Quick Workaround: When You Can't See Ancestry.com Records from the Profile View

My 3rd cousin 3x removed Bixler cousin, Lewis Edward Bixler, who was a glass blower in Muncie, Indiana.  I want to add hashtags to his profile in my Legacy 9.0 database. Most of the hashtags I create come from information in the records I've attached to each profile at Ancestry.com.

But when I clicked on his 1900 Census to View the image I got this error message.

For whatever reason, Ancestry.com sometimes gets in its own way.  As an example, it has been impossible today to look at attached records by simply clicking the View button.

Fortunately there is a quick workaround.

Click on the Search link and...[edited to add: you can also click directly on the small image of the census and that will take you to directly to the image and not the indexed data]

The links to the census records are available to click, and this time they actually work.

And now I can see the indexed data Ancestry.com provided, and then View the image (unless there is a snag in the imaging function).

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Hashtags in Legacy 9: George Hartley, Jr. (1907-1977)

The list of hashtags I've attached to my grandfather George Hartley, Jr.

I've taken over a year break from regular posting after a tough recovery from a heart attack and ongoing dialysis, but I haven't been idle!  I've been working on standardizing locations and attaching hashtags to the people on my (admittedly ridiculously huge extended) family tree on Legacy 9.

My next overarching project is going to be figuring out ways to display reports on these folks (using said locations and hashtags) that is informative and readable.




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A Snapshot of My Work in Progress: Hashtags

So far I have 48 "Farm Laborers" and 220 "Farmers." Snapshot from my Legacy 9 family tree file.

Tomorrow is National Farmer's Day, and I was curious just how many farmers I have tagged so far: 220.  I didn't even count the ones who have a known specialization in farming.  It is the single most common occupation for people in my tree, and thus far I have only tagged people in the 19th and 20th centuries.  This is totally unsurprising.

The most common other single category is "Teacher" (I have 83 so far!).  Salesmen, bookkeepers, and clerks are not far behind in the list of common professions.


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Maybe I'm Missing Something? Legacy 9 and Hashtags

One of my many 3rd cousin twice removed, Elsie Mae Harnden (my Tibbetts side).  This is the only way I can figure to show all the hashtags pertaining to one person.  Print Screen, then edit in Paint 3D.  This seems awfully time consuming.  It doesn't even let you copy/paste, since the hashtags only appear when the mouse hovers over the # symbol.

I was hoping the Chronology view might provide some way to display the hashtags, but to no avail.

If you choose just one tag/hashtag, you can print out a list of people sharing that tag (in this case a list of people on my tree so far who, like Elsie, were golfers).  But I want to do the opposite--print out one person with all their hashtags.  Surely I shouldn't have to do "prt sc sysq" (print screen) every time?

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Creating a List of DNA Matches by Hashtag (in Legacy 9)

I've already identified 34 of my father's DNA matches from 23andMe and AncestryDNA (I haven't started on the FTDNA or GEDMatch yet).  Generated from my tree on Legacy 9.

As I've been hashtagging my way through my tree I just realized that I had already entered 34 of my father's DNA matches (haven't gotten to Mom's side yet).  This is just the tip of the iceberg, since I've identified so many more than that, but I can't keep all of them in my head.

I am not quite sure how I'm going to use this info just yet. Hopefully I can use it with Genome Mate Pro, if and when I learn to use that lol

A snapshot of my father's DNA matches so far.  Everyone's name had to be erased because they are all living.

A sample of the DNA hashtagged report.  You can adjust some of the report variables, but I'm not sure how I'm going to use this yet.

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Hashtag Fever!

My growing list of hashtags in Legacy 9.

Nerd alert!  I'm excited to begin adding hashtags to people on my tree in earnest, for categories like occupations, memberships, DNA matches, and military service.  For the past 8 years I have relied on what Ancestry's very limited database functions have allowed, so this will be a big step forward for me.

To see hashtags used in Legacy see "New Legacy QuickTip Video - How to Create a Custom Report, using hashtags, DNA, Q/A and more" by Geoff Rasmussen.




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Hashtags in Legacy 9

Alta Slater, my mother's birth mother and one of the reasons I got into this crazy genealogy mania in the first place, was a teacher, so my first hashtag is an occupation one for teacher.

I'm not done cleaning up my tree, but I just can't wait any longer.  I want to play around with this hashtag function and see what new perspectives I can get.

Some examples of what can be done with hashtags can be found at this Legacy Family Tree News blog post, "Tuesday's Tip: Hashtagging a Group of People."

Larry at the blog Family Roots and Branches posted his list of hashtags, which has some great categories.


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Free Webinar on Cleaning Up Legacy: Dates, Searching, and Tagging

I've been going all guns blazing on cleaning up my genealogical database, which I imported into my new Legacy 9 program from Ancestry.  We have a good 7 years of work to clean up so it is taking forever, but I get more and more excited by the possibilities, especially with tagging.

Geoff Rasmussen hosted this Legacy Family Tree Virtual User's Group Meeting webinar on July 11, 2014, covering dates, searching, and tagging.

I am now a big fan of tags, plus the new hashtag feature in Legacy 9.



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