Thanks Cathy.

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From: LegacyUserGroup <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Cathy Pinner
Sent: Monday, 12 September 2022 2:40 PM
To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Uploading Legacy to FMP and/or Ancestry

You'll just have to experiment and work it out.
C.

> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Monday, 12 
> September 2022 12:05
>
> IN the past I have uploaded my MyHeritage Legacy 1Whole … tree to 
> Ancestry, MyHeritage and FMP and then brought these trees back to 
> MyHeritage and back again etc etc. AFTER finding out that it was not a 
> good idea.
>
> I now need to find the BEST of ALL my 1Whole .. trees, to have as my 
> only MyHeritage tree of my direct family ie 1Whole …. Tree.
>
> That is why I need to know what is changed or lost after an upload to 
> be able to compare.
>
> For example what is the most likely to be changed
>
> Do both types of notes finish up with the person in their notes ?
>
> I have hugh number of notes and events per person – are they lost ?
>
> I jsust need a criteria to work from and if it is not there in a copy 
> then I have to go back one more copy until I find THAT ONE which will 
> be the start of my Heritade 1Whole family tree never to go anywhere 
> AGAIN
>
> *From:*LegacyUserGroup <[email protected]> *On 
> Behalf Of *Cathy Pinner
> *Sent:* Sunday, 11 September 2022 7:12 PM
> *To:* Legacy User Group <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Uploading Legacy to FMP and/or Ancestry
>
> Valerie,
> What are you trying to do?
>
> Ancestry etc online trees don't have all the fields for data that 
> Legacy has and even when they do, they don't use a Gedcom the same 
> way.  eg uploading to Ancestry - Notes don't go in a public field and 
> are put all in the one Notes field. Event notes turn up as unnamed 
> citations, ...
>
> It's not a good idea to upload to an online tree, add data to the 
> online tree and then expect to download it again to your Legacy 
> database. Far too much cleanup. It's actually quicker to double enter 
> data in an online tree and in Legacy. You can use Ancestry tags to 
> keep track of what you need to enter into your Legacy database.
>
> Cathy
>
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sunday, 11 
> September 2022 15:01
>
> When uploading Legacy to FMP and/or Ancestry what do I loose when I 
> then upload it back to  FMP or Ancestry
>
>
>


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