Dan,
Since you posted a public question, I'll post a public reply. Legacy 6 
Narrative is the closest available report to my 1970 typed notes for one 
branch of the family that revised my notes in a word processor family book.

I'd originally intended to recommend the relatives buy Legacy 3 for a more 
automatic family book instead of photocopying a bunch of word processor 
files. Don't know if any of them have adequate computer equipment or 
Internet service to download 26 mb Legacy 6 files as the reunion planners 
live in a rural area near the 1830 family farm.

The 1999 family book included copies of charts made with a non-Legacy 
genealogy program and some pictures. PDF is better for a book-in-progress 
than RTF edited in a word processor because some information for the family 
needs to be updated. Some of the cousins with unhappy first marriages wanted 
them left out.

I had more than a dozen family files for different branches and thousands of 
scanned pictures with long file names before 16 bit Legacy 2 was released in 
1997. Not unusual for a project to be left on hold for a few years hoping 
that a new version of software will have an extra option needed for a 
particular family book report. Also had to wait a couple of years for 
release of the 1911 Canadian census.

If the Legacy 6 scrapbooks showed in a Book Preview when selected, I could 
start to plan an illustrated version. Legacy 6 allows basic event pictures 
(birth, christening, marriage, death, burial) but they are not included in a 
narrative like other event pictures. -- E.R., family historian since 1967

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan
> If I had projects on hold for years, I would not lay blame on the tool I 
> thought was inadequate, or even on the tool maker for not making the 
> perfect tool for my particular project: I would however either find a 
> different tool, or admit the project that could wait that long was never 
> important to me in the first place.



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