Ian, Stay with one Family File.
There's an option coming with Legacy 9 that will help you. It's one that Geoff has released in his new book "Legacy 9 Unlocked" You'll be able to hashtag any number of different trees (or other groups of people) and give them a Hashtag name and description.
Cathy Ian Thomas wrote:
I think the way I am doing this is the simplest, but experienced users of Legacy FT may have a better way / ways. Prelude to a couple of very simple questions: I had a relative by marriage, near in time, whose siblings and parents or other relations were entirely unknown to me. I could place him in my tree, and located his first wife. Very few traces of these two appear in digitized online newspapers (called “Trove” here in Australia). BDM records go only so far – and due to privacy considerations, more recently-born people just don’t appear there. Being practical (or impatient), I searched online sources for similar surnames (Birch – not unusual, but early settlers in Western Australia with this name seem to have proliferated: there are many). From these, I commenced a separate tree – “Extraneous Birch mob” - hoping that even without validating sources, the family trees in Family Search (etc) would not be too ridiculous to eventually allow me to find this person and to trace a few of his relatives. Then, they would be transferred to my “main” tree. I do not really understand how to do that simply, but did not need to discover that procedure, fortunately. As it happened, the familial carry-over of a given name did allow me eventually to discover 14 persons tied to this Birch. Fortunately, as I uncovered this set I was able to keep them within “my” tree, not in the “Extraneous Birch mob”. That subsidiary tree now has 190 members, and my concern was whether there was overlap or commonality in members in the two trees. My solution was to tag all members in each tree, with a different tag #, and then search for persons who had both tags (Tag 1, Tag 2). Fortunately, all members are distinct (no overlap). Search result: zero. My question: Is that the best approach? I do appreciate the tools and features built into Legacy, and understand that _Index_ tab should range over all persons in whatever multitude of separate “trees” I want to create. As I understand it, the other tabs on the main display screen (Family, Pedigree, Descendant) limit to the _same_ “tree”. But I often wish for a separate attached “Note” which is in effect a description or “metadata” for the each tree, and some ability to colour-code the user interface according to each tree. I am loathe to start separate trees in external, different family files. That is another discussion (Cathy Pinner convinced me of that, in connection with the difficulty of synchronizing information which may be on several computers or places.) What are the thoughts of others? Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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