Video Training
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!