Legacy Product Details
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Features:
What's New in Legacy 6.0
Research Guidance – Legacy’s Research Guidance helps you locate records that may contain information about your ancestors. It does this in four steps: 1. Legacy helps you review the ancestor’s timeline, to be certain that you’ve already recorded everything you know about the ancestor. 2. Legacy suggests preliminary survey sources to help you learn if the research is already in progress by another researcher. 3. After selecting your goals, Legacy provides a list of prioritized suggestions to help you accomplish them. 4. Finally, Legacy organizes the sources into a To–Do List.
Publishing Center – This new feature lets you select one or more reports and combine them into one large book report. All the information from the various reports are indexed and sourced together and a master Table of Contents is also generated. You can also add a Title page, Preface page, Dedication page, Copyright Notice page, Introduction Section, and Abbreviations page to the beginning of the book.
Forms Center – New forms will be added on a continuing basis. These new forms will probably be available online in various packets for those who want to download them.
Legacy Home – The new Legacy Home tab on the main screen of Legacy brings you important information about your family file and also gives you a global view into the world of genealogy. It includes Legacy News, To–Do item reminders, birthday and anniversary reminders, general reminders, statistics about your family file, links to update Legacy, technical support links and much more. The built–in browser lets you view Internet content without ever leaving Legacy.
Timelines – This feature lets you select timeline files containing events from certain localities, and add them to the Chronology report as background information to show what was happening during a person’s life. Timeline files can be created and edited by the user.
Potential Problems List – The list of all the problems found are now presented in a grid list that is retained from session to session (until rebuilt by the user). From the list you can edit the affected individuals and correct the problem or exclude it from future checking.
Global US County Verification – This new feature checks your entire family file to verify that the US counties you have used were in existence for the time periods you are using them for.
DNA – Legacy now lets you record DNA marker test results from several different companies.
Location Prepositions – On the Add/Edit Location screen (reached from the Master Location List), there is a field for the location preposition. This defaults to “in” but can be changed to other prepositions like near, around, outside, northwest, etc. These prepositions are then used when building report sentences.
Sources – You can now connect source citations to:
- This individual never married (individual screen)
- This couple didn’t marry
- This couple didn’t have children
Book Reports – The Location Index can now be printed with a different number of columns than the Name Index.
Note Fields – There is now a Strip HTML button that lets you remove any embedded HTML codes that ended up in the notes because of a Copy/Paste from a web page (for example).
Note Fields – There are now Font styles buttons allowing you to bold, underline, italicize, and superscript parts of the notes. The changes show in the notes instead of just showing printer codes as in the past.
Potential Problems – Check for sort order of children, Check for children born < 9 months.
Soundex Code lookup from the Soundex Calculator – (Tools > Soundex Calculator). When a Soundex code has been generated, you can click the Search Name List button to create a list of all the surnames in your family file with the same Soundex code.
RTF Embedded Pictures – When reports are generated to an RTF file, there is an option to embed the picture links in the file. This then automatically displays the pictures in the report when the file is loaded into MS Word or other word processors. The Standard edition only shows the picture paths in the document. The option is set on the Other tab of the Options > Customize screen.
Location Report – You can now include the birth and death date information for each person on the report. You can also have the Age of the person shown for each event when the locations were used.
Questionnaire – Output to screen/printer or text file.
Customize – Right–click any box title to reset the default values for the options within that box. This is done on the various tabs of the Options > Customize screen.
Conditional Event Sentences – There is a new IF–THEN–ELSE command that can be used in event sentences to control the output better.
Pictures – There is now support for multiple–page TIF files (a TIF file containing more than one picture).
Other great Deluxe features that continue from version 5.0.
- Geo Location Databse
- New Descendant View Tab
- US County Verifier
- Child-Parent Relationships
- Multiple Lines of Descent Report
- International Language Reports - Reports in different languages
- Calendar Creator
- User Filing Numbers
- Name List Reports with Multiple Lines per Record
- Master Location List Mapping
- Master Location Maintenance
- Save Your Place in Master Lists
- Private Individuals
- Private Event Definitions
- Event Definitions
- Note Fields
- New AutoSource Options
- Potential Problems Report
- User Filing Numbers
- Family/Pedigree Views
- Entering Information
- Family View
- Events
- Marriage Screen
- Picture Family Tree Chart
- Name List Report
- Timeline Reports
- Descendant Charts
- Chronology View
- Index View and Name List
- Web Page Creation
- Marriage List
- Desktop Wallpaper
- Event Sentences
Features from Previous Versions
- Chronology View and Report
- Index View
- Customizable Toolbar
- Show Events on the Family View and Name List
- Alternate Names in the Name List
- User ID# in the Name List
- Master Location List Sorting
- Location Notes
- Bearing and Distance Calculator
- Event Report
- Event Sentences
- Picture Center
- Advanced Set Living
- User Defined Internet Search URLs
- Embedded Text Formatting
- Global Spell Checking
- Ancestor Coloring Option
- To Do Clipboard
- Quick Copy to Source Clipboard
- Color Schemes
- Location and Source Verification Tags
- More Tags
- Move Non-Sources from Master Source List to Notes
- Descendant Chart Format
- PDF Files
- Compare Two Files for Duplicates
- Advanced Sourcing
- Location Index for Reports
- Mark as not Duplicates
- Last Report Button
- Renumber RINs and MRINs
- Reuse Deleted RINs and MRINs
- Box Color Options for Charts
- Relationship Calculator
- Relationship Charts
Features found in both Standard and Deluxe Edition
- Quick Data Entry
- Location Index for reports
- Unlimited File size
- Unlimited Events
- Easy Navigation up and down your family lines in Family or Pedigree View
- Comprehensive Name List allows for complete editing of individual information
- Search and sort Name List and Marriage List by RIN number, given names and surnames
- GEDCOM Import/Export
- IntelliMerge
- Tracking for multiple parental lines (birth, adoptive, foster family, etc)
- Generate Family History Books
- Create Genealogy Web Pages
- Complete Repository address features
- Multiple views lets you have two family files open side-by-side
- Complete Source Documentation
- Popup Calendar
System Requirements:
- Pentium class computer
- Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows NT or Windows XP
- At Least 64 MB of RAM memory (128 is highly recommended or Legacy will run slow)
- 40 MB of hard disk space
- VGA or higher display
- A floppy disk drive or CD-ROM drive
- A Mouse
Screenshots:
A complete list of features and side-by-side comparisons are available on the Genealogy Software Review HomePage.
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