You don't say which Ancestry records you are linking to. Are they
official records like census, or are they submitted trees?
Official records should be more acurate- trees are variable to say
the least. Some have been carefully researched and others have been
flung together, with little
Carolyn, Ron
It didn't work in either the ancestor or descendant book reports for me, at
first! The option at top left of the Include tab (addr for birth, etc) in
Report Options must be selected - default is unchecked. Should work.
Margaret
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From:
I think the lack of parents for Eleanor Huffman may be because the have been
marked as Private. Check John Huffman and Mary Smith's individual
information screens and look for the privacy settings, lower left. Or check
the Descendant narrative report for Eleanor.
HTH
Marg
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You can use the method posted yesterday in answer to a similar question.
Use the Search tab and 'search and replace'
In the top box Find Where use the down arrow to find Lists-Location
Then type in your changes(Co in the upper box, County in the lower one) and
click Start, all locations using Co
Hi Toni
The joys of changing genealogy programmes, eh?
For the carry over capitalisation glitches - NZ to Nz or USA to Usa try
this.
Use the Search tab and 'search and replace'
In the top box Find Where use the down arrow to find Lists-Location
Then type in your changes and click Start, all
If I've understood you correctly
When you go to print a book from the Publishing Centre, you find that the
Table of Contents (TOC) is overprinting your Title Page.
I can replicate the problem: if I choose to generate a TOC under
Additional, then I find it overwrites the last additional page
Colin this is set by default - you can turn it off by going to Options
Customise Data Format and at the lower right, under Word for Blank
Records, select (just leave it blank)
From the help file
Word for Blank Records
Blank records are often attached to a marriage to take the place of a
Hi Cynthia
Click on the first option find
The miscellaneous searches tab is on the next screen.
(you'll soon get used to clicking the options to see what treasures lie
beneath)
--
Margaret
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For sources relating to places I have lived, I use:
transfer records for moving house (when the government moved employees
around).
Utilities bills (it will give people coming after me a chuckle to see the
price I paid).
Other ideas;
electoral rolls,
rates demands,
home ownership papers,
Gidday Valerie
Just one solution - pen and paper! Note the RIN of the person you were last
looking at in the name list when you found there was a missing person - go
out, add them. Then go back to the name list and enter the RIN to take you
back to where you were.
PS. It really helps when you
Erik
I would use the method you plan to for recording Anton's full name, make a
note about what you have done and why.
Some of the Christening records (not Danish!) I've transcribed make it
surprisingly difficult to work out the family name, depending on the way the
original record is set out.
Hello Tom
You wrote
Not having received a response to the following, I am posting it again...
No, that person didn't have any parents entered, but neither did his
spouse and she carried on to another sheet.
I've run a pedigree report for myself and confirm that the people who don't
carry
On topic - of course you have all this information recorded under Event -
occupation for the younger generation to read and marvel at?! :-)
--
Margaret Couch
NZ
Ed Lawler wrote:
I apologize for being totally off topic (I don't encourage it, and I
won't do it again - promise) ...
Give
Barbara, just a hunch, make sure you have include other spouses checked
under Report Options Include
--
Margaret
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On Behalf Of Barbara Ford
Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 1:24 p.m.
For some reason my user group emails are not coming into my email account;
however,
Ruth
With the Family view open use the shortcut keys CTRL+z to open Options
Select the Colours tab
Half way down the screen on the left find Text Colours with a row of buttons
to the right.
Select Contents
Select the colour you want from the pop-up box.
Select save
You now should have set the
Yes Thomas, the Harvard version really did have a lowercase road and the
title was in italics.
At the bottom of each page of citations was the following warning:
Note: These citations are based on the reference standard for each style.
However, formatting rules within a style can vary widely
Susan
Options; Customise; Colours; Text Colours - change the colour
Works in individual view, not family view (as you said)
--
Margaret
Hamilton NZ
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Sent: Monday, 3 December 2007 1:00 p.m.
To:
Hi Lester
Unfortunately, the Geo location database for new Zealand is something that
Legacy doesn't do very comprehensively. There are no provinces in the
database, just cities and country. Christchurch is there, but don't try and
match it with Canterbury, just settle for New Zealand.
I have
Hi Kay
The issue appears to be fixed, I am using the latest build (November 6). You
may need to think about upgrading after all:-)
Source Detail
Entry: Joe Blow death certificate #12345 (1939)
Results: Joe Blow death certificate #12345 (1939).
Master Source Example:
Entry in Title: Joe
Hi Darlene
Click the Preview button first, then select the Range button under Print
options, you can select which pages you want.
--
Margaret
Margaret Couch
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On Behalf Of Darlene Don Hicks
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2007 10:19 a.m.
