I prefer the Descendant Book format. Also there is a webinar where Geoff showed how to do a book through Reports>All Book Reports>Publishing Center or Reports>Publishing Center. It should work very well. He also explained in that webinar how to get a master index for the book. Maybe Sherry can give us link to that webinar. It was one of the first ones. VERY helpful and shows how to make the most of publishing with Legacy. Also I suggest going to Reports>All Book Reports>Descendants>Options and click on "Show line back to starting person" and "Show person numbers". Next to each individual you will then see the number for each of their ancestors so you can more easily work the line backwards with less struggle. Your readers will love it.
God bless, Ellen ----- Original Message ----- From: "elizabeth" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:58:26 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] book production Thank you, Ron. I think my concept of what Legacy does has been wrong. I have focused on the narrative book features thinking I could produce an actual book but am finding that is not the case. I do think Legacy is a great product and appreciate it very much. It isn't what I thought it was as far as making a family book but it is a wonderful way to organize and store information. I know I will need to continue with my .rtf file for the book, although I had hoped to find an easier way in Legacy. I'm really hoping for ideas/suggestions from people on this list who have actually created family books, using Legacy features, since I haven't quite figured it out yet......... How did they enter their info into Legacy in such a way that it was quick and easy to copy/paste into a .rtf file? How did they organize their book so it was understandable and easy to follow? Where do they enter photos so that they would appear with the person's data in a book? How did they include 'branches' that are not part of their direct line? etc. etc. I would never even attempt to create a family book without all the help found in Legacy. Elizabeth ================================================ On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Ron Ferguson < [email protected] > wrote: Elizabeth, The thing to remember is that Legacy is a program for the storage and retrieval of data, and has some options for the production of reports. It is *not* a word processor, and in my opinion hopefully never will be. To do as you wish you really do need to be looking at word processors such as Word or the free OpenOffice.org and Libre Office. You can save your Legacy data as a .rtf file and upload into any of these, which have the capacity for editing as you suggest. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: elizabeth Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Report for Family Reuion Syble, and group, I am also trying to create a book for my family and understand exactly what you are saying. There is ssoooooooo much repetition of information such as Events and Census data!!! I want my book to be more of a 'biographical sketch of each family', tying the whole family together rather than a long list of facts (Events, etc) but I have not figured out how this can be done. I have "lots and lots" of newspaper articles, obituaries, family stories, etc that I want included as part of the narrative, not entered as a long list of Events. And I want the census data to be for the whole family, not each person separately. Surely there must be folks on this list who have created narrative books for their families who might be able to help us........I hope so. Elizabeth 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 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
