Legacy News

Legacy 7 - New options for viewing LDS information

You asked for it. We added it. Legacy Family Tree 7.0 includes new options for viewing LDS information in the Family, Pedigree, Descendant, and Index Views. The most popular request was to add the BEPSC symbols next to the children in the Family View. Take a look:

 
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To turn on the display of the LDS information, open Legacy's options by going to Options > Customize > General tab. The new options are available in the LDS section:

Legacy Family Tree Now Available in German and Swedish

Surprise, Arizona, August 18, 2008 -- Millennia Corporation, a leader in family history software, today announced that its software, Legacy Family Tree, is now available in two new languages: Deutsch (German) and Svenska (Swedish).

The software, used by beginners and professionals to record, plan, and share their family trees, is now the premier choice for German and Swedish researchers. Legacy is also available in Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and English editions.

"Making genealogy software available to researchers in their native language is a big step in helping the world trace their family trees," said Dave Berdan, president of Millennia Corporation. "This is an exciting day for us to help German and Swedish researchers."

Key Features

• entire user interface and help system - all in German and Swedish
• over 100 reports and charts - all in German and Swedish
• checklists of suggested sources for German and Swedish researchers
• creates web pages and To Do Lists
• same excellent features as the regular edition including over 100 reports, calendars, expert tips/advice, statistics, web site searches, and much more...

Price and Availability

Legacy Family Tree 7.0 is now available for US $29.95:

Deutsch (German) - http://www.legacydeutsch.com/

Svenska (Swedish) - http://www.legacysvenska.com/

Other languages

Legacy is also currently available in the following languages:

• Dansk (Danish)
• English (Australia)
• English (Canada)
• English (United Kingdom)
• English (USA)
• Nederlands (Dutch)
• Norsk - Bokmål (Norwegian)
• Norsk - Nynorsk (Norwegian)

Translation is in progress for the following languages: Afrikaans, Chinese, Eesti (Estonian), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Italiano (Italian), Português (Brasil), Português (Portugal), and Suomi (Finnish).

More information about the translations is available at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/InternationalLegacyVersions.asp

About Millennia Corporation
Founded in 1984, Millennia Corporation publishes the award-winning Legacy Family Tree genealogy software program, with headquarters in Surprise, Arizona. More information can be found at www.LegacyFamilyTree.com.

Legacy Tip: How to Change the Toolbar Button Size

Legacy Family Tree 7.0 just got a little more exciting for me! I just learned about a new option that I had never known before. I'd like to think this new option was recently added, but it's probably been there for years.

In a previous article, we explained how to customize the main toolbar. Located near the top of the Legacy screen, the main toolbar contains buttons for commonly-used features. If you right-click on any of the buttons you are then able to choose from over 40 additional buttons.

Today I clicked on the Options button at the bottom of this Customize Main Toolbar screen (see image below), where I could then choose the size of the buttons: small, medium, or large. After choosing the small option, I closed the screen, and now in my main Legacy screen, I still had all of the buttons at the top, but now they didn't take up quite as much room.

Good work Legacy programmers....

Is this a new feature to anyone else, or just me?

Review of Legacy 7.0 by The Guild of One-Name Studies

The Journal of One-Name Studies, published by The Guild of One-Name Studies, has just published a review of Legacy Family Tree 7.0 (Jul-Sep 2008 edition). They kindly gave us permission to republish a text-only edition below.

Legacy Family Tree 7.0 by Keith Bage

Legacy users have been waiting for the arrival of Legacy 7 for some time. Originally promised for late 2007 it’s been a while coming, with delays sometimes causing frustration in the Legacy community. Version 7 features were shrouded in secrecy (understandably so), but now the wait is over and the Guild is amongst the first to receive a copy for review. So, has the wait been worth it?

Background
Legacy comes in two versions, Standard and Deluxe. The Standard version is completely free and can be downloaded from the Legacy website. The Standard version is great for the casual genealogist or for those who don’t require some of the more advanced functionality. However I think it is the Deluxe version with its rich feature set that would appeal more to Guild members, so I will be focusing on what’s new in Legacy 7 Deluxe.

Mapping
The first of the new version 7 features is mapping. Essentially Legacy 7 now incorporates the Microsoft Virtual Earth™ tool into Legacy 7. In order to use the mapping feature the user must have Internet Explorer 7 installed on their computer. Users should note that whilst this is needed for the mapping features, users can continue to use other browsers such as Firefox or Opera for general internet use.

The master location list has been completely revamped to incorporate mapping (which can be turned on or off). With mapping turned on a map is displayed of any location selected in the master list. Vitual Earth will automatically determine a push pin for the location and place it on the map. If for some reason Virtual Earth has incorrectly positioned the pin you can right click to determine your own placement for the pin.
The Virtual Earth interface enables you to pan and zoom the map as you wish. In addition there are a range of “views” available, including 2D, 3D, Road, Aerial & Birds Eye, with each showing the map from a different perspective.

Another welcome addition to the master location list is the ability to see a list of the people associated with each location. Having all this information contained in one screen is great.

The second (and probably the best) use of mapping is the ability to select an individual and display a map of all the individuals events. As well as the typical birth, marriage & death events you can also map any other recorded events or facts that include a location such as census, residences, military events and so on. In addition to the individual's events you can also include events for parents and children, though these are limited to birth and death events only. This is an extremely useful feature and helps to understand and appreciate an individual's movements or migration path. It would have been nice to be able to map ALL locations in your database to visualise in one map, but this is probably asking a little too much.

Users wanting to see this mapping feature in action or any of the other new features in Legacy 7 can view the “What’s New in Legacy 7” video at http://www.legacyfamilytree.net/videos/new7/What'sNewInLegacy7.html

Charting
One of Legacy’s biggest shortcomings in recent years has been the lack of a good charting package. Whilst it has scored highly on narrative reporting and other more textual based reports, many users felt it necessary to either export data into other packages or purchase add-on packages such as Legacy Charting Companion or Treedraw. With the release of Legacy 7 Millennia has added their own charting tool called Legacy Charting. This is actually a separate program which seamlessly integrates with the main Legacy 7 program. Whilst Legacy Charting comes as part of your version 7 purchase I understand that Millennia intends to also offer this as a stand alone program to users of other applications. By default it can import data from GEDCOM, PAF, FTM & Roots Magic as well as Legacy.

