Hi Wayne,
When I first started, I sent a copy of my Legacy file (with the program
file for installation) around the family members who were interested.
But they weren't so interested in learning to use Legacy, just wanted to
know what I'd discovered about our family.
What I eventually found more practical for them was to generate web
pages, which Legacy will do for you. Then they could browse at will,
going up and down the generations as well as dipping into the name
index. Not a lot different to what you can do in Legacy, of course, but
a format they were comfortable with.
I haven't put a lot of photos in my database, so can't comment on how
the Legacy-generated web pages would turn out in that respect. I simply
copied everything of interest onto the CDs I burned for the family, so
they could dip into that as well. All my picture files are named in a
way that describes what/who the image is.
Hope this gives you some food for thought. :-)
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:* "Wayne Boian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
*Sent:* 03/08/2008 2:57:20 PM +1300
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] family updates
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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