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SOFTWARE - Legacy Family Tree Deluxe 7.0
Most comprehensive, easy-to-use genealogy software
The feature-rich Legacy makes it easy to preserve your genealogical information.
Legacy is a family history computer program that makes it extremely easy to store your genealogical information. Family trees containing millions of people can be recorded, displayed and reported. Legacy keeps track of names, alternate names, dates, places, events, notes, sources, pictures and sounds and presents them on screen in such an intuitive manner that you can easily see the big picture of your entire family. It is easy to navigate through all your family links using the Family View and Pedigree View screens. Moving from generation to generation is a breeze. Adding new individuals and marriages can be done at any time and in either view. Editing and adding new information is simple and understandable.
Legacy includes all standard genealogical reports, as well as calendars, timelines, questionnaires, research logs and a multitude of blank forms. You can even print an entire book about your family, complete with pictures.
Legacy can calculate the relationship of everyone in your Family File to a specific individual. It can also figure the age of an individual at every important event of their life.
You can store huge amounts of information. Parents can have up to sixty children, individuals can have multiple sets of parents, unlimited alternate names, events, sources and pictures.
Legacy Family Tree is the most comprehensive / easy-to-use genealogy program on the market today. This program is the cost-effective solution for anyone looking for an excellent records management and reporting program. Legacy Deluxe Edition offers is easy for beginners and has all of the advanced features that a professional requires.
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Legacy 7.0 Deluxe Bundle
(Installation CD, Printed Manual & 5 Learning Videos)
Easy-to-use Legacy Family Tree is the most comprehensive and powerful genealogy software on the market. Isn't it time that you stepped up to Legacy Family Tree?
- Legacy Deluxe software on CD. Detailed description
- Official 336 page user's guide.
- Legacy Video Training CDs Volume 1: (updated for version 7.0 !)
- Legacy for Beginners training video (on installation CD).
- Mastering Legacy: Names, Dates & Places training video.
- Your 12-Step Checklist to Using Legacy training video.
- Legacy's Ultimate Guide to Sources training video.
- Researching with Legacy: Mastering Events & Chronologies training video.
View video: What's new in Legacy 7.0 Deluxe?
To upgrade to 7.0, from Legacy 6.0 Deluxe, click here.
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Legacy 7.0 Deluxe
(Installation CD, Printed Manual & Beginner Video)
Easy-to-use Legacy Family Tree is the most comprehensive and powerful genealogy software on the market. Isn't it time that you stepped up to Legacy Family Tree?
- Legacy Deluxe software on CD. Detailed description
- Official 336 page user's guide.
- Legacy for Beginners training video (on installation CD).
View video: What's new in Legacy 7.0 Deluxe?
To upgrade to 7.0, from Legacy 6.0 Deluxe, click here.
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Legacy 7.0 Deluxe
Download Only
 Easy-to-use Legacy Family Tree is the most comprehensive and powerful genealogy software on the market. Isn't it time that you stepped up to Legacy Family Tree?
View video: What's new in Legacy 7.0 Deluxe?
Prefer to download and use Legacy 7.0 immediately? You can buy and download your upgrade directly from the manufacturer's website. Legacy 7.0 Deluxe software - download-only version, without the CD or user's guide.
Download-Only...... $29.95 Download from Legacy's website now
(USA Dollars)
To upgrade to 7.0, from Legacy 6.0 Deluxe, click here.
New & General Features in Legacy 7.0 Include:
Wall Charts
You have spent many long hours collecting and entering your family history. A feat that few other people even attempt, let alone accomplish in their lifetimes. Now you can experience the enjoyment of showing off your family tree by producing stunning full-color wall charts. Use them for your next family reunion or for a deserving wall in your home. Wall charts make great gifts for any holiday, birthday, or anniversary. They also make your own continuing genealogy research easier by having a large, easily readable working chart nearby to refer to.
Wall charts tell a story that can be seen at a glance. They are a graphical representation of your family that can extend forward or backward for many generations. Large charts are often a gathering place for conversations that bond your family together. They become family heirlooms of great importance that will be passed on into the future. So, show off all your hard work - print some wall charts!
Interview Reports
The Interview Report contains over 1200 questions in thirteen different categories that can be used when you interview a family remember. They are great at jogging the memory of the person being interviewed and elicit more in-depth responses.
Source Templates
Version 7 of Legacy heralds the introduction of SourceWriter. SourceWriter is a template driven sourcing system that makes it easy for you to select the correct input screen so that you enter all the pieces needed to correctly cite any source of information in the thousands of formats that exist for them. The information you enter is correctly and precisely formatted to match the genealogy industry standards for source citations when printing footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies. Multiple citations for an event can be combined into one paragraph, thus avoiding a long string of superscripted numbers within the report body.
