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What is FTM?
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Family Tree Maker. I could bash Family Tree Maker , but I better stay
clean. Trust me, Legacy works better than FTM!
What I mean is you can select persons on Ancestry, and download Gedcoms
about them. That is what I did. That gave me sources, names,
relationships. Do you know what Gedcom is?
And no, you are certainly not a burden!
Robert
Donna C. Brown wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions,everyone. I hate to be a burden. I am
computer literate in many ways but there are many things about the
technology that I haven't learned or can't keep up with, it seems. I
can't set up my own harddrive for instance, as Elaine suggested. I'm
new at working with Gedcom that Robert suggested. From
Ancestry, I've been either writing info by hand or copying and pasting
into a Word Perfect document, then pasting it onto the Legacy Research
page of the family file, so I don't lose the information. It doesn't
work to copy and paste directly from Ancestry (census, for
instance.). Is that what you mean when you work with the material,
Robert? Then after you look it over, etc., are you able to import it
right into the family file without a lot of copying and pasting?
In trying to set up Legacy on the new Vista, I was on the phone with
support. The young man said "everyone" in the office had wiped Vista
off their harddrives and installed XP. He admitted he was dumbfounded
why I could not get Legacy installed with the web, however, and there
was only one person in the office that knew how to work with Vista.
She was gone for the day. I did click around and finally installed it
with blank forms from the web.
Karima, I wonder if the difference is your Vista Home Program. What
is FTM? When I got Legacy installed, the family data did not
transfer. Is there something I'm not doing right?
Donna
On 9/15/07, *Quest* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
wrote:
Hi Donna,
I have a relatively new (4 months old) HP computer with Vista Home
Premium on it and it works just fine. I did have to download a
new driver for my printer. My Legacy Program, as well as all of
the other programs I used on my old computer (except FTM) work
just as they did before.
When you say "But, now that I have Legacy downloaded, it's
BLANK!" what are you referring to?
Karima
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Donna C. Brown <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
*Sent:* Saturday, September 15, 2007 9:27 AM
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] WARNING to everyone buying a new computer!
I just bought a new HP computer with Vista on it. We found a
good sale on it but we really got what we paid for. "Will I
ever learn?" Vista is terrible, at this stage. You can't
download things easily. It only came with junky programs or
ones that you can only get for 60 day trial period. Because
of Vista, you have to get extra help from the companies before
you can download your favorite old programs or installation
discs. Everyone told me AFTER I bought the computer that I
should have waited till Microsoft got the bugs worked out,
just as they did with XP. OR, I could have gotten a computer
built with XP and the programs we use. Our only solution now
may be to spend more money to have Vista wiped off the
harddrive and have XP installed back on the computer. So much
for sales.
Legacy walked me through the download via the web ONLY. Discs
didn't work. But, now that I have Legacy downloaded, it's
BLANK! (I'm shouting with frustration!) All my data is still
on my old laptop with XP. Does anyone have suggestions for
transferring the data?
One other big question, when I retrieve info from Ancestry.com
<http://ancestry.com/>, how can I import it directly to
Legacy? I usually have to write it in longhand and then type
it into Legacy. That's very time consuming and prone to
mistakes. Thanks for any suggestions to these problems.
Donna Brown
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