Welcome, Angelique. Stay with us, you'll learn a lot.
Your points about Legacy vs. FTM were very interesting. I've tried both
and couldn't give FTM any consideration except for their vertical trees.
That's the only reason why I keep it on my hard drive.
It's deadly SLOW, yes, I'm shouting. I can wash a sinkful of dishes
while I'm waiting for it to load, well, almost anyway. Legacy loads
instantly.
You're right about the clicking, it can be a pain at times. I line up
all my windows so that I'm not jumping all over the screen to close
them, so that all the X boxes are almost parallel. Saves a lot of work.
I find the source templates overkill and don't use them. If you stick
with the old method, you should probably find it much easier.
> * The user interface in Legacy could be a lot simpler. There is no
> need to have a separate tab for the pedigree view when the family
> view could be reduced to include it, along with a name index along
> the right or left side (similar to FTM view). I like the views in
> FTM much better because of this huge convenience.
No, no, no. I rarely look at pedigree view, don't like all the parallel
vertical lines anyway, takes it too difficult to figure out who belong
to whom and which generation. That leaves me with one tab, the name
one. But I'd much rather have the list behind a tab to click on
occasionally rather than cluttering my working space. But to each his
own there.
Perhaps my main and strongest reason for staying with Legacy is its
screen layout. I can keep it open in one quarter of my screen and still
work very comfortably with it, while the web browser takes up the other
three-quarters of the space. With the proliferation of gen. data on the
Web today, don't we use our browsers for searches and enter into Legacy
what we find? If trees and names lists were added, I wouldn't be able to
operate this way as the working screen would be too large.
IMHO, FTM is bloatware and purely a sales vehicle for Ancestry.
Helen
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