I get the receipt requested e-mails, sigh heavily and answer. I wish
people would not ask, though. My sister sends stuff to me from work and
her messages ask all the time. It is possible to continue anyway, but
if you open the message again, you get the request again. (I do not use
Outlook,
I thought somebody answered this a while ago, but I cannot find it.
I have tagged all names that have no sources attached. Now, how do I
print out a list of those with tags? The Name Tags report will do it,
but I get name tags, which I did not want. How can I get a plain list?
Thanks in
Thanks. That worked.
Elizabeth C
Ron Ferguson wrote:
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote:
I thought somebody answered this a while ago, but I cannot find it.
I have tagged all names that have no sources attached. Now, how do I
print out a list of those with tags? The Name Tags report
I discovered I have a fair number of people with no sources (from when I
entered them in FTM). Does anybody have an easy way to identify these
people, without my looking at each one?
Elizabeth C
Legacy User Group guidelines:
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If it was an Anabaptist church (one of several denominations which
baptize adults) the so-called Christening is really a sort of dedication
ceremony, done to a baby, and the adult chooses baptism later. Quite
often in the teens, but sometimes as an adult. In the Amish and
Mennonite
Are there people in the list you are closely related to? If there are,
could you start with them? and work out? If there aren't, who is in
the list that you are interested in? Maybe start with them?
I would source what I could for the closest ones, and pick a line and
work out, maybe line
Just be glad you are not in Germany, where I understand a man with 3
PhD's is addressed as Doktor Doktor Doktor. Probably with a Herr in
front, as in Herr Doktor Doktor Doktor. How would that go in Legacy?
Elizabeth C
Robert Carneal USA wrote:
I do not want to start a long thread,
Me, I include birth years for everybody unless you have somebody really
sensitive about when they were born. (And half the time they are being
foolish and think other people don't know or can't guess when they
really have a pretty good idea.)
Elizabeth C
Tom Thorpe wrote:
Now that
He died in 1926, but his stone says 1920. I suspect, however, that he
was dead when he was buried. At least one person has tried to tell me
to believe the stone, even though I have a family picture of him dated
1925.
Elizabeth C
ronald ferguson wrote:
Interesting! Elizabeth,
In my case, my grandfather's stone is 6 years different from his death
certificate.
Elizabeth C
Penny Hayes wrote:
Syble, could you clarify for me where, exactly, you explain why you
think the tombstone is in error? I have a situation like that where I
am quite certain that my
I am going to visit a place where a couple of cousins used to live. I
printed out individual reports for them, but got none of the residences
or any thing else listed in events. How do I get these things to print?
Elizabeth C
Legacy User Group guidelines:
Thanks very much. It worked. I am using Legacy 6.
Elizabeth C
Connie Sheets wrote:
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
It doesn't necessarily work for the US either. I have to include street
addresses (I have about 100 in Philadelphia alone) so I just ignore the
conventions.
Elizabeth C
ronald ferguson wrote:
Ross,
I completely agree with Mike! For many of us the USA format simply does not work.
If you put someone common to both families (your parents?) as main
characters, you may be able to see both.
Elizabeth C
Anthony Gasparatos wrote:
Hi,
I am VERY new to this. I have entered my family and my brothers family
in Legacy 7. While I can chart either mine or his family, why
I have had to do a total reinstall of my XP computer, so naturally I had
to reinstall Legacy 6. When I first started to use it,
it asked for customer number and so on so I could unlock the deluxe
version. I did not have the numbers near at hand, so
I skipped it.
Now when I go back with the
Have you tried /copying/ the file to another drive? I have not ever
backed up, but I have often copied the data file to an external hard
drive or a separate partition. Even to another folder.
Elizabeth C
CE WOOD wrote:
If I could back up at all, even to the Legacy folder, I would.
Which town? and a name of a person? Maybe I know someone.
Elizabeth C
GeoSci wrote:
Careful - there are other reasons for blanks in the middle - not just
because someone hasn't done his homework or is too lazy. I have
several persons from (according to sources) a certain town in
The US has townships, sometimes boroughs, within counties. Some cities,
like Richmond, VA, do not have a county, and in Philadelphia, the City
and County merged over 150 years ago. My husband, however, grew up in a
township.
Elizabeth C
ci...@treadles.ca wrote:
Tindale Terrace,
And your example does not even include street addresses, which I must
have. For one grandfather, I have over 20 addresses within a mile or so
in Philadelphia, and just using the city would be no help at all.
