I have used Legacy to produce several books which I published. I have Legacy produce the report with all the facts & folks organized & I save it as an .rtf document. This Legacy does very well! I like to personalize my report.
Thus I can bring it up in word and adjust the wording & format to my liking. I can insert other Legacy charts & reports, photographs, timeline or history articles - anything that helps to outline the genealogy I am projecting. For myself, the Legacy Publishing Center tries too hard to be everything to everybody & its reports become robotic and overly generic. That is just my opinion & I respect that many folks love it. I find (in my opinion) Roots Magic & other genealogy programs have the same broad in content or stilted feel. On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Linda <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought I'd show you a sample portion of one of my books from FTM. > > http://ge.tt/950yFXT2/v/0?c > > I've been looking at both Rootsmagic and Legacy 8 and I don't doubt for a > moment they both do more than enough when it comes to recording my family > history. But for me I need to produce a book that looks clean and nice. > In looking at both RM and Legacy8 (both in trial versions) I'm not > satisfied that either will allow me to make reports like I want. I know > some features are disabled and I may find that I can do more than I > anticipate with a full version. I know both are cheap and some say just > buy both but I am not in a position to spend money on a program I won't be > using. I want to be able to produce the book without much effort when I > make additions to my family tree/history. > > I looked at the family group sheet in both RM and Legacy 8. Neither > looked like they would produce the clean look of the one I have in my pdf. > > Also, I think the pedigree chart background and having pics of each person > makes it nice to look at. > > And I need to be able to make pages such as you see in this book: Chicago > Fire, Castle Garden Immigration, etc. - these are not connected to any > person. In FTM you can make a text page and copy and paste pictures onto > it. > > I do have to say that I like the cleaner, less complicated feel of > Rootsmagic but I feel like Legacy will be closer to what I need for book > publishing. > > I do appreciate your patience and kindness in talking to me about these > things. I know FTM will probably work for many years and maybe I just need > to be patient and see what comes down the road. I just don't want to put a > lot more effort into something I know I will have to totally redo when I > move to another program (the books, the family history portion at first > glance seems to have imported fairly well). > > Thank you again! > > Linda > > <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > This > email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
