Legacy Family Tree Deluxe 7

Full version is the Legacy Family Tree Deluxe program for new users.

Upgrade version is an upgrade for existing Legacy 6 users to the full Legacy 7 program. However, proof of ownership is required in the form of a receipt, or surrender of the original program CD.

Legacy Family Tree Deluxe Features :

New Legacy 7 Features

• Wall Charts — You have spent many long hours collecting and entering your family history. A feat that few other people even attempt, let alone accomplish in their lifetimes. Now you can experience the enjoyment of showing off your family tree by producing stunning full-color wall charts. Use them for your next family reunion or for a deserving wall in your home. Wall charts make great gifts for any holiday, birthday, or anniversary. They also make your own continuing genealogy research easier by having a large, easily readable working chart nearby to refer to.
         Wall charts tell a story that can be seen at a glance. They are a graphical representation of your family that can extend forward or backward for many generations. Large charts are often a gathering place for conversations that bond your family together. They become family heirlooms of great importance that will be passed on into the future. So, show off all your hard work - print some wall charts!
• Interview Reports — The Interview Report contains over 1200 questions in thirteen different categories that can be used when you interview a family remember. They are great at jogging the memory of the person being interviewed and elicit more in-depth responses.
• Source Templates — Version 7 of Legacy heralds the introduction of SourceWriter. SourceWriter is a template driven sourcing system that makes it easy for you to select the correct input screen so that you enter all the pieces needed to correctly cite any source of information in the thousands of formats that exist for them. The information you enter is correctly and precisely formatted to match the genealogy industry standards for source citations when printing footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies. Multiple citations for an event can be combined into one paragraph, thus avoiding a long string of superscripted numbers within the report body.
         Prior to version 7, Legacy's citation methods were rudimentary and straight forward but didn't offer the expert help needed in order to automatically produce correct citations. Actually, in version 7, you can use either of the citation methods, the new or the old. We will call the new system SourceWriter and the previous system the "Basic System."
• Map My Places — We've redesigned the Master Location List screen. If an Internet connection is present, Legacy plots the selected place on the map below the list. When a location is highlighted, it automatically displays a list of all individuals who use the location. These individuals can now be edited from this screen by clicking on the Edit button. (If you access the Master Location List from within the Individual's Information screen, you cannot edit a person from the list.)
• Map My Family — With Legacy Mapping you can see an overall view of a family's territory spanning the entire earth if necessary. You can also zoom right into the street level of anywhere in any country in the world. When all the locations where a family lived and worked are plotted on a map together, you can easily see the overall area in which the family spent their lives. You can visualize how the family members migrated from place to place as they grew older. (Or you can see if they stayed in one place their entire lives.) New research opportunities come to light as you see the surrounding cities, counties, provinces, and countries.
• Guided Setup Wizard — The new wizard is available when starting Legacy 7.0 for the first time as well as when creating a new family file from File > New Family File. You can even use it when importing at File > Import from > Use Import Wizard… The wizard takes you by the hand and guides you through the process in an easy-to-understand way.
• New Relationship Calculator — You can now see how any two people are connected, not only through direct blood relationships but also by marriage. A person might be the "great-grandfather of the wife of your 2nd great-grandnephew. You can also specify how many of these non-blood relationships you want to see.
• Best Fit Child Columns — A new selection has been added. The Best Fit option expands or contracts the child list columns to fit the number of children for the current couple. No more trying to guess the optimum number of child columns. Legacy does it for you.
• More Powerful Searching — Many new searching options have been added to make it easier to find missing information within your family file. You can now search for individuals that are missing parts of names, birth or death information, marriage information and much more. You can also search for missing source citations as you document your family files.
• Standardization Tips — We have added many standardization tips that will pop-up if something questionable has been entered in the Individual's Information screen. These have also been added to the Potential Problems report. See Tools > Potential Problems > Standardization.
• Edit Records from the "Used By" Lists — All of the master lists in Legacy have an option to view the individuals who use the items in the list. You can now edit those individuals right from the list instead of having to exit the list and edit them separately.
• Easily Attach Documents to Individuals and Marriages — Along with attaching pictures, sounds, and video to individuals, events, locations, and sources, you can now also attach any other kind of document.
• Enhanced Welcome Tips — That little window that greets you when you start Legacy and gives you nice helpful tips and tricks just got better. There is now a Show Me How button that pops up a complete explanation of the tip - how to get where you can use it, all the nitty gritty.
• Potential Problems — Standardization and LDS event verification checks are now included. See Tools > Potential Problems > Standardization and LDS tabs.
• Enhanced Backups — Legacy can now backup your family file and multimedia files at the same time, making it easier to transfer everything to another computer.
• New Toolbar Icons — New Home and Add icons have been added to the main toolbar. Icons have also been added to access the new Charting and Mapping features.

New Legacy 6 Features

• Research Guidance — Researching your ancestry is easier than ever with Legacy's new built-in, 24/7 personal research assistant. Just choose your goal and Legacy automatically creates a To-Do list of expert suggestions and research tips.
• Publishing Center — Combine your favorite reports into an heirloom book. Add a Title Page, Preface, Dedication, Copyright Notice, and Abbreviations page, and Legacy will automatically generate the Table of Contents, Index, and Bibliography.
• Legacy Home — The new Legacy Home tab brings you genealogical news and Legacy tips (updated every day!), reminds you of upcoming birthdays and anniversaries, provides quick links for support questions, and has a built-in web browser — now you'll never need to leave Legacy to surf the Internet.
• Timelines — Legacy now lets you see your ancestors' lives in history. Timelines can be merged with the ancestor's chronology giving you a sense of how they were affected by history.

Legacy Family Tree is a comprehensive and easy-to-use family history software. The Standard Edition is available from the Millennia web site as a free download. It includes merging, search and replace, spell checking, powerful research logs, reports and sources among its many features.

However, the Deluxe Edition has a number of powerful and useful additions, including the ability to produce PDF files from previewed reports, compare two files for duplicates, advanced sourcing capabilities, advanced merge capabilities, select the colour of boxes on some charts, relationship charts, chronology view and report, show events on the family view and name list, alternate names in the name list, location notes, event sentences, embedded text formatting and global spell checking.

See the Legacy Web Site for a detailed product description of Legacy Family Tree Deluxe 7.

System Requirements (Legacy 7)

• Pentium class computer.
• VGA or higher display.
• Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Vista
• A Hard Disk with 55 megabytes of available space.
• A CD-ROM drive.
• 256 megabytes of RAM memory.
• A mouse.
• Internet connection.

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