There are all kinds of way to make Legacy work for you. I like the surnames in all caps (and customization tab will take care of that); I use the suffix for farm names of my Norwegian ancestors which is really nice; if you have doctors or priests or nuns or juniors or seniors or III's etc., you will have a use for prefix section; I really spent some time with Wikipedia, FamilySearch, the Archives of each Country that I have ancestors (Canada, Newfoundland (pre-Canada), Ireland, Sweden, Norway, USA) to make up cheatsheets for town/village/city, county, state, province, and country variations (it is different depending on the country but you can come up with standard system that works for you); the same for events, sources, and all other master lists. It really is a process of playing around and determining what works for you within the parameters of best practices. Nothing is written in stone, but there are better, more efficient ways of data entry. Legacy is super customizable and you can definitely spend some time with it and make it work for you. Our May Legacy Virtual User Group meeting is going to discuss tagging and our June LVUG meeting is going to discuss customization. Always something new to learn! (Don't know if I have this snipping thing down in the forum yet)
-- Tessa Keough Guild No. 5089 Legacy Virtual Users Group Surnames - Keough, Murphy, Aylward, Kocevar, Lidman, Zagradisnik Places - Ireland, Newfoundland, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, USA (New York, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Washington) Blogs - The Keough Corner and Scandia Musings & More On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Marg Strong <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm so glad to hear that Legacy doesn't recommend all caps anymore. I really > disliked the way that looked and never used it. I've learned to use the AKA > field instead of the nickname in quotes. I've been tempted to use "unknown" > in the blank name fields, but restrained myself because I read that is not > the best thing to do. I have learned quite a bit just reading this list so > it's worth the time it takes. >SNIP > Michele > > > Peggy > SNIP > > 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
