Thank you, Jack.
Elsie (Scharpf) Saar
Elsie
It is a Legacy bug that has been reported
Jack
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Of Elsie Saar
Sent: 05 November 2009 00:57
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
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To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Changing directories for pictures
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:52:21 -0500, Elsie Saar sa...@attglobal.net
wrote:
I have put my database and pictures on an external hard drive so
that I can use
Hi, I have my Legacy pictures in a directory such as c:\Legacy\SS
pics. I have put my database and pictures on an external hard drive so
that I can use my database at another location that has Legacy. I
thought I could go to Options/Customize/Locations and change the path
to read
I have another question. I'm using Legacy 7 with XP. I'm having a
problem with half-siblings/aunts/uncles, etc. They appear in the
children's list and the relationship calculator correctly. But when I
run set relationships, they are listed as full siblings/aunts/uncles,
etc. What am I doing
Also, you could enter a note that this couple married twice. Then it would be
perfectly clear. Happy hunting.
Elsie
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From: mjmethod
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] One couple, two
When I'm cleaning up my master location list and I click on a person
using the particular location, how do I get to edit the marriage
location? Do I have to back out and go to the person him-/herself?
Elsie Saar
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after your post. Possibly another little bug.
Terri
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From: Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:40:07 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] combining addresses
I tried, Terry but my arrow keys don't work
When I enter a person, I have a field I call relationship that I
complete when I enter a person. I set this field to show on the Family
view. That way I don't spend time researching people who are not
related; and I can tell at a glance who/how the person is related to
either myself, my
on this subject, I did add more
names to a test file, out about 5 generations. Low and behold, I had
to reset like the others.
Tim
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From: Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: Re
A non-direct relationship is like husband of the second cousin, six
times removed.
Personally, I add in my Relationship event, event name Relationship,
event desc [[none]] for non-direct relationships as we don't share
blood.
Perhaps we could have an option to use v6 or v7 as with the Source
I have not had that problem. I just added a test person in v6 whose
relationship calculated immediately to 5th cousin, 5 times removed.
Elsie
Version 6 will set the immediate family but to get relationships
farther out, you do need to recalculate.
It seems to me that it automatically sets
of the Add
templates and don't see a relationship field.
Tom Herson
Ithaca, NY
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From: Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] set relationships
When I enter a person, I
Here i am with another question. Hope I'm not being a pain.
When I'm working on my Location list, merging doubles, I can click on
a location, click on Combine With, use the down arrow, and click on
the one I want to combine the first one to. However, when I try to do
this with the address
have that
notation even if I do have to reset relationship. Thank you so much
for explaining this to an old man
Joseph
Elsie Saar wrote:
A non-direct relationship is like husband of the second cousin,
six times removed.
Personally, I add in my Relationship event, event name
Relationship
: [LegacyUG] combining addresses
Elsie,
Click on a line in the address list then use your arrow keys to
navigate. I know it sounds silly but that is what I had to do.
Terri
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8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] set relationships
Elsie,
In version 7 Basic and Deluxe I could not reproduce your problem. I
cleared them and set them again with the it working fine. Try a
maintance on your file.
Tim
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From: Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED
But, Ron, having to reset relationships or opening the relationship
calculator every time I add a new related person is very time
consuming. I really miss the automatic calculation of relationships,
it was a really neat feature. Seems some features could have had an
option, use either v6 or v7
, it doesn't stay set. The next time I enter a new person who
is related to me, I have to Set Relationships again. What am I doing
wrong? I have v7, the latest revision, over 17K people in my file,
service pack 3.
Elsie
2008/9/16 Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I tried going to the Archives to find
wrong? I have v7, the latest revision, over 17K people in my file,
service pack 3.
Elsie
2008/9/16 Elsie Saar :
I tried going to the Archives to find this but found some
gibberish and couldn't get to the second page.
I went to Tools, Set Relationships and set them. However, it
doesn't stay stuck
I tried going to the Archives to find this but found some gibberish
and couldn't get to the second page.
I went to Tools, Set Relationships and set them. However, it doesn't
stay stuck. What am I doing wrong?
Elsie
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, September 16, 2008 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] set relationships
No problem here.
Could you give some more steps so we can see where it goes wrong.
Some questions: Did you set relationships for the correct
individual?
Which button did you click?
Evert
2008/9/16 Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Windows Service Pack 3
Hi, Nina Johnson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] here. I posted a question earlier today
to find out if I have
You can check if you have the latest update by opening Legacy, going to Legacy
Home. In the right hand column, there is a box labeled updates. Read what it
says in there. Legacy 7.0.0.55 is the latest update.
Elsie
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Personally I like the way the Germans do it in their church books,
underline the name the person is called.