Prior to version 7, Legacy's citation methods were rudimentary and straight forward but didn't offer the expert help needed in order to automatically produce correct citations. Actually, in version 7, you can use either of the citation methods, the new or the old. We will call the new system SourceWriter and the previous system the "Basic System."
Map My Places
We've redesigned the Master Location List screen. If an Internet connection is present, Legacy plots the selected place on the map below the list. When a location is highlighted, it automatically displays a list of all individuals who use the location. These individuals can now be edited from this screen by clicking on the Edit button. (If you access the Master Location List from within the Individual's Information screen, you cannot edit a person from the list.)
Map My Family
With Legacy Mapping you can see an overall view of a family's territory spanning the entire earth if necessary. You can also zoom right into the street level of anywhere in any country in the world. When all the locations where a family lived and worked are plotted on a map together, you can easily see the overall area in which the family spent their lives. You can visualize how the family members migrated from place to place as they grew older. (Or you can see if they stayed in one place their entire lives.) New research opportunities come to light as you see the surrounding cities, counties, provinces, and countries.
Guided Setup Wizard
The new wizard is available when starting Legacy 7.0 for the first time as well as when creating a new family file from File > New Family File. You can even use it when importing at File > Import from > Use Import Wizard… The wizard takes you by the hand and guides you through the process in an easy-to-understand way.
New Relationship Calculator
You can now see how any two people are connected, not only through direct blood relationships but also by marriage. A person might be the "great-grandfather of the wife of your 2nd great-grandnephew. You can also specify how many of these non-blood relationships you want to see.
Best Fit Child Columns
A new selection has been added. The Best Fit option expands or contracts the child list columns to fit the number of children for the current couple. No more trying to guess the optimum number of child columns. Legacy does it for you.
More Powerful Searching
Many new searching options have been added to make it easier to find missing information within your family file. You can now search for individuals that are missing parts of names, birth or death information, marriage information and much more. You can also search for missing source citations as you document your family files.
Standardization Tips
We have added many standardization tips that will pop-up if something questionable has been entered in the Individual's Information screen. These have also been added to the Potential Problems report. See Tools > Potential Problems > Standardization.
Edit Records from the "Used By" Lists
All of the master lists in Legacy have an option to view the individuals who use the items in the list. You can now edit those individuals right from the list instead of having to exit the list and edit them separately.
Easily Attach Documents to Individuals and Marriages
Along with attaching pictures, sounds, and video to individuals, events, locations, and sources, you can now also attach any other kind of document.
Enhanced Welcome Tips
That little window that greets you when you start Legacy and gives you nice helpful tips and tricks just got better. There is now a Show Me How button that pops up a complete explanation of the tip - how to get where you can use it, all the nitty gritty.
Potential Problems
Standardization and LDS event verification checks are now included. See Tools > Potential Problems > Standardization and LDS tabs.
Enhanced Backups
Legacy can now backup your family file and multimedia files at the same time, making it easier to transfer everything to another computer.
New Toolbar Icons
New Home and Add icons have been added to the main toolbar. Icons have also been added to access the new Charting and Mapping features.
Enjoy these and many more improvements and new options that are included in Legacy Family Tree 7.0.
More Popular Features:
- Research Guidance - Legacy’s Research Guidance helps you locate records that may contain information about your ancestors. It does this in four steps:
- Legacy helps you review the ancestor’s timeline, to be certain that you've already recorded everything you know about the ancestor.
- Legacy suggests preliminary survey sources to help you learn if the research is already in progress by another researcher.
- After selecting your goals, Legacy provides a list of prioritized suggestions to help you accomplish them.
- 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 Timeline and Chronology reports 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 - Complete control of spacing between all sections of the reports. There is a Custom Report Spacing button on the Page Layout tab of the various book reports. This opens a screen allowing you to specify the blank line space above all the various report sections.
- 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).
General Features in Legacy Deluxe
- Geo Location Database - A collection of nearly three million current locations worldwide divided into six regions:
PA - Pacific Islands
US - United States
AF - Africa
AM - Americas (non-USA)
AS - Asia
EU - Europe
- Each location includes the name of the city, the county or province, the state, if any, and the country name. Along with this information the latitude and longitude coordinates are also included. Searching can be done by any field(s). A Radius search is included to find cities within a specified radius (in miles or kilometers) of a location.
- Descendant View Tab - This new view shows a descendant chart of the current person. Any person can be edited by highlighting them and clicking the Edit button. If the screen is not wide enough to show the entire line of information for a person, highlighting the person displays all their info at the bottom, along with the relationship of that person to the top person in the list. Double-clicking on a person puts him/her at the top of the list and the chart is regenerated. Columns are user-selectable and savable.
- US County Verifier - When you exit a location field, Legacy checks the validity of county names for locations in the United States (if the Verify US Counties in Place Names option is turned on in the Customize section). An error is reported if:
No county by that name was ever found in that state. (This could be also be the result of a misspelling.)
