RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Hi Cheryl, Welcome to the group and to using Legacy. I'm sure you will find folk on this user group very helpful. I think most people would probably save everything in one file, but it would be really safe if you kept backup copies. When you exit Legacy it should offer you the option of backup - I always take up the offer. You can save photo's, documents to open within the programme too. I always find it easier to put all these in one file, but they can actually be kept anywhere, in different places on your computer. You also have the option of backing up multimedia - I take up this offer too. Best of luck in using Legacy and welcome once more. David Polesworth N Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cheryl Sent: 13 January 2007 17:15 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files
I think there is an article about this on the Legacy website from a while back however, since you asked so nicely... :) I have one file basically, my file would be the ancestors and relatives of my children. My son is the person from which I do the set relationships and the colour coding. This allows me to print up charts for my kids and have it have everyone. Another factor is that people will often find out that they are related in more ways than one... Ie - 2nd cousins might have married (or even closer relationships) - which can cause the problem of having to have the information in more than one file if you kept your different lines seperate. That said - I do have more than one file... I have my main file, which only has information that I am quite certain of. Then I have "research" files when my mom or dad sends me a gedcom I make them into their own Legacy files. Same for anything I might have downloaded from the internet. I use these as sources of clues - and as possible or probable information I check the information, and move them over when I get some sources. By the way, Legacy lets you have more than one file open, and you can drag and drop people or families between the files. That's how I do it - I'm sure other people will have other advice! Heather Stovold researching Stovold, McCaslin, Craven, Smart, Ward On 1/13/07, Cheryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Cheryl, I keep all the family in one file. As you start out, you might think that the families will all be distinct lines. But occasionally, you may find siblings that appear in more than one line! So rather than duplicate all the data entry after that point in two trees, you will be able to keep it all together in one file. If you find you want to do a report or send just one line to another researcher from your file, there are ways to temporarily unlink a person and send their line to a new file for sharing, or print a report for them. Legacy Users can help you if you find you need to do that in the future. (Or you can search the Archives - link below - for past explanations.) You can also add unlinked trees within your main family file if you find a family that you think might have a connection but you haven't proved it yet. Just click on Add - then - New Unlinked Individual. To see how many unlinked trees you have in your family file, click on View - then - Tree Finder. You will see the main person listed, and the number of persons in that tree. There are some users who maintain separate files, but I think they must be very organized people! I am somewhat lazy, so I like having everyone in my one file to make it easier to find them! Hope this helps, Susan Daily On 1/13/07, Cheryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files
I use one file for all my lines as well as independent lines that may later prove to actually be connected to one of my lines. This eliminates the possibility of duplicate individuals that may exist in various lines and the need to maintain these duplicates in various files. Should the need arise to send a file to someone, I can always extract the pertinent portion into either a GEDCOM or a Legacy sub-file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cheryl Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:15 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Hi Cheryl, I forgot to say - If your Legacy file gets so large it is unmanageable, it is possible to split the file up. I personally would only consider this at a much later stage. If you want to read about it, go to the drop down Help menu at the top, when you are in the Legacy programme. Click on Contents and there is a section on Using Legacy. If you click on the Tips and Trick link, there are a number of helpful articles. Towards the bottom there is an article on Splitting Files. This will not only tell you how to do it, but will tell you you don't need to do it right at the start - it discuses the issue a little. Hope this will help. Best wishes David Polesworth N.Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David S Brookes Sent: 13 January 2007 17:32 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi Cheryl, Welcome to the group and to using Legacy. I'm sure you will find folk on this user group very helpful. I think most people would probably save everything in one file, but it would be really safe if you kept backup copies. When you exit Legacy it should offer you the option of backup - I always take up the offer. You can save photo's, documents to open within the programme too. I always find it easier to put all these in one file, but they can actually be kept anywhere, in different places on your computer. You also have the option of backing up multimedia - I take up this offer too. Best of luck in using Legacy and welcome once more. David Polesworth N Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cheryl Sent: 13 January 2007 17:15 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Oh, I did forget one time when I think having 2 seperate files for 2 lines is worthwhile When the husband and the wife both do genealogy, and can't agree on standards of entry... (ie, one person always uses state abreviations, the other always uses the full state name stuff like that...) Instead of driving each other nuts - it can be worthwhile to maintain seperate databases for their own research - and only bring the info together when necessary for reports for the kids or something like that. I suppose if there is a connection between the 2 main lines, you could assign which person maintains that line. Heather Stovold Researching Stovold, McCaslin, Craven, Smart, Ward Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files
