Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs. TMG

2009-10-27 Thread linda chapman
Hi I would also like your thoughts, if thats ok? Regards Lin please browse my family tree at http://mytangledfamily.tribalpages.com From: Jackie bakerj...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, 27 October, 2009 2:02:33 Subject:

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs. TMG

2009-10-27 Thread WALTER D. CONNER
You may want to wait a bit longer, I just discovered bad problems with printing Source Reference numbers, the Sources are listed appropriately but not all of the reference numbers appear in the Report when printed out. I am afraid they may put too much emphasis on adding gee haws and not enough

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs. TMG

2009-10-27 Thread Charles Apple
Hi Jackie, Welcome to the list. Yes, I switched from TMG 7 to Legacy 7.0 Deluxe, and I would definitely NOT switch back to TMG for a variety of reasons. I had been using TMG for about 15 years. Although it is a daunting task to clean up all the records, the finished product is well worth the

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG and then some

2008-06-01 Thread Allen Prunty
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 3:10 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG and then some Cathy, Thanks for the comments and I am looking forward to trying V7. For the FTM problem, I have reinstalled it on three drives now always from

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG and then some

2008-05-31 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
From: Cathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Legacy 7 requires much the same although for mapping you need IE7 and I think it would drive you mad without broadband connection. I don't understand people not being interested in maps. :-) I don't understand people being interested in current maps. I am,

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG and then some

2008-05-31 Thread Cathy
Hi Elizabeth, Because they're not just street maps. You can see the countryside and in 3D the elevation. But even modern roads mostly follow old routes. Of course old maps are invaluable but modern are not irrelevant. Cathy At 03:20 PM 31/05/2008, you wrote: From: Cathy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG and then some

2008-05-31 Thread m absalom
; Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG and then some To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 6:07 PM Hi Jane, Three comments. Legacy 7 reports give the option to have sources as footnotes, endnotes or endnotes at the end of each section/generation. Re importing an FTM

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread D Fretwell
Legacy 7 does include CHARTING - it does not use witnesses. Keith .. and pretty awful it is too David - Genbox user, testing Legacy Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages:

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Keith Bage
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Ayres Sent: 30 May 2008 03:45 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG Roberta, about a month ago I did the same after a number of comments on the LUG, I didn't have any trouble importing my db into TMG but I

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Steve Ayres
Then how come you are still a member of the LEGACY USERS GROUP and not the tmg group. Oh, I know you've seen the errors of your way and want to come back Steve Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:48:05 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG To: LegacyUserGroup

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Rodney Hall
Legacy 7 does not yet support witness, but it does have a very good CHARTING addition. See for an example http://rmhh.co.uk/ Descendants_of_John_HALL.pdf -- Rodney HALL Heywood, Lancashire Suaviter sed fortiter Agreeably but powerfully ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rmhh.co.uk/

RE: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Rodney Hall
Broken URL in the last posting Legacy 7 does not yet support witness, but it does have a very good CHARTING addition. See for an example http://rmhh.co.uk/descendants_of_john_hall.pdf -- Rodney HALL Heywood, Lancashire Suaviter sed fortiter Agreeably but powerfully ~ [EMAIL

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Rodney Hall
Broken URL in the last posting Legacy 7 does not yet support witness, but it does have a very good CHARTING addition. See for an example http://rmhh.co.uk/ Descendants_of_John_HALL.pdf -- Rodney HALL Heywood, Lancashire Suaviter sed fortiter Agreeably but powerfully ~ [EMAIL

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Bill
Hi I am one who has used practically every Genealogy software,all have some features that are better than others, but overall Legacy is for me , the best. I cannot fatom all the whingers who are not even Legacy users, yet are members of the LUG. Strange or what ? Bill, Plymouth, UK Legacy

Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread philip thorne
Rodney Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Legacy 7 does not yet support witness, but it does have a very good CHARTING addition. See for an example http://rmhh.co.uk/descendants_of_john_hall.pdf Thanks for the link to the PDF. For years TMG could print that kind of chart and many more. In

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG and then some

2008-05-30 Thread m absalom
Hello again Legacy, I have been lurking now for a few months and though the recent posts concerning OS and genealogy programs were something I could comment on. Back in the early part of this year I decided to begin weaning my self off Win 98 and begin exploring OS and genealogy programs. I had

