The recording of today's webinar, "English Parish Records: More than Hatch, Match and Dispatch” by Helen Smith is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 20 minute recording of "English Parish Records: More than Hatch, Match and Dispatch" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. 

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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.

Report Options Part II (Intermediate)

In Report Options Part I we went over some general information about reports and we covered the "tabs" of options. In this post we will cover the rest of the option screens.

We will use the Ancestor Book Report again as the example. Go to Reports > Ancestor Book and by now this screen will look familiar. This time though it will be the Report Options button we will be looking at.

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When you click the Report Options button you will see a new screen. Notice that there are five tabs across the top and options on the right that do not change as you change tabs.

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First let's take a look at the buttons over on the right. One of the most important buttons anywhere is the Privacy Options button. Before you create a report (or a web page, or export a gedcom) you need to check your Privacy Options. You have a lot of control with what gets printed (or exported) and what doesn't. Pay very close attention to these options. For more information about privacy in general, see Legacy 101 - Privacy.

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The next button is the Page Setup. When that opens notice that there are three tabs here. Make sure that your settings here match what you have set in the Printer Options (explained in Part I).

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If you have Include Compiler... check marked on the Footers tab, the Edit Compiler button will become active. If you click it, you will be able to edit the compiler information.

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The last button on the right is the Report Fonts. This screen is pretty self-explanatory. This will override what you have set in the main options for report fonts (see Part I).

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Now let's go over the five tabs at the top.  There are two things to notice on the Include tab. The little C buttons to the right will clear that section removing all of the check marks. The other is the Event Options button that will open another screen of options.

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The Format tab also has a button you need to click to find yet another page of options. The Event Narrative Formatting controls how your events will be listed.

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The Notes/Stories tab controls the options over the narrative portions (excluding events).

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The Sources tab gives you a lot of flexibility with how your sources appear in your reports with regard to placement and what information is included.

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Depending on what you have selected on the Pictures tab, as well as which report you are working with, you have two more buttons of options, Set Regular Picture Options and Set Source Picture Options. The two screens look the same.

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There are a couple of things I want to point out that are specific to the Chart Reports. Go to Reports > Family Group which will open the collection of chart reports. Notice that you can access all of the Chart Reports from here. These reports have some cool additional features. You have the ability to change languages and add color. You can also print blank reports for Family Group Reports and Pedigree Charts.

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We have come to the end of our tour through all of the Report Options. The specialty reports will have completely different screens but you now know to click on every tab and button to make sure that you are seeing everything that is available. If you take the time to go through the available options your reports will be spectacular.

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.

I just found this article that I had written a couple of years ago but hadn't published yet. Here goes...

Google Maps Timeline

When I first saw it, I was shocked. I felt exposed and even a little betrayed. Then the genealogist in me kicked in and I did not feel so bad. If you use a smart phone, and have not intentionally turned off the location history settings, my guess is that you, too, will be in for a surprise when you visit www.google.com/maps/timeline for the first time.

Google Maps Timeline is a service that tracks where you have been … well … where your phone has been. It shows the route that you took to get to the grocery store and back. It displays the exact times that you were on the move. It even guesses the names of the buildings you entered.

Without any effort on my part, Google Maps created a timeline of my movements. So far today, I have traveled 42.3 miles. I began at my home at 602 Syringa Place in Caldwell. Apparently, it took me exactly 16 minutes to go the 9.4 miles to get to the job site where I checked to see if the basement was leaking from last night’s rain. Thankfully, they’ve now sealed the cracks. It shows that I was there from 8:17-8:26am. Yep. Next, I traveled 20.6 miles, which took 29 minutes, to see Dr. Kammer in Nampa. My wife has been telling me to get my hearing checked, and so today, I did. My appointment was for 9:15am, but Google Maps Timeline shows I arrived twenty minutes early and that I left at exactly 10:21. It did not catch that I stopped off at the car wash between departing the doctor and arriving home, but it does show the precise route I took. I made it home in time for my staff meeting with eight minutes to spare. Isn’t this incredible?

The private citizen in me might think that Google knows a little too much about me and where I’ve been. In fact, for the first time right now, I’ve adjusted the dates in the upper left and learned that Google knows my every move dating back to July 2013. I had no idea!! In the wrong hands, I suppose this data about me could be dangerous. I am certain Google uses this to target me with relevant advertising. And good thing I’m an honest, faithful husband because I would not mind a bit if my wife got ahold of my Google Maps Timeline.

