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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.

Options: View (Beginner)

Previous articles in this series:
Customize Legacy
Options: General Settings
Options: Data Entry
Options: Data Format
Options: Date Defaults
Options: Dates
Options: Locations
Options: Sources

The next section in the Customize Legacy menu is Options > Customize > 8. View

8.1 Birth and Death Years on Names (ff)

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This simple puts a life range (1855-1902) next to the person's name in these lists. I always have this turned on to make it easier to tell people with the same name apart.

8.2 Display Numbers on Names (ff)

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This works like the life range in the previous option but in this case it you are appending the name with any of the possible numbers you have entered into Legacy. The first section governs whether you see this on the Family, Pedigree, and Descendant Views and the second section covers RINs specifically on Name Lists.

8.3 Ancestor Color Coding (ff)

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This one is explained in Ancestor Colors. You can also get to the settings screens by going to Tools > Set Ancestor Colors. 

8.4 Short Location Names on Screens (ff)

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On the Master Location List you can enter long and short location names. For example, in my file you will see:

Long - Purvis, Lamar, Mississippi, United States
Short - Purvis, Lamar County, Mississippi

How you format this is totally up to you. This option will display your short locations on screens. This does not affect reports. Reports have their own option to use short locations.

8.5 Child Columns on Family View (ff)

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This is one you need to play with. Different people like their Children's List to be formatted in different ways. The Grid List option puts the information in columns (which you can edit) similar to the Index View.  1, 2, 3, or Best Fit columns only displays the minimum amount of info (name, RIN if selected, Life Span if selected, and symbols for marriage and children if selected).

Include half-siblings will show you ALL of the children from all of the marriages from that couple being displayed. If the child comes from another marriage they will have 1/2 before their name and after their name it will have the name of their other biological parent. Some people like to see all of the children like this and some people don't. I am a don't. I like to think in terms of nuclear families which is easier for my pea brain to process.

8.6 User Interface Style (gbl)

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This one allows you to show elements on the screen as Flat or 3-dimensional.  If you have a really slow computer you will want to set this as Flat as it takes more RAM to draw the 3-D elements. 

8.7 Default Family View Labels and Report Wording (ff)

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To see these options you need to click the Edit Default Marriage Wording button and now you will see this:

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These are global settings that will affect your entire file. You can also change these on an individual basis by opening the couple's marriage screen and selecting the Wording Options tab.

8.8 Master Location List Style (ff)

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As of the time this article was published, mapping is currently not available.

8.9 Picture of Main Person (ff)

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These are "mug shot" photos that you see on the Family View and Pedigree View. Normally the photos you have in the Individual category in the person's Media Center are pictures of the person themselves. All other photos should be attached to the event that they pertain to. If you don't have an Individual photo you can opt to use any photo that is in the Media Gallery or you can opt to have a blue or pink silhouette display.

8.10 Show Status on Family View (ff)

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If you have given someone a Marriage Status, usually divorced, this option will allow you to see this status in parentheses after the marriage date. Normally, if you want to show the marriage status you want to exclude showing the status of "married" because then you will have a status on everyone in your file that has been married. 

On Children will show the child's status in parentheses such as (twin). Legacy comes with default statuses but you can always add your own custom ones. You can do this in a couple of places but the easiest is View > Master Lists > Marriage Status (and Child Status). 

8.11 Monitor Potential Problems (ff)

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How to use Potential Problems is an entire blog post in itself. Suffice to says that this screen simply allows you chose to see the Potential Problems icons on the various screens in Legacy and you can edit the settings by clicking the Change Potential Problem Settings. You can get to this same settings screen by going to Tools > Potential Problems.

8.12 Aunt, Uncle, Niece, Nephew Terms (gbl)

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This is a simple wording choice between seeing Great-Aunt vs. Grand-Aunt on relationships.

8.13 Perform Background Legacy Hints (ff)

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You can choose to show the Hints icons on the various screens in Legacy and you can change the settings by clicking Select Background Hints. When you do, the following screen appears:

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You will have to use the scroll bar to see all four of the hint options, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, Find My Past, and GenealogyBank. The options are pretty self-explanatory but you can consult the Help File if needed.

8.14 Prompt Style (gbl)

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This options changes the wording on all screens. For example, if you choose the Gender-Neutral option, instead of seeing Add Husband and Add Wife you will see Add Spouse.

Next time we will look at Options > Customize > Colors.

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.

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The recording of today's webinar, "Census Hurdles: How to Jump Over or Go Around” by Cari Taplin, CG is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them!   This Friday enjoy "Arkansas and Its People" by Jane Wilkerson for the Arkansas Genealogical Society. 

Arkansas and Its People

Learn about how to research you Arkansas families pre-territorial (1673-1819), territorial (1819-1836), and statehood (1836-present).  Record types, locations and examples will be presented and discussed.

About the Presenter

One of our favorite webinar speakers, Mary Roddy, has some new letters after her name - CG. She has just been awarded the prestigious Certified Genealogist credential by the Board for Certification of Genealogists. According to BCG, "those who hold this credential have demonstrated their competence in research, analysis, kinship determination, and reporting skills." Congratulations Mary Roddy, CG!

