I agree totally , but I also did from FTM to Legacy before I went totally
LEGACY because I was not sure which one I wanted to stay with. I also used
Family Origins then its child Roots Magic
What finally convinced me to go LEGACY besides its merging factor was
all the shortcut keys. A massive stroke in 1998 left me with the use of just
my right side and the shortcut keys in LEGACY have allowed me to enter over
30,000 names in 3 months
Now I ONLY use one family tree program -"LEGACY "
Love, Light, Rainbows & Blessings
Sandra Tyler Duncan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John R. Bayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 7:33 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Merging FTM and Legacy Files
Don O. Wrote:
For information only: I have both Legacy 5 and FTM 2005.
What I do is make all my postings to FTM 2005 and then create a GEDCOM
file,
go to Legacy and import the FTM file to Legacy.
That way I have same information in both files and can utilize the
benefits
of both programs.
I have Legacy 5 deluxe and FTM 10. Do do the opposite of what Don does.
I keep my "main" database in Legacy and then export viat GEDCOM to FTM.
IMO it's easier to enter new data into Legacy, but that's opinion.
What I don't think is opinion, is that Legacy has better & more extensive
sourcing capabilites than FTM (certainly FTM 10) Legacy has better
searching
capbailities and in general has a better database "engine" than FTM. FTM
makes
more and better trees. So I export to FTM from Legacy to make trees.
I don't care that I get lot's of error messages on import to FTM because
when
I researched them, most had to do with FTM getting confused about all of
Legacy's
sourcing capabilites. So that's why I do it the way I do.
I'd love to hear from Don about why he goes the opposite way.
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