This is relevant to your question on research notes placement also. There are a couple of places where you can link to external files from within Legacy. One is the picture galleries of which there are countless numbers, one for every individual, every event, every source and every location and probably more besides. For location notes you could use the gallery for the specific location, the gallery is not just for pictures but for any files, you simply add the link as a file and not a picture. If you find a website with local history you can capture the information on the page with the web browser option to save it as a web page archive format. Firefox for example can create MAFF type files with an image of the webpage as you saw it. These files can be simply added to the gallery and will use the Operating system default for invoking the filetype, so .pdf files may use Adobe Acrobat to display or you could store the url of the website as a bookmark and use that .url file in your gallery to go straight to the website with the information you wanted. Your default web browser would invoke any .url files. You could think about using the ToDo list function in Legacy for other research notes. The ToDo list is not just about items which you have to do but can just be information items. You can use existing categories or create your own , like Research Notes , and then use the filter option to display just those in that category. Each ToDo item has a source associated and any source you create will have a gallery to go with it which you can use for files containing research notes. Alternatively the Todo item will also allow you to create a repository. Repositories do not have to be real places, they can be imaginary or virtual places. You could create a ToDo item for Hometown Research and for that item a repository called Hometown Research. The repository would have a gallery associated with it where you could link your files regarding Hometown research. Alternatively it might be a John Smith research ToDo item and repository dealing with an individual. The other way to get to external files from within Legacy is via the URL addresses. You will find that repositories have a line for recording their homepage and you can make use of this. If you wish to invoke a file via a URL you enter file:///C:/Users/Marg/Legacy/Pictures/research.pdf for example. An advantage is that it can take as little as two clicks from an individual to get to the research notes, one on the ToDo icon and if the Research notes is the only ToDo and you have the Repository Tab as the one first shown you will see that the homepage can be clicked as the second click and you're there. Homepage addresses are also accessible from the individual's address icon ( the little house with a wireless handset ), which seemed incongruous for those living in the 18th century. I find that it can be useful if you have a saved copy of a Web version of your Legacy tree as you can invoke it from the individuals page using something like file:///C:/Users/Marg/Legacy/Web/Mytree/241.htm , the numeric being the appropriate RIN of the individual. So there are a number of ways of tying your Legacy database to external files and this might also apply to files created by more specialised research tools.
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