On 14 Feb 2017 at 19:27, Ernie Anderson wrote: > That is alright Jerry. I use both programs together, as RootsMagic merge is > 100 times better than Legacy any day of the week. I have tested them both side > by side and I know what I am talking about. I tried to get Ken to follow the > lead of RootsMagic with no results. Don't get me wrong, Legacy has much more > power than RM and has the ability to clean up the junk that we find in files. > Yes, Familysearch is a royal mess when it comes to duplicates, many variations > in the name field, date field and place field. If you are lucky and if you > can you can keep four to six generation intact in your direct line in > familysearch, but beyond that forget it. I have been at this sort of thing > now for 59 years. Ernie
I use both Legacy and RootsMagic, though for different purposes. I use Legacy for adding people to my family tree that I'm reasonably certain of, and upload these to FamilySearch. I never download new people from FamilySearch to Legacy, but always add them by hand. I also never merge people in my main family file in Legacy. I use Rootsmagic for a rough research file, where I add possible and speculative links, and download new people from FamilySearch to there. for further research. I use it for quick lookups, as it opens in half the time that Legacy does. It also handles downloaded sources from FamilySearch better than Legacy -- Legacy does not handle marriage sources from FamilySearch very well. In Rootsmagic I use the Legacy RIN as a User ID (Reference No in Rootsmagic, so I can cross-reference people who are in both files. And Rootsmagic is also where I do lots of merging because I get information on the same people from different sources -- FamilySearch, GEDCOM files, other information people send me. In Family search there are lots of duplicates that need to be merged, WHEN YOU ARE SURE THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE. For example, when people are entered into FamilySearch from church records through the LDS controlled extraction programme, there are many duplicates. If a couple had 7 children who were baptised in the same church, the parents will be repeated 7 times. Sometimes it is possible to combine them from within Legacy, but sometimes this cannot be done, because FamilySearch does not always recognise them as duplicates. In that case you need to note the FamilySearch record number of the duplicate parent, go into FamilySearch itself, and do a Merge by Id. If that doesn't work, it is often because someone has given them the wrong sex, or they have been marked as living. If you upload a family from Legacy to FamilySearch, make sure they are not marked as living. For example, if you have a couple that were married in 1750, but have no birth or death dates, Legacy will show them as living, and so will FamilySearch when you upload them. So you either need to enter an estimated date of birth (I think "Est" works in Legacy) or make sure that they are marked as not living before uploading them. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
