I think that sometimes we forget that American English is not the first
language of many subscribers to this list. The variety of Legacy users
increases spelling and grammar differences, which may be the root of
some misunderstandings. That said, there has been an uptick in whining
lately.
Well, Cathy has said something that I have wanted to say for some
time. I have been on a number of genealogy lists for about ten years,
and this list has more harshness and rudeness than any list I have
ever been on. I am surprised that it is tolerated.
Sara
.
Cathy Champion wrote:
To
Hi Darlene,
Is it possible that you have two Legacy installations on the second
computer - one that is updated to the latest build and one that
isn't? This could happen if you shifted program files after
installation or if for some other reason the Registry was corrupted.
If you cancel out
Cathy, I agree wholeheartedly with you, so many people are extremely rude, and
do not take into account that there are NEW people on the list, and they are
NEW to Genealogy all it's offshoots, I also do not post, for fear of people
saying This Is Not Legacy Related etc etc.
But I WILL say
I agree with you all, this is about the nastiest genealogy mailing list I
have ever been on. But, I need the info so I stay. Genealogist are usually
very tolerant of beginners and I have no idea why so many on this mailing
list are so cranky. The best mailing list out there is GEN-NEWBIE a
Cathy Champion wrote
I am new to this group and am wondering why so many people on this list
are so cranky.
I am sometimes amazed at how cranky people can get over a very minor
thing - or something someone writes which I had read in an entirely
different way to how the offended person had.
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Hi Everyone,
All this discussion has inspired me to take a look at my own sources - not
such a pretty site.
Up until now I have be a lumper eg one master source for New South Wales
Birth certificates with each certificate being given it's own File Id and
details given in the source detail
Renee Zamora wrote
I can't think of any more right now but I know I do a lot of right
clicking on the screens to see what they will do. If you have a
favorite tip why don't you share it with the rest of the group.
Can I cheat and have two favourites? My first would be: keep reading
this
The Eccles Family wrote
The benefit for being a lumper is less master sources.
Benefits to being a splitter would be easier to see who is attached to
each
master source.
What would others recommend?
*Definitely* the former. Duplicating information is very bad database
practise. It is
Anne,
I am a lumper, and furthermore my master source is the place where I got the
information from, eg. Ancestry, Free BMD, findmypast etc. I have absolutely
no intention of changing either. I use the source detail to give all other
relevant information.
Ron Ferguson
I am also a lumper; however, if you are not sure which way YOU want to
go, be aware (as I learned from experience) that it is MUCY
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Anne,
I am a lumper, and furthermore my master source is the place where I got the
information from, eg.
Sorry, my fingers went too fast and I sent the previous email
prematurely. Again
It is a personal choice. I also tend toward being a lumper; however,
if you are not sure which way YOU want to go, be aware (as I learned
from experience) that it is MUCH easier to go from splitting to
lumping than
Hi Cathy,
Thank you so very much for helping me fix what was
wrong. On the second computer, I went to help,
general information and it said I had Legacy 6 with
the .60 at the end instead of .155, so I updated it
and now it works fine on both computers. :-D
Thanks, again, Cathy, for your
Dear Group
I have only just noticed this annoying bug:
When I use the Descendant Chart report with amongst
other things the options:
Marriage date and place
Pack information on one line
then the marriage info does not appear.
I am running the latest version 6.0.0.155 28 July 2007.
Has anyone
Peter,
If I understand you correctly then this is *not* a bug. You have selected a
*Chart* and you will notice that, for this reason, the events are greyed
out.
If you wish to include these you need to select the Descendant Report and if
you want both a Report and a Chart then you need to
Hi Peter,
No problem here with build 155
Marriage date and place are listed after the spouse's birth date and
place before spouse's death date and place when Pack information on
one line in Descendant chart is chosen.
You may want to try resetting the report options and making your choices
Paul,
Attchments are not allowed and my email reader is also set to reject them.
If you wish to show something then please try and put it on a website.
Ron Ferguson
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But if I may make one little request, please use the Legacy Help files
as your *first* resort! No question is dumb if you don't know the
answer, but it can be a little irksome if people don't make any attempt
to help themselves.
Good point, well taken. Thanks
--
Cathy Champion in
Well, rather than respond to EVERYONE and tie up the list, I will say to all
thank you for the comments, both on and off list.
Everyone had good points to make, and I agree with a number of you that
wading through long, unedited emails is tedious and aggravating, but sometimes
people
Renee - I have know about the surname, given name forever BUT NEVER knew about
your rotating tip. The is so cool - thanks!!
- Original Message -
From: Renee Zamora
To: Legacy Mailing List
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 7:00 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Favorite Legacy Tip
I was
Not only for Legacy, per se, but I find that having my minor children
use a program and then show me how to use it gives me lots of insight.
My cub scout pointed out the date calculator while earning a genealogy
belt loop. My teenage daughters explained the master lists concept to
me after
Anne Eccles commented:
Benefits to being a splitter would be easier to see who is attached to
each
master source.
You can get a source citation report showing records attached to a master
source, and it can also show the specific fields using the source.
Another lumper,
Sharon
-
Warning: This may be a windows question rather than specific to Legacy.
Is there a way to adjust the icon font size? I checked customize fonts,
where everything is set to no smaller than 10, but the icon font remains
too tiny to read readily.
Thank you,
Dawn
Have you unlocked the
Cathy Champion wrote:
To the group:
I am new to this group and am wondering why so many people on this list are so cranky.
1) Possibly because there are so many who have a proprietary feeling about the list, believing it is
THEIR list. g
It makes me hesitate to ask questions for
Yvonne,
Sadly, one of the items that gets people more worked up on this list is
when people send in HTML. The list rules say that all messages need to be
in plain text and no attachments. I have mine set to plain text yet when
I reply to one that is HTML, it sends the reply in HTML. If you
Renee,
I have respectfully disagree. I think the Legacy list is much better than
the gen-newbie. In the past people would get just as ugly on there as on
here! I remember one person that was mean and nasty to most people on
there and if you defended yourself, the admin would instantly
Renee,
Thanks for that tip. It was something I never knew about and a handy time
saving one at that.
--
Paul
What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and
ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts. ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee,
CSA
QUESTION: What to download?
BACKGROUND: I was having many problems with my computer (Dell) and had to
reset it or whatever (Dell took over control so this was done remotely)
and thereby lost all my programs.
I had done a backup of everything in June, but for this I just backed up
folders
Thanks to everyone who replied.
AACR2 is Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. That's the crux of the matter. This
alphabetizing is not and American or an English-speaking problem, therefore it
will NOT be addressed.
Bill
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Date: 2007/08/17 Fri PM 07:55:35
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I'm a dedicated splitter.
This way, you don't need Reports to see who's attached to what, just
Master Source List View List
Anytime I try lumping I create a mess - admittedly my own fault
through poor eyesight, wrong keystrokes and over-enthusiastic use of
the Source clipboard g.
--
Regards
Mary
I do not post much on this list, but I read several times, every day. Yes
there are two or three people who get pretty nasty. I've had one post where
I was answered very rudely, but I don't think we need to get too
critical of the list in general.
I've received a lot of help here. I don't
Paul my mail IS set to plain textif it still appears as html then I
really dont know what else to do.
Yvonne Murgatroyd
www.buxtonairedales.com
Never look for a worm
in the apple of your eye
Langston Hughes
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Paul:
The message headers I am receiving with Yvonne's messages indicate they
ARE being sent in plain text.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=iso-8859-1
And I've forgotten who pointed out the hyphen hypen space, but thanks.
Yvonne Murgatroyd wrote:
Paul my mail
Pat,
If you contact Sherry at Legacy, she might be able to tell you your original
key so you can unlock Deluxe again.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
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Hickin
Sent:
Pat,
You just need to go to our website and download Legacy again- click on the
Download button and select Download Legacy. After you've installed Legacy,
go to Help Unlock Legacy Deluxe to unlock the Deluxe features.
To get your customer number, please contact Sales. You can contact them by
Run Potential Problems Report and Check'n'Repair often - especially
after major changes in your data.