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Penny
] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:57 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG I have TMG 6 that I upgraded from TMG 5. I have tried on many occasions to work with it and cannot. If you want to spend you time fooling around with the software and forget about

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread ronald ferguson
/ _ Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:59:43 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG Rodney Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Legacy 7 does not yet support witness, but it does have a very good

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread ronald ferguson
/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 12:08:12 -0500 This was my experience with TMG, as well. I even got the TMG training videos in hopes they would help sort out why this thing was harder

RE: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Rodney Hall
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of philip thorne Sent: 30 May 2008 16:00 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG Rodney Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Legacy 7 does not yet support witness, but it does have a very good CHARTING addition. See for an example http

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Kris
Hi, Penny -- You obviously have a lot more experience with it than I do. I tried TMG (and a bunch of others, like PAF, Roots Magic and GenBox) before I committed to Legacy. It was a no-brainer for me. Legacy was user-friendly enough that I could start using it right away, without any tips,

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG and then some

2008-05-30 Thread Cathy
Hi Jane, Three comments. Legacy 7 reports give the option to have sources as footnotes, endnotes or endnotes at the end of each section/generation. Re importing an FTM generated GEDCOM into Legacy. There are notes on the Legacy Web pages on what options to choose when exporting the Gedcom

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-30 Thread Janis Gilmore
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG Penny, I agree. I do not want an event driven style of database but, like you, one that is people/family driven. I would think also that it would be extremely difficult to combine the two approaches into a unified database

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread Robert Carneal USA
Keith- I imagine we all could. Instead, please go to this page: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Compare.asp There, Legacy is compared against several others. It is compared against PAF, FTM, RM, and TMG. Thanks. Robert Keith Bage wrote: Can anyone tell me what functionality that Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
Keith, For an extremely unbiased :) comparison see our comparison chart at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Compare.asp. Geoff (...still...at the Las Vegas airport...) - Original Message - From: Keith Bage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thu, 29

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread Anne Hildrum
I Moved from TMG to Legacy, but that was a long time ago. The main reason I have a large file, and making a GEDCOM of that file in TMG took more than 4 days, in Legacy abt 2 hours. Making the report I always use took in TMG 4 days, in Legacy less than 2 hours. The one thing I miss in Legacy is

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread Roberta Wunder
I downloaded a trial of TMG last night to see what all the fuss about Witness' was about. Took quite awhile to download, quite awhile to install, and after an enormous amount of time waiting for the process to import my current database - I got tired of waiting and went to bed, this morning the

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread Keith Bage
(and I do know we can override them). Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Rasmussen Sent: 29 May 2008 18:23 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG Keith, For an extremely

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread Brendan Caley
Keith This link may help http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ Brendan Caley From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Bage Sent: 29 May 2008 18:21 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG Can anyone

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread Janis Gilmore
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG I Moved from TMG to Legacy, but that was a long time ago. The main reason I have a large file, and making a GEDCOM of that file in TMG took more than 4 days, in Legacy abt 2 hours. Making the report I always use took

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread Robert57P via Gmail
. They are getting there. Bob - Original Message - From: Geoff Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG Keith, For an extremely unbiased :) comparison see our comparison chart at http

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread G. C. Oliver
] On Behalf Of Keith Bage Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:40 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG Thanks Geoff! And completely unbiased eh. To be fair it did remind me of some damn good options TMG doesn't have. Still, very interested to see how the sourcewriter

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread E.R. Brunson
to all, My whole family switched to TMG, by Wholly Genes! TMG is orders of magnitudes better than Legacy! TMG handles duplicates much better! TMG handles and sorts on aliases! TMG has a bigger learning curve. In TMG, you can customize your working screen(s) - better than Legacy ever will be.

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread philip thorne
I have used both programs and yes TMG has a major learning curve but as stated it goes way beyond Legacy however the majority of us will never need the in-depth functionality of TMG. Speaking of which does the new version of Legacy include an entry for witnesses and can it print family trees?

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread Steve Ayres
or Commodore 64 computers so I uninstalled it and now I sit here updating my familytree in Legacy waiting for the new version to become available. Steve Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:43:11 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy vs TMG

2008-05-29 Thread GeoSci
Legacy 7 does include CHARTING - it does not use witnesses. Keith On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:10 PM, philip thorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used both programs and yes TMG has a major learning curve but as stated it goes way beyond Legacy however the majority of us will never need the