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[Budgie]

I keep 500+ records in the latest free version of Legacy.
If I upgrade to De-Luxe,
a) will it be worth it and,
b) if I want to send the records to someone else, do they also need De-Luxe,
or will the free one read the info ok?

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Budgie
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Legacy is the first Genealogy program that I sampled and immediately paid to
upgrade. It is now my primary data program, BUT, I do keep PAF for back up.
A. W.
"Budgie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

I keep 500+ records in the latest free version of Legacy.
If I upgrade to De-Luxe,
a) will it be worth it and,
b) if I want to send the records to someone else, do they also need
De-Luxe,
or will the free one read the info ok?

--
Budgie
NB Reply to newsgroup. Email address will get you nowhere.

[BE Kelly]

Budgie wrote:

I keep 500+ records in the latest free version of Legacy.
If I upgrade to De-Luxe,
a) will it be worth it and,
b) if I want to send the records to someone else, do they also need De-Luxe,
or will the free one read the info ok?

The Free version and the Deluxe are the same program, it is just
that certain features are disabled in the free version until they
are unlocked with the customer code you get when you buy the
deluxe version. That means the file formats are completely
compatible. When I upgraded I had over 4000 individuals in my
file and there were no changes made.

I am more than happy with having upgraded to the Deluxe version.
I did however use the free version for a long time before
upgrading. In fact I did not upgrade until I got a special
upgrade offer then I ordered the CD and Book. I was really ready
to change from Family Tree Maker and Legacy finally gave me much
improved sourcing and citing tools.

I really liked the ability to verify all my locations using the
locater database which comes on the CD version, If you download
the program there is a way to download and install the geographic
data on your hard drive though. It wasn't perfect but it did
allow me to provide a standard means of identifying all my
locations. For those that weren't in the included database I used
the Canadian, UK and US official place name sites to locate the
place.

The global search and replace features are also unlocked in the
deluxe version and are worth the money when you are making bulk
changes to standardize the way you do things in your file.

Brian Kelly

[Steve Hayes]

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:27:10 GMT, "Budgie" <[email protected]> wrote:

I keep 500+ records in the latest free version of Legacy.
If I upgrade to De-Luxe,
a) will it be worth it and,

There are only two genealogy programs that I know of that have a free and a
paid for version -- Legacy and Family History System.

In both cases I paid for the advanced version, mainly because I liked the
prograsms so much I thought they authors deserved the money.

And I still use both of them.

b) if I want to send the records to someone else, do they also need De-Luxe,
or will the free one read the info ok?

Yes, they will.



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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[Sherry]

Steve Hayes <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

<snip>

b) if I want to send the records to someone else, do they also need
De-Luxe, or will the free one read the info ok?

Yes, they will.

Steve - your answer was a little ambiguous. To clarify, a Legacy family
file is totally compatible with both the free Standard Edition and the
Deluxe Edition.

Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
[email protected]
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com

We are changing the world of genealogy!

[Dave Hinz]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:07:10 +0200, Steve Hayes <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:27:10 GMT, "Budgie" <[email protected]> wrote:

I keep 500+ records in the latest free version of Legacy.
If I upgrade to De-Luxe,
a) will it be worth it and,

There are only two genealogy programs that I know of that have a free and a
paid for version -- Legacy and Family History System.

PAF has a PAF Companion which acts much like buying the premium version
of Legacy. Not saying it does the same, but I'd consider it a "pay" version
of the "free" software.

In both cases I paid for the advanced version, mainly because I liked the
prograsms so much I thought they authors deserved the money.

Same here with PAF and Legacy for me. Great stuff. Best I'd seen until
I switched to Reunion on the Mac.