RE: [LegacyUG] Funeral handouts

2007-07-23 Thread Stan McCuaig
I have a Payment Receipt from a Funeral Home, an it was for my wifes funeral. And they call the Memorial Folders, so I don't not think it would be worng in call the Memorial Cards, or for the Catholic one, because most of the furenal of held in a Catholic Church, and they do the Mass for the

Re: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big

2007-07-23 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Gary, I was not advising Leo to rename his files. Karl and others already gave good advice to use Ifranview to batch CONVERT the picture files from .bmp to .jpg and keep both the .bmp and .jpg files in the same directory. Read Leo's question which I left unsnipped below. He thought he would

[LegacyUG] Additioanl Location Info for Marriages

2007-07-23 Thread Thomas Herson
The program provides a way to enter additonal location information for birth, death, and burial. Things like hospitals and cemeteries. Is there a way to add information about churches with regard to the marriage information box. Thanks, Tom Herson Ithaca, NY AIM HersonIthaca Have you

[LegacyUG] Export types

2007-07-23 Thread Warren
Hello All, Recently put many family members in Legacy and now I want to export my contact list with phone numbers to excel. We need to call everyone for a get toghether. I saw something on labels however I dont to mail anything nor do I want my list in a label format. I want a excel

RE: [LegacyUG] Export types

2007-07-23 Thread M. Brenzel
Warren, If you have phone numbers in the Address section for your family members, then you can customize the report to print out of the name list, showing the name and phone number. CSV is one of the output options of the Name List. Then you can bring it into Excel for any additional

Re: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big

2007-07-23 Thread Gary Templeman
You are right. This thread has had some variability so I didn't catch exactly what you were doing. My mistake. There are ways to batch change just the extension, and for image files you can still open them. That is because the file structure information the software needs to interpret it is

Re: [LegacyUG] On this date...

2007-07-23 Thread Jenny M Benson
Karl Plenge wrote You would have to create a query for each of the dates you wanted to use - birth, baptism, marriage, death, etc. The easiest way to approach this that I can think of is to print each list separately: Births for December 14, Baptisms for December 14, etc. In this case, all

Re: [LegacyUG] Hand held PC and program

2007-07-23 Thread Jim Liddil
FYI, Dell discontinued the Axim line a while ago: http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9348/axim-pda-line-discontinued-by-dell/ Jim On 7/22/07, Paul A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel I must reply as I have been through this same thing with another list. I owned a Dell Axim and recently

Re: [LegacyUG] Additioanl Location Info for Marriages

2007-07-23 Thread Jenny M Benson
Thomas Herson wrote The program provides a way to enter additonal location information for birth, death, and burial. Things like hospitals and cemeteries. Is there a way to add information about churches with regard to the marriage information box. When you are in the Marriage Information

Re: [LegacyUG] On this date...

2007-07-23 Thread Karl Plenge
SELECT tblIR.Surname, tblIR.GivenName, tblIR.BirthD, tblIR.ChrisD, tblIR.DeathD, tblIR.BuriedD FROM tblIR WHERE ((Mid$([tblIR]![BirthD],3,4)=[Date])) OR ((Mid$([tblIR]![ChrisD],3,4)=[Date])) OR ((Mid$([tblIR]![DeathD],3,4)=[Date])); I didn't think about doing it with ORs, but that would

[LegacyUG] Research notes for recent work

2007-07-23 Thread Mary Thomason Morris
I know Legacy has a research form that you can print out and write down your research, but it would be so much better if we could do one right on Legacy as we do it (and before old-zheimers sets in). I do my research by bits and pieces, and would love to be able to call up a page that shows me

Re: [LegacyUG] Godparents

2007-07-23 Thread Susan Daily
Hello José, There are two events called God Father and God Mother. The sentence, when fields are filled, reads like: His God Father was John Smith. I choose to do things differently. In my christening/baptism notes, I like to put in the sentence He was baptized by Father J. Doherty and his

