Tips and How-To's

Unfortunately when you add, merge or delete people (or renumber RINs) in Legacy and then re-do your web pages, a huge number of links are quietly likely to change. It's like a domino effect. The only practical way to handle this is to entirely delete the…

Adding Banners to Legacy generated Web pages How to add a Legacy button to your genealogy Web pages: 1. Highlight, copy and paste the HTML code that accompanies the image you want into the Custom Footer box on the Links tab in Legacy's Web Page Creation window.…

A Guide to Publishing Genealogy Web Pages with Legacy Legacy has the most comprehensive Personal Web Page Creation system of any family history program. It lets you choose between five different styles of Web pages including: Ancestor Book, Descendant Book,…

When you first create Web pages with Legacy, they exist only on your computer. No one else can see them until you upload (publish) them on the Internet. Click Here for more information. One of our Legacy users started a Yahoo! group for discussing creating…

The Export to Ancestry Online Family Tree option was moved in the current version of Legacy. You can still do it, but you must add the Ancestry.com button to My Toolbar. See Does Legacy Sync with Ancestry? for the steps. Once the button has been added, just…

When was an individual's information last modified? When was my file last modified? • Last Modified Window To open the Last Modified window click on the Modified Date area in the lower right corner of the main window. (Click on the small box that appears…

The Source Conversion tool was never completed but was inadvertently included in the Legacy 7.0 manual. Geoff Rasmussen posted his suggestions on converting sources to the Legacy User Group mailing list in June. You can read his post in the archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyf&

It's important to have a basic knowledge of Windows to effectively use Legacy and do a little troubleshooting. To quote from the Legacy manual, "Our technical support staff can answer questions only about Legacy. Questions about Microsoft Windows... cannot…

A user only needs to see Merge on the toolbar or notice how many times Backup, Export, Import and, Family File appear on the File menu in Legacy to understand why he/she needs to know some basic "lingo". If a user doesn't understand what these terms mean,…

How do I do a system Restore Point to an earlier time? Please see the article "How to use Windows System Restore to undo changes to your computer" at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2009/10/how-to-use-windows-system-restore-to-undo-changes-to-your-computer.html.…