With the right intentions, just think how powerful this data is. Oh to have an every minute accounting of my ancestors’ movements. While that is not possible, in a way I now have a digital journal – a day-by-day history of my personal travels. On October 26, 2014 it shows I was in Tokyo enjoying our genealogy cruise. On Saturday, October 19, 2013 it reminded me of the seminar I presented to the Anchorage Genealogical Society. It shows my arrival at the airport, the trip to the hotel, the walk to the conference center, lunch at TGI Fridays, and to my astonishment, it even had a picture I took of the standing ovation I received at the end. How it linked that in to my timeline is beyond my understanding, but fascinating!

I’ve hesitated for years to jump on the get-my-teenagers-a-cell-phone train (I did get them a “dumb-phone”), but this may be the thing that convinces me to let them have a smart phone. Although I trust them, I sometimes would enjoy having a minute-by-minute accounting of where they really are. Did they really rake the neighbor’s leaves like they said they did? Even more practically, where were they standing when both my 16-year-old and my 14-year-old lost their phones this winter? It was only after the two feet of snow melted and after we filed an insurance claim that we found the phones. And if one of us were really living on the edge, I suppose that Google Maps Timeline could help establish an alibi.

If you have read this far and have not yet visited www.google.com/maps/timeline, you must either really love my writing or you are nervous about what you will discover. If the privacy thing is just too much for you, Google makes it simple to turn off or pause your location history. Visit https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687 for instructions. For Android users, go to Settings > Location > Google Location History to turn it on or off on your phone. For iPhone users, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services.

So…what do you think? A little too much information or a fantastic history tool? What did you find when you checked your timeline? Or when you checked your husband’s timeline? Hopefully you confirmed it really was him who drove to the flower shop on Valentine’s Day. Otherwise you might have a secret admirer.

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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. 

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The recording of today's webinar, "How I Built My Own Brick Wall” by Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 20 minute recording of "How I Built My Own Brick Wall" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. 

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• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 896 classes, 1,169 hours of genealogy education)
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• 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
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• Use of the playlist, resume watching, and jump-to features

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See you online!

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8. Listen via headset (USB headsets work best), your computer speakers, or by phone. 

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them!   This Friday enjoy three webinars on English reseach by Paul Milner. If you're not a member, remember the webinar previews are always free.

Making Sense of the English Census

Learn the how to perform searches in and utilize the information contained in the 1841-1901 English census returns. See the value of and how to access the growing number of indexes. See the value of pre-1841 census lists.

England’s Quarter Sessions Records

The Quarter Sessions began in the 14th century and did not end till late in the 20th century. These courts served both a judicial and an administrative function within the counties and created a vast store house of records. Learn how to access published and original records. Learn about your ancestors in all levels of society, justices of the peace, criminals, badgers, ale house keepers, parish officers and more.

Finding Your 17th Century Ancestors in England

Identify the best genealogical resources, original and published, to use for 17th Century research in England, and how to jump the gap created by England’s Civil War.

About the Presenter

Paul Milner, a native of northern England, is a professional genealogist and internationally known lecturer with 30 years’ experience, specializing in British Isles research.

 

Here’s the backstory about Paul:

 

Paul was raised on the West Coast of northern England. A mining engineer with a degree from the Cambourne School of Mines in Cornwall, England, he came to the U.S. in 1975 to get his graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin. He has been in the U.S. ever since, and in 2008 he became a dual citizen of both countries. In the intervening years, Paul received two graduate degrees and traveled widely throughout the world.

 

Paul has been designing genealogy workshops, writing books,  and lecturing for over 35 years. He holds an advanced degree in Theology and is particularly knowledgeable about the church and its role in record keeping. As a genealogist he speaks on a variety of topics relating to research in the British Isles, migration to North America and research methodology.

 

He is the 2018 recipient of the Utah Genealogical Society Fellow Award.

 

He is currently the book review editor of the British Interest Group of Wisconsin and Illinois Newsletter (BIGWILL) and is the former book review editor of the FGS FORUM.

 

Paul is a past board member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Federation of Genealogical Societies, the Genealogical Speakers Guild, and the British Interest Group of Wisconsin and Illinois.

See all webinars by Paul Milner in the Legacy library.

 

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The recording of today's webinar, "Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, Findmypast and MyHeritage 2019 edition” by Sunny Morton is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 29 minute recording of "Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, Findmypast and MyHeritage 2019 edition" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. 

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• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 892 classes, 1,164 hours of genealogy education)
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• 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

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Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

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The recording of today's webinar, "Censuses Around the World: What You Need to Know About Census Collections and Genealogy” by Mike Mansfield is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 25 minute recording of "Censuses Around the World: What You Need to Know About Census Collections and Genealogy" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. 

Webinar Memberships/Subscriptions

Webinar Members get:

• On-demand access to the entire webinar archives (now 891 classes, 1,163 hours of genealogy education)
• On-demand access to the instructor handouts (now 3,872 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

Click here to subscribe.

Register for our upcoming webinars (free)

Print the 2019 webinar brochure here.

See you online!