Elizabeth C
Gene Young wrote:
ci...@treadles.ca wrote:
And what does the
The problem is that I am finding the cemetery names are in the place
beside the burial information that is marked with a plus - then you get
burial address. Is there anyway to print these so that I can put them
in the burial information box itself? I do not want to go through a
thousand
How can I get a list of cemeteries, with the names of the people buried
in them, to print? I tried viewing the source list for location, and
finding the list of people, but only one comes up on the first cemetery
I tried. I went to another person buried there, and the cemetery was
given as
I also got the message in plain text. Maybe it is because I told Legacy
when I had to re-subscribe recently that I only wanted plain text.
Elizabeth C
Don Varner wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote:
marilyn E B wrote:
Must be your
What people who use computers do is highly variable. I am 74, have been
involved in computers heavily since 1981, marginally since 1955, but
almost all of my experience is in PC programs and accounting systems.
My sister, age 67, is a COBOL programmer (has been for over 40 years)
but does
/Ibid /means the source quoted is the same as the source just quoted in
the previous example. (In other words, you have quoted the same source
twice, one right after each other.) There is also /loc cit/ (in the same
place) and /op cit /(in the same work) but they are more usual in
academic
The other problem is that Legacy's address may have been hijacked and
they may not, in fact, be able to do anything about it.
Elizabeth C
Don Varner wrote:
That should assure that all messages from this list get blocked by
your ISP. I personnally find your constant complaints
My husband's grandfather, who came from County Tyrone in 1891, is listed
on the 1900 and 1910 US censuses as being from Northern Ireland.
Presumably the designation was used even though it was not officially a
different country?
Elizabeth C
ronald ferguson wrote:
Michele,
In
Why am I getting so many of these messages? Are there 2 groups, and do I
need a password for one, or is this all spam?
Elizabeth C
Original Message
Subject:[LegacyUG] [LegacyUserGroup] List Posting Error Notification
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:14:54 -0700
From:
I used our oldest child (who has died) as the first entry, or at least
the entry relationships are calculated from. That gives me relationships
on both sides of the family. I do not know who is number one, since when
I was entering information I did not know about the process (and I think
I
, I think it's
safe for
you to move up to Legacy6 by now.
Kirsten
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Elizabeth Cunningham
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:19 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7
All
All this stuff about Legacy 7 and its problems inevitably reminds me of
Polonius' advice to Laertes in /Hamlet:
/Be not the first by whom the new is tried.
But then, I am still using Legacy 5.
Elizabeth C
Legacy User Group guidelines:
I added an event Personal Characteristics to cover things like height,
weight, color of hair and eyes I found in the WW1 draft registrations.
Elizabeth C
Wendy Howard wrote:
Hi Penny,
If one wanted to keep track of which members of a family had a
particular physical characteristic,
The meaning of Fraktur that I know is a type of hand printing favored
among the old Pennsylvania Germans, using different colors, used often
for certificates and documents to be framed. I do not know why it
should be a category in the IGI.
Elizabeth C
Gavin Nicholson wrote:
Hello
That is all very well, but half my relatives have no stone, so we guess
a lot. I was thinking about trying to put markers on some of them, but
the cost is pretty high. Some of the cemeteries we have been in do not
have a lot of section markers either.
Elizabeth C
Johnny V
I would also like Robert's comments, since I am considering the same thing.
Elizabeth C
Valerie Garton wrote:
Robert could you please respond to me as well as I have the same
deliberation ?
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast,
1896 was a leap year. 1894 was not.
Elizabeth C
Melody B wrote:
I don't know if this is a bug or not. I have a date for something or
other that is 29 Feb 1894.
To me, that sure looks like a valid date. 1894 should have been a
leap year.
Unless of course it wasn't. But if not,
When you want to source an event, call up the source you want (like 1920
census) and select it to be the source. Then when you call up the
event, you can select the source with the little button with the
horizontal line. I would suggest doing all the things using the same
source at one time
I sometimes source both. My husband's aunt sent a batch of info, and I
sourced it. If I find corrorborating information, I source that too (we
can have more than one source for an event or fact). Sometimes I have
found information that contradicts hers - if the information cannot be
doubted
Is it possible to change the sex of a person you entered? A great-aunt
had 4 children, one of whom survived to 1900. So I entered 3 unknown
children - 2 boys and a girl. Got the death certificates and one of the
boys was a girl, and without thinking I just entered her. Now I had a
boy
I am gradually combining sources. Has anybody successfully combined
ship manifests? So I don't wind up with one source per ship? I am
accumulating a lot of these, and would like to simplify if possible. I
want to record the ship's name, captain's name, date of arrival, ports
of leaving and
I do not know whether this is splitting or lumping, but I have one
source for each township or city in each census. So I have a lot of
different census entries for 1920 Philadelphia, but I can put the detail
(roll number, page no, etc) each time I quote a different page. This
still gives me a
How in the world do you tell who gave the info to the census
enumerator? In just one case, I can tell -- my grandmother gave her
daughters' relationships as daughter while the relationship of the
children by her husband's first marriage as step-son. Other than
that, you don't even know if it
Which e-mail programs do this?
