RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Event Addresses

2008-06-06 Thread G. C. Oliver
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G. C. Oliver Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:55 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Event Addresses The mapping features works great for Master Locations. Is there a way to map Event Addresses? This is where my cemetery

RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Event Addresses

2008-06-05 Thread G. C. Oliver
I have now noticed a thread from a few days ago about mapping. In does mention the fact that the mapping feature does not cover event addresses. GCO -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G. C. Oliver Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:55 AM

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7 is here

2008-06-04 Thread G. C. Oliver
My email program MS Outlook put the Customer Service email with my Deluxe Edition Customer No. in the Junk Mail folder. It's a good thing I did not have this folder set to automatically delete junk email. GCO -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Event Addresses

2008-06-04 Thread G. C. Oliver
The mapping features works great for Master Locations. Is there a way to map Event Addresses? This is where my cemetery locations, GPS Coordinates etc. are stored as there may be several in a single town. Am I missing something? GCO Legacy User Group guidelines:

RE: FW: [LegacyUG] Legacy 6 on Website??? But I have 7

2008-05-29 Thread G. C. Oliver
Ron, Thanks, I understand now. It sounds like it would be a very useful feature. G.C. Oliver -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Bernier Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:23 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: FW:

RE: [LegacyUG] Using Legacy on 2 Computers

2008-05-29 Thread G. C. Oliver
I have one question. If you have your current Legacy file on a USB drive how do you your multimedia files attached and current? Do they also reside on the USB drive? Thanks, G.C.Oliver -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JLB Sent: Thursday,

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread G. C. Oliver
I have TMG 6 that I upgraded from TMG 5. I have tried on many occasions to work with it and cannot. If you want to spend you time fooling around with the software and forget about Genealogy it's the program for you. You can dot your I's twice and cross you T's three times. In all honesty I am sure

RE: [LegacyUG] New version (slow) Release

2008-05-17 Thread G. C. Oliver
This whole thing reminds me of standing in line at an old time, pot luck, church supper. You can see the food, you can smell the food, and you have not eaten all day in anticipation. Of course the adult thing to do is stand at the back of the line and let the kids go first. At least we know our

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy on Portable Hard Drive

2008-05-12 Thread G. C. Oliver
I don't disagree with buying an external hard drive for backup. My first purchase (and cheapest) would be a 2nd internal hard drive for your computer. I have two hard drives on mine, the second holds all My documents with data files. G.C. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [LegacyUG] problem viewing photo linked to burial record

2008-04-10 Thread G. C. Oliver
I started out creating a new Tombstone event/fact and ran into problems with the Address repeating for no reason. I then switched back to the standard Cemetery event/fact and used the supplied wording. Everything works fine now. It allows me the space to add GPS Coordinates of the grave and/or

RE: [LegacyUG] Searching

2008-04-07 Thread G. C. Oliver
It works, I just added my Cemetery and Census Facts/Events and it works great. I can add Obits after I start shifting them over to the Facts/Events area. I have a little mess to clean up I have some in Notes, Burial Notes and in Master Sources. This is a great visual check on what you have for a

RE: [LegacyUG] Re tiff format

2008-04-04 Thread G. C. Oliver
You are right. There are several free PDF creation programs that are set up like printer drivers. I still don't get linking PDF's to Legacy if they cannot be printed in Legacy reports. Is this just a way to find your source document? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [LegacyUG] Re tiff format

2008-04-04 Thread G. C. Oliver
to open. They're not intended for printing in reports, just reference. JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html G. C. Oliver wrote: You are right. There are several free PDF creation programs that are set up like printer drivers. I still don't get

RE: [LegacyUG] Linking files to Legacy 6.0

2008-04-03 Thread G. C. Oliver
Mary, You are right these issues have come up. In the instance of the boarder I used the target person's name. In the issue of more than one family on the page I made a copy (hard drive space is cheap). In the instance of one family spanning two pages I used the page number on the census page

RE: [LegacyUG] Re tiff format

2008-04-03 Thread G. C. Oliver
I respectfully disagree; as Legacy uses some formats and not others and has size limitations I think it is a viable question for the group. .tif - I use it as my original. When downloading or receiving any picture I immediately save it as .tif. It is a large file but it will not loose detail no

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Chart -

2008-04-01 Thread G. C. Oliver
Keith, I feel your pain. Sadly legacy Charting is not designed to print Charts on standard printers. Like all of the others they have concentrated their efforts on reinventing the wheel pioneered by FTM, TMG and Roots Magic. I am sure that the chart would look great if printed on a 36 wide format

[LegacyUG] Event Addresses Printing twice.

