Jerry, That is good advice from Steve. Don't get in a rush, take your time and it will work out. Ernie
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > 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/ > -- Ye Ole Crash & Smash Works
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