Elizabeth C
Wendy Howard wrote:
Because some email programs determine threading based on information
held in the headers about which email you're replying to, rather than
by the subject line. This means that when someone replies to a post
and changes the
, there's no harm in your doing what you please :)
- Original Message - From: Elizabeth Cunningham
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To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Very Basic Questions
I had never actually run a Location Report, so I
One that keeps coming up is Born before parents marriage. I cannot
figure out how to exclude this (in Legacy 5). I know perfectly well
they were born before parents married, and in one case I am not sure the
parents ever married. How can I exclude this from Potential Problems?
or do I just
Address lists. Mailing, Event and
Repository.
JL
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote:
I have never gotten straight what the address fields were for. I had
understood they were for keeping track of members who
Thanks
Elizabeth C
ronald ferguson wrote:
Elizabeth,
If I remember correctly Legacy 5 is the same as Legacy 6. Go to the Individual Screen, click
Exclude from Potential Probelms and tick the box born before parents'
marriage (or something very similar).
Ron Ferguson
I am currently using the form (Brandt), Pearl for last names or
Gartley, Unknown for first names. I tried using [] but the name
disappeared. I have may be 50 or more names where I have no last name
and another 20 where I have no first name. Attaching the married last
name in parentheses at
I must have at least 60 different street addresses for Philadelphia (15
of them for one grandfather!) so I always put the street address in
before the city, county, state and country. I'll bet anyone with
relatives in big cities has the same problem. And I add the cemetery
name too, if
in the 1880's or 1890's. The group that has been
here longer all lived out in the country.
Elizabeth C
Thomas Herson wrote:
So do you have at least 60 lines for Philadelphia in your Location
Report?
- Original Message - From: Elizabeth Cunningham
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Location
Report?
- Original Message - From: Elizabeth Cunningham
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To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Very Basic Questions
I must have at least 60 different street addresses for Philadelphia
(15 of them
I stopped using periods after Mr and Mrs and such when I got into punch
card computing (middle 1950's?). The period took up an extra column on
the punch card, and things were perfectly clear without it. I do not
know if other people got into it the same way, and I have to admit I was
not
For some reason, Legacy Group mail has been slow and inconsistent. I am
still getting messages sent on the 5th, even though many other messages
arrived later. For that matter, even though I read all my mail this
morning, this afternoon I got another 10 or so from the 6th.
Temporary? Does
The Reformed Church was most emphatically not Lutheran. I grew up in
that church, and the founder, Zwingli, had major theological differences
with Luther over several things, most notably the interpretation of the
Lord's Supper. (Excuse me if I seem to be nit-picking). In America,
the
the Source Clipboard, although you'd probably
pull it on to the Clipboard if you wanted to attach that source to several
different people or fields.
Hope this helps to clarify.
Kirsten
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Elizabeth Cunningham
Sent
But what do I do for personal e-mails, letters, interviews? Is the
source type e-mail? or the name of the sender?
Elizabeth C
Kirsten Bowman wrote:
To expand on Jenny's post just a little, Elizabeth Shown Mills (_EE_, p 67)
discusses the quagmire that can be created if there's no
First, does anybody know how to print a list of those tagged with a
specific number? I cannot figure it out.
Second, does anybody know how to print a list of those ancestors that
have no sources attached? I did not include them in my early info
(which was on Family Tree Maker, in any case)
My sources are currently organized:
Birth certificates -- a
Birth certificates -- b
E-mails -a
E-mails b
Personal letter - a dated y/yy/yy
Personal letter - b dated x/xx/xx
Censuses by state, county and year
And so on. Would it make sense to put some of
I have two computers: one is only for use on the Internet and the other
one is the one on which I do all my computing. I can move files from
one to the other using FileMover.
I have not yet been able to get version 6 to work at all with the
downloaded updates, so I am still using 5. The
I am still trying to deal with the concept of a 100 foot tall obelisk.
10 stories tall? Has to be more than one stone, for sure.
Elizabeth C
JLB wrote:
Much to my embarrassment, one group of my relatives was buried in or
under or near an obelisk about 100 feet high. It's set on
24 of these so far, and counting. A burp in the system?
