Denise:
Here are a few of the reasons you might want to upgrade to Legacy 8 - the
new features:
Origins Report
Migration Report
Migration Mapping
Instant Duplicate Checking
Potential Problem Alerts and Gaps
Shared Events
Family Bow Tie Chart – Husband & Wife
Descendant Chart – L to R
Source Quality
Source Labels
Source Clipboard – 5 sources
Pedigree Citations
FamilySearch Integration
Wall Charts – Duplicate lines suppressed
Chronology View
User Interface – New
Tagging – 9
Automatic Sorting
Statistics
Media Relinker
Media Gatherer
Web Links
Color Coding
My favorites are:
1. Automatic Sorting
Legacy 8 sorts spouses, children, and events by dates automatically
upon entry -- this is a major savings in time when it comes to data entry.
This option along is worth every penny of the upgrade.
2. Statistics
The Origins Report, migration report, statistics and enhance mapping are
great new features.
3. The Potential Problems Alerts and Gaps & Duplicate checking
These features are great and will definitely help keep a better, more
accurate database of your family and events.
4. The Media Relinker and Gatherer are very powerful tools to bring your
pictures together into a better structured location.
5. The new User Interface - probably should be #1 on the list
The new modern user interface brings almost every option out to the
user in a simple intuitive graphic icon format. It is so much easier to
use and find what you want to do with this new user interface. Without
question, this is the single most important part of the new Legacy 8 that
the user touches during almost any operation within Legacy 8.
6. FamilySearch Integration
This feature has greatly been improved and provides an enormous FREE
resource to millions of family trees available at FamilySearch.org that is
very nicely integrated into Legacy 8. You can add new people to your tree
from the FamilySearch Trees with sourcing with just a few clicks of the
mouse. Sourcing is automatic when you add a person to your database from
FamilySearch.org. You will find it difficult at best to do something
similar at other websites like Ancestry.com (Oh! Buy the way, that will
cost you $300-400/year to have a membership to access their database). The
$30-40 price of Legacy 8 seems like a bargain, upgrading is even cheaper.
7. Other new features
I won't spend time on them here, but each of them provides additional
reasons for upgrading to Legacy 8.
In my opinion, Legacy 8 is truly the best genealogy software on the
market today.
If you haven't upgraded to Legacy 8, What are you waiting for?
By the way, I do not receive any $$ from Legacy and am not an employee of
their firm.
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Leon Chapman
[email protected]
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On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Wendy Howard <[email protected]>wrote:
> Denise said: "I, too, have Vewsion 7.4.0.45 and am disinclined to
> upgrade. My version works just fine, and seeing all the emails about
> various 'bugs' gives me pause."
>
> There are bugs in the version you are using, too - it's just that you're
> not as aware of them as you are these v8 issues due to them being
> discussed here on the list right now. No program is perfect, but a good
> one is a constant work in progress to fix the bugs that have been found,
> as Legacy is.
>
> Don't take what you hear on this list as the be-all-and-end-all of your
> decision making about upgrading. If you're really concerned about them
> in your decision to upgrade or not, consider each one you hear about:
>
> --> Would it actually affect you, and the way you use the program?
> What's the point of deciding to not upgrade because of these bugs, if
> they're in features you'd never use anyway?
>
> --> Is it actually a bug, or is it not working the way that person wants
> it to, or is acting the way it is on their machine due to some other
> setting on their computer that can't be replicated on another?
>
> Genuine bugs will be fixed in time, and you'll only get the fix if you
> upgrade your program. This could include bugs that were present in
> previous versions, too, if they hadn't been identified earlier.
>
> Be aware too - what you're seeing here on the list is only a fraction of
> the discussion going on about v8 (many people using Legacy don't join or
> post here, and may be having off-list discussions with Legacy and other
> users that you're not seeing), and some of the discussion here on the
> list is particularly acrimonious from people who have their own axe to
> grind, instead of reasoned discussion isolating and and identifying a
> problem, and then moving on. That could cloud your opinions, too.
>
> Also, don't forget that you can download and install v8 without loosing
> v7 - so you can take a look at v8 and evaluate its merits for yourself.
> The two versions are installed in different places on your computer, and
> you can have them both open at the same time to compare features. Just
> don't try to open the same data file in both programs at the same time -
> make a copy of the file and open the copy in v8. The data file
> structure will be altered the first time you open in in v8, and after
> you've done that it won't open in v7 any more.
>
> Hope this helps. :-)
>
> Kind Regards,
> Wendy
>
> Denise said the following on 27/12/2013 9:47 a.m.:
> > I, too, have Vewsion 7.4.0.45 and am disinclined to upgrade. My
> > version works just fine, and seeing all the emails about various
> > 'bugs' gives me pause.
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:15 AM, "[email protected]"
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Many of these bugs that were supposedly fixed in version 7.5.0.278 I've
> > never come across. There are many features in the program that apply to
> > the USA only and if the bug is there, I'd never find them and they
> > wouldn't bother me. And the improvements in 7.5 weren't improvements to
> > me, I just plain didn't want them.
> >
> > > At this
> > > point, there are just too many things that are not debugged or missing
> > > in comparison with version 7.5.
> > And too many useless-to-me bells and whistles features.
> >
> > Good luck with your database.
> >
> > Helen
>
>
>
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