To:
Barbara
In the pedigree version of a website, it looks like this: ...was born on 7
Mar 1878 in Raglan, Waikato, New Zealand, died on 1 Dec 1959 in Auckland,
New Zealand at age 81, and was cremated on 3 Dec 1959 in Auckland, New
Zealand (Waikumete Cemetery, ashes scattered).
--
Margaret
Nancy
With the Show List screen open, on the right of that screen the 4th button
from the top is the Print button. Once selected, you are able to preview the
list before printing or create a PDF file of the list (in Deluxe anyway).
--
Margaret
Hamilton NZ
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On Behalf Of
You'll be kicking yourself with this one, Pat:-)
When you select the type of Book Report and are presented with the new box
to select your report options; look in the top left corner of the Options
Tab, you'll see Insert underlines for missing:, deselect the choices you
don't want.
--
Margaret
Allen
I simply use the expression fathered a child with if I don't know the
nature of the relationship. I use the words Male and Female, master and
housekeeper or Partner instead of spouse. I also check the box, top left
this couple never married, then check how it reads in all the reports
(just
Here's what I do. I have a large collection of wills, each is assigned a
number as I receive it WL 1 on up. When I get a new will, I can assign it
the next highest number by using the Select +1 button. I highlight the
reference number for the will I added last and click the +1 button.
Hope that
Carol, which version of legacy are you using and is it Standard or Deluxe?
In general, if you go to optionscustomiseData Entry and make sure Don't
change what I enter is selected; the programme should handle all surname
formats. However, I have many McDonalds and Legacy handles that type of
Hi Rob
I leave the 1/2 siblings option turned on as I like to see as much of the
family composition as I can at a glance. It does look a little strange when
the couple are older at 2nd marriage and not likely to have children from
that marriage. Make sure you mother's father is designated as
Hi John, Welcome to Legacy
My responses are threaded below
--
Margaret
In Sunny Hamilton NZ
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Hello, I've just changed from Reunion to Legacy and am on a steep learning
curve. Two
One more thing on this thread about having two, unhyphenated surnames - you
can also enter a 'hard space' between the two last name words - hold down
the Alt key and enter 0160 from the numeric keypad. This will keep the two
words together without the appearance of a hyphen. If you enter the
Dear Kathy
You asked Does anyone know of a way to get the Descendant narrative
report to come out more clearly or is that just its nature?
To have the Descendant Narrative report print with bulleted events: In the
DNR you need to go to Report Options, choose the Format tab and select the
large
Which version of Legacy are you using? I think the reduced list of
pre-loaded child statuses occurred after relationship to each parent boxes
were added to the programme. Earlier versions may not have that feature.
I don't quite understand this. I looked at teh statuslist I
have for
Hi Jenny
I'm not clear about what you are trying to do. If you want give a child two
or more status 'labels', simply combine them as a new status and use that,
eg stillborn twin. The new term is added to the search engine, so if you
want to search for all children with that status, you can find
Glenna wrote:
If I click on Search, under user ID (I put in the rin #) it
says record not found. I used this before and it always
worked for me I don't know what happened. So now I go into
name list and look for it there.
Glenna
Glenna, you are searching under USER ID in Query by
Jill asked
*On one of the older versions of Legacy there was a screen
(tab) right behind the main couple view that allowed you to see a descendent
view but it also included the multiple wives and children of the person
highlighted on the main screen . *
This feature is still
As some have commented, a signature shouldn't be regarded as absolute proof
of literacy, I wouldn't rely too much on not signing a document as proof of
illiteracy either. Imagine someone in authority saying Make your mark here
or indicating the space with a small cross, or the situation where the
Try this work around: Open notes, expand the notes screen to full size (box
at top right of screen), then click save. Open notes again should bring the
font to large, on my PC, this fix during the current session of Legacy, I
have to repeat the process for each new session.
Margaret
_
Jeff, whenever you change genealogy programmes you'll find things in places
you didn't expect. Often where they are relates to the programme's
development. In Legacy, the Cause of Death/medical notes placement predated
the introduction of Events. Just FYI
Margaret
In NZ
Legacy User Group
Hi Jack
I can only partly replicate this. Can't say I've noticed it before - I can
confirm that added or changed data disappears if I leave the Individual's
Notes by pressing the Esc key, but not if I exit by using the x to exit the
notes. There was no reminder notice, but I can't comment on
Can someone suggest a solution to a problem that I have just come across?
When I try to run a descendant report by going to Reports and clicking on
the Descendant tab, Legacy freezes. I can use the mouse and close the pop-up
box by clicking on the cross in the top right corner of the pop-up - this
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