Tips and How-To's

Locations and the Use of Commas Most people enter locations with commas between the city, county, state/province, and country. This makes it much easier to distinguish the different parts of a location. 'New York, NY' can be confusing. Is it New York city…

Mac computers: How to change a Virtual Machine path into a drive letter One Legacy user explained: I use Legacy on my Macbook running OSX 10.9.5 and Parallels Build 9.0.24251 and Windows XP SP3. I have several others that use Parallels 10 and OSX 10.9.5 and…

There are two places in Legacy Family Tree where default marriage wording options can be changed: 1. The Marriage Information screen: Changes made in a couples’ Marriage Information screen affect only that couple. In Family View click the long Marriage…

Adding Pictures in Legacy Any number of pictures, sounds and video clips (media files) can be attached to each individual in a Family File. Legacy reads most popular picture file formats. The pictures can then be displayed at any time and also included in…

Displaying and Editing Pictures in Legacy To see an enlarged view of a picture, highlight it and click Edit from the Picture Gallery. The picture is loaded into the Display Picture window. From here you can add a caption, date and description to the picture.…

How to add pictures in Legacy There is a free video demonstration showing how to add pictures at http://www.legacyfamilytree.net/videos/beg8/LegacyForBeginners.html. After the short Introduction has played, you can mouse-over the left side and click Multimedia…

Image Format Basics by James P. Terry Jim Terry wears several hats at Millennia Corporation... Technical Support, Webmaster and Newsgroup Administrator just to name a few. Jim has a BA in photography and several years professional experience in the field.…

While Picasa does not store your photographs (it only displays them in its organizer) it can show you where your digital image is on your computer's hard drive. Click on the "Properties" button (found in the lower right of Picasa) and look for the "Location"…

The Picture Center in the Legacy Deluxe Edition is a very easy way to link many pictures to many individuals from one place. You will often come upon pictures in groups that you want to link to the people in your family file. For example, you might have a…

The Scan option is now in each Media Gallery under Add Media. The advantage to using the Scan option in Legacy is that your picture is directly linked to that Media Gallery you're scanning through, but if you use your own scanner software, you have many more…