Re: [LegacyUG] Impossible to unsubscribe?

2009-11-11 Thread Gene Young
Sherry/Support wrote: When you have problems unsubscribing, please consider the following options: * Make sure you've selected the option to Unsubscribe. When you go to the web page, Subscribe is selected by default. And therein lies the problem. When selecting a link to unsubscribe the

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location List help

2009-11-10 Thread Gene Young
Peter Godbold wrote: Having the same problems with Master Location Maps and the Plot Locations facilities as described by others, problems which appear to have started within the last few days. As noted by Jenny, the first time I enter the Master Locations List from an existing, geo-coded

Re: [LegacyUG] PURPOSE OF USER-FORUMS ?

2009-11-03 Thread Gene Young
... wrote: Thanks Ron - I'll take a look at the terms. You choose not to discuss it here, but others first brought up their experiences with Ancestry.com as it related to uploads or downloads. But I hope this user forum for Legacy is not so narrow as to disallow a related genealogy

Re: [LegacyUG] Read Receipt for Message

2009-11-01 Thread Gene Young
William H. Boswell wrote: I'm using the 2000 version which is very old so maybe that's why nobody else is getting these. I use Mozilla Thunderbird and it also has a means to ignore read receipts and I never see them. Ignoring them is always the best policy as spammers and phishers will

Re: [LegacyUG] Right click on individual in family view tab

2009-10-26 Thread Gene Young
Margaret Turner wrote: Hello, When I click on individual (eg. in Died) display within the family view tab, I'm unable to right click to obtain the options eg. Edit marriage, Add, View, Notes. I thought it might be a hardware fault but I can use Windows Explorer and right click ona folder to

Re: [LegacyUG] Right click on individual in family view tab

2009-10-26 Thread Gene Young
Jenny M Benson wrote: Gene Young wrote When I click on individual (eg. in Died) display within the family view tab, I'm unable to right click to obtain the options eg. Edit marriage, Add, View, Notes. I thought it might be a hardware fault but I can use Windows Explorer and right click ona

Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features

2009-10-23 Thread Gene Young
Ron Taylor wrote: Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can

Re: [LegacyUG] Charts For Requesting Info

2009-10-17 Thread Gene Young
John Magyari wrote: I'd like to create a chart similar to the following, so I can forward it on to have others fill in missing blanks. I'd like to be able to specify how many generations to create, when individuals are not in DB create placeholders for them with categories, and have categories

[LegacyUG] Question for Ron Ferguson

2009-10-01 Thread Gene Young
Ron, Can I contact you off list with some questions on the Legacy Generated web pages and the errors contained therin? Thanks, -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://myyoungs.comxa.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events

2009-09-29 Thread Gene Young
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: I haven't sent too many but hope it works. These are (obviously) Swedish church records. Using the Events, I can see that I have copies of each document I need, and can print full page copies on a different report when wanted. Rich in LA CA Do you realize you sent

Re: [LegacyUG] Source tagging error?

2009-09-14 Thread Gene Young
Eileen wrote: Hi Sherry, I do know that the three lines should ONLY mark the lines on the person screen and not go down and mark each and every Event/Fact showing in the lower window. Thanks Eileen Actually it is behaving as programmed. See the help file for Shortcut Keys for the Source

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy8

2009-09-13 Thread Gene Young
Michele Lewis wrote: You can look at the link and see that it is bogus. The Legacy download page isn't at legacydownload.com If you go to the REAL download page you will see there isn't any Legacy 8 on it. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To:

Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living

2009-09-10 Thread Gene Young
Michele Lewis wrote: Okay regroup I have it set like that under options. I did exactly as your said and did it off of the tools menu and you were right. It marked 508 people as dead. Why is it then that I have it set up properly on the options menu but it isn't working. I go to the

Re: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion

2009-09-10 Thread Gene Young
Michele Lewis wrote: What is L tools? michele It is a software tool written by Dennis Kowallek to work with the underlying tables that make up a Legacy database. It, and more information about it, can be found here: http://kowallekfamily.com/zippersoftware/ltools/index.htm -- Gene Y.

Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living

2009-09-09 Thread Gene Young
Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your

Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living

2009-09-09 Thread Gene Young
Michele Lewis wrote: I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the

Re: [LegacyUG] Filter for location details

2009-09-07 Thread Gene Young
noddie wrote: Hi everyone I am trying to do a search, filter for anyone who is born in Doncaster who has no death or burial details./ I did this: Individual Death place Equal to blank This works however it also picks up everyone born in different place so I have a large search list of

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Gene Young
Jenny M Benson wrote: Virginia Dunham wrote: Having done that myself...I now open up duplicate or older editions of a family screen in the split screen. This way I know that one is old and one is new. That's a good idea and one which I might adopt in future, although I have tended to avoid

Re: [LegacyUG] Can't Recover Functionality from Crash

2009-09-02 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Mary Jo, No, it is not set to hidden. We have had a number of people who have 'lost' their Install.LOG BTW.Brian,it is possible to create a list of files in a folder using cmd and something like the old DOS. (Way, way off topic so please don't ask! - Try Google)

Re: [LegacyUG] weird behavior

2009-09-01 Thread Gene Young
Randolph Clark wrote: It's: http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/metasearch?surname=[lastname]given=[givennames] http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/metasearch?surname=[lastname]given=[givennames] On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Gene Young n2...@cfl.rr.com mailto:n2...@cfl.rr.com wrote

Re: [LegacyUG] weird behavior

2009-09-01 Thread Gene Young
Randolph Clark wrote: Thanks for trying to help. The person's name is: Darryl Woody Pennington If you cut and pasted this information then the problem lies elsewhere in your file as it searched properly for me. If you merely hand typed this information in the email it has proven nothing

Re: [LegacyUG] weird behavior

2009-09-01 Thread Gene Young
Randolph Clark wrote: OK, after some initial confusion about where to cut from and where to paste to I pasted him directly into the search website and received the following message: /The search request could not be completed because insufficient information was provided to Ancestry.com. If

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Gallery PDF

2009-08-25 Thread Gene Young
Gary Templeman wrote: Gene, he didn't say Adobe Reader 4, he said *line 4*. Gary Templeman Actually he didn't say any version no. I was making the suggestion in case he had v4. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding DOCUMENTS to an individuals record

2009-08-18 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Sharon, You cannot save a PDF as a picture. It must be saved as a File, you will need to use the File button on the top right of the screen. I would add that using .JPEG is building up trouble for the future should you wish to create reports/web pages, and I would

Re: [LegacyUG] a new way to wreck your database

2009-08-17 Thread Gene Young
Jimquist wrote: This is probably a horse on me, but it seems like there should have been a warning from the program that changing this location will change it for everybody using this location. Jim There is a warning. When you select save the program responds with a dialog box which

Re: [LegacyUG] New Update... I'm Stuck!

2009-08-13 Thread Gene Young
Roxanne wrote: I installed the new update with no problem. Wanted to check the new option to expand long location names and contract short ones. Clicked on Preview a List of Codes/Names, as I expected an option to just preview it on screen. A window popped up, stating that Before you can

Re: [LegacyUG] Access Table

2009-08-11 Thread Gene Young
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:28:21 +0100, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: I think you might be! As I understand it, SgtBob uses the MRIN *with an appended hyphen and digit(s)* in the Filing Reference field.MRIN 1234, filing ref 1234-1 or 1234-2 etc. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database - Updates

2009-08-08 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 13:08:48 -0400 From: n2...@cfl.rr.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database - Updates 1familytree wrote: Mike, I was simply listing a url where you can

Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database - Updates

2009-08-08 Thread Gene Young
1familytree wrote: Gene, I was going to let all this pass, but I will refrain from typing what I am thinking. I guess my original post was not as explanatory as it should have been. You are correct, you should have been more clear and accurate in your statements. In your original post

Re: [LegacyUG] Update Error

2009-08-02 Thread Gene Young
Matt Henderson wrote: Error Removing Temporary File. Error 75: Path/File access error Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN? What is the solution? Matt http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp If you

Re: [LegacyUG] Two Report functions do not work

2009-07-29 Thread Gene Young
Marilyn Clark wrote: Tom, I just tried to uninstall my Legacy7 Deluxe so I could re-install it in hopes of fixing the Vista x64 problem with the Reports function, and it won't uninstall. The first time I tried to uninstall, I used Windows uninstall thru the Control panel. I got a message

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Event sort when the date is 13-14 Apr 1930

2009-07-27 Thread Gene Young
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: What I have done, (which is cheating) is 'study the obvious(?) path taken on the two days', using the township map to GUESS the hour that matches best, I found that on the 2 days of the taker's path, he was found on day one, on two different spurs out of town, and the

