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Today is Aunts/Uncles Day - who knew? Well apparently Ancestry.com knew and they are asking the question "which aunt or uncle would you like to meet?" I would add "and why?" So for a little fun, open your Legacy family tree file and take a look around. Which aunt or uncle would you like to meet? For my part, I'm choosing my 2x great uncle Andrew Keough (1832-1904) married to Mary Driscoll (1830-1896). Andrew was one of Andrew Keough and Catherine Aylward's ten children. He should have lots of information for me on his parents (please where is Catherine from and who are her people), his siblings and their families, and his own family (he and Mary had 9 children). He could tell me what life was like in Newfoundland (specifically Plate Cove East). I could fill in lots more blanks with what he could tell me, take my family back another generation (if he knows who his parents' parents were) and a few brick walls would come tumbling down. How ...

I'm sure someone has addressed these questions before but I can't seem to find anything on them.  I am having a problem deciding how to enter events. I have done a lot of research using Polk Directories.  My father's family lived in one city for most of their lives and many at the same address for years.  If I want to enter just one line for the Polk Directory for someone with the same address for twenty years, should I just enter 1920 -1940?  But, if you had a tax or voter event that fell within that time bracket, the placement would be off. The other question is regarding occupation.  I would like to record that in the event but can't seem to find a proper place for it.  Right now occupations are with the addresses and employers in the Desc/Place/Notes.  So my Master Location list looks a little odd.  I guess there is no harm in that.  John Smith (Mary), carpenter, Brown Lumber, 100 West Main, Topeka, Kansas  If anyone has any suggest...

Just a real quick "how do I do that" - have you checked to make sure your Legacy is up-to-date? It is a simple matter of checking on the Home Page View in Legacy (there on the right-hand column). If you want to update, simply click on the link and the update should load. Some use an earlier version of Legacy (I know many who did not upgrade to version 8 from version 7). Notice the difference in terms - upgrade is for versions (5, 6, 7 & 8) and update is for minor changes, or fixing things in a version (8.0.0.559 - the most recent update). Updates are always those numbers after the decimal point.

I am still in the marriage mood for Tuesday's Tips. I was over on Facebook (yes I go there - some great genealogy focused groups and information!) and the subject of annulments and how people enter them in Legacy came up. We don't have many in my family, but we do have a few - both civil and religious. And it got me thinking that we have the ability in Legacy to show an annulment (whether civil or religious) as "status" in our marriage events/facts. Do you include status in your marriage entries? Do you include other items besides the date and place of the marriage in your marriage entries? Attached are 4 quick images that show you where to find this entry, and how to add a new status to your master list for marriages.

I'm not sure where to post this question so here goes.  I go in and clean up my backup files periodically because I backup every time I close Legacy.  So, I accumulate a lot of backups.  Those are zipped files.  I realized that I had not done that to my recently added external hard drive.  I took a look at the backup files on the external drive this morning.  I have the regular zipped files that are on my PC.  But, I also have files with extensions: SC, TC, Rc3, PPL, and RGD.  When I open one of the zipped files, I can see those same file extensions.  So, I am assuming that my external hard drive is saving the zipped file but also saving the individual files.  My question is can I confidently delete those individual files as long as I save the zipped (compressed) files?  I have been saving one zipped file for each month just for safety's sake.  I hope I posted this to the write group.

We had a wedding in the family last weekend. It was a big, noisy, wonderful Italian/Irish/Slovenian event - complete with pre-functions (4 showers, as well as bachelor and bachelorette parties), the rehearsal (a bit like herding cats) and rehearsal dinner (about 80 attended that - neither side has small families), the nuptial wedding mass, the reception, the day after family picnic, and the small (only 40 attended) opening wedding presents get together with the bride and groom (which closed out the weekend). That evening they took off for their honeymoon to be followed up with 2 more receptions, on the East Coast and in the Maritimes. My first thought was I need to use my smartphone to take lots of photos and some video (the bride's parents' toasts were so amazing and so heartfelt). I wanted to capture images of so many things from the event - the family and friends who attended, the church, the reception, the toasts, the first dance, the new family members (all of whom w...

I hope someone can help me. When I entered a certain leg of my wife's family, One guy had two wives, but all their thirteen children seemed to have one mother. Recently I discovered more information, and a new source and dates now seem to suggest that all the kids were from the other wife. Is there and easy way for me to "give them to the other mother"?