You'll probably get lots of suggestions and things get complicated with the
Windsor's. In 1917, the name House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was changed
to House of Windsor by King George V (Edward's son), largely because of
anti-German sentiment during WW I.
So Edward VII (son of Queen
Rich,
Now I understand. I am looking at the I in a numerical sense, but
Legacy is not. Thank you for the explanation.
Jon Raymond
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v 8??? Did I miss something?
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I entered the following new individual: Edward Grantham and in the suffix
field entered I (capital i for the first rather than senior).
I then got the following Standardization Tip The Given name or Surname
for this individual is only on character. You should verify or correct
this.
Now I'm wondering if that original posting referencing version 8 was meant
for beta testers, but was inadvertently posted to the list. And I'd
agree...releasing information about a new version only to those financially
able
to take the cruise is not the best business practice.
Jon
Rich,
I've already done that. But the question remains...Why does this message
appear? The message is clearly wrong as the given name and surname
absolutely have more than one letter in each field. Can someone else
duplicate
this issue?
Jon
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Michele,
Go to optionscustomizedata entry and you can solve your problem quite
easily.
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I would ignore that librarian and use Legacy.
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Roxanne,
Try going through the printer install wizard and see if you can complete
the cycle even though no printer is physically there. If the wizard asks
for the name of a printer, pick any one you like. I've seen this problem
with other programs. I don't think it matters if a printer
I used an event named biography for those times when nothing else seems
to work. It is sufficiently generic that it can be used for any number of
facts and the sentence override can be used to detail the situation.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
Sherry,
Several years ago, the Generations program (now defunct) developed what we
called the disappearing data syndrome. I won't go into all the details,
but the cause was eventually traced to conflicts between Generations and
some programs' drivers. (You can go to
Perhaps an easier solution would be to enter the earlier date in the date
field and then in the source citation note the range of dates. This is
what I do and it works for me.
Jon Raymond
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Joyce,
Legacy has a unique email for submitting suggestions for improvements to
the program. Why don't you submit your suggestions and the reasons why?
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Bill,
I use Read Iris Pro v10, now up to v12. It is spendy. It works well for
me. Of course, whether or not it will work for your needs is another
matter. You could try contacting their tech support at www.irislinkdotcom.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
This is, admittedly, a long shot, but could a corrupted systems file be
the culprit? It certainly wouldn't hurt to run the Windows repair routine.
Jon Raymond
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Keith,
Based upon your question, I don't know if you are aware of this...but...the
first part of that location, Evangelisch-Reformierta Kirke, is the name of a
church which translates to Evangelical Reformed Church. The American
counterpart, the Evangelical and Reformed Church, joined a
In a message dated 5/21/2008 3:28:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could someone please help? I had the deluxe edition in vs. 6.0.
If you ordered the deluxe version of v-7, I believe you first have to active
that by entered the appropriate code. The deluxe version
Folks,
Pleasecalm down. I, too, am anxiously awaiting v7, but I can also
understand what Legacy is doing. To be a profitable and on-going company,
they
must market the product to new customers. Offering v7 at the conference is a
way of attracting new users, which the company must do
Please, folks, don't carve May 10 in stone. If the beta testers find a last
minute problem, the release will probably be delayed until the problem if
fixed...and rightly so.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Geoff,
All of us are anxious for v-7 and I'm sure all of you are anxious to launch
the release of v-7. But, please, take your time...if a glitch arises, we can
wait. Just get it right the first time...grin.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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I'm confused. Is there no way to include the detail text of the source in
the sources portion of a given report or am I missing something?
Jon Raymond
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JL,
That the detail text doesn't appear on all reports makes no sense to me.
If one adds a source citation to an event and adds detail text, there is a
check box that states: add this Text to the Source Citation on Reports.
The implication here is that the detail text will appear in
I've received some data concerning purported children of a man. This data
is not proven, but is, according to the researcher, a collection of data from
various unsourced web sites. I would like to enter this data, but in a
manner that marks the data as speculative.
My thought is to use
In a message dated 10/5/2007 10:24:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Should I throw out my entire genealogy? Of course not. Digging a little
further I discovered a family tradition that my paternal grandfather James
Terry II (1871-1942) was adopted -- and I guess that
Ken,
This is not an issue of discrimination, so please don't think that way. As
Sherry correctly notes, dealing with this issue involves very complex
programming issues, which can be complicated even more if the couple adopts
children
or is married in Massachusetts or has a registered
I wish the owner's manual was printed on 8x11-1/2 paper, drilled for a
3-ring binder, and shipped loose leaf. We could then put the manual in a
binder
and insert our own note pages. This would, I should think, also be cheaper
for Legacy.
There was a time, and I'm dating myself here,
Jim,
I'll gladly take your place if the suffering is too great...grin.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Jay,
I have the same issue. My suggestion is to create a unique event where you
give the date and explain the facts. I wouldn't use the marriage screen as
the partner would then erroneously show as a legally-recognized spouse. It
isn't a perfect solution, but if you explain the software
Karen,
I think you're confusing versions. Generations is the Windows-based version
and Reunion is the Apple-based version of the same program. What is it that
you need?
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Will Legacy v6 support non-alpha characters in the given and surname fields
or will this cause problems?
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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More specifically, I'm referring to the question mark. For example, if I'm
unsure of a given name, I'd like to enter Henry? rather than just Henry.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Elsie,
I see what you are trying to accomplish, but must admit this is a rather
labor intensive and tedious job.
Once the set relationship function is used, I wish that Legacy would
display ALL the relationships between the source person and the other person.
