Without looking at your database - I suspect that both you and your husband
are likely only entered once in the database (probably) - but that there has
ended up being 3 marriages for the 2 of you. You need to check if you are
listed as having other marriages and if so, say to unlink people from
Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB
column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with
the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it
was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do
) - they obviously have the code available to sort the dates
(even the non-standard ones) so that makes it pretty trivial to this
programmer mind.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote:
Heather Stovold wrote:
Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able
Now, just sort the name list... (the name index) - then I don't need to know
who to select or tag beforehand.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Robert Carneal USA
carnea...@adelphia.netwrote:
Art-
Let me reword what I think you said--
You want to be able to open a family file, any family
Besides the rotating through spouses (and thanks, I didn't know about the
rotating through siblings!) I love the view 1/2 kids. In Family view -
right-click on a child (any), and then from the menu that comes up, select
Vies - Show 1/2 kids. You will now see any kids that have one parent
hm - that might go down better with people if you did both at once that
is
What I really love about Legacy is. What I don't like about Legacy
is (or I really wish Legacy could do this. - so that people
would see both at once, and not get thinking it was a bad programmer.
Well I, for one, had switched... I first used a genealogy program in 1988,
and Legacy didn't exist at that point. I was very careful about changing
programs for a lot of reasons (including a couple of bad experiences.) - but
switched to Legacy a few years ago after being recommended by a friend
you can leave the wife as unknown and I would personally just have the
last name for the father - no unknown, or mystery, or anything like it for
the first name.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to put parents, whose names I do not yet
Well, I use EST for my estimates just using cultural norms - and I know
they can be off. I use CAL if I've calculated the date from something like
a census, or a tombstone which basically gives me an age at a point of time
(which of course can also be way off). I use ABT basically if someone in
Might have been me I just reposted my system a moment ago. I use CAL
when calculated from an age at a time ABT when an aprox date was listed
somewhere else - and EST when I am figuring out an estimated year from other
people's info and cultural norms...
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:51 AM,
Well actually - I always put in an estimated birth date - marked as an
estimate it works well for keeping track of different people with the
same name, or for helping me know aproximately when to look for someone.
Having an estimated birthdate helped me realize that 2 people with the same
One thing I didn't mention if you use my method here - always make sure that
you are looking at the database you think you are in Legacy! You want to
make changes in the file you think you are making changes.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Heather Stovold hstov...@gmail.com wrote:
What I do
What I do, is I download the information into a DIFFERENT Legacy
database I include something like Research, or something like that in
the name. So probably something like Research Smith FS (a Research
database on the Smith line that I got off of Family Search. I can put more
information
I have seen this happen in my file too - and I am 95% sure I reported it,
but I might not have. (And when I say reported it - I mean to support.)
I have a woman who had some kids illigit - and I don't know the father.
Then she married and had a few more. (just to make it more complicated, he
Only if the bug bothers you. I was just letting the original poster know
that it was not just an anomaly of their database, but that it exists
elsewhere. I see no reason why I can't have 2 unknown fathers (auto
created) associated with the mother and kids as that was the situation. I
have seen
Well, as someone with a Maiden Name that starts with Mc - here is my rant.
(ignore if you like.)
I personally always hated it when someone put a space in my name. Drove me
crazy! I also hated it if people got the capitalization wrong. Even if
someone was doing all-caps, I would do that c
I don't have a lot of time to do this response, and it has been a while
since I've done drag+drop from a split file - so this is from memory.
It helps if you think of the drag and drop more as an import than a
merge so it is asking if the person (people) that you are dragging
should keep the
He imported from a gedcom, renumbering his MRIN's. He wants a way to
re-number them the way they were.
Sorry - I seemed to have deleted my answer while clearing out the extra
stuff.
If the Gedcom is still available - make a new file, import the gedcom, and
don't renumber the MRIN's
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Heather Stovold hstov...@gmail.comwrote:
He imported from a gedcom
How about Donald Duck???
Oh wait - I have a -grandfather whose name was actually Donald Duck.
(yes, we have a Duck line, and yes, his name was Donald Duck. From actual
records, not just an online database.)
What is an obviously fake name might not actually be fake.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009
Because you are using gmail. gmail doesn't show your post to a mail group
(any) until someone has answered it.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.comwrote:
I subscribed to the list. Why is my post not shown?
*** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons,
I know I had acase where I didn't know what surname to put for the father.
(the kids were sometimes under McCaslin, and sometimes under Caslin - so
I didn't know what the father used.) - I know that I was able to create
parents that were both unknown (with creating real records) - and link
Unfortunately, it is a problem with the message server that comes up every
now and then. It is annoying - but just delete them, and it will probably
go away soon
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Anthony Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I, too, have received this message many times since I
I'll have a go at answering your questions congrats on your Christmas
present to yourself.
To your question about all the bugs being worked out - well, it would be
impossible to EVER say that ALL the bugs have been worked out on any
software - but I think most of the big ones have. I
yes she has 2 sets of parents - 1) her biological father and mother, 2)her
step-father and mother.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Bernard Doddema [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
If I look at a report, it shows she has two sets of parents. That wouldn't
be correct, would it?
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008
I think Bill has a good reason tohave the databases seperate. I do find a
smaller database CAN be less confusing, and if there isn't much interest on
the other side, and no inter-relations than it makes sense to me to keep it
seperate. This can be especially true if husband and wife are BOTH
Well, my sugestion is to keep everyone in the one legacy database file - and
then just create smaller gedcom files based on focus groups. It seems like
a lot less work!
Any suggestions on how to NOT duplicate numbers in two different family
files in Legacy?
Legacy User Group
Would a chronology report do? (or can't you select to turn on the
Chronology in the individual report? - I don't have Legacy open right
now...)
I would just create a custome timeline, and include it in the Chronology
report.
heads than I. I wish to do a sort of individual time line, so
You need to have a seperate Legacy database and a seperate Clooz database if
you are using Legacy v7. Clooz was setup to use a Legacy v6 database - and
the makers of Legacy changed the database for version 7.
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Donna Felina Roach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have
Yes, that is how it works.
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps I'm not looking at my file in the proper light.
If I add my step/adopted daughter, and select 'show half-siblings' (or some
title close), then my daughter shows up twice in my family view, once as
All I can think is to try running the Check/Repair of the database
then try again
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Garry Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have tried using the Options - Delete (Location) facility - it reports
that Location is being used. Cannot delete this location, it
I would expect that they would exclude Harry S Truman, and similarily
named people from finding that potential error - same as I have to
exclude my ancestor that married someone with the same last name.
That is why Legacy is flexible!
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Gary Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Put the street address in the description of the residence event, and
the city/town, county, etc in the Place field. It doesn't increase
your location list, and is shown correctly in the sentace created by
Legacy by default.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Elizabeth Cunningham
[EMAIL
That is a question that can only be answered by the programmers, or
someone that has done it.
I'd suggest that you get a v4 backup, and try opening it (in a new
database) in v7 and see what happens. Either way you will have your
answer.
As a programmer (by trade - not of Legacy), I can say
Probably - I haven't really tried the mapping yet.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mary Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/28/08, Heather Stovold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Put the street address in the description of the residence event, and
the city/town, county, etc in the Place field
1 - If you are using the 4 place level convention, then yes, if you
only know the state you would put in the extra commas..., ,
Indiana, USA.But it is up to you if you are going to do it that
way or not. Just be consistant. (btw, I do use the 4 levels like
that)
2. - It does
No Ron, I am not suggesting that. The information would be filled in
by the user. Basically, I get tired of always having to think when I
enter a place on what it was called at the time. I use the smae
locations a lot, but I always have to sit and think - especially if
I've been working
Feb 30th was a real date in a couple of coutries at a couple of
specific times.. there is a chance it was one of those
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html
Probably in Legacy (to make this on topic) you would have to turn off
the date check on these instances, and make good
For the Event - what goes into description question - it depends on the
event for a residence event, I put in the street address (if I have it)
- the city etc goes in location. for the religion event, I put in the name
of the religion (ie, Catholic, or Anglican, etc). I only use the
A suggestion I put in (during but near the end of V6) would address
this I'd like to be able to setup a customized timeline of place
locations. This would be something that the genealogist would do for
locations, not a database that would be done by a companyBasically
for a
in LA CA
--- Heather Stovold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A suggestion I put in (during but near the end of
V6) would address
this I'd like to be able to setup a customized
timeline of place
locations. This would be something that the
genealogist would do for
locations
Just one note - I haven't used intellishare - so not sure how that will work
out with this
One area I've found problems in general with sharing information between
people is if someone is deleted, or changes like that. say my mom (or
person I'm sharing data with) discovered that someone
I don't have Legacy 7 yet - but the Author of Clooz, on the Clooz user
group, has said that it will not interface with Legacy 7 because of the
change in the Legacy database.
