There’s are many ways of running the same Legacy Family Tree database on multiple computers but this is my method: …[continued]
Legacy
It’s a good thing I’ve never tried to make a living as a diplomat. While I’d be thinking about how to make all the people happy all the time the situation would be long gone and I’d be left standing in the dust still thinking. …[continued]
Taking a tour through LTools I decided to try the option of ‘Find Unattached Multimedia’.
(LTools is a small piece of software augmenting Legacy Family Tree with options that are not yet available otherwise.) …[continued]
Day 4. The IntelliShare project has now crashed and burned. Like we didn’t see that one coming.
Cuz is not willing to compromise on any point whatsoever. Where the notes go, formatting of locations, the family lines that should be included/excluded …. nothing. …[continued]
Legacy Family Tree’s IntelliShare Day 3. I thought we’d hit an impasse. The Merge was being held hostage.
Cousin refused to send me her family file. She wanted me to import and merge one small export file after another, piecemeal. She thought she could win with stubbornness. …[continued]
Day 2. I got cuz out of the research rut but we immediately took a sharp left into another ditch.
She told me she didn’t have time to work on genealogy for a few days so I said, “Ok.” …[continued]
When you’re trying to get two family files merged and your cousin, the bloodhound, is being derailed by research questions, you just need some good ammunition to get her back on track.
And, here it is. Legacy’s Merge screen. …[continued]
The preparation is complete and this is the day The Great Legacy IntelliShare Merge begins.
Because my SOURCES folder contains documents not related to the MasterFile, I set up a Syncback profile that only sends the relevant documents to the MasterFile SOURCES folder in our shared Dropbox folder. …[continued]
OK. We’ve started with Legacy’s IntelliShare. With the file-name MasterFile. We could have named it anything.
We decided my family file should be the starting point because my file is the one with the MRIN’s already defined to follow the MRIN Filing System. It’s already linked to source documents, thousands of source citations and the portraits. My cousin already files her paper by marriages so we’re close to having the same system, hers just lacking the numbers right now. …[continued]
So far, so good. In five years of MRIN filing I’ve never needed a backup of my MRIN’s.
But, what I have done occasionally is swap numbers around and lose track of where else the MRIN’s exist in my database. …[continued]
Over at Kerry’s there’s a debate underway about The Value of Great Big Trees Online. I come down on the side of being not all that interested. I agree with the many who say that regurgitated incorrect and un-sourced material is a root problem. But, it can be a place to start. …[continued]
First of all … I love the new FamilySearch and Legacy integration. Amazing, amazing effort.
But, just because we can combine duplicates on the new FamilySearch does not mean the information is correct. And, of course, we already knew that. …[continued]