Mary joined FamilyTreeWebinars.com as a speaker in 2014 and immediately was a hit with our viewers. She is most known for her series of webinars on using Excel for genealogy. View her classes at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/MaryRoddy or click the image below.

We are also honored to be the host of the webinar series of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. Each month, a credentialed member of the organization presents a free, live webinar on a variety of topics. Register for future live webinars at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/BCG. Recordings of the presentations are also found here. The top 5 most-viewed BCG webinars include:

1. Transcribing Documents: There is More Than Meets the Eye! by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, CG, CGL
2. Thinking About Becoming a Board-certified Genealogist? by Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL
3. FAN + GPS + DNA: The Problem-Solver's Great Trifecta by Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
4. Valid and Unsound Assumptions: What Was She Thinking? by Jeanne Bloom, CG
5. Writing Up Your Research by Michael J. Leclerc, CG

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The recording of today's webinar, "Should You Take the Hint? Automatic Record Hinting on the Giant Genealogy Websites” by Sunny Morton is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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Mention the word drive-thru and you might think of the coffee you bought this morning or maybe a special night out with your parents when you were a kid.

Drive-Thrus are as American as apple pie and hamburgers. Today you can get almost anything at a drive-thru from food and coffee to non-food items. We tend to equate drive-thrus with “fast food” but in some cases drive-thrus may go beyond those familiar fast food choices. In the Southern California city where I grew up we once had a drive-thru Italian restaurant where you could order a bucket of spaghetti (packed in a bucket similar to those used for fried chicken).

Drive-thrus are a convenient way to also access services such as banking, library book returns, dairies, and pharmacies. There’s even a few drive-thus you may have memories of that no longer exist  such as Fotomat where you could drop off your camera film and later return to pick-up your printed photographs. You may even know someone who made a lasting memory at a drive-thru such as a couple that said “I do” at the Las Vegas based A Little White Wedding Chapel .

While there are all kinds of drive-thrus, most of us think of fast food when we hear the phrase “drive-thru.” Many of the fast food restaurants you are familiar with have their roots in Southern California. McDonald's, Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, and Carl’s Jr are just some of those iconic fast food restaurants that were founded in Southern California. If California is the home of so many fast food restaurants, is it also the home of the first drive-thru?

Well, surprisingly the answer is actually no. But Southern California is the home of the second fast food drive-thru. Early fast food restaurants utilized a drive-up or drive-in model which served customers using walk-up or carhop service. So customers either walked up to the counter, ordered and picked up their food or they stayed in their car where they ordered and received their food via a  carhop. The first drive-thru was Red’s Giant Hamburg located on Route 66 in Springfield, Missouri which offered the service in 1947.

However, the second drive-thru still serves customers today. That drive-thru is operated by California based In-N-Out Burger. In-N-Out Burger which opened their drive-thru in 1948 in Baldwin Park (Los Angeles County) where it still continues today. ^[1] In-N-Out Burger with its distinctive red and yellow sign  has served the same menu of hamburgers, fries, and sodas for over 70 years. According to their company website, it was in 1948 that the founder Harry Snyder worked on his vision of helping customers order meals from their cars. He invented a two-way speaker box that allowed customers and employees to talk to each other, all without leaving their car or the kitchen.^[2]

When we talk about fast food there's one restaurant that comes to mind so you may be surprised that McDonald's didn't have one of the earliest drive-thrus. McDonald’s started out serving customers with a walk-up service but they got a late start in the drive-thru business. Their first drive-thru wasn’t opened until 1975 in Sierra Vista, Arizona, By  that time they had locations worldwide, all serving customers without a drive-thru.^[3]

There’s no doubt that the food and beverage drive-thrus have changed the way we purchase and consume our meals. Our cars now come equipped with cup holders, some drive-thrus feature screens that display what you’ve ordered so you can confirm that it’s correct, and some have even implemented  time saving features including double lanes and two windows, one to pay and the other to pick-up your food. Drive-thrus have evolved to meet the needs of a world that has found drive-thus, easy, fast, and sometimes a necessity while traveling or on long busy days.

What are your first or most notable memories of going through a drive-thru? Who went with you? This would make a great story to either share in the comments below or write a paragraph you can add to your blog or to your profile in Legacy Family Tree software. Memories are important! Write them down.

^[1] “10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Fast Food Drive-Thru,” Money (http://money.com/money/3478752/drive-thru-fast-food-fast-casual/: accessed 17 June 2019)

^[2] “1948 Introduced Speaker System, In-N-Out (http://www.in-n-out.com/history.aspx: accessed: 17 June 2019).

^[3] “10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Fast Food Drive-Thru,” Time (http://money.com/money/3478752/drive-thru-fast-food-fast-casual/: accessed 17 June 2019)

Gena Philibert-Ortega is an author, instructor, and researcher. She blogs at Gena's Genealogy and Food.Family.Ephemera. You can find her presentations on the Legacy Family Tree Webinars website.

The recording of today's webinar, "Introducing the MyHeritage DNA Health+Ancestry Test” by MyHeritage's Ofer Karp is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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