Moving From Family Tree Maker to Legacy: Watch the free 90 second video showing how: 1) If you have a tree on Ancestry.com you will need to sync your FTM to the tree and make sure that ALL of the media is downloaded to your hard drive and that the media is linked and visible in FTM. You need FTM 2012 or 2014 to be able to do this. If you are using an earlier version of FTM and you have media files, we will have to convert the file for you.

Prior versions embedded media files instead of linking to them (all contemporary programs link including FTM). We will have to convert the file to an FTM 2014 file first, then convert it to Legacy or your will lose your media. FTM 2014 will pull the media out and convert them to real media files and then link to them instead of embedding the media. If you are using FTM 2012 or 2014 continue on with the instructions. If you are using a prior version please contact support@legacyfamilytree.com and let us know.

2) Compact your file (TOOLS >COMPACT FILE, select Perform extended analysis) 3) Create the gedcom. Leave the settings at the defaults.

It is important to note that because an Ancestry tree export produces a standard GEDCOM file, it will only contain textual data and not attached photos or records. This means that if you. Now that it has been exported, how can I convert it an excel file so i can sort different data and even create a report? July 8, 2016.

4) Do not move or rename any media file or folder after you create the gedcom. We will get to that in a moment. 5) Make sure you are using the most current update to Legacy because there are FTM fixes in it (FTM generates gedcoms that do not adhere to the gedcom standards so Legacy has to compensate for that) 6) Import the gedcom into Legacy. Here is a step by step video that Geoff made 7) Once you have your file in Legacy, go to FILE >MEDIA RELINKER and make sure that you have no broken links. Go into someone’s Media Gallery and double check that you can see the media. Now go to TOOLS >GATHER MEDIA. For now allow Legacy to copy the media to the default location which is Documents Legacy Family Tree Media.

Legacy will copy all of your linked media to this folder and then relink. This is important because if you uninstall FTM and delete the FTM folders you will lose your media unless you so this. The import will be very faithful, but please be aware of the following Family Tree Maker quirks: 1.

Facts are exported from Family Tree Maker with a PLAC tag, which in all other genealogy programs is reserved for Locations. Any program would import that as a Location and not an event. In Legacy, we have accommodated this by giving the user the option to determine at the time of import if the data is actually a location or an event and where to direct it. Just click the Save button. FTM GEDCOM files do not include saved publications or tasks. Pictures and documents inserted in pre-2012 versions of Family Tree Maker do not move to other programs. The article 'Import GEDCOM' at states, 'Family Tree Maker is one of several off-line editing programs that does not properly handle media object pointers within the GEDCOM.

Legacy, among many others, does handle these properly.' (Media object pointers is another way of saying multimedia links, or in other words pictures, sound, video and documents.) 4. The work-around for pictures that were embedded in files in pre-2012 versions of Family Tree Maker is to open your file in Family Tree Maker 2012 or 2014, which will resolve the picture links. Go to the Media Gallery and then double-click on one of the photos/documents that does NOT have a link. Family Tree Maker will tell you that it can't find that photo and give you a list of all embedded media. Click Select all and then click Search. Give Family Tree Maker time to find them all.

A Textbook Of Geology By P K Mukherjee Pdf Printer. You will see them all change to links in the list. Now all your media has links that will transfer to Legacy in a GEDCOM file.

If you are exporting from Family Tree Maker 2012 or 2014, the GEDCOM files will contain picture links (see 4. If Legacy does not see the pictures, it may need help.

• If your Family Tree Maker file is damaged it probably won't create a good GEDCOM file. Here is what the Ancestry Support Center says.

Contents • • • • • • • • Purpose of the Mod This mod implements a TNG program that makes two basic types of changes to Gedcom files: • Fixes specific errors or incompatibilities in Gedcom files produced by Family Tree Maker (which it tied to, but no longer owned by Ancestry.com). These changes allow TNG to import media links, birth and death notes, and media records correctly. These changes are essentially the same as those made by a converter program hosted by Stephen Connor, which is described in the TNG Wiki page, and in a • Makes several optional edits to Gedcom tags and event data to clean up a number of common inconsistencies. These changes can potentially be applied to any Gedcom file. The program's (or 'kickoff form') can be viewed by anyone (but not submitted). The has much more detail than this article, and can be reached from the options form or the link at the beginning of this sentence.

Note that the Gedcom Converter program installed by this mod does not touch the TNG database. It simply cleans up Gedcom files. So it really should be independent of TNG changes, and should even work for TNG version before 9.0, and indefinitely into the future. Requirements • A working TNG installation. • An installed current version of the. Automated Installation • Remove and delete current (if any) version of this mod.

