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I need some help in extracting some info from my Legacy family tree. Although I have used Legacy for a number of years to store my tree data, I have tended to use it at a fairly basic level. Now, my cousin has asked for some info and I have no idea on how to get it for her. All she wants is the name, relationship, birth date and date of death for all ancestors of a particular individual so I need to select that person then list all the ancestors of that person. She would prefer the data to be in digital format rather than hard copy. I am thinking that the best solution would be to show it in a family tree format but really I am open to all help and suggestions. Many thanks in advance.

What does Legacy mean when it says, "define a printer"? Since my desktop died and I've relocated to a smaller space with a laptop, Legacy gives me grief every time I open the program (asking to define fonts) and then tells me I haven't defined a printer. In fact, I have installed my Brother printer; I'm just not hooked up to it. This would be alright if I wanted to print something to paper, in which case I would carry my laptop from the living room into my office and plug it in. But most of the time this is not my intention. The problem is it won't allow me to print to PDF or text either. I'm using version 7.5.

How do I include grave photos in reports? I attached gravestone photos as media to burial date and location. I've "selected" ~everything in the options I can identify. :-) For example, in the Report Options>Pictures, I have selected the box to include event pictures and insert the actual photo in the RTF file. The photo of the person is included but not the gravestone photo. Additional details: No photos are included in a report for birth, christening, death or burial. Photos are correctly shown for other events that I "add" (and as a photo of the person).

I have just discovered that the same man married daughters in two of my lines. I have sources entered for him in both places. Is there a way to merge the "two" men? Or, do I need to delete one and add the sources, etc. to one of the entries? I'm a little confused. Thanks very much! Judy

In the past, I know that I have been able to edit the details of a source and have them apply to all the places where I entered that source. I entered one yesterday in probably 15 places and now need to make a correction. Can anyone help me on this? Thanks!

Legacy Home tab>Legacy News Why would the new display without a problem on one computer but all I get on the other computer is "Make sure you are connected to the internet and then click here to retrieve the latest news items." Both computer running the same version of Legacy, both on same router. The Legacy FamilySearch works fine as do all the browsers like Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, etc. The "Options" button on the Legacy Home tab has an "Options" selection. Under that on the Internet Options tab, the radio button labelled "Allow Legacy to connect to the internet..." is set. Also under Options, clicking on "Check internet now..." does nothing. Is there something that can be done to clear this condition so that my second computer will function like the first one? Help please if you have a solution.

Tessa, I loved your video presentations and have learned alot from them. Have you considered doing one on Publishing Center? - creating the chapters and the proofing, when to create PDFs, where to save all the reports and putting it all together with any extra charts to be included and the final printing. Those infamous baby steps would be so helpful as the manual/help section only explains the effect of each option. I didn't see anything in the archives or did I miss it?

I believe I am running into a glitch, but wanted to ask if anyone else has the same issue. I've been cleaning up my locations list. I have several locations where the list of "People using this location" do not use that location at all. At least, I cannot find where that location is being used anywhere in their individual page. I have used the file maintenance to no avail. The problem persists for a few locations. Suggestions? Oh, and I'm using Legacy 9.0.0.198. Deluxe Edition on a PC running Windows 10 Home.

Any Mac Parallels and Windows users that feel up to the challenge of walking me through that quagmire?? LOL I have installed both, but, I'm just not sure about screen views, etc. To date, Support assistance from Parallels has been polite, but, failures. I will also need a few hints on installing Legacy, since I have my photos installed on C drive on the ole Windows machine and now they will be installed on my user name on the Mac. I have this gut feeling that Legacy is gonna need to relink all of them?? Good grief, there are over 18,000???? Well, maybe what I need is someone to hold my hand and pour my drinks?? Of course, this is something that should be attempted OFF group. Thanks

Considering the extent of misspellings in census records, how far do you go in re-transcribing before entering in your database? Or do you?

I am working with Legacy 9 Photo Album and Scrapbook. I have tagged just a few of the 25 pictures I have linked to an individual. In Media Gallery, under Options, there is a selection to "sort media by date." But, I did NOT enter a date into that field in the description of the pictures. Is there any other way to rearrange the pictures to be in chronological order? Also, once I have set up a format within Photo Album that I like, where can I save those settings for future and consistent style printings? Or do I just need to do a screen shot and save it that way to reference at a later date.

Anyone know how to get nicknames to print in reports? I only get the 'main' name.

I am trying to create a source citation report for a specific focus group. Can someone walk me through creating a focus group and then tagging that group? I think I will then be able to print a source citation report for the tagged group. Or does someone have a better way to do that? Thanks.

I just got a new computer, and I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out how to transfer my Legacy files. The instructions made it sound like once you put it on your flash drive, you just download the Legacy software and it uploads. That didn't really work right, so then I started transferring my 20,000 missing media files. I thought I had it, but then it's all gone again. I don't really understand. The new computer wants to save everything to "one cloud" and I just want to save it on my computer. Sorry, I'm really confused here. Any suggestions?

A couple question about linking images (noting that I've chosen to have a directory/folder of my choosing to contain all of my images linked to people in my family tree, telling Legacy to leave an image where it is when I link it to an individual in my tree): First, is it all right to link a given image to more than one individual? I've been hesitant to do this for fear of causing problems. And second, is there a way to determine which individual an image is linked to? Thanks very much

If I rename photo's that are in Legacy Media Folder do I have to relink the picture's one at a time?

OOPS - I think I figured it out. See end of post. I have a question about changing font colors in the Index, name list etc. I really do not enjoy the red/blue font. I have browsed around and just cannot find the way to change it. Can anyone give me specifics? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was trying to change the color from the index, but I didn't see the option there. But when I went to the family View tab, I was able to choose CUSTOMIZE > COLOR CHANGE MODE ( under 9.1 Main Color Windows) and then choose to change male and female text fonts. =] Feel free to delete if this is just clutter. =/

I can't figure out how to get a photo to show up where the male or female icon is. I have set a preferred photo, but it isn't there. What am I doing wrong? Or an I wrong and Legacy doesn't do that? Thanks in advance. -Leslie

I have a suggestion for a Tuesday tips or a video. How about an overview of this interesting Picture Center?

I decided to upload my Legacy gedcom to Ancestry.com. The media files don't seem to transfer (other than the information about them), so I uploaded it all to Family Tree Maker. It is currently syncing to Ancestry, but I noticed that there are multiple copies of the media images on FTM. Does that mean I saved them wrong in Legacy? For example, I'm pretty sure I only attached the 1900 census image to someone once when doing the source and then again in the event. For some reason there are 8 copies of it in FTM and maybe in Ancestry, not sure yet. I can delete them, but is there a way to prevent this from happening.