E.Rodier wrote:
Years ago I received a GEDCOM full of interesting obits that were cut
to three lines, the "standard GED 5.5" length of a particular source
field used by Legacy. PAF 5 was limited to a single line for the same
information. Researchers often make changes for many weeks in a "new"
genealogy
program before noticing the amount of data lost in a file transfer. --
Elizabeth
Tell me about it! I am still cleaning out and correcting the gedcom data I
imported into Legacy. I decided the only way to be sure is to go through
each person in detail and check the information. Very time consuming but
necessary to avoid major surprises.
Good thing about it is that you get to review all your entered data and
incidentally discover interesting pieces of information you entered years
ago when you were new at this and that you can now dig much deeper into or
correct. But if you have a huge family tree, it could take for ever.
I started with the master source and the location lists, which needed a lot
of work, and went on from there. I also tried importing into TMG and my
experience was that despite TMG's advertising, Legacy did a much more
accurate job of importing the information than TMG which made some terrible
errors using its default settings. Go figure.
I wish Legacy would implement some minor changes (add events on the Family
screen, more structured source entry and multi source links, etc.) which
with little effort would really make it so much more powerful without
diminishing its useability.
Does anyone know if there is a list of what changes and improvements the
Legacy authors are "working on" (wish list) and if they have a beta testing
team for experienced genealogists?
Jeff
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