When doing genealogy, one is never "finished". So, even though not finished yet, I would sugest making at least one backup (in addition to the regular backups) onto a CD which is kept NOT in your home but, somewhere else: with a family member living elsewhere or even your safe deposit box in a bank. That way if a fire burns your home down, at least you do not have to start from zero. If you add a lot of material to your working file you can repeat the process from time to time. CDs are cheap. As to the archival paper documents that is a thornier problem. If one was organized enough one could make photocopies of them all and put the copies (or originals) physically somewhere else. Harder to do . Scanning them all and putting the resulting image files on a CD elsewhere or in a bank as above would be ideal - if one put the work and time to really do it. Backups are essential. Burglers and fires do occur. Jeff David S Brookes wrote: Hi Cheryl, Welcome to the group and to using Legacy. I'm sure you will find folk on this user group very helpful. I think most people would probably save everything in one file, but it would be really safe if you kept backup copies. When you exit Legacy it should offer you the option of backup - I always take up the offer. You can save photo's, documents to open within the programme too. I always find it easier to put all these in one file, but they can actually be kept anywhere, in different places on your computer. You also have the option of backing up multimedia - I take up this offer too. Best of luck in using Legacy and welcome once more. David Polesworth N Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cheryl Sent: 13 January 2007 17:15 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Cheryl, I use Legacy to record the lineages of my One Name Study of the surname BAGE. This means there will be many unconnected family lines. However, I like to have all of this in just one file. This way it's easy to navigate and see the full picture. I can always export if I need a particular family separate. I do however make use of some other files, i.e. I have one with all the BAGE IGI information in which I refer to and when ready I move this info into my main file. This method works well in my opinion. Keith Bage BAGE One Name Study (GOONS registered # 4451) http://www.bage.org.uk P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=5917ADi > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Cheryl > Sent: 13 January 2007 17:15 > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files > > Hi all, > > I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. > > Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife > (starting couple)with families all in one file > > or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my > Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), > Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each > one & build the family from there. > > Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture > of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with > everyone). > > I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a > good complete file, if you share how you save your family > groups I would appriciate... > Thanks in advance! > > Cheryl > > > > Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe > has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more > about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. > > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives > at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > For online technical support, please visit > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Hi Cheryl, Like the others that have replied to this thread, I maintain only one family file. In addition to the backup suggested on the Legacy website, I would suggest that you send to yourself on a web-based email, such as Gmail, your Gedcom. That way, your data is protected from clamaties, such as fire. Jacob On 1/13/07, Cheryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Some ideas about this is found in the Legacy News article, "Your Legacy Database - Should You Split It?" It is at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/03/your_legacy_dat.html Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cheryl Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 10:15 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Hi Cheryl, You've had some great responses already, and I just want to add my two-cents' worth. :-) I keep two separate files, one for my family and one for my partner's. We don't have any kids, either together or separately. When I started doing my research, and using Legacy, I was only researching my family. Nigel has very little family to speak of, and wasn't interested in finding out any more. I entered what little I knew of them into my file. Within my file, I have family branches that are not connected to me - yet! For example, an ongoing project is researching all PLAYFORTHs recorded in the town of Market Weighton (Yorkshire, England) in the censuses that are available - I figure most, if not all, are related to each other in some way, and one day I may manage to find those connections and therefore link them to one of my great-great-grandmothers. As time went on, I found it a hassle to exclude his family from the reports and files I was generating to share with my relatives. I know, there are ways around that - but as with many things in Legacy, there is more than one solution! So I deleted everyone from his family that I'd entered, except for Nigel himself. Then, with the passing of his grandmother and me helping his father with documentation for resolving her intestacy, I got curious about the genealogy of that family, so started actively researching them. At that point, I started a new file for that research. For me it's just easier to keep the two families separate. They have no connection to each other beyond the fact that Nigel and I have lived together for 18 years now. If I ever found that there were links between the two families besides Nigel and I, I'd merge them together. For now, I'm happy with having them apart. :-) You'll find as time goes on that there is often more than one way to approach things in Legacy - it's a very flexible program. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/ - Original Message - *From:* "Cheryl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com *Sent:* 01/14/2007 6:15:28 AM +1300 *Subject:* [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files
I used to have four separate databases. Then I was finding to many families that would merge together. I still wanted to see what "Family" each person came from, so, I decided to use the "User ID" field to put a code for each family line. Then I put my relationship to the person. H3GGM would stand for Harris 3rd great-great grandmother. H&M2C3R would be Harris & Miller line 2nd cousin 3 times removed. On some lines I have large groups of families that I think are related to me but for now I only have then spottily connected. I will put H-Bentley to show this is my Harris line with the Bentley name study. This coding system has fit my needs perfectly. I have my database up on Rootsweb and look at it while at the libraries or Family History Centers. I can see how someone is related to me and then decide if I want to keep any information on that line or not. This has helped me not go on tangents for people that are not blood related to me. I like to now just put the non-blood related spouses parents information under my notes and tell where you can locate further