-- On Sun, 8/23/09, jeffma...@orthohelp.com jeffma...@orthohelp.com wrote:
A question about the sources produced
by the new source writer: will they
transfer correctly in a gedcom to another genealogy
program? In other words,
does gedcom have any difficulty with the new style of
sources
Cathy,
While Source Citations can be added to To Do lists, they will not print on the
report, as you have found. This is a known bug that is somewhere in the to be
fixed system. For earlier discussions, and a work around that I use, check
out the lists archives at:
Ruth,
But it's not a bug; it's a standard method for recording descent in a narrative
report that has been in use for decades. At least if I'm understanding you
correctly.
I'd have to do some research to see how the major genealogical publications
handle changes in surname, but I wouldn't
Grover Oliver gcolive...@gmail.com wrote:
I have run into a bit of a road bump.
For the last 57 years out family
has held a family reunion each year in August. During these
reunions
our family history has been documented and kept by the
elected family
historian. This family history
MJ,
The netbook I recently purchased runs Windows XP and has more memory, a faster
processor and a larger hard drive than my older HP laptop that I had been using
(with Legacy, and without problems) for about 4 years.
There is absolutely no problem running Legacy on an Asus Eee with 1GB of
Dede,
I realize this isn't exactly what you're asking, but as someone who finds all
PDA-type devices too small (and too expensive when the higher cell phone access
fees are considered), laptops too big, and thinks a cell-phone should be used
for phone calls, I have been quite happy with my
Could some kind soul give me a
working link to Find-A-Grave? I Googled it, and
attempted to go there, but I am getting the 404 error: Page
not found.
Robert,
The site goes down periodicallyperhaps it just had too much traffic today.
Try again later and you should get in.
Connie
Why would Find-A-Grave ever be entered as an Event?
Find-A-Grave is a source of information, just like a book, a census, an old
letter written by grandma, or an online database. In fact, it is an online
database.
Obviously, people can use Legacy however they like, but I would argue that we
Is there any way to print out a list of Master Source Names (with or without
the full source citation)? I need to clean up/standardize how I have named my
sources and having a piece of paper to look at would be nice, rather than
having to do it all onscreen, but I'm stumped.
I have the
Now I have my Master Source List, but I noticed that the portion of the
citations that are italicized are printing with the italics coding in the List
style format.
More importantly, when I create a gedcom, and open it in another program, my
sources all have the italics coding hard wired,
Report Options (bottom center of report pop-up screen) Include Tab click on
Event Information
--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Elizabeth Cunningham drybo...@netreach.net wrote:
From: Elizabeth Cunningham drybo...@netreach.net
Subject: [LegacyUG] Report problem
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Jerri Grimley jerri.grim...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi:
I am still a newbie at this. Is there a better
place to enter the census data, than on the event
notes?
I also enter all the individuals on a census as I find
it a quick way to see the group dynamics of the family at a
point in
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Leonard Johnson Sweden leonard.geneal...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you so much for the link.
I have now downloaded the software. This software seems to
be designed to work with Legacy. I know that Geoff at
Millennia was working on somethings similiar, but that has
not
I know this topic has been discussed several times before, in one manner or
another, but I can't come up with the proper search terms to find what I need
in the Archives.
Yesterday, I attempted to link two individuals who were already in my database
as father and daughter. The father was in
Ron,
But there are both options: (1) Add a mother or father to the child, and (2)
Add a daughter (in my case) to the parents. With both options, a pop up screen
appears asking whether you want to add a new person, or link to an existing
person.
If the only way to prevent unknown people
Ron,
Yes, I was attempting to link 2 people who were already in the database as
father and daughter. And, I was adding the mother who had not previously been
in the database. I thought that was what I said; sorry if I wasn't clear.
Unfortunately I don't remember the exact sequence I used.
Paula,
You did not ask a stupid question. In fact, you explained quite nicely why I
ignore the surety level completely. What I might rate a 3, you might rate a 4;
and what I rate a 3 today, I might rate a 2 next week.
What is far more relevant is the proof argument which can only be a
apologize to the list since I
guess I forgot to advise the LUG that the issue was
recorded.
