Legacy LVUG Community

These days new computers tend not to have CD drives so I am looking for a way to export my Legacy file to a USB stick. Ideally, it would be self-booting ie not requiring installation, perhaps by using a cut-down version of Legacy that operated as a viewer only? If that is wishful thinking, is there a way to put together a self-booting ged viewer, although then my media files would not be included I guess? What I want to end up with is to be able to distribute USB drives to family members who are interested in viewing the data without needing to operate on it in any way. Any suggestions on how I could achieve this would be most welcome. Oh, and greetings to all in the group from a first-timer :-)

This is what I get when I search for MRINs (User IDs) between 5000 and 5999. There's only one (5562) that is an accurate result, but if I change the number it swaps with another one. And if I change that one it swaps back again and so on in an endless loop. Obviously, everything else is irrelevant to my query. Is it just me, or would someone else like to try a similar search?

Tuesday's Tip - I don't know about the rest of you, but when I get through with my taxes (yes I am a procrastinator) then it seems like a good time for spring cleaning. Since I am sorting, filing and such I tend to carry it over to my "genealogy" life as well. I have five suggestions - and be sure to share with our LVUG community any that you focus on in April. (1) I go through my emails and make a point to unsubscribe to anything that no longer read or use - I do this in conjunction with my archiving of my emails and this weekend I unsubscribed to a dozen different sites that I simply don't have the time or the interest - give that a go and make your email life easier. (2) I go through my master location list in Legacy and clean up the locations - sometimes I get things wrong - check your list AND check your short (or abbreviation) list - I make sure my counties and countries in the short form as 2 and 3 letter codes. (3) I go through my surname lis...

It's probably been addressed before - most likely several times, but due to my short memory recall, here's my question anyway.  There are some twenty-odd spellings / variations of my family surname - Gallagher.  In most situations, I found the spelling the result of an illiterate, political appointed census enumerator, or some other similar situation...  how is the best way to enter that person into Legacy?  I realize that we should capture the evidence as we find it, but that can certainly make future evaluations somewhat problematic - e.g., list all the "Gallaghers" - what about the Galligers, the Gallahers, etc.?  I have been correcting the surname and entering the recorded spelling as an "AKA."  What is the consensus of this highly-learned group?  Thanks for your thoughts.

What's the point of Legacy Search having a time limit to it? Sometimes I pause, and only for a few seconds, and the search starts again at the top of the search list.