your Legacy file? and from what source? > Are you referring to a gedcom of someone's family tree on Ancestry? > > Usually if there's something I don't understand, it's because there is > something I need to learn from others in the group, so I'd appreciate > a clarification please. Thanks, Kathy > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:34 PM, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4 Nov 2009, Mike Fry asked about this tag. (2009, really that long >> ago?) Google gave me another tread about it on the rootsweb forums. >> What I did not find was an explanation of what it is used for. It >> also appears that at the time of these threads Legacy had problems >> importing this field. That does not appear to be the case anymore. >> >> The fields seem to come in two forms: >> 3 _APID 9999::9999999999 <== Source detail >> 1 _APID 9999::0 <== Source >> >> I've not had a problem with importing this field, so it appears Legacy >> fixed whatever problem there was by importing these numbers into the >> 'File ID:' fields of the source and source detail. >> >> What they are used for is to re-attach ancestry records on an upload >> to Ancestry.com. The first part of the number seems to identify a >> collection. For example, all my records from the SSN Index seem to >> use 3693 as the collection number. The other number seems to identify >> the actual record in the collection. >> >> Exporting from Legacy will generate a REFN field in the GEDCOM file. >> Replacing the REFN in these cases, and uploading to Ancestry will >> re-attach the record. I have successfully added this number to my own >> custom Source Writer source, generated a GEDCOM, replaced REFN as >> needed, and uploaded to Ancestry. Magically, the record(s) were >> attached. (Ancestry seems to have lost my custom source verbiage, but >> that is of little importance to me in this case.) >> >> The regular expressions to do the REFN to _APID replacement, just what >> is inside the square brackets. >> RegEx: [(^\d) (.*)? (\d+::\d+)] >> Replace With: [$1 _APID $3] >> >> YMMV >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Kathy Meyer > "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things > you have never before done." > --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 > > Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting > different results. ~ Albert Einstein > > > > 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