Brian
Customer Support
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Connie Sheets wrote:
I have not been able to keep up with reading the list
the last couple
I have not been able to keep up with reading the list the last couple of
months, so my apologies if this has been discussed recently. I checked the
archives and found only one reference:
Back in January, Jennifer Trahan asked for verification that others were
experiencing difficulty with
Personally, I think it is a very bad idea to link people in your database until
you have obtained solid direct evidence of a relationship, or you have
completed a reasonably exhaustive search so that you can construct a proof
argument using indirect evidence. (It's more complicated than that,
Cathy chorn0...@verizon.net wrote:
Does anyone have a listing of out of the ordinary
events along with applicable sentence structures?
For example, I found a reference to the registered
ear marks used to brand an ancestor's cattle
but am unsure how to add it to my database. With city
a good OCR program (I haven't seen
such a thing, but perhaps one exists), or retype the documents. Personally,
I'd opt for the latter if for some reason I didn't want to attach a scan (jpg,
pdf format, etc.).
Connie Sheets
Arizona
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Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us wrote:
I am trying to follow Legalcy's process for Master
Sources and then Source Detail for info on the particular
person/event. However in some cases the detail info is such
that I could use it for more than one event. Is there a way
to cite the same source
Alan,
I'm afraid I don't understand what you are asking for if Source Clipboard
doesn't do it?
Source Clipboard allows you do reuse the exact same Master Source and Detail
over and over again. You will have only one footnote in your reports as your
original post requested. It seems to me
Kay,
I'm using the same build as you, and on my one example entered since installing
this build, it shows properly on Print Preview of an FGS as cal not ber (also a
calculated birth).
Connie
Kay Fordham kayhawo...@earthlink.net wrote:
Using 7.0.0.90
Build Date of: 13 March 2009
When
Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote:
I don't do anything special. I just use search and
replace when needed.
I doubt if the programmers will ever do these things.
Sourcing is hard
enough for some people to grasp and adding an extra layer
would probably
cause much confusion. Just
Pam O'Dell pamodel...@hotmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know how to properly source and estimated date?
What sources are you using to estimate the date? You would cite those sources,
just as you cite a source (or several sources) for a specific date.
For example, if you've found your person
Pam O'Dell pamodel...@hotmail.com wrote:
I have photocopies of about 100 family sheets that my great
uncle prepared back in the 50's (before I was born). Is
there a particular way this type of info should be sourced?
I would use the Family Group Sheet or ArtifactsPrivately Held template; I
, Connie Sheets clshee...@yahoo.com wrote:
Pam O'Dell pamodel...@hotmail.com wrote:
I have photocopies of about 100 family sheets that my
great
uncle prepared back in the 50's (before I was
born). Is
there a particular way this type of info should be
sourced?
I would use the Family Group
Penny,
I use country names in my database only when entering data for distant cousins
who migrated to Canada or who just happened to die in the Phillipines, as all
my people were otherwise in what became the US long before it became the US (my
most recent immigrant arrived about 1760).
So
Kathleen,
The generally accepted standard is to record locations as they were at the time
the event occurred. You can add a note indicating where the location is
currently.
This is important in order to locate additional relevant records. In many
cases, the records will still be in the old
Kathy Shiell-Stokes shearerfamilyt...@3web.com wrote:
Just curious how other users track communication links
amongst their family members. In my case, tracking those
linkages could lead to new sources of information. Some
links could potentially be between completely separate
families. Let
Ron wrote:
When Legacy is installed the install log is created. It is
also clear that some users find that they no longer have the
log file in their system. The one thing which they all have
in common is that they have correctly tried to uninstall
Legacy using the Window's Add/Remove
Bob wrote:
What is the general concensus regarding where to put general
information - Notes or Events?
A lot of the items I put into events has written data to
explain the event, but it is a bit awkward to have to refer
to the event statement to read it. Should entries such as
a census
Sherry,
I'm not sure if you're talking about the current .90 build, or another build
you have in the pipeline, but I wanted to clarify (in case it is important for
the programmers) that the problem I had with the missing install.log file (and
it most definitely was missing) happened only
.
