Re: [LegacyUG] Event Narrative Format

2009-10-28 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Stan, I don't know that there is a correct format regarding line spacing. I suppose it's up to each person to decide how they wish their reports to look. Personally, I like a blank line between each event but I don't recall ever using the sentence override so can't help you there. I just edit

Re: [LegacyUG] Event Narrative Format

2009-10-27 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Stan, Please check your Event sentence definitions and see if there are carriage returns added at the end. Mary -- From: smegraw smeg...@hotmail.com When printing a Descendant Report, I have the Events (with custom Notes) for an Individual listed as bullets or

Re: [LegacyUG] Notes for Spouse's Death Event

2009-10-22 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Stan, Would you consider naming the event Memorial and use the death date to sort it so it follows the hard coded death event? Mary - Original Message - From: smegraw To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 6:49 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] Divorces

2009-08-26 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Paula, Other list members have helped you with the status notice on the marriage information screen but be certain to also place a check mark by the marriage status in the report options if you haven't already done this. Mary - Original Message - From: Paula Rothstein To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding DOCUMENTS to an individuals record

2009-08-19 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
I think, for your purpose, you must use the Picture icon when attaching anything that is in a graphic format i.e., .jpg .tif, whatever format Legacy recognizes and will use as a Picture (graphic). The other files would be attached by clicking on the File icon. BTW, there is a free program,

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendent Report bug

2009-08-14 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Ruth, Is Rosaria's birth surname Testini and her birth father's surname Testa? Does this have something to do with female/male pronunciation of the surname or a cultural following of the female, rather than the male line? If not, why would Rosaria's birth surname be different than her

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary not showing in Descendant Narrative Report Book

2009-06-16 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Lloyd, You need to click on Edit Event, then Edit Event Sentence Definition and add the notes (assuming this is where you have the obit text entered) in your Event Sentence. This is how mine reads if all of my fields are entered: [HeShe] was remembered in an obituary, published [onDate],

Re: [LegacyUG] Questions about Legacy Register style reporting

2009-03-14 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Excellent catch, Marg. I would think, since this is the family that the sample database opens to by default, that those particular parents would not be set as private. A potential new user opens the sample file to take a look around and look what happens; an immediate issue crops up. A

Re: [LegacyUG] Questions about Legacy Register style reporting

2009-03-13 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Gene, I don't know why the sample file omits the daughter of so and so. Mine does the same thing, yet my personal files do insert the daughter of so and so? I can't see any difference in the settings so I don't understand why the sample file omits it? This is a bit strange. Mary -

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: I have a question - Used to be Where is everybody?

2009-02-24 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Lucy, The following is the reply I sent you on Feb 18. I guess it never made it to the list. -- Lucy, On the menu bar: Go to OptionsCustomizeGeneral Tab and look down in the lower left hand corner. Tick the box Enable Tagging

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with pictures

2009-02-23 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Helen, Just a thought but are you setting the first picture in the row of photos as your preferred photo. The little asterisk needs to be showing on the photo you wish to have displayed on your family view. Moving a photo to the first slot doesn't automatically make it the preferred photo.

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Copy Census Event created for one individual to others the same event applies to easily

2009-02-23 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Isn't this a great feature? Mary From: John Magyari jmagy...@gmail.com I figured it out. Using Clipboard john John Magyari wrote: How Can I copy a generic Census Event from 1 person to others? I created a Census Event generic enough that I want 20 other people to have the same exact

Re: [LegacyUG] How to show tags on family view

2009-02-18 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Lucy, On the menu bar: Go to OptionsCustomizeGeneral Tab and look down in the lower left hand corner. Tick the box Enable Tagging and you should see your three tag boxes on the family view. This is where you can also change the tag numbers that are being shown by clicking on Tags to Show.

Re: [LegacyUG] Need a blank line

2009-02-16 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Jane, Try adding a carriage return [CR] at the end of your sentence definition fields and see if that will do what you want. If one doesn't do it, try adding two. They are easy to remove if they don't give the desired result. As an example, for my notes event, I use the following so I get a

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: [Legacy] Does anyone know how convert Family Tree Maker - Version 1.1 (MS-DOS) to GENCOM or later file formats?

