Depends how computer-illiterate your family is. Mine is pretty bad. In
regards to the photos: If your recipient can follow this, they can put
the folder of photos on their own hard-drive and then re-link them using
"View Current List of Multimedia Locations" under
Options/Customize/Locations. The path to the folder of pictures might
look something like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\JLB\My Documents\ANCESTORS\Pictures
where JLB is my computer name. If they change that to their own
file-path, all the pictures should link up again automatically. All
they have to do is put the pictures somewhere and then find the path to
it. If you give them 1-2-3 instructions they should be able to do it.
I laugh.
I think the rest of the database can be put onto a CD. Perhaps simplest
would be to burn a copy of your entire Legacy folder which you'll find
under C-drive, and have them overwrite their free version of Legacy with
that folder. I wonder though if that would work if they download the
free version and you're using the Deluxe. Perhaps some-one else could
jump in on that.
JL
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html
Evert van Dijken wrote:
Here you find some instructions that might be useful:
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsShareLegacy.asp
Evert
2008/3/8, Wayne Boian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
How can I easily give family members a complete copy of my legacy files with
all sources and photo's. I don't think a gencom file will transfer the
photos and the legacy file does not include the photos. Would it be best to
just copy the legacy fdb file to a CD and also copy the complete
subdirectory that has all the photo's to the CD as well. Then I could have
the family members download a free copy of Legacy. The only problem with
this approach would be changing all the photo file names in the fdb file to
read off of the CD instead of the directory when they are on my PC.
My goal is to let family members pick and choose what tree information they
want to look at. If they have updates or corrections they could e-mail those
to me. I don't think a lot of them would want to try to make gencom files.
It is hard enough just to get some of them to use e-mail or snail mail for
that matter.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks
Wayne Boian
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