One problem I have with notes and email sources is I have so many of them that there’s too many to go through individually. I only mention this because there could be information that I do not want to share if it is going to a public tree. Emails would also have email addresses for living people who may not want their information shared. And I have found I might have made a controversial remark in notes that a relative might see and take the wrong way (i.e. “so and so was an alcoholic”).
After much experience of exporting from Legacy to a GEDCOM then uploading to Ancestry I find it much better to leave all notes and sources out. While it might be a headache later (and it is), if I have a lot of Ancestry sources it is better to reattach them on the other side since the uploaded ones would have to be deleted anyway. In a way it gives me a chance to “revisit” those ancestors to see if further research is needed or new sources might be available. I remember the days when we used Ancestry sources with images and they could be uploaded from Family Tree Maker. Now Ancestry wants us to use their sources without our images. Bill Boswell From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Monday, December 26, 2016 9:22 PM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Sources from FamilySearch.org to Legacy and Ancestry.com Jerry, If you have everything in Legacy and create a Gedcom and upload to Ancestry, it should include all your notes and sources unless you've chosen not to include them. I don't upload notes or events to Ancestry but my sources upload for the vital events I send. Cathy Jerry Murphy wrote: The word, "copy" may not have been the best choice. What I want to accomplish is to have all of the sources, Discussions and Notes in FamilySearch also in Legacy and Ancestry without having to spend a great deal of time keying everything in again. Another concern I have is updating my Ancestry file. There may be a better way, but all I know to do is import my FamilySearch tree into Legacy, create a new gedcom file and upload it to Ancestry. Then I am faced with keying in all tho se sources, Discussions and Notes again. Unless there is a better way to do this, I am required to key everything in again even if all I am doing is editing information on one individual. I am finding so much ludicrous information in FamilySearch (people born before their parents, etc.) that I spend half my time correcting errors. Is there a way to update a few individuals in Ancestry without keying everything in again? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks On 12/26/2016 1:23 PM, Anne Lo Forte Willson wrote: do you really want to copy the sources back and forth? Legacy, Ancestry and FamilySearch all have different ways of writing their sources. If you copy them from one to the other, the formatting won't match. I'd rather have a way to match up the sources from one to another, that is, in LegacyFamilySearch mode I could ma rk sources that show in FamilySearch Family Tree as the same as a particular source in Legacy So I am able to confirm that I have all the sources in both places, but not necessarily copied from one to the other. On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Sherry <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Any transfer of data between Ancestry and Legacy must be keyed in. There is no way to do a direct transfer either way. That's all up to Ancestry - they need to release an API to Legacy in order for the programmers to make the connection. Sherry On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Jerry Murphy <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > The last I heard, Legacy was still not allowed to inclu de an option to > easily copy FamilySearch sources to Ancestry.com. Assuming that is still > true, is there a way to get sources transferred other than re-keying them > all into Legacy or directly into Ancestry? Thanks. > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com <http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com> > Archives at : > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com <http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com> Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>
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