Barbara,
Firstly, and importantly, back-up your file.
An individual can be deleted by right clicking on the name in either of Family,
Pedigree or Index Views and deleting.
To delete all Ancestors: In Family View, right click on one of the tag boxes
and select Ancestors, if required select
Cathy,
Are you sure that this will work in this particular instance?
Susan specifically asked for a Calender List ie. sorted by month then day and
tabulated, so that under January, the 1st would contain all those with a
birthday/anniversary on that day.
As you know as an OOo user I am not
Good day,
I have been given a huge Legacy file containing over 10,000 names.
Some of this is relative to me, much not. But it does need tidying up,
as all the detail for each person's BDM is in the Location List,
any thoughts on how do this apart from cut and paste would be
most welcome. I
I figured the problem out. What I wanted it to do is tag everyone that
showed up as POSSIBLE matches (there ate 368 of them). The program
apparently can't do that. What it will tag is everyone that you actually
merge. If you merge 2 individuals then the 1 individual left over after you
Christine,
Is there some really good reason you want us all to let you know that your
message was received and read? Otherwise, please turn that feature off.
Thanks,
Tom
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From: Christine Gibbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Am I understanding correctly that the format of locations is very important
(perhaps for things I may want to do with that field?)? Would it then be a
good idea (or wasted time) to go into all my locations that I've just
imported and change them all to the correct format? If it is a good idea,
Hi Cathy,
Thanks for correcting my spelling of Calendar. My only excuse is that I
worked in the rubber industry for years, where the big mixing machines are
called Calenders, after the name of the manufacturer. Since when I've never
known which is which!!
Ron Ferguson
ronald ferguson wrote
Thanks for correcting my spelling of Calendar. My only excuse is that
I worked in the rubber industry for years, where the big mixing
machines are called Calenders, after the name of the manufacturer.
Since when I've never known which is which!!
It's easy - calendArs
Barbara,
There are loads on this in the archives and whilst some adhere to the formulaic
presentation as detailed by some organisations and individuals there are
others, like me, who totally ignore this. Personally I cannot stand double
commas to indicate a gap on the address, a gap which in
1. The format of locations is important for consistency (and to make it a
lot easier to find the right one in the sorted list!). They generally are
entered and viewed from smallest jurisdiction to largest. However, the
city/county/state/country format does not suit every situation (or
And tag everyone in the DB, so you can remove each tag
as you finish that persons' edit. You then know how
much is left. Having a plan in place makes it seem
smaller. Congratulations on this non-standard
inheritance.
Rich in LA CA
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Chris,
Once in
Thanks to all for answersthis makes it clearerthis program is so
great in that I can easily see where data is entered in the location field
that doesn't belong there (in one case, adopted by Michael Luther)--I
understand that I will need to go to those individuals and clean that up, so
as
Barbara Ford wrote:
Am I understanding correctly that the format of locations is very
important (perhaps for things I may want to do with that field?)? Would
it then be a good idea (or wasted time) to go into all my locations that
I've just imported and change them all to the correct format?
The location format you use is your preference but should make sense to
anyone else who reads your entries (I'm hoping that at least one of my
grandchildren will have an interest in genealogy ;-)
If all your known ancestors and all the anticipated readers are in the US,
then state abbreviations
Mike,
Re: Your point (1).
It is much easier to scan the Location List by reading from largest to
smallest, where one would obviously start with the name of the country. This
can be achieved by clicking Sort in the Location List and then changing the
direction to Right to Left.
This is
How do most people record an email as a source? It's not really a letter or
an interview. I know I can add a source type to the master list. Is that
suggested?
Thanks,
Barbara
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From: Barbara Ford
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:37 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Email as a Source Type
How do most people record an
I agree with Gary. ALWAYS spell out the state. 2 letter abbreviations
haven't always been used and who's to say they will continue to be used in
the future.
Also, I would recommend ALWAYS indicating the country. Just because your
known ancestors weren't from or didn't reside in another
Barbara,
That's how I do it. I have a Master Source called emails with the Title
Sundry emails and Type Letter ( largely because I didn't want to put in
email again). On the Details page I enter from whom etc:
Ron Ferguson
Very good advice...thank you all.
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Templeman
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 10:57 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Format Importance
Whatever format you choose,
Barbara Ford wrote
How do most people record an email as a source? It's not really a
letter or an interview. I know I can add a source type to the master
list. Is that suggested?
