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| | + | [[Legacy - Adding new partners and moving incorrectly assigned children|Adding new partners and moving incorrectly assigned children]] |
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| | + | [[Importing a GEDCOM into Legacy]] |
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| | + | [[Legacy - Creating a Source List|Source Lists]] |
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| | [[Legacy - Setting the start up family|Setting the start up family]] | | [[Legacy - Setting the start up family|Setting the start up family]] |
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| | [[Legacy - Exporting a GEDCOM]] | | [[Legacy - Exporting a GEDCOM]] |
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| | [[Legacy - The date calculator|The date calculator]] | | [[Legacy - The date calculator|The date calculator]] |
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| − | It opens on the date calculator, a very useful tool. If you find someone as a family member on the census, so the age is given, you can use this to work out the birth year. It saves mathematical mistakes!!!
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| | [[Legacy - Entering a cause of death|Entering a cause of death]] | | [[Legacy - Entering a cause of death|Entering a cause of death]] |
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| | [[Legacy - Navigating your Family Tree|Navigating your Family Tree]] | | [[Legacy - Navigating your Family Tree|Navigating your Family Tree]] |
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| | [[Legacy - Backing up your files|Backing up your files]] | | [[Legacy - Backing up your files|Backing up your files]] |
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| | [[Legacy - Testing Multimedia paths|Testing Multimedia paths]] | | [[Legacy - Testing Multimedia paths|Testing Multimedia paths]] |
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| | [[Legacy - Changing the term Christening to Baptism|Changing the term Christening to Baptism]] | | [[Legacy - Changing the term Christening to Baptism|Changing the term Christening to Baptism]] |
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| | [[Legacy - Colour coding ancestor lines|Colour coding ancestor lines]] | | [[Legacy - Colour coding ancestor lines|Colour coding ancestor lines]] |
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| | [[Legacy - Copying images from one family file to another|Copying images from one family file to another]] | | [[Legacy - Copying images from one family file to another|Copying images from one family file to another]] |
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Page editing in progress - multiple page splits for efficiency
Hints and Tips from lindainherriotcountry and Macbev
What is Legacy
Legacy is a family tree programe which is free to download. It has a simple training video which is free to watch. It also has an extensive help file. The basic programme is absolutely fine for everyday use, it is possible to upgrade to the deluxe version, but many people never feel the need to do this.
If you want to download Legacy
When the page opens, ignore the bits at the top which say Deluxe edition buy it now, just scroll down the page a bit and you will see it says “standard edition” and next to it is a button which says download it now.
Just click on this and follow the instructions. It asks you to put in your email address and it will send you an email with the password in it, you can do that, but the password is always “family”, so just put that in at the prompt.
There is a simple little training video which is free to watch and takes you through all of the basics, some bits are not relevant, as they apply to America, but I found it very useful at first. If you would like to evaluate the software before you download it, it is possible to watch the training video first; you will find the link to this just to the right of the download button mentioned above.
Once you are using building your tree in Legacy, you can access the video by clicking on the on Legacy Home tab on the top of the page (you are usually on the family tab). From the bottom right hand support box, choose training videos.
Family Tree Forum - Legacy HOWTOs
Adding new partners and moving incorrectly assigned children
Importing a GEDCOM into Legacy
Creating Reports
Source Lists
Setting Source information
Setting the start up family
Sorting children
Organising your photos, census images and scanned certificates
Adding events
Adding images
Legacy - Creating a GEDCOM for a partial Tree
Creating a tagged group
Legacy - Exporting a GEDCOM
The date calculator
Entering a cause of death
Navigating your Family Tree
Backing up your files
Testing Multimedia paths
Changing the term Christening to Baptism
Colour coding ancestor lines
Adding PDF files and text files
Copying images from one family file to another
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