A wide range of chart types are available within Legacy Charting. There are 5 ancestor type charts, 2  descendant type charts and 4 DNA related charts (two for male, including carriers only and two for female lines). There are a further 4 fan type charts as well as an hourglass and bow tie chart. All in all a pretty comprehensive list.

The interface for Legacy Charting is completely different to that of Legacy 7 itself and effectively imitates Microsoft’s Office 2007 ribbon type interface for those of you familiar with it. It’s a very clean looking interface with functions sorted into appropriate tabs. All of the expected functions are here, zooming, dragging by entire tree, entire line, generation, box etc. There’s also the ability to add comment boxes, pictures, backgrounds and titles. Somewhat more unusual is the ability to create and assign themes. These can contain a combination of fonts, colours, box styles and line styles. One of my favourite features is that you can update Legacy with information while working on a chart and the changes can immediately be reflected in Legacy Charting at the press of a button without the need to recreate the chart.

Source Writer
I’ve always found Legacy to be pretty good at sourcing in previous versions however Millennia has seen fit to implement a new sourcing tool into the program called SourceWriter. SourceWriter walks you through a wizard to create both master sources and source detail. The wizard uses templates based around the Elizabeth Shown Mills book, Evidence Explained. The first step is to create a master source using one of the templates. There’s a good range of templates covering a host of areas including the more awkward ones such as e-mail and online resources. The only disappointment here is that the templates are a little too US centric and don’t include specific templates for UK census or civil registration. [Note from Millennia: the next update will include templates for UK civil registration and census records. :) ] You can get by on the more generic templates without too much trouble though and there are indications that further templates will be developed, though I would have preferred to see an option to create my own.
Once you have chosen the template to use you move onto step two which shows a raft of fields to complete based upon the chosen template. For instance choosing the e-mail template gives me sixteen possible entry fields from subject line, e-mail address & recorded date to writers & recipients cities. As you type data into each of the fields the source citation is built up on screen in real time showing differing previews for Footnote/Endnote, Subsequent citation & Bibliography. This makes it incredibly easy to see exactly how your source citation is going to look when output. The user can also add multimedia content, comments and citation overrides amongst other things.

Interview Center
Another new feature is the Interview Center. This is a tool to help you build an interview questionnaire and has hundreds of interview questions to choose from. Questions are displayed in a “file browser” type window grouped by topic with a checkbox besides each question. The user simply checks the required questions and outputs the report. This formulates the chosen questions into a structured output to be used when carrying out interviews with relatives.

Other Features
There are a number of smaller improvements in Legacy 7 which the scope of this review can’t cover. These include a relationship calculator which can calculate the relationship between any two people and not only those connected through blood lines. Work has also been done to incorporate married names into the names index and reporting. This automatically adds an entry for all married females and reduces the need to create AKA’s. In addition, searching is now more powerful with the ability to search for individuals with missing data such as incomplete names, or missing births, deaths or sources. You can now also attach any kind of document including PDF’s, Word documents etc.

Conclusion
The addition of Legacy Charting makes Legacy a more complete package than before and I really struggle to think of any feature that other packages have that Legacy doesn’t. Millennia continue to impress me with their innovation with features such as the new integrated mapping. With such a rich feature set this software represents outstanding value at just $29.95.

New Searching Tools in Legacy 7.0

With all of the excitement about the new SourceWriter, Wall Charting, and Mapping, I completely forgot about the new searching tools in Legacy 7.0. On our mailing list this morning, Mary L. reminded me when she wrote:

The beefed up search options are one of my favorite and most used new features. Far more robust than V6.

She's right. One of the "smaller" new additions in Legacy 7.0 is one of the more powerful new features.

First, to access the Searching tool, just click on the Search icon in the main toolbar. There are two new tabs: Missing Sources and Missing Information.

Search for Missing Sources
Using the new Missing Sources tab, Legacy will present you with a list of persons who do not have a source for a specific event. For example, if you wanted a list of everyone that does not have a source for their birth, just choose the "Birth Date and Place" option, then click on Create List. See the image below for other ways of searching for missing sources. Then, use Legacy 7.0's new SourceWriter to enter your citations according to the Evidence Explained standards.

Search for Missing Information
If you want a list of everyone for whom you do not yet have a death date, click on the new Missing Information tab, select "Death Date" and click Create List. The resulting list will display all persons who are missing a death date. There are lots of other choices on the Missing Information tab:

Detailed Search
Long-time Legacy users will love the fact that in the Where to Look column of the Detailed Search tab, we've added several new fields that can now be searched:

• Source - Citation
• Source - Master Source
• Child's surname
• Child's given name
• Spouse's surname
• Spouse's given name
• Mother's surname
• Mother's given name
• Father's surname
• Father's given name

We've also added a Contains parameter in the How To Look column for all date fields. In the past, if you wanted to create a list of all persons who were born in 1850, you had to use two conditions:

birth date - after - 1849

birth date - before - 1851

The new Contains parameter now eliminates the need for two conditions. You can now use:

birth date - contains - 1850

Happy Searching from everyone on the Legacy 7.0 development team!

Beginner's Tip: How To Set A Quick-Bookmark

If you have ever clicked more than once to try to navigate back to your own screen, this tip is for you. Whether you are in the Family, Pedigree, Descendant, Chronology, or Index View, it should never take more than one click to return to yourself.

Here's a scenario. You're in the Family View, looking at your 9th great-grandfather. To navigate back to yourself, either you 1) click on his child enough times until you're finally back to yourself or 2) you switch to the Index View, locate yourself, and then go back to the Family View. If this sounds familiar, you will be happy to know there is a quicker way.

All you have to do is first navigate to yourself, then set a Quick-Bookmark.

To set the quick-bookmark, simply right-click in the blank area in the lower left of the screen (see image below). Just to the right of the small "1" numeral is a blank space. Right-clicking in this blank space will set a quick-bookmark for the currently highlighted person.

Once this is set, you can be viewing your 13th cousin, 4 times removed, and all you have to do to navigate back to yourself, is left-click once on your name in the quick-bookmark section.

 

In fact, you can set up to three quick-bookmarks. Just navigate to the desired person, then right-click in any of the three quick-bookmark sections. Then, to jump to a quick-bookmarked person, just click on their name.

To clear a quick-bookmark, while holding down the Ctrl key, right-click in the box you want to clear. The name disappears.