The county was not in existence in this state at the date specified.
The County had been dissolved in this state before the date specified.
When an error is reported, you can choose to view a list of all the counties in that state to see when they were founded and their term of existence.
- Child-Parent Relationships - The link between a child and his/her father and mother can now be specified and sourced. The existing Child Status field, which used to cover both the child status and the relationship between child and parents, now only refers to the status, such as Twin, Triplet, Stillborn, etc. The new Parent Relationship fields are used to record how the child is associated with each parent, such as Biological, Adopted, Guardian, Sealed, Step, as well as a place to record Challenged and Disproved relationships. These new fields are displayed on the Children List window as well as the Parents List window.
- Multiple Lines of Descent Report - There is a new book report style called Multiple Lines of Descent. This is similar to a Register-style descendant narrative book but you can select two or more ends of lines to include in the report. When the report is generated, the first line is printed as a normal Descendant report would be. Then the next line is started on the next page, and if it intersects with the first line, a message is printed indicating where to look in the first line for the remainder of the descendant line.
- Reports in Different Languages - Many reports in Legacy 5.0 can now be generated in several languages including German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, and Dutch. Additional languages are being added. You can now send reports to your friends and relatives in other countries that they can actually understand!
- Calendar Creator - Create your own calendars, complete with pictures, birthdays, and anniversaries. There are options to include a cover picture (front and back), picture pages above each calendar month, and complete control over color, layout, shadows, fonts, page size, etc. Create complete yearly calendars suitable for gifts.
- File ID Numbers Report - A new report lists all the filing numbers used in a family file and shows where they have been used. Options let you filter the report to specific areas if desired.
- Name List Reports with Multiple Lines per Record - You can now design your list reports with up to three rows of fields per record, thus greatly increasing the amount of information for each person.
- Master Location List Mapping- There is now a new button called "Maps" that shows up when a location is highlighted that has latitude and longitude values entered. Clicking the button currently takes you to MapQuest and displays the appropriate map showing a star at the designated location. If there is no lat/long, you are taken to Yahoo maps using just the City, State parts of the location.
- Master Location Maintenance - You can now Expand and Contract state names, Canadian provinces, several other country breakdowns, and country names in your Master Location List. This can be done for all locations, tagged or untagged locations, or verified or unverified locations. There is also an option to add or remove "USA" from USA locations. This can be applied to either the Long or Short location names.
- Save Your Place in Master Lists - New "Set Bookmark" and "Go To Bookmark" options have been added to all master lists. This lets you save your place from one session to another - helpful, for example, while working through the Master Location list, cleaning up the entries. These new options are reached by clicking the Options button on any master list window.
- Private Individuals - Any individual in the family file can now be marked as Private. All reports now have the option to include or exclude these private persons. If cousin Harry tells you to keep his dearly departed wife's information off your web site and out of your reports, you can now easily do so.
- Private Event Definitions - You can now mark any Master Event Definition as Private so that they can be excluded from reports and web pages.
- Event Definitions - Added a checkbox to exclude an event name from the Potential Problems report. Things like Obituaries and Probate customarily happen after a person death. These event types can now be excluded from checking.
- Note Fields - Added Ctrl-F to all note fields for searching. F3 then searches for the next occurrence.
- File ID Numbers - A new option lets you easily find the next available file reference number in whatever format you have been using.
- Family/Pedigree Views - Hover Information - Holding the cursor over the Spouses icon shows the names of all the spouses in the popup tooltips. Hovering over the Parents icon shows the names of all the parents. Hovering over the AKA icon shows all the alternate names for that person.
- Entering Information - A new feature now remembers the last ten locations that you have used. You can then pop them up on any Location field and copy them in with one click. You just right-click on the "in" label in front of a location field on the Information, Event, and Marriage forms to get the list. The ten most recently added locations are recorded with the most recent at the top of the list. Older locations sink down the list and fall off the bottom as new locations are added. They are also saved between sessions. This feature is very helpful when enteri
ng recurring locations that don't "sort to the top" for the auto-fill feature.
- Legacy also now remembers the last ten dates entered. You can then pop them up on any Date field by right-clicking on the label to the left of the field. The Date feature works the same as the location feature above.
- Family View - Who is marked as Living? A new feature colors the Husband and Wife labels as well as the child numbers if they are marked as Living. (This is set on the Data Format tab in the Customize screen. You can turn the option on and off and also select the color to use.)
- Events - A new Event Clipboard lets you memorize and play back events saving you lots of time. Sources, pictures, and addresses connected with the event are also saved to the clipboard. See Add or Edit an Event.
- Marriage Screen - You can now specify your own words for "Spouse" and "Marriage" for each couple. If the couple wasn’t married then you might use words like Partner and Partnership. These words are then used on all the reports in the appropriate places. (Beta testers, please let us know if you find any reports where the replacement words are not being used.)
