The Legacy Family Tree Standard Edition is free, whereas the Deluxe Edition offers more features but must be bought. Visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ for details.
They offer one of the more complete GEDCOM implementations and support Witnessed/Shared Events similar to fh.
See the Import Details for migrating the exported GEDCOM into any Legacy version.
Only Character Set Encoding for ANSI is accepted, so many Unicode characters either lose their accents or become a question mark ? and instead of Ω all synthetic records start with ZZ.
Most Media conversion modes are allowed.
See both the (LFT+) Full Data Export Details and (LFT-) Brief Data Export Details below.
All the (Std+) Full Data Standard GEDCOM 5.5 rules apply except as defined below.
See Extra Options tab Named List Entry 1 _LIST:
The details of each Named List are placed in a synthesised Source Record whose TITLe starts with ZZ Named List:, and each associated Record has a link to the Source Record either directly or via a local Note (except for Submitter & Submission records that disallow such links).
See Extra Options tab File Root 1 _ROOT:
The File Root details are placed in a synthesised Source Record whose TITLe starts with ZZ File Root:, and the associated Individual Record is linked to this record.
The Individual Record itself is moved to just after the HEADer record to become the Root Person.
These tag lines are all removed.
See Extra Options tab Witness Role 2 _SHA%u:
Individual Witnesses are retained but Name Only Witnesses are moved to a Fact local Note with a Witness Role: label.
See Extra Options tab Fact E-mail 2 _EMAIL: & Fact Website 2 _WEB:
These fields are converted to Gedcom Draft 5.5.1 tags as follows:
2 _EMAIL becomes 2 EMAIL
2 _WEB becomes 2 WWW
The Cause field is moved to a Fact local Note with a Fact Cause: label, except for Death Events.
Each tag is converted to a synthetic custom Event using the EVEN tag with any value on the same line.
Each ASSOciated Person is converted to a custom Event using the EVEN tag with a Fact local Note with an Associate: and Relationship: label.
Any Source Citation/Note attached to a Note field is deleted, because they upset the Legacy import.
Any other Source Note is converted to a synthesised Source Record where the TITLe starts with ZZ Source Note: and followed by the original Source Note text.
Legacy uses special characters to signal HTML formatting codes. Any such codes using < and > are converted to those special « and » characters.
All links to Media Records and local Media Objects are converted according to the Basic Options chosen.
For each Individual record, the most preferred Media tab item without Exclude from Diagrams set, gains the _PRIM Y tag to identify the primary photo, but only for the Media conversions (PART/FULL/ALL~LMO) via Local Media Objects.
Any subsidiary tags are moved into the Note Record text.
Legacy has three Note record tabs: General, Research & Medical and by default all exported Note records are allocated to the General tab with a Record Id starting with NI.
However, if the Note record text starts with (Research): or (Medical): then they become allocated to the matching tab by using Record Id starting with HI and MI respectively.
Legacy uses special characters to signal HTML formatting codes. Any such codes using < and > are converted to those special « and » characters.
See Extra Options tab Record E-mail 1 _EMAIL: & Record Website 1 _WEB:
These fields are converted to Gedcom Draft 5.5.1 tags as follows:
1 _EMAIL becomes 1 EMAIL
1 _WEB becomes 1 WWW
Each Media _FILE tag is converted to a Gedcom Draft 5.5.1 FILE tag.
See Extra Options tab Media Date %d _DATE:
Each _DATE custom tag is retained.
Each Submitter & Submission record is converted to a synthetic Source record named ZZ Submitter: or ZZ Submission: plus the record Name and Id, with all details in the local Note.
See Extra Options tab Updated 1 CHAN:
The Updated CHANge date/time tags are all Removed entirely.
All the (Std-) Brief Data Standard GEDCOM 5.5 rules apply together with the (LFT+) Full Data Export Details defined above, except that all the Header Record (HEAD) tags mentioned are removed.
Run Legacy and on its File tab use Import > GEDCOM File option to choose the fh Plugin Export folder and the Project…LFT ANSI.ged file to import.
Then simply accept all the default options to load the project and its media.
Return to Export Gedcom File ~ Output Formats.
Return to Export Gedcom File Plugin Introduction.
