Millennia Corp. The popularity of the Internet and e-mail has simplified many aspects of genealogical research. Today it is easier than ever to search through hundreds of millions of records online and on numerous CD-ROMs in a matter of seconds to find your relatives. Many of these records include information on other people researching the same lines you are. You can quickly add hundreds or thousands of new ancestors to your family file.
Files can be e-mails back and forth in minutes.
But with this great boon to research comes the challenge of coordinating your efforts with others. Many people have formed family organizations and have assigned different lines to various members of the groups. Legacy has a feature called IntelliShare that makes it easy for groups of two or more people to coordinate their works and stay caught up on each other's changes. This person keeps the master Family File. The first step is to mark all the records in the Master Family File with a serial number that uniquely identifies each individual.