2009-02-13 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Brandon, I still have FTM v3.0 on CD, which was published in 1995. I began with your version but no longer have it. If you want to send me your file attached to an email, I'll try to get it moved up to version 3. I still have several versions of the program but no longer have them installed.

Re: [LegacyUG] web page question

2009-01-30 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Michele, When you set up your design choices for your web pages, you need to tick the box under the Web Page CreationFormatting Tab to create an Index and choose the variables for how you wish for it to look. Perhaps this is unchecked and no index was created? Since you've already uploaded

Re: [LegacyUG] web page question

2009-01-30 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
michele From: Mary Fowler Leek ml...@sbcglobal.net Michele, When you set up your design choices for your web pages, you need to tick the box under the Web Page CreationFormatting Tab to create an Index and choose the variables for how you wish for it to look. Perhaps this is unchecked

[LegacyUG] Generation sub heading on each page of Descendant Book Report?

2009-01-27 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Is there a way to indicate the generation as a sub heading on each page of a Descendant Book Report? When a new generation is begun, the first page of that section indicates the generation but on subsequent pages the Report title is the only thing that is printed. In a long report, it makes it

Re: [LegacyUG] Fwd: BOOK BUGS

2009-01-17 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Is it possible there are notes in the marriage notes, not the individual general notes and that might be the notes being seen in the Chronology report? Mary - Original Message - From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Saturday,

Re: [LegacyUG] Family Search .org String

2008-12-20 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
sent earlier to the list by :Leon Chapman Try this search string (remember, no spaces): http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=1;toYear=[DeathYear];searchType=standard;year=[BirthYear];surname=[SurName];givenName=[GivenNames] Use default Data Prep field: [ ]=[%20]

Re: [LegacyUG] Updating to latest 6.0

2008-11-18 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Barbara, Please try this URL for earlier versions of Legacy. http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpDownloadVersion6.asp This should be the most up to date version of Legacy 6. Download Legacy 6 and install on your new computer, then use Restore to open your most recent family data file on your

Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures in Reports

2008-11-08 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Yes, Barbara, it is a bit outrageous but until other users put in a request for better media handling, it will probably remain low on the priority list. I create my own events so I can control how they are presented in my reports so attaching photos to events works OK for me. I don't use any of

Re: [LegacyUG] Pros and Cons of Notes vs. Events Usage

2008-10-12 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Hi Jessica, Before using Legacy, I used an event driven genealogy program so I'm comfortable creating and using events. Even though I did at first place some items in the general notes, I've since begun replacing all my note content with events. For general notes, I just created an event

Re: [LegacyUG] Report wording

2008-08-17 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Ruth, I ran into this situation, too. For now, until someone suggests something better that covers both past and present, I changed mine to read: Known Children: I'll be watching this thread to see what other Legacy users do. Mary - Original Message - From: Ruth Nerud To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Most used narrative reports

2008-08-15 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Jeff, I was primarily using the Narrative Book Report but have switched to the Register Book Report for now, due to formatting issues when including photos in my reports. I'm in the process of moving material previously entered into notes into an event I also call notes. If it is a long

Re: [LegacyUG] Finding differences in databases

2008-08-12 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
When I travel, I use the backup and restore function in Legacy. When you leave home, backup your database. Copy it onto your laptop and use the restore function in your Legacy program on your laptop. When you get back home, backup your database on your laptop, then copy it to your desktop

Re: [LegacyUG] Which file is best for a 1-page written document?

2008-08-05 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
I like to save jpg or tiff scans of one page documents to a pdf file. That format is known and used in many countries and almost every computer has Adobe Reader software on it, as most software manuals and US gov forms are offered in this format. The utility, FastStone Image viewer, is free

Re: [LegacyUG] Which file is best for a 1-page written document?

