Re: [LegacyUG] Examples of sourcing a Message Board Rootsweb family tree

2007-08-09 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
and have many in my database, so I have many still to clean up. Lloyd Horrocks http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~horrocks At 04:57 PM 08/09/2007 -0600, you wrote: I actually do publish the email address on my RootsWeb WorldConnect. I told my daughter if I die to go in there and put a messages

Re: [LegacyUG] problem with v 6.0.0.155

2007-08-03 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
The new version did not change any of my options, including having the living indicator default set as NO. It did load initially as not quite full screen. The change to full screen held during subsequent closing and opening. Lloyd At 04:58 PM 08/03/2007 -0500, you wrote: After downloading

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM - confused

2007-04-17 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
Debbie, A GEDCOM file is a text file. Open with a word processing program or with Notepad. Lloyd At 02:19 PM 04/17/2007 -0700, you wrote: Hello Everyone, Sorry. I am foggy headed today. I think I created a focus group of a small part of my Legacy Deluxe file. It is Mary Ellen, i.e. the

Re: [LegacyUG] Generational List or Report??

2007-04-17 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
Sandra, A faster method might be to generate a descendant or ancestor book report, depending on your starting point, for your word processor. You can then edit to save only the information that you want. Then you will have your doc file. Lloyd At 05:43 PM 04/17/2007 -0400, you wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] Help needed

2007-04-12 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
I'm also keeping my file on a USB drive and backup to whichever computer I have just used. That works well and leaves a backup for every session. Lloyd At 11:35 AM 04/12/2007 -0700, you wrote: I, and several others, do just the opposite. I have my main Legacy file on a USB drive and backup

Re: [LegacyUG] Search Replace in Locations

2007-02-09 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
Gene, Yes. I suggest searching for Co, and replacing with County, Just use what is inside the . Include the spaces so that you don't change a city or state that begins with Co. Start with Control-H, then find Lists-Location. Do one at a time until you are certain that only the ones you

Re: [LegacyUG] LostCousins numbering system

2007-01-13 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
These numbers are Ahnentafel numbers. Run the Books and Others, Book Reports, Ancestors. Each person will be numbered with their Ahnentafel number, n. Their father will be 2n, their mother 2n+1. Lloyd At 04:33 PM 01/13/2007 +, you wrote: The LostCousins site uses a numbering system,

Re: [LegacyUG] Shedding non-relatives

2006-10-09 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
The assigned tags will transfer if you export to a Legacy file, not a gedcom. That way you get everything. Lloyd At 10:08 PM 10/09/2006 -0400, you wrote: Thanks, Cathy. That worked a treat, but the assigned tags didn't transfer. Is there something I forgot to tick or is that just a

Re: [LegacyUG] free edition of Passenger Express

2006-08-29 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
Hi Cathy and others, If you want to keep everything in your transfer to a new Legacy file, use the direct transfer. Do not go through the gedcom and import, just export to a new Legacy file, then delete the Private material. I just did that with a descendant narrative report for the upcoming

[LegacyUG] DNA markers

2006-08-28 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
In fact, the DNA markers for patrilineal ancestry were first developed by Prof. Brian Sykes, Univ. of Oxford, England. Lloyd Horrocks Grove City, Ohio, USA Horrocks ancestors from Lancashire At 07:11 AM 08/28/2006 -0700, you wrote: The DNA feature was added after *many* requests from our

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations, names

2006-06-24 Thread Lloyd A. Horrocks
Hi Pat, At the end of the location line, the first icon is a downward arrow. If the wrong completion comes up, click on that icon and you will see your other entries. Then select the previously entered location that you want. Very fast and convenient. Lloyd At 09:49 AM 06/24/2006 -0400,