Saturday, September 19, 2015

Legacy vs FTM

I finally broke down and bought Legacy.  I was tired of the excessive pop-ups when accessing Ancestry through FTM.  A new one started popping up and that was it.  I still haven't figured out which browser it is using because it is not using my default browser.  It is up-to-date.

So, Legacy.  Well, I hate having to figure out how a new program works, but it is coming along.  I still haven't figured out where to put extra descriptions for details. FTM has a field with the date and place which is handy.  Where do I put the cemetery a person is buried in?  I have more to learn.

I do like how easy it is to add sources, not that FTM was hard.  I haven't figured out how to use the same source for more than one field so I'm having to retype some information until I get that figured out.  It's probably something simple, but it hasn't been for me, at least not yet. 

Reports and speed were more reasons why I wanted to switch.  The Legacy program is much faster.  Maybe it is because it is not searching while running. (However, I have turned the online portion of the FTM program off and it didn't make any difference.)  FTM has messed and messed with their reports until I'm frustrated.  So much for being able to create your own report.  The parameters have been reduced and the report is worthless.  I haven't found where I can create my own report in Legacy and I still can't get the report I want.  I want a report I can run for a county in any state so that when I am planning a trip I can find out who I have in the area and their birthdates/death dates and where buried.  I finagled FTM's to do list, but I am not sure how to finagle Legacy.  So much to learn and so little time. 

Update: Sept. 19 2015
The pop-ups on FTM stopped after purchasing Legacy.  What's with that?  Now I get one when I view a document in another window on my browser.  Apparently it doesn't like my cookie settings.  Every once in while I will get one of the old pop-ups on FTM, but nothing like what I used to get.  So, I still use FTM to search Ancestry because I find it is easy.  Maybe I am just too lazy to search with Legacy as I haven't attempted to use the search features with it.  

I am still frustrated as I cannot get a cemetery report with either program.  I like to know what cemeteries are where and who from the family is buried there. 

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