I like this idea, too, Ron. But, could somebody please explain to me
the difference between nick-names and familiar names. I always
thought they were the same thing, but the way the help files read, they
are not.
Just curious,
Penny
ronald ferguson wrote:
Ila,
For alternative first
Syble, could you clarify for me where, exactly, you explain why you
think the tombstone is in error? I have a situation like that where I
am quite certain that my grandfather's year of death is wrong on his
stone and I'd like to explain how I know it.
Thanks,
Penny
Syble Glasscock wrote
was there!
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If one wanted to keep track of which members of a family had a particular
physical characteristic, how would you do that? Is it possible to customize a
line of data (along with birth, death, etc) on family view for this?
Suggestions?
Thanks!
Penny
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Thanks to all for your prompt and very useful advice on my question! That'll
work.
Regards,
Penny
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How would you handle this case?
Penny
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Gary Brown wrote
As in the case of: Harry S Truman. His whole middle name was S ,
not an abbreviation. Should his family simply add a period
arbitrarily, as needed, so as to not upset
Tish, since the obnoxiously anal LUG police seem to be out in force today, I'd
cordially suggest you come join over here to ask your question:
http://genealogyclub.net/forum/
It's a little friendlier atmosphere.
Regards,
Penny
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Stan,
I'm using the 2-author book template. After the last name of the second
author, I add , et al in place of all additional authors' actual names.
Penny
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To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 8:48 AM
Subject
Ah ... but the other thing is ...
If one is more what might be called a family historian type as opposed to what
might be
called a strict genealogist type, there's no merely about said relationship;
rather, it
is a relationship in all respects. Personally, I'd like my gen program to
reflect
for the reminder nudge!
Penny
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From: John S. Adams
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:42 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter options
I see a lot of questions to this group which indicate to me that many users are
hung up on the literal titles
No.
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Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:13 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] digest
Is there a digest version of this list?
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Like I said - it depends - check with your space provider for details of both
upload
capabilities and limitations.
Regards,
Penny
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Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 10:09 AM
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in Montgomery County where my Calfee kin lived died until I had to
search out where
the cemetery pin needed to go. (I'll be darned! How about that?! grin)
Penny
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one copy of one of these on their bookshelves,
but I
guess the computer-age has changed that. Go figure! ;)
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That would be a good question to ask ESM, Michele. I, too, noticed this
inconsistency and wondered about the reasoning behind it.
Maybe Geoff knows why it's this way?
Penny
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Ok, now I am confused. Mills is supposed
!
Penny
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Ok, I see it now (person of interest, etc.). That scrolling thing is very
easy to overlook. I have to go back and redo two days worth of census
records.
michele
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to know if there are more fields, so this shouldn't be easy to
overlook in the future.
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
Millennia Corporation
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Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008
clipboard. Handy as a pocket on a shirt!
Penny
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From: Geoff Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:38 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Source conversion
As we know, the Source Conversion tool is not yet done. I
in ways
some dedicated LUGgers should appreciate. It certainly doesn't mean we'd be
required to leave here to take advantage of what is essentially an
additional resource.
Regards,
Penny
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I doubt that Support will become involved. So
confused myself and can't see where I went wrong (highly likely)
or
it's a bug of some sort. (not as likely, but certainly possible.)
Help???
Thanks in advance,
Penny
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JLB [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is there a choice in the box that pops up when entering a new name? I'm
guessing not, or you would have seen it.
Penny replies:
No, I didn't see it. blush/grin As anticipated, I overlooked the
obvious. (Thanks to you and Cathy for making me look again
comp programs to shut up. :)
On the other hand, Legacy does pop up a warning when I enter something
similar on a new person. I haven't seen a way to turn that off, have you?
Penny who's probably overlooking the obvious
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Nope. I ran
do, isn't it?
HTH,
Penny
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From: Richard Doherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 9:37 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] German Location Names?
The recommendation from most professional genealogists is to record
V7 didn't do anything to or make any objections to my various unknowns
(whether first name or last) from my v6 database, Kirsten. I think JL's
referring to the warning screen you get when you enter the word unknown in
a name field when adding a new person in v7.
Penny
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location, you'll need to switch back to either road or
aerial to move the pin to where you want it.
HTH,
Penny
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From: Elaine Shuman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any way to zoom into the pins in the maps (v.7)?
When I zoom in, I lose the pins and have to scroll
Yes, it would.
Penny
From: Elizabeth Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My sources are currently organized:
Birth certificates -- a
Birth certificates -- b
E-mails -a
E-mails b
Personal letter - a dated y/yy/yy
Personal letter - b dated x/xx/xx
Censuses
to not work as it should,
please tell me what it is. If I can do this without it messing up other
things I want Legacy to do, then I'll worry about how to get the mapping
feature to put the pins where I need them.
What am I missing here? Your thoughts?
Penny
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Thanks from me, too, Cathy! This seems to work really well so far (tested
on maybe 15-20) with my VE mapping and puts things in a very readable order
in the master locations list, too.
Penny
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needs and then
some; I was quite relieved to have found it after my bummer-experience with
TMG.
As I see it, Legacy and TMG use two different approaches and, therefore,
fill two different niches in the gen-db world.
Penny
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.
