Hello everybody, I'm happy to meet you all. I'm switching my genealogy research from Family Tree Maker to Legacy 7.5 after 15 years of work, starting with my father's file of 646 people. About 50 are ancillary and might be omitted, so say 600. My mother's file is smaller and will be done later.
I loaded the FTM GEDCOM into Legacy. I'm working on a methodical way to go through all my research and bring it up to a professional level, starting with the citations. I collected sources from the beginning, so that helps. I've edited footnotes and bibliographies for years, even before computers, so I'm comfortable with them. I'm stumbling over the process of working with people and families in Legacy; data entry is a challenge. I'm on a painful learning curve with everything I do online, having just started on Win 7, so I'll have to take it easy as I get used to Legacy. I love SourceWriter and the Clipboard. Hundreds of sources, notes, and footnotes came over in the GEDCOM, I'm choosing what to keep, what to delete, and when to start over; editing master sources and details; learning to override without losing consistency. I have a tendency toward miscellany, so I started by choosing a family at random, correcting and completing their citations, then choosing a second one and doing the same. When I discover that information needs more work, I enter a task: read handwritten page and type, study source for more data, verify or delete shaky information, reconcile discrepancies, whatever. It all has to be done and I'm trying to stay on track and stick to the references. My research has varied in quality, of course. I was diagnosed with ADD about six years in. The task is monumental, but it's necessary. I work as a copyeditor at home part-time. There will be days, even weeks, when nothing gets done, but I'd like to journal (and maybe blog) about how it's going-briefly. I don't need another task on top of The Project. I'll have questions as I go, but I'll try to keep them to a minimum. Ideas, advice and support will be welcome. Thank you for any assistance you might give me. I'll be happy to help with information, lookups and research any time I can. -Jill @auntjill on Twitter 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
