It has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. I have suggested they give
us the little up/down sorting arrows that is used in other sorting locations
to no avail, as yet. I guess not enough people have requested it.
If this is something you really want, suggest it directly to them, and if
Social Security DEATH Index
La Nell
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] consistancy in sources
Social Security Department Index?
Rich in LA CA
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That fixed it! I had not (didn't know that I needed to) ticked to show
relationships in the report options. I knew it had to be something simple
that I had just missed. This group is great. Thanks a million.
La Nell
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sources for Father/Mother relationship?
La Nell,
Ok, here goes. I am creating Family Group Reports and where the mother and
father's names are listed, the source that is showing is the source I have
entered for their particular name on their own individual source screen.
I have used another source for the relationship and that is not
, not on each individuals information screen.
I hope this made it clear what I am asking for.
La Nell
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names
La Nell Shores wrote
From the amount of chatter on this subject, there must be a bunch of us
who use
Yes, I know I can turn them off for individual people and it does not help
because it takes 4 turn offs for each individual that I have a [--?--]
for. Right now, I just have the whole standardization thing turned off. I
have a large database.
But, thanks.
La Nell
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]
From the amount of chatter on this subject, there must be a bunch of us who
use , [--?--], or some other form of notation to indicate
Unknown names. If we all would submit a suggest a new feature to
support, indicating that we would like to be able to turn off the
standardization
OptionsCustomizeColors - in the center of the window check each box - 3D
for parents, husband/wife, child list
La Nell
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Ver 7 data entry window
Kathie,
Well spotted, I hadn't noticed that, nor can I see a way of switching it on
either.
Ron Ferguson
In Vs. 6, my son’s 2 x-wives (he had no children by them) when marked
“Private” read like this in reports:
David married Private.
David next married Private.
David next married Jennifer Smith.
Now, with the new “Invisible feature,” it reads:
David married Jennifer Smith.
His two
Right now, he just doesn’t want to be reminded of his recent poor choices in
women. That’s why I like this feature. They are still in my database with
all the correct sources so that 10 or 20 years down the road, when it won’t
be so painful to him, they CAN be included in reports.
La Nell
Yes, I can confirm this. I thought maybe it was as Windows problem and
had not reported it. It is very annoying to constantly have to re-size.
La Nell
Subject: [LegacyUG] Problem with size of Info Windows
Does anybody else have problems with the size of Info and Event Windows
reverting back
1. We need an option to remove quoted names
2. We need an option to use short locations
3. A word wrap (or name wrap, as it were) would be helpful on the fan
chart on the 5th and later generations.
4. I (and my tired old eyes) need an alternative to the all pastel
Thanks. This helps me a lot. I just knew it had to be my appalling
ignorance of the French language! I took Spanish in school, so French
spelling and pronouncement has always baffled me.
I sang in classical choirs and therefore learned to pronounce Latin, Italian
and German, but our choir
Legacy does not like some locations with a space in them. I just ignore the
warning and go on. Personally, I like La Salle, De Kalb and De Soto (with
the space, but Legacy does not. Legacy does recognize De Will, De Smet, Le
Crosse, La Pointe and Le Flore(with the space), so go figure. Another
to clarify? I have been
using Unknown without quotes! I am thinking of
switching to something more standard across the board.
Thanks!
Darlene
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The problem with that is this Mary Smith
married James. Now is James
a first
The problem with that is this Mary Smith married James. Now is James
a first name or a surname? There are many surnames and first names that can
be either. We need some form of notation to identify which it is. I used
to leave it blank because I don't like Unknown. I switched several
I have an unrelated family such as yours. It is a pair of twins who never
married but were close family friends for generations (since the 20s.) We
called them our adopted Grandmothers. When the last one died, with no
living family members, my mother and I inherited all their stuff including
Yep, did all that. Closed Legacy and rechecked all index reports, deleted
the book and started overstill no Location Index either using the
preview button and the pdf. It used to work great.
Do I need to delete some .usr files?
La Nell
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG]
and removed the middle name or changed it to an initial.
I kept my old make-due Ancestry.com search string that allows searches for
full Given Names and use that exclusively.
M. La Nell Shores
Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features
not found
I'd like to know which bugs were fixed as well.
I was disappointed that the Location Indexes were NOT fixed using the
publishing centeror at least I'm still having trouble getting them to
work with pdf and print preview (they used to work beautifully.)
La Nell
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Mine work...just tried and successfully printed 1880.
La Nell
Subject: [LegacyUG] Forms Menu
I have just noticed a problem with Legacy Deluxe, v. 6.0.0.133. I can no
longer access the forms.
I wanted to print an 1800 Census form but when I go to Forms Center there
are no forms visible. It
some chatter on this list about this problem, but I don't recall
a fix or if everyone is having the problem.
La Nell Shores
Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features
not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at
http
Problem
I think that if there are no locations associated with the person the index
will seem to be absent?
On 7/5/07, La Nell Shores [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am getting no Location Indexes with any report. I've tried the Publishing
center, and the individual
That didn't fix it. Still no Location report! I'll just eagerly await the
next update.
I am also having problems with resetting the margins. Closing Legacy and
restarting it seems to fix that until I close the report and then regenerate
it. Closing Legacy each time a report is generated is
I use my son to set the relationships on. That way I get relationships for
both my husbands and my lines. I can always subtract on level to know what
the relationship is for me or my husband.
La Nell
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack
The accepted genealogical practice is Nickname or called name in quotes
and (Maiden) names in parenthesis. Such as my name: Margaret La Nell La
Nell (Johnson) Shores. I am not Also Know As, I am Known As La Nell. Only
the IRS, Vital Records, Social Security and the Department of Motor vehicles
Sherry,
I just tried the Full Download and it and it locked up at 3%. I had tried
the other update earlier, from inside Legacy and from the web. Neither
worked!
I'm in a pickle...I'm teaching our Computer Club tomorrow and demonstrating
Legacy for the whole group not just our usual LUG., I
Keith,
Did you download 118 OK? 117 Downloaded OK, 118 is the problem. I couldn't
download from within Legacy or from the website. I'm in a pickle. I'm
teaching Legacy for 3 hour tomorrow morning at our Computer Club. I have
117 on my computer and 110 on the laptop that I will use for the
I know it is important expand your market, but we long time users are
waiting patiently (well, somewhat patiently) for an update to fix the
problems of the last update!
I need to prepare some Books using the printing center for Christmas, but
the Table of Contents is messed up. And, I know
Ron,
Try the Publishing Center. Create more than one chapter, such as a
descendant report and an ancestor report and throw in a pedigree chart for
good measure, then look at the ToC.
La Nell
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] We need an update to fix old problems!
What is
I think what you are seeing is the spouse icon. It is a female (long
hair) on the husband's side and male (short hair) on the wife's
sidemake's sense to me as most spouses are the opposite sex. If there
are more than one spouse the icons show as 2 people.
La Nell
To: Legacyug
Subject:
I don't print many reports but have the opportunity now and I noticed a
phrase that disturbs me. This report includes many civil war era women who
died without ever marrying because of the shortage of men.
I have marked them as never married an had no children and on the
Descendant Book
Coming through, loud and clear! Good to have everyone back again. I missed
my messages.
La Nell
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La Nell
Subject: [LegacyUG] Blank forms-
Some time ago, I downloaded forms from a website dedicated to genealogy
forms. I saved them on CD and saved paper copies in a 3-ring binder. The
binder and CD were picked up by accident (or stolen) last night, and
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