Tuesday's Tips provide brief how-to's to help you learn to use the Legacy Family Tree software with new tricks and techniques.
Batch Printing (Beginner)
There are two reports in Legacy that will allow you to "batch print," the Family Group Report and the Individual Chart Report.
Go to Reports > Family Group. You can work on either report from this screen but for now leave it on the Family tab.
Click the Record Selection button at the bottom of the screen and you will get this dialog box:
Look at all of the choices you have! You can print groups of reports based on Focus Groups, Individual Tags, Marriage Tags or all of the Individuals in your file. If you switch to the Individual Chart Report the Record Selection screen looks slightly different.
Some people like to batch print all of their Family Group Reports or their Individual Chart Reports to add to their paper filing system. For example, if you have file folders set up for your family groups you might want to add their Family Group Report to the front of each folder. Same thing if you have file folders for all of your individuals. Other people like to print these out and keep them in a binder so that family members can browse through them. If you have a group of tagged individuals that you are working with you can print these out as worksheets, You can write on and then later transfer the information to Legacy.
This is a very helpful feature that many users aren't aware of.
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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.
I often print a family group sheet in order to better research a particular family. So easy to see what information I have and concentrate on what I need to fill in the blanks. Timelines are great for this too!