Pat,
I too am new to Legacy and I believe that you will not be disappointed in the
quality of the product. With that said, I have been researching my family
since 2001- I have my computer set up the following way.
My Documents
Genealogy
Each family has their own folder
in each folder, I have place all
the scanned or captured documents
ie. Crosby - all scanned obits, BMD, Census,
My Pictures
Crosby/Erickson Genealogy
all pictures relating to my research ( I may change this and sort per
family) I am getting photos from other family members so I now have over
800 photos relating to
my research.
I also use Clooz to record what documents I have so I can fill in the gaps.
There is another product I use from Microsoft called One Note. One Note is a
virtual file- I have a file named Genealogy with sep. folders for each family,
thoughts, to do notes, e-mail etc.
I like the MRIN filing system and I am thinking about doing that for all of my
files in the computer-
ie. MRIN1-Richard/Barbara Crosby- putting all photos, documents relating to
this marriage/family.
In the past I made up a 3 ring binder for each family and organized based on
dates- for that family name- as you may
note that would produce duplicates- ie Richard would have all of the documents
relating to that family as well as in
the Erickson book for his wife. I had four binders for each line of my
Grandparents- the only positive side to this
method was that if a Crosby ancestor was over to my house I would only show
them that book- same for each of the
other binders.
I look forward to hearing how others do this and how they share the info with
interested family members.
Shelly
----- Original Message -----
From: Pat and Rita Molloy<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Legacy User Group<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 4:38 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Newbie to Legacy
I am a newbie to Legacy - it arrived in the post on Saturday.
I have been researching my family history for about 10 years, and for much of
that time I have used a different genealogy programme. I was never completely
happy with it, so I've migrated to Legacy on the advice of a friend.
Initially, I had intended to import all my existing files into Legacy but
having given the matter some thought I decided I would do a "clean"
installation and re-enter all my information. Over the years, inevitable,
mistakes and errors have occurred, so I thought this would be a good time to
slowly go through it all, and make sure everything is correct.
With that in mind I've been giving a bit of thought on how I set it all up on
the computer. I'm no computer wizard (and frankly I've no desire to become
one!), and I've come up with the following.
*My Documents.
*Family History.
*My Family History (Legacy).
* Certificates. (Scans of)
*Birth.
*Marriages.
*Death
*Census (Scans of)
* UK 1841
* UK 1851
*etc.
* Parish Records (Scans of)
* Photographs.
*People.
* Places.
*Other.
Before I start any thoughts or comments (and improvements) would be
appreciated.
Pat Molloy
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