Legacy Family Tree
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| Developer(s) | Millennia Corporation |
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| Initial release | June 1997 |
| Stable release | 7.0.0.103 / 2009-08-13 |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Size | 46.9MB |
| Available in | Multilingual (10 languages/dialects) |
| Development status | Active |
| Type | Genealogy software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ |
Legacy Family Tree is genealogy software for Windows.[1] The standard edition is distributed as freeware, with no restrictions, only requiring registration on the company's web site to download the software. [2] Users may pay a fee to "unlock" the additional features in the deluxe edition. The standard edition may thus be considered a kind of registerware and crippleware.
Legacy is a full-featured genealogy program that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing family history. Both the program and the help files are updated regularly in each of several languages. A printed manual and tutorial videos are available in English; the program and the help files are available in several languages, referred to as international releases.[3] In addition to English (Australian, Canadian, UK and US versions), the Bokmål (Norwegian), Danish, Dutch, German, Nynorsk (Norwegian) and Swedish versions have been released. Teams of volunteers are, in 2008, working on translations to Afrikaans, Finnish, French, Italian, Spanish and other languages.[3]
The software allows groups of people to coordinate their work and track each other's changes. When two files are open, entire lines can be dragged and dropped from one to the other. Multimedia support includes pictures, sound clips, and videos; images can be displayed individually, in slide shows, or as screen savers. The program imports and exports standard GEDCOM files and files from Personal Ancestral File (PAF). Links to the Internet allow searching online databases for any person in the family file.
Other features include search and replace, spell checking of all notes, source documentation features, and relationship calculation. For users entering U.S. information, the program issues a warning if the county entered did not exist at the time of the event.[4] TempleReady reports can be produced for by members of the LDS Church.
The newest deluxe edition (7.0) includes Legacy Charting, which previously had to be purchased separately. Legacy Charting locates all Legacy files on a hard drive, allows the creation of charts from any Legacy file, and uses a Chart Creation Wizard to help the user create a chart and customize the charts' appearance. They include large-scale wall charts, including drop-down descendancies, fan charts, hourglass charts and DNA charts.
Legacy Family Tree sponsors an annual cruise that includes seminars on the use of the software and other genealogy-related topics.
[edit] References
- ^ Eastman, Dick (2007-09-04). "Legacy Family Tree Now Available in 5 Languages". Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/09/legacy-family-t.html. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ Eastman, Dick (2008-02-23). "Legacy Family Tree with Ken McGinnis". Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/02/video-legacy-fa.html. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ a b International releases
- ^ "Legacy Family Tree at the Family History Expo" (Video). Roots Television. February 2008. http://rootstelevision.com/players/player_conferences.php?bctid=1423436164. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
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