I've read that Internet Explorer is required for some of the new Legacy
features. If you have one of several Norton products and use IE7 to access
Ancestry.com, either directly or via Legacy, you may find screens or digital
images freezing or refusing to load or shut down. This is not a Legacy
This is one of the items that I've missed from transferring from FTM. In the
early days of emigration to America, there was a lot of intermarriage...
even first cousins m. first cousins. This is an important element to be able to
see at all times. I'm glad to see that Legacy 7, it's very
In a message dated 5/23/2008 9:28:04 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In Legacy 7, there is a + at the end of the Relationship in Family
View that indicates there is more than one way that the two are related.
**Get trade secrets for amazing
I have been off the Legacy group for some time and have read some of the
messages, but appear to be missing something. I do not see a place on the
Legacy website to download V.7
Thank You,
Sharon
Don't judge each day by the harvest that you reap, but by the seeds you
plant... Robert Louis
No. I have FF as my default browser. There is just a control that is in IE7
that makes everything work. I have IE7 installed, but never use it. Cannot
say anything about Opera.
Kind Regards,
Mark
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Yes
Wm Voss
Wynthner wrote:
Am I to understand that the mapping feature will not function with other
browsers like FF, Opera, etc?
- Original Message
From: Cathy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 9:50:14 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG]
The Legacy Home Page inside Legacy only works with IE too, nothing new.
Also in Research Guidance. Don't know why they even bother asking for
'default browser' in Customize. Even Microsoft icons since V.6.
Obviously big fans of Microsoft. Well, can't have everything I guess...
--
JL
JLog
As a commercial software company, with a huge base of existing users craving
the new Legacy 7, I don't think it is unreasonable to ask Millennia to tell
us second class customers exactly when we CAN get Legacy 7 (I mean a date -
not soon)
The not-possible-for-all-to-download-at-once argument has
Hi Sharon,
I have been off the Legacy group for some time and have read some of
the messages, but appear to be missing something. I do not see a place
on the Legacy website to download V.7
v7 is *very* new, and most of us have not seen it yet. At the moment,
only those who have previously
Sherry,
Are you saying that there is no way to edit the registry in Vista to change
the installation folder?
If so, another reason for me not to change over from XP Pro.{;-)
Colin who likes to put his programs where he wants and not where Windows say
they have to go!
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Has v7 been issued to all those who purchased v6 within the required time
frame for the free update to v7? I notice some have had it for a week.
Declan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik
Pilgaard Vinther
Sent: 24 May 2008 07:48
To:
Erik Pilgaard Vinther, Hello
Heard that
soundit
is the smallest violin in the world playing just for you.
Last I heard release is early June. Be patient v7 is worth the wait I'm sure.
Laurence E Stephenson,
Claire,I have tried adding different events for such situations; I have events called "Occupation (first)" and "Occupation (more)" because I want different sentence structures for the original occupation of my ancestor than I want for subsequent occupations, and can structure the sentences for the
I have a friend to whom I recommended Legacy, I suggested he use the free
version for a while to see if it would do what he required.
After looking at the type of reports available in Legacy compared to FTM and
PAF he found he could not replicate the All in One Report in the free
version of
As my wife tells me, if you want to know anything ask a woman:)
PS: These Veteran Legacy users are not self-appointed royal class they are
just dedicated users that help people less experienced in using Legacy like me
and you.
{I bow to the royalty as I leave the room to make she who must
Colin,
Look no more, as yet it is not available in any version. It is possible that
Legacy Charting may include this in future.
Ron Ferguson
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We're shooting for the first week of June.
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
Millennia Corporation
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www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen
Prunty
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:27 AM
To:
Why dont I have legacy 7 yet as I purchased v6 and was told I would get v7
free. Others seem to have it!! declan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Geoff
Rasmussen
Sent: 24 May 2008 13:43
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE:
We're hoping to get that added to Legacy Charting in the future.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are changing the world of genealogy!
When replying to this message, please include all previous
Geoff,
Any guess as to when the Source Converter will be working?
