Cathy wrote:
You cannot merge people until they are in the same family file.
That's not strictly true :-) There's always the option to Drag And Drop
from one file to another. Damn! Now I've probably confused Joseph even
more. Still, there's always the on-line Help and the tips on the
Lucy Shore wrote
Here's one out of left field. I do a fair bit of genealogy in France
and many of the people with whom I share information use the Stradonitz
numbering system in order to identify ancestors, i.e., so and so is my
2336 SOSA (as opposed to saying 8th great grandmotheer for
Hi Mike,
As you say - you bring them into the one family file - then you merge them.
There's just another way of getting them there apart from the File
Import - you can drag and drop them in using Split Screen View.
Cathy
At 06:15 PM 26/01/2008, you wrote:
Cathy wrote:
You cannot merge
Rich,
As it happens I do put the full address in the Location List but I also use the
location as it was. This does not change anything I have written. In 1066
William, the Duke of Normandy (France) took the English throne but we did not
as a result become part of Normandy, similarly the
Hey Mike, I'm not confused just very disorganized.
OK, maybe I am having a bit of dementia I'm getting to the right age
for it. grin
Joseph
_
From Mike Fry
That's not strictly true :-) There's always the option to Drag And Drop
from one file to another. Damn! Now I've
Legacy uses the Sosa-Stradonitz (aka Ahnentafel) numbering system within a
single Pedigree Chart, but does not extend this numbering beyond one chart.
They use a modified Sosa-Stradonitz where any ancestor can be found by a
chart #: Sosa-Stradonitz # number, such as 3:16, which represents chart
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me here. I seem to be having a problem
with my display buttons. I'm using Legacy 6. When I open an individual
to change details or add an event, the save, cancel buttons etc are not
displayed. This also happens when I want to exit and the backup etc
buttons are not
Ronald,
I have put the information on following URL:
http://www.rvader.nl/Vader/Database/test/vader-jans/
If you go to person 2440 (Huibrecht Leendert Vader, 12th generation):
http://www.rvader.nl/Vader/Database/test/vader-jans/d12.htm#i7
You can see the note on duplicate line with link to
But Drag and Dropping is a variation of Merging,
without using a Gedcom, so they are in the same file.
Rich in LA CA
--- Mike Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cathy wrote:
You cannot merge people until they are in the same
family file.
That's not strictly true :-) There's always the
I agree completely. I sometimes play devil's advocate
to assist 'our' readers in thoughtfully organizing
their DBs, and fixing stuff that was recorded
incorrectly. I know I had a bunch of mistakes. Still
fixing.
Rich in LA CA
--- ronald ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rich,
As it happens
Rich,
No - drag/drop is a variation of *import*. Merge is what you do to combine
duplicates found in *one* Family File.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are changing the world of genealogy!
When
Mike,
That's *importing people. Merging is what you do to remove duplicates once
you've imported another file, gedcom or using split-screen.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are changing the world of
Correct.
Rich in LA CA
--- Sherry/Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Rich,
No - drag/drop is a variation of *import*. Merge is
what you do to combine
duplicates found in *one* Family File.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not sure what you mean? Are you looking at the
Individual's information page? You may be having a
hardware problem, but I would need more specific info
to 'guess'. Have you run File Maintenance? It may fix
nothing, but try it anyway.
Tell me what happens.
Rich in LA CA
--- Jenny MacKay [EMAIL
Hello
I have searched in Archives but have not found a current answer to my problem.
I am using 6.0.0.179. I have used Legacy for years, but today I am trying to
create a CD to share that includes my family file to run on someone else's
computer.
I press the Create CD button, but I get
Hello
I have looked all through the Help file but cannot find how to tag pictures.
I am using 6.0.0.179 and have used Legacy successfully for years, but I have
not tried to do this picture tagging yet for a scrapbook type report.
I want to put only photos and some doc jpgs in the
Attn Barbara Ford and those who have yet to publish to the
web.
FYI only, I have just published several family tree lines
using Legacy 6.0. I did not use Legacy for my HOME page,
however, the links to the
Various family lines/trees are all done with Legacy. You
may view the Legacy pages
Donna
If you do not find a solution that works within
Legacy, you may consider the following, provided you
have a cd burner program such as Roxio. There are
others.
1. Create your web pages in a folder with a name of
your choice on your hard drive. Example: JonesChart
2. Using your CD
Donna Mc R wrote:
I press the Create CD button, but I get an error saying:
Could not run the executable file Not found\Passage.exe from Legacy
From http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/11/create_a_sharea.html
Instructions
1) To create your CD, first open Legacy. Then click on
OK, I've done all the steps and got it all in there HOWEVER grin, it
found not 25 or 30, but rather 550 like files through which I had to sort.
I ran into one problem though some of them would bring up a little
window giving the option of saying No, they're absolutely not the
Sorry to borrow this thread, but I was having the same issue. According to step
one:
1) To create your CD, first open Legacy. Then click on the Create CD button in
the main toolbar.
(Make sure you have installed Legacy's latest update.) If you have not yet
downloaded our free
Create CD
Rightclick on the toolbar and drag the icon from the shown window to your
toolbar.
Bert
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Jess M
Verzonden: zaterdag 26 januari 2008 21:05
Aan: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Onderwerp: Re: [LegacyUG]
Donald wrote:
1. Create your web pages in a folder with a name of
your choice on your hard drive. Example: JonesChart
I may be dense, but I'm not sure how creating webpages figures into this. I
am simply trying to create a CD to share, but when I press the Create CD
button on the toolbar,
In the Picture Gallery, there is a checkbox above the upper-right corner of
each picture. This is the tag box.