Elsie
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I have an event called Real Estate that covers owning a home (in the
census), etc.
Elsie
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I would use the event Residence and then state in the desc that this
person was not found with her parents. Also, with census enumerations
before 1850, one does not know if the person living in the household
was indeed part of that family, perhaps a cousin, perhaps a farm
laborer, maid, etc.
to change the options to display the marriage
status.
Go to: Options, Customize, View Tab, and in lower right corner,
click
to show status on marriage, on children, etc
Chap
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In Legacy 6, if a couple's marriage status was divorced
In Legacy 6, if a couple's marriage status was divorced, divorce
would show on the marriage information line on the family view. I
don't see divorce showing in the same place in Legacy 7. Am I
missing something?
Elsie (Scharpf) Saar
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I used the GPS converter the other day and it put my location of a cemetery in
the middle of the Hudson River. I had to move the push pin manually to a spot I
thought the cemetery should be in, in the middle of the woods.
Elsie
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I have
suggested to Legacy that perhaps the Location field could be 5 places
instead of 4.
You can (in V6 at least) enter up to 9 places in locations (8 commas).
--
Dennis Kowallek
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I understand one needs to download IE 7 to have mapping work. I have
not done so as IE 7 seemed to slow down my friend's computer. Has
anyone else had this happen to them? I would like to use the mapping
feature.
Elsie (Scharpf) Saar
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Thank you, jdm and Gary. I will try to load it and see what happens.
Elsie
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From: John Magyari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] IE 7 and mapping
On my Pentium III w/512Meg memory
Robert, please send me your comments, too, if you have time.
Elsie
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Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:56 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] To Upgrade or not - going from Ver 6 to Ver 7
Robert, I would
Thank you, Jenny, that was bothering me also.
Elsie
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From: Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:04 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Small Bookmarks Bug
Mike Fry wrote
It is my understanding that the 3
If I'm understanding your question correctly, you have entered the
census info in an event and then sourced it. You can then copy this
event and paste it into other members of the family. The info and the
source will paste in. Is that what you are asking?
Elsie
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] Relationships
Elsie Saar wrote
How can I tell Legacy to use my event Relationship for this field
instead of its relationship calculator?
Do I have to rename this event before I bring the database over to
7? I
Legacy is confused between its own use of the word Relationship
(which shows relationships
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Relationships - update
You might rename it to MyRelationships, or similar, so
the computer isn't confused. And you can change it
ONCE, and at the saving the new name, choose 'change
all'.
Good Luck.
Rich in LA CA
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I see that I
Hi, Tracy, I knew the info in the first three paragraphs you wrote. Re
your last paragraph, sometimes the Germans would call someone a cousin
if they were a younger uncle or other relative, they were all cousins.
Legacy helps me keep it real.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Elsie
Many thanks to Jenny, Tracy, and Linda for setting me straight. Didn't
think to look for Event first!
Elsie
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From: Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:34 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationships
I
I see that I cannot choose any event name to appear on the family page
so changing the event name in 6 won't help me. What can I do?
Elsie
Do I have to rename this event before I bring the database over to
7? I have kept a version 6 database.
Elsie
Elsie (Scharpf) Saar
I don't know the right way, but I put www.Ancestry.com, and then the
name of the database I found it in. Surely one (not you) could get
carried away with this stuff. The genealogy police and come after me,
I'm not afraid. :-)) My sources are my sources, enough to let me
find the info
Don, I'm with you here. URLs change, websites come and go. The website
gets the info from somewhere and that is what I source. For census, I
use census citations as NARA does, doesn't matter if I saw it on NARA,
on Ancestry, or at my local county clerk's office. It is still the
same document.
Jane, in the event screen for census, under the description I might
write living with her parents at 65 Main St. and in the notes I
might write The census indicates she is married but her husband is
not listed at this address for this census or some other information.
For an event such as
Jane, we all had to learn these:
For cemeteries and churches, I use the + sign after the burial and
baptism fields that leads to the address list and enter it there.
Don't know if this is how most people do it. For marriages I have to
make an event called Marriage location and then put the
As I mentioned before, for townships, I put it in the description
field of the event. I don't want to have, for example, Saugerties
town, Saugerties village, Saugerties, etc, as 3 locations so in the
desc field I put in the township of, or in the village of, and
then I have only one for
Is the year divisible by 4? except for the 00's, 1800, 1900, etc.
Elsie
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To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:39 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Date Calculator
I am still using Version 6. I just
Are you using a shortcut for Legacy that is still pointing to Legacy 6? Just an
idea.
Elsie
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From: Deborah K. Millemaci
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 6:21 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Online download of Legacy 7
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Hicks Family From Boyd County, KY
(Ashland)
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Millemaci Arlotta Families from
Montalbano, Sicily
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--- On Tue, 6/24/08, Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Check the check boxes on the Search and Replace dialog box. Did you
check the correct items? Good luck.
