Hi Michele,
When you say "All of the wording is wrong, formating is wrong etc", can
you give us an example or two to work with? It may be a matter of
something you can adjust to how you want, in which case we can help
you. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
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Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/>
----- Original Message -----
*From:* "Michele Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* "Legacy E-Mail List" <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
*Sent:* 11/22/2007 4:17:38 AM +1300
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] I am very frustrated
I printed out a test run of a descendancy report of one of my
ancestors (just a couple of generations worth) and the output is not
good. I would have to import this report into Word and clean it up.
All of the wording is wrong, formating is wrong etc (based on the
standards in place by the Board for Certification of Genealogists and
the wonderful book Professional Genealogy by Elizabeth Shown Mills, as
well as her citation books). I am not saying that the report should
be coming out perfect and I am glad that you can change the wording on
the event fields (sentence override) but I am going to have to go in
and pretty much change the wording on all of the event fields (and I
am thinking that I am going to have to do this on each individual and
that any changes I make will not carry over person to person).
I know that the new version of Legacy will have a source wizard of
sorts that will format the sources to comform to the standards
outlined by Elizabeth Shown Mills but I wonder if there should be a
data wizard that will make sure that all of the data is in a
standarized format.
Having a feature in the program where you can input your data into a
book format is not helpful if there are so many errors in how it comes
out. There is no way someone could just hit the button and POOF! a
formatted book comes out. You would have to import the entire book
into Word and clean it up which would take countless hours (might be
easier to just type it in from scratch using a printout from Legacy as
your notes).
I do want to say that I really do like Legacy. It has a lot of great
features that the other programs don't have but this is a shortcoming
and I am hoping this is an area where there will be some improvement.
Michele Lewis
Staff Genealogist, McDuffie Mirror
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