The recording of today's webinar, "Find Your Roots in German Farm Histories” by Gail Blankenau is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

View the Recording at FamilyTreeWebinars.com

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 32 minute recording of "Find Your Roots in German Farm Histories” is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership. 

Webinar Memberships/Subscriptions

Webinar Members get:

• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 664 classes, 888 hours of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 3,007 pages)
• On-demand access to the live webinars' chat logs
• 5% off all products at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com (must be logged in at checkout)
• Access to all future recordings for the duration of their membership
• Chance for a members-only door prize during each live webinar
• Access to register for bonus members-only webinars
• Ability to view which webinars you are registered for
• Use of the playlist, resume watching, and jump-to features

Introductory pricing:

• Annual membership: $49.95/year (currently 50% off until August 20, 2017)
• Monthly membership: $9.95/month

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Tuesday's Tips provide brief how-to's to help you learn to use the Legacy Family Tree software with new tricks and techniques.

Internet Search Strings (Advanced)

Judy, one of our more experienced Legacy users, wrote this:

"For those of us who tinker with the search strings for various websites, could there be a place on the Legacy website that would have the "original" strings as supplied with the program for us to download or copy to repair the mess "we" have made and are unable to correct?"

We don't have this as a download but the information is readily available.

1) With Legacy closed, go to the \Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\ folder and open it. Rename your iSearch folder to iSearchX

2) Open Legacy and go to Search > Search Internet. Don't do anything. Just close the dialog box again. 

 
If this is something you are interested in trying out yourself, go to Search > Search Internet > Customize Searches. Highlight the search you want to work with and click Edit. Now click the Help button on this screen for detailed instructions.

Find tech tips every day in the Facebook Legacy User Group. The group is free and is available to anyone with a Facebook account.

For video tech tips check out the Legacy Quick Tips page.  These short videos will make it easy for you to learn all sort of fun and interesting ways to look at your genealogy research.

Michele Simmons Lewis, CG^® is part of the Legacy Family Tree team at MyHeritage. She handles the enhancement suggestions that come in from our users as well as writing for Legacy News. You can usually find her hanging out on the Legacy User Group Facebook page answering questions and posting tips.

Join us this week at the world's largest in-person genealogy conference - RootsTech in Salt Lake City! With tens of thousands of attendees, hundreds of exhibitors, and some pretty cool speakers (Scott Hamilton, Henry Louise Gates, Jr., Dallin H. Oaks and Hank Smith among others) it's the genealogy event of the year!

Also, visit us at the Legacy Family Tree software and webinars booths - numbers 1336/1337. The Legacy developers plus both Geoff and Marian will be there, so bring your ideas, your recent genealogy success stories, and of course your wallet - as always we'll have RootsTech-special pricing on our software. Also we'll have your conference ribbons and "Life is Short, Do Genealogy First" wristbands to share.

If you can't make it, join online. Many of the conference sessions will be streamed live. Here's the streaming schedule.

See you in SLC!

Until the early 1900s, the majority of the population in the Germanic states was engaged in agriculture. Thus, most of us with Germanic heritage will have at least some ancestors engaged in farming. German farm customs were different from those in America and German farmers were tied to their land in ways that American farmers were not. Particularly in the earlier years, the history of your family's farm was integral to the history of your family.

Join us and Gail Blankenau for the live webinar Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion. 

Or register for multiple webinars at once by clicking here.

Not sure if you already registered?

Login to view your registration status for this webinar (available for annual or monthly webinar subscribers).

Test Your Webinar Connection

To ensure that your webinar connection is ready to go, click here.

Can't make it to the live event?

No worries. Its recording will be available for a limited time. Webinar Subscribers have unlimited access to all webinar recordings for the duration of their membership.

About the presenter

With our Google Calendar button, you will never forget our upcoming webinars. Simply click the button to add it to your calendar. You can then optionally embed the webinar events (and even turn them on and off) into your own personal calendar. If you have already added the calendar, you do not have to do it again - the new webinar events will automatically appear.

Webinar time

The webinar will be live on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at:

• 2pm Eastern (U.S.)
• 1pm Central
• 12pm Mountain
• 11am Pacific

Or use this Time Zone Converter.

