What Tessa said :) :) :) Michele
From: Tessa [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from Ancestry.com! I am a believer in NOT downloading and/or merging anything on line into your genealogy database. Put it in another file if you must; download it as a pdf and then review and annotate it, do your research, check things out and if the information is useful - add it in manually yourself ALWAYS thinking about what you are entering - names, locations, facts, sources. You will really regret (and have to spend lots of time doing it over and doing it right) if you take the easy way. I find it really helps to think about what you are doing every step of the way. The problem with downloading into your program and/or automatic merging is that is takes out that "editor" or "eagle eye" aspect. You will also guarantee that your master lists will be a complete and utter mess. Why you would introduce that mess into your data is beyond me. Just my 2 cents. On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:54 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: 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. .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 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
