I have several Navy men in my tree. I didn't do it that way as it didn't
give me a timeline that I liked. Because they were on different ships during
different time frames, I created an Event called ships and worded it how I
liked. Then I could enter the ship's name in the description, the dates
I guess it's because it doesn't fit the allegedly standard doctrine for
location structures which is totally useless in Europe (and elsewhere) in any
event. So, since few of us over here use this structure putting a full address
in the Location is not a problem!
Ron Ferguson
At one time in England and Wales (I am unsure whether it is still the case) to
be married in the parish church one of the partners had to be of that parish
ie. resident there for a period of time before immediately prior to the
marriage ( I have 3 weeks at the back of my mind) hence the
Oh yes I haveae tried that but I can not get the first wife to appear
first in a descendent chart
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
-Original
Mike,
That may (also?) be the case, the residential qualification was still in when I
got married - I know because we hit a problem with it, in that neither of us
lived in the parish, my ex thought she did but in actual fact did not (by 100
yards!). I am, of course, excluding marriage by
Please see previous message
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
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Valerie,
In that case try doing FileFile MaintenanceCheck/Repair. The method given is
the only way of putting them in order other than unlinking and relinking in the
correct order.
Ron Ferguson
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I did a check/repair and got this error message:
Error re-building deleted marriage list. Error 3021: No current record
etc
1. I do not know what to do about this is ?
2. To do the unlinking should I unlink both of them and then link
the first wife first and then the second ?
The way I handle this sort of situation is to create an Employment or
Occupation event for the first known instance, then add additional details
in the notes. For example, my grandfather was also a Merchant Seaman and I
have copies of numerous Discharge papers when he signed off after each
Valerie.
Herewith an extract from the files relating to your error number:
...
1. Repair your Legacy program by updating it.
2. Run File Maintenance - Check/Repair. Click on File File Maintenance
Check/Repair and follow the prompts.
If the error messages occur during the
Valerie,
Please have patience. None of us just sit here on our PC's waiting for
questions and it can also take time for them to get through.
Ron Ferguson
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There is still a deep division in England between a religious ceremony
in church and a civil ceremony in a registry office and, in the latter,
'religious' music is even forbidden as our atheist son and
daughter-in-law found out.
The residency requirement resulted in our elder daughter
see http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp#SolutionsByNumber
Bob
Valerie Garton wrote:
I did a check/repair and got this error message:
Error re-building deleted marriage list. Error 3021: No current record
etc
1. I do not know what to do about this is ?
2. To do the unlinking
What made you think I was impatient.
All I have done is ask a question and again I get stabbed in the back.
I do not know why you had to send this message could you please explain.
I don't think people realise just how upsetting it is every time on gets
hit.
Regards from Valerie in sunny
ronald ferguson wrote:
Valerie,
Please have patience. None of us just sit here on our PC's
waiting for questions and it can also take time for them to
get through.
Also. Valerie is in Australia and the great majority of the list is in
Europe and the US. Remember there are time differences