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Tuesday’s Tip – Hashtagging a Group of People (Intermediate)

Tuesday’s Tip – Hashtagging a Group of People (Intermediate)

Hashtagging a Group of People

Tuesday's Tips provide brief how-to's to help you learn to use the Legacy Family Tree software with new tricks and techniques.

Hashtagging a Group of People (Intermediate)

Legacy user J'Anette asked a great question in the Legacy User Facebook Group

How do I add the same hashtag to a line of descendants? at the same time?

In the Family View, navigate to the person you want to use as the anchor and then go to Tools > Advanced Tagging. Since this person was already highlighted, his/her name is already in the box. You can still change it from this screen if you like. By the way, if you look at my Tag labels can you guess what I have been working on?

Advanced Tagging

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I am going to tag all of James's descendants on Tag 9. For additional information on how to do this please see A Tagging Tip.

James's descendants on Tag 9

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Close out the Advanced Tagging screen and go to Search > Find > Detailed Search. Here is the criteria you will use:

Search > Find

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And here is my Search List:

Search List

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Now click Options > Add Hashtag to Everyone in List

Add Hashtag to Everyone in List

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That will bring up the Select Hashtags dialog box and you can add a new one. 

Add a Hashtag dialog box

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Once you have added it, it will show up on your list of Hashtags and it will be highlighted. Now click the Assign button.

Assign Hashtags

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Now go to View > Master Lists > Hashtags and you will see that everyone on the Search List has been hashtagged.

Master Hashtag List

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You can do this for ANY Search List for unlimited possibilities!

 

Find tech tips every day in the Facebook Legacy User Group. The group is free and is available to anyone with a Facebook account.

For video tech tips check out the Legacy Quick Tips page.  These short videos will make it easy for you to learn all sort of fun and interesting ways to look at your genealogy research.

Michele Simmons Lewis, CG® is part of the Legacy Family Tree team at MyHeritage. She handles the enhancement suggestions that come in from our users as well as writing for Legacy News. You can usually find her hanging out on the Legacy User Group Facebook page answering questions and posting tips.

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