Excellent advice about backing up from Brian.
One correction: the Legacy backup is saved to whatever drive you choose.
I choose to backup to a folder in Dropbox, so yes it is on the same hard
drive, but minutes later, it is also in the cloud safe from a disaster
to my computer.
I also periodically back up to external drives.
Cathy
Brian Lightfoot wrote:
And as Cathy said, do the File – File Maintenance – Check/Repair
often. How often depends how often you use the program and just how
much data you add each time you use it.
But there is one more bit of advice that I always tell people. Make a
backup! Not only a backup created within the program which stores it
on your same hard drive but create a backup copy of your .FDB file and
store it elsewhere such as another computer’s hard drive or burn it to
a DVD, or save to an external hard drive, or even send it to the
“cloud” especially if you have access to your own web space that can
accommodate it. There is only one thing that I can guarantee you that
will happen in the future: your hard drive WILL crash and fail. You
could lose all data on the hard drive. I always thought it’s a good
idea to burn your genealogical data to a DVD once every 6 months or so
and then lock that DVD up in a safe so that burglars or other
calamities don’t leave you empty handed.
Brian in CA
*From:*LegacyUserGroup
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *ian
matthews
*Sent:* Friday, July 29, 2016 5:22 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] how to get started
Thanks Cathy for your very helpful response. I just needed a kick start
Regards
Ian
*From:*Cathy Pinner <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:*Friday, July 29, 2016 6:31 PM
*To:*Legacy User Group <mailto:[email protected]>
*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
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