Re: [LegacyUG] running Legacy on an external hard drive

2009-07-22 Thread Gene Young
Russ McGillivray wrote: Ron, However, unlike MoJoPac it is free and will work at a library workstation. Russ McGillivray MoJoPac free edition ( http://www.mojopac.com/download.html ) is free and it works with Legacy. You can write to the Legacy database directly. You can then transfer

Re: [LegacyUG] Access database

2009-07-22 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: It can be opened using OpenOffice.org Base which is available Free. Details on how to open the file are given in the tutorial section of my fergys.co website (url below) on opening a Legacy .fdb file. Ron Ferguson You can also download MDB Viewer Plus (

Re: [LegacyUG] running legacy on an external hard drive

2009-07-20 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Sybil, Yes mine is on an external hard drive, just download the full set-up and tell it where to install. That's the good news. The bad news is that what you propose to do will not work as the program has to be in the register of the PC on which you intend to use it.

Re: [LegacyUG] running legacy on an external hard drive

2009-07-20 Thread Gene Young
Carol Dunn wrote: Where do you get the MojoPac? carol Google it. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support:

Re: [LegacyUG] Magically Appearing Unknown Spouses and Parents

2009-07-17 Thread Gene Young
Connie Sheets wrote: 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

Re: [LegacyUG] I have a different problem

2009-07-15 Thread Gene Young
Liz Schmidt wrote: Sometimes when I bring up a person, the spouse is not shown. When I try to link to an existing person, Legacy states, So and so is already this persons wife or husband, would you like to link them in again? If I do, that creates duplicate marriages, people etc etc. But I

[LegacyUG] List of SourceWriter Templates

2009-07-13 Thread Gene Young
Several users have inquired about the templates available in the SourceWriter and whether there is a list of what they are. I was unable to find a published list so I created one. It is available for anyone who wishes to download it from one of my websites. Go to http://egpor95.fileave.com/

Re: [LegacyUG] Run Time Error

2009-07-10 Thread Gene Young
Jean Moore wrote: I keep getting the error Run Time Error 3167, Record is Deleted and when I click on OK, Legacy closes. I reopen Legacy and look to see if the last individual I worked on or entered was deleted, but it never is. This has happened about six times in the last three days. Is

Re: [LegacyUG] Run Time Error

2009-07-10 Thread Gene Young
Jean Moore wrote: Thanks for the info. FYI, when I first got the message, I went to Help and searched for Run Time Error and Error Messages. There was no heading for Run Time Error and under Error Messages, it gives a list of Trouble Shooting, but again, nothing about Run Time Errors. As

Re: [LegacyUG] Run-time error

2009-06-19 Thread Gene Young
Mike Fry wrote: lhit...@aol.com wrote: Hello List, Starting a couple of days ago, I keep getting the error message, Run-time error '5' Invalid procedure or argument, When I click OK the Legacy program will close down. What is causing this problem? Try looking at the bottom of this and

Re: [LegacyUG] Run-time error

2009-06-19 Thread Gene Young
Mike Fry wrote: Gene Young wrote: Mike Fry wrote: lhit...@aol.com wrote: Hello List, Starting a couple of days ago, I keep getting the error message, Run-time error '5' Invalid procedure or argument, When I click OK the Legacy program will close down. What is causing this problem? Try

Re: [LegacyUG] Alias question

2009-06-17 Thread Gene Young
seaic2008-...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Ron, I'm pretty sure I figured it out. In case anyone else wants to do it, here's what I did. First I did a focus group of all my ancestors. Then tagged them with tag #1. Next I did a search: Search/Find, Individual/Tag 1/ equal to/ tagged. Second

Re: [LegacyUG] Cite Undertaker as an event?

