Tips and How-To's

I want to gather my media (attached pictures, documents, etc.) into one place. They are scattered all over my computer. It is often an advantage to keep all of your family pictures and other media files in one place. It is much easier to make a backup of…

Managing picture, sound and video locations in Legacy A key to good picture management is keeping together all of your media (picture, sound, video and document files) in one place. Having media files scattered in different locations on your hard drive or…

How to Keep Media (Pictures) Linked to a Family File When Moving to a Different Computer If you put the Media folder in the same location as the family file when moving your file from place to place no links will be broken because of the special [Family File…

Merge is not finding all possible duplicates • Sometimes the Merge Duplicates feature will not find duplicate records of people. You know there are duplicates records because you have seen them, but the information is entered with spelling variations or…

One of the most commonly asked questions of Legacy Technical Support is “How do I move my family file to another computer – my new laptop or my spouse’s computer?” There are a couple of ways this can be done, but in all methods the first thing to…

Name List is the most Advanced Editing System Ever Experienced Legacy Family Tree users know that all the searching and updating they need to do can be done quickly and efficiently from the program’s Name List. In short, the Name List is a comprehensive…

Legacy only supports Western European fonts (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages). The program does not support Eastern European fonts, like Polish, Asian fonts, Hebrew, or any other non-Western European…

Organizing Your Paper Files It doesn't take long once you have started your genealogy adventure to collect so much information that it seems hard to handle. Dealing with information overload is handled through systematic organization of materials. This free…

There's a utility which will convert the PDF files to ePub format. You can read about it on the How-to Geek site at http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19217/. Also there's a big wiki article at http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_conversion which shows many…

How to permanently fix the red Potential Problems icons for 'Surname all uppercase' Uppercase Surnames are no longer the genealogy standard, hence the red Potential Problems icon. 1. To open your Master Surname List click on View > Master Lists > Surname.…