As the name/title of the Master Source I use Correspondence - Sender's
Name, as the Source type I use
I would like to comment on the state abbreviation usage. I am just
about finished editing 300 pages of a Legacy generated descendants
report, and I had to search and replace all the usages of the
two-letter state abbreviations which were part of my short locations
list! Genealogy books are
Barbara:
The e-mail isn't actually the source, it's the person who wrote it, so I
have many Master Sources called Research of (name). I could have letters,
e-mails, or even phone calls from this same individual and handle those
through the Source Clipboard. Research of John Jones is the Master
Barbara:
The recommended standard is to avoid use of abbreviations. This is
especially important if your data will be read by anyone outside the US. AK
and AR are particular problems even for those inside the US. I was very
surprised, though, at a recent thread on a list for professional
I am SO glad to get all these valuable responses, BEFORE I change my
location list. I had no idea about the disadvantages of the two-state
abbreviations. I do have international ancestors, too, so thank goodness
I'll be able to get everything all straightened out before I begin adding a
bunch of
As to the abbreviations, people pretty much do as they want - but I
know a lot of genealogy societies say to write it out in full.
I'm not from the US - so I didn't have a clue where AR was until you
said so - (Arizona came to mind - but that is AZ, right?) - so it adds
confusion for me. I'd
A distant cousin who lives in Perth Australia and I were confused by the
abbreviation WA. In this case, it stood for Washington state but she thought
it stood for Western Australia which is the state in which Perth is located.
We eventually sorted it out but spelling it out would have saved us
Barbara,
Here is an example of what I do.
Source list name:
Email - Sharyn Douglas to Jennifer Crockett 3 Aug 2007
Title:
Sharyn Douglas, mums siblings, e-mail message to Jennifer
Crockett, 3 Aug 2007
Type: Email
Text of Source: Here I copy the whole email but put [[ before it
so it won't
Is there a way to export to a gedcom and not include quoted names? Seems
like the TempleReady export should have this feature.
Kathie
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As Jenny and Kirsten, I also have a separate Master Source for each
individual I receive information from. Starting the Master Source
with a common word or phrase helps keep them all together in the
Master Source list (Correspondence or Research).
To keep my Master Sources shorter while still
Personally, I would use a USB/Thumb Drive instead of a DVD.
In reading your post, it seems that you want to use the family files
on BOTH the laptop AND the desktop. If this is true, I would
recommend keeping all your family files on a USB/Thumb Drive instead
of on your computer's hard disk (I
Kirsten,
I feel its somewhat pedantic to say that the email is not the source but the
person who wrote it. Let us take this argument one stage further. It follows
that a census is not a source, but would it be the person who gave the
information or the person (usually the enumerator) who
Ron:
I'll admit that my response was a little off-the-cuff, but *pedantic*??
It's actually a simple case of how you choose to organize your sources. I
find it more convenient to group data received from others by that
individual's name. It isn't necessary to apply that rule across the board.
I
Does anyone use the ToDo feature as a log sheet for Research and/or
Correspondance... or, do you have a good word.doc that you use? I type so
much faster than I write that I don't want to keep using a handwritten log.
Denise in Pasadena, Calif
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Thomas Herson wrote:
Also, I would recommend ALWAYS indicating the country. Just because your
known ancestors weren't from or didn't reside in another country doesn't
mean that you won't uncover an ancestor who did and who's to say your
great-grandchild won't be born in another country?
Just be aware that the flash memory technology used in thumb drives has a
limited number of write cycles (around 10) but virtually unlimited
reads (millions). Every time you open a family file with Legacy, it does
a write (that's how the Access engine works). If your thumb drive is
several
Bruce:
That's a neat trick. It would allow grouping Master Sources into categories
without having to always preface the source name with a full common word;
you can just use a 1-stroke symbol instead. Thanks for the idea.
Kirsten
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Thank you Bruce,
I do have a USB/Thumb Drive and that is such a good idea! Will try it.
Janet
On Nov 19, 2007 3:56 PM, Bruce Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I would use a USB/Thumb Drive instead of a DVD.
In reading your post, it seems that you want to use the family files
on
Hi Janet,
It's OK to use Legacy on two computers.
Vista has a different security environment that makes things a bit
different from XP.
See
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpWindowsVista.asp
for tips on Legacy with Vista.
Re transferring data from one computer to the other. Use whatever
I have been really surprised by the answers to this subject.
During this thread there has been no mention of the Chapman's Codes.
Where I come from in the Genealogical world, and I am an accredited
genealogist, it is always recommended to use the Chapman's codes as a
standard then everyone knows
On that note, is it ok to just put USA or should we be writing out United
States of America?
michele
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From: Mike Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Format Importance
Hi Valerie,
That's what I tend to do.
However, most of our readers are not genealogists and don't know the
Chapman Codes and I only know them for the places common in my
genealogy so that's why it's best not to publish using abbreviations.
