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Program Capacities

General Capacities
Individuals and Families  File size to 2 billion characters (2 gigabytes)
Children per Marriage 60
Events per Individual  Unlimited
Spouses per Individual  Unlimited
Parents per Individual  Unlimited
Sources per Event  Unlimited
Pictures per Individual  Unlimited
Number of Entries in History List  200
Address Lines per Individual  5
Phone Numbers per Individual  2
Generations per Pedigree Chart Unlimited
Generations per Ancestor Chart  250
Generations per Descendant Chart  250
Generations per Descendant Book Unlimited

Note: The 2 GB limit is fixed and the other limits are constrained so that the total size of a family file is limited to 2 GB.

Legacy 10 has been tested to support Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit, and above. Many, non-Internet dependent functions of Legacy will run on 32-bit Windows Versions prior to Windows 7, but support will be limited for those configurations.

Field Capacities
The following table shows the maximum number of characters that are allowed in each field.  

Field Name Length

Given Name 120
Last Name 120
Title Prefix 120
Title Suffix 120
Dates 95
Places 255
Reference # 20
Ances. File # 20
File ID # 50
General Notes 1,000,000
Research Notes 1,000,000
Medical Notes 1,000,000
Marriage Notes 1,000,000
Cause of Death 255
Source Name 255
Source Type 30
Source Title 248
Source Author 248
Source Publication Facts 248
Source Text 1,000,000
Source Notes 1,000,000
Source Detail 255
Source Detail Text 1,000,000
Event Name 30
Event Description 255
Event Date 95
Event Notes 1,000,000
Event Sentences 255
Picture Title 255
Picture Descrip. 32,000
Picture Detail 60
Address (each of five lines) 50
Phone (each of two lines) 50
E-mail address 255
URL address 255
Master Short Locations 255
Master Location Notes 1,000,000


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