On 1 May 2016 at 17:04, Don Quigley wrote: > 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 don't think it is possible to upload a Gedcom to FamilySearch. FamilySearch is based on a single tree for everyone, so changes and additions are made3 person by person, and even item by item. In that sense it is more like Wikipedia, which anyone can edit. Legacy has a fairly good interface to FamiySearch, which makes it possible to do this. One of the useful features is that you can copy source references quite easily and make notes for other users, and copy other users' notes and discussions to Legacy for future research. While I have a family Tree on MyHeritage (which they copied without my permission), I'm not allowed to update it, because they want me to pay to do so, so it sits there with all its errors. If people want to contact me about SmartMatches I ask them to do it by e-mail. > 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. That's one of the reasons that I don't have a tree on Ancestry. My wife and I once did a bit of research using Mundia, the free version, now discontinued. In one case we found 11 erroneous versions of a couple who were married to someone else, and only two correct versions. It's too easy to copy the wrong thing. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: [email protected] -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [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]/
