Bert van K. wrote:
> What do you mean with "a french version" of Legacy? As far as I know there
> is no official release of a French legacy version.
>
> Besides that, Legacy is working on a international version with many
> languages. Then it is easy to change from english to french with the same
> database.
Yes, the Legacy team has been working on an international version
for years now. What I find amazing is that the developers are so willing
to spend so much time on that when the basic English language version
could use so much improvement in the area of output.
Look at all the times folks write about this report not doing enough or
that report lacking this really-nice-to-have feature. Footnotes as an
alternative to endnotes is only one recent example. Then there's my
repeated request for integrated charting within Legacy, as another
example of Legacy's weak output.
As I was looking over some pages on Legacy's web site, I saw what
the major issue is. As I read the course outline for the courses that
will be taught during the 2006 Cruise to Alaska, I realized that it was
a great curriculum to learn how to do genealogy research. And then
it struck me that Legacy's whole focus is on doing research. But
there is much more to Genealogy than just research. It is also about
sharing the results of that research. Many us enjoy researching to find
out interesting facts about our ancestors and relatives. That's the fun
of research.
But many of us also like to do things with that research.
Elizabeth likes to make books with pictures of her relatives to share
with family members. I like to make charts. Others like to make
web pages and reports. Some people want to really track their
sources and generate reports with lots of source details.
Most of us like to to a little of all of it.
It seems to me that in the past Legacy has focused on doing research.
That is certainly a good place to start. Since Legacy's research
capabilities are so well developed, I hope that in the future more
effort will go into developing Legacy's output capablities which
would allow genealogists to better share the results of that research
with others, esp. those relatives who've not been bitten by the
genealogy bug!
jr
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