Since I have a few branches of the family that came from Somerset, I follow the Somerset Family History Yahoo Group, and recently one of the members of this group was wanting options to using an old version of Family Tree Maker to generate a descendant book. I have therefore created a descendant chart, descendant… Continue reading Creating reports in Legacy
Category: Genealogy Software
Best family tree programs
Today there was a post on the Family History Daily blog - Looking for a New Family Tree Program? A Detailed Guide to the Top 6 Choices. Their top 6 choices were: FamilySearch Family Tree My Heritage WikiTree RootsMagic Ancestry FamilyTreeMaker I don't agree in their list of the top 6 choices. My top 5 choices… Continue reading Best family tree programs
My thoughts on RootsMagic’s TreeShare
Randy Seaver on the Genea-Musings blog in his post Looking at My New RootsMagic Upload Ancestry Member Tree and Source Citations shared his concerns about the way that RootsMagic TreeShare converted the source citations from his RootsMagic database to Ancestry, so I decided to compare what happens when I uploaded a Gedcom from Legacy to… Continue reading My thoughts on RootsMagic’s TreeShare
Why I prefer to search for records, and update my tree, manually
In my post, Getting organized for my genealogy do-over, I had incorporated using hints to find records, and for attaching hints to my Ancestry tree. After doing this for my 2 grandfathers, I determined that the best way to find all the records for them was to search manually. There were no hints for my… Continue reading Why I prefer to search for records, and update my tree, manually
Creating a relationship report using Legacy Family Tree and Microsoft Excel
Randy Seaver on his Genea-Musings blog wrote the post Dear Randy: Can I Make a Kinship Report in RootsMagic? In this post, he wrote 5) What I would love to see as a "Kinship List" is the ability to pick a relationship and get the list of persons in the database that are exactly that… Continue reading Creating a relationship report using Legacy Family Tree and Microsoft Excel
Clooz – Transferring data into Legacy
In my last two posts, I have covered choosing a document type, and setting up a document into Clooz. I also covered how to link relatives together before transferring the information into Legacy. In this post, I will be covering some of the other options available when exporting a document to Legacy. I had entered… Continue reading Clooz – Transferring data into Legacy
Clooz – More about obituaries
Last week, I shared some thoughts on setting up an obituary in Clooz, and transferring the date across to Legacy. I had decided to use the Death record template, because this would allow me to enter the birth date and place, and burial date and place, and the name of the undertaker, if these details… Continue reading Clooz – More about obituaries
Clooz – entering an obituary
Back in February, I tried Clooz, and decided at the time that it didn’t seem to suit my purpose. However, for many years now, I have been trying to find an organization system that would work for me, but after numerous attempts, and abandoning each system because it wasn’t really working, I still hadn’t found… Continue reading Clooz – entering an obituary
Creating a missing information spreadsheet with Legacy
I came across a query on Facebook, where a user of Legacy was wanted to create a CSV file for their ancestors to show all the information for the ancestors, so that they could check for missing information. This is a relatively simple process in Legacy. The first step is to go into Search in… Continue reading Creating a missing information spreadsheet with Legacy
Other features in Legacy Family Tree
After discovering the graphs in Legacy’s Statistics section, I decided to have a look around in Legacy to see what other features there might be that I haven’t yet used. Recently, there were a number of birthplace charts going around, and in my post I decided to include a chart for where my ancestors were born. … Continue reading Other features in Legacy Family Tree
