RE: [LegacyUG] Archive research help needed

2014-06-27 Thread Monique Riley
Kathy, Are you able to take in a small tablet computer or even your phone with the Families app on it? That way you will have all your information with you. Good luck! Monique > > Kathy Meyer wrote: > > I am going to be travelling a bit in Germany in about a > > month and I have one day set asid

Re: [LegacyUG] Archive research help needed

2014-06-27 Thread Tessa Keough
Kathy I posted your question over at the Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+. Hopefully one of our members will be able to make some suggestions about how to use your Legacy database, reports and/or charts to prepare for a successful research trip to Germany. Tessa Tessa Keough Guild

Re: [LegacyUG] Archive research help needed

2014-06-27 Thread singhals
It is depressing but true that in all my various trips to various depositories, I have NEVER had all the info I needed to make optimal use of the facility. Even when I used a Palm Pilot and carted *ALL* the information in my database on it, there was always a name in something at the archive being

Re: [LegacyUG] Archive research help needed

2014-06-27 Thread Cathy Pinner
Hi Kathy, I find a Descendant Chart helpful - using the format option to pack information on one line (actually it word wraps to more than one) and include marriage and parents. This packs a lot of information into a small space. Before the days of taking computers to libraries, that's what I us

Re: [LegacyUG] Archive research help needed

2014-06-27 Thread Kathy Meyer
THanks, Sherry. I don't agree but I will respect it :-) I'm trying to find out what reports Legacy might have that will assist in a research trip. That doesn't seem off topic to me -- I gave a lot of details because I imagined people would have a lot of different reports that they use and though

Re: [LegacyUG] Archive research help needed

2014-06-27 Thread Sherry/Support
This is not the appropriate place for general research questions. You could check Rootsweb mailing lists for a group that's specific to researching in Germany that might be more helpful. We'd be more than happy to help you get Legacy and your data files on your laptop to take with and synching wit