Legacy Tip: How To Create a Custom Report

Recently a major new database was published online for Missouri researchers. The Missouri State Archives announced that the Missouri Death Certificates from 1910-1957 were now indexed, linked, and available for free online searching.

Since some of my ancestors died in Missouri, I now want to search for and obtain the death certificates I lacked. Using Legacy Family Tree's search tools, it was easy to identify those ancestors who died during this time period in Missouri.

1. In Legacy, click on the Search button in the main toolbar.
2. Enter the criteria as shown in the image below.
3. Click on the Create List button.

The resulting list is a list of everyone in your family file that died in Missouri between 1910-1957, and will likely have a death certificate in the database.

How to print the search list

1. From the Search List (which is just a filtered version of the Name List), click on the Print button at the bottom.
2. Select the desired fields to be included in the report. (See image below.)
3. Click on the Preview button to see what the report will look like before you print it, or the Print button to print immediately.

Notice in the Optional Fields section, Relationship is one of the choices. However, it is not one of the default choices. To select other optional fields:

1. Click on the Customize button.
2. Click on the button with 3 dots next to a field name that you would like to replace.
3. Click on the desired field name, and click Select.
4. Click Close.
5. Make sure there is a check mark next to the new field.

To change the report title, click on the Options tab, and type the desired title.

Legacy Tip: Working with Obituaries

Locating obituaries for our ancestors is rewarding, although sometimes challenging. Legacy Family Tree makes the experience easier by helping you locate those ancestors for whom you have not yet located an obituary.

I've been trying to learn about my end-of-the-line ancestor, Lewis King, who was born about 1807 in Germany. Experience has taught me that clues to his ancestry may be found in the records of his children and grandchildren.

I previously located and recorded the obituaries for some of Lewis King's descendants, and now it was time to work on the remaining family members. To see which descendants were missing obituaries, I clicked on Legacy's Descendant tab. Click on the image below for a larger image:

Notice that at the far right is an Obituary column. If there is information in the Obituary column for the person, then I know that I have an obituary for them. To achieve this, follow these steps:

1. First, when you find an obituary, in the Individual's Information screen, click on the Add button to create a custom fact/event. Add the Event's name (Obituary), its date and place. Then in the Notes section, transcribe the obituary.
2. To add the Obituary column in the Descendancy view, first click on the Descendancy tab.
3. Click on the Options button on the right and click on Customize Columns.
4. Where there is an empty field name, click on the button with the three dots.
5. In the Field Names to Display screen, select Event, then select the event name of Obituary.
6. Click Select, then Close.

Now you are easily able to not only view the person's descendants, but you can also easily visualize which of these descendants do not yet have a recorded obituary.

If you have a favorite Legacy tip and would like to share it with others, please send us an email.

Legacy Tip - How to Include Alternate Names in the Index View

Have you ever located a variant spelling of your ancestor's name? How about a nickname? Or even an alias? If so, these variant names and spellings should be added to the individual's Alternate Names list.

While researching Asa Frederick GOAS, I located eight different spellings and variations of his name:

• Asa Frederick GOAS
• Fredrick GOAS
• Asa GOAZ
• Frederick GOAZ
• Frederick GOES
• Frederick GOEZ
• Frederick GOOZ
• Frederick GOZ

Because I added each name to his Alternate Names list, I can include these other names in reports, web searching, and even in the Index View. To add the alternate names, click on the corresponding icon (see above).

To include the alternate names in the Index View:

1. In the Index View, click on the Options button in the upper right.
2. Click on Include AKAs in List.

Each alternate name is now alphabetized in the list and is preceded by the ~ symbol. Now it is even easier to locate the ancestor because you can search for him by any of his known spellings or variations.

This is one of 92 deluxe-edition-only features. If you have not yet upgraded to Legacy Family Tree deluxe, click here.

Legacy Tip: Searching by Age

Question from Michele,

Is there some way to search by age? Let's say I want to search for everyone in my file that is still marked as living that is age 70 or older (to help me come up with a list of persons I need to check whether or not they are still living).

Good question Michele. Follow these step-by-step instructions to create such a list.

1. Click on the Search icon in the main toolbar, then click on the Detailed Search tab.
2. Add the following conditions, and click on the Create List button.

The resulting list will contain everyone in your file that is both marked as living, and was born more than 69 years ago.

Advanced Legacy tip: how to import a master location list from another family file

Some Legacy users maintain more than one family file for various reasons. When starting a new family file, we are often asked if there is a way to import the Master Location List from an existing family file into the new family file.

A common reason for wanting to import an existing Master Location List into a new family file is so the format of the locations in the new file will be consistent with the locations in the existing file.

Legacy Family Tree makes this task a simple one. Follow these steps:

1. In the new family file, go to the Master Location List (View > Master Lists > Location).
2. Click on the Options button and click Import.
3. Select the family file from which to import the list by clicking on the Browse button, locate your existing family file, and click Open.
4. Finally, click on the Location List option and click on the Import Lists button.

Your new family file will now have the original Master Location List to work with.

Your Legacy Database - Should You Split It?

We also are frequently asked, "what are the pros/cons of splitting my Legacy database". There are many reasons why you might want to split your family file, but there are also several cautions to consider. Click here to read more.

How to create a 2008 birthday/anniversary calendar using Legacy Family Tree

With the new year approaching, why not resolve to be a better relative by remembering family birthdays and anniversaries? Two features of Legacy Family Tree makes this easy to do:

• Legacy's birthday and anniversary reminders described here.
• Legacy's Calendar Creator.

Legacy can create a birthday calendar, an anniversary calendar, or a combination of the two. There are options to include a cover picture, picture pages above each calendar month, and complete control over color, layout, shadows, fonts, page size, and more. The calendars can be blank or include the birthdates and anniversaries of the people already entered in your family file.

That's right! Because the information (birthdays and anniversaries) is already in your Legacy family file, Legacy will automatically add this to the calendar pages. With the who to include options, you can customize the calendar so only certain family lines are included. You even have the option to skip the anniversaries of divorced couples.

Get Started

To begin, make sure that you have installed Legacy Family Tree Deluxe Edition, available here. Then follow these steps:

1. With Legacy open, click on the Reports icon in the main toolbar.
2. Click on the Books/Other tab, and click on the Calendar Creator button.
3. Using the options on the six tabs, customize the calendar to your preferences.
4. Print, and enjoy being the person in your family that never misses a birthday or anniversary!

