I am not a 'newbie' to genealogy but am new to Legacy Family Tree. Over approximately 18 years, I have traced my paternal family line to 1610 and my maternal family line to 1744. I have approximately 1500 (and it is growing) individuals identified and have images of hundreds of documents such as the census, land records, wills, marriage applications, citizenship applications, registration cards, cemetery plat plans, maps, court records, history book references, etc . All of this information is contained in an Excel file that I designed. All associated documents are either embedded or linked into this file. The Excel file is an easily used/readily visible file but is not sufficiently compatible with the myriad of relationships that I have encountered and the volume of material is such that I have now resorted to the Legacy package to be able to put the information into a searchable, consistent format and to generate various trees and reports. Not being familiar with these types of family tree packages, this brings me to two questions:
1) Is it better to load all information into one family file: from 1610 down to present day (13 generations), including many, many branches along the way and then take a similar route up the other side of the family to 1744? Or is it better to break it up into random family trees that are, in reality, all connected? 2) Page 277 of the Legacy User Guide says that "documents and other types of files that are attached in this manner will not be included on report or web sites. They are simply for documentation purposes." I have no intentions of putting my files on a website but the bulk, by far, of my information is documents of various types along with some photos, most in jpg. The documents are in various formats. I want those documents in the reports and included in e-books or printed books, dvds, etc. Do I understand this guide properly? Thanks for your consideration. Al Mieswinkel 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
