Daily Working Now!

 I am hanging in there with LegacyFamilyTree. There's a lot I don't like in it, and a lot that I do. One thing I find is that sources are harder in Legacy than in RM. I had given all my family Reference Numbers in RM, which is linked to my paper files. In Legacy they show on the main Family page. I love that!  So easy to find. Anyway, I am still at it. There is a really big learning curve here. Still so much to learn, but I am determined to continue. I started, back in the day of dinosaurs, on Family Tree Maker, back when it was by Broderbund. Yea, I'm that old! Then I got RootsMagic3. I stuck with that until now. It really takes a long time for a program to become easy.  But Legacy does have a lot more to it than RM. 

At WikiTree I've been getting my families up to snuff! I've been working on my Alexander line this month. In particular my Johns. LOL John H. Alexander (Alexander-2574) and his father John Henry Alexander (Alexander-24431). I've been primarily working on their children, and their families. One family I've lost myself in is the Wilsons. Louisa Alexander Wilson in particular. I've found so many articles about them. They lived in Brownstown, Indiana, a small town in southern Indiana. It had a wonderful newspaper back in the day. The Jackson County Banner. When I was young, I loved when mom picked one up while grocery shopping. It issued 2 times a week and was either mailed or you could get a copy at the store. It was local news. Really local and really news, about the inhabitants of the county. I would read every word. But papers were worth reading back in the day. Not worth the money now. Anyway, the Wilson family had a meat market and grocery store. I must find the way to add at least some of them to WikiTree. They really flesh out these people. I am loving it!

Summer Work

  I've found I cannot work with RootsMagic anymore. I really hate RootsMagic8, so I did not buy version 9. I love Rootsmagic7 but. when I added several people and they simply are gone, I decided after wasting a week trying to find out why, and fix it, that I need to move on. It is moving in a different direction than I am. I just wanted to get as much of the research done as I could, and have it organized as much as possible.  I'm getting old, and I had bought Legacy9 some time ago. If I have to learn a new one, then so be it. 

I have to say that once the decision was made to learn Legacy, I have enjoyed the process. I still have much to learn about the program, but I can say I am no longer lost when I go in to work. Right now, I am cleaning up and adding all of my photos. Next is getting all of my sources, which I am ashamed to say have piled up, in the program. By then I think I will be fairly competent in Legacy. I want to have this done by the end of summer. It is a big job. If I had to make such a big jump though, I wanted to get everything cleaned up. I have learned that the programs charting abilities are awesome!

Working as well to add WikiTree numbers to each ancestor. I clean up their profiles on the site as I check them. By clean up I mean that I organize the sources onsite, add to their bio if I can, and make sure that all the sources for that person is onsite.