Click on the picture below for an example:

   

How to preview information before importing

Question from Ruth:

I belong to a society which sells a CD with their entire genealogy database on it. It contains 55,000 names in GEDCOM format. Since I do not want to dump 55,000 names into my tree sight unseen, but would like to check it out and see if any of my "Munros" can be connected, is there a way to "tweak" Legacy so that I can import this database, but NOT into my family tree?

Answer from Millennia:

Before importing anything into your master family file, you will want to preview the information, as you suggested. There are three simple approaches that will help you see what is in the file before importing into Legacy.

Approach 1. Import into a new family file.

Importing the GEDCOM into a new family file will allow you to see what is in it. Then, using Legacy's split screen view, you can compare its information with yours. Follow these steps:

1. Click on File > Import from > GEDCOM file.
2. Browse to the location of the GEDCOM, highlight it, and click Open.
3. Select the first option to "Create a NEW Family File and add the GEDCOM information to it". Click Proceed.
4. Enter a name for the new family file, and click Open.
5. Click on Start the Import.
6. You may want to add a source to the incoming information so you always remember its origin. Click on Select a Master Source and add the source information if desired.
7. Click OK.

Using any of the views (Family, Pedigree, Index, etc.) you can now view the information from the GEDCOM file. If you see something that looks like it might match up with your information, use the split screen view to compare both the new family file and your original family file.

1. With the new family file open, click on View > Split Screen View.
2. Click Yes to open a different family file in the new window.
3. Browse for and select your original family file. Click Open.

You can now view and compare both family files side-by-side. You can even drag and drop information from one side to the other.

Approach 2. Use GENViewer to preview the GEDCOM.

GENViewer, a Legacy add-on, will preview the GEDCOM without importing anything into a new database. It would be the fastest method. Read Technology Tip: Preview Before Importing.

Approach 3. Use GENMatcher to compare two files for duplicates.

GENMatcher, also a Legacy add-on, compares two genealogy files for matches, or one genealogy file for duplicates. GENMatcher quickly finds matches, allowing you to quickly test downloaded files for potential matches to your data. You can compare files of different formats. In other words, it can compare a GEDCOM file with a Legacy family file. For more information, visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/GENMatcher.asp.

Legacy Search Tip

Question from Linda:

I have two or three ancestors who were accused of being witches. I put this information in the general notes and now can't remember who they were. Does anyone know of a way to "Search" the notes for the word "witch"?

Answer from Millennia:

Good question Linda. You could either examine each person's notes in your entire database one-by-one (just kidding), or follow these steps:

1. Click on the Search menu and click Find (see image below), or just click Ctrl+F.
2. Click on the Detailed Search tab.
3. In the Look for Whom? column, select Female.
4. In the Where to Look column, select Notes-General.
5. In the How to Look column, select Contains.
6. In the What to look for column, type "witch" (without the quotes)
7. Click on the Create List button. The resulting Search List displays all persons who have the word "witch" in their General Notes.

 

Legacy's Tagging and Searching Made Easy

This video provides 34 minutes of expert advise and other search techniques. Watch a preview here.

When to use square brackets [ ]

Genealogists are taught that when transcribing information from a source, to transcribe it word-for-word, even letter-for-letter. There are times when the transcription would be more clear and understandable for others if you added your own comments.

For example, pre-1850 U.S. census records (1810 census shown below) use numbers to represent the number of persons in a household categorized by age group. A simple transcription of Nathan Brown's entry would like like this:

Nathan Brown; males: under 10 yrs: 1; 10-16 yrs: 3; 16-26 yrs: 1; over 45 yrs: 1; females: under 10 yrs: 1; 26-45 yrs: 1

Using editorial square brackets, the names can help bring representation, and thus better analysis, to the numbers:

Nathan Brown; males: under 10 yrs: 1 [Charles]; 10-16 yrs: 3 [Samuel, Alanson, Frank]; 16-26 yrs: 1 [Asa]; over 45 yrs: 1 [Nathan]; females: under 10 yrs: 1 [Ruth]; 26-45 yrs: 1 [Molly]

Rule #1. Use editorial square brackets to indicate that we have added words that were not found in the original source.

Another use for square brackets is to create parentheses within parentheses. In her book, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Elizabeth Shown Mills uses the following example to illustrate this point:

In 1829, Randolph disposed of Evergreen Plantation (some researchers allege that it was seized to satisfy a court judgement [Riddell, The Randolphs, 239] or a tax lien [Mason, Randolphs and Lewises, 39] although neither offer evidence); he then migrated ...

Rule #2. Use square brackets to create parentheses within parentheses.

When to use double square brackets [[ text ]]

If you are writing a history or recording notes, and some of the text is sensitive, you can use double square brackets to mark the enclosed text as private. In other words, double square brackets can be used if you want to keep the text for yourself, but want to suppress it when creating a report to share with others. For example:

Jonathan Smith was a wonderful man with a great sense of humor [[although I never really cared for his sense of humor]]. He had three children.

In the Legacy Family Tree software, when square brackets are used, the enclosed text can be optionally excluded from reports, GEDCOMs, web pages, etc. Just look for the option. For example, if you are printing a Family Group Record, and want to suppress information in double square brackets, follow these steps before printing:

1. Click on the Reports icon. Select the Family tab.
2. Click on the Report Options button.
3. On the Include tab, there are two options:
   1. Print [[ Private ]] notes
   2. Remove [[ ]]

With option #1 turned off, your private information will be suppressed.

Legacy Family Tree Now Available in 5 Languages

Surprise, Arizona, September 4, 2007 -- Millennia Corporation, a leader in family history software, today announced that its software, Legacy Family Tree, is now available in three new languages: Nederlands (Dutch), Norsk - Bokmål (Norwegian) and Norsk - Nynorsk (Norwegian).

The software, used by beginners and professionals to record, plan, and share their family trees, is now the premier choice for Dutch and Norwegian researchers. It is also available in Danish and English editions.

"We're three steps closer to helping researchers around the world to be able to plan, record, share and publish their research in their native language," said David Berdan, President of Millennia.

Key Features

• entire user interface and help system - all in Nederlands, Norsk-Bokmål, and Norsk-Nynorsk
• over 100 reports and charts - all in Nederlands, Norsk-Bokmål, and Norsk-Nynorsk
• checklists of suggested sources for Norwegian and Dutch research
• creates web pages and To Do Lists
• same excellent features as the regular edition including over 100 reports, calendars, expert tips/advice, statistics, web site searches, and much more...

