RE: [LegacyUG] Death Certificates

2008-08-08 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
I agree with Gary that the death photo's were not nearly as gruesome as one would expect. They can be somewhat of a celebration. I have just such a photo at http://www.tell-my-mom.com/_ancestry/pictures/vanzeelandmartindeathphoto.jpg and you'll see that it's much more about the flowers etc at the

RE: [LegacyUG] Pictures in reports

2008-07-30 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
I have already suggested that they allow us to print off all or selected photos that we've included. I have been confirmed by Sherry that this has been included in the improvement list. They are working on it, but it's always easier to say than to program. I, too, can't wait to be able to print

RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Entering new blood relative, relationship does not appear

2008-07-25 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Ed, Included in version 7 there is much more robust set relationship calculator and it will calculate all relations through a selected number of generations for both blood and non-blood relationships. This allows you to see all of the relationships that you have with the individual. Next to the

RE: [LegacyUG] Digital Image Naming Standards

2008-07-23 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
I personally store all of my documents and images in a folder structure as follows Family Name Marriage Names Any files under these For example the folder DOE Has a subfolder of DOE John b1853 m1 SMITH Jane b1855 the m1 means married first, I also have m2 etc. Then in each folder I have all

RE: [LegacyUG] How to Search All Individuals that have a Burial Place?

2008-07-20 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Cathy, A search for Burial Location contains a comma. Each location uses a comma as a separator. This should give you the list that you need directly. Jay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy Vallevieni Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:15

RE: [LegacyUG] Issue with Bibliography - V7

2008-07-13 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Cary, I know that this isn't much help, but I've run an ancestry report with all generations (11,000 people) and had no problem. I, too, have a number of sources with the detail text of the document from v.6, but had no problems. Could you try to do File Maintenance|Check and repair, perhaps

RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Ron, We still have stag and hen parties in addition, but we refer to them as Bachelor and Bachelorette parties. These are generally much more wild than the Bridal Showers. Jay - Thanks Rich, In case you did not see my reply to Heather we have Stag and Hen parties. Ron Ferguson

RE: [LegacyUG] How to enter a source when it's deduced?

2008-07-06 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Cathy, If it were I, I would establish a source of Personal Knowledge and name it something like Research of Cathy Vallevieni. Use this as your source and as part of the source text (or the detail text as you prefer) place your research and reasons for suggesting that this is the proper spelling.

RE: [LegacyUG] 75th Birthday prezzie advice

2008-07-02 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Melody, Let me see if I can answer all of your questions, I'm sure that some others will chime in and will have better answers, but hopefully I can give you a start. I must also state that these are my opinions only, and it's your opinion and your mothers that are the only important ones to

RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Cause of death

2008-07-02 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Ann, For any individual, open the notes page. There are tabs across the top, the third being Medical At the very top of this screen will be a line for the cause of death. I also personally list any other known maladies (I.e. Heart trouble, Diabetes, Stroke) allowing me to keep better track of a

RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Cause of death

2008-07-02 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] V7 Cause of death How can I get it OUT of the Family View Screen in v7? Sharyn - Original Message - From: Jay S. Van Zeeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:56 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG

RE: [LegacyUG] Citing employment records from the US Office of Personnel Management

2008-06-29 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Karima, I'm sorry that the artifact source type wasn't the correct option. However, you question still hasn't been answered. I spent some time looking for the proper suggestion for you. While realizing that the copies are not the proper artifact, I guess that I would recording the documents as

RE: [LegacyUG] Letter Case of Surnames

2008-06-29 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Glenn, I have many situations where the same has occurred within my data, I have redone them with the name as the new capitalization and place a space at the end. In the printouts I have seen any double spacing, but when I hit the space at the end it allows me to save it the new way. Give it a

RE: [LegacyUG] Citing employment records from the US Office of Personnel Management

2008-06-28 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
I'm sorry if your answer has already been received, but I would recommend that you use the Artifact. I use this one often for family documents that I have in my possession. Make sure to fill out the comments to describe the documents and perhaps include a scan in either the source (if you are a

RE: [LegacyUG] Citing employment records from the US Office of Personnel Management

2008-06-28 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
? Is it a separate program or something in Legacy? Jeff Jay S. Van Zeeland wrote: I'm sorry if your answer has already been received, but I would recommend that you use the Artifact. I use this one often for family documents that I have in my possession. Make sure to fill out the comments to describe

[LegacyUG] V 7 Source Writer

2008-06-05 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Has anyone else noticed that when creating a source for a GedCom from an individual that any comments that are typed about the quality of the Gedcom are repeated twice in the Footnote/Endnote citation? Any work around? Or should I just send a bug report? BTW this message was sent at 11:26 pm CDT

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7 - Maiden Names and Married Names

2008-06-04 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
When viewing the Name list with Married names turned on, I do see that there is (for lack of a better term) a squiggly icon in front of the names generated with the Husband's last name. The person's name is listed as both the Married name and the maiden name as two individuals, both pointing to

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

2008-05-29 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
nice feature. Again, the best reason for having/using witnesses is to link multiple people to an event and not have to create a separate event for each person. 2008/5/28 Jay S. Van Zeeland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ron, I'm sorry, but I don't understand your request for a Witness feature

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources attached to Marriage Records

2008-05-29 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
to work - add the children. And then add the source back. I usually try to close exit Legacy several times. Ana Jay S. Van Zeeland wrote: I have been going through my Master sources to try to clean up a few of the duplicated items to make the transition to the Legacy 7 source writer a more

[LegacyUG] Sources attached to Marriage Records

2008-05-28 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
I have been going through my Master sources to try to clean up a few of the duplicated items to make the transition to the Legacy 7 source writer a more manageable task. I have a few sources that are causing me problems however. When I select a problem causing source and go to the show list

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship Report

2008-05-27 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Carol, Legacy 6 includes a wonderful relationship calculator. Simply go to tools, relationship calculator. Insert the two individuals that you wish to calculate and it will determine all relationships. You may also print the report for your records. Please see if this will work for your needs.