Thanks,
Tom
- Original Message -
From: Geoff Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:43 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] v7 update to 7.0.0.38
We're shooting
When you click on one of the Search options in Legacy, your default browser
will open up. For those of you who have more than one browser, you can go
to Options Customize Launch and select which browser you wish to use.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
Ron Dennis,
I contacted Sherry @ Support. I sent her the file, she wrote me that she got
the same messages and referred it to Dave that takes care of printing.
Now...I won't hold either of you to it, but do you think it would be ok to
go on adding data? I have been checking other individuals,
Geoff,
I bought a second copy of V.6 at your seminar on Cape Cod last October in
order to get on the V.7 queue. Since I haven't received V.7 yet, I assume
it's because I didn't install and register the newer V.6. (If ain't broke,
don't fix it)
What's my best course of action to get V.7 now -
Hi Hugh,
They're still sending them out, but are getting close to being done with the
first batch. Give it another week.
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugh
It is a pity there aren't a few more people like Cathy on this list who give
such helpful advice
on this list. It is from people like this that most problems are resolved and
as you said Steve I
dont think any one on the list think they are Royal Class
Before these statements are made some
Did you purchase it from the website? I bought mine from Goeff at a
Saturday meeting where he was the speaker. Perhaps my purchase didn't make
it into the hands who prepared the shipping list. I've been anxiously
awaiting it as we all have.
Hugh
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:07 AM, decfam
Geoff,
Is this implying those of us using Firefox will have a problem?
gc
-- Geoff Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Legacy's v7 Mapping requires Internet Explorer 7.0 to be installed. If you
are seeing a blank white screen, this is the reason. There should have been
a message the first time
I don't yet have a guess. I'll likely write an article on it soon for Legacy
News, but may wait until more people have v7 in hand.
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
No, you can have any other browser, but one of them needs to be IE7.
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008
Hi Hugh I purchased it (Delux) from the Legacy website and watching the
various messages here it would appear that I should have got v7 by
now.According to Geoff they are aiming for first week in June which is just
around the corner. So have I been left behind? I have had no answer from any
Perhaps because of shipping time to where you are? I would expect that
users in North America might have received the CD before UK or NZ users
because they are closer to the source ;-)
John
Why dont I have legacy 7 yet as I purchased v6 and was told I would get v7
free. Others seem to have
Sales is still shipping hopefully they'll have all the backorders
shipped by the end of next week.
Please be patient!
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are changing the world of genealogy!
When
Thank you Sherry.
Declan
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Sherry/Support
Sent: 24 May 2008 14:55
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] v7 update to 7.0.0.38
Sales is still shipping hopefully they'll have all
IMHO, Legacy requiring IE7 for certain functions is the biggest blunder by a
software company since Ancestry introduced FTM2008!
It *will* act as a factor limiting sales, I know several people who won't touch
IE7 with a 25 foot pole.
- Original Message
From: Kirsten Bowman [EMAIL
Cathy:
I don't know about that - as I did not want to export to a new file so I did
not try that. If I could not get it corrected I probably would have gone to
my backup (which I religiously do). If I have a quirk which happens
rarely, I go to error message first (in this instance it
The installation routine should still be a LEGACY question and it should be:
If the stand-alone charting program can be installed anywhere you
want, why does the same not apply to the integrated charting program?
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Sherry/Support
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no
If that is the case then it is time for that complete re-write of Legacy.
To require a program be installed on a computer just to use some control in it
for another program is absurd in the extreme.. especially if that program is a
second rate browser from Microsoft!
- Original Message
I am one of the 'veterans'. I teach the class in Burbank California. I decided
not to be a beta tester for various reasons, and now have to wait for the
e-mail that calls us to come and pay. I talked to Customer Service Friday, and
she said that when they are ready to deal with us, we will be
Kristen,Thanks so much for posting this, a little off topic. This has been
driving me crazy, so much so that I haven't even been doing genealogy on my
laptop at all. I will message you off list to talk more, just wanted others
to know your post really helped someone.
Judy
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at
I do a workaround (sort of). I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
City it is in, to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
below the Death date.
If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called
After spending a great deal of time between the Relationship Calculator Help
file and trying out various instances of intermarriage, I see that Legacy
may have the information there but it is not obvious as to what the true
meaning is. This takes a little explanation.
For example, in my case of
I am certainly loth to install IE anything. Too many opportunities for
infection. Too far away from the standards. Can we hope for proper browsers
to be supported soon.
John
2008/5/24 Wynthner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
IMHO, Legacy requiring IE7 for certain functions is the biggest blunder by
a
Are you using Legacy 6 now? Do you make use of the Legacy Home tab to
view the Legacy News items??
Wynthner wrote:
IMHO, Legacy requiring IE7 for certain functions is the biggest blunder by a
software company since Ancestry introduced FTM2008!
It *will* act as a factor limiting sales, I
I am hoping one of you can clear this up for me.
Now maybe its me, and I am completely misunderstandiing the issues here.
Is what you are trying to get across, that in order for the new version 7 of LG
to fuction in every area effeciently; that one must also have IE 7 on their
computer??
Hi Ron,
It has been a long wait alright but from what I've seen, it will be worth
it.
To Millenia's defense, I do know from years of product development that the
more features you include, the more chance for unintended consequences.
It's almost impossible for the original software designer to
I just received mine yesterday...Maybe soon...
Charlotte Hay
- Original Message -
From: John Carter
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:50 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] v7 update to 7.0.0.38
Perhaps because of shipping time to where you are? I would
I don't know why some people are being so impatient for V.7. The ones
who already have it are having a few problems, the Source converter is
not ready yet and who knows what all else. I think it will be awhile
before things settle down, and I'd rather be at the end of the line with
less
I has been in use in V6 too - for the Legacy Home Tab (I think). Many
programs do this - though I agree IE7 is junk.
Keith
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Wynthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMHO, Legacy requiring IE7 for certain functions is the biggest blunder by a
software company since
Ok, I brought up a case of 1st cousins marrying in the Relationship
Calculator to see if I can figure out what you are saying/asking
With my file, I have a John Smart and a Mary Smart who married who are 1st
cousins. We have a few generations back in the file as well.
In the relationship
Oh dear, then it looks like I won't be utilizing the new program anytime
soon. I had IE uninstalled since I exclusively use FireFox. Oh well, glad I
really like the version I have!
Kathy
From: Geoff Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, you can have any other browser, but one of them needs to
As Thomas mentioned, I did not read the question clearly. I think I skimmed
it after reading your subject and just assumed! ;-)
I think it is a harder feature to implement (compare a Detail you enter for
a source to a Sourcewriter detail. Mine has so much info in it, how could
they turn it into
For Ontario, I've been using (for example)
Etobicoke, York, Canada West, British North America
or
Etobicoke, York, Upper Canada, British North America
I use BNA for the short location names..
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived
All,
I have had IE 7 for a very long time and also have serveral programs of Norton.
I had absolutely no problems installing Legacy and so far no problems using it.
I also reliously update IE and Norton. Any time there is a fix I get
itmaybe that will solve the problems.
Hay
Legacy
I do use Legacy 6. I do not use Home to view the news.
John
2008/5/24 Bob Janice [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Are you using Legacy 6 now? Do you make use of the Legacy Home tab to
view the Legacy News items??
Wynthner wrote:
IMHO, Legacy requiring IE7 for certain functions is the biggest blunder
Cathy Teresa,
I had the same error 3021 in my Legacy 6 last year. I also deselected the
option to reuse abandoned RINs after a check/repair maintenance procedure
produced no errors. The error code was immediatly gone. I was too nervous
with computers to export to a new file. A few months
Well said Jay . . . .
Bob
Jay S. Van Zeeland wrote:
Mr. Wynthner
Have a very happy Weekend!. . . I am just hoping to add some happiness to
your otherwise (what must be)miserable existence.
