Hi Ian?
Welcome to more rigorous genealogy.
The easiest way to learn to use Legacy is to watch some of the
Videos/Webinars. You'll find a collection at:
http://www.familytreewebinars.com/legacy_videos.php
Many are free, some are by subscription.
You also sound as if you need to learn how to search Ancestry without
relying on Shaky Leaves, and how to search other sites.
findmypast.com.au is particularly useful for South Australia, Victoria,
England - but is another subscription site. Then of course there is
familysearch.org which has heaps of data for free from all over the world.
There are numbers of Australian resources in the Legacy Research
Guidance. It's being updated all the time so if you know a site that
doesn't seem to be there you can send in a suggestion that it be added.
For them to show, you have to have added locations that include the
state and country.
There is also the option to Search various Internet sites with the
initial search term filled in from the current person in Legacy. See the
Internet Ribbon - Search internet.
If your subscription is with ancestry.com.au, then just edit the
ancestry.com one to add the .au. I can't recall if that's what I did or
whether it was in the default list.
I suggest that before you do much, you do a File - File Maintenance -
Check/Repair on your file. This is something that needs to be done
regularly but particularly after a gedcom import.
You may like to join the Facebook Legacy User Group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LegacyUserGroup/
If you're not a Facebook member, not you can join Facebook, and just
join groups rather than Friend people. You can tie down your privacy by
checking the Privacy Settings.
This is a lively group and has the advantage of being able to use
screenshots which are not allowed on this list.
Cathy
Perth, Western Australia
ian matthews wrote:
Hi All
This is my first post. Forgive any naivety.
I am based in Sydney and have previously used ancestry.com to create
my family tree and found it very easy to use as it hand fed me all the
way with the trembling leaves hints. However I then converted my tree
to GEDCOM and have downloaded to Legacy 8.
I am not sure how to proceed in Legacy with identifying new family
members or adding new info to existing members, other than minor
spelling errors etc. I thought the search function would be the way to
go, however it seems I may have to add Australian web sites to the
source data base. I have had no luck with the built in web sites,
which seem to be usa skewed.
I would appreciate any direction.
I have a manual, but it is very detailed and not easy to follow.
matthei
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