RE: [LegacyUG] IE7 Required (Trouble)

2008-05-24 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Mr. Wynthner Have a very happy Weekend!. . . I am just hoping to add some happiness to your otherwise (what must be)miserable existence. We have not seen a single post that didn't involve complaining from you for the last two weeks. You have touted how you won't deal with a company, who cannot

[LegacyUG] Looking for Immigrants

2008-05-07 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
a search string that will give me what I want. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks Jay S. Van Zeeland 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] Identifying immigrants

2008-05-07 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Thank you everyone for the suggestions for Tagging, It worked, but I went a bit further. I tagged all of the direct ancestors on Tag 1 (no siblings etc) Then did a search for everyone with Born location containing USA. Those I tagged at 2. I then did a search with Tag 1 on, Tag 2 off and Death

RE: [LegacyUG]

2008-05-07 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Heather, Thanks for the response. Please excuse my sending three times. It was much more a function of a 6 hour delay from the time that I sent until I saw it appear in my box. I thought with all of the errors going on that my query was being lost in cyberspace. Thanks for trying to come upon

[LegacyUG]

2008-05-06 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
a search string that will give me what I want. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks Jay S. Van Zeeland Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support

[LegacyUG] Identifying immigrants

2008-05-06 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
a search string that will give me what I want. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks Jay S. Van Zeeland Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support

[LegacyUG] Ahnentafel numbers

2007-11-12 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
I am trying to create an ancestor report for family to distribute over the holidays. My studies go back Many generations and the Ahnentafel numbers which appear before every individual's name become quite long and will confuse the non-genealogist recipients of these reports. Is there any way to

RE: [LegacyUG] Question regarding Family View fields

2007-11-11 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Karima, On the notes screen for any individual there are three tabs, the furthest to the right is Medical there is a separate bar along the top to allow you to enter Cause of Death. Jay From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quest Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007

[LegacyUG] Ancestor Report without numbers

2007-11-11 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Is it possible to print an Ancestor Report without the ahnentafel numbers? I am printing these reports for a number of my Aunts and Uncles for the holiday's and the leading numbers will become confusing for non-genealogists. I have tried to remove Ancestor numbers through the report options,

[LegacyUG] Recall: Ancestor Report without numbers

2007-11-11 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Jay S. Van Zeeland would like to recall the message, Ancestor Report without numbers. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http

RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Photo locations

2007-11-04 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
wrong. ex: your old path was C:\Legacy\photos\... and the new location is D:\Legacy\Pictures\... Search and replace C:\Legacy\photos\ with D:\Legacy\Pictures\ Chuck - Original Message - From: Jay S. Van Zeeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday

[LegacyUG] Moving Photo locations

2007-11-01 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
I have recently experienced a hard drive failure which required purchasing a new drive and re-installing all programs including Legacy. Luckily, I have good backups of my data and didn't lose any of my family history research or photos. In reading posts of the past, many people have

Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Photo locations

2007-11-01 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
Thanks Ron, Yes, the subfolders to match what they were before. Do I understand correctly, that I only need to correct 1 item from each folder and the entire folder will be recognized? If this is the case there should only be about 2-300 folders and will greatly reduce my time. Thanks

RE: [LegacyUG] 93-page pension file - handle?

2007-09-10 Thread Jay S Van Zeeland
When storing large documents of this type, I went to my local ARC (Area Resource Center) archive and spoke to the archivist, she sold me an archive (acid free) box and acid free folders to store the info, they were the same boxes that they used for all of the naturalization papers. It works well

RE: [LegacyUG] Family file notes

2007-09-09 Thread Jay S Van Zeeland
In addition to notes about the conventions used or the research time, it would also be interesting to have a space that we could put other information that may be valuable. I started my genealogy study to provide a pedigree for my children. It had quickly evolved into a family history, trying to

RE: [LegacyUG] VIEW ONLY setting?

2007-09-09 Thread Jay S Van Zeeland
Bob, I haven't tried this, but If you ere to copy you data file to a cd-rom or to a file with read only attributes, you should be able to accomplish your needs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Hawkins Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007

RE: [LegacyUG] How to make entire database available?

2007-09-06 Thread Jay S Van Zeeland
If your goal is to have living members of various families view and correct data, You can do it through a web site that with a little work can be password protected and placed in folders under a domain that are much harder (although not impossible) for search engines to list. I wouldn’t do

RE: [LegacyUG] Homosexual Entries

2007-09-06 Thread Jay S Van Zeeland
Please everyone, I did not mean to open the Pandora’s box, I was simply looking for an answer to how to enter the data. I was not looking for a forum as to whether we should include this data or not, or whether Legacy should change. I personally believe that this is an excellent program and have

RE: [LegacyUG] Homosexual Entries

2007-09-05 Thread Jay S Van Zeeland
Thank you all for the suggestions, I got it to work to my cousin's satisfaction. Thanks for the help! Jay No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.5/990 - Release Date: 9/4/2007 10:36 PM Legacy User Group guidelines: