Welcome, Jill :) I did the same thing as you, I switched from FTM to Legacy (many years ago now) and I spent a lot of time getting my data formatted in a more professional way. Wait until you run the potential problems report! OVERWHELMING is the word :) Also, do the county verifier. FTM does not (or at least did not when I had it) tell you when you have entered a county name that didn’t exist at the time of the event. You will like Legacy so much better :)
michele From: Jill Groce Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Switching from FTM to Legacy 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 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: 1520/3890 - Release Date: 09/11/11 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
