But to break something that was already working isn’t acceptable. There are always growing pains when new versions are released. I already know, however, that I won’t be upgrading on this one. Legacy has announced v.9, and it’s probably going to be available soon because there’s a new book for it. Apparently, there aren’t many people complaining about that, because it’s not been changed. I can no longer get it to print the way I want, and after several email exchanges with support (and they are awesome, by the way!) it was determined that the changes in the event listings were made to accommodate the new roles feature. However, in adding this feature, the rendering of the events in my go-to research document, the family group sheet, was changed. Having tried that functionality, I’ve returned to my old work around. I had managed a work-around for this long ago. With v.8 of Legacy, I don’t recall now which features were added that I use and appreciate, but I know one of the big sellers was the addition of roles for witnesses and the like. I actually preferred the functionality of GenBox, but the report features were either limited or I couldn’t figure them out - can’t remember which now. I could trick them out the way I wanted - the ones I used the most, anyway, some of them are still ugly - and was pleased with the results.
One of the things that sold me on Legacy in the first place was the way the reports looked. Since then, I’ve installed all the upgrades, too, but when it came to v.8, I made a huge mistake. I tried a few other programs, including PAF and others I don’t even remember, but I liked Legacy best and it was more intuitive for me. I’ve been using Legacy Family Tree pretty much from the beginning. I retained the names, facts., etc., in the original family file, though. But this was necessary since all my “let’s put this over there” silliness finally caught up with me and it really was easier to start over than to try to correct all those paths or find all those files. This is painfully evident from the lack of documentation appearing on the website. Made that mistake a couple of years ago and I still haven’t restored even a fraction of my photos, documents and sources. In my efforts to get more organized, I thought I might start from scratch, software-wise - definitely not from scratch entry-wise. I’m not even going to spend the time to find out what new features Legacy is rolling out. Long post, so bottom line: No, I’m not upgrading.
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