d, If you are married and have children then you should keep them both in the same file. I have also found that genealogy is never finished or final! You will always be finding new sources and those sources lead to more ancestors and more descendants of those ancestors! If you are concerned with all the errors and stuff then you can have your master file which will have the information that you have checked and corrected and that you merge or append your other files that you work on into. If you get new gedcoms from people then you would create new legacy files from those gedcoms and create a source for that gedcom and I would add that source to the unspecified field for every one in that new file so when you merge them into your main file that source will be attached to them so you know where they came from. Then you would work on that file fixing any errors and format your places to your standard entry. Then when you think you have it cleaned up then you can merge the individuals, families, or whole file into your master file. Be sure to tag everyone that is imported or if you forget then you can tag all those people with the source that you created for them and then do a merge of the duplicates. Of course before you do all that you should have a backup of both files incase anything goes wrong you can restore one or both of them and start over.
As for managing those files. I keep them in different folders depending on how and who they are for. ie I have a genealogy/sources folder for Maternal and Paternal lines and then under those I have sub-folders for the grand parent surnames and then I have a Entered folder in each of those folders. Once I have entered any files into my master file then the original file is moved into the appropriate entered folder. So an example path would look like this if : genealogy/sources/paternal/strong/entered. Hope this gave you some ideas. Russ Strong From: d Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy file organization I need advice on how to organize my Legacy files. I am thinking, for example, that I should have one file with my wife's lines and another with my lines. But then, what do I do when I want to show the pedigree for my children? I also think that I might want different files for active research data (which can be messy and have unverified info, etc.) versus final/complete data. And maybe different files to handle gedcoms, merging, etc. Then I need strategies for how to manage all those files, when and how to share data between them, how to share with others, when to interact with newFamilySearch (and when not to!), etc., etc. Can you point me to any good discussions about these topics that will help me to decide on my approach? 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 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