There. I feel better having gotten that off my chest.
Penny
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, this would be time consuming, but might be worth your
while (due to lowered aggravation when looking through the list of people).
Someone here might know of a fast way to do this, but I don't.
Regards,
Penny
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in three
side-by-side columns. The families with just one kid (or up to five) show
up in one column; those with 6-10 have two columns. Makes it lots easier to
navigate and looks very neat and tidy.
Penny
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number-12s and 14s. I wasn't happy with either choice.
Best fit is so much better to look at while making it easier to navigate
and I'm enjoying this new feature! (Luckily, I have precious few instances
of more than 15 kids born to one set of parents.)
Penny
You can globally set
!
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We're practicing our waiting-in-line so we'll be used to it when soon
finally gets here. :)
Penny
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If you're having trouble getting on to the Zotero website (I am) it might
be due to 'somebody' having sent the entire LUG over
! I
swear, it's worse than being six years old and the date being December 23.
grin
Penny
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Hi,
last weekend Geoff told me, that Legacy 7 will be available for dl on May,
10th 2008!
IŽm so excited...
Yours
Cyndi Bishop
list..
If the person you are trying to add (as a spouse, child, or parent) already
exists in your database and you simply input that person as if they were not
already in the database, then you'll wind up with a duplicate that you need
to merge.
Hope that helps,
Penny
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points me to where to
look in the help files that I hadn't thought about.
When all else fails, there's always this list! (One of Legacy's best user
resources.)
Regards,
Penny in Texas
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From: Colin Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:46 AM
are that make the
bells and whistles on Legacy do their thing, but it's not so difficult as to
kill the fun.
Penny who thinks you better enjoy that sun before winter sets in!
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From: Colin Liddell
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New User of Legacy seeking advice
Hi
I hadn't seriously thought of using myself as a source until y'all brought
this up. (well, duh!) So, I gave it a whirl. I honestly wasn't sure what
to put on the MS except, Hayes, Penny Perry as the Title. So, I saved it
and tried citing it for my daughter's birth. What a hoot!
Let's see
Thanks ever so much, Mark Ron! Boy, is my face red... that was so simple.
I'd never have found it on my own, but after this, I bet I never forget it,
either! LOL
I owe ya both a plate of homemade cookies.
Penny
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take the middle
road between splitter and lumper.)
Thanks in advance for all opinions and words of wisdom,
Penny
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inquiry.
Like I said, it may not be an answerable question, but thanks again for your
input.
Penny
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you are correct in your
expectations, I will commence this long-overdue project. When I'm done, my
fellow researchers will be grateful to find my sources where they should be
instead of in my notes and I'll be much happier with my reports in general.
LOL
I appreciate you and this list!
Penny
? ... and it would be nice if you could tell her how to fix it.
I'd be more than a little grateful!
Penny
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That answers my question, JL. Thanks!.
Penny
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Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Linking files to Legacy 6.0
I also have census records with several families on them. I just make a
copy for each one
.
This seems way-yonder redundant, even to me, but what the heck. I have
a big drive and it's not like computer space is at a premium.
That's my current reasoning ... others' mileage may vary.
Penny
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, everybody! You're a super bunch of people and I'm
learning tons about Legacy from you.
Penny
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. It's going
to be a big project to put them into pdfs rename them, so I want to be
reasonably sure where I'm going with this.
What do y'all suggest? J.L.? Anybody?
Thanks!
Penny
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in it and then referencing that number for all the rest, even
though they aren't in the same actual household???
I expect I'm being dense here. Sorry, but I'd like a little more
clarification on how others do this.
Thanks again! You're all great!
Penny
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a more specific statement for that.
Penny
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From: Nancy
Subject: [LegacyUG] Question about locations
I always hesitate when I read of an individual who is referred to as being
of a place. As in:
Maria Schmidt married John Bender, of Duxbury.
What exactly does
is differentiated from others of the same
surname by a given location. An example would be Thomas Dunaway of the
Spartanburg Dunaways.
Penny
Thanks, Penny. I knew there was a reason I posed this question to the
group because I would never have come up with this explanation myself. How
would you input
section. I'm going to wait out the nice Millenia folks and hold off
until version 7 gets here.
I'll wait with as much patience as I can muster - which isn't what anyone could
quantify as abundant. grin
Penny Hayes
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open. They had never known what his real name was until then.
Just another take on it to consider. I have several people in my lineage
who fit this situation; your mileage may vary.
Penny
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking
they are?
Good luck with your presentation! Best idea is one you've already had: let
'em try Legacy. They'll probably fall in love with it. I sure did.
Regards,
Penny
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list for a great software. Doesn't get any better
than that.
Penny
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:00 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Information Left Out of Reports
Since I got
Hi y'all! I'm new to the list.
I've been trying and trying to find the archives prior to Nov 2007. Where
are they? I can find the ones from Nov to now, but not before that.
Help???
Penny Hayes
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maddening to
find part of a pertinent thread from, say, back in Aug, 2006, but it's only
part of it ... and no way to to browse to the rest. Ah, well. Such is
life.
I'm so tickled over my new Legacy program! wowsers, I'm wondering what took
me so long to make the leap.
Thanks everybody,
Penny
Thanks!
:)
Penny
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