Shannon M. Thomas | Mostly Genealogy

Just taking a quick moment to tell you all to have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!  I will be away from my blog for a few days enjoying some time with my family. My surname tree was created at  Tagxedo .  (The original idea came from Randy  for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.  I'm a little late but it was such a great idea :) See you in 2015!!

I started a new project in Legacy in the beginning of December adding Find A Grave memorials to my Legacy database.  In the process of going through my list and going to findagrave.com to find the memorials I found my 5th great grandparents.  The best part was I wasn't even really looking for them.  They are from a line that I have not done a lot of research on.  Easy find!  Because of this I ended up adding close to 100 people to my tree that need more research done and Find A Grave information added. Another discovery that I made was that some of the memorials that I added to my database a few months ago had changed and there was a lot more information added to them.  In the screen shot below is the information I added on 19 Jun 2014.  It includes birth and death year, his parents, his spouse and one son. When I went to Find A Grave today and looked at Wilson Houseknecht's memorial I found different birth information, more complete death info...

** This post was updated to add more information and more screen shots on creating a search list ** _________________________________________________________________________________ My last post was about using tags in Legacy so for this one I am going to show you how I make those tags work for me. The image below is the Advanced Tagging window (I showed you how to get to this window in my previous post). In the blue box (in the image above) is tag# 4 and it shows that there are 188 individuals that need Find A Grave events added. I did a search in my database to find all of the individuals tagged on tag# 4.  Go to Search and then Find and the Search window below will open and then to the Detailed Search tab.  In the image below, you can see the Search window and my search conditions to find all individuals who are tagged on tag# 4.  In the bottom left of the window make sure Clear List before this search is checked and then click on Create List. In the ...