I also noticed a problem with ancestry gedcoms.  They place  the burial
address under cause of death in Legacy.

Sally

In a message dated 4/23/2012 1:50:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

Since I had only a small family file started, I downloaded an  ancestry.com
gedcom of the family tree I have on their site. I merged that  with what I
had (into a third family file so my original is still  intact).

Wondering if ancestry had caused part of the location  problems, I
downloaded another gedcom and created a new file from it. The  locations are a 
mess.

The sources are way too basic and there are no  details given, even though
they were there on the record. Only the ones I  copied and pasted into
Legacy have the detail citation.

I also have  Family Tree Maker 12 on my computer just to keep my family
file synced. The  details are in that program but do not get added to the
gedcom and are not  imported into Legacy. This time I cleaned up the locations 
in
FTM with a  feature they have for that purpose. It helped, but was far from
perfect. Still  a lot of work to do.

I've read that ancestry.com is a for profit  company and can't be depended
on for accurate sources. That seems to be true.  I'll have to cut and paste
the information from now on.

I'm updating  the group on this in case anyone else thinks it will be easy
to just merge the  information you find on ancestry.com with your Legacy
file.





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