RE: [LegacyUG] Research notes for recent work

2007-07-23 Thread ronald ferguson
Mary, It is possible that I am just too wrapped up in what I am doing at present to grasp your suggestion (just looking through the mail for a break) but I fail to see what will be gained by this that cannot be done by entering stuff into a To Do as you go along - or by creating a spreadsheet

Re: [LegacyUG] Research notes for recent work

2007-07-23 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
What I have done is, I create a word document which includes all transcriptions for the combo year/place, and if needed I can collected multiple states as the location. I then put all the 'years' in a ring binder, So I can see all in a certain place that I have already. After I add new stuff to my

RE: [LegacyUG] I am wanting to create a spreadsheet from info in Legacy

2007-07-23 Thread Valeris Garton
Hi Carl. Eventually I am getting around to saying thank you so thank you Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Dublin, Wicklow Wexford - please ??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [LegacyUG] Hand held PC and program

2007-07-23 Thread Valeris Garton
I would love to talk to people about my PDA as I have so far managed to get it out of the box ! Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Dublin, Wicklow Wexford - please ??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [LegacyUG] Training disks

2007-07-23 Thread Valeris Garton
Thanks so much Cathy. I will order them now. Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Dublin, Wicklow Wexford - please ??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Thursday, 19 July

Re: [LegacyUG] Research notes for recent work

2007-07-23 Thread Jan Holland
I always have my e-mail open in the background and split the screen between Legacy and the internet so it's easy to go back and forth. If I find something and don't want to take the time to check Legacy I copy and past into an e-mail and when day is done-I send it to myself. Reminds me of

RE: [LegacyUG] Hand held PC and program

2007-07-23 Thread Kevin R. Phillips
Valerie, Don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions or problems. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] And don't forget to get the user guide (about 200 pages) at: http://www.northernhillssoftware.com/documents.htm Kevin Phillips Northern Hills Software -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] Godparents

2007-07-23 Thread José Mariz
Hi Susan Thanks for your clear and clever advice, it seems to go along with my feelings and I’ll take it as a good one. Allow me to use it as a challenge to Legacy (or other application) users. I’m an historian not a genealogist (no value judgment on this) and an amateur on genealogy matters.

Re: [LegacyUG] Research notes for recent work

2007-07-23 Thread Wendy Howard
There have been some good replies to this already, but this point caught my attention: It is frustrating to be online, say checking census on a newly found person in your line, and see a familiar name as you go down the page, and have to either write it down just in case you don't have it or

RE: [LegacyUG] Godparents

2007-07-23 Thread M. Brenzel
I chose to record this information in a slightly different manner. I use the Godfather and Godmother events to record when someone is a Godparent for a child. I added 4 new events – Her Godmother, Her Godfather, His Godmother and His Godfather. I use those to record the Godparents from the

RE: [LegacyUG] Godparents

2007-07-23 Thread Tom Montgomery
If you wish to do your own thing just put [notes]in the sentence override field (but without the quotes) and in the notes section type in whatever you like. What you input is exactly what you shall get on a report. I use this just about as much as a defined definition approach as it affords

RE: [LegacyUG] Research notes for recent work

2007-07-23 Thread Cathy
Hi Mary, The quickest way if you know what source you are using is to use one of the tags for that source and tag people that you want to follow up in that source and untag them when you've done. I used this when I was using South Australian BDM disks as BDM info leads you all over the

RE: [LegacyUG] Godparents

2007-07-23 Thread Cathy
Hi Jose, Nobody is forcing you to use the Events. You can just do your own thing in the General Notes and you could make the Research Notes and the Medical Notes anything you want as well. You can change their headers in Reports. There are advantages in using Events for like information as

RE: [LegacyUG] Research notes for recent work

2007-07-23 Thread Valeris Garton
Sounds very interesting to me Jan. Can you tell me how to split the screen in Microsoft Outlook or Legacy please ? Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Dublin, Wicklow Wexford - please ??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]