Video Training

Legacy Family Tree Video Training Series (5-CD Set) - Volume 1 Provides the answers to "I wish I would have known when I started."
Legacy for Beginners (CD 1) - Recorded with Version 8		FREE!
This video walks the beginning Legacy user through the basics of the program. 40 minutes.
Mastering Legacy: Names, Dates & Places (CD 2) - Recorded with Version 8
Learn the do-it-right-the-first-time rules of data entry. 39 minutes.
Your 12-Step Checklist to Using Legacy (CD 3) - Recorded with Version 8
Every Legacy user should follow these 12 steps when working with their database. 50 minutes.
Legacy's Ultimate Guide to Sources (CD 4) - Recorded with Version 8
Genealogy without documentation is mythology. Learn all about sources. 41 minutes.
Researching with Legacy: Mastering Events and Chronologies (CD 5) - Recorded with Version 8
Learn how to properly enter and cite the documents you find. 42 minutes.
Set of 5 above		$32.95
Savings of $6.85
Legacy Family Tree Video Training Series (4-CD Set) - Volume 2 For beginners-advanced
Legacy's Tagging and Searching Made Easy (CD 1)
Learn how tagging and searching can be applied to your personal research. 34 minutes.
Creating & Sharing Perfect Reports (CD 2)
Become an expert in creating and sharing reports. 58 minutes.
Insider's Guide to Legacy: Tips & Tricks (CD 3)
Get the "insider information" about Legacy. 40 minutes.
Picturing your Legacy: a Video Guide to Working with Digital Pictures in Legacy (CD 4)
Learn the "before-scanning-your-first-picture rules" and the ins/outs to using pictures in Legacy. 52 minutes.
Set of 4 above		$32.95
Savings of $6.85
Additional Legacy Training
What's New in Legacy 9.0 -		FREE!
Learn about the exciting, new features in Legacy 9.0.
Legacy Family Tree: an Overview		FREE!
Part of a live seminar presented to the Hemet-San Jacinto Genealogical Society on May 16, 2009.
Legacy Family Tree: Tips and Tricks		FREE!
Part of a live seminar presented to the Hemet-San Jacinto Genealogical Society on May 16, 2009.
Video Previews of Other Software
AniMap
AniMap contains over 2,300 historical maps that show the changing county boundaries for each of the 48 adjacent United States for every year since colonial times.
Centennia Historical Atlas Software
Centennia is a map-based guide to the history of Europe and the Middle East from the beginning of the 11th century to the present. It is a dynamic, animated historical atlas including over 9,000 border changes.
GenSmarts
GenSmarts is a computer program that analyzes your Legacy information and tells you, person by person, which records to research, and why.

Additional Information

Legacy for Beginners. This 40 minute tutorial walks the beginning Legacy user through the basics of the program. View it online or on the Legacy installation CD. Topics include:

Import a GEDCOM
Basic data entry
Adding family members
AKAs and addresses
Notes
Sources
Pictures
Calendars
To Do List

Mastering Legacy Family Tree: Names, Dates, and Places. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced Legacy user, the concepts in this course are vitally important. What you learn may help you begin your Legacy journey in the right direction, or it may cause you to make a U-turn and begin practicing new principles. You will learn the golden rule of data entry. Topics include:

Entering, sorting, and printing: names, variants, and aliases
Rules of entering dates
Proper formatting of dates
Various displays of dates
Living and deceased tags
Double-dating: Gregorian and Julian calendars
Rules of entering localities
Master location list
Sorting locations
Creating reports of locations

Your 12-Step Checklist to Using Legacy. Every Legacy user should follow these 12 steps when working with their database. Recommended for beginners to advanced. Topics include:

Relationships
Quick Bookmarks
Set direct line as preferred
Turn half siblings on
What do the little symbols mean?
Set preferred startup family
More preferences
Clean up master lists
Backups
Potential problems
File maintenance
Tree finder

Legacy's Ultimate Guide to Sources. This training CD shows you the value of effectively entering sources in Legacy. Recommended for beginners to advanced. Topics include:

Add a new source
Source detail
Cite a master source
Source clipboard
Master source list
Using online library catalogs
Analysis - more than a citation

Researching with Legacy: Mastering Events and Chronologies. One of the most difficult, yet most important aspects of your genealogy research is properly entering the data you find into your genealogy program. The information taught in this CD can be applied to nearly any type of document. Recommended for beginners to advanced. Learn how to analyze, document and properly enter:

Census records
Pre-1850 census records
Military records
City directories
And much more . . .

Searching and Tagging Made Easy. The purposes for which tagging and searching are used in Legacy Family Tree are basically endless. This tutorial will teach how tagging and searching can be applied to your personal research problems. Recommended for intermediate to advanced users. Topics covered include:

Tagging basics
Advanced tagging
Record selection for reports
Before you tag: the rules
Searching
Use and display tags 4-9
Using locations
Searching with GENViewer

Creating & Sharing Perfect Reports. Learn how to create perfect reports for research, analysis, sharing, and publishing. Learn about .pdfs, .rtfs, sending reports via email, creating books, and easily obtaining information from your living relatives. 58 minutes. Recommended for beginners to advanced. Topics include:

The basics
Report options
Record selection
Report titles and codes
Books
Successful correspondence
Publishing Center
. . . much more!

Insider's Guide to Legacy: Tips & Tricks. There are some aspects of Legacy that even seasoned Legacy users are not aware of. This video will unveil hidden features and give you expert tips/tricks of features that you may already be using, but might not be using them to their fullest. 40 minutes. Recommended for intermediate to advanced.

Legacy secrets
Index View secrets
Tree finder tips
Super searching
Timeline treasures
. . . much more!

Picturing your Legacy: a Video Guide to Working with Digital Pictures in Legacy. Learn the "before-scanning-your-first-picture" rules. Learn how to add pictures to your family file and create beautiful reports, scrapbooks, and slide shows. Learn how to preserve your pictures and documents by creating shareable CDs. 52 minutes. Recommended for beginners to advanced.

The rules
Linking pictures
Scrapbook
Pictures in reports
Picture Center
Challenges
ProMedia Manager
. . . much more!