Thanks Cathy for your very helpful response. I just needed a kick start Regards Ian
From: Cathy Pinner Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 6:31 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] how to get started 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 in clude 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 thi s 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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