For
example, my nephew is
CG,
You make a valid point. My preference would be that the reports show the
relationships between the root person of the report(s) and the other persons
in
the report.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Have
Sherry told me some time ago that this enhancement is on the list, but
when we'll see it I just don't know.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Hi, Cathy,
My mailing addresses appear as marriage event addresses because when I
transferred my data from Generations to Legacy, that is where the addresses
went.
It is just now that I've realized a problem exists. It appears I'll have to
manually edit all the data, a daunting task, to
I need help trying to generate a mailing. I have used the marriage address,
for married couples, and the person address, for widows, widowers and
singles, to enter mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.
Unfortunately, when entering that data, I did not tag the address
A recent thread discussed the (apparent) large memory requirements of Legacy
when printing large books. And that brings me to Microsoft's recently
released Vista.
The articles I have read recommend a minimum of 1 GIG of RAM for running
Vista and I've even seen some experts recommending a
Ron,
I'd expect that tech support is examining this issue. I do hope that either
Sherry or someone else from tech support will give us their opinions on this
issue, which could become a significant problem.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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I have yet another problem with the relationship calculator and the problem
can be duplicated.
Robert and Larry are brothers. Larry has son John out-of-wedlock with
Sarah. Sarah's data has been entered as the mother and the marriage status is
set
as unmarried and there is no marriage
Here is what I have. Mary had two children out-of-wedlock from two
different men. Child #1 is William and Child #2 is Robert. Robert had
a son
named Larry.
Setting relationships with William as self, Legacy properly shows Robert
as a half-brother and Larry as a half-nephew.
Setting
Cathy,
Thank you for your suggestion. I will report this as a bug.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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V6.0.0.118 does **not** fix the problem I am reporting, but thank you for
the suggestion.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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There is also the other issue. Will your peripherals, i.e., printers,
scanners, modums, FAXes, etc., run on Vista? I, for one, will be very, very
cautious before jumping on the Vista wagon. And I won't even mention the
software
issues...sigh.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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To be blunt, I've been disappointed with the tenor of some recent postings
on this list. So I am going to propose a New Year's resolution. If you have
a question or an objection regarding the appropriateness of a posting, send
your concerns **off-list** to the list administrator and let
Paul,
I agree with you. When my sister gave birth to her son, everyone was so
excited. One day after they returned home, my sister put her son on the bed
for
a nap. Soon afterwards, my sister realized the golden retriever, who was in
the house, was missing. My sister walked into the
I've been helping a cousin with his paternal grandfather's side of the
family. Thus far I have only about 100 names, but there are several branches.
As he does not use Legacy, I want to print a report for everyone in the
database and include all of the data so he can then input the data
Dick,
I have a souce called Comments of Jon Raymond. I use this source and make
my observations, etc. in the comments section of the source.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Rich,
For some reason I never received your reply, although it is found in the
archives. Maybe AOL's spam filter has struck again...gin.
You make some interesting suggestions. I'd suspect that Norwegian
researchers are not the only ones dealing with this issue.
What you propose is very
As you have a fairly small database, my suggestion would be print out the
entire DOS based file and then start from scratch and enter the data into
Legacy. If you try to import a DOS file into Legacy...assuming you could,
which I
doubt...you will probably lose some data.
Jon Raymond
St
Those of you working with Norwegian genealogy are familiar with the question
of birth places, i.e., on which farm was someone born.
For example, Olea was born on Foss in Grue, Hedmark, Norway. With the
default format, the output is Olea was born in Foss, Grue, Hedmark, Norway
and
that is
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I want to generate a DNR for Joe and want to include Joe's relationship
to each person in the report after using set relationships to recalculate
the relationships using Joe as the focus person.
However, I cannot find an option in the Desecendant Narrative Report to do
this. Am I missing
Cathy,
That is what I feared. It is too bad. Whenever I send a report to a new
cousin, I like to attach to the names how that cousin is related. I could do
this with (the now defunct) Generations program.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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With thanks to an Australian lister, I've managed to enter two of the three
out-of-wedlock children in the manner I wanted. (I don't know the name of
the third child.) Cousin Mary now has three marriages with the first two
showing an unknown husband. I did this by creating a dummy
Ady,
I don't know if this will work...but have you tried setting the relationship
to never married?
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I posed this question once before, but am still having problems with the
data entry.
I have a cousin, Mary, who had three out-of-wedlock children with three
different men before she married and had six children in that marriage.
For the three out-of-wedlock children, I do not know the
Karen,
If you are going to abandon Windows based systems (and in some ways I don't
blame you) and opt for a Mac, there is one, very excellent
programReunion. It is the Mac version of the now defunct Generations
program. You cannot
go wrong with that.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Janis,
That is what I do. You can always add a comment for the census year source
explaining what you've done.
Jon Raymond
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I have an event called obituary that is placed after the date of death and
place the obituary text there. If all elements are known, it reads: Bob
had an obituary published in the [newspaper] on [date] in [city]. [text of
obituary]
I would prefer to use the possessive form (Bob's), but
Based upon my experience and what I have read on the Adobe web site...if you
have Adobe Reader v5 or earlier versions on your computer, you should first
uninstall **all** earlier versions before installing a post-V5 version of
Adobe Reader.
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St Paul Park, MN
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How does one report an omission in the database?
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Anne,
I just tried to install the update and have the same error message you
received and I cannot now open Legacy at all...g.
Jon Raymond
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Anne,
When I tried to download the .108 update from within Legacy, I received the
same error message and could not open Legacy.
I then installed from the Legacy web page with no problem...strange.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
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Organizing research using the Legacy produced RINs and MRINS is great...as
long as you do not absentmindedly renumber the database...grin.
Jon Raymond
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Alice,
There is another alternative you might want to consider. I have a source
called Comments of Jon Raymond. Here I enter various comments about
matters,
especially conflicting sources. For example, for an event that is sourced
with two or more census years and there is conflicting
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