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I would also like to see the ages. I get tired of having to constantly
calculate them myself, or pull up the calendar function to do it for me.
And I like Math!
Kirstin
June McDonald wrote:
I would dearly like to have ages at events showing alongside each event (as they do in RootsMagic). I
Sherry,
I am also an x-Roots Magic user. I would very much like to see the ages
when I look at the screen.
Kirstin
Sherry/Support wrote:
June,
That's *not* what I said. My response was:
I would not expect the option you're looking for to be in v7. I haven't
had any other requests for
Nope, not me. You'll have to contact Sales. You can contact them by sending
an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by phone from the US and Canada
1-800-753-3453.
Thanks for using Legacy.
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Customer Support
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We are changing
I'm sure this is not exactly what you are looking for, but it might be
a workaround. Whenever I want a quick glance at the ages for events,
I just click on the Chronology tab -- it gives the ages along the
left side of the screen. It's not the same as having them listed
adjacent to the events on
Kirstin Martinez wrote:
I would also like to see the ages. I get tired of having to constantly
calculate them myself, or pull up the calendar function to do it for me.
And I like Math!
Kirstin
Have you tried the Control+A tactic?
In most views hitting this combination on your keyboard will
Well, I learned it here - but setting the options to show the headings
differently if the person is alive is nice. And - just found out about the
ctrl-a on another thread on a lot of screens, to see the ages people were
at various main events...
Heather
Have you unlocked the real power of
This message is HTML. Please forgive me for not following the rule this time.
Feel free to scold me, politely, if I do it again.
Yvonne, understand I am not scolding, just educating.
I am using Outlook Express. It comes up in HTML format because I clicked the
Reply icon with one incorrect
My favorite tips (plural):
1. Probably the biggest one was Source clipboard - using the little
dash button to paste a source that was copied into memory into another
data area.
2. Right-clicking over an entry idintifier like Born in individual
view, and getting to choose one of the last ten
Heather,
Thanks for reminding me about the living feature. I saw reference to it
in the help files as follows.
Legacy can show an indication of whether or not the main two individuals
are marked as Living and also each child in the list below them. To do
this, check the Highlight Living
Dawn,
This was a Legacy question...
Right click on the tool bar (away from the Icons) and you'll get a
wonderful surprise. At the bottom, select Options, then Buitton
Size and you'll get three size options.
Cheers, Mitch
On 8/18/07, Dawn Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Warning: This may
Hi Folks,
I know this doesn't relate to the discussion about ages appearing on reports
but in case anyone hasn't found (or has forgotten) this wonderful feature
...
When in family view just press
Ctrl-A
Wonderful little feature!
Regards . Susie Z
Have you unlocked the
Thank you. That adjusts the size of the buttons, which is helpful.
However, the font remains in tiny leagleze size underneath the
buttons. How about making the text underneath the fonts larger?
Dawn
Mitch Mackrory wrote:
Dawn,
This was a Legacy question...
Right click on the tool bar
Thanks Cathy.
Big sigh as I started from scratch one change at a time.
I found that it does not matter whether you check the
Marriage date and place option at all--it has no effect.
However, on the Descendant Chart front panel if you
choose the Birth or Bap - Death or Burial (two) you
will
Yvonne Murgatroyd wrote:
Paul my mail IS set to plain textif it still appears as html then I
really dont know what else to do.
Yvonne, I think you may be set up to *reply* using the same format as
the message that you're responding to. This would be a different setting
to that used for
Another tip of which many users are likely unaware . . .
You can have up to 10 different sources saved for use by the Source
Clipboard feature. So after saving your 10 source clipboards, any
one can then be selected by right-clicking the blue source triangle.
Use the Save button in the
Good idea. However, in the Family View, I can choose which fields I want
displayed. in the Ages window, is there a way to do that? I would like
to replace Christening with an Event field, if possible.
Thank you.
Robert
Phil Hawkins wrote:
Kirstin Martinez wrote:
I would also like to see the
Could some one please send me Linda's template ?