Pricing and Availability
Legacy Family Tree 6.0 is now available for US $29.95:

Nederlands (Dutch) - http://www.legacynederlands.com/

Norsk - Bokmål (Norwegian) - http://www.legacynorsk.com/

Norsk-Nynorsk - http://www.legacynorsk.com/

Other Languages
Legacy is also currently available in the following languages:

• Dansk (Danish)
• English (Australia)
• English (Canada)
• English (United Kingdom)
• English (USA)

Translation is in progress for the following languages: Afrikaans, Deutsch (German), Eesti (Estonian), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Italiano (Italian), Português (Brasil), Português (Portugal), Suomi (Finnish), and Svenska (Swedish).

More information about the translations is available at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/InternationalLegacyVersions.asp

About Millennia Corporation
Founded in 1984, Millennia Corporation publishes the award-winning Legacy Family Tree genealogy software program, with headquarters in Surprise, Arizona. More information can be found at www.LegacyFamilyTree.com.

How to add new columns to Legacy's Index View

An email to one of Legacy's mailing lists this morning provided a great use of the Index View columns. Mary wrote:

One of the columns I've set up in the Index view shows the relationship to me (if any), of each person in my database. It's a very quick way to see if I'm related to a particular person or family and I use it constantly. In fact, I've come to rely on it so much, I think I'd be lost without it.

Legacy Family Tree's Index View is the alphabetical listing of everyone in your family file. Here, you can display up to 15 different columns of information. The default columns display the RIN, Full Name, Sex, Birth Date, Birth Place, Death Date, and Death Place. To add a new column, follow these steps:

1. In the Index View, click once on any of the column headings. This opens the Index View Columns screen.
2. There are 15 openings for information. To add a new column, click on the button with 3 dots.
3. Here, there are 104 different fields from which to choose. Click on the desired field, then click Select. The new field now appears in the list. The fields can be arranged using the arrows in the lower right.
4. Click Close. The new field(s) now appear in the Index View.

If, after adding the new field, it is not visible, click on the right arrow at the bottom to scroll to the right. After scrolling to the right, you might not be able to see all the information on the left, such as the name. The solution to this problem is one of Legacy's greatest secrets. Watch the video for the "rest of the story."

(Click on the image below for a larger view.)

Search and Replace tip

Question from Haybron,

"I just noticed that I've been spelling the given name of Isaac wrong. I've spelled it as Issac. I've done this for hundreds of people and don't want to manually change each one. How can I globally change all of the Issacs to Isaac?"

Answer from Millennia,

With Legacy Family Tree this is pretty simple to do. Follow these steps:

1. From the Search menu, click on Search and Replace.
2. In the Find where field, select Given names.
3. In the Find what field, enter the name that you want to replace.
4. In the Replacement text field, enter the correct spelling of the name.
5. Tip: in the How to Replace section, make sure that the first option is selected. If the second option is selected, you might be removing other parts of the name such as a middle name.
6. Click on the Start button.

Color-code your ancestry with Legacy Family Tree

If you are looking to add a little sparkle to your pedigree, or if your paper files need an organizational face-lift, then Legacy Family Tree's color-coding is just what you need.

How to turn on the colors
Before you can view and print your pedigrees in full color, the color-coding needs to be turned on. Follow these simple steps:

1. In the Pedigree View, navigate to yourself. (You don't have to be in the Pedigree View, but it makes it easier to see the effect of the color-coding.
2. Click on Tools > Apply Ancestor Colors
3. Click on the Apply Color Coding button.

Done!

• You and your father's father's ancestors are now blue.
• Your father's mother's ancestors are now green.
• Your mother's father's ancestors are now red.
• Your mother's mother's ancestors are now yellow.

Choose the colors you want
The default colors are blue, green, red, and yellow. However, you can choose your own colors. Follow these steps:

1. Click on Options > Customize > View tab.
2. In the Ancestor Color Coding section, click on the Change button.
3. Select your desired colors, and click Save.

Print charts in color
Many of Legacy's charts/reports can be printed in color. For example, to print a color-coded pedigree chart, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Reports icon in the main toolbar. Click on the Pedigree tab.
2. Click on the Color Text and Boxes button.
3. Click on the 4th option of 4 Line Colors. Click Save.
4. Preview or Print.

Organization by color-coding
You've probably learned that unless your paper files are in order, further genealogy research can be frustrating. You've also probably tried dozens of different organizational systems. Not every system works for everyone, which is why we have been publishing different methods via Legacy News.

Mary Hill developed a color-coding system for organization which has become very popular, and it works directly with Legacy's color-coding system. Her system is explained here.

Purchase Legacy Deluxe
To take advantage of Legacy's color-coding, you must be using the Deluxe Edition. To learn more about the Deluxe Edition click here. To purchase/upgrade to Legacy Deluxe, click here.

Legacy's Relationship Calculator Results Might Surprise You

This morning I was using Legacy Family Tree's Relationship Calculator to determine the relationship between two ancestors of mine. Knowing that Legacy will report all known relationships between two persons, I calculated the relationship between myself and my mother. I was shocked with the findings.

I called my mom (6:30am) and instead of saying "Hi Mom" I said "Hi there 12th cousin!"

Apparently, my dad and my mom share the same common ancestor - Richard Kimball, who was born in 1595. Somehow, Legacy determined that because of this relationship, I am my mom's 12th cousin.

How to Use the Relationship Calculator

• In the Family View, locate yourself.
• Click on the Tools menu, then click on Relationship Calculator.
• Your information is filled in on the left. Now click on the Select Right button, locate the person to whom you wish to calculate the relationship, and click Select.
• At the top right of the screen, the relationship is listed.

If there is more than one relationship, there will be more than one couple in the Common Ancestors section. Just click on the other couple, and their relationship to you will be presented in the upper right. Not only is my mom my 12th cousin, but we are also 15th cousins, and 15th cousins once removed. My wife and I are 13th cousins, which makes my mother-in-law my 12th cousin once removed. Knowing that my mother-in-law and I share common blood, we try harder to get along!

Legacy Tip for Beginners: Colors

Question from Alice,

I notice that in the Family View, some of the children are blue and some are red. What do the colors represent?

Good question Alice. But once we tell you, it will seem really obvious. :)

Blue = male
Red = female

In fact, these colors are also used in the Descendant view, Index view, and the Name List.

