Hello Colin: I'm also not Penny, but I still remember my switch from FTM to Legacy (and only regret not doing it sooner). There were no problems with the import, but I was horrified at the number of errors I found due to my less-than-perfect data entry in FTM. These show up in glaring fashion in Legacy. In View > Tree Finder you can see any people who may be unconnected in your file (use "Refresh" each time). Check your Location list and you'll surely find enough inconsistencies to keep you busy for a couple of days. (There is a camp who advocate using the placeholder commas and another who hate them. You'll have to decide for yourself.) Under View > Master Lists you'll find an item for Surnames, and you'll probably find a few inconsistencies there, too. After you've done a preliminary cleanup, you'll probably want to run an Error Report to see what Legacy finds. If you disagree with anything in the error report, it's easy to tell the program to ignore a particular bit.
Others may have additional suggestion for places to look in order to clean up your data. Welcome to the group. And by the way, your messages are still not coming through in plain text although some who respond are changing it over as I did. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Liddell Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:56 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New User of Legacy seeking advice Hi Penny in Texas, There seem to be a number of people on this list that have moved over from FTM, I am beginning to understand why after using Legacy for a few days. Do you run FTM in tandem with Legacy or have you made a total change over? Did you have any problems in importing your FTM files, if so what were they and do you have any suggestions. Colin in sunny Qld. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
