Legacy 6 problems?

I've been working on our family history and I send a copy to Dad. We
try to stay on the same version of Legacy. I'm currently running 4 and
he suggested going to 6. Any major problems or gotchas? I'm not one to
upgrade just for the sake of upgrading.

Steve Hayes...

I have a different question -- Not how much worse it might be, but how much
better is it? Is it worth the price of the upgrade?

Charani...

I use the free version and there is one improvement that I've seen and
that is the ability to mark a couple as not having married, ie it
allows for co-habitees.

It still doesn't easily allow for a single parent with the father's
field left blank though.

sull1927...

Why is that a problem? The father is as much a part of genealogy as
the mother. Whether they like each other, or whether it was just a
cheap condom, has no bearing on genealogy and I would think they
enjoyed each other at least once.

The child's physical condition could depend to a large extent on the
genes of the father. Why deprive a child of essential knowledge
because of selfnishness?

If there is a good reason you might state it here other than perhaps
not even knowing the name of the father.

Doug McDonald...

Sherry...

A better solution is to go to Options > Customize > Data Format and
select under Word for Blank Records to "(Just leave it blank)"

Charani...

Thank you :)) You're a gem :))

Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
Support@MillenniaCorp.com

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WHAT? I just tried it (version 5) and that is easy. I must be
misunderstanding you.

Charani...

When I tried, Legacy insisted on putting in Unknown in the father's
field when I didn't want anything in there at all. In the marriage
info field I put DNM but again I didn't want anything there.

singhals...

It always puzzles me when people want to complicate their own life (g).

Charani...

It doesn't complicate things for me

Why would you NOT want DNM or UNKNOWN to show and reassure you that
you haven't missed something easy-to-do? (g)

Charani...

DNM is fine where someone didn't, and UNKNOWN is fine where I know
there is a spouse or partner but haven't yet added or found the
information. I wanted an option to show someone as DNM but who did
have children but to leave the spouse blank.

I mean, blanks can either mean "I don't know" or "I didn't look yet".
And in large databases, or complex families, one can't remember each
situation and these are easy mnenomics or aides-memoires.

Charani...

On one of my family lines I'm virtually doing a one name study and
I've been transferring all the data from a dB of my own format onto
Legacy. It's a fairly unusual name so are rather thin on the ground.
I've only done the births from 1569 to 1866 and have currently
inputted 581 individuals of which 220 are on my own branch of the
family. I've done about half so far of my branch so far and the dB has
entries up to 2003 which is as recent as I can go. If someone asks me
about a particular person on the dB 75% of the time I can identify
them just from memory. The other 25% of the time I either need the
mother's maiden name or it's someone I haven't yet attached to a
family :))

singhals...

I'm sorta fond of "not found" as a flag, too. It tells me I don't know
but I did look. (g)

And I've got a few gals whose husband shows up as NONE. Again, in the
interests of keeping me uptospeed without having to spend hours getting
there each time I look for something for someone.

Color me lazy.

Charani...

Everyone has their own way of working. It's not laziness, just a
preference.

"Not found" sounds better than "Unknown" though.

I've got a family in the mid-1800s of 5 illegitimate children who
could all have different fathers but might have the same one although
I suspect there's more than one given the age range of the children.
There's nothing in any of the censuses to indicate a father and the
mother wasn't in a position to go to court for maintenance.

sull1927...

If that is the issue, what is the problem? Eliminate the emotion and
report the facts. He has a (1) name(s), he/they is/are (2) unknown, or
a search has been made and he/they was/were (3) not found. It seems
pretty elementary.

My gg grandfather had 4 baseborn children by three women. Several
ladies in my genealogy (some still living) had children before or
without marriage. I report the facts and leave the judgement to God.

Doug McDonald

Charani...

I don't upgrade for the sake of it either but I did upgrade from
Legacy 5 to 6, after I did a reformat and reinstall on my PC, with no
problems at all. Going from 4 to 5 shouldn't give you any problems
but I'm not sure about jumping from 4 to 6.

If you have a separate partition on your PC, you could back up your
files to a different partition so that you have a second back up copy,
then download 6 and import your original back up files. If it works
great, but if it doesn't, you've still got your files intact on your

myths...

I don't think a separate partition is necessary - just a copy of the
files and / or back-up versions.

Charani...

No, a separate partition isn't necessary: it's just easier as a
temporary measure. The important thing is to have two back up copies
so that if one gets messed up there is still another good copy.

other partition and you can reinstall 4.

Sherry (from Mil. Corp) will probably pop in later to let you know if
you can "double grade" as my dau calls it :))

Sherry...

Just make sure that you uninstall Legacy v4 before installing Legacy
v6. Also, we highly recommend that you make sure all other programs
are closed and your anti-virus software is disabled when you install
Legacy.

Charlene Charette...

Thanks for the reply.

Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
Support@MillenniaCorp.com

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