Here's how to attend:

1. Register at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com today. It's free!
2. You will receive a confirmation email containing a link to the webinar.
3. You will receive a reminder email both 1 day and 1 hour prior to the live webinar.
4. Calculate your time zone by clicking here.
5. Make sure you have the latest version of Java installed on your computer. Check at www.java.com.
6. Check your GoToWebinar connection here.
7. Click on the webinar link (found in confirmation and reminder emails) prior to the start of the webinar. Arrive early as the room size is limited to the first 1,000 arrivals that day.
8. Listen via headset (USB headsets work best), your computer speakers, or by phone.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

The recording of today's webinar, "Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 2): Adding an Online Document” by Geoff Rasmussen is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

View the Recording at FamilyTreeWebinars.com

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 25 minute recording of "Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 2): Adding an Online Document” is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership. 

Webinar Memberships/Subscriptions

Webinar Members get:

• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 663 classes, 888 hours of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 2,997 pages)
• On-demand access to the live webinars' chat logs
• 5% off all products at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com (must be logged in at checkout)
• Access to all future recordings for the duration of their membership
• Chance for a members-only door prize during each live webinar
• Access to register for bonus members-only webinars
• Ability to view which webinars you are registered for
• Use of the playlist, resume watching, and jump-to features

Introductory pricing:

• Annual membership: $49.95/year (currently 50% off until August 20, 2017)
• Monthly membership: $9.95/month

Click here to subscribe.

Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

Print the 2018 webinar brochure here.

See you online!

Legacy has many reports and charts you can use to share data with other researchers or your family members but there are also some other ways.

You can upload a gedcom to one of the "tree" websites such as MyHeritage. You can see the instruction on how to create a gedcom HERE. Once you have created your gedcom you can follow the instructions HERE on how to upload to MyHeritage. If you are using one of the other tree sites they will have instructions available to you.

You can also create webpages in Legacy and then upload them to your own website. To be able to do this, you will need your own web space. If the hosting company does not have a way for you to upload your webpages then you will also need one of the free FTP clients. We use and recommend FileZilla. Legacy makes creating webpages easy. The screens and options work very similarly to creating reports. On the main toolbar click the Internet tab and you will see the different styles of webpages you can create.

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You can see that the Web Page Creation screen looks similar to reports. You will find all of the options by selecting the different tabs at the top. Don't forget the Privacy Options button over on the right.

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Legacy will do all of the work for you but if you are familiar with HTML you can easily edit the created pages in a text editor. You can read more about webpages by clicking the Help button on this screen.

There is one really nifty thing you can do with webpages that many users don't know. When you create your webpages all of the pages and images will be in a single file in the Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Web\ folder (or location of your choice).  You can zip that folder and then send it to a family member. To zip it, right click the folder and select Send to > Compressed (Zipped) Folder. You can then send that zip file to your family. It might be too big to send by email so I recommend you park it on cloud storage such as OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive and send your family a link to download it. After your family member downloads it to their hard drive all they have to do is find the Index.html (or Index.htm) file inside and double click to open it. It will open in their web browser. All of the hyperlinks are internal so they will work. They will be able to view it just like if it was a real webpage online.

Another way to share your data with someone is to send them a gedcom of your file. They will be able to open the gedcom in whichever genealogy program they use. However, most family members don't have a genealogy program. You can have them download the free Legacy Standard Edition and then instead of sending them a gedcom file you will send them a backup file. You can send them your data file only or you can send them your media backup as well. You can point them to these directions, Tips for Restoring Files and How to Restore Media Files.

Legacy gives you many different options to share your data with other researchers and with interested family members.

View a compilation of all Legacy 101 articles.  

Find tech tips every day in the Facebook Legacy User Group. The group is free and is available to anyone with a Facebook account.

For video tech tips check out the Legacy Quick Tips page.  These short videos will make it easy for you to learn all sort of fun and interesting ways to look at your genealogy research.

Michele Simmons Lewis, CG^® is part of the Legacy Family Tree team at MyHeritage. She handles the enhancement suggestions that come in from our users as well as writing for Legacy News. You can usually find her hanging out on the Legacy User Group Facebook page answering questions and posting tips.

Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them!   This Friday enjoy "Online & On Track: Railroad Records, Indexes, and Finding Aids on the Internet" by Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA. If you're not a member,  remember the webinar previews are always free.

