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I have just started using Legacy, so I guess you can say I am a beginner at this. I do have an ancestry tree on line at ancestry.com. I downloaded a Gedcom from that tree and imported into Legacy. Sure hope I did it right, I have over 2000 people. Problem is it did an error check page that I printed off to look at. Can someone tell me what the MRIN number is? I know what the RIN is. Also ended up with lots of media also that is not showing up even though it is referenced in Legacy. My guess is it is referencing the link on ancestry as it cannot locate the pics on my computer. Any kind of help would be welcomed.  Sorry if I added this to the wrong place. Not really sure what I am doing here.

I received some information from a 5th cousin how do I add her address and information to correspondence?

Is it possible to extract where a group of people lived - i.e. where my Connor ancestors lived in New South Wales for example?

I want to find all Source Detail that contains 'string' but can't find how to do it.

In Legacy 8, how do I select a subset of my family file that consists of all someone's biological relatives?  This would include all direct line ancestors plus their full and half siblings (aunts and uncles) plus all biological descendants of these people (cousins).  To this I would like to add the spouses of those selected.  Thank you!

One of those topics that always brings up questions and strong opinions. We want to be able to find our master sources and we want them to be consistent. We got a question this week asking how others entered their sources. It is an individual choice and you need to do what works for you. We got some great suggestions and today's tip shows you want mine look like. Why not join the conversation with your comments or suggestions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DQE9LFe5D0

Hello, I am looking for advice and suggestions on creating a  consistent naming convention for Source List Name (name to display in master source list) in Legacy 8. I am a beginner with approximately 150 sources that are a hot mess as they say. I understand the rest of the citation forms  it's just what to call them I am struggling with. Here are some examples: 1900 U.S. Census, WI, Knowlton, Marathon county 1900 U.S. Census Knowlton, Marathon county, WI 1900 U.S. Census WI WI 1900 U.S. Census 1905 State census, WI Knowlton, Marathon county etc. Marriage certificate Name and Name Death certificate Name Obituary Name Oral History Name Ship Manifest, Ship name, Date arrival, port There are others obviously. I just can't seem to wrap my head around a plan. I suspect this is a user preference issue. I would very much appreciate seeing examples of other's naming schemes. I have some exciting new leads but am holding back (barely) until

Karen Richard Here is the screen shot. If you click on Edit Left or Edit Right it opens up the Individual's Information screen and you can add your Alt. Events there. {Circled in red below}

Here is the blog post on merging duplicates.  I hope it helps! http://www.ourlifepicturebypicture.com/2015/03/merging-duplicates-in-legacy.html Shannon Thomas  (blogging at  Our Life Picture by Picture )

Is there a video that can walk me through the steps for merging people? By that, I mean an explanation of each tab in the merge option, lots of details. There are so many options and choices; I'm paranoid I'm going to lose information in the process. I've already lost some information, somehow and I don't even know when it happened, didn't realize it until I wanted to look at them later. Maybe this could be a topic for a hangout?

Hello. I've been using Legacy for some time, but haven't always been very good about entering data and sources. In some cases, it was because I didn't know what I was doing so it seemed a bit overwhelming. I had heard of this group, but am just now finally watching the videos and I have learned so much! Thanks to all of you who share all this information. I also appreciate that everyone plays nice, even though you don't all do things the same way. The lack of drama and the willingness to be open to other people's ideas makes this a terrific community!

There is a new post up on my blog about Legacy and reports and cleaning up your data. http://www.ourlifepicturebypicture.com/2015/03/cleaning-up-legacy-using-reports.html Shannon Thomas (blogging at Our Life Picture by Picture )

A day late (hey it was St. Patrick's Day - a little busy here!). First off WELCOME to our newest LVUG Community members, we passed the 900 mark this week . It is good to know there ware many Legacy users out there who want to learn about Legacy and share their knowledge with other Legacy users. There has been some recent conversation about getting children (perhaps your children or grandchildren) more involved or at least a bit interested in genealogy and our family trees. I find what works best is to focus on them! A few ideas: (1) interview them for their events/facts - what would they like included in their individual report (we have included school, sports, sacraments, and physical description). Run through the event/fact titles and ask them what they would like to include. If you need some notes for any of these events/facts, encourage them to help write the story and be sure to include photos (whether you attach media to your events or reference the media in the note

I have a question about gender colors. In 7.5 you could change the colors of the males, females and unknowns. Is there somewhere like that in version 8? I looked but can't seem to find it.