- Picture Family Tree Chart - The options to print 1, 2, and 4 generations has been added. If printing one generation, you can move the picture higher, lower, left, or right.
- Name List Report – You can build three separate custom lines per record now. This gives you much more flexibility when laying out the information you want to include on the report. There is also a new option to print the report to comma-delimited (CSV) format.
- Timeline Reports - You can now color code the boxes.
- Descendant Charts - There is a new numbering option, d'Aboville.
- Chronology View - There are now options to include the death event of Parents, Spouses, and Children.
- Index View and Name List - Direct line individuals are bolded.
- Web Page Creation - There is now an option to use a solid background color instead of white or a patterned graphic.
- Marriage List - You can now click on the Options button on the bottom of the Marriage List and from the popup menu select to change the sort order from "Sort by Surname, Given Name" to "Sort by Given Name, Surname".
- Desktop Wallpaper - You can now select any picture within Legacy and have it applied as the background of your computer desktop
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- Event Sentences - Whenever you save a set of Event Sentence Definitions, they are "memorized." When defining a subsequent set of definition, you can click on a sentence label to repeat the last "memorized" sentence. Right-clicking on a label offers to repeat the entire set of eight definitions. This is useful if you want to use an existing set of definitions as a template when adding a new user-defined event.
- Alternate Names in the Name List – Alternate name spellings (AKA’s) can now be included in the Name List. Now you can see all the names a person was known by.
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User ID# in the Name List – You can now show your own file numbering system sorted in the Name List.
- Master Location List – You can now sort all your locations without including any leading prepositions, such as "of," "near," "at," "from," "close to," "off," etc. Now all the "of Bergen, NJ"s will sort with the "Bergen, NJ"s. This new option is on the Sort Location List screen.
- Event Report – Legacy has a great new report—a report showing individuals and the selected events related to them.
- User Defined Internet search URLs - Now you can add your own favorite Internet search sites right into Legacy and search for anyone in your file with the click of a button. Save groups of your hard-found search sites for quick retrieval.
- New Chronology View and Report - Quickly see a person and all the events surround his/her life, including vitals, events, notes, children, marriages, marriage events, marriage notes. Different types of events can be color coded for easy identification. You can also produce a nice printed report containing a built-in timeline of a person’s life events.
- New Index View - The Index View displays all the individuals in your family file. The information displayed includes the record number (RIN), full name, sex, and the birth and death date and place. The columns can be customized to display many different pieces of information.
- Global Spell Checking - You can now have Legacy run through your entire family file and check the spelling on any note type field. You can even stop and resume at will.
- Distance and Bearing Calculator – You can now use those strange latitude and longitude values for something useful. This new calculator will tell you the distance in miles (or kilometers) between any two points on earth. It will also tell you which direction to travel. You can also convert decimal bearing values to the needed degrees, minutes and seconds. It even ties into the Master Location List where you can select any two cities (with lat. and long. values) and quickly figure out how far they are apart and in which direction.
- Ancestor Coloring Option - Ancestor and Descendant type reports and many screens can now show colors associated with one of the four grandparents lines. There is also an option to color males and females differently on reports.
- ToDo Clipboard – You can now memorize ToDo items for quick playback on other individuals. Often an item applies to more than one person. The new clipboard feature saves you a lot of typing…
- Quick Copy to Source Clipboard – Now, while looking at the Assigned Sources screen, you can quickly copy one or more source citations right to the Source Clipboard. This lets you continue the citation of an existing source faster than ever.
- Advanced Set Living – You can now have Legacy intelligently run through your family file and set the Living tag to NO for all the individuals that are certainly long-since departed. By analyzing surrounding information and watching the generation numbers, Legacy will set the proper value for all those ancestors without any birth or death dates.
- Location, Source Citation and Master Source Verification Tags – You can now mark master locations and master sources with a Verified tag to indicate that you have checked them as being valid. For example, you may have a city listed under two different counties in your Master Location List and verified that they are both correct according to the timeframe they were each used. Marking them as "Verified" will remind you not to combine them into one location in the future.
- Event Sentences – Each event type now has its own sentence structure that is used when displaying the event information in reports. Of course, you can change the sentences around to any way you want them.
- More Tags – We have added six more tag numbers for a total of nine. This lets you create many more groups of individuals and marriages.
- New Picture Center – In the past you had to go to an individual or marriage and then assign each picture one-at-a-time, selecting the location and filename each time. Now, with the new Picture Center, you can view a list of your pictures and a list of individuals side-by-side and make assignments with the click of a button. You can even assign a picture to more than one person at a time. Just highlight all the people you want to link a picture to and click Assign. It was never easier or faster to add pictures to your family members.