2009-06-15 Thread Gene Young
Cathy Vallevieni wrote: I have the records of an Undertaker in an area a lot of my ancestors lived (and died). I am citing the record as a source for the death and/or burial. My question is, would you also make it an event such as Vail's Undertakers was the undertaker on May 10,1800 in

Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents

2009-05-27 Thread Gene Young
wba wrote: Okay - maybe I am misunderstanding what a Form field is. I am thinking that I can create the Research Log in PDF format and then fill in the information while I have it on the screen; and then print it. Again, Legacy does NOT create form fields on their pdf documents. IF they did

Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents

2009-05-20 Thread Gene Young
Rebecca Williams wrote: I believe you have to have Acrobat Standard to fill in the form on your computer screen and save it. There also might be a .pdf form fill program that is available to fill in .pdf forms. -SNIPPED- Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any

Re: [LegacyUG] PLEASE READ - Moving to new mail server

2009-05-15 Thread Gene Young
Ken McGinnis wrote: Hi, We will be moving this mailing list over to a new mail server. I have not received anything from the list so I am replying to this to test whether I am still subscribed since the switch over. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Unable to copy scanned documents into Legacy events or Notes

2009-05-10 Thread Gene Young
Bill Rhodes wrote: Many thanks to all who responded to my second request. Lots of great suggestions! For the time being I think I will stick with FreeOCR recommended by GeneY which seems to work fine for my use. One question, Gene - is a tutorial available somewhere for FreeOCR? I'm figuring

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Unable to copy scanned documents into Legacy events or Notes

2009-05-08 Thread Gene Young
Bill Rhodes wrote: Thanks to all who responded to my request for help and advice. I have spent the last day or so checking them all out. snipped--- My question is, will it or any of the other for sale OCR's do a better job than the FreeOCR, or do they all work the same and

[LegacyUG] Portable Legacy

2009-05-07 Thread Gene Young
I know there are several users who have been wanting to use Legacy on multiple computers by loading it on a USB drive. RINGCUBE has released MojoPac 2.0. I have just tested it using Legacy and it now will allow you to load Legacy onto the USB drive and run it from other computers. So far I

Re: [LegacyUG] Unable to copy scanned documents into Legacy events or Notes

2009-05-06 Thread Gene Young
Bill Rhodes wrote: I have somehow lost my original email and the replies to it, but I was told by someone that to get scanned docs into Legacy I need Optical Reader software (which makes sense) and that I could find free ones for download. After a lot of searching on Google I was never able to

Re: [LegacyUG] Doubled Up On People

2009-04-25 Thread Gene Young
Kim Jones wrote: To Legacy Family Tree User Group, I'm hoping that you can help me. I've been so busy of late that I have done absolutely nothing with Legacy except to open it and see if I need an update and if I do I download then backup and close down and either go to bed or work. So when I

Re: [LegacyUG] Travelling with Legacy

2009-04-24 Thread Gene Young
jeffma...@orthohelp.com wrote: I believe Gramps is a Linux application, not a Windows application which most Legacy users are. Am I wrong? Jeff Yes. Portable Gramps is for the portable apps suite of applications that run on windows. I have not yet had the opportunity to try it but am in

Re: [LegacyUG] Travelling with Legacy

2009-04-24 Thread Gene Young
Grover Oliver wrote: I have GRAMPS portable installed in a seperate folder on a Sandisk USB drive with U3 . It does not need Portable Apps suite or U3. You have to go into the folder to start it using the .exe but it works OK. G.C. Oliver Actually all of the portable apps will run as standalone

Re: [LegacyUG] Shortcut keys

2009-04-16 Thread Gene Young
Gociao wrote: I've recently upgraded from Version 6 Deluxe to version 7 Deluxe and I find that the shortcut keys shift F9/F9, shift F11/F11, and shift F12/F12 no longer function in any field except a location. Using those shortcut keys to copy/paste detail information for sourcing saved many

Re: [LegacyUG] Charting my and my brother's families in one chart

2009-04-14 Thread Gene Young
Anthony Gasparatos wrote: Thank you for the response, but I only have one file. I see my record and my brothers record in this file. My chart shows me and my son and my parents just fine My brother's chart shows his kids and parents just fine also. I am looking for a chart that would show

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations and County names before formation

2009-04-10 Thread Gene Young
vonkate tds.net wrote: I'd like to have suggestions for how to record location counties for older records when the county wasn't formed yet. Examples: 1) John Smith is born in an area that is now Newberry County, SC, however, he was born pre-1785, and at that time Newberry County did not

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations and County names before formation

2009-04-10 Thread Gene Young
Brian Beddor wrote: Hi Gene, Just curious -- do you know if when using the Mapping feature, whether it will find and map it OK if the location listed is Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, USA? Or would one have to put in a current location for VitualEarth to properly find it? You would

