Here's my basic quandary with coming up with a strategy for generating web pages with Legacy. I'm open to suggestions, which indeed is the point of this note :)
My research starts with ME, and I've worked my way back to great-grandparents, 3rd great grandparents, and so on. I've traced *other* descendants of some of these people along the way, with the result that I've found second cousins, 3rd cousins twice removed, and their descendants. That's pretty much how we all do it (sort of!), right? Inside Legacy, the fact that the world revolves around ME is just fine. That works. However, what's my purpose in putting up web pages? So that people can find connections to all of those OTHER people. The only ones who care about MY specific direct-line ancestors are my sister, and my kids, and they're already accounted for. So... that brings us to the Descendant Report. One of my ancestors is Francis Barnard. I can do all the descendants of Francis Barnard. Cool. That's my father's side. Another one of my ancestors is Rowland Dierlam. That's my mother's side. That's a *second* descendant report. What I do, is find myself in Legacy, choose Pedigree View, and follow each line of ancestors out to the furthest-back one. If I do a Descendant-style set of web pages, each in a separate folder, I *should* have the whole shootin' match. And, I have about a dozen different sets of descendant pages. (I can eliminate redundant ones by remembering that if the spouse is already covered in one of those sets of web pages, so will be this person too; no need for a separate set of web pages.) Okay. What I've just described is a way of generating web pages covering all descendants of all of my ancestors. If I were *printing a report*, that would be the Multiple Descendant Report. The Multiple Descendant Report is excellent; I love it; has *the whole shootin match* in one single report. Is there any way of generating web pages that achieves the same result? Or, something similar? I'm open to suggestions! The way I'm currently doing it, with a dozen different "Descendants Of" sets of web pages, I have a dozen different versions of ME. I'd rather there only be one of ME! (As a side note, I use a dozen different settings files, for those dozen different sets of descendant web pages. The setting doesn't save the starting person, so I still need to choose the right person in addition to loading the settings.) Ed Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
