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This week's Tuesday's Tip is a short video - welcome to all our new members. Everyone, please share your genealogy plans for 2016 - I know mine include learning and sharing even more about using Legacy! https://youtu.be/X-xBSskcBFQ

I trust that everyone had a wonderful Christmas with family. If you are like me, you can just about muster the energy to type a little. I am doing so to let you know that I did it! I published a website over the holiday. I had lots of help from my son-in-law on the technical side, but I have to say that putting my information together with Legacy was much easier than I thought it would be. Now I await results on my mother's mother, always a bit of a mystery.

I am a new user of Legacy Family Tree. I am using shared events to record a census. I am having trouble with changing the event role of the primary person that the event is shared from. I would like to change the event role of the primary individual to Head of household, but can't seem to find the right screen. Has anyone else had this same issue? I'm sure it is just a matter of finding the right screen, but the help file does not appear to be helpful in this matter.

I have a large amount of info on a surname family (same surname as mine and same near areas and not a common name) which I have never been able to connect to.  I would like to put this info in a Legacy program but separately from mine.  How should I do this?  And how to access without problems.  YTNX

To all members of The Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community, My thanks for all of the answered questions throughout the year and my best wishes to all for a happy, healthy, and safe holiday season. And, of course, I am ending the year with a question.  I have a large database where I store all of my "unrelated" people with the same surname.  I would like to take a portion of that database and move it to a new one.  And I don't remember how to do it.  The Help Index is not very helpful I think because my brain is not in gear.   Any suggestions are most appreciated> Elizabeth

Photo by Mourad Saadi on Unsplash It is the Tuesday before Christmas and I am sure most of us are busy decorating, cooking or baking, picking folks up at the airport or train station, dealing with the children out of school, working an extra schedule that is not ours so someone else can travel for the holidays, watching the television specials, listening to holiday music , going to see Star Wars, or - for the lucky few - you have found time to work on your family history and you have your Legacy software open today (wow, I'm impressed!). Christmas is a time to be thankful (and give you a challenge - so please read through this lengthy post) Let me start by saying a huge thank you (1) to all the LVUG Community members who jump in and ask or answer questions (that is how we learn), (2) to those of you who joined us in 2015 (it is great to have new members to help share the knowledge), and (3) especially to my co-moderators who are always on the look out to welcome...

Hi All, Firstly a happy Christmas to everyone. Secondly, does anyone know how to search for source details which have (or don't have) media files attached? Here's what I am trying to achieve > I am planning a trip to a Record Office over the holidays and so am busy preparing my research plan. One of my aims is to view original parish record sources and get photos for records where I only have transcriptions eg from FamilySearch records. One of the ways I thought I could identify whether I have viewed an original record is by checking whether there is a media file attached to the source. I can do this manually but it would be great if the collective wisdom out there could suggest any short cuts - or other methods to do this. I know in future I could use the 'verified' flag or another tag to identify when I have seen an original source, but this is one of those things I wish I knew before I had entered thousands of records! Ah well, another one chalked ...

I must decide between Legacy and RootsMagic and would appreciate the advice of those with Legacy experience. Why have you opted for Legacy over RM? Also, I posted a similar question on a RM site. Several said that Legacy is built on an obsolete infrastructure, which spooked me. Can anyone speak to that charge? I really want to make the best choice. Thanks!

Hello, My apologies if this topic is addressed already and I missed it. I am one of the FTM users impacted by Ancestry's decision to discontinue desktop software. My FTM file is 15 years of research. My FTM workflow was to assign sources to individuals and facts. I also have a lot of media in my FTM tree. Some media items are linked to source citations and other media items are linked to people.  Is there a guide to converting from FTM 2014 to Legacy? Is there an area with any FAQ for individuals like myself that are evaluating options? Some examples of how my data is assembled in FTM are shown in the links below. Will this get unraveled if I attempt to shift to Legacy? Will I need to do a lot of manual fixing? Thank you!

Hi! I just joined your group and am a new Legacy user. I was using FTM and I figure I have a year to double-check and transition my information. I want to work hard to get all of my citations correct. I got a lot of information from my uncle, but he didn't cite any of his sources. Luckily, I'm finding out he's been correct on everything so far. I live in St. Louis, MO. I have been working on my genealogy research for about 12-13 years. My daughter works in the History and Genealogy department of St. Louis County Library, so I'm fortunate to have a personal assistant at the library!

Hi. I just came across this group and joined it. I purchased Legacy on Wednesday when I learned of the demise of FTM. I have been watching a lot of tutorials but am wondering if someone can help me with a couple of questions.  I have been researching my genealogy for about 12 years or so, maybe longer.  Like many others, I didn't site my sources as I should have. I am taking this opportunity to start fresh, double-check everything, and then enter all of my data correctly. I was wondering what to do with my photos. I have digital scans of many photos. I understand how to get my pictures into Legacy, but I don't see a way to enter a source citation.  Do I just type it in manually? What do you do?   Along those same lines, I have some original documents (like my birth certificate). I obviously own the document. How do I enter and source that?  Do I just upload the item. Do I consider all photos and documents that I have in my possession to be "artifact...

I mentioned that the folks at Legacy might be posting something to assist FTM users after the Ancestry/FTM notice from yesterday. First everyone needs to calm down. Second if someone is interested in learning how to move their data from one program to another, this post from Legacy is a good step in understanding the process. NOTE - we are an unaffiliated user group of Legacy users here at LVUG Community and we don't advertise, but consider this a genealogy service. Hope this helps those who might need it. http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2015/12/update-on-the-family-tree-maker-announcement.html

Tuesday's Tip - Wow, some big news today that Ancestry is discontinuing Family Tree Maker effective at year end. They will continue to support it for a time but this is something I did not see coming. Now you might ask - so what, we use Legacy Family Tree . I think it is interesting because FTM was a pretty big player in the field and Ancestry is making a point to force the issue on having online trees by claiming that software is not the future of a genealogy management program. I think they are wrong - what do you think? I think this will mean that there will be mass migration from FTM to other programs and hope that it is not a painful experience for FTM users. I also think we need to continue to have our genealogy (cause it is about more than trees!) offline on our computers and backed up externally (think external hard drives) as well as parts or the whole of it in the cloud. Never, ever depend on someone else ( read a company) to keep track of your genealogy for you. ...