Re: [LegacyUG] Please Help

2009-04-03 Thread Gene Young
Larry Wilson wrote: Please help me create this report: By surname (everyone with that surname (male and female), not spouses) the Average death age. If I don't have both birth and death dates, disregard. So The results would be: Average death age: Smith: 63 Jones: 72 Williams:

Re: [LegacyUG] Print list of individuals by Surname

2009-04-02 Thread Gene Young
Branko and Chris wrote: Hi, I'm doing a lot of searching through census, military, immigration records etc and continually have to refer to the Legacy Index to see if it's the right person... rather slow and tedious by going backwards and forwards. I have some 60 individuals that share the same

Re: [LegacyUG] Print list of individuals by Surname

2009-04-01 Thread Gene Young
Branko and Chris wrote: Hi, I'm doing a lot of searching through census, military, immigration records etc and continually have to refer to the Legacy Index to see if it's the right person... rather slow and tedious by going backwards and forwards. I have some 60 individuals that share the same

Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Problem with Mapping - Follow-up

2009-03-31 Thread Gene Young
Bert van Kootwijk wrote: Ok, than it is a MS -bug!!. And that is correct than? Is it overall accepted that the point of the balloon donot points to the desired location? In general it is like the mousepointer. The point of the arrow indicates the location, not the middle of the pointer.

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 3012

2009-03-27 Thread Gene Young
Wendy Howard wrote: An annoying problem. Every time I try to add a spouse to a person I am getting this 3012 error message. Hi Paul, Click on the Online technical support link at the bottom of each list post, then at the top of the page that opens select Solutions by Error Number.

Re: [LegacyUG] Writing papers, IGHR, etc

2009-03-25 Thread Gene Young
Janis L Gilmore wrote: Thanks, Ann. That sounds like a wonderful project (the quilt). I am just finishing the NGS course – am on lesson 16. I must say, it has been much better than I expected it to be. I learned a lot! Again, thanks for the reply. You make two! (This causes me to suspect

Re: [LegacyTest] Re: [LegacyUG] Report problem

2009-03-23 Thread Gene Young
Janis L Gilmore wrote: Hi, Eileen, I am not clear, from your note, as to what problem you are encountering? Is the problem its location on the map? Janis Walker Gilmore On 3/23/09 3:33 PM, Eileen reilee...@yahoo.com wrote: Sherry, I'm working on the Master Location list trying to get

Re: [LegacyUG] Unable to Uninstall; Missing Install.log file

2009-03-22 Thread Gene Young
Connie Sheets wrote: --- 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

Re: [LegacyUG] Can't Preview Reports with Latest Update?

2009-03-21 Thread Gene Young
Connie Sheets wrote: 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?

Re: [LegacyUG] Run Time Error 5

2009-03-15 Thread Gene Young
PHILLIP O HUSBAND wrote: Brian, it would seem to me that in the future when a known problem surfaces, especially one caused by some kind of programming error, a general statement could or should be made to all users, not just those on LUG.For instance in a short newsletter or on the Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Questions about Legacy Register style reporting

2009-03-14 Thread Gene Young
CE WOOD wrote: Make that suggestion at the Legacy site! Carolyn - Original Message - *From:* Mary Fowler Leek mailto:ml...@sbcglobal.net *To:* LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com *Sent:* Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:47 AM

Re: [LegacyUG] Run Time Error 5

2009-03-12 Thread Gene Young
PHILLIP O HUSBAND wrote: That's all well and good Sherry, except I've tried that several times. I have no install.log file. Repeat: no install.log file. Phil Have you gone to the C:\Legacy\BACKUP folder as advised and deleted the 9 files there with the word install in the name? Have you

Re: [LegacyUG] Exporting to a new Family File

2009-03-12 Thread Gene Young
CE WOOD wrote: I realize that the temporary backup is not a zip file. That's the whole reason I suggested it may have something to do with zipping the files! It would also help is you would let us know what other files are zipped together with the fdb so that those of us getting this error

Re: [LegacyUG] Basic versus Sourcewriter Source Entry

2009-03-09 Thread Gene Young
Olds-Wills-Anderson-Simonson Hodges-Harris-Liikala-Jukkara wrote: I have been a user of the Basic version of source entry and had built my own templates over time I'm comfortable using. Yesteday I thought I'd play around some with the Sourcewriter entry process on my 'Test' database. Today I'm

