Tips and How-To's

Copying Between Two Family Files by David Berdan President, Millennia Corp Also see How to combine multiple family files into one by Geoff Rasmussen. As personal computers become more and more pervasive in our homes, the Internet and e-mail are opening up…

This is a matter of opinion. Here are the pros and cons of creating more than one family file to record your family lines. PROS: If you have an extremely large family file with hundreds of thousands people, dividing your large file into smaller, more manageable…

Splitting Family Files in Legacy by David Berdan President, Millennia Corp. Most people like to keep all of their information in one family file. Legacy easily accommodates this because of its nearly unlimited capacities. However, as a file grows very large,…

Advanced Tagging Tagging is like putting sticky notes on the pages of a printed family history. When you take the book to a photocopier, it's easier if the pages you want copied are tagged. Tagging in Legacy is like that. The Advanced Tagging window is used…

Relationship Calculator The Relationship Calculator is only available in the Legacy Deluxe Edition. To unlock the Deluxe Edition features in the Legacy Standard Edition, please call 1 800 753-3453 or visit the Online Store to order and receive the new Deluxe…

Tips on Fixing Relationship Problems Marriage Problems Child Problems Other Problems Set Relationship Problems Relationship problems can creep into your family file in a number of ways: entering duplicate records by mistake; importing GEDCOM files with problems;…

TNG is a program used to create websites and requires a gedcom for that purpose. The Gedcom standard doesn't support Shared Events, however programs which use them can export those "shares" to the Gedcom by using non-standard tags and hopefully the importing…

To do a clean uninstall of Legacy which will completely remove all traces of the program from a computer: Before you begin, see How to backup user customization files. 1. Close Legacy Family Tree, Legacy Charting and Legacy FamilySearch. 2. Right-click on…

To unlock your Legacy deluxe features, please click on Help on the menu bar and select Unlock Legacy.* Make sure "I purchased the Deluxe Edition of Legacy" is selected and enter your name (any way you wish) and customer number. Click on Continue. You will…

We encourage Legacy users to spell out place names in full and never use abbreviations. Abbreviation can be ambiguous and some individuals don't use the correct abbreviations, or just make them up. • USA is the abbreviation for both the Union of South Africa…