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Thank you Liz......I don't know what I'm doing
because I am so new to this genealogy stuff. At least I'm doing it right
and you are getting the same as me. Surely someone has done a dl from the
lds site. Come on guys! tell Liz and I the secret. This user group
is wonderful. I read all the emails that come in and I got an answer to a
question I hadn't asked about the split screen view opening 2 different family
files. Thanks whomever :-)
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] importing a ged file
I too
am getting an html file not a gedcom. It is very
frustrating!
Your instructions sound easy enough Lloyd, but
when I dl the from a family group record it creates a file named
frameset-search.asp (HTML doc) not with a ged extension. What am I
doing wrong. It sounds so easy. Am I really such a
dummy?
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] importing a ged file
At 12:55 PM 05/14/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Hi
all,
I need help please with dl
a gedcom from a family group record from www.familysearch When I click on download
gedcom a dialog box comes up asking if I want to open from current location
or save file to disk. I chose save file to disk to 'My Documents
folder. From there I don't have a clue. This is a dumb question
I know but I am new to this sort of thing. I had started my genealogy
on myfamily.com but wanted it on my hd. A friend exported it from
there to Legacy3 (free version) The file we exported is fine.
Now I want to dl family record that I don't have rather than enter the info
name by name and I want to learn how to do it myself. The original
file we dl is in Mydocuments/legacy/data. The file that I want to put
in is called frameset_search.asp.
Somebody PLEASE Help and ole lady.
Thanks a bunch,
Carolyn
Hi Carolyn,
You're doing fine so
far.
Open Legacy, click on File.
Then Import, then from
gedcom.
Browse until you've found the file to import.
Choose open a new
file - do not import to your existing Legacy file, especially from Ancestral
File.
After importing into a new file, look it over very carefully.
Fix any locations, names, anything else.
Then click on View, Split Screen
View.
Open your original file.
Bring the common person up on both
files.
Then click on the name of the common person in the new file so that
the title of the new file has color (default is blue).
Then hold down the
left mouse key on that common person and move the cursor over the common
person in the original file.
Then choose what you want to copy into the
original file; individual, family, ancestors, descendants, everyone.
You
will probably want everyone. Indicate the source, e.g. ANcestral
File.
After they are moved, you may want to print the list of those in the
new file before you close the new file. I do that so that I can check
and see that everyone possible has been merged. You will get the merge
screen for the common person.
After the merging, you are finished and have
everyone entered.
I'm away from Tues to Thurs this week, but feel free
to send questions before or after.
Lloyd A. Horrocks
Columbus, Ohio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
member: Ohio Gen. Soc., NEHGS, Ohio Hist. Soc., Firelands Hist.
Soc. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~horrocks
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