Re: [LegacyUG] Selecting Source Multiple Times for One Person

2009-03-09 Thread Gene Young
Barbara Ford wrote: I have never been able to have a clear understanding as to this question: Is it possible to do something OTHER than saving, closing, ETC., several times, to add the same source to each aspect of a person. That's not clear, sorry. What I mean is this: When putting in

Re: [LegacyUG] Selecting Source Multiple Times for One Person

2009-03-09 Thread Gene Young
Barbara Ford wrote: Okay, the Alt-2 seems to work for me instead of F2 (to load the one source citation into one blank field). Make sense? Sorry, You're correct about Alt-2. That's what happens when you try to dash off a quick answer. (;-) -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer

Re: [LegacyUG] Saving when merging

2009-03-09 Thread Gene Young
CE WOOD wrote: So HOW do I look where it is sending itself since there is no clue on the Merge Backup screen that tells me. I THINK it is backed up in the Legacy Temp folder, as a ~BM file, but have no idea how to access it. The fact that some sort of backup file can be created without an

Re: [LegacyUG] Geo locations

2009-02-21 Thread Gene Young
ci...@treadles.ca wrote: And what does the USA have within counties? Do they have townships? I'll give you an example. I am from the Hamlet of Montrose in the township of Cortland Manor in the county of Westchester in the State of New York in the U.S.A. That would be Montrose, Cortlandt

Re: [LegacyUG] removing a name from legacy

2009-02-20 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Frank, Should that be Anton Kreamer? In any event he is not in the index of the URL on your site which was apparently last updated on 29 August 2004 (or don't you change the date when you update?). Ah! found his father. You are correct he is on the father's page and also

Re: [LegacyUG] New Search String for Family Search labs

2009-02-19 Thread Gene Young
Judy wrote: Does anyone have a new search string for the Family Search labs pilot program, using [LastName] and [GivenName]? I am unable to get the old one to connect since they reworked the site. Many thanks, Judy

Re: [LegacyUG] New Search String for Family Search labs

2009-02-19 Thread Gene Young
Judy wrote: Thanks, Gene, but that one defaults to their main search page. I am trying to get the same results that used to be possible i.e. specific results on the individual from the family view page. Judy That is not how the Family Search Pilot site works. If you go to the home page at

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Book Store

2009-02-19 Thread Gene Young
momalo...@aol.com wrote: Thanks LUG, and where is the Legacy Book Store? I cannot find it at LegacyFamilyTree.com. http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=5 -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/

Re: [LegacyUG] never married

2009-02-17 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Kris, I have recently done just that, and it has not happened to me either. In fact I wish it would, as I often add it so that I can forget about the person! I have had a look through the program and cannot see any way to set/unset it either. Strangely enough I have

Re: [LegacyUG] Incorrect Relationships

2009-02-16 Thread Gene Young
Vivian White wrote: If the program knows the she is my grandmother, why does it display the aunt relationship on the family screen? I'm thinking it is finding the closest relationship which is the 12th great grandaunt instead of the logical 14th great grand mother. Because you asked it to.

Re: [LegacyUG] Updating Geo location database

2009-02-13 Thread Gene Young
Boyd Miller wrote: There must have been additions and corrections since I first downloaded the geo locations database. From OptionsCustomiseOtherDatabase maintenance I am directed to import a patch file to update the database. The Help file tells me to download the patch file from the

Re: [LegacyUG] Number of digits in RINs

2009-02-04 Thread Gene Young
Elizabeth wrote: I have all my user IDs linked to my RINs with a prefix letter. However, using this method the numbers don't sort correctly. For example, they sort H1 followed by H10, followed by H100, then etc. I would like to change the number format to read H0001, H0002, etc., but I

Re: [LegacyUG] Privacy setting not working

2009-02-04 Thread Gene Young
Evert van Dijken wrote: In the Standard version (used the Beta build 88) I couldn't make the Alt. birth event private in the Master Event List (DeLuxe item), but I could select the private option for the Alt. birth event for Asa Clark Brown and after this it still shows in the Descendant

Re: [LegacyUG] Privacy setting not working

2009-02-04 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Evert, It seems to me that if the privacy setting is only available in the Delux version then it should be greyed out in the Standard version, or there is a pop-up to say Delux Version Only. True. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family

Re: [LegacyUG] Tables within Notes (was preventing incorrect spaces within words in Notes)

