Hello Connie I agree with your remarks Legacy is a huge learning curve and get bigger therefore there is little time to "write" ones history I adopted your policy and start from scratch in Microsoft Word
Regards John Manchester England ----- Original Message ----- From: "Connie Sheets" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing papers and Using Legacy > Janis, > I will answer your questions privately, but I wanted to post a partial > response to Question #1 publicly, as I think it is germane to the use of > Legacy. There may be someone out there struggling silently with what I have > struggled with for years who can benefit from what I've learned. > > I love Legacy, and it is great for storing data and printing standard > reports, but I am no longer making any effort to download that data into a > word processor to produce a "real" family history, case study, etc. [I write > research reports, biographies, etc. "from scratch"]. And I'm giving up any > hope of ever storing most of my data in Legacy beyond basic info (i.e. names, > birth, marriage and death dates, etc.). My reason for these decisions is > that it is just too time consuming to clean up the info in the word > processor, or to enter all that backlog of census records, deeds, etc. If I > do all that, I will have no time to write the histories and articles in a way > that I feel good about "publishing." Snip.................. > Connie Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
