Tips and How-To's

How to Do Detailed Searches You can search for individuals and marriages in many different ways. Detailed Searching can get very specific about what you are looking for and you can combine multiple searches together. The Detailed Search form allows you to…

Share Legacy Family Tree and Your Family File on a CD by Ken McGinnis The Legacy setup program has a cool feature that will allow users to copy their family data and the Legacy setup on a CD to send to family members. When the recipient installs Legacy the…

When you keep media on a network drive, Legacy 8's Media Relinker might not find it unless you map the media folder as drive letter and share it. This is also true of the family file if you keep it on a network drive as well. How you map a folder and share…

Slide Shows and Sliding Picture Shows Slide Shows To view a sequential Slide Show of all the pictures in the Picture Gallery, along with their sound files, click Slide.... Sliding Picture Show You can start a Sliding Picture Show by clicking the Screen Show…

There are four things you can do to sort children into their birth order in charts and reports: 1. Upgrade to the current version of Legacy Family Tree which has automatic sorting of children as they are added. To set the option, click on Options > 2.…

The Advanced Source Citations feature lets you assign one or more source citations to a group of records in a family file. The sources to be assigned are placed on the Source Clipboard. The groups of records to be assigned to are identified by either individual…

To watch a free video demonstration of the SourceWriter, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.net/videos/beg7/LegacyForBeginners.html and click the Sources link on the left side of the video window. Also visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.net/videos/new7/What'sNewInLegacy7.html…

1. Please open the Assigned Sources screen for the person whose Source you want to copy. Click the Books icon at the bottom of their box in Family View or open their Individual's Information screen and click the Books icon. 2. Highlight the source with the…

The Source Clipboard The Source Clipboard is a feature in Legacy that can tremendously increase the efficiency with which you document the sources of the information you enter into your Family File. The Source Clipboard holds a copy of the source citation…

If you have a bug or a glitch in the SourceWriter, we can help you. But when it comes to what selections to make in the SourceWriter, there are too many variables to consider. Choosing SourceWriter templates for users just isn't something technical support…