- Move Non-Sources from Master Source List to Notes – Only true source information belongs in the Master Source List. Oftentimes, when you receive information from other people, you find sources containing things that really belong in the Notes fields. This helpful feature automatically moves non-source entries into the notes for the individuals they belong to.
- Move Non-Locations from Master Location List to Notes – Trying to keep your Master Location List cleaned up is a full-time job. When you import information from other people, the location fields often contain information that does not belong there. Often, this information is valuable and worth keeping. Using this handy feature, you can quickly move the information from the Location List to the Notes fields where it belongs.
- Produce PDF files from previewed reports. These can be sent by email and read in the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe. They retain all the formatting, lines and color of the original report so the recipient can view the reports in all their glory!
- Compare Two Files for Duplicates allows you to see if there are individuals or lines in another file that you might want to import. How often have you wondered if you were related to someone in another person’s family file? Now you can quickly see if your lines overlap. You will find more relatives than ever before.
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The new Advanced Sourcing features lets you assign sources to a group of individuals or marriages at one time. You can select the fields you want the sources to be applied to. This is an easy way to go back and document groups of records that came from the same source.
- Many reports can now include a Location Index showing what pages each location is used. Because the index groups the locations together, you can easily see all the family members that lived in the same places.
- A new Relationship Calculator lets you see every way any two people are related. See if you married one of your cousins. See how many ways you are related to your 5th great grandfather. People are often related in many ways to another person. Now you can see them all!
- The new Relationship Charts ties into the Relationship Calculator and allows you to produce wonderful charts in color with pictures and fancy boxes to impress all who see them.
- When doing Merges you can specify any pair of individuals as being Not Duplicates. Often times you may have felt like you were wearing out the Skip To Next button as you came upon pairs of individuals you knew were not duplicates but had similar names and information. Now you can mark these pairs as Not Duplicates so they don't continually show up in subsequent merge sessions.
- You can now Renumber RINs and MRINs. You can renumber specific individuals or marriages as well as groups of records. If you always wanted to be #1 in your file, now it’s easy to do.
- You can now Reuse Deleted RINs and MRINs when adding new records and importing. No more leaving empty holes within your family file when deleting or merging people.
- You can select the color of boxes on Ancestor, Descendant and Pedigree Charts. This really makes the charts more attractive when printed on a color printer.
Package includes:
- Legacy Deluxe software on CD.
- Official 400-page user's guide .
- Legacy for Beginners training video (on installation CD).
- Free upgrade to Legacy 7.0 Deluxe software on CD AND the 7.0 printed user's guide, AND the updated Legacy for Beginners training video when version 7.0 is released later this year.
Guided Tour - Legacy Deluxe
Let’s go on a guided tour of the main features of Legacy. We will show you small screen pictures along the way so you can get a feel for the program. If you click on most of the screen shots, a larger version will be displayed so you can see the detail.
Starting the Program
The first time you start Legacy after installing it, a Welcome screen is displayed where you can choose how you want to begin. From here you can either open an existing Legacy Family File, if you have one, open the Sample Family File that comes with Legacy (The Brown Family), begin with an empty Family File, import from a GEDCOM or PAF file or view the What’s New or Getting Started help topics.
Let’s begin by opening the Sample file. After clicking on the number 2 button from the Welcome screen, the Brown Family File is opened and is displayed in the Family View. Before we continue however, a small Tips window is displayed:
This window gives you a new tip each time you start Legacy. These tips will help you remember some of the useful features in the program. You can see other tips by pressing the Next Tip button. Press Close to continue.
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. The Legacy News box brings you articles and announcements about genealogy-related subjects. The To-Do list lets you enter tasks you would like to be reminded of. These reminders are displayed on the day you specify and remain visible until you reschedule or cancel them. Birthdays and anniversaries for individuals you specify can be displayed so you don't forget important dates. The Statistics box displays the number of individuals, families and sources in current family file. The Updates box shows the current Legacy version. If a newer version is available, it is also shown along with a Download Now! link. The Support box gives provides easy access to a variety of technical support options as well as training material, bug reporting and submitting suggestions.
The Family View
The Family View is one of two main navigational screens in Legacy (the other being the Pedigree View described next). Using this view you can move from generation to generation in either direction, displaying an entire family each time. The Family View shows the current husband and wife as the main couple on the screen along with when and where they were born and died. It also includes their marriage date and place. Below the main couple is a list of their children. Male children are shown in blue and female children in black. If there are more than fifteen children, a scroll bar appears to the right of the box which can be used to display up to a total of 60 children. Above the main couple are their parents.
Legacy provides ease-of-use by having all the navigational and other commands available from the Family View screen.
The Pedigree View
The second main navigational screen is the Pedigree View. The Pedigree View shows the current individual plus three or four generations of parents. Above the current individual is a grid showing spouses and children. Below is a grid showing the brothers and sisters of the individual.