SO - if you are using Legacy 6 and Clooz integrated together (using the same
database for both) - you will want to copy the
Actually, although I've used Legacy for quite a while, I've only used the
actual Relationship Calculator 1 or 2 times - so I had to have a look at it
to figure it out.
I have to admit that the information probably isn't presented in the
clearest fasion I was able to figure it out quickly
And Manuals take a LOT longer to create, especially hard copy ones - because
of the printing times so manuals are often completed before the
software is, so there is time to print them
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Wendy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The only real problem with Legacy
: Heather Stovold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:54:36 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pre-Confederation Quebec/Canadian Place Names
For Ontario, I've been using (for example)
Etobicoke, York, Canada West, British North America
Ok, I brought up a case of 1st cousins marrying in the Relationship
Calculator to see if I can figure out what you are saying/asking
With my file, I have a John Smart and a Mary Smart who married who are 1st
cousins. We have a few generations back in the file as well.
In the relationship
For Ontario, I've been using (for example)
Etobicoke, York, Canada West, British North America
or
Etobicoke, York, Upper Canada, British North America
I use BNA for the short location names..
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived
Just so I can make my plans on things...
Do our data files go through a version change when we upgrade to v7? That
is, did the structure of the database change? (I'm pretty sure it will
have, with the expected changes.)
To put it another way - can a person with v6 use a database that
Well, I have seen you ask this about 3 times today, with no response. I had
a look, and off-hand couldn't find a way, so I'm assuming no one else does
either
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jay S. Van Zeeland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am trying to map the emigrants to a Google map of
You are on - there has appeared a bug or something today - everyone is
getting notices I have had well over 60 - for some reason the number
is varying for various people. It only started today
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Darlene Don Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I unsubscribed
Well, this isn't a big help for you for fixing it automatically - but I do
have a couple of suggestions for the future
I believe that you can set up the default value for the Living Flag - you
can change it to No so that future entries are more likely to be
correct. of course, if you
I put them in the one area - and in the source text I put in the info I got
from that source. I realize that if I don't have it print the source text,
it isn't clear what info I got where.I have to admit that I'd prefer the
date/place to be seperately sourced at times mainly for the
Got them too - they all say they were sent at pretty much the same time
(early morning here) - so they might not have realized it was
happening
I'm sure it was just a glitch - but I feel for those with limited
bandwidth!
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Judy Wardlaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assuming you want to bring in everything in the files - you want to do a
File - Import - From: Legacy File
You will want to do this for each file you want to bring in. Keep a backup
of your destination database from before the import You will then
want to do a Merge to combine people
I also use my oldest child.
In Legacy, you can have many of the screens show, at all times, the
relationship to a person in the database. Most people would choose
themselves. Then most of the time, they can see at a glance how the
person/people they are editing is related to them. That is
If it tends to run in the male lines only, I think some of the new
Legacy-Chart DNA charts will at least make it easier to figure out who might
have the gene...
I know there are programs out there as well that are specific for genetic
tracking of diseases they are similar to genealogy
I would keep both sources (and I do)
I have sources along the lines of
Census - Transcription - 1881 - Ontario, York West
Census - Index - 1881 - Ontario, York West
Census - Image - 1881 - Ontario, York West
Census - Film - 1881 - Ontario York West
I would use up to all 4, depending on what
Just wanted to totally agree here - the RIN numbers are mostly for Legacy
to use to track different people, and to link people together, and can be
ignored. They are viewable because a lot of people use them for their own
purposes as well.
Just wanted to add that if you are mostly using the
Not sure if this will help, as I certainly haven't had this problem
but I would backup your file, and then do a File Maintenance and Check to
see if there is some sort of problem with your family file
As there was data loss, I would also contact customer support (which is one
of the
Equal to means that the field has the EXACT same item
Contains means that the field has that item, but may have more
For instance, if you are searching on Name for Heather
Equal to would find any records that the person's name was Heather, and no
other ones
Contains would find records
Did the data also change, or just the way you have the screens setup to view
the data?
