Since I got "Map My Family Tree" from the bundle of Legacy add-ons, I would guess it is allowed to be discussed here. If not, I am sorry Brian. I have been using it since, but have found it has a few annoying quirks. I have over 25K names and 5K places, so the program runs understandably slow on my laptop. When I first used it I found many mistakes I had put into Legacy, but found I needed to close MMFT and open L and fix, then reopen MMFT to see my repairs. I also found MMFT did not understand locations with less than four field names. When I had already used locations like 'United States' or 'England', I chose to put the lat/long for the capital's city (to confuse the MMFT). The biggest problem was that opening MMFT and editting as described, After about a dozen or so changes, the program/laptop would freeze up, then need to close down. It would remember all but one change on restart, so I only did about 5 or so changes at a time. And since each start up on my system took up to 14 minutes, I could get about 20-30 fixes an hour. I gave up trying to do all my fixes there, and repaired all the locations in L. It also doesn't like 'old place names' (as was at the time). I liked the print outs, and the detail, but at the time, I wasn't doing many of them. If your DB is under 5K it should work real good. I decided when I buy the 'next' computer, it will be able to handle stuff better. Then since Virtual Earth was added in the mix, I use that and MapQuest. Rich in LA CA
--- On Mon, 3/16/09, Barbara Ford <pastors...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Barbara Ford <pastors...@gmail.com> > Subject: [LegacyUG] Map Program > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 4:31 PM > I hope it's okay to ask this. I'm sure Legacy has > mapping programs, > too, but I have on hand a "Map My Family Tree" > CD.It says it reads all > popular genealogy file formats, including Legacy Family > Tree. Is there > any reason I should not use this program? If it will > possibly do > something to mess up my Legacy, then I don't want to > take that chance. > Any thoughts? > Barbara > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
