How do I create a list of persons who died in 1918 in Legacy?

Randy Seaver on his Genea-musings blog recently wrote the post Dear Randy: How do I Create a List of Persons Who died in 1918 in RootsMagic? In his post, he created a report, but with Legacy, you can create a CSV file, which means you can use Excel or Google Sheets to view the list.…

Creating reports in Legacy

Since I have a few branches of the family that came from Somerset, I follow the Somerset Family History Yahoo Group, and recently one of the members of this group was wanting options to using an old version of Family Tree Maker to generate a descendant book. I have therefore created a descendant chart, descendant…

Creating a relationship report using Legacy Family Tree and Microsoft Excel

Randy Seaver on his Genea-Musings blog wrote the post Dear Randy: Can I Make a Kinship Report in RootsMagic? In this post, he wrote 5)  What I would love to see as a "Kinship List" is the ability to pick a relationship and get the list of persons in the database that are exactly that…

Creating a missing information spreadsheet with Legacy

I came across a query on Facebook, where a user of Legacy was wanted to create a CSV file for their ancestors to show all the information for the ancestors, so that they could check for missing information. This is a relatively simple process in Legacy. The first step is to go into Search in…

Other features in Legacy Family Tree

After discovering the graphs in Legacy’s Statistics section, I decided to have a look around in Legacy to see what other features there might be that I haven’t yet used. Recently, there were a number of birthplace charts going around, and in my post I decided to include a chart for where my ancestors were born. …

Statistics Graphs in Legacy

I was having a look at the Statistics in Legacy after looking at the most common given names for my Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun post, and noticed a feature in Legacy I have never noticed before.  I noticed that there was a little Show Graph section Although in this instance, it was whited out, that…

Why I prefer to use Legacy Family Tree

Over the years, I have used RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker and Legacy Family Tree, and I have from time to time also tried out some of the other family tree programs, but the program I prefer to use as my main desktop program is Legacy Family Tree.   The following are the main reasons why:…

Legacy 8 Picture Centre

After my last post, I decided to check the Help Index in Legacy Family Tree to see if the instructions on how to copy photos to more than one individual had been included in the help index.  I don't know if the instructions were there because I found a feature first that was even better - Legacy's Picture Center. …

Copying photos to multiple individuals in Legacy 8

Version 8 of Legacy Family Tree introduced sharing events, but what about photos that include a number of family members? I tried looking on the Legacy Family Tree website, but couldn't find any instructions.  I am therefore adding the instructions on how to do this here. There are already instructions available on how to attach media files to a person in…

Finding source citation statistics in Legacy Family Tree

This week in Saturday Night Genealogy Fun on Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings blog, the topic is source citations - Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Which Source Have You Used the Most? The questions asked were: 1) Have you done a good job of citing your sources in your genealogy management program or online family tree?  How…