Legacy is flexible enough that you can change these colors to anything you want. Just click on Options > Customize > Colors tab. Here, just click on the male or female label and select your favorite color.

Does the Family History Library have it all?

When I began my research, I used to think that the Family History Library had everything. Although it is the finest library in the world in which to research, I'm glad I learned about the availability of records that they don't have.

We recently were searching for Lewis KING, born about 1807 in Baden, Germany. His first child was born abt 1836 in Erie County, New York, and he moved to Iowa in 1856.

We exhausted all the "normal" and easy-to-locate sources for Erie County for the time period, so we turned to the state census records. The Family History Library Catalog's earliest state census record for New York was 1855. We located Lewis KING's family in the census which revealed information about when the family first came to Erie County.

Does the Family History Library have it all?
If we relied solely on the holdings of the Family History Library we never would have broke through our brick wall. The answer to our problem came through the suggestions in Legacy's Research Guidance.

Because we were trying to find evidence of Lewis KING's birth, we clicked on the "Goal: Birth" tab. Instantly, Legacy provided 74 suggested sources - all of which may contain information about his birth. One of the records Legacy suggested was the 1845 New York State Census. These records were absent from the collections of the Family History Library. Not only did Legacy suggest this source, but it explained what information might be contained in the source, and where the source is located - at the New York State Library. Click on the image below to view this suggestion in Legacy.

Had we relied on the Family History Library's Catalog, we may not have learned about the availability of the 1845 state census, and the brick wall would remain.

Is Legacy's Research Guidance just for beginners?
Ask any professional researcher - they'll probably tell you that it is difficult to always remember all of the available sources. While Legacy's Research Guidance is perfect for the beginning genealogist, even professionals benefit from the checklist-style approach.

How to begin using Research Guidance
Once you've opened Legacy Family Tree, locate the individual for whom you want suggestions. Then click on the Research Guidance tab in the upper right. Finally, click on the Start Now button and Legacy will guide you through your research.

Research Guidance is available in the Deluxe Edition of Legacy. Learn more about the Deluxe Edition features, or click here to purchase.

Ancestry searching error from within Legacy

Ancestry.com has recently made changes to the way customers search their site. These changes have effected Legacy's ability to automatically search for a person in their databases. Continue reading for the workaround....

For example, click on the Search menu from within Legacy, then click on Search Internet for Current Person. You can now choose which genealogy web site to search. If Ancestry.com is selected, click on the Search button. Normally Legacy would then search Ancestry for the currently-highlighted individual and display the results. Because of the changes made by Ancestry, you will now receive an error message.

Fortunately, Legacy has the ability to create and modify the "search strings" that are used to perform these automated searches. The "Ancestry.com" search can easily be modified by following these steps:

• Once you are on the "Search the Internet" screen, click on the Customize Searches button.
• Click on the Select button next to Ancestry.com
• Click once on Ancestry.com, and click on the Edit button.
• In the field the currently begins with http://service.bfast.com..., replace all of the text in this field with this new link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=[GivenNames]&gsln=[Surname]&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=[BirthYear]&yearend=[DeathYear]&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=allgs&gss=ansmp&so=1&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416
• Click Save, click Select, click Close, now click Search.

Legacy's Research Guidance section also has links to individual databases at Ancestry.com. For example, on the Preliminary Survey tab, clicking on the Local Histories tab provides an automated listing of local/county histories of the areas in which your ancestor lived. Some of these books are available online. If you click on the Online button for books that are available at Ancestry, you will still be presented with Ancestry's error message. Currently, there is not a way to update the link. However, the book is still available at Ancestry, you will just have to temporarily manually look it up on their site.

If you have any questions about performing automated searches, please don't hesitate to contact our support team. We will continue to work hard to provide a future update that will correct these links, but for those who want the immediate fix, please follow the steps above.

Advanced Legacy Tip - How to Use Tags 4-9

Did you know that the Deluxe version of Legacy has 6 additional tags that you can use? The Family View has room to display three of these tags at a time. You have the choice of which three tags to display. To use and display your "favorite 3", follow these steps:

1. First, make sure that tagging is turned on by clicking on the Options menu, clicking on Customize, and on the General tab, enable Tagging Options.
2. In the Tagging Options section here, click on the Tags to Show button.
3. Select your tags, click Save, and click Save.

What is tagging?

At some point in your research, you will likely need the ability to mark a person, or a group of persons, so you can easily refer to them. For example, you may have used Legacy's Master Location List tool to locate all persons who lived in a certain locality. You want to work with this list of persons to do more research on them. Legacy's tagging feature enables you to mark everyone in the list with a certain tag number. Then, in the future, you can easily pull up this list again.

In fact, there are thousands of reasons for which tagging is useful. We've written about some of them in previous Legacy News articles:

Legacy Search Tip: Who was born, married, and died in your family file last year?

How to create a list of "ancestors with no sources"

Deleting entire branches of a tree

Pedigree Chart - Using Color for Emphasis

How to Count the Number of Ancestors

Location Research with Legacy

Training Video - FREE Preview

Watch excerpts from Legacy's Tagging and Searching Made Easier by clicking here. Scroll down to the last video and click on the View Preview button.

Legacy Family Tree for the Professional - download the new guide

Choosing the right genealogy computer program is an important decision for any genealogist. For professionals, this decision is even more critical. They will be working with the software every day as they organize, plan, and share their research findings. Legacy Family Tree was developed with this in mind. While its interface and usability suites the beginner, it is also robust enough to meet the demands of serious researchers.

Millennia Corporation is pleased to announce a new publication designed especially for professional genealogists. The 9-page booklet, Legacy Family Tree for the Professional Genealogist, outlines many of the tools professionals need in a genealogy computer program, and describes how Legacy Family Tree meets these needs. The booklet provides information on the following:

• Data and hard-copy organization
• Working with locations
• Locating important records
• Planning with To Do Lists and Research Logs
• Better analysis with timelines
• Historical timelines
• Easier information retrieval
• Sharing multimedia with your client
• Reporting/sharing findings

Download your free copy today

The booklet is available as a .pdf file and can be downloaded here.

How to create a list of recently-edited ancestors

Suggestion from Jaycee:

"The History List is useful, but it would also be very handy to have a log of which records have actually been edited or changed recently."

Thanks for the suggestion. You'll be happy to know that this functionality is already in place in Legacy Family Tree 6.0. Follow the steps below.