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com
[mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of Connie Sheets
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:29 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Run time error '5'
Sherry,
I'm not sure if you're talking about
?
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com
[mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of Connie Sheets
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:34 PM
Ward,
First, thanks to you and Ron for the reminder about Ctrl+i. I also realized
after posting that it is not just the Subsequent Citations capability that
would lead me to choose Sourcewriter+Override instead of Basic; it also allows
for a properly formatted Bibliography.
I misspoke when
. Marriages, Vol 1, p. 37
--- On Mon, 3/30/09, Connie Sheets clshee...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Connie Sheets clshee...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Effect of Master Source Overrides and Preventing
Disappearing Details in Subsequent Citations
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date
Ward,
It appears that you have a response similar to the one I received yesterday. I
have not yet taken the time to fully comprehend it, or experimented to figure
out what it means in practice. (Your post below is more understandable to me
than what I received from Support).
Off the top of
My apology if this is a duplicate for anyone; I sent it yesterday morning but
never received it through the list and can't find it in the archives.
--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Kris gen.mailing.li...@gmail.com wrote:
This issue recently came up (in another context) on another
list I read. I thought
Because of the intensity and frequency of private flaming that I have been
receiving from this list over the last few weeks, I will be reverting to as
close to lurker mode as I can muster, and am contemplating leaving the list.
I have always done my best to be helpful and keep to topic. Quite
Apparently, lurking for long is not in my nature. I hope I don't stir the pot
further, but I have questions I need answers to. They are just as important to
my being a successful user of Legacy, if not more so, than when I asked for
help with my print/preview problem last weekend.
The list
Janis,
I will answer your questions privately, but I wanted to post a partial response
to Question #1 publicly, as I think it is germane to the use of Legacy. There
may be someone out there struggling silently with what I have struggled with
for years who can benefit from what I've learned.
Thomas Herson ther...@twcny.rr.com wrote:
Hugh and Connie,
Please help me understand exactly what information you are
not able to enter in Legacy. Using the several
Notes areas, you should be able to enter any
text, census transcipts, deeds, etc.
After using the program for several
--- On Sun, 3/22/09, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote:
From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Unable to Uninstall; Missing Install.log file
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 3:57 PM
With Legacy closed,
Dede Holden wrote:
I have a question regarding source formatting on the Family
Group
Report. I'm using the Sourcewriter Family Group
Sheet-Privately Held
template. I have source detail and a comment on the
detail. Why is
there a semi-colon inserted at the beginning of the detail
text
I just discovered that every time I click on Preview a report (at least with
the Pedigree or Family Group Record reports), my system freezes or hangs.
I'm not getting an error message. This is a new behavior with the 7.0.0.90
update.
Can anyone duplicate this?
Thanks!!!
Connie
--- On Sat, 3/21/09, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote:
Connie,
The first thing which I would try would be to close and
reopen Legacy, if that does not work then do the same with
your PC.
I would then try running File MaintenanceCheck/Repair,
then if no luck, deleting the .usr
ronald ferguson wrote:
Connie,
Before doing a System Restore I would try Last Known
Good Configuration - it's in the same place as the
Safe Mode - I don't know where that is on
your PC but on mine it's f8 on start up (I think!).
Whether either would solve a problem which is clearly
If the person who was having problems a week or two ago with the missing
install.log file is still reading the list, he may be interested to know I
think I have duplicated his problem.
As part of my quest to rectify my unable to preview or print problem, I tried
to uninstall Legacy. I used
Vicki,
If you are working with indexes you find online, I would probably use the
Internet Database template.
If actual divorce records, I would start with the Court records templates.
I always experiment with how each template prints to get the best results:
you can leave fields blank or
I am curious if anyone who (1) had been using Sourcewriter prior to the latest
update, and (2) has installed 7.0.0.89 is able to use SourceWriter at all, for
any template. If so, which templates work?
I seem to have no recourse except to revert to the Basic Source system, which I
have, up to
Janis wrote:
The Subsequent Citation issue is a troubling one. For the
most part, I do
narratives and reconstruct citations by hand,
rather than relying on
reports. Even so, there are occasions when I would like to
kick out a little
booklet for an interested family member...
