Thank you James, yes it has helped a lot. Your para. 1) is also my understanding.
2) is new to me, as I never used Ancestry in that way, and simply upload a basic GEDCOM from Legacy i.e. no sources. Given what you say, I am now unsure whether or not screenshots would be of help, but your explanation has clarified your intention and process, for which I am grateful. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: James Cook Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] selecting a few new people to upload to ancestry Hmm... It will be a few days, but I could capture some screen shots of my example tree. I guess I'm saying a couple of things... 1) The only sync I am aware of between Ancestry and a home based database is their own Family Tree Maker program. (i.e. no sync with Legacy). Your only options are to manually keep the trees in sync or upload a GEDCOM. When uploading a GEDCOM, this will create a new tree, not sync with an existing one. 2) Every time you upload a GEDCOM (at least one from Legacy), you have to relink all the Ancestry Hints you may have had in an older tree (census images, milliary docs, etc). This is where my scripts come in. I have some GreaseMonkey scripts that will display Ancestry's database ids. I save these in my Leagacy file in the File Id field. I then have some Notetab macros (Notetab calls them clips) that I use to pre-process my GEDCOM before upload to Ancestry. So, open the GEDCOM in Notetab and run the necessary macros I want on my file. One such macro is to rename the Legacy File Id (REFN GEDCOM tag) to the one Ancestry uses to link their hits to your tree (_APID tag). Then, when you upload the GEDCOM to Ancestry all the Hints you've used in your research are also linked in your new uploaded tree. (If you dowload a GEDCOM from Ancestry an load into Legacy, it will put those same _APID into the File Id field too.) The motivation behind my scripts was to try and automate the process from Legacy to Ancestry and make it as easy as possible. It is not ideal, but is not bad. In this way, I enter data only once in Legacy, then upload a new tree to Ancestry occasionally. When I use Ancestry to do research I save to the sandbox until I get a change to add the information to my Legacy database. Again, I do all my data entry via Legacy only. Hope that helps 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