2009-02-04 Thread Gene Young
Mary Young wrote: Re: Tables in Notes As far as I know, Legacy's integral word-processor can't handle Tables (at least up to v.6). For a while a fixed-pitch font for my Notes, and typed extra spaces to keep the columns straight. However, it was back to the 50's and I soon abandoned it. IMHO

Re: [LegacyUG] Number of digits in RINs

2009-02-04 Thread Gene Young
Bert van Kootwijk wrote: And if you use only numbers in the User ID field they will always sorted as text. The User ID field is a text field, independed from the contents. The RIN-field is a number field and therefore sorted as numbers. Bert As I said, I simplified it. A number in a text

Re: [LegacyUG] uploading changed web pages

2009-01-31 Thread Gene Young
Kris wrote: Hi, Syble -- I use FileZilla (which is free). When you upload, it will ask you if you want to overwrite the files based on a difference in size or creation date. Kris It is not automatic. You must read the documentation and make the correct settings. Then it will do a

Re: [LegacyUG] Dictionaries

2009-01-31 Thread Gene Young
Donald E. Paden wrote: Judy, I should have been more observant. The words you listed (except Ringgold and Tingley) are the *only* words supplied in the userdic-us.tlx dictionary at time of installation. You must *add* any other words that you want (as you did with Ringgold and Tingley).

Re: [LegacyUG] uploading changed web pages

2009-01-31 Thread Gene Young
Syble Glasscock wrote: I downloaded Filezilla, I have the files from my computer on the left and the remote website on the right, there is consistantly an increase of 4 (i.e. 5936 on left 5932 on rt.)on my computer files from the ones on the web, of files that have not been changed. I see

Re: [LegacyUG] Sigh, doing overrides

2009-01-21 Thread Gene Young
Elizabeth Richardson wrote: Well, I would prefer Legacy fix the things that are wrong/broken before working on ANY templates. Cut and paste does work and, frankly, would be a heck of lot quicker than what you're trying to do. Not to mention that once you have one done, it is a simple matter

Re: [LegacyUG] Is there a cure for this?

2009-01-19 Thread Gene Young
ci...@treadles.ca wrote: One feature of Legacy I find particularly irritating is when scrolling down a list of names or locations, the list doesn't move until you stop scrolling. In other words, you have no idea where you are on the list when you pull the slider tab down, until you let go

Re: [LegacyUG] Error Number 91 - instructions for Windows XP out-dated

2009-01-17 Thread Gene Young
Pauline B. Cramer wrote: I followed the instruction below: For Computers That Are Running Microsoft Windows XP Use WindowsXP-KB829558-x86-ENU.exe to install Jet 4.0 SP8 on computers that are running Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829558Product=acc2002

Re: [LegacyUG] 1911 Census file update

2009-01-16 Thread Gene Young
Anne Wiltshire wrote: Hello I downloaded the 1911 Legacy10 file and followed instructions (at least I believe I followed them correctly) but have not found my Legacy file has updated. I have checked my C:\Legacy folder and have found the following two files called Legacy 10. 1. Legacy10,

Re: [LegacyUG] Survey: Error 91

2009-01-15 Thread Gene Young
Yvonne Morehouse wrote: I just downloaded CCleaner, ran it and then tried to make a Legacy file backup (twice). No luck. Yvonne Just out of curiosity, how many people having the Error 91 problem are running the built in windows firewall? I have also seen reference to Windows Defender

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 91 Solution?

2009-01-15 Thread Gene Young
Mike Fry wrote: Mike Fry wrote: I don't know whether people have looked at this, but there's a little product that claims to be able to cure Error 91 problems. Now, I've never experienced the problem myself, so can not vouch for this products claims.

Re: [LegacyUG] Why are we using this mailing list?

2009-01-15 Thread Gene Young
marilyn E B wrote: Must be your computer. I checked my settings, sent messages to friends and all says Plain Text. I have never had a complaint from the list that I send in HTML. Marilyn I am sorry to say that Mike is correct. Your message did, indeed, come through as HTML, as did this

Re: [LegacyUG] Why are we using this mailing list?

2009-01-15 Thread Gene Young
marilyn E B wrote: Linda, I am going to try that and see how this comes through. M That worked properly as plain text. This is just an example or how someone is trying to do the right thing and has taken steps to do the right thing and still, with no fault assigned, got it wrong. This is

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