Elsie
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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:56 PM
Subject:
For what it's worth, I record street addresses in the Desc field with
other comments as needed, for example:
living with his father-in-law, Jacob Bounce, at 133 Apple St. in the
town of
and then the rest in the place field:
Saugerties, Ulster Co., New York, USA
I didn't want to have two
I also do not use Census events. I list all items from a census to
appropriate events: name, residence, birth, occupation, education,
real estate, etc and use the census as a source. So if I see a
residence for 1920, for example, I can easily see what the source is,
whether it's a census or
I know I can change the column size on other views, ie Event , master
source list, etc. but then Legacy doesn't remember the change or am I
missing something?
Elsie
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Nancy, I always interpret it as a location at the time of the event. I'd also
love to fill in those birth/death places but without proof, they remain empty.
Elsie
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From: Nancy
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:59 AM
will be inserted. Any tools to the right
will move over to make room.
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From: Elsie Saar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:32 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Two files at once
I tried to view two Legacy files at once
I tried to view two Legacy files at once, side by side, but couldn't
open Legacy twice. How do I do that?
Elsie
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Thanks to all. Such a simple solution once one knows the answer! Gonna
put an icon on the tool bar. Thanks again.
Elsie
I tried to view two Legacy files at once, side by side, but couldn't
open Legacy twice. How do I do that?
Elsie
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I souce my censuses like this. I'm sure others do it differently.
Master source: US Federal Census
Detail: 1900 NY, Kings, ED 213, sheet 6a, line 5.
Elsie (Saar)
New York state
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Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 6:08 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Another refinement
That would be great. I now have an event I call relationship and enter it for
all people, either how
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Elsie Saar
Sent: 2007-04-16 13:46
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Another refinement
Sure, Mary:
Event/Fact: Relationship
Desc/Place/Notes: fourth cousin once removed
That would be great. I now have an event I call relationship and enter it for
all people, either how they relate to me or how they related to my husband. If
I don't, I'll be chasing people who have no connection to our lines. I would
love to be able to automatically tract relationships for my
Could you use the general To Do list found under View? You could list
the item with the surname first: Ex: Smith - find 1850 Wyoming census
for John Smith, etc. Then all the Smiths would be together. Just a
suggestion.
Elsie
Genealogy research
American: Parks, Avann, Bulson, Soden, Menkens
The SSDI listed at Rootsweb.com has a place to add a post-em. Perhaps
you could enter the info there in case someone else is searching your
person. I added one to correct my father's birth date.
Elsie Scharpf Saar
Genealogy research
American: Parks, Avann, Bulson, Soden, Menkens
German:
From Tree Draw:
There is an updated PDF export DLL which handles dotted lines around
shapes.
It can now be downloaded from our Web site on the Downloads page under
patches, TreeDraw PDF export DLL. The link to the Downloads page is
http://www.spansoft.org/reg.htm
Just place the wPDF200A.DLL
Jude, go to the correct family page and add him there: Go to Add Son, Link to
an Existing Person. Hope that helps.
Elsie
Genealogy research
American: Parks, Avann, Bulson, Soden, Menkens
German: Wienecke, Storz, Scharpf, Saar, Stelzer
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From: Jude Heon
To:
Wayne, I think that one could assume that Kathryn could also be called
any of the variations you listed. When the person is called something
other than an obvious version of their name, such as if Kathryn was
called Susie, then the quotes would be appropriate. My friend Florence
is always
Peggy, thanks for teaching me this trick. It's one of many I'm sure I've
overlooked. Be sure I'll be using this one a lot.
Elsie Scharpf Saar
Genealogy research
American: Parks, Avann, Bulson, Soden, Menkens
German: Wienecke, Storz, Scharpf, Saar, Stelzer
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Elsie Scharpf Saar
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I just finished translating a baptism register of a German Lutheran
church here in New York State. The pastor wrote the names in their
German version even though the people were using anglicized names.
Henry Fox was baptized but the pastor wrote Heinrich Fuchs. I have
also found that some
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Elsie Saar
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:49 PM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Upgrade
I have been trying to download the latest upgrade for 4 hours now
and the
download keeps getting stuck
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Sent: December 08, 2006 11:44 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Upgrade
Open The sample file
then upgrade from within Legacy on the Home tab
good Luck
Henry
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Elsie
Saar
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I have been trying to download the latest upgrade for 4 hours now and
the download keeps getting stuck about 35-50% through. It corrupts my
Legacy program and I have to keep reinstalling it. Now I have
completely uninstalled Legacy and reinstalled using my original
program. It will not open my
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