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As some of you know, Legacy provides us an option to print some reports/lists in a csv (comma separated value) format. One csv format is Microsoft Excel and I often put search results in an Excel worksheet so I can manipulate it and work with it outside of my Legacy family file. I attended RootsTech back in February and did a computer lab presentation on using Excel with genealogy. I recorded the presentation (15 examples on working in Excel) and thought some of our LVUG Community members who are new to Excel might find the videos helpful (I did each example separately - shorter and focused). They are over at my YouTube Channel - TessaWatch - and I am including the link to the Playlist for the Fun with Excel videos. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnO_AfsN2gON21xxk5DBBHjhrYSAGoD5H

Tuesday's Tip - I use Google Chrome for my browser and today instead of a Google Doodle , there was a note that said it was time for Spring Cleaning. Google also had a link to 10 online safety tips. A tip of the hat to Google for providing two great ideas - spring cleaning and online safety (be sure to check out their tips). Now let's take that a step further and do a bit of spring cleaning in our Legacy family files. If you haven't done it in a while - now is a great time to go through file maintenance as well master lists (surnames and locations - to name two) that I regularly clean up. While you are at it, make sure you have updated Legacy (the current version is 8.0.0.544) and you can do that from the Legacy Home View (the one right before your Family View). Why not do a bit of spring cleaning and start the month of April off with your Legacy family file all spruced up.

Folks here solved my last question, so I'm hoping there is a simple solution here, too (perhaps buried deep in options)... (My question is at the end, if all my explanation is too long and unnecessary) With my previous software (Generations), I put much of my collected information on an individual in the "Notes" field.  In Legacy, I'm working my way through thousands of people in my database to  catalog Events properly.  BUT I still have information that better fits Notes, such as stories and things that don't fit into an event item and really fill in the holes.  In Generations, the Notes information would come after the vital statistics in a report.  In Legacy, the Notes and Research information comes first in the reports I've generated - that is weird to me because it results in a story about someone before the basic chronology of the person is given.  So my question: Is there a way to tell Legacy to put Notes information AFTER the chronologica...

I've been hoping forever to be able to use drag&drop in the individual Address windows. It doesn't work there (v.7) but it does work in other places, like Notes and Source Detail. For your added comfort and convenience.

Here's an idiot question: What do you call the United States before it was called the United States in your Master Location List?

Tuesday's Tip - It's March and with the start of a new month we have the start of all celebrations for Ireland's patron saint - St. Patrick. (Best parades and goings on I have attended - Chicago, New York, Dublin & Seattle). In case you didn't notice #FindmyPast has done all genealogists searching for their Irish roots a huge service - records that were made available originally by the National Library of Ireland late in 2014 have now been fully digitized and indexed (many researchers don't know the county or parish their family members came from so this is a huge help - if you search by surname). So if you have Irish roots - be sure to check out FindMyPast this week (Mar 1 - Mar 8) and be sure to read this article at IrishCentral to learn more about this amazing record collection. For my part - I am looking for Keoughs, Murphys, Kielys, Butlers, Driscolls and Dooleys. We come from one of the smallest counties (Carlow) and two of the largest counties (...