Legacy versions

Build up family trees and create multiple genealogical databases
Oct 22, 2021
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Sep 19, 2013
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Jan 18, 2011
Editorial review
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Jan 31, 2010
Jul 25, 2008
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Jan 25, 2011
Mar 1, 2008
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What's new

v9.0.339 [Feb 18, 2017]
- New hinting.
- New FindAGrave.com searching.
- New online backup.
- New stories.
- New cause of death charts.
- New X-DNA charts.
- New hashtags.

v8.0.604 [Sep 19, 2013]
1. Origins Report
- See where you came from and the percentage of "blood" you have from your countries of origin with the Origins Report.
2. Migration Report
- See how far and wide a person's descendants spread out in the world with the Migration Report.
3. Migration Mapping
- Legacy animates the ancestor's movement through time. Watch how they migrated from place to place. View their migration in street, aerial or 3D modes. Hover over the balloon to see what happened in each location.
4. Instant duplicate checking
- As you are adding new individuals to your tree, Legacy instantly checks to see if perhaps they are already in your family file, helping you avoid inadvertently adding duplicates.
5. Potential problem alerts and gaps
- Typos and accidental misinterpretation of data are now a thing of the past. The warning symbol is displayed immediately next to info that contains a potential problem. Unusual gaps of time are detected that you may have not previously noticed (like too many years between the births of the children).
6. Shared events
- Save time and avoid errors by sharing an event amongst all the individuals who participated in the event. You can specify each person's role in the event.
7. Family Bow Tie Chart
- Displays the ancestors of both the husband and wife, as well as their children.
8. Source Quality
- Now record the quality (original vs derivative, primary vs secondary, etc., direct vs indirect) of each source as you attempt to prove your conclusions.
9. Source labels
- Now print Source Labels to attach to the top of your documents. You will never again lose the citation when making a photocopy for someone else.
10. Pedigree citations
- Add source citations to your Pedigree Charts and attach the complete bibliography.
11. Statistics
- Understand your family in new ways with dozens of new statistics: births by era, longest living individuals, average lifespan, longest marriages, families with the most children, most popular given names, most popular surnames, most popular locations and more.
12. Media relinker
- It is easier than ever to locate missing or unlinked pictures. Moving from one computer to another is simpler to do.
13. Media gatherer
- It will help you copy or move your genealogy pictures to one common folder, making it easier to share your family file with another computer or family member.

v7.5.0.286 [Jan 18, 2011]
1. Mapping - Use Microsoft Virtual Earth to automatically pinpoint and plot important locations in ancestors' lives from within Legacy. See 3-D, satellite and bird's eye images of where your ancestors lived. Now it is easy to track your ancestor's migration.
2. Wall Charts - Experience the enjoyment of showing off your family tree by producing stunning full-color wall charts - ancestor, descendant, fan, hourglass, bow tie, and even DNA charts. Use them for your next family reunion or for a deserving wall in your home.
3. SourceWriter - Cite your sources easily and correctly with the new SourceWriter. SourceWriter makes it simple 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.
4. Interview Reports - Choose from over 1,200 carefully pre-written interview questions and memory triggers to help you capture your family's memories before it is too late.
5. Guided Setup Wizard - Getting started with Legacy is even easier now. The new guided setup wizard takes you by the hand and guides you through the setup process in an easy-to-understand way.
6. New Relationship Calculator - 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.
7. More Powerful Searching - Searching your Legacy data is easier than ever before. 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.
8. Now Attach Any Document 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 (PDFs, Word files, etc.).
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Standardization Tips - New alerts will appear if something questionable has been entered in the Individual's Information screen. This helps users keep their data standardized. The Standardization Tips comply with Getting it Right.
12. Privacy - enhanced privacy options ensure that only the information you want to share will be visible to others.
13. Best Fit Child Columns - The new Best Fit option in the Family View 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.

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