Shared Genealogy Efforts with Legacy
January 25, 2006
This week’s edition of DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour, a genealogy-oriented pocast, featured Geoff Rasmussen from Millenia Corp./Legacy Family Tree, sharing information in regards to multiple family members doing genealogy research and using Legacy’s “Master Keeper” and “Intelimerge” features to coordinate your data collection.
There is also a page at LegacyFamilyTree.com, by David Berdan (president of Millenia Corp.) about Using Intellishare.
Legacy Family Tree version 6.0.0.79
January 20, 2006
Legacy Family Tree Version 6.0.0.79 has been released – Legacy is a genealogy program for Windows. If you are already a Legacy 6.0 Deluxe user, you can click “Install and Download Now” from the Legacy Home tab (from within Legaacy, of course). The Standard Edition can be downloaded from here This is a fairly significant update. Changes listed below.
What’s New:
- PDF – We are using a newer version of the print preview engine and PDF creation tool. Hopefully this will solve some of the incompatibility issues that some are having with older versions of Acrobat Reader.
Timelines
- Added a timeline for Ireland – Taoisigh and Political Events – 1919 to Present
- Updated the LDS Events timeline
Book Reports – added four new child paragraph report phrases:
– Single father with more than one child (His children were:)
– Single father with only one child (His child was:)
– Single mother with more than one child (Her children were:)
– Single mother with only one child (Her child was:)
Research Guidance
– Canada – Added link for the new online 1911 census, Ontario Marriage Index 1858-1899, Ontario Birth Index 1869-1907, Ontario Death Index 1869-1932
– Denmark – added links to online 1787, 1801, 1834, 1840, 1845, 1850, 1855, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916, and 1921 census records
– Norway - guidance for cemetery research
– USA – Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota – added hundreds of local histories that are not available at the Family History Library
– USA – North Dakota – Added link for the new online state death index 1881
Legacy: Recording Conflicting Information
January 20, 2006
Over at Legacy News, there is an article about recording conflicting information with Legacy:
Every piece of information, even conflicting information, should be recorded in Legacy. Recording it will help you better organize and analyze the conflicts. Suppose you found a record which listed a different birth place than the one you have previously recorded. Follow these steps to record an “alternate” event….
