When I work with my tree on Ancestry, whatever additions or changes I make to it I also make in Legacy. It’s double the work, but merges are a headache in any program because there’s always the possibility of duplicates. Cleaning up a merged file is more work than it’s worth. I’ve done it before and it isn’t worth it. I ended up scrapping it and going back to a recent backup.
Make sure you make a backup before you do it because you might be better off not adding the new information from Ancestry unless you keep a record of additions and changes like I do. This way I know what new information I obtained and added into Legacy using Ancestry. It’s also handy for doing additional research later. I put the information into Notepad and include the sources. Because each file is by date, I also use that as my access date in Legacy. Most everything is just copied and pasted from Ancestry with some cleanup to get rid of extra spaces. This probably won’t help you now, but an idea for the future. Bill Boswell From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ginger Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge Hi, I've been working quite a bit in Ancestry and wanted to merge the information I've added and corrected into my Legacy file. I made a copy of my family file in case something went haywire and then I downloaded a GedCom file from Legacy. I assumed (ugh) that it would merge the duplicates automatically as I'd gone through them before and just add the new information or have conflicts with the corrected information only, however, it is starting over with 2,500 ish conflicts. Is there any easier way to do this besides manually plucking the information from Ancestry and entering it in by hand? Thanks. Ginger
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