I'm pretty sure that stuff like the columns you are viewing in Index View,
and other screen configuration changes are global, not dependant on what
database (or family file) you are looking at. They are
I have 2 sources - Personal Knowledge of [my full name, including maiden
name] and Personal Knowledge of [my husband's full name]. I used them for
sources on things that we know first-hand like occupation, marriage
date (I also have the marriage certificate sourced), community service,
At the moment, I think you are confusing an Event with a Source. There are
a few things (like a census) which can sort-of be both - but residence isn't
one of them.
On each person in your family, you want to go to the place to edit each
individual, and say Add and then choose Residence.
For
When I don't know, I leave the main surname blank, and put Alice as the
name and I do an AKA with the full name, and source the AKA. I'd put
in the notes (of the source, and maybe also the person's main notes) that I
don't know if it is a married or maiden name. - usually I know from the
I put the burial info in the Burial field, and used a Cremation even for the
cremation info. Mind you, it was the same dates for my relative
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
No problem from me Joseph - I wasn't exactly sure of the tone of your
message, although the caps on the one word did make it sound like you might
have been using a not-so-nice tone I tried not to take it that
way
Although I haven't had any of your other questions come up in my own
Does it say 1/2 before the childs name???
If so, I think you will find that the child is linked to the mom, and an
unknown husband/father. (and that you have show 1/2 children turned on,
which I advise...)
What you need to do, is unlink the child from the mother, and then in family
view, with
Fine - reword the question to How does a person get descendants without
having a sexual partner?
Either way, you generally want the spouse/other/whatever person included on
a descendants list, as they are the mothers/fathers of the next generation
of decendants which was the ACTUAL point of
Just grab and drag the little bars between the columns on the column
headers.Also, if you double click on the little bars, it will make the
column just big enough to show the longest data in that column. I find that
handy for stuff like RIN that is pretty small
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at
Yes, I agree, it depends what you want
A long time ago, my personal database had everything from my mom's database,
and everything from my dad's database. Both my mom and dad had gone wide
(ie, doing a lot of research of decendants, to the present day) to try to
find people that might have
And I know some people have already suggested putting stuff to an email, or
other internet space. and that would qualify
Just wanted to definately recommend an off-site backup. I lost the vast
majority of my genealogy in 1988 (before I was on the internet) because
of. a house fire!
It is for Beta testers only. (I was one near the beginning, but no longer
really have time.) If I'm not mistaken, the Beta testers are a couple of
versions ahead of the release too.
- BTW what's the Legacy Charting Beta List and where is it? Or is it for
Beta testers only?
I am looking for suggestions on how to source or document how I have
determined a relationship.
Basically, I have the Will of a Thomas Dixon, who died in 1856 and a
James Dixon, who died in 1862. Thomas Dixon is a known relative we
suspected that a James Dixon might be a relative
Because it is easier for people to learn to use a program if it has an
interface that is standard... ie, one used by other programs. As
Microsoft (rightly or wrongly) has the most people using its programs, it is
a main standard to follow.
I well remember the days when in one program, to get
File maintenance does NOT remove them. hope that helps a bit!
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:38 PM, familyjesse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Can anyone tell me if doing file maintenance removes all unlinked
individuals? I have some people that I can't seem to find. If file
maintenance does remove
I just did a simple Detailed Search with version 6.0.0.189 and it
worked fine. (indiv. with name equal to Thomas) I thought it was
the latest version - but I see on the home tabe there is a
6.0.0.190. Which version are you using?
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:45 PM, William Robinette [EMAIL
I was looking around on the Family view, and noticing the tool tips
for the various places that you put your cursor. Most of them I
already knew about, because of this group. (like clicking beside the
husband rotates through his spouses, etc)
Well, did you know that on the little clock at
People seem to do the AKA's differently - kind of a personal choice thing.
I put married names into AKA's, and I also put in any spelling variations,
nicknames, and total misspellings that I have FOUND used for a person. I
don't put in spelling variations that are common for the surname, if I
Yes, I probably said that I had found in documents - but I would have
recorded those nicknames in the AKA's as well (or maybe used the nickname
feature of the main name if they were pretty much used all the time) -
I'd probably put in a few people as sources (or the person themself as the
The Cause of Death that shows up in the family view (if selected) isn't one
of the events. You enter it by going into notes, selecting the Medical tab,
and filling in the Cause of Death field there
Can I ask about something else? I added a Cause of Death event via the
Indiv
I haven't had that problem but here are a couple of thoughts
Have you tried a Fix/Repair on the database?