To the left of the main individual is a small button. This button is colored gray if there are no descendants linked to the main individual or blue if the person has children.
To the right of each person in the oldest generation is another small button. This button is colored gray if that person has no parents linked to him/her. It is colored blue if there are one or more generations continuing back.
The Descendant View
This new view shows a descendant chart of the current person. Any person can be edited by highlighting them and clicking the Edit button. If the screen is not wide enough to show the entire line of information for a person, highlighting the person displays all their info at the bottom, along with the relationship of that person to the top person in the list. Double-clicking on a person puts him/her at the top of the list and the chart is regenerated. Columns are user-selectable and savable.
The Chronology View
The Chronology View is an ideal analysis tool that lets you quickly see a person and all the events surround his/her life, including vitals, events, notes, children, marriages, marriage events, marriage notes printed chronologically. Different types of events can be color coded for easy identification. The Chronology View is available only in the Deluxe Edition.
The Index View
The Index View displays all the individuals in your family file. The information displayed includes the record number (RIN), full name, sex, and the birth and death date and place. The columns can be customized to display many different pieces of information.
Research Guidance
The Research Guidance tab on the main screen of Legacy is your starting point for getting help finding more information about your ancestors. This fantastic resource points you to specific suggested sources from the tens of thousands contained in the research guidance system. And more are being added all the time.
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. Select your goal, and Legacy provides a list of prioritized suggestions to help you accomplish your goal.
4. Finally, Legacy organizes the sources into a To-Do List.
When you click on the Research Guidance tab, the current individual is shown near the center of the window and Legacy immediately begins searching for preliminary survey and suggested sources for this person.
Entering Information
 
The Information Screen is where you enter all the individual information for the current person. This includes their name, birth and death dates and locations, gender, reference numbers and events.
The Marriage Information screen is where you enter the date, place, status and sources of information for the current marriage.
Sources
The sources for all the information you gather for individuals and marriages should be properly documented. Legacy includes a complete source database system. This lets you record each source once and cite it unlimited times.
Reports
The Report Menu gives you access to many of the reports available from Legacy.
The following standard reports are available from Legacy. Click on the report name for an example.
Many more charts (including poster and wall-chart size charts) that have been added to the NEW version 7.0 of Legacy Family Tree.
These other reports are also available from other locations within the program:
Searching
The searching capabilities of Legacy are very powerful. You can choose from a simple fill-in-the-blanks search or a very detailed one.
Merging
As your Family File grows larger, either by entering new individuals and families or by importing other Family Files and GEDCOM files, you may find that you have some people in the file more than once. You can either try to edit the two individuals manually, trying to also take into account any children, spouses and parents, or you can use Legacy's powerful merge capabilities. In fact, it is suggested that you do not try to manually combine individuals that are linked to other relatives. It can be very frustrating and can lead to a jumbled mess.
Legacy offers several methods to merge records in a Family File. These include Duplicate Alerts, where you are automatically made aware of a possible duplicate when you are entering a new individual, Manual Merge, where you initiate the process by selecting two individuals, and Find Duplicates, where Legacy starts the process by comparing all the individuals in the entire Family File and creating a list of possible duplicates.
Name List
The Name List displays a list of individuals and is a comprehensive genealogical editing utility right within Legacy. The Name List can either contain all the individuals in the entire Family File or just a search subset. The grid has six columns, the RIN number, the individual's full name, their gender and three tag level columns. The area to the right of the grid contains several tabs with additional information about the highlighted individual.
Pictures
Any number of pictures can be attached to each individual in a Family File. Pictures and scanned document images can also be attached to events, locations and sources. Legacy reads most popular picture file formats. These pictures can then be displayed at any time and also included in many printed reports.
The Picture Gallery is reached by pressing the picture icon on the Family View (the picture frame with two people) or by click on any existing picture displayed on either the Family View or Pedigree View. Up to twenty pictures are displayed in the window at one time. If more pictures are attached, a scroll bar appears that can be used to bring up more pictures.
Geo Locator Database
Make sure you have the right location and spelling every time! A collection of nearly three million current locations worldwide divided into six regions:
PA - Pacific Islands
US - United States
AF - Africa
AM - Americas (non-USA)
AS - Asia
EU - Europe
Each location includes the name of the city, the county or province, the state, if any, and the country name. Along with this information the latitude and longitude coordinates are also included. Searching can be done by any field(s). A Radius search is included to find cities within a specified radius (in miles or kilometers) of a location.
GEDCOM Import
Importing a GEDCOM file created by any genalogical software is easy. Legacy is also designed to deal with flawed GEDCOM files that are created by some competing programs. For instance, Family Tree Maker creates a GEDCOM that combines the 'comment' and 'location' fields in the 'Facts'/Events lists. Legacy is designed to recognize that the GEDCOM was created by FTM because it can recognizes the error, then provides an easy method to clean up the problem after the family file is imported into Legacy.
