I can see why she is hesitant about Legacy in re the colors, since Legacy uses color only to identify 8 ancestral lines of one person.
It is soooo much easier to identify family groups by color rather than by number or code; it involves no searches, and that family group is always immediately obvious. This is something that should be entered as a suggestion for Legacy, although I am not sure she can do that since she is not using Legacy. It is a marvelous idea to use colors to identify specific families rather than merely one person's ancestral lines! It would be immensely helpful to those who have many medieval families with myriad branches that are very difficult to keep straight. CE Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 12:36:51 +0800 From: genea...@gmail.com To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] TMG looking for new home Legacy vs RootsMagic 7 Legacy 8 allows you to set two lines and use 8 colours rather than the original 4. There's more in the Help file than what Sherry has quoted. This is not doing what you've been using colours for in TMG if I understand you correctly. To bring over the TMG colours you need to use some alternative such as a code in privacy brackets in the Suffix field or the extremely complicated tag system suggested. Since you need tags available to do complicated searches, I wouldn't assign too many tags to keep track of things. Much better to add a Private Event that you can search for and create a Search list when you need to concentrate on that particular thing. Cathy Dawn Beeks wrote: So you are saying I can have only 4 colors and I must use the ones listed below. Or can I use more colors. Dawn B eeks 653 Pampas Place Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 520 249-5595 dawnbe...@msn.com *From:*Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] *Sent:* Monday, December 01, 2014 7:35 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] TMG looking for new home Legacy vs RootsMagic 7 >From the Help file for Ancestor: Color Coding Accredited genealogist Mary E. V. Hill developed this color-coding system used in Legacy. Adding color-coding to your organizational system helps keep your ancestral lines straight and promotes effective genealogy research. The idea for color-coding began when family researchers finding lots of collateral genealogy information felt a need to concentrate direct-line great- and great-great-grandparents going back for many generations. As they worked on large pedigree charts it became overwhelming until they divided th e chart up into four quarters by color. Color-code your pedigree by the lineages of your four grandparents. All the ancestors of one grandparent will be organized under the same color: Grandfather's lineage on your father's side: BLUE Grandmother's lineage on your father's side: GREEN Grandfather's lineage on your mother's side: RED Grandmother's lineage on your mother's side: YELLOW As you navigate through your family file in Legacy the color code for the current individual is shown on the /Family /and /Pedigree Views /letting you quickly know what line you are looking at. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Dawn Beeks <dawnbe...@msn.com <mailto:dawnbe...@msn.com>> wrote: Are you saying you can only have two colors in one project? So if I have 4 lines of Beeks in one project, I can’t s tart with the ancestor and give each line a different color? I would want something like the Beeks of VA to be Blue, Beeks of PA be green, Beeks of OH be yellow and Beeks of SC, be red. I find that strange, with the huge color palette you can choose from. Or am I not understanding something. You can put me down for testing too Dawn Beeks dawnbe...@msn.com mailto:dawnbe...@msn.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
