Tuesday's Tips provide brief how-to's to help you learn to use the Legacy Family Tree software with new tricks and techniques.
Standardizing Family Information
There have been a lot of posts lately about how to format names, locations and dates as well how to go through and get everything standardized and consistent. There are two resources I want to tell you about.
1) Free webinar and handout from Geoff, "Improving Your Use of New FamilySearch: Data Cleanup Strategies." New FamilySearch was the predecessor to FamilySearch's Family Tree. The screenshots are from Legacy 7.5 but the principles are the same and everything Geoff shows you in the video you can do in Legacy 8. http://familytreewebinars.com/download.php?webinar_id=57
2) Getting it Right by Mary Slawson. Mary is in the process of updating this book and I am really looking forward to it. She is a Legacy user and all the screenshots in her book are from Legacy. It is out of print but you should be able to find it. What I like is that she addresses a lot of unusual data entry situations, things like Native American names, patronymics, peerage, farm names, etc.
Try these two resources first, and then if you still have questions about standardization, come pose them in the Legacy Facebook Group.
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Michele Simmons Lewis is part of the technical support team at Millennia, the makers of the Legacy Family Tree software program. With over 20 years of research experience, Michele’s passion is helping new genealogists get started on the right foot through her writings, classes and lectures. She is the former staff genealogist and weekly columnist for the McDuffie Mirror and now authors Ancestoring, a blog geared toward the beginner/intermediate researcher.
I bug her about it from time to time but nothing yet 🙂