This analysis also shows you how many individuals and families are contained in the file. If Legacy finds information that it does not know what to do with, a message is displayed. You can then tell Legacy how to convert them by mapping them to equivalent Legacy tags or by creating new tags. See Customize below. Paragraphs formed by two consecutive carriage returns are left alone.
Legacy uses consistent, logical formatting rules when it comes to dates.
Other programs allow free-form dates that can include unrelated text, making the dates unusable for sorting and date arithmetic. During the import process, Legacy checks each date for a proper format and presents any unrecognized dates for you to correct or accept. If you would like to accept all dates, regardless of their format, uncheck this option. In this way you can retain the information even if you go back and correct the date fields to acceptable formats. When importing new records from a different Family File, you can have all the names and places formatted to the current format settings.