We have not seen a single post that didn't involve complaining from you for
the last two weeks. You
Mr. Wynthner
Have a very happy Weekend!. . . I am just hoping to add some happiness to
your otherwise (what must be)miserable existence.
We have not seen a single post that didn't involve complaining from you for
the last two weeks. You have touted how you won't deal with a company, who
cannot
It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before the
(burial) town name.
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I do a workaround (sort of). I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
City it is in, to show on my Individuals Information
I’m new to Legacy, having purchased V6 about two weeks ago. I’ve been using
FTM for several years, but wanted Legacy in addition – mainly because of its
ability to export reports as text files. I prefer to do my report editing
in a word processing program.
I’m currently playing around
Nice workaround, Allison.
I agree that the burial place matters, and the date of interment does not
matter. I have generally entered the burial date from the death certificate,
simply because the slot exists. But I like your idea better.
Thanks for sharing it.
Janis Walker Gilmore
Hi Kathy,
I could be wrong.
I do not think that Microsoft allows you to uninstall IE.
You probably rolled back to IE6.
You can have more than one browser installed on your computer.
Your main browser Firefox, etc. and IE that you do not use.
Legacy would use it when needed.
I think in
If I have a faulty Gedcom which appears to contain the *same* person
more than once (That is, birth, marriage, divorce, death, spouses, etc.
are the same), what is Legacy supposed to do? Import them anyway as two
(or more) SEPARATE people, and the user therefore has to go through the
file and
I also use a work-around
I have used the burial fields with the date of burial (I usually don't know
it) and the name of the cemetery as follows:
Town-cemetery, county, state for instance:
Red Level-Fairmont Cemetery, Covington Co. AL
That way it complies with the town/county/state rule, but I
I use Legacy for certain reports and features but not as my main genealogy
program. I get the Legacy News Items by e-mail so don't use the Legacy Home
tab.m
- Original Message
From: Bob Janice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008
According to the help files:
*Include a Location Index*
You can choose to create a location index made up of all the place names
encountered while generating the report. This is a good way to see the
various people that lived in the same locations. (This option is not
available on some
- Original Message -
From: Brian Lightfoot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Calculating Relationships
After spending a great deal of time between the Relationship Calculator
Help
file and trying out various instances of intermarriage, I see that Legacy
may have the
Your idea of putting things in parenthesis might work in other areas
for me! I don't want to do that in the place field, because that
means I would end up with several entries for the same town in my
Locations lists, which I try to keep super clean. I keep my master
lists and sources as neat and
Hi,
Is there a way to compose Legacy Charts so that Page Breaks do not go
through the boxes? I understood that this problem was being worked.
Thanks,
Arnie
**Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch Cooking with
Tyler Florence on AOL Food.
The only real problem with Legacy version 7
is that feature(s) are included in the user
manual which haven't yet been implemented.
Too bad they didn't wait to put the manual out
until all the planned features were workable.
Then you would have people bitching and moaning that there was no
Geoff Rasmussen wrote:
No, you can have any other browser, but one of them needs to be IE7.
In some cases, this requirement might force someone wishing to upgrade
to version 7 to also have to upgrade their operating system as well. I'm
not even sure (because I don't use it) whether I'll
Very unfortunately, there's one other browser that you *can't* have if
you have IE7, and that browser is IE6. IE7 installation overwrites IE6,
and the two cannot coexist on the same machine without some serious and
unsupported registry hacking.
IE7 will break intranet applications that
I agree with Charlotte Hay. The only real problem with Legacy version 7 is that
feature(s) are included in the user manual which haven't yet been implemented.
Too bad they didn't wait to put the manual out until all the planned features
were workable.
- Original Message -
From:
Wynthner wrote:
If that is the case then it is time for that complete re-write of Legacy.
To require a program be installed on a computer just to use some
control in it for another program is absurd in the extreme..
especially if that program is a second rate browser from Microsoft!