• Download the.zip file. Upload and Extract to the mods folder. • Backup the files listed to the right that are modified by this Mod. • Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example to install. In the event of a problem • Try using the capability • Contact me through. Visualization of this Mod After installation: Step 1 - From the TNG Admin home page, select Import/Export The Gedcom Converter is the first, and default, option (once the mod has been installed).

The mod changes the Import/Export links on the TNG Administration menus to link directly to the Gedcom Converter instead of the Gedcom Import, under the assumption that you need to convert your file before you import it. Step 2 - Part - Gedcom Converter options First, select a Gedcom file as you would in the Gedcom Import screen - either a PC file, or a file that has been uploaded to your web server. As soon as you click on the output filename field, a default value will be displayed for you, but you can change that value.

The options are described in more detail in. (Depending on the version of the converter that you are using, there may be options not shown here.) Step 2 - Part 2 - Options to 'Normalize' USA Places - That is, to re-format the components of a full placename into a standard format defined by these options, which will appear when the 'Normalize USA Places' option is checked. These options will take various representations of a single placename, such as 'Houston, Harris, Texas', 'Houston, Harris County, TX', 'Houston, Harris Co, Texas, USA', and put them all in the format specified by the options.

Starting with version 12 of this mod, Place Normalization options are saved in a separate configuration file from the Gedcom Converter options, and the Place Normalization code is installed by the new mod, because • Not all Gedcom Converter users need to Normalize places, and • Other programs (installed by other mods) that use Place Normalization options are in development. The Place Normalization options are described in more detail in. Save Options When you click the 'Save these options' button, the primary Gedcom Converter options (options 1-5) will be saved to one configuration file, and, if the Place Normalization options are installed, they will be saved to a second configuration file.

Step 4, Run the Converter When you click on either 'Convert Gedcom' button, the converter program run, using the specified options. It generates a list of option values (behind a button), displays record counts as it processes records, and then, depending on the options you have selected, it may offer to display lists of places that may not have been fully normalized. For Additional Help for the Gedcom Converter form has very detailed explanations of all of the Converter options. Mod Change History Mod Version TNG Versions Date Note 9.0.0.12 9.0 - 10.1.3 22 Feb 2016 Changed mod name. Added several Gedcom tags to the converter logic. Separated language strings, configuration variables, and code for Place Normalization into different files, which are installed by the new mod. 9.0.0.11d 9.0 - 10.12 6 Sep 2015 No real significant changes.

Tweaked the Converter Setup form & the tabs. Admin >>Import/Export now takes you directly to the Converter form rather than the Input form.

The converter now handles some Gedcom tags that FTM doesn't generate. (I use it occasionally to modify other Gedcoms.) 9.0.0.11a 9.0.0 - 10.1.0 24 Jun 2015 Tweaked the options form to allow it to be viewed, but not submitted, without logging in. 9.0.0.11 9.0.0 - 10.0.3 16 Dec 2014 Removed some options that addressed my personal data entry habits. Improved the place normalization. Cleaned up code and added documentation. 9.2.2.9 9.2.2 - 10.0.2 17 Aug 2014 Fixed some strings that weren't internationalized.

Added a warning to the 'Compress dates' option noting that compressing dates breaks date internationalization. Modified the mod subfolder for new files so that it has the same folder structure as the TNG site. I thus added the version suffix to that subfolder. 9.2.2.8 9.2.2 - 10.0.2 25 Jul 2014 Fixed a bug in the handling of Individual TITL events.

9.2.2.7 9.2.2 - 10.0.2 30 Jun 2014 Cleanup. Improved error handling & handling of form options. The converter configuration file lists the options in (essentially) the same order as the options form. Shows more information while the converter is running. 9.2.2.4 9.2.2 - 10.0.2 25 Jun 2014 Added an option to suppress secondary events for selected event types. Improved handling of the media object path.

Fixed a couple of bugs that caused some conversions to be performed even if their checkbox was unchecked. 9.2.2.3 9.2.2 - 10.0.2 12 May 2014 Improved handling of the media object path so that it doesn't get in the way of simple TNG installations. Added the 'locales that act as counties' concept so it could be more thorough in making sure that counties have the county designator.

Added option 5e, which was previously always done along with Date compression. Added the upload module, which was missing in the first release. 9.2.2.1 9.2.2 15Apr2014 Initial release.

TNG User sites using this mod Please add your site if you use this modification. URL User Note Mod-Version TNG-Version User-language Mod developer 9.0.0.11d TNGv10.1.2 EN Private Site (For right now) 9.1.0.0 TNG 10.0.1 EN Private Site (Password required - relatives only) 9.2.2.3 TNG 10.0.2 EN.