A lot of my ancestors were farmers in the Texas Panhandle and on many of the Census records the city is listed as Justice Precinct # x, Precinct x, District x, or even Subdivision x of Precinct y.  My general understanding (guess) is that these are the designations for rural areas that are outside city limits.  First, can anyone verify if that is true.  Second, when populating events would you use these terms as the "city" value in a location field (e.g., Justice Precinct #15, Donley County, Texas, USA) or just generalize it as Donley County, Texas?  Normally I use the precinct info as the city.  However, I'm currently looking at a 1910 census and and a 1920 census.  1910 is for precinct 1 and 1920 is in precinct 2.  Can precincts change over time just like voting districts?  As always, I appreciate any advice from this most helpful group.

Found it, but it does not give you numbers, unless I am missing something.

I found this but does not give me any results.

As a long time TMG users and a novice when it comes to Legacy, I am able in TMG to get numbers from my one name study using the first two letters of my surname variations and using various Tags like birth group s which include Baptism- a birth registration- birth etc. If I want to find the number of people who were born in Canada- what method do I use in Legacy?

I believe I should be able to drag & drop photos (& I assume documents) within Legacy in order to be able to show the photos/documents in whatever order I would like to see them in.  I am unable to do this.  I have tried tagging all the photos for this particular ancestor & then dragging & dropping - when that didn't work I untagged all the photos & it still didn't work.  Anyone got any suggestions please?

I have a this "military bio" from rootsweb:   http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnavarr/war/world_war_ii/men_and_women_in_wwii/p105_106.htm#GREEN , RUFUS S. How would I source this?  I'm trying to find the right category in Legacy's SourceWriter but I'm not sure what this type of page would fall under. thanks, james http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnavarr/war/world_war_ii/men_and_women_in_wwii/p105_106.htm#GREEN

A recent question came up on the Legacy User Forum about Event/Fact Titles and Definitions. Events/Facts is one of the topics that LVUG Community members voted we want to learn more about. Here are a few tips to get us started. (1) Take a look at the Master List for Event Definitions - by default Legacy has quite a few "Events." They are in alphabetical order and you will notice some that will be in constant play with your family history and others that will never be used. You might also think about some that are not on the playlist that you will want to add. (2) Yes you read that correctly - you can add and delete events/facts and also tag events/facts . Why? Because you are making Legacy your program (remember you own Legacy, it doesn't own you!).  (3) What did I add ?  Roman Catholic events/facts ( Baptism, Reconciliation, First Communion, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Religious Vows, Marriage, Last Rites ) because that is the faith tradition of the vast

A question on copying source documents. Just curious how others do it. When faced with, say, a double page image from a parish register with maybe 10+ different records on it, do you copy the entire page into Legacy so you can retain info on the page number, surrounding records, maybe a parish indicator off to one side, or do you crop the image to give only the target record? I realize there will be a difference in size for the image file, but is that the main consideration?

I have another "best practices" question.  Example: 3 city directory images (1940, 1941, 1943) that show a couple living at the same address in each entry.  This covers a period of 4 years.  Should I made 3 individual residence entries (one for each year) or one residence entry with a date span of 1940-1943?   On the one head I think that reports might be easier to read with the combined entry.  On the other hand, "technically" I don't know for certain that they lived at the same address in 1942 so I should use individual entries.   My current thinking is that for data entry I might make individual entries and then periodically combine entries as the picture becomes clearer.  So in my example I might have a residence entry for 1940-1941 and another entry for 1943.  If I ever find confirmation of 1942 then I can fold it and the 1943 entry into the combined record.  The only hassle with that is making sure to copy my sources for the individual records to