GEDCOM Export
A Legacy GEDCOM file contains ALL the information that can be entered into a Legacy Family File. This includes all individual field information, all notes, all sources, all events, LDS ordinance dates and temples, pictures, sound, list ordering, tags and preferred children, spouses and parents. This GEDCOM file conforms to the GEDCOM 5.5 specification and contains the most information. If you are exporting a GEDCOM file to be imported into any other genealogy program, except Personal Ancestral File (PAF), you should probably choose this option.
Date Calculator
 The Calendar window includes a month calendar, year calendar and a date calculator. These are available at any time by selecting the calendar button on the main toolbar. The month and year calendars range from the year 100 to the year 2100. It should be noted that these calendars are based on the Gregorian (or New Style) calendar we use today and are thus only accurate since its adoption, which ranged from 1582 to about 1752.
Web Page Creation
 Legacy has the most comprehensive Personal Web Page Creation system of any family history program. It lets you choose between five different styles of Web pages including: Ancestor Book, Descendant Book, Pedigree, Family Group and Individual. The Pedigree style creates a vertical pedigree chart that can be navigated with the mouse. All styles include a Table of Contents, Name Index and content pages that are extremely customizable. All individuals are extensively cross-linked between all pages.
Legacy also allows custom HTML embedding for advanced users who want to add buttons and other features. Web pages can include links to other sites, the GENDEX index, and downloadable GEDCOM files. (The GENDEX index allows the popular www.gendex.com site to automatically add all the names from the Legacy web site to its master index thus instantly creating access for other researchers around the world.)
General Information
The Family File Information window shows you many statistics concerning the current Family File:
Name, Version, The Legacy version number, Build Date, Your Customer Number, Family File location/path, Legacy Path, Content Information. The content section shows:
The number of individual records in the current Family File, The number of Families (marriages).
The number of unique surnames (just for fun), The number of Master Source entries.
Soundex Calculator
To have Legacy calculate the standard Soundex code for a surname, enter the name in the text box and press Calculate Soundex Code. New in Legacy , 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.
Source Clipboard
The Source Clipboard is a Legacy feature that tremendously increases the efficiency with which you document the sources of the information you enter into your Family File. The Source Clipboard holds a copy of up to five source citations you are currently working from. You can then record the sources of each piece of information by simply clicking one button.
To Do List
The To Do List makes it easy to track research and other tasks that need to be done. Legacy allows you to create and Individual and General To Do lists. For example, you can create a General To Do list with books and microfilms to search when visiting a library; or create an Individual To Do list for your great grandfather by listing that you need to find his obituary, his World War I service record, and his birth certificate. To Do lists can be printed out for research trips or used as Research Logs to be placed with your transcriptions, photocopies, and correspondence.
TempleReady Submission
You are going to be thrilled by how Legacy handles name submissions. This feature is used for submitting individuals and families to have temple ordinances completed. Legacy uses a standard set of rules to pre-qualify the ordinance submissions. In addition this feature will only be available if you have customized Legacy to display LDS information.
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The first time you start Legacy after installing it, a Welcome screen is displayed where you can choose how you want to begin. From here you can either open an existing Legacy Family File, if you have one, open the Sample Family File that comes with Legacy (The Brown Family), begin with an empty Family File, import from a GEDCOM or PAF file or view the What’s New or Getting Started help topics. 
Let’s begin by opening the Sample file. After clicking on the number 2 button from the Welcome screen, the Brown Family File is opened and is displayed in the Family View. Before we continue however, a small Tips window is displayed:
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. The Legacy News box brings you articles and announcements about genealogy-related subjects. The To-Do list lets you enter tasks you would like to be reminded of. These reminders are displayed on the day you specify and remain visible until you reschedule or cancel them. Birthdays and anniversaries for individuals you specify can be displayed so you don't forget important dates. The Statistics box displays the number of individuals, families and sources in current family file. The Updates box shows the current Legacy version. If a newer version is available, it is also shown along with a Download Now! link. The Support box gives provides easy access to a variety of technical support options as well as training material, bug reporting and submitting suggestions.
The Family View is one of two main navigational screens in Legacy (the other being the Pedigree View described next). Using this view you can move from generation to generation in either direction, displaying an entire family each time. The Family View shows the current husband and wife as the main couple on the screen along with when and where they were born and died. It also includes their marriage date and place. Below the main couple is a list of their children. Male children are shown in blue and female children in black. If there are more than fifteen children, a scroll bar appears to the right of the box which can be used to display up to a total of 60 children. Above the main couple are their parents. 
The second main navigational screen is the Pedigree View. The Pedigree View shows the current individual plus three or four generations of parents. Above the current individual is a grid showing spouses and children. Below is a grid showing the brothers and sisters of the individual. 