If you turn on the AKA's in the index, do the missing people show up then?
Is it always the same people missing, or are they missing one day, there
another, and someone else
1) Traditional Top-Down tree
No idea what she means by that.
2) Charting
Coming in v7
3) Number of Data Files
not sure what she means by that You can have as many different data
files (with different trees, or same trees) as you want. I have about 6 -
although I have a main
No idea what happened, or why - you should have been fine. but it sounds
like one of your .usr files got changed - not your data file.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Hope Bagot Bees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Earlier today when my computer was doing a regular scan Legacy suddenly
You can make, or customize any timeline you want, and then when looking at
the individual's timeline, you can say to use it or not
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Michele Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is there way to add an individual timeline entry to someone's timeline
without
And until v7 - attach it as a video or sound file - change the dialog to
look for all files (*.*)
On Feb 12, 2008 5:33 PM, JLB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that's coming up in version 7.0.
JL
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/
Barbara Ford wrote:
Where/how can I attach a document that is
I don't know of any. (btw, I started genealogy at age 16)
I do have various links and resources for young genealogists, from about age
8 to teenage appropriate links (depending on the link) if any of that
would help.
Legacy User Group guidelines:
v7 is going to have a whole new source templates and other stuff redone
me some hope and at least a work-around. Gene, your idea is a great one!
The fact that it's so easy to overwrite an existing Master source is very
scary--at least to me. We shouldn't have to worry about that.
There is a surname list - and it remembers the way the caps were the first
time you used the name kind of confusing. You can go to (from top
menu) View-Master Lists-Surnames or you can, when entering a name,
click on the little down arrow to the right of the surname field.Pick
the
It has no idea what you are calculating - Select Date is designed to fill in
whatever date field you were in when you started the calculator.
On Feb 6, 2008 1:29 PM, Nancy Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I am using the date calculator, I noticed something that might be a
bug.
If I know
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
Makes sense to me!
On Feb 1, 2008 10:18 AM, Erik Pilgaard Vinther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Whether the reason for the missing Vinther at Anton's christening was due
to
a clerical error or some other reason I don't know, but there is no doubt
that Anton perceived him self as a Vinther.
I updated to 6.0.0.179 - and now if I have 2 different files open in
split-view, I can no longer drag-drop from one to the other - and in
general, it seems to get lost and end up with the same file opened in 2
windows. Happened ONLY after I upgraded to .179 - anyone else had the
problem? (I've
I have a similar situation, I believe, where one of my people changed his
name a few times.
For his main name, I used his birth name - and put each of his other names
as aka's, and documented them.He is linked to everyone he is related to,
using his birth name. It is a matter of opinion as
One method (may not be the only or best...) - make sure (as you said you
have) that the individuals are not duplicated... just the marriage.
Decide which of the 2 (duplicate) marriages to keep. Go to the one you
want to get rid of in Family View.
Right Click on Each child - Select Unlink from
PROTECTED] wrote:
On 29 Jan 2008 Heather Stovold wrote:
also seperately, I would like misspellings - where I would put any
misspelling of their name that I have seen for that specific person.
Playing devil's advocate here . . .
There is no such thing as misspellings because
Thanks all - Check/Repair killed the source in the database - so there was
something wrong with it (which is what I figured)Drag and Drop does
seem to be working now - so probably just because of the messed up
database. I had put in a bug report - but wanted to warn anyone that used
the
Go to your Address list (I just did a click on the + of a burial event.
Click on Address List button. Find your cemetary, and select it, then
click on Show List That will give you a list of everyone that used that
cemetary.
From there, there is a Print button, or you can tag everyone if you
Well, I would do something like
Washington, , District of Columbia, United States
I don't know if there is a county or not.
On Jan 24, 2008 6:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How should District of Columbia for Washington, D.C. be sited? City,
County, State, USA???
Legacy User Group
Just want to say that I personally would never use a filing system that uses
MRIN's or RIN's as the basis.
The reason? Several years ago, I did (MRINs) - and then something
happened, and all my MRINs got changed. Fortunately, I had on all my file
folders the Surname, Firstname, so was able to
1 - 100 of 240 matches
Mail list logo
