Legacy Family Tree is

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for Windows that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing

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. The standard edition is distributed as

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, with no restrictions, only requiring registration on the company's web site to download the software. Users may pay a fee in order to conduct

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to "unlock" the additional features in the deluxe edition.

Features

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/ref> of the software allow groups of people to coordinate their work and track each other's changes. When two files are open, entire lines can be dragged and dropped from one to the other. Multimedia support includes pictures, sound clips, and videos; images can be displayed individually, in slide shows, or as screen savers. The program imports and exports standard

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files and files from Personal Ancestral File (PAF). Links to the Internet allow searching online databases for any person in the family file. Other features include ''search and replace'', spell checking of all notes, source documentation features, and relationship calculation. For users entering U.S. information, the program issues a warning if the county entered did not exist at the time of the event. TempleReady reports can be produced by members of

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. The deluxe edition (7.0) includes Legacy Charting. Legacy Charting locates all Legacy files on a hard drive, allows the creation of charts from any Legacy file, and uses a ''Chart Creation Wizard'' to help the user create a chart and customize the charts' appearance. They include large-scale wall charts, including drop-down descendancies, fan charts, hourglass charts and DNA charts. Locations where a person's ancestors lived can be automatically mapped.

Languages available

A printed manual and tutorial videos are available in English; the program and the help files are available in several languages, referred to as international releases.International releases
/ref> In addition to

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(Australian, Canadian, UK and US versions), the

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Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

, French, German, Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål,

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and Faroese versions have been released. Teams of volunteers are, in 2012, working on translations to

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, Chinese, Estonian,

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

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, and

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

. The software does not support any other text encoding than Western script.

History

After three years of development starting in 1995 by Ken McGinnis and Dave Berdan. * Legacy version 1.0 was released in June 1997. * Legacy version 2.0 was released on 17 Oct 1997.Downloads for Legacy Family Tree 6.0 or Earlier
/ref> * Legacy version 3.0 was released on 14 Dec 2000 as a free demo version from Legacy's website * Legacy version 3.0 was released in 2001 as an official release. * Legacy version 4.0 was released on 14 Mar 2002 as a free edition and a deluxe edition. * Legacy version 5.0 was released on 18 Nov 2003. * Legacy version 6.0 was released on 09 Aug 2005. * Legacy version 7.0 was released on 02 Jun 2008. * Legacy version 8.0 was released on 26 Nov 2013. * Legacy version 9.0 was released on 17 Apr 2017.

File format

Legacy's underlying database engine is stored using the

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(ACE/JET): the Legacy database (* .fdb) can be opened in

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.Legacy Table Help
, LTools, Last updated: 05 Mar 2010, Zipper Software

References

External links

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Legacy charting
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