Ted, Forgive me but I am not going to go into the use of Dropbox – nothing wrong with ii, I use it myself – but nothing to do with your surname question.
Legacy has a very strong search and find facility, and I would like to start by suggesting that you have a good read of the Help pages on this subject. Go to Search>Find and click on Help. The easiest thing for me to do is to give you but one example (out of the many, many). Let us suppose that you are researching the surname BUXTON and you think that the surname may have originated in the town of Buxton, Derbyshire, England (i haven’t a clue if it does btw.). From your files you wish to find those who were born in Buxton. Go to Search>Find>Detailed Search. In he first row you are looking for an individual, surname, equal to Buxton then on the 2nd row, AND Individual, birth place, contains, Buxton. Ensure that the radio button “Clear list is checked” then click “create”. This is the Name List which you looked at before, and if you wish you could just print it off. But let us suppose you do not wish to do that at the moment, then you can go to Options>Advanced Tagging>Search List and tag the list with a convenient tag for future use. Next time just use Search>Find>Detailed Search and search for Individual, Tag x, Equal to, set. I hope that you will find this example useful as an illustration as to how various options and screens can be used to work together. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Poppke Genealogy Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 10:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Single Surname Study II Mary, Ron, Thanks for the quick reply. I'm new to this software and don't fully understand the best way to do things yet. In Legacy Deluxe 8.0, I tag unrelated individuals and then create a search for that tag in the Name List. I'm currently experimenting with adding fields to the 2nd and 3rd lines of List Report Options to get a format I like. I think this will give me enough information - Names, birth, death, etc. - to be able to screen for new individuals or relationships while away from my computer in a library. Since Legacy is a computer (as opposed to server based, I haven't tried DropBox yet) based program, I'd like to have printed material to refer to on trips to libraries to aid in research. I will look at the Event reports also. Is there a way to print multiple Individual Reports at once, using tags? Thanks, Ted -------------- Hello, I'm using Legacy Deluxe 8.0. Is there a best practice to organize dozens to hundreds of unrelated individuals as part of a single surname study? I'm guessing advanced tagging? Can I get decent reports? 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