2008-08-05 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
JL, You can see attached sources in pdf format from within Legacy when they're linked to a source. You just click on the photo icon to get them to open in Adobe reader, just as the jpg's open in an image viewer when clicked. This works in Legacy v6, too, not just in Legacy v7. You just need

Re: [LegacyUG] Nevermind! - 29 February 1894 - What's wrong with this date?

2008-07-22 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Melody, I always check the following site when I have a question about a date. As you can see, there is no Feb 29 for the year 1894. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1894country=1 Mary From: Melody B On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Melody B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Translation between Legacy v7 TNG

2008-07-19 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
-wenck.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Fowler Leek Sent: Saturday, 19 July 2008 6:58 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Translation between Legacy v7 TNG Gail, My sources are displayed the same way

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Translation between Legacy v7 TNG

2008-07-18 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Gail, My sources are displayed the same way. TNG appears to use the Source Name list field, rather than the source title field. I create my gedcoms using 5.5 and the sources are still identified as yours are in my TNG site. I don't think it's anything you're doing or could do differently,

Re: [LegacyUG] New topic

2008-07-01 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Dave, THANK you for this very informative post. I've been doing (hi-jacking) forever and never knew it was a bad thing to do. I use Outlook Express so was totally unaware of the effect of my action. Will cease and desist immediately, unless I intend to reply to the thread (like now). :-)

Re: [LegacyUG] New topic

2008-07-01 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
This would be great! What server address do I use to set it up as a newsgroup? Is it available on the Legacy website? Mary From: ronald ferguson Mary, For your information if you had OE set up to receive LUG's mail in the News function, rather than the Mail, you would see the

Re: [LegacyUG] Married name statement

2008-07-01 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Jane, I've been mulling this over, trying to figure out why all of these married names have been assigned to the Legacy AKA field. I remember TMG had an option to also display and print the married name in reports. I'm wondering if TMG places the married name in a field in the gedcom that

Re: [LegacyUG] fixing locations in imported file

2008-06-27 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Jane, Are you referring to 4000 locations or 4000 people with locations? Just work through the Master location list, and do a few at a time. It won't take as long as it seems (maybe :-) On the off chance you don't know this, changing through the master location list will automatically change

Re: [LegacyUG] Very Basic Questions

2008-06-27 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
I would hope you would consider sharing, at some later date, your research with Ancestry or Rootsweb or your local library genealogical research dept. and or your county Genealogical Society. Also please consider printing and leaving a copy or two for your family. Sometimes young family members

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
This is what I now enter for my unknowns (_). Please see example at end of message. It will lose a bit of formatting because of sending this message as plain text but you can get the idea. I used to enter just a __ but noticed, with Legacy 7, my entered underlines don't carry

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Ron, It's in the Descendant Narrative Book Report where the lines no longer show or print. I'm talking about lines I've actually typed into the name field in Legacy, like this . not the option we can tick in Legacy to include lines for missing info in the reports. Ironically,

Re: [LegacyUG] LG7 and Virtual Earth - change to push pin markers

2008-06-24 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
a balloon to a pin (even though the text says push pin, all I get are balloons). Bob - Original Message - From: Mary Fowler Leek To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:09 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] LG7 and Virtual Earth - change

Re: [LegacyUG] Search failure

2008-06-22 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
No, it's ok. I don't know what on earth I was doing before, but I have since found that it *does* work. Jenny M Benson Jenny, Glad to hear all is well and just happy to see someone else can get discombobulated, too! I'm forever getting

Re: [LegacyUG] Improvements in Legacy7

2008-06-20 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Lloyd, The beefed up search options are one of my favorite and most used new features. Far more robust than V6. Mary From: Lloyd Subject: [LegacyUG] Improvements in Legacy7 What are some of the improvements in Legacy7 over Legacy6? My money is tight due to the ecomony and I do not

Re: [LegacyUG] Finding those with sound files

2008-06-09 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Bob, In Legacy 7, I have a sound file that does show up at the _end_ of the list created using your instructions. My printed list shows the file path where the file is located on my harddrive and using the RIN in the Legacy INDEX list, I can quickly jump to the person with the attached

