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Subject: Re: keeping Legacy in sync with Ancestry
Author: magnoliasouth
Date: Monday, June 15, 2015
Classification: Query
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I would like to see that too, but Ancestry is money hungry and will never allow another software to sync with their website. Not easily, anyway.

I made a suggestion to Legacy for them to look at a piece of software called Living Cookbook. It has a copy paste way of entering data that works amazingly well. Yes, I know it's cookbook software, but it's very clever and I absolutely love it! To see it what I'm talking about, here's a very stoic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-eTcnCSj6Y It helps relieve all that field adding data. You simply highlight parts of the text and tell it what it's for.

What's really amazing about it is its intuitiveness. If you saw the video, you saw the Prep and Cook times being added. Well, it knows to enter them the way they need to be entered. So if it says 1 hr 40 min and I prefer total minutes time, then it'll show it as 100 minutes, even though I highlighted 1 hr 40 min. This is a great example of how dates can be reformatted even if it's highlighted in a different date format.

I didn't receive much enthusiasm from the Legacy team with my suggestion. I was so disappointed because I feel that though it's not the perfect answer, it's a serious help.

Though this one only has so many buttons, Legacy could make sub buttons like you can click on Sources and it opens a set of buttons for sourcing. Then if it's a Census, it could open up a set of buttons for Census records. Those buttons could be usable even if we're entering a ton of different types of information all at one time. Granted, it would have to be person by person, but so what? Can you imagine how much time we'd save entering from Ancestry?

*sigh* Maybe if others send them the link to my post, they'll think more seriously about it. I think it's a grand idea.
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