• Click on the Search menu. Click on Find.
• Click on the Detailed Search tab.
• Make the following selections:
  1. Look for whom - select Individual.
  2. Where to look - select Modified Date.
  3. How to look - After.
  4. What to look for - enter the desired date
• Click on the Create List button.

The resulting Search List contains all individuals that you have edited since the date you entered. This list can now be printed or tagged if desired.

You can also search for everyone you have added since a certain date. In the where to look column, just select the Added Date option. Now you can easily see everyone you've added this year!

Quick and Easy Way to Send Legacy Reports as PDF Files

If you want to share a pedigree chart, family group record, or other report with a family member, Legacy Family Tree makes this an easy task. One of our Legacy users, George Quinn, learned about an easy method to share these files. He shared his thoughts with us below....

I like Legacy reports saved as PDF files because they keep the professional look and feel of Legacy charts and reports. PDF files are a real common file format for all kinds of documents and just about every computer that I have ever seen has the Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing them. PDF files are universal and can be viewed on Windows PCs and Macs.

I discovered a quick and easy way to attach a Legacy report created as a PDF file to an e-mail message. It's incredibly simple and avoids all of the problems trying to find the file and manually attach it to a message.

You must have Legacy Deluxe in order to make a PDF file of a chart or report. I use Legacy 6.0 Deluxe and just love everything it can do.

1. In Legacy choose the report you want to send.
2. Make your report option selections.
3. In the lower right corner of the report screen choose PDF File and click Create in the upper right corner.
4. Give your PDF file a name and save it.
5. When asked "Would you like to view the PDF file?" click Yes to open the Acrobat Reader.
6. In Acrobat Reader click on File and choose Email on the File menu.
7. A blank e-mail message will open with the PDF file automatically attached. All you need to do is enter the recipient's e-mail address, fill in the subject line and type your message!
8. Click Send and you're done!

Thanks George for sharing this with us. PDFs are the way to go if you want to preserve the formatting of a report, which often gets lost when copying/pasting information into the body of an email.

Legacy tip - create a CD for one side of the family

Question from Wendy:

I want to share CDs of info with different sides of the family without them having all the rest of the family's details. Is there an easy way of selecting one line and creating a CD with just that info on it?

Answer from Millennia:

If you have Legacy's latest update, this task is much easier. Click on the new Create CD button in the main toolbar. (If you don't see this new button, right-click on any of the buttons, locate the new button in the list of available buttons, and drag it to the toolbar.) Click on the image below to see what the button looks like.

The next screen that will appear looks like this:

 

Follow the prompts to create a subset of the family, and to create the shareable CD. (The next time you open Legacy, be sure to verify that you are using your original family file.)

For complete step-by-step instructions for creating the shareable CD, click here.

Legacy tip - memorized dates/places

If you are retyping the same date or place for several individuals, you are unnecessarily wearing out your keyboard.

As you enter dates and locations into date and location fields in Legacy, the most recent ten dates and place names are remembered and can be quickly displayed in a popup list and selected.

To display the list of the last ten place names, for example, right-click on the field label to the left of any location field. From the resulting popup list of place names you can select one to fill into the location field by clicking on it.

In the image below (click on it to view it), the popup list was displayed after right-clicking on the born label.

This feature is only available in the Deluxe Edition. To learn more about the differences between the free Standard Edition and the Deluxe Edition, click here.

Learn the Lingo of Legacy

When talking about your computer and the Legacy Family Tree program with other users or Support, it’s good to know some of the “lingo.”  The most frequently misuse of words heard in Technical Support is when someone says “merge” for “import”; or “download” for “install from CD” or “download” for “copy” to a jump drive or a CD.  Knowing proper terminology will help you tell others more clearly about your computer as well as help others to communicate with you.

Back Up. To make a copy of your Legacy family file.  This can be used for archive purposes or for sending a copy of your information to a fellow researcher or family member.  It may also be used to send to Support when requested.  Multimedia files can also be backed up.

Backup. A compressed copy of a Legacy family file and/or the multimedia files (pictures, sound bites and video clips) linked to a family file. A Legacy backup file has a .zip extension.

Download. The process of transferring files from another computer on a network or the Internet “down” to a user’s computer. It is also used to describe the transfer of photos from a camera memory card to a computer.

Export.  To save data in a form that another program can read. For example, to export your Legacy family file information as a GEDCOM file for use in a different genealogy program like PAF. (Click on File > Export To for a menu of export options.)

Extension. The one to three characters after the period (dot) in a filename. The extension tells the computer and the programs installed on it what the file is. For example, the .exe extension tells a computer that a file is an executable file (a program). The .ged extension tells a genealogy program that the file is a GEDCOM file. The .fdb extension indicates that the file is a family database (a Legacy family file).

Family File. The database file that contains genealogical information about individuals and families. A Legacy family file has an .fdb extension. A Legacy family file is opened in the Legacy program.

File.  A computer file is similar to a paper document holding related information or instructions. For example, each computer file is stored as a specific unit, designated by its own filename and extension. There are family files (e.g. sample.fdb), program files (e.g. legacy.exe), picture files (e.g. asabrown.jpg), backup files (e.g. sample.zip), etc.

Folder. A grouping of files, similar to a file folder in your filing cabinet. C:\Legacy is a folder. A folder is sometimes called a directory.

GEDCOM. Genealogical Data Communications.  A file format standard for use in transferring genealogical information from one program to another.

Import. The process of transferring data from one genealogy application to another. For example, to import a GEDCOM file created in Family Tree Maker into Legacy Family Tree. (Click on File > Import From for a menu of import options.)

Install. To set up or load and configure a program from an installation CD or from a setup file downloaded from the Internet.

Merge. Combining duplicate records within a family file. If there are two or more records for the same individual within your family file, merging will combine their information into one record.

Program. A computer application or software that performs specific functions and tasks. Legacy Family Tree is an example of a genealogy program.

Root Folder or Directory. The lowest level on a device like a hard drive or CD where files and folders are stored. For example the Root folder for the C drive is C:\.

Sub-folder. A secondary folder inside or “nested” within another folder.  The Data folder under C:\Legacy is a sub-folder. A sub-folder is sometimes called a sub-directory.

Uninstall. To properly remove a program from the computer. This is usually done via the program's own uninstall utility, or by using Add/Remove in Control Panel.

