Tips and How-To's

If you want to divide your file into two separate trees for reporting purposes, please see the article Splitting Family Files in Legacy. To split the screen, click View > Split Screen. A message box will then ask, Do you want to open a different Family…

Please temporarily disable your Internet security (firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-adware, popup blockers, etc.) as these programs can block the download or remove components necessary for Legacy to run. The following steps are written for Internet…

Make sure you have option 1.8 to integrate with FamilySearch turned on. You can find this option by opening Legacy and in the options menu at the top choose customize and in the customize screen go to option 1.8 FamilySearch. Make sure that you have the newest…

How to Enter Alternative Names (AKA's): 1. To enter an alternative name open your file in Legacy and go to the person you want to add an alternative name to. In the family view click the AKA button illustrated in the following screenshot: 2. Now in the following…

A good way to export just a part of your family file is to tag people. Tagging is like putting slips of paper in specific places in a book to mark or tag those pages for photocopying. In this way, tagging can be used to select only certain people for inclusion…

How to Find and Consolidate Duplicate Family Files A Legacy user occasionally may conclude that their program is deleting people from their family file. But in actuality, the most common reason for this loss of individuals is that the Legacy user is looking…

How to import a PAF file into a new Legacy file: 1. Open Legacy and close any pop ups or currently open files (file>close file in Legacy) so that your screen looks like the one below and select new file at the top left: 2. In the following pop up, select…

A cardinal rule of family history is to record a location as shown on the earliest record you have of the event. Many times the place where a birth took place is in a different county or province today and in some cases even in a different country! For example,…

How to Insert "Tables" (Columns) and Tabs Spaces in Legacy’s Notes The inability to insert tables in Legacy's Notes is frustrating to many users who wish to put data in neatly aligned columns or tables. There are some "work arounds" which, although not…

Installing Legacy 7.5 or earlier on a Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows Vista computer • Make sure that Legacy 7.5 or earlier is installed only to the default C:\Legacy folder on your hard drive; if you don't some features might not run correctly…