Re: [LegacyUG] Step/Adopted Children and Charting

2009-09-26 Thread Ron Ferguson
Yes, in my reply to your first post that is exactly what I meant by appearing twice. She does, correctly, have two sets of parents even if one of the individual parents is duplicated. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into

Re: [LegacyUG] Step/Adopted Children and Charting

2009-09-26 Thread Ron Ferguson
SgtBob wrote: When my wife and I married, I adopted her daughter from my wife's previous marriage. I show my adopted daughter as '1/2' in the program, as I believe the instructions indicate. My problem is that when I do a chart, I would like to include her and my grandchildren. How can I

[LegacyUG] Step/Adopted Children and Charting

2009-09-26 Thread SgtBob
When my wife and I married, I adopted her daughter from my wife's previous marriage. I show my adopted daughter as '1/2' in the program, as I believe the instructions indicate. My problem is that when I do a chart, I would like to include her and my grandchildren. How can I accomplish this?

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Gallery Questions

2009-09-26 Thread Jenny M Benson
Suzanne Scheraga wrote Two questions about displaying photos in the Picture Gallery. Can the default photo display setting individual can be set to all pictures instead?  I have looked through all the options in the Customize area but couldn't find anything. This question came up in LUG

Re: [LegacyUG] Access and Burial Table

2009-09-26 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 6:58:06 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: Is there an Access table that would permit me to add this data enmass without having to go to each person to enter this information? tblIR (Individual Record) contains the column IDLRBuried. It contains the foreign key to tblLR for

Re: [LegacyUG] Email Address Font

2009-09-26 Thread Jenny M Benson
Len Garber wrote I am using Legacy Installed Version: 7.0.0.109 The font used for the email address in my Address List make it difficult if not impossible to distinguish the digit 1 from the lower case L. How can I change this font? I have been able to find anything in the Options that

[LegacyUG] Access and Burial Table

2009-09-26 Thread SgtBob
I have a rather large list of persons that are buried in a specific cemetery, but the individual records do not reflect this data. Is there an Access table that would permit me to add this data enmass without having to go to each person to enter this information? I've looked at all the tables,

Re: [LegacyUG] Count of People in Database

2009-09-26 Thread Marilyn Clark
Thanks, Ron. I haven't advanced to making Web Pages yet, but I will keep that in mind. I don't really need to re-use RINs; I was just wondering about using them as an absolute way to know how many individuals are in a db, as the other poster suggested. Marilyn --- On Fri, 9/25/09, Ron

Re: [LegacyUG] Email Address Font

2009-09-26 Thread HowlandDavisII
Len: In a message dated 9/26/2009 10:12:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, legacy@gmail.com writes: The font used for the email address in my Address List make it difficult if not impossible to distinguish the digit 1 from the lower case L. The answer I received from AOL was to drop my

Re: [LegacyUG] Count of People in Database

2009-09-26 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:10:38 -0700 (PDT), Marilyn Clark paddypeppe...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks, Ron. I haven't advanced to making Web Pages yet, but I will keep that in mind. I don't really need to re-use RINs; I was just wondering about using them as an absolute way to know how many individuals

Re: [LegacyUG] Email Address Font

2009-09-26 Thread Robert Carneal USA
Yes, you can already change this. Grab a pencil and paper. (You will see why.) Go to Options Customize Fonts tab. There you will see all the fonts in use. I have not checked yet, but I think you want to change the Data for the Screen fonts. Note the name of the font currently in use, you

Re: [LegacyUG] Married name statement

2009-09-26 Thread Jenny M Benson
Jane Sarles wrote How do I prevent the Another name for Sarah was Sarah Smith  statement?  Her married name is given even though it isn't necessary since the statement about her marriage is the next sentence.  I have searched help, but if the solution is there, I didn't understand it. Have

[LegacyUG] Email Address Font

2009-09-26 Thread Len Garber
I am using Legacy Installed Version: 7.0.0.109 The font used for the email address in my Address List make it difficult if not impossible to distinguish the digit 1 from the lower case L. How can I change this font? I have been able to find anything in the Options that will allow me to change

Re: [LegacyUG] Email Address Font

2009-09-26 Thread Len Garber
Thanks Robert and Jenny, That did it. Don't know why I didn't see that when I checked earlier. Len Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support:

[LegacyUG] Married name statement

2009-09-26 Thread Jane Sarles
How do I prevent the Another name for Sarah was Sarah Smith statement? Her married name is given even though it isn't necessary since the statement about her marriage is the next sentence. I have searched help, but if the solution is there, I didn't understand it. Thanks for hints. Jane Sarles

Re: [LegacyUG] Married name statement

2009-09-26 Thread Ron Ferguson
Jane, You have entered her married name in the AKAs and in whatever report your are using you have opted to show AKAs. It is your choice as to which you wish to change. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy use on Facebook