2008-03-08 Thread G. C. Oliver
Before I report this as a bug maybe someone has a fix or something I have missed. I have looked through the options etc and the LUG archive and have found nothing. If I unlink the address both instances disappear. In an effort to have headstone photos print in all reports I have started entering

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Pre-Release Edition Now Available For Free Download

2008-03-04 Thread G. C. Oliver
Geoff, Great program but: The first thing I tried to do did not work. I tried to create a simple 2 Gen 11x17 pdf chart with Father, Mother and (male and female) children. I included pictures birth, death and locations but did not want Children's spouses. I was going to copy the chart to a flash

[LegacyUG] Burial photos

2008-02-24 Thread G. C. Oliver
Quick question. I can get burial photos to print in the Family Group Record but not in the Descendent Narrative or Descendant report. Am I doing something wrong or is it just programmed that way. I have all the picture options checked yes. G.C. Oliver Legacy User Group guidelines:

RE: [LegacyUG] Burial photos

2008-02-24 Thread G. C. Oliver
Thanks to all. I happen to read the answer in another post about 2 minutes after sending my question. I have over 150 headstone pictures I was just beginning to link when I realized they were not printing. It seems a real waste of time having to create a new event to print out something that

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy and GPS

2008-02-23 Thread G. C. Oliver
I stand corrected. Up to this point I had used the address feature only for information on living individuals. Thanks GENEALOGY: Disturbing the dead and irritating the living. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Jones Sent:

[LegacyUG] Legacy and GPS

2008-02-22 Thread G. C. Oliver
I have recently been reading on this list( With great interest) about GPS locations. As Legacy only allows you to list GPS locations for a town how are other people listing actual locations. For example a small cemetery out in the country and not near a town. or even several locations within a

RE: [LegacyUG] a few questions

2008-02-17 Thread G. C. Oliver
Myrna, Sense I have never used RM I cannot comment on it. I do know that the current Legacy does not have a charting function so she is correct on statements #1 and #2. As far as # 3 goes I am assuming she means that Legacy creates only 2 files for a database. As far as I am concerned having only

RE: [LegacyUG] Clooz and Legacy 7 ????

2008-02-06 Thread G. C. Oliver
Couldn't you just make a copy of your Legacy Database, and use the copy in Legacy, and the other one just in Clooz? Just make sure you never open the Clooz one in Legacy after v7? On Feb 5, 2008 5:24 PM, G. C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debbie, Thanks for the reply. I have already been

RE: [LegacyUG] Clooz and Legacy 7 ????

2008-02-05 Thread G. C. Oliver
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G. C. Oliver Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 4:54 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Clooz and Legacy 7 The following is a cut and past from the Clooz UG. It is from the Elizabeth Kerstens the author of Clooz. I use

RE: [LegacyUG] Clooz and Legacy 7 ????

2008-02-05 Thread G. C. Oliver
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G. C. Oliver Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 3:31 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Clooz and Legacy 7 Debbie, Thanks for the reply. You are correct that you can have a Clooz database without Legacy

RE: [LegacyUG] Clooz vs. Heritage Collector vs. ... ? Which, if any, to use with Legacy?

2008-01-04 Thread G. C. Oliver
Beau, All of my census data starts out in Clooz. I will enter all of the information contained on the target family adding people as needed. If your Clooz database is linked to Legacy, you can add new people to your Legacy database as you go. With this information in Clooz you can then print

RE: [LegacyUG] Clooz vs. Heritage Collector vs. ... ? Which, if any, to use with Legacy?

2008-01-04 Thread G. C. Oliver
Beau, let me answer one at a time as best I can. 1. So, any information I add to Clooz (sources, people, etc.) is (optionally) added to Legacy simultaneously, right? I do not have Clooz linked to my Master Legacy file. I have done this because I do not want unlinked people and sources

RE: [LegacyUG] Clooz vs. Heritage Collector vs. ... ? Which, if any, to use with Legacy?

2008-01-03 Thread G. C. Oliver
I have been using Clooz for several years and have found it to be a great help. I use it mainly for Census data and for the other stuff and people found during research. Many times there are documents and people that you think may be relevant to your research but you are not sure. In this