Note the Chapman Codes are in the Legacy Help file
Chapman's Codes? Can you explain this? I have never heard of this!
michele
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Thank you also, John. All information is helpful and I am very glad
that you wrote about how the flash memory works as I didn't know that.
Janet
On Nov 19, 2007 4:52 PM, John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just be aware that the flash memory technology used in thumb drives has a
limited
Ok, I looked up Chapman Codes in the Legacy help file and lo and behold, there
they were :) I did notice that the Chapman Codes includes that TWO LETTER
POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS for the US states so I guess I am ok after all :) :) :)
michele
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Michele:
Either one gets very boring in reading reports. There are some cures for
that under Help Country Expansion, but I've never played around with it.
I usually do fairly heavy editing of reports and frequently delete the
country name after the first instance for any given individual.
Hi Michele,
Chapman's Codes? Can you explain this? I have never heard of this!
A Google search of this term will bring up a lot of results, but this
one - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_code - is probably one of the
more useful ones for your query. See also
Hi Barbara,
One last thing, I drowning in manual, user group, web site--would you
mind to coddle me and give me a quick reference to the archives
referred to here.
See the link provided at the end of every list post:
Archived messages:
Has anyone used Photo Albums/Scrapbooks. I have printed out the Help file
concerning this topic, and all the Legacy Tips concerning pictures. Has anyone
had experience in using or printing a photo album or scrapbook? Were theyy
pleased with it? Does it work well
I would like to print
I understand from the training video that the individual's burial location
field should only contain the city, county, state, country of burial, and
not the name of the cemetery. The video instructed to input the name of the
cemetery by clicking on the plus sign, choosing burial address, and
I think the reason is because a person can die in one place but be buried in
another. It is pretty common actually. I too had to go through my file and
remove the the name of the cemetery in that field after watching the videos
(which I think should be mandatory viewing)
michele
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I used to do it because I was saving the ink used for
printing the abbreviations. I had started when hand
writing FGS by lessening the writing needed. As I got
older, I switched it to easier to read when possible.
I don't know about the others.
Rich in LA CA
--- Kirsten Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recently started to enter notes for some locations, mostly a timeline of
sorts. When I add notes I also tic the tag box to help me find them later.
Now I can't find any way to use the tags.
I can display a list of individuals with only tag 1 or tag x or only tagged
marriages. From Display
I created a Source Type as 'e-mail web-page' so all
'virtual' sources (ie untraceable in future) so I know
what copies I printed may be the only source later on.
Rich in LA CA
--- Barbara Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do most people record an email as a source? It's
not really a letter or
It is a good idea, but I have my method in place
already, so will not change.
Rich in LA CA
--- Valerie Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been really surprised by the answers to this
subject.
During this thread there has been no mention of the
Chapman's Codes.
Where I come from in
Valerie,
This is just my general observation and not genealogical gospel so please
take it as such.
The genealogists that I know who are certified or accredited genealogists
started doing there data entry on paper forms. The paper forms were limited
in space, making abbreviations helpful to fit
Yes, that is what I'm doing now, removing the name of the cemetery from the
burial location fields. And I do have several cases where the death location
is different from the burial location. But I was talking about two different
places to enter the BURIAL LOCATION...that is, you put the location
Yes, I understood the part about sending in plain text, which I was trying
to do. But I noticed that when I click on reply, if someone SENT their
message in HTML format, my reply follows suit...
I'll try to be more careful and make sure my Outlook settings are correct.
Thanks
Barbara
Chapman codes are fine... for those that know Chapman codes; but I wonder how
useful they are to someone who doesn't know them or don't even know of them.
All in all, I tend to believe that full location codes are best; although
abbreviations might be used later in the same paragraph.
Barbara,
There are a couple of reasons I can think of:
1.) Allow you to print the address on a label or envelope to send a letter
for information on a relative.
2.) Allow you to export a list to import into a contact manager, PDA, or
GPS for driving directions
I am sure others can add more to
Well, this might not be the only reason - but there may be more than
one St. Mary's Cemetary (for example) - so the address list could be
confusing if you didn't put the city, state (or whatever) in the
cemetary's address...
On 11/19/07, Barbara Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, that is what
On 19 Nov 2007 Barbara Ford wrote:
I was asking if there was any reason to have to repeat the same
information. I understand that you could enter the exact address of the
cemetery on that screen. But, if on the individual's information screen
you have put city, county, state, country, and
A Show only Tagged in the Location list options would be great. Why
don't you put in a Suggestion?
Currently you can use the tags to choose what to print in a Location report.
Cathy
At 12:05 PM 20/11/2007, you wrote:
I recently started to enter notes for some locations, mostly a
timeline of
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