Legacy

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What is Legacy

Legacy is a family tree program 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 program 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

Creating a GEDCOM for a partial Tree

Creating a tagged group

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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