When you want to transfer information from the Family Tree Maker program, you have to first export a GEDCOM file from it and then as the second step import the file into Legacy. The steps for creating a GEDCOM file from the various versions of Family Tree Maker are listed at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsGEDCOMfiles.asp.
Once a GEDCOM file has been exported from Family Tree Maker, you can easily import it into Legacy by clicking on File and selecting Import From > Use Import Wizard to help with any import and follow the prompts. To view the Legacy for Beginners training video showing how to import a GEDCOM file, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.net/videos/beg7/LegacyForBeginners.html and select Getting Started. The import will be very faithful, but please be aware of the following Family Tree Maker quirks: 1. Facts are exported from Family Tree Maker with a PLAC tag, which in all other genealogy programs is reserved for Locations. Any program would import that as a Location and not an event. In Legacy, we have accommodated this by giving the user the option to determine at the time of import if the data is actually a location or an event and where to direct it. 2. Pictures inserted in Family Tree Maker scrapbooks do not move to Legacy, or other genealogy programs for that matter. The article "Import GEDCOM" at http://wiki.phpgedview.net/en/index.php?title=Import_GEDCOM states, "Family Tree Maker is one of several off-line editing programs that does not properly handle media object pointers within the GEDCOM. Legacy, among many others, does handle these properly." (Media object pointers is another way of saying multimedia links, or in other words pictures, sound and video.) Jim Technical Support Legacy Family Tree -------- Original Message -------- > From: "Sentz" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Exporting/Importing Files > > Does anyone have experience exporting Family Tree Maker data, then > importing it to non-FTM software, such as Legacy? 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
