Unless you have over 10,000,000,000 people in your DB, there is no good reason to split the DB into separate files. And even then, it is cleaner anyway. You do not need to worry about continually updating multiple duplicate identical persons. I have 10 different families/files mixed together in my DB. I have input whole books of towns, too old for copyrights . In the days when hard drive prices were cost prohibitave, you might NEED to do it. The computer doesn't care if the people in the DB are related to each other. They don't jump into wrong family printouts because of the size.Rich jn LACA -- On Tue, 8/2/11, d iamdad25@gmail. wrote:
From: d <[email protected]> Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy file organization To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 8:05 AM 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 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
