I finally got a new genealogy program, Legacy, and I have spent the past couple weeks learning about it with their sample database. It’s kinda slow going. Pretty much all genealogy programs have basic stuff in common, like pedigree views and family groups, you just have to figure out how each one works, what do the buttons and icons mean, that kind of thing. One of the main things I like about Legacy is that it is so configurable, I can set the UI how I want it to look. In my previous program, I was used to working with a timeline kind of window, but the Legacy timeline is a bit different. Legacy does have more reports, and I’m anxious to try the HTML output for some of them. There are also maps, which should be nice on the website. And there is a Research Guidance feature that looks at where and when a person lived, and lists sources to check for more information, which is nice because I have no idea what kinds of books and other resources are available. I can’t look them up if I don’t know about them.

Another thing I have decided to do on this genealogy do-over, is to separate out the data into four databases, one for my mom (the original C-A-T lines), one for my dad (Kevish-Posa), one for hubby’s mom (Ferber-Bruns), and one for hubby’s dad (Holder-Paquin-Jolin). That should make it much easier to find an ancestor in any of the lines. I’m starting with the C-A-T lines for now.

So that’s all for now, gonna get back to Legacy!