Thanks,
Since far too many Ancestry trees are complete works of fiction, I too would be
very hesitant to enter the data into Legacy, however, if for some reason I did
do so, I would use the Internet Database template.
Connie
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death date, burial), you must first load the source onto the source clipboard.
You must also enter the data into each field.
Then, look at the left hand side of the edit screen, and you will see 4 blue
symbols; choose
Frances jenkins...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
Is there any way to create a list by source detail, as
opposed to Master source?
For example. My master source is English Census Lancashire
1861. I have several records covering different streets and
areas within Lancashire in 1861, each with its own
Actually, now that I think about it longer, you may want to set the Primary
Condition as Individual - Master Source - contains Lancashire 1861, then add a
second condition as I described.
--- On Sun, 3/8/09, Connie Sheets clshee...@yahoo.com wrote:
Frances jenkins...@xtra.co.nz wrote
Dede,
Confirming the problem (which I've never seen before the 7.0.0.89 update; I
have used the templates you mention with previous version 7 builds). For the
1900 census, I was able to enter data in several fields on Step 2, but it
popped up when I started to type in the URL field. On the
I like the way things are, and would not be happy if the global surety setting
was no longer available or if I had to mess around with too many additional
options. There is already an option to exclude a source from printing, and the
system for setting a surety level seems simple and easy to
--- On Wed, 3/4/09, CE WOOD wood...@msn.com wrote:
However, if there was the option to set Surety Levels for
each source, you could always change it for any specific use
of the source.
What am I missing in this discussion?
There is a way to set the surety level for each source: While
Will,
It appears to be a glitch in the software. In the Evidence Explained
QuickCheck Models which use the term Collection (and on which the Legacy
templates are based), the name of the collection appears in the full citation,
not just the bibliography/source list. See pp. 312 and 318 of EE.
It would be impossible for Legacy to identify every possible event type that
someone wants to enter, or for Evidence Explained, the book on which the source
templates are developed, to provide examples for every possible source.
Therefore:
Create your own Event, however you want it to read,
purpose of gedcom is to allow movement of data between
programs, regardless of the program).
If FTL Gencircles doesn't have the capability of making a gedcom for export,
then I'm at a loss. That would be FTL Gencircles problem, not a Legacy problem.
Connie Sheets
Arizona
--- On Wed, 2/25
Jenny and Meg,
Your 3 Quick bookmarks will not change if you set them in the quick bookmark
area at the bottom of the screen after bookmarking them with the bookmark icon.
See the Help file for details.
Connie
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your notes:
He appeared on the [Date] census in [Place]. [Notes] [Sources].
Hope this helps,
Connie Sheets
Arizona
--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Marianne Szabo msz...@mindspring.com wrote:
From: Marianne Szabo msz...@mindspring.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Source citation superscript in Events
And if you don't want to use the pre-programmed sentence structures at all,
just put [Notes][Sources] in the Sentence override box, then type away in the
Notes box. (That is my solution to the pesky, stilted sentence structures that
don't read at all how I want them to).
Connie Sheets
Arizona
, after each event sentence).
Are others experiencing this, or did I mis-select something?
Connie Sheets
Arizona
--- On Mon, 2/16/09, RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net wrote:
What settings are you using for 'Options for Descendent
Narrative Book', 'Format', 'Event Narrative
Formatting
Michele Lewis wrote:
It prints in the reports (all of them) with just the
overwritten source information. It won't print out the
overridden DETAIL information.
How can I get this to print properly? I have to have the
details!
So do I, but there is no fix at this point that I'm
end up in Legacy.
I used the Artifacts, privately held template to create the following source
which I think is similar to what you are asking for:
Jane Doe, Sheets Family Charts and Group Sheets, 1994; privately held by
Connie Sheets, 2008. Ms. Doe, the great-granddaughter of William C
on.
Connie Sheets
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is the marriage. It makes no sense to me
to record things like Census or Residence as a Marriage Event but to each his
own: that is the beauty of Legacy.
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me too heavily
if I don't dot every I and cross every T exactly the same way ESM would).
I, for one, am grateful to Legacy for attempting to incorporate the EE formats
so that I have less work to do to ensure my citations are clear and readable
and consistent.