2009-09-26 Thread Ward Walker
Sue, There are other choices than Facebook if you want to mix genealogy with social networking. One that my brother-in-law uses is MyHeritage.com. I don't know how the interplay between it an Legacy would work, but it does support non-public family trees where relatives can become members,

Re: [LegacyUG] Count of People in Database

2009-09-26 Thread Wendy Howard
Just open the Name List and look at the Title Bar - it will say Name List Contains n Individuals. I'm using v7, can't remember what has changed since v6 that the original post was about, so your observations may be different to mine... The Name List tells me Name List Contains 4899 Names

Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures of Locations

2009-09-26 Thread Alastair Lack
I also should like to include pictures of locations in my reports. Apropos of the August posts on the topic, the reason I would like to attach pictures to locations in reports, for me, is that it is part of the location description, along with lat/long etc. I've gone to a degree of trouble to

Re: [LegacyUG] Count of People in Database

2009-09-26 Thread Jenny M Benson
Wendy Howard wrote The Name List tells me Name List Contains 4899 Names including Alternate and Married Names. Obviously if you have your Name List set to show married names it will show that number of names. As long as you are only showing Individuals it will tell you how many Individuals

Re: [LegacyUG] Count of People in Database

2009-09-26 Thread Wendy Howard
if you have your Name List set to show married names it will show that number of names. As long as you are only showing Individuals it will tell you how many Individuals are in the list. That's what I was trying to say, but words failed me! The options you have set in your own database

Re: [LegacyUG] Count of People in Database

2009-09-26 Thread Kevin Murphy
V7 and if I remember correctly V6 and before details: Number of idividuals, Unique surnames, Number of families and number of master sources if you go to main menu help general option. Regards Kevin shamrockspi...@gmail.com shamroc...@orcon.net.nz www.shamrockspider.com Sent from Auckland, New

RE: [LegacyUG] Where's the Source Template Conversion Tool?

2009-09-26 Thread Sherry/Support
This feature is still under development as the programmers are having problems with implementation. We don't know how soon it will be available. Geoff Rasmussen posted his source conversion suggestions to the Legacy User Group mailing list in June 2008. You can read his post in the archives

[LegacyUG] How to reduce size of Gedcom

2009-09-26 Thread Jacob Psutka
I would like to send a Gedcom that has all my entries except for the first few generations, which would not be of interest to the recipient. Since there are over 3000 records, adding a tag to each one I want is not practical. Can anyone think of another wat of accomplishing this? Regards, Jacob

[LegacyUG] Determining ages

2009-09-26 Thread Jim Walton
I have several wills that use a phrase similar to arrive to age in the law. The time period is 17th and 18th century New Hampshire so I would assume that the English legal system would apply, but I have been unable to determine what that age should be. If I knew I could establish some better

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy use on Facebook

2009-09-26 Thread Jim Walton
MyHeritage is a good idea with a poor implementation. You can upload a gedcom, but if you make changes you have to make them manually. An alternative is to delete the tree from MyHeritage and upload another gedcom using the same name. MyHeritage apparently uses non-standard entries in their

Re: [LegacyUG] How to reduce size of Gedcom

2009-09-26 Thread Jim Walton
Under the GEDCOM Export Record Selection select the second option -- Focus Group. There you can select the person to start with and select that person with all descendants. You can limit the number of generations so you can further limit the size of your file. You also have the choice of

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy use on Facebook

2009-09-26 Thread Sue Bramley
Thanks very much for your advice William, Jim and Ward, It is a shame that there is not yet a good way to put family trees on Facebook - the attraction of Facebook is that lots of relatives are already on it and they would not have to join something else. I will keep pondering. Regards, Sue

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy use on Facebook

2009-09-26 Thread William H. Boswell
I'm having the same problem. A lot of my cousins have joined Facebook and know I have the family photo archives for many different lines and am the only one who has put it together. I'd prefer to post them on Facebook because my FB page is not open to anyone but family and friends. Putting them

Re: [LegacyUG] Count of People in Database

2009-09-26 Thread GeoSci
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Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy use on Facebook

2009-09-26 Thread Wendy Howard
For sharing your photos with family, perhaps you will find Google's Picasa Web Albums more to your liking than what Facebook currently has to offer? http://picasaweb.google.com/home It has much better flexibility and security. This is straying away from the focus of the mailing list. Kind

Re: [LegacyUG] Determining ages

2009-09-26 Thread Ron Ferguson
Jim, I cannot help you with the American age, but if you are right, in that it was the same as for England, then it was almost certainly 21years. Although I am not as old as the date you are looking for it was 21years in England even when I was a kid :-). I have tried, without success, to

[LegacyUG] Archives

2009-09-26 Thread Larry
Does anyone know what has happened to the LUG archives? Until today I could see all the recent posts, but now the most recent is Mar 2009. Thanks, Larry Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages:

Re: [LegacyUG] Determining ages

2009-09-26 Thread Virginia Dunham
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