How best to get my images from Ancestry into Legacy?

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I'm wondering if there is any advantage of buying Family Tree Maker software, syncing it with an Ancestry tree, exporting a Gedcom and importing into Legacy versus downloading a Gedcom from Ancestry and importing into Legacy. I was specifically hoping that FTM would get the images from the sources when synced, but it doesn't appear to be the case. I think I'll just have to download images separately and attach them to my Legacy database after that.

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  1. jim raderFebruary 9, 2015 at 10:32 PM

    when you run Family tree maker 2014 and use it's sync it downloads the actual graphic immage of each of your sources.  It transfers a link to that image in the GEDCOM it exports.  Legacy then crabs that source image and also uses FTMs source citation. Like you can add all of the sources to your work of the past decades whitout typing one source citation.  I have been doing it for some time and it is sweet!

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  2. Shelley FarrFebruary 10, 2015 at 1:13 AM

    Thanks Jim. That's just what I want it to do. Does it add anything from the transcript as well? Now that would be really cool.

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  3. Martin DockeryFebruary 10, 2015 at 5:55 AM

    Note, at times, it will not pick up everything, ie photos.

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  4. James GreenFebruary 10, 2015 at 10:36 AM

    I had a similar thought as a way to shortcut citation data entry.  Please let us know how it works out if you go that route.  I guess Jim Rader already confirmed that it works.  I would just like to hear about someone's experience starting from scatch.

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  5. Shelley FarrFebruary 12, 2015 at 9:57 PM

    Someone on another forum has pointed out to me that by importing the sources this way you only get sources based on the basic template and not the Sourcewriter style.

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  6. Martin DockeryFebruary 13, 2015 at 6:45 AM

    When I switched over to Legacy via gedcom from FTM14, not all my sources were transferred. All the photes have to be moved manually. Thus causing 1 to wonder if it's worth it.

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  7. Cecily BishopFebruary 14, 2015 at 1:21 PM

    Shelley, that may have been me. As I review each individual I'm replacing the basic source with Source Writer. It takes longer but the benefit is that I'm seeing things I missed the first time around. It also forces me to consider the validity of the source.

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