Hi Anne,
Many thanks for your reply to my query.
Another Legacy user wrote to me direct with similar reasons for combining my
files and it confirms my thoughts plus gives me a better insight to Legacy
and it's capablilities.
Again my thanks for your thoughts.
Regards,
Colin.
----- Original Message -----
From: The Eccles Family
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 1:37 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Merging family files, advantages/disadvantages
Hi Colin,
I too, started out with separate files for my family based on my parents
and my husband's parents. As you said, each file was easier to keep on
separate floppies for backup.
With the advent of CD's and DVD's and portable harddrives for backup,
space
is no longer issue. Also Legacy is different to FTM in that it links to
multimedia files (photos etc) rather then including the actual file in its
database which FTM used to do. This means that your legacy backup file can
be small even if you have a lot of people in your file. Some people have
many thousands of people in one file.
I now combine all my family into one file for the reasons below.
1. You only have to update someone once, for example your children might
be
in 2 or 4 files - with 4 files you might need to update their information
4
times. If you only have one file, you only update once.
2. Intermarriages between family members. It was common for families to
intermarry. I have many instances where cousins have married this would
now
make it very difficult to split my file and siblings within two families
have married. - two brothers to two sisters etc.
Legacy also has the ability to have two or more unconnected trees within
the
same file. Say you have a great uncle Thomas Moore, you find information
on
a Tom Moore in the same town but you don't know if he is your Thomas. You
can enter his information as a separate person or tree. If later you
confirm
that they are one and the same you can merge their information. If you
find
that they are different you can document your finds and delete what you
don't want to keep.
I hope that this helps.
Regards
Anne
NSW
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin
Liddell
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 11:44 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: [LegacyUG] Merging family files, advantages/disadvantages
Hi folks,
Many years ago when I first started researching my family I kept the files
of the different branches seperated as backup then was to floppy disc
which
held 1.44Mb and each branch would fit on one floppy.
With today's technology, ie. Cds, DVDs and USB backup drives there is no
problem with the size of a file.
With my family I have two files, one for Liddell, my father's branch, and
one for McWilliams, my mother's branch. In the case of my wife's side I
have
three files as her father married twice and there are children from both
marriages.
My question is, what are the advantages/disavantages of combining all
these
files into one large file?
Is this a matter of personal preference only or are there distinct
advantages in combining them?
Any thoughts or suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated.
Colin in South East Qld where it is clear blue skies and 23c, not bad for
an
autumn day.{;-)
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