I think
I added a new person to my database and it crashed when going to the
marriage dialogue box. Now I get Unrecognized database format when trying
to open. Do I have any options? Thanks!
Randy Ritchie
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived
When you finally get to the merge matches, they should be found. There is no
part of Gedcom that self-checks anything, which is why I ALWAYS gedcom to a new
file, in which I change the locations, names and dates to the way I want them,
THEN merge to my main DB.
Rich in LA CA
- Original
Shirl: Let me try to clarify your questions:
Legacy V7 and when IE7 is required.
=
IE7 is only required if you want to use the new Mapping feature for
Locations.
No other requirement for IE7 has been imposed by Legacy 7, AFAIK.
Personal browsing of the web outside of
Heather,
That is a really neat explanation of something that took me ages to get to
grips with when I first used the calculator.
Ron Ferguson
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All this moaning and groaning prior to the full release of Legacy 7 is
totally amazing. I can't imagine what my incoming e-mail will look like when
everyone has received and installed the new version and begin to wish that the
programmers had ironed out more of the inevitable bugs before
Thanks Heather for going through the steps to figure out what I was saying.
And you have stated it exactly.
I guess what I'm trying to bring to light is that these additional
relationships are not easily discerned; those experienced uses of Legacy can
look at the information presented and
Try following the archives link at the bottom of this page and searching
on zamora. Renee wrote a sneak peak over a year ago, followed by secret
is out more recently. Those posts will give you the link for her blog.
Dawn
John Gregson wrote:
I am not yet a user of Legacy, but I do use
Randolf,
Why in parentheses? I have always put the full names and towns etc in the
Location field, eg. House Name (or number), Street, Parish, Town/City, County,
Country. OK, this does not suit the USA centric (no offence intended) geo
location finder etc. but causes no other probelms at all.
Hi, Randolph,
I've tried to do it this way several different times and over all I like
the results. The problem comes in when I try to create a web page.
Most of my cemeteries don't have a town associated with them, so if you
enter:
(Old Hill Cemetery) Washington County, Minnesota
you get
Arnie,
In Legacy Charting blocks of, and individual, boxes can be moved by selecting
the appropriate tool from the tree icons in the left panel. By moving these
the pages breaks can usually be avoided. The lines between the boxes
automatically readjust.
If this is not what you meant please
Robert,
I'm thinking you will have to use the Merge program. I would think that
Legacy imports what it gets without using any cleaning step, probably
since that cleaning step is available with the merge programming.
Sometimes two people are very similar in data entry, and you don't want
Legacy to
On 24 May 2008 Shirl wrote:
Is what you are trying to get across, that in order for the new
version 7 of LG to fuction in every area effeciently; that one
must also have IE 7 on their computer??
No! Without Microsoft's IE7 being installed the only part of Legacy
7 that will not be
Shirl: Let me try to clarify your questions:
Legacy V7 and when IE7 is required.
=
IE7 is only required if you want to use the new Mapping feature for Locations.
No other requirement for IE7 has been imposed by Legacy 7, AFAIK. Personal browsing of the web outside of
Hi Anne,
Since you are new, this is just an FYI: this question has been asked before
and answers are available by looking at the archived messages (link at
bottom of each email). [And please also check the etiquette guidelines
link as emails to the list should be in Plain Text format, for
I forgot about that John. If you want to see the new SourceWriter in action,
watch the Sources section of the Beginners video at
www.legacyfamilytree.com/videos.asp. Well post the complete list of new
features when v7 is finally available.
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL
Hmmm...I thought it was a Legacy question at the start.{;-)
Colin.
- Original Message -
From: Sherry/Support
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 11:11 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Legacy Charting
I have no idea. I avoid editing the
I have used IE7 since it came out with Windows XP without any problems or
conflicts with Legacy.
George
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Daily
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:30 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]
All I can say is I hope all my rellies behaved themselves ;)
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:14:01 -0500From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]: Re: [LegacyUG] Calculating Relationships
Ok, I brought up a case of 1st cousins marrying in the Relationship Calculator
to see if I can figure out what
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