Installation and usage of Legacyfamilytree software on Ubuntu

[Bret Busby]

On 14/3/25 18:40, David Fletcher wrote:
> Hi Bret,
> 
> On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 08:20 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am wondering whether anyone who reads this, happens to have
>> installed
>> and used Legacyfamilytree software on Ubuntu.
> 
> There's a standard file format for transferring databases between
> different family tree software, sorry can't remember what it's called.
> Can you not just export from whatever you've been using then import it
> into gramps instead of messing around like this?
> 

The file standard is named GEDCOM, and, different facilities and 
software applications, have different versions of it, with most,if not 
all, not implementing the GEDCOM standard.

> I've not touched my own research in ages but a couple of days ago I did
> a fresh install of Mint 22.1 on a quite old mini tower computer,
> installed gramps and it works perfectly, no messing about. I assume it
> will also be problem free with Ubuntu.
> 
> Dave Fletcher
> 

A problem with GRAMPS that I have found (I have just tried using it 
again, after several years away from it), is that trying to import or 
input source citations is so unwieldy, as to not use source citations.

In importing GEDCOM files,from a source that is not GEDCOM standard 
compliant, source citations, and, biographical information, are included 
in the Notes section, for each person, so making it all difficult.

My understanding is that the implementation of source citations, in 
Legacyfamilytree, is a bit more free form, which is needed, when using 
source citations of different formats and contents, such as localised 
BDM records (which vary in format and content, between the different 
states in Australia, and, between different countries, and, other 
sources, such as Find A Grave, and other burial records.

I have suddenly, and, without notice and explanation, had years and 
thousands of hours involved in that, and, alot of researched 
information, destroyed, in an online facility, and so, I have to start 
rebuilding.

I had considered webtrees, but, last night, it took over four hours to 
(try to) upload the decompressed files that constitute webtrees, and, 
out of the (about) ten thousand files involved in the web trees 
application (not user data, just the application), about four thousand 
files failed to upload, so, web trees seems too messy and too difficult, 
to get going. It is like trying to build a spaceship, using chewing gum.

At this stage, whilst I can input basic data, without proper source 
citations (which are necessary for validation), into GRAMPS, as I cannot 
get Legacyfamilytree running on Linux, in the absence of a useful (to 
me) alternative, I appear to need to boot up an MS-Windows computer, and 
run Legacyfamilytree on that. I have not used MS-Windows, since MS 
imposed to unusable MS Windows 8, about ten or so years ago, but, I have 
one computer with MS Windows 7 on it, and, I think, other computers with 
MS Windows 10 on them, so, I appear to have to try to see what I can do 
with them.

I have a couple of thousand people's profiles, that I have to manually 
input, with their biographies and source citations, so it will probably 
take me a few years to get back to where I was.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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