Online & On Track: Railroad Records, Indexes, and Finding Aids on the Internet

Learn about online personnel and payroll records, indexes, books, railroad employee and union magazine indexes, inventories of railroad records, indexes of insurance claims, identified photographs of people, trains, and stations, architectural drawings, and links to other free websites and finding aids. Some of these lists give a person’s name, birth date and place, railroad jobs held, and more. An extensive handout gives links to these and many others. 

About the Presenter

Join us and Legacy's Geoff Rasmussen for the live webinar Friday, February 23, 2018 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion. 

Or register for multiple webinars at once by clicking here.

Not sure if you already registered?

Login to view your registration status for this webinar (available for annual or monthly webinar subscribers).

Test Your Webinar Connection

To ensure that your webinar connection is ready to go, click here.

Can't make it to the live event?

No worries. Its recording will be available for a limited time. Webinar Subscribers have unlimited access to all webinar recordings for the duration of their membership.

About the presenter

With our Google Calendar button, you will never forget our upcoming webinars. Simply click the button to add it to your calendar. You can then optionally embed the webinar events (and even turn them on and off) into your own personal calendar. If you have already added the calendar, you do not have to do it again - the new webinar events will automatically appear.

Webinar time

The webinar will be live on Friday, February 23, 2018 at:

• 2pm Eastern (U.S.)
• 1pm Central
• 12pm Mountain
• 11am Pacific

Or use this Time Zone Converter.

Here's how to attend:

1. Register at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com today. It's free!
2. You will receive a confirmation email containing a link to the webinar.
3. You will receive a reminder email both 1 day and 1 hour prior to the live webinar.
4. Calculate your time zone by clicking here.
5. Make sure you have the latest version of Java installed on your computer. Check at www.java.com.
6. Check your GoToWebinar connection here.
7. Click on the webinar link (found in confirmation and reminder emails) prior to the start of the webinar. Arrive early as the room size is limited to the first 1,000 arrivals that day.
8. Listen via headset (USB headsets work best), your computer speakers, or by phone.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Available now, exclusively at FamilyTreeWebinars.com, is the fascinating full-length documentary of the Tribal Quest family history expeditions to remote tribal communities in Namibia, Papua New Guinea, and Siberia. Tribal Quest is a pro bono project, led by MyHeritage's Golan Levi of Melbourne, Australia, for documenting the family trees and stories of remote tribal communities that face a risk of cultural extinction.

Join us and Golan's expedition in this brand new webinar at FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free. 

Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

Print the 2018 webinar brochure here.

See you online!

The recording of tonight's webinar by the Board for Certification of Genealogists, "Using Swedish Taxation Records to Solve Tough Genealogical Problems” by Jill Morelli, CG is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/BCG for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

Swedish taxation records, a head tax of individuals between the ages of 15 and 63, are some of the oldest extant records of the rural farmer. Genealogists quickly become familiar with the chronological birth/marriage/death parish records (Ministerial), the clerical surveys (Husförhör) and probate records (Bouppteckning). These documents form the bedrock of investigation into our Swedish past. These records may not, however, answer our more difficult research questions, especially those of the 18th century. This is where Swedish taxation records or mantalslängder may be of help. These little used records, but evidence rich documents, may corroborate or dispute our existing evidence, or may be the only source of evidence. We will learn how to access, read and use these records to answer those questions.

View the Recording at FamilyTreeWebinars.com

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 29 minute recording of "Using Swedish Taxation Records to Solve Tough Genealogical Problems” is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership. 

Webinar Memberships/Subscriptions

Webinar Members get:

• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 661 classes, 886 hours of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 2,997 pages)
• On-demand access to the live webinars' chat logs
• 5% off all products at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com (must be logged in at checkout)
• Access to all future recordings for the duration of their membership
• Chance for a members-only door prize during each live webinar
• Access to register for bonus members-only webinars
• Ability to view which webinars you are registered for
• Use of the playlist, resume watching, and jump-to features

Introductory pricing:

• Annual membership: $49.95/year 
• Monthly membership: $9.95/month

Click here to subscribe.

Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

Print the 2018 webinar brochure here.

See you online!