Walt,
I pretty much do it the same way as you, although I upload a gedcom from Legacy to Ancestry (and MyHeritaeg) about every few weeks because the new data help with searches in the online databases. I’m not sure why I don’t also upload a gedcom to Family Search, but I do search their databases. I have found Ancestry to be a tremendous research tool and I use it every day. But the ease of adding data to a tree within Ancestry actually (I believe) leads to many errors in Family Trees that get repeated over and over again from one tree to another. I download data and images from Ancestry for review and, if acceptable, enter into my tree in Legacy. My “for presentation and sharing” family tree info is uploaded every few weeks to my TNG website. Donald Quigley Escondido, CA <http://www.donquigley.net/> Quigley Doyle Family Tree From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Walter V. Munza Sent: Sunday, May 1, 2016 4:49 AM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge I was in the same boat... I finely resign to the fast that the only way around this was to delete the Ancestry tree, then upload a new tree from Legacy. With over 17,000 in my Legacy data base, all my work is done in Legacy. Then upload, via a Gedcom, once a year to Ancestry with a new tree. I don't think Ancestry has the capability to make a revision or addition by doing a Gedcom. Let me know if there is a way of doing this. Walt Munza Duluth, GA On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 12:17 AM, William Boswell <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: 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] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Ginger Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:31 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[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 -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> www.avast.com
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