APID is strange!
Connie Marks
Per Johns tips at https://www.tmgtogedcom.com/en/apid.htm
I converted https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60901&h=810195671 to a APID and got : 60901::810195671
I added this number to the Reference field for my dad's Death tag and ran T2G telling it to only look at Reference fields and then generated a GEDCOM
It produced:
1 DEAT Constant Roberts Marks III died on 26 July 1994 in Houston, Harris Co., Texas, USA, at age 87.
2 DATE 26 JUL 1994
2 PLAC Houston, Harris Co., Texas, USA
2 SOUR @S2@
3 _APID 1,60901::810195671
3 NOTE https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60901&h=810195671
3 _CREF 60901::810195671
I send the Gedcom to Ancestry.com to produce a new tree, it read the gedcom and for the Death Record it reports :
Note:
_APID: 1,3693::0
Which does indeed allow the ancestry.com source record to be viewed. Some records view the source records without the need for the APID.
John Cardinal
Connie,
- I do not know why Ancestry converts the Note to the _APID: 1,3693::0 text. I have not seen that before. I doubt it is the Note value by which Ancestry makes the link. It’s the _APID record that does that.
- You wrote, “Some records view the source records without the need for the APID.” I have never seen that. That would imply that Ancestry finds something in the citation/source that allows it to find the record in the its collection. That seems quite difficult to me, and I am surprised they would do that work when they have already provided the _APID mechanism to create a link to the record.
John Cardinal
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