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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Legacy 9 Has An Update (But Mapping Is Not Fixed, Yet)

Legacy 9 now has an update (changes/fixes listed here).  They haven't fixed the mapping problem but at least they now acknowledge the problem officially.



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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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The Top Ten First Names in My Tree - 19th and 20th Centuries

I was somewhat surprised at the frequency of Dorothy.  I wonder why?  Maybe the popularity of Dorothy Gale from the Wizard of Oz books and movie was an influence.

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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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A List of Relatives Buried at Harlington Cemetery, Bremer, Iowa

Harlington Cemetery -
8th Avenue Southwest
Waverly IA 50677 USA

Produced by Legacy
RIN Name
15560 Boveia, Ethel Ada
7284 Brechner, Sophia
10648 Bruns, Albert Luther
10646 Bruns, Albert Theodore "A. T."
10645 Bruns, Carlos "Carl" Grant
10652 Bruns, Eva Maye
10651 Bruns, Florence Elvira
15552 Bruns, Gerald Allen
10654 Bruns, Heinrich Friedrich Anton
15540 Bruns, Richard Allen
10649 Bruns, Robert Cooper
15553 Bruns, Verlyn Carl
15544 Cook, Elmer Henry
15542 Cook, Mildred Louise
7298 Dicken, Alta Elpha
7303 Dicken, Carrie B.
7302 Dicken, Elsie A.
7300 Dicken, Floren Marie
7305 Dicken, Stephen Monroe
16576 Duvall, Charles
15541 Fortsch, Alice Ida Sophia
10655 Hyatt, Scott Everett
10656 McQueen, Leslie L. (Fiance to Mae Tibbetts)
16695 Moore, Lurena Elizabeth
15536 Moyer, Donald Bruns
15537 Moyer, Herman Glen
15535 Moyer, Roger Allen
10640 Seward, Burtis Ira
10638 Seward, Cora Martha
7059 Tibbetts, Charles Louis
7279 Tibbetts, Ella Esther
7282 Tibbetts, Florence Gertrude
7257 Tibbetts, Gertrude B.
7281 Tibbetts, Mae
7072 Tibbetts, Nancy Ann
7283 Tibbetts, Viola Capitola "Cappie"
7280 Tibbetts, William Luther
15556 Waggett, Dorothy Anna
15554 Williams, Lucille Odra
16712 Woodruff, Donald W.


The above list of my Tibbetts relatives (and their spouses) buried at Harlington Cemetery in Waverly, Bremer, Iowa was copied and pasted from a .PDF I created in Legacy 9.  I think I will end up with quite a few more people on the list by the time I am done***.

This is a big reason for my purchasing the Legacy software.  I can create lists, so if I am ever in a place where my relatives are buried I can see at a glance who they are.  I have yet to figure out a way to include plot numbers, birth/death dates, etc. in this report, but it is a start and I'm still learning. Can't do this in Ancestry.com!


***haha, like I'm ever going to be done!



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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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Experience With My First Location Report on Legacy 9

A screenshot of some of my Worden relations, from my Ancestry tree.  Up until I had Legacy this was the only way to systematically see where people were, and then it was only birth/death dates.  If I wanted to see any other place where they had been I had to visit each profile individually.

It's just one of those days when things refuse to go as I wish.  The location report I had hoped to blog about today is still generating and is only at about 37 percent after running continuously since 4 p.m. (it is now after 11 p.m.).  I'm sure it is taking this long because I have so many unique locations in my tree.

Since I don't have much report about locations based on the location report, I did want to say that I'm disappointed that I am among those who are unable to see mapping through Legacy 9, apparently due to an API conflict between Legacy and Bing maps.  When I first purchased the program I was able to see maps, but that has since stopped.  This is annoying to say the least.  I might have to purchase another program eventually if the folks at Legacy don't figure this out (this has been a known problem since 2014--it is now 2018).  C'mon, people.




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Top 10 Locations On My Family Tree

This is a list of the top 10 most "popular" unique locations for people on my family tree. Screenshot from my "Family File Statics" report in Legacy 9.

Although I have over 29,000 unique locations in my family tree database, the above shows the top 10 most inhabited places for people who are either related to me by blood or by marriage.

I am a little surprised that the state of Iowa isn't on there, but Fairview Township, Jones, Iowa is (obviously I am related to a lot of people from that one place).

I am not surprised by the 2 locations (York and Hopewell Township) in York County, Pennsylvania, since I felt like I spent forever on my location cleanup there.  People from there generally seemed to stay there, with only an occasional individual or family group leaving (as my Frederick Grove/Leah Bixler did in the 1830s).



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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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Creating a List of People By Location

Can't do this on Ancestry!  A list of the people in my tree who lived in or had a life event in Niwot, Boulder, Colorado, birthplace of my biological grandmother Alta Mae Slater.

