Legacy Genealogy Software and What It Can Do For You

Legacy Family Tree - A Powerful Program

The Legacy genealogy software, Legacy Family Tree, is a very powerful genealogy program. It offers all of the necessary functions for beginners and experts alike. It is very easy to use, and you should take a good look at it if you are shopping for a family tree program.

Before you decide on which software program you want to use, check this page to remind yourself of the capabilities to consider for your program.

Legacy Family Tree easily meets all the suggested capabilities, and adds many additional ones as well.

• This is a very easy program to use, having many different fill-in screens to make it convenient for all your data entry. It is also a program that makes it easy and intuitive to move from one program section to another.

  If you are a beginner, you will find the Legacy genealogy software to be an easy program to learn. If you are an expert, you will constantly find powerful functions to make your genealogy tasks easy.

• This is a program that will carry you through your genealogy research from the early days on. It has the power to do many functions of genealogy searching well. You can store almost unimaginable amounts of data in it, including all sorts of digital media such as photographs, audio and video files, scanned documents, notes, multiple sets of parents, spouses, and conflicting dates.
• There are many different forms of output for publishing your family tree, including all the usual books and charts. It also allows you to describe your own output - who, what, how, where. 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. The output formats include printing to your printer, or creating an Adobe Acrobat file for emailing, or sending to a publisher.

  Do 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.

• The sources for your materials are a very important part of documenting your family history. Legacy genealogy software makes entering the source information easy with a built-in "SourceWriter" function. 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. No trying to remember what information you need for that type, nor how to format it when it is printed. The program does all that for you.
• 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. 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.

  Exporting is allowed to GEDCOM as well as Legacy, PAF, Ancestral File, TempleReady, Clooz, Basic and Generic formats too. You have total control of what you export - which persons as well as what information.

• Legacy Family Tree offers you the ability to customize the appearance of the program on your scren, 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. In other words, you control the program.

  Additionally, you can open six separate windows in a tree so you can easily see information in another part of your file. 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.

This barely scratches the surface of the capabilities of Legacy genealogy software, a very full-featured program.

Legacy Family Tree Will Serve You Very Well!