Elizabeth C
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I have all of mine in one file, and so I can add (to only one file) my
children's spouses, and their families, if desired, my grandchildren,
and soon, the grandchildren's spouses and families. I also use my
oldest child as starting point for relationship calculation.
Elizabeth C
The
, somone else mentioned that also. What is the
reason for that, why pick a particular person?
Colin.
- Original Message - From: Elizabeth Cunningham
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Merging family files, advantages
I have at least 15 residences for a grandfather in less than 10 years.
His first four children were all born in different towns, and the rest
were born all over the place in Philadelphia. I think he could not pay
the rent. So yes, I have a lot of residence events for him. And all
the
As one who has typed more than my share of Masters' theses and graduate
papers, I would like to point out that a lot of Elizabeth Mills'
citations come straight out of instructions for scholarly papers --
e.g., the MLA style sheet. It is good stuff, but I am not sure it needs
to be adhered to
We have a case of rape. My mother-in-law did not want me doing
genealogy on any part of her family for fear I would discover
something. One of her aunts was raped by a boarder in the boarding
home her mother ran. An uncle and an aunt confirmed this. The child
was raised as the sister of
I do not think you can copyright facts. You can, however, copyright
your writing about those facts.
Elizabeth C
Christina wrote:
Does anyone know about copyright laws?
My dads cousin is copyrighting her research she has done for family
line books. Does anyone know if we use her
Actually what I do generally, (I have not tried charts) is to list one
of my children as main person -- that gets my stuff and my husband's
stuff together.
Elizabeth C
Hope Bagot Bees wrote:
Surely if you put yourself in the centre you'll get the desired
results? Your father's
still using Legacy 5)
Elizabeth C
Jenny M Benson wrote:
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote
I am talking about editing . Following Legacy's guidelines, I put
the entire info from a census into the source notes for an
individual (making the individual's name bold)/. If I go into
notes
fields and thus would have no reason to edit them.?
Elizabeth C.
Jenny M Benson wrote:
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote
In transcribing my source list into Excel, as suggested by another
user, I have found a few instances where the source could not
possibly be a correct one
Whenever I add census data I add the Residence event at the same time
for all members of the family.. This keeps the census a source, not an
event.
Elizabeth C
Michele Lewis wrote:
I consider them event because they put the person at a specific place
at a specific time. I like to
How can I get to the Notes fields for birth, death, etc? I cannot seem
to find a button that works. (I am still using Legacy 5)
Elizabeth C
Jenny M Benson wrote:
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote
I am talking about editing . Following Legacy's guidelines, I put
the entire info from
I do also include the Census as an event. For any given census, I often
have, as events, the census, the residence, and the occupation.
Elizabeth C
Jenny M Benson wrote:
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote
This keeps the census a source, not an event.
Of course, we are all free to do
In transcribing my source list into Excel, as suggested by another user,
I have found a few instances where the source could not possibly be a
correct one for the individual - the most glaring example being my
husband's grandfather tied to a census that was taken 10 years before he
arrived in
I just found records of relatives buying their homes -- prices, sellers,
etc. How do I enter this? In one case, I found that my aunt and uncle
were first owners of the house in a new development. (All the rest of
us are in much older houses -- the one I live in is from 1888.)
Should I
and Chronologies' put
out by Legacy.
Timothy K. Cox
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cunningham
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:53 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Real estate
I just found records
It may be true that there are 150 questions, answers and respnses in the
archives, and I read them all, but I for one do not understand the
differences.
Elizabeth C
Alan Eade wrote:
Glenny, this topic was exhausted between August and October 2007 -
please read the archives:
Thank you very much for the answer. I think I use a combination.
Elizabeth C
Michele Lewis wrote:
Elizabeth,
I will give it to you in a nutshell :)
A lumper is someone who would enter a marriage certificate this way...
The source would be Marriage License
Then in the DETAILS you
When I type addresses, I normally type the name of the country not
America in caps -- as GERMANY. When I was entering an zncestor who is
from Germany, (and about whom I know little else) the autofill part
came up with Germantown, which is where I live had have addresses.
Continuting to type
There were not two Germanys - Germany and GERMANY. I could not find the
Options menu that Ronald Ferugson described. What actually did work was
going to the Master Location list and correcting the Germany by hand.
Thanks to everyone who responded.
Elizabeth C
Gene Young wrote:
And what would those of us in cities do, those who need to include
street addresses?
Elizabeth C
ronald ferguson wrote:
Tom,
If Legacy is foolish enough to do that there will be a massive exodus of
European users as even their basic locations do not fir that format.