One big reason I purchased stand-alone genealogy software (in this case Legacy 9) was to create lists of people to research by location, or by any other specific criteria.  Although Ancestry is a giant database it doesn't allow the user to create this type of report.

This is so fun!


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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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Spring Cleaning Continues

My cat Whirly inspecting the new supplies

As I mentioned in a blog post last month I am organizing my genealogy paperwork a la Mary Hill.  I got all the necessary supplies today.

The gray one on the left I've had for about 20 years, I got the black one today.

My colors are set (this can be done easily in Legacy 9).

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Re-Installing Legacy 9

I'm still getting used to the program.  This is a chance to review how to set up and customize the program, which never hurts.  The new features in Legacy 9 can be previewed here.

Well, my plans for genealogy tonight were altogether different.  I planned to experiment with an older version of my tree with the "Map Your Family" on my Legacy 9 and realized that it didn't work (something to do with Bing's new programming maybe?).  It's a  new year and I don't feel like futzing about with this, soI've decided to just re-install my Legacy 9 tonight and start fresh.



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Happy New Year, Dear Readers and Cousins!

An example of my corrected places, in this case the only known place is Mississippi.  The ", ," is to leave the fields of place (precinct/beat/borough/village/hamlet/town/city), and county/parish, empty for when I transfer my Ancestry tree info to Legacy 9. 

Some personal health issues related to dialysis I have had today have made it difficult to concentrate on a write up, but I am looking forward to spending an hour or so tonight working to fix my locations on my Ancestry tree. 

Once I finally complete the locations (in a few more months, unfortunately!) I will be able to do some pretty cool reports and lists in Legacy 9 (Legacy Family Tree has many free webinars with examples).



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Spring Cleaning in October

Crista Cowan explains and shows why a clean tree improves your genealogy.

Let's just say I've gotten carried away with the research and shiny bright things since I started using Ancestry in 2009.  Right now I have over 52,000 people on my tree (down from over 57,000! a few months ago) but that is truly unnecessary and ridiculous.  I'm not sure what the right amount of people on a genealogical tree is, but it can't be that many.

So as I've been standardizing my locations (i.e. fixing all the locations in every profile) I've also been pruning any and every one who isn't a blood relation or FAN club member.  Turns out there are a ton of siblings of distant cousins' wives and husbands, as well as stepchildren galore (including stepchildren of stepchildren), who don't add anything to the tree or my research, but are just there as remnants from an over-enthusiastic research session.  I figure that if any particular person is important I can always add them back on.

I can't wait until I've tightened up my tree and standardized the locations, because I have a lot of plans for using my Legacy 9 software to do some interesting reports. But for now I have to atone for my sins and do some much needed clean up.



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Bremer County, Iowa is a Genealogical Hotspot for Me

Bremer County's location compared to major cities in the Midwest.  Image taken from City-Data.com's entry on Bremer County, Iowa.

This is Waverly (filmed in 1961 for the Chamber of Commerce).

WAVERLY: Bremer Co. Historical Society Museum (from KGAN CBS 2)

As I am straightening out my ancestral locations, I come back over and over again to places in Bremer County, Iowa (including the towns of Waverly and Waterloo), where my Tibbetts and Messingers settled in the early 1850s after leaving the Indianapolis area about 1845.  Although my direct ancestors left the area by the 1870s, I still have distant cousins living there.


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Legacy Quick Tip: "Creating a custom report, hashtags, DNA and more"

I've mentioned before that I am cleaning up my database, and have posted numerous times about said cleaning.

Well, the cleaning continues apace. For inspirations and to see what is waiting for me at end of the tunnel is another quick tip video by Geoff Rasmussen, "Creating a custom report, hashtags, DNA and more."  It is free to non-subscribers of the webinars.

Originally aired August 2, 2017. Runs about 21 minutes.


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Cleaning Up My Locations in Legacy Means I Can Do This....

I am cleaning up my locations database in Legacy 9.0 because I want to see who lived where.  This is one of the main reasons I bought the software in the first place.

My locations were so messed up that it is taking way longer than I originally thought.  However, once I've standardized all the locations on both the Legacy end and on my Ancestry tree I will be cooking with gas, baby!




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As Ye Research, So Shall Ye Delete

What I saw all day yesterday.

I've been doing this the past few days during my genealogy database cleanup.  I realized a while ago that the Thomas Taylor and Sarah Lynchard lines I pursued for a long while are not my ancestors, but didn't remove the work right away.  I just forgot how MUCH I worked on these lines, how very many hundreds of people I added to the tree in my increasingly desperate attempt to connect us to them.

Which reminds me, I have to delete an entire upline from our John Chappell (1763-1828).  A cousin contacted us a while back to detail how we probably have his parents wrong.  I really must get my Virginia research skill set up and running, I have so many brick walls there.

It's more fun to add people than delete them. Oh well, I had my fun, now I must pay the cost!





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