I was really excited when I received an email a few days ago announcing that Legacy 8 was now available. While Legacy isn’t my main genealogy program I do like it. I was especially looking forward to trying out their new shared facts/events feature. Shared facts is an option that I use often in RootsMagic. I was very interested to see if Legacy could import shared events from RootsMagic correctly.
I downloaded the standard (free) version of Legacy 8 and I was glad to see that shared events are useable in the free version. I exported a GEDCOM of my database from RootsMagic 6 and imported it into Legacy 8. Then I went to David Gallant’s profile as he has a number of shared census record events. I was very happy to see they were all there.
The sentence template in the bottom window needs a little work. Legacy seems to use the role name in the event sentence. I see a tab for overwriting the sentence for an individual. To edit the sentence for the role globally you need to use the drop down role menu and go to the very bottom. The create/edit role opens a menu to do this but I haven’t figured out how to code a new sentence yet.
I do like that on this screen you can mark the event as private and have the option to included the main event note of the primary person to the shared note.
I’m very happy that Legacy 8 has the ability to import the shared events from RootsMagic! It’s not quite perfect, with the main note missing and the sentences needing some work. But this will still be a big help in sharing our GEDCOM files with others. Now I’m going to have to try creating some new shared events in Legacy and see how RootsMagic imports them.