The short answer is there in no good way to do this. But, some things I do...
I try to update both places at the same time. I use Ancestry's Shoebox as a holding place before attaching to my trees there until I have time to update Legacy with the information. A GEDCOM downloaded from Ancestry includes an _APID tag, which is the pointer to their documents you've attached to your trees. If you import that into Legacy, the value shows up in the File Id fields. A GEDCOM export from Legacy places these values into a REFN tag. If you were to rename REFN to _APID and upload to Ancestry, you'd find that all those documents have been attached to your new tree. Unfortunately, Ancestry does not provide any tree merge functionality, and any GEDCOM upload there results in a new tree. Still, working w/i their boundaries, you can periodically throw away your tree on Ancestry and upload a new GEDCOM from your Legacy file. If interested, I have some utilities I use to help make this as easy as possible... http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/2011/01/ancestry-utils.html http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/2011/01/ged-utils.html On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Elizabeth <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Legacy tree on my computer and have uploaded a gedcom to > Ancestry. I now find the two are diverging - any tips on keeping them > updated together, please? > > -- > > Elizabeth > researching ALLAMBRIDGE (Dorset, Somerset and anywhere else they might turn > up) -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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