Connie Sheets
Judy,
I too have transcribed some lengthy obits, biographies, etc. into Event Notes
without running into this problem, but if I did, the first thing I would
probably do is extract, rather than transcribe, the document, using ...
judiciously to indicate where I have omitted words, phrases or
in a citation that is, as near as I
can tell with a quick check of EE, completely in compliance with standards.
Connie Sheets
--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Arnold Sprague aspra...@chicagogsb.edu wrote:
I have come across a goodly number of books which are
Compiled By, not Authored By nor Edited
, rather than General Notes.
I hope this makes sense...
Connie Sheets
Glendale, AZ
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(at bottom of topic list)
The results will tell you that to create a PDF file:
From Publish (or any relevant report), select PDF format (bottom of right hand
side of Publish window)
Click on Create
Name the file
Save the file...
Hope this helps...
Connie Sheets
Glendale, AZ
--- On Sat, 1/10/09, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote:
Ward,
Have you checked since the last update was issued? By far
the majority of problems have been resolved. I did notice
that if a footnote was right at the bottom of the page then
it could be lost, but as I cannot replicate it
Ron,
I have reported these issues as bugs at least a month or two ago. I did
receive correspondence from Support about one of them (the fact that subsequent
citations don't print on Individual and Family Group Sheet reports), but have
no acknowledgment of the others.
Actually, my reference
For a somewhat different prospective:
I have not studied your problem closely, but from what I have gleaned, you in
fact do not know how (or even if) these two people are actually related.
I never link people in my database until I have documentation to support the
link. I enter suspected
I consider myself middle of the road, but may lean more toward splitting than
lumping, though I think there must be extreme lumpers (putting all newspapers
in one source would be an extreme lumper IMO) and extreme splitters (making a
separate master source for each census household would be an
Thanks, Dennis. That's what I suspected but thought I'd run it by the list
first.
Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:11:34 -0800 (PST), Connie Sheets
clshee...@yahoo.com wrote:
When I try to delete them individually, I get:
Cannot delete source
Running 7.0.0.76 on an XP system:
A couple of years ago (with an obviously earlier edition of Legacy), I
experimented with Research Guidance and automatically added several To-Do items
for one individual in my database. This added several Sources I've never
actually consulted to my Master
I agree with Mary: it is intended to be the date you enter/record the info
into your database. (I suppose as with anything else, you could use it for
something else, though I'd be careful to be sure I was consistent and
documented somewhere how I defined it so others who come along later
--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Ward Walker wnkwal...@rogers.com wrote:
Connie,
For the fields of the master source, there is no problem or
ambiguity when the short form gets used. The master never
changes from citation to citation. Your only bug is that the
short form (subsequent citation) is being
considerable editing.
Connie
--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Elizabeth Richardson wrote:
Connie - do you have a need to edit the report? The
citations do print as footnotes if your output is to pdf.
- Original Message - From: Connie
Sheets clshee...@yahoo.com
To: LegacyUserGroup
citation format for the Master Source and make sure
I create overrides for each and every detail
Connie Sheets
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Elizabeth M. wrote:
2. Work on the word-processing capability, so we don't
have to import into
other software to create readable biographies, adequate
discussions of
problems, and proper punctuation--after which we still have
the problem of
stuffing the genie back into the bottle.
I am
?
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--- Gen Searcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Connie
I picked up that you file alphabetically, how would you
file a married couple
I can see that all unmarried people could be done by
alphabet but I just wondered do you file the husband and
wife separately
Regards
John
John,
My
, they are just something else to clutter the brain, IMO.
It doesn't matter who you enter first; you could start with a 3rd cousin twice
removed. If you decide you do have a use for the RINs, you can always change
them later if you don't like how they are automatically assigned.
Connie Sheets
Flagstaff, AZ
Events).
So, that is the best I can do re: the pros and cons. For me, it is mostly a
gut level decision. I have never liked Events, no matter how hard I try.
Connie Sheets
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stayed in the same small geographic area in Missouri for 150 years,
so the odds that I already have a person in my database when I'm entering the
spouse of a distant cousin is high.
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