information on that line. Since my lines are coded in the User ID field if I want to split the lines or just send information on one line to someone I can do a "search" for them. I could search for all the individuals with a user ID that begins with the letter "W" and then tag them. Then I would have all my Weatherwax's to send to someone. This system works for me. Now I strongly suggest people combine their family lines together, but code them first. Then you will never regret your actions. I would say that one person on the list did make a strong point for not combining lines if both husband and wife were working separately on their families. I just don't personally have the luck. Renee Zamora www.harrisena.com - Original Message - From: "Cheryl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 10:15 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files > Hi all, > > I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. > > Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting > couple)with > families all in one file > > or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents > surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So > would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. > > Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of > the > family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). > > I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good > complete > file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... > Thanks in advance! > > Cheryl > > > > Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 > features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these > features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. > > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > For online technical support, please visit > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Cheryl wrote I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. I look on my family file as being exactly that, *my* family, so it includes all my relatives, 4 main lines for each of my grandparents. I think of them and document them as the Paul, Bloor, Dodd and Chandler lines. Because I am divorced from both my husbands I have not researched their lines. I might one day if my children asked me to. In that case, I would probably keep a separate family file (or two) but create a merged file in order to run reports if they wanted them. Neither of my children has or will have children, which probably influences my decision. If I were still married to and/or interested in my former spouses, or if my descendant line was to continue, I would probably include my husband(s) in my family file. -- Jenny M Benson Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files
I have 4 separate family files: one for my family, one for my fiance's family, one for my half-sister's father's family, and one for my ex-husband's family. I also have them in separate GEDCOMs on Rootsweb. This way, my soon-to-be inlaws don't have to slog through family that isn't related to them. My ex won't have that proverbial cow if he finds HIS GEDCOM with MY family still attached to it (I'm doing the research for OUR kids, but he won't see it that way!) There are a few other, more personal, reasons why I keep them apart, which I won't go into. As an aside, it helps me to compartmentalize when I decide, for example, to work on one family file for a couple of weeks or a month, then before I suffer from burnout, I can switch to another file, and it's like a whole new set of issues to deal with. I love Legacy, and all you helpful folks! Roxanne Baird Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Hi Cheryl, My preference FWIW is to have separate maternal and paternal files. This is only because I find it easier when making my webpages and ebook and creating a Tree chart. It doesn't become too unweildy. :-) I also have a merged file with everyone on board. So 3 files does it for me but IMHO with Legacy you are able to choose whichever suits you. regards, Roger Jones > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:15:28 -0800 > > Hi all, > > I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. > > Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with > families all in one file > > or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents > surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So > would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. > > Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the > family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). > > I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete > file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... > Thanks in advance! > > Cheryl _ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Thank you all for your thoughts & suggestions on this topic. I have decided it is best to keep one file, I had tried to over complicate this several years before & I think it might have been part of my frustration & why I kinda walked away from it. Time to start over, actually it is kinda cool re-entering everything.. great refresher course!! Thanks again, Cheryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Geoff Rasmussen Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:52 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files Some ideas about this is found in the Legacy News article, "Your Legacy Database - Should You Split It?" It is at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/03/your_legacy_dat.html Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cheryl Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 10:15 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files (Off List Reply)
Thanks Glen, I was wondering if I was over doing it by wanting to break the families apart in seperate files I will take your advise & save on various medium. I have lost all my files from years ago, but as always have kept my hard copies, you can never go wrong with that! Thanks Cheryl -Original Message- From: Glen Ballard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] saving family files (Off List Reply) Cheryl, If you and your husband have children, they would be related to both your family and your husband's family. Therefore I would use one file. If you have or he has kids from another marriage, but not together I would still use just one file because you are doing the genealogy for the future generations. Your marriage joins you with a spouse AND that spouses family. This is just my philosophy Glen Ballard P.S. You also might find interesting family connections by keeping all your genealogy in one database. By doing this, I have found that my brother in law is my 11th cousin. --- P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=3AV63La --- - Original Message - From: "Cheryl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:15 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user & wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh & Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one & build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
