Roger, I want to warn you about Ancestry.com. It is a WONDERFUL resource for DOCUMENTS. It is a terrible resource when you are relying on someone else's family trees as the basis of your research. You said it was "easy" to find 2200+ ancestors. I would guess that is because you were copying what other people had in their family trees. The problem with the family trees on Ancestry is that 99.9% of the information on there is UNSOURCED. You need a source for EVERY fact in your file. Anything that doesn't have a source is pretty much worthless and fiction. That is one of the wonderful things about Legacy, there is system in place to easily record your sources in a consistent way. I can't tell you how many times I have emailed or messaged someone on Ancestry saying, "Where did you get that birthdate? I have been looking for that for years!" and the answer I will get back is either, "I just copied it off of someone else's tree," or simply, "I don't know." That information is WORTHLESS! As a genealogy columnist and instructor, this is my #1 pet peeve. I have seen people download complete GEDCOMS (unsourced) from the internet and just integrate it into their file, WORTHLESS! That isn't research. Not only that but chances are pretty good that it will be full of errors because the person you got it from didn't bother to research anything either.
Now back to your original question... If I were you, I would start my database off FRESH in Legacy, one person at a time. Start with yourself and then work backward ONE GENERATION AT A TIME adding your sources as you go. As far as the census records go, it is VERY easy to attach a census record to your Legacy file. All you have to do is save it at a pdf to your hard drive and then attach it to your census event or to your source (or to both as Geoff does). No, all of the census records you have attached to your Legacy account will not transfer over with one click but in my opinion, that is a good thing. You need to go back and review each person one at a time. If you do this I will guarantee you will see some things that you didn't notice before. Michele Simmons Lewis, Staff Genealogist McDuffie Mirror Thomson, McDuffie Co, GA [I added my full title just to give my opinion a little more oomph] -----Original Message----- From: n...@juno.com Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 9:25 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] How to enter census data into my Legacy records. I started my ancestor quest 10 moths ago with ancestry.com Even with my poor computer skills it was easy to find 2200+ ancestors. I'm really hooked! I wanted a better way to keep and print records. I added Legacy last month. I was disappointed when none of the actual census data made the transfer to Legacy. Is it there some place I have not discovered? I thought the census webinar might tell me how to do it. It might, but there is far too much info on filling in the blanks with things I don't want to tackle at this point. It was very simple, even for a dummy like me, to add each census to my ancestry.com records. Is there some simple way to add these records to my Legacy records, or must I switch back to ancestry.com each time I want to look at some census year for an ancestor? I have free US/Canada telephone if some brave soul would like to try to walk me thru it. Thanks Roger Burt near Charlotte, NC Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