Re: [LegacyUG] Event Sentence Structure

2008-06-08 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Just to clarify. You CAN do away with the default sentences altogether for a particular event, if you wish to write up your own narrative each time. For many of my events, I've deleted the default sentence structures for all combinations and replaced with [notes][sources] Then I write what

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM Problem with V6 and MyFamily.com

2008-06-01 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Hi Alice, If all else fails, go through the Ancestry upload option, then download your gedcom from that upload and then delete your ancestry tree. Might this work to get a gedcom that myfamily.com would read correctly? I've no working knowledge of either version of upload but I have read some

Re: [LegacyUG] Simple Location list

2008-05-30 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
:From: Debbie Freeman :How do you make a simple location list which includes basically only the :physical locations and the longitude and latitude? In Legacy Deluxe, go to View Master Lists Location Options Print Location List Please see if this is what you're looking for. Mary Legacy

[LegacyUG] Edit screens on Master Lists - (was) v7 features I like best ... SourceWriter is among them

2008-05-28 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
JL, Many are blessed with superior intellect and I sort of drag up the rear.:-) Sorry I pulled you out of retirement so soon but it's not all it's cracked up to be, anyway, so please stick around. I wouldn't bet the house on it but the following are my cursory observations. Mary On Tue,

Re: [LegacyUG] v7 features I like best ... SourceWriter is among them

2008-05-27 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Not certain which master lists you're referring to ... In Legacy 6 deluxe, from the tabbed Index list, which contains every name in your database and which I use a lot, you can double-click on a name and it will open to the Individual Information screen/window. From this screen, you have

Re: [LegacyUG] vs 7 update download question

2008-05-21 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Did you enter your new registration number that came with Legacy 7 to upgrade it to the deluxe version? This is the only thing I can think of that might help. If you've already done this have to wait for someone with other suggestions. Mary - Original Message - From: Lisa

Re: [LegacyUG] Missing Source Citations

2008-05-13 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Mr. Howell, Before doing anything else, please go to on your menu bar and click on: View Master Lists Source and on this screen, look at the right hand side, about midway down. Under Show Only, are any of those four items checked? If so, uncheck them and see if your master sources now show up

Re: [LegacyUG] Boyd Miller - Sentence Structure

2008-05-02 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Tom, Boyd may have changed around some of the Event sentence structures to read as he would like and these changes are what he might have shared with you. We are not locked into the default Event sentence structures. Legacy provides a broad range of options to use to personalize the events in

Re: [LegacyUG] Update to pre-release of Legacy Charting available (7.0.094)

2008-05-02 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Just to let Luc know ... my update did display correctly in Legacy Charting, indicating a new update was available and the update link in the Charting program worked properly. When I clicked on the update link, it connected, downloaded and the update installed smoothly. Mary English XP Pro w/

Re: [LegacyUG] New User of Legacy seeking advice

2008-04-27 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Hi Colin, I'm not Penny but can pass along the following advice, which I saved from earlier discussions and recently shared with a cousin. Thank you, Leon. It should be helpful in moving your data by GEDCOM from FTM to Legacy: On 8/28/07, Leon Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should

Re: [LegacyUG] Sentence Wording for Nicknames/AKA

2008-04-24 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Ron, You might consider creating an event named AKA, where you have the choice to do anything you want with the wording. I'm moving to use named events for everything I enter, other than the basic vitals. This way, I have total control over the formatting and how they're placed in my reports.

Re: [LegacyUG] Can I add marriage date to the individual page?

2008-03-27 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
I assume you're referring to the Individual's Information window? I don't see anyway to show it with the existing options available on this particular screen. If there is, someone will point us to it. In the meantime, you can use the name list, and keep the tab set on family, and that

Re: [LegacyUG] Can I add marriage date to the individual page?

2008-03-27 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Now, how clever is this! I knew if there was a way to do it or an excellent work-around, someone would post the information. Great suggestion, Dave. Mary - Original Message - From: Dave Naylor To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:53 PM

[LegacyUG] creating a notes event ... good idea or no?