Ron Ferguson
My mother died in Oklahoma but is buried in Pennsylvania. But I usually
do include the cemetery name. Philadelphia has a lot of cemeteries, so
I think the name is needed. There are also a lot of cemeteries no
longer in use that have been built over, so tracing burials without a
cemetery
I also have a case where a person was enumerated in the house of her
grandmother, and a month later was enumerated with her father. The
census taking in New Jersey that year must have been slow, because it
took two weeks to get from Phillipsburg to Harmony, in the same county.
I had an aunt,born around 1900, who continually talked about when I
first went out to board --meaning live somewhere not at home. Her
mother had died and the family broke up when she was a teenager.
Boarding houses seem to have been much more common around that period
than they are now.
The kid down the street just had a sex-change operation, so he has gone
from male to female. THAT will be a very interesting work-around to get
him entered in a genealogy program.
Elizabeth C
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This is a very sound and well reasoned response. (Please don't judge
the quality of the program by the responses on this topic!) I feel
sorry in this context for people with real problems -- like the person
who wrote that they had 3 same-sex marriages in the family and how
should they record
I do not know which is more common. I myself use something like Jennie
Ault (Elizabeth Cunningham's mother) said her mother Elizabeth Morgan
said... so that other people reading it would know who was who. If my
grandchildren or cousins are reading it, using just mam: or grandma
could lead
I would put in a residence event for each address (and for each person
who lived there) with the year. I have 15 addresses for my father's
family in 10 years -- I think my grandfather was trying to avoid the
rent man.
Elizabeth C
aseddon.com wrote:
Hi Listers;
When I was young my
I know a family who adopted two Chinese girls. When the parents were
asked where they were from, the parents could only say We can show you
the stairwell where you were found. Sometimes birth names and parents
names both are impossible to know.
Elizabeth C
Sara Binkley Tarpley wrote:
I am reasonably comfortable with many aspects of computer use,
especially spreadsheets, but there are others on whch I draw a complete
blank. HTML is one. I am evidently not sending in HTML, at least it is
not showing up on the screen that way, but I have no clue about how I
would turn it on
I do have birth announcements as sources, not events. If I implied
otherwise I am sorry. How can I combine 2 birth announcements for
children of the same family into one source?
I have separate sources for each death certificate (and how people
combine those I cannot imagine, but I would
wrote:
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote
How can I combine 2 birth announcements for children of the same
family into one source?
If I understand you correctly you mean that child A's birth was
announced in a newspaper on a certain date and child B's birth was
announced in the same paper
as not to lose the info for both, but
is this really the way to do it?
Elizabeth C
Sharon Perdue wrote:
Every single thing on the screen for each tab of the source has to be
idenitcal for the combine duplicates to work.
- Original Message - From: Elizabeth Cunningham
[EMAIL
I have been trying to clean up discrepancies and duplications in my
Master Lists.
When I find two addresses that are spelled slightly differently, and
edit them so they are spelled the same, the addresses merge and I have
one address. When I do that with Source Lists, (like birth
I second Maureen. I am also over 70, was programming computers in
1955, and have also been involved in personal computers since 1980, and
have installed a couple of systems in places I worked I am not set in
my ways either, but I also prefer to watch how things go and the
problems that
I thought bottom posting was when the reply came up after the original
message, and that top posting was when the answer came up first. What
did I get wrong?
Elizabeth C
Dave Naylor wrote:
On 1 Aug 2007 Elizabeth Cunningham wrote:
Could I throw my unpopular 2 cents in and say I
Could I throw my unpopular 2 cents in and say I HATE bottom posting? I
do not have very much space on my screen for messages to show, and to
have to scroll down for every one of the 200 or so messages I get each
day is a pain. I do agree it is much easier to follow if you bottom
post, but to
I made one of our kids the starting point. Then I get both families.
Crude, but it works.
Elizabeth C
Jack Earnshaw wrote:
I used to have one database for my own family and a second one for my wife's
family. When we discovered the THIRD connection between our families I
decided that
I created an event called Personal. I got the idea after finding the
WW 1 draft cards that had such information on them. If anybody has an
idea that would work better I would be most happy to hear it.
Elizabeth C
Beth Gay wrote:
Dear List,
Where do you enter eye color, color of
Thanks to all who answered. One of my problems was confusing the source
detail with notes for events, and thanks to you all, I now have them
straight.
Elizabeth C
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wrote:
1. I have 2 sources for Census for New Jersey,
Hunterdon County,
Lambertville, 1870. These are for 2 families on 2
different pages. Can
I combine them into 1 master source with different
detail? If so, how?
2. How can I access
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