I picked up on a comment by JLB in a posting earlier this year. He was suggesting a way of presenting your Family History in a less formal way than Legacy reports. If you Google Jliki you will find his tutorial on the subject. The tool he uses is Tiddlywiki , a free open source function which uses any web browser and can be contained on a flash drive. I found that its main purpose is for keeping research notes and personal information together in one place. So that's one way in which I use it. In it's basic form there is not a lot to learn. You end up with a personal website which does not require internet connection , where all your notes are searchable and can be linked via hypertext links. If you create a ToDo list item in Legacy and start the name with a zero , the Alphameric list keeps it at the top. If you then create a dummy repository for the ToDo item , give it a homepage URL of the Tiddlywiki html file , for example ( file:///c:/Users/Fred/Tiddlywiki/Research.htm ). Then you are only 2 clicks away from your main Legacy page to your notes. In fact with Firefox as your browser you can even reference a collection of notes for each individual in your database and access them from that individual's ToDo list. The link will not work , of course, if you are running from a flash drive on another computer , but you can still invoke the Tiddlywiki html file directly and have your notes available.
Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
