

Please read on as I cover everything this software has to offer.

The products and services that Legacy Family Tree delivers can help you greatly with your research. This barely scratches the surface of the capabilities of Legacy genealogy software, a very full-featured program.Exploring your ancestors and finding all that you can about them can be so rewarding.

You can open two different family trees at the same time so you can see or copy information from one file to another by using drag-and-drop.
#Legacy family tree help windows
Legacy Family Tree offers you the ability to customize the appearance of the program on your screen, where various files are to be saved, whether you want pop-up help or balloon help, name and date formatting, the position of the button bar, whether you want automatic backups and where, the LDS information to save and display.Īdditionally, you can open six separate windows in a tree so you can easily see information in another part of your file.You have total control of what you export - which persons as well as what information. If the data you have is from another program, there is an Import Wizard to help you through the steps of importing that data too.Įxporting is allowed to GEDCOM as well as Legacy, PAF, Ancestral File, TempleReady, Clooz, Basic and Generic formats too. The Legacy genealogy software allows you to import data from files created in several different versions of Personal Ancestral File or Ancestral Quest formats, GEDCOM, as well as other Legacy files.The output formats include printing to your printer, or creating an Adobe Acrobat file for emailing, or sending to a publisher.ĭo you want to publish a picture book with minimal text, or do you wish to publish a text-based narrative with some pictures in it? You decide. You can publish with all the source materials included, include or exclude the notes, and decide how you want to handle the conflicting information for an individual. It also allows you to describe your own output - who, what, how, where. There are many different forms of output for publishing your family tree, including all the usual books and charts.
#Legacy family tree help how to
No trying to remember what information you need for that type, nor how to format it when it is printed. You tell it whether you are entering the data for a book, an article, online data, or any other source type, and it presents you with a template that you fill in.

Legacy genealogy software makes entering the source information easy with a built-in "SourceWriter" function.