2008-03-21 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
I would like to have my notes placed after each person on the FGS and even sometimes placed differently in my narrative reports. Can anyone think of a negative reason to handle note type information by placing them in a note event, rather than using General notes? The only drawback I can

Re: [LegacyUG] Photo Album or Scrapbook

2007-11-20 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Winifred, I can't say that I've used the scrapbook/ photo album feature in Legacy since it doesn't allow me to print different sizes of photos on the same page or album. I've decided to create my own album using a recent version of WordPerfect. MS Word would work, too, but, IMHO, WordPerfect

Re: [LegacyUG] Create PDF bookmarks

2007-11-03 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Hi Sandy, I think Gene is correct in that you must use the full Adobe Acrobat software to assign bookmarks. You might consider eBay and search for an older Acrobat software package. Even though I have more current versions, I still use Acrobat v5 on my primary computer and it handles my simple

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms

2007-11-02 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
I think the problem here _might_ be that FTM doesn't have a notes section for what is their equivalent of Legacyevents. There may be no comparable field in FTM to place that information when importing a gedcom into FTM. It's been a while since I've used FTM but in the past, no notes section was

Re: [LegacyUG] Expanding Width of Index Columns

2007-10-18 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Mr. Lorge, Place your mouse cursor over the little dividing lines in the Index header, where it says RIN Full Name Birth Date (or whatever your column headings say) You notice there are little dividing lines between these index column headings. When you place your mouse cursor

Re: [LegacyUG] Event sorting

2007-10-15 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Jerry, Please go to the Legacy Home tab in Legacy and look on the right lower portion of the screen. Here you will see under _Support_ Suggest a new feature. Please send in your request for this feature or option to be added (unless it's there and I just don't know how to implement it)! :-)

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Superscript fonts in RTF file report

2007-10-15 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Susan, Can you import the RTF file into Word? Would that put things right for you, since Word does format true superscript? I'm afraid I'm pretty ignorant about working with RTF files. Maybe someone else will come along with some helpful suggestions. Mary - Original Message - From:

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Superscript fonts in RTF file report

2007-10-15 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
I've been looking at a RTF file in Word 2003. If I set the paragraph format to Exactly - 13 pts), it seems to work while still maintaining the superscript properly. 12 pts cuts off the top of the superscript just a tad. Are you doing your editing in Word? Mary - Original Message -

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDSplit

2007-10-06 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Thank you, John, for providing access to these extremely well written and helpful utilities. I registered my copies of his software with him and used it for several years. I'm so pleased to have the chance to archive these helpful little utilities. Thank you for making them available for this

Re: [LegacyUG] Another refinement

2007-04-16 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
I'm not certain I'm following this thread correctly. My method of seeing immediately how or if someone is related to me in my database is by using a column in the Index to show the relationship to me, if any. Of course, it will only display the relationship for the focus person set to display

Re: [LegacyUG] frustrating

2007-02-04 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Hi Liz, I've always had a fairly quick response when I needed to unsubscribe. I don't think it would take this long. When you unsubscribe, I believe you'll get a little message pop up that says the unsubscribe was successful, after you fill in the little box and click on unsubscribe. The

Re: [LegacyUG] frustrating

2007-02-04 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Hi Liz, I've always had a fairly quick response when I needed to unsubscribe. I don't think it would take this long. When you unsubscribe, I believe you'll get a little message pop up that says the unsubscribe was successful, after you fill in the little box and click on unsubscribe. The

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and pictures

2007-01-23 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
I've really enjoyed this thread. It's interesting to hear how everyone works with their digital images within Legacy. Photo's add so much interest to the reports and digital images of sources make such great research tools. I hope Legacy continues to improve in this area of the program. For

Re: [LegacyUG] Producing PDFs

2006-08-02 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Alastair, If you have Acrobat installed, you should also have the Acrobat pdf printer program installed. Is it distiller? Anyway, I believe it automatically installs when you install Acrobat. Locate it in your list of printers, print your report to this pdf printer and see if this file is