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Dublin, Wicklow
Wexford
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Janis
Gilmore
Sent: Saturday, 18 August
Kirstin Martinez wrote:
I would also like to see the ages. I get tired of having to constantly
calculate them myself, or pull up the calendar function to do it for me.
And I like Math!
Kirstin,
When in the Individuals Information screen, right-click the mouse to the
right-hand side of Show
Yvonne,
Maybe I responded to the wrong email. Either way, I apologize.
--
Paul
What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and
ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts. ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee,
CSA
Paul my mail IS set to plain textif it still appears as html
Phil,
I learned two new tips today.
--
Paul
What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and
ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts. ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee,
CSA
-Original Message-
Kirstin
Have you tried the Control+A tactic?
In most views hitting
I've been reading all the messages about lumping and splitting, but at the
risk of sounding stupid, could someone give me an example - perhaps using a
specific examples using data from Ancestry.com and/or a US GenWeb site to
illustrate exactly what lumping and splitting is, and how these could
Mine always shows, doesn't toggle off. That's the way I like it but just
curious about toggling.
--
Richard
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From: Mike Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put age
When I have gone back as far as I can or as far as I want to (off shoots
that are no longer related) I create one more person and call him ~
Name History, the ~ being the surname of that line. (Example Ellis Name
History)
There is a similar thing that I do (though slightly different in
Hi Valerie,
Could some one please send me Linda's template ?
At the end of every LUG post is a link to the archives, where you can
find the old posts. I used that just now, and searching on:
linda template source
found the post Linda sent to the group with her template information as
the
Hi Christine,
At the moment I call myself a lumper. Please remember that I am also working
mainly working with Australian records which may be different to American
records.
For example I have a master source named New South Wales Birth Certificate,
author NSW Registry of Births Deaths and
Christine,
Lumper or splitter is just a casual terminology used for which approach
you take to sourcing. Some people, for instance, would use a master source
of 1860 Census, and enter all details somewhere in the source detail
screen. At the other extreme, some people (I am among them) actually
Valerie:
You may want to look at the following Blog on Legacy 7 and notice the
part about source templates before you reconfigure all of your
sources.
http://rzamor1.blogspot.com/2007/08/sneak-peek-of-legacy-7-part-two.html
Chap
On 8/18/07, Wendy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Valerie,
Thank you for your help Linda.
I have no idea why not plain text as I have never had a mention of this
before.
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Dublin, Wicklow
Wexford
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
Richard Van Wasshnova wrote:
Mine always shows, doesn't toggle off. That's the way I like it but just
curious about toggling.
You have to use a Right=Click of the mouse on one of the ages. If you
hover the mouse over the area, it should give you a tooltip about it.
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Ed-
Support probably asked this already, but how big is your family file?
And what else is running while Legacy is running? And how full is your
hard drive currently? Those two questions are the first three questions
that pop to my mind. Sherry is top at her game- but maybe we can help
her
Sorry - the font changes with the Icon size. All I can suggest is
move closer to the screen :)
Cheers, Mitch
On 8/18/07, Dawn Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you. That adjusts the size of the buttons, which is helpful.
However, the font remains in tiny leagleze size underneath the
Dawn-
This may help. I suggested it to for two friends of mine, and both say
it works well for them. It is a magnifier, and I noticed when you use
it, sometimes graphics are a little out of focus, but you can certainly
read all the text quite well. It is a virtual magnifying glass, and
works
I hadn't thought of the EOB, but I like that. In the same way, if I have
someone who I think could be a family member but as yet am not sure, I enter
(in the title suffix box) NCO (Not Confirmed Ours). It is possible they well
may be but as yet it is not confirmed.
I put in NO (Not Ours) if
Robert
As you say- all the usual questions have been asked- and nothing comes
up. Only 3000 names- not running too many other programmes- and 20 plus
gig left on hard drive. And- identical problems on two different
computers
Worse still I cant seem to download
Leon,
All I can say is, Duh! It's as if in moving from one database engine
to another I've left behind all the things I learned about the first
one. G As soon as I read your comment I recalled that years ago I had
begun doing that very thing with the Photograph events in Ancestral
Quest,
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