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!
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