Upload.  To transfer a file from a desktop computer to another computer on a network or “up” to a web server.

Reordering Wives

Question from Jim:

After entering a wife and children, I found that there was an earlier wife and children. When I added that wife and printed a descendant list, the wives are listed in the order in which I entered them rather than in chronological order. How do I get them in chronological order in the list?

Answer from Millennia:

With your subject line of "Reordering Wives" I initially thought that you wanted to place an order for a new one. :)

Follow these instructions to change the order of marriages:

1. In the Family View, click on the person's Spouse Icon, or click on View > Spouse List.
2. Click on the Sort button on the right. Note: all marriages with no marriage dates are sorted to the top and the remaining are displayed in date order.
3. If you still need to change the order, highlight the spouse you want moved, then click the up or down button in the lower right corner of the window until he/she is in the right position.

Does your family tree have potential problems?

Baptized before birth? Buried before death? Born 100 years after parents were married? Legacy Family Tree's Potential Problems report can check your family tree for these kind of mistakes.

Just click on Tools > Potential Problems, select your options, and click on Create Problems List.

Legacy Search Tip: Who was born, married, and died in your family file last year?

Question from Marg,

I want to find out all that happened in my family tree file for the year 2006. Example, who died, who was born and who married in 2006. Can some kind person tell me how to do this?

Answer from Millennia,

Legacy Family Tree's searching tools makes this task simple to do. Follow these steps:

1. Click on the Search button in the main toolbar.
2. On the Detailed Search tab, enter the criteria as shown in the image below (click on the image).
3. Click on the Create List button.

The resulting Search List contains a list of everyone in your family file who was born during the desired year.

To ADD marriage and death results to the resulting list, go back to this Search screen and perform a similar search for the marriage information (in the Look for Whom? column change it to marriage) and the death information. But before clicking on the Create List button, click on Add results to existing List, found in the lower left.

Legacy's Tagging and Searching Made Easy

This 34 minute video on CD teaches the ins and outs of searching, and gives plenty of suggestions and scenarios for which searching is important. Watch a preview of this video here.

Where to enter compiler information in Legacy Family Tree

I just previewed a report in Legacy, for which I selected to include my contact information, and to my surprise it listed the address at which I lived nearly three years ago. I quickly opened the Compiler Information screen, updated my address, and all was well.

When sharing information with others via a report or a GEDCOM file, it is important to associate your contact information with the data so they will always know where the information came from.

Where to enter the compiler information

Many reports in Legacy, as well as exported GEDCOM files, can contain your name, address, phone number, email address and web page address. Rather than you having to type this information each time it is used, it is stored once in the Family File. Most reports and export options screens give you the opportunity to suppress or include this information.

To enter or edit the compiler information, choose Compiler from the Options menu.

Including compiler information on reports

The option to include this information on reports is found on the Footers tab of the report's Report Options screen. For example, to create a Family Group Record with the compiler information, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Reports icon in the main toolbar.
2. Click on the Family tab.
3. Click on the Report Options button.
4. Click on the Footers tab and be sure there is a checkmark next to "Include Compiler Information at bottom of reports."

Legacy's Pedigree View now has a cleaner look

Legacy's Pedigree View just got a lot better. This view displays either four or five generations of one's ancestors (right-click on its background to toggle this number). The Pedigree View makes it easy to see just how far back in time you've researched.

In addition to the pedigree, there are two boxes on the left side which show even more information about the highlighted individual. The top-left box shows the person's spouses and children, and the lower-left box displays their siblings and additional information.

Having all this information on one screen is great, but for some Legacy users, it just feels a little cramped. We've listened to your requests, and are excited to let you know that we've made a couple of changes that we think you'll enjoy.

The two informational boxes on the left can now be optionally removed, thus presenting a much cleaner and less-cramped Pedigree View. To remove the boxes, simply right-click anywhere in the Pedigree View's background and click Hide Spouse/Child and Siblings lists.

Before (click for larger view):

After (click for larger view):

If you want the boxes back, simply right-click on the background, and click Show Child/Spouse and Siblings lists.

To take advantage of this new enhancement, be sure that you download the latest update. The feature was added in version 6.0.0.117. Deluxe Edition users can easily update by clicking on the link in the Updates section of the Legacy Home tab. Standard edition users can update via our website at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/DownloadUpdate.asp

Legacy Tip: How to Record a Cremation (instead of burial)

If you have an ancestor who was cremated, you probably want your reports and data entry screens to reflect this event, instead of a burial event. With Legacy Family Tree this is simple to do.

In the Individual's Information screen, click on the plus sign just to the right of the burial location field. A pop-up menu will appear. Click on the word Cremated, and Legacy does the rest.

You will immediately notice that the burial label in this screen has been changed to a Cremated label. Click on Save and you will notice in the Family View that the burial label has also been changed.

Finally, in your various reports (Family Group Records, Books, etc.), if you made the change in the Individual's Information screen, the burial information will automatically be changed to Cremated.

This option only applies to the current individual, so do not worry that it would be changed for everyone.

Free calendars for genealogy research

What day of the week was it on January 28, 1910? What day did "last Thursday" refer to in your grandfather's obituary? These types of questions are easily answered with Legacy Family Tree's Calendar tool.

Legacy comes with three built-in calendars - a month calendar, a year calendar, and a date calculator. To access these calendars, click on the calendar button in the main toolbar.

The month calendar includes the calendars from the year 1700 to the year 2100. Just use the scrollbar at the bottom to pick the right month and year. The same is true for the year calendar.

The date calculator is handy for many situations. If you have an obituary which lists the death date, and how old the person was (78 years, 8 months, 3 days), enter this information into the form and click on the Calculate button. Instantly, the exact birth date will be calculated for you.

It is also helpful when calculating birth years in census records. Suppose the 1881 UK census listed an ancestor's age as 68. Enter this age in the Years field, enter 1881 in the Second Date field, click calculate, and Legacy will display 1813 in the First Date field.

FREE is a good price

These calendar tools are available in the standard edition of Legacy Family Tree, which is free. To download Legacy, click here.

Other calendar tools

Legacy will also create birthday/anniversary calendars, and will remind you of upcoming birthdays and anniversaries. For more information, click here.

How to create a list of "ancestors with no sources"

Most genealogists begin their research without understanding the importance of documenting what they find. Adding these sources just does not seem important at the time.

Over time, most of these genealogists begin to understand the value of proper documentation, and desire to exam