This new view shows a descendant chart of the current person. Any person can be edited by highlighting them and clicking the Edit button. If the screen is not wide enough to show the entire line of information for a person, highlighting the person displays all their info at the bottom, along with the relationship of that person to the top person in the list. Double-clicking on a person puts him/her at the top of the list and the chart is regenerated. Columns are user-selectable and savable.
The Chronology View is an ideal analysis tool that lets you quickly see a person and all the events surround his/her life, including vitals, events, notes, children, marriages, marriage events, marriage notes printed chronologically. Different types of events can be color coded for easy identification. The Chronology View is available only in the Deluxe Edition.
The Index View
Legacy’s Research Guidance helps you locate records that may contain information about your ancestors. It does this in four steps:
The Information Screen is where you enter all the individual information for the current person. This includes their name, birth and death dates and locations, gender, reference numbers and events.
Sources
The Report Menu gives you access to many of the reports available from Legacy. 
As your Family File grows larger, either by entering new individuals and families or by importing other Family Files and GEDCOM files, you may find that you have some people in the file more than once. You can either try to edit the two individuals manually, trying to also take into account any children, spouses and parents, or you can use Legacy's powerful merge capabilities. In fact, it is suggested that you do not try to manually combine individuals that are linked to other relatives. It can be very frustrating and can lead to a jumbled mess.
The Name List displays a list of individuals and is a comprehensive genealogical editing utility right within Legacy. The Name List can either contain all the individuals in the entire Family File or just a search subset. The grid has six columns, the RIN number, the individual's full name, their gender and three tag level columns. The area to the right of the grid contains several tabs with additional information about the highlighted individual.
Any number of pictures can be attached to each individual in a Family File. Pictures and scanned document images can also be attached to events, locations and sources. Legacy reads most popular picture file formats. These pictures can then be displayed at any time and also included in many printed reports.
Make sure you have the right location and spelling every time! A collection of nearly three million current locations worldwide divided into six regions:
Importing a GEDCOM file created by any genalogical software is easy. Legacy is also designed to deal with flawed GEDCOM files that are created by some competing programs. For instance, Family Tree Maker creates a GEDCOM that combines the 'comment' and 'location' fields in the 'Facts'/Events lists. Legacy is designed to recognize that the GEDCOM was created by FTM because it can recognizes the error, then provides an easy method to clean up the problem after the family file is imported into Legacy.
A Legacy GEDCOM file contains ALL the information that can be entered into a Legacy Family File. This includes all individual field information, all notes, all sources, all events, LDS ordinance dates and temples, pictures, sound, list ordering, tags and preferred children, spouses and parents. This GEDCOM file conforms to the GEDCOM 5.5 specification and contains the most information. If you are exporting a GEDCOM file to be imported into any other genealogy program, except Personal Ancestral File (PAF), you should probably choose this option.
The Calendar window includes a month calendar, year calendar and a date calculator. These are available at any time by selecting the calendar button on the main toolbar. The month and year calendars range from the year 100 to the year 2100. It should be noted that these calendars are based on the Gregorian (or New Style) calendar we use today and are thus only accurate since its adoption, which ranged from 1582 to about 1752.
Legacy has the most comprehensive Personal Web Page Creation system of any family history program. It lets you choose between five different styles of Web pages including: Ancestor Book, Descendant Book, Pedigree, Family Group and Individual. The Pedigree style creates a vertical pedigree chart that can be navigated with the mouse. All styles include a Table of Contents, Name Index and content pages that are extremely customizable. All individuals are extensively cross-linked between all pages.
The Family File Information window shows you many statistics concerning the current Family File:
Name, Version, The Legacy version number, Build Date, Your Customer Number, Family File location/path, Legacy Path, Content Information. The content section shows:
The number of individual records in the current Family File, The number of Families (marriages).
The number of unique surnames (just for fun), The number of Master Source entries.
The Source Clipboard is a Legacy feature that tremendously increases the efficiency with which you document the sources of the information you enter into your Family File. The Source Clipboard holds a copy of up to five source citations you are currently working from. You can then record the sources of each piece of information by simply clicking one button.
The To Do List makes it easy to track research and other tasks that need to be done. Legacy allows you to create and Individual and General To Do lists. For example, you can create a General To Do list with books and microfilms to search when visiting a library; or create an Individual To Do list for your great grandfather by listing that you need to find his obituary, his World War I service record, and his birth certificate. To Do lists can be printed out for research trips or used as Research Logs to be placed with your transcriptions, photocopies, and correspondence.
You are going to be thrilled by how Legacy handles name submissions. This feature is used for submitting individuals and families to have temple ordinances completed. Legacy uses a standard set of rules to pre-qualify the ordinance submissions. In addition this feature will only be available if you have customized Legacy to display LDS information.