I have also added an entry to the help index so that it can be found there in
the future.
Thanks,
--
Dave Berdan
Millennia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
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Can I have some suggestions as to what you select when doing a merge
please ?
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast, Dublin, Wicklow
Wexford
Guild of One-Name Studies No: 4825 for CULLODEN HIGGINSON
Legacy User Group guidelines:
Nope. That's pretty well how it goes. It will scan your entire
database putting up comparisons that you have to make choices about.
It's not a rocket-scientist, just a computer. If you know it's not a
duplicate, you can mark it Not a Duplicate so it doesn't come up again
the next time you
It was done when I wrote thatI was amazed how many there were.
However, Considering that I have over 9000 names all together, 550 isn't
bad.
_
From JLB
Nope. That's pretty well how it goes. It will scan your entire database
putting up comparisons that you have to make
Hi Jenny
Thank you for setting me straight. For some reason I didn't think they were
equivalent -- I now know better.
Lucy
Is that not just another name for the Ahnantafel system, which is already
accommodated by Legacy?
--
Jenny M Benson
Legacy User Group guidelines:
The Create CD feature appears to have been added to the Deluxe version in
2006.
From the 10 Nov 2006 newsletter:
==
LEGACY FOR THE HOLIDAYS - THE PERFECT GIFT
Give the gift of Legacy Family Tree this holiday season. Your friends and
family have been waiting for all this:
- create over
Hi Bill
Thank you so very much for the detailed answer to my query. I still wasn't
sure until I was able to generate both the Ahnentafel Chart from Legacy (I
don't know why it hadn't worked for me before or maybe I just couldn't see
the trees for the forest!) and another program which would
Can someone tell me how to show the living in Legacy 6 Deluxe? I cannot even
see my own name and for the life of me I cannot catch on.
Jim Ganley
Cushing, WI
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
Although I can see the box for Death Cause on the family page I can't see
where to enter the details. If I click in the square it brings up Born,
Baptised, Died, Buried but not death cause. Could someone please advise
where I enter it.
Thank you - June
Legacy User Group guidelines:
Hi June,
This is entered in the Notes dialog under the Medical tab.
Regards,
Bob
On Jan 26, 2008, at 5:06 PM, June wrote:
Although I can see the box for Death Cause on the family page I
can’t see where to enter the details. If I click in the square it
brings up Born, Baptised, Died,
Thank you Bob for your swift reply.
Regards - June
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Withers
Sent: Sunday, 27 January 2008 9:25 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Death Cause
Hi June,
This is entered in the Notes
Jim and Carol wrote
Can someone tell me how to show the living in Legacy 6 Deluxe?
I presume you want to know how to make a search which will find all
people who are living. If that is the case, click on Search on the menu
bar, then on Find...
Now make the following selections in the
Where is your name not showing up? In a report? In family view?
On 1/26/08, Jim and Carol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone tell me how to show the living in Legacy 6 Deluxe? I cannot even
see my own name and for the life of me I cannot catch on.
Jim Ganley
Cushing, WI
Legacy User
Hi all, thanks for the reply, seems that the program upon importing the Gedcom
eliminated all info on the living although it does show under my wife's parents
3 children and wife is the middle as when I click on it shows two spouses.
Confusing why it lost all this info. As with any program
Jim,
When you or whoever created the GEDCOM, there would have been an
option to privatize the information for anyone marked Living in that
original database. You or whoever needs to go back to that original
software and start again. Look carefully under options (that is, if
the software is still
Thank you Susan.
Jim Ganley
Cushing, WI
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From: Susan Daily [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Show living
Jim,
When you or whoever created the GEDCOM, there would have been an
I think I’m going crazy. I was sure that within the past few days someone
wrote that they used Photoshop Elements and that the captions they attached
there transferred to the photo when attached in Legacy. I specifically
remember them saying that it did NOT work from the picture center. I
You sure you read it here? Anyway, it's true, .. information entered
(I believe it's under 'Caption') in the File Info box in Adobe Elements
will import into the Description fields of the individual photo
galleries but does not work through the Picture Center. All the other
fields, like
Richard, is there anyway I can send you an image of what my screen looks
like? I've done the file maintenance, however that is just checking my
data. This maybe a hardware problem, however I've only noticed it with
Ver 6. I also now have a 2nd monitor running and the same problem is
showing on
Thanks Wendy, much appreciated for Sherry's address, I will send her the
image. Yes, I knew not to send attachments to the list, but it's good to
put it out there to alert others.
Cheers
Jenny
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wendy
Howard
Hi Jenny,
It sounds to me like you should be working directly with the support
staff at Legacy. Email Sherry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
details of your problem, and she will help you.
You can take a screen shot by pressing the Prt Sc button - look on the
top row of your keyboard, to the
Since I have no idea what is happening, sending to me
would not help. What version of Legacy are you using,
and have you recently updated it? You may have a
problem with your 'log in' locking out Legacy edits,
which doesn't make sense, since your other programs
work normally. Otherwise I would say
Hi Clair,
Hi Clair,
Yes... you are correct (I think :-)). But instead of finding it on the list,
where you 'might' have read it was on the Legacy website in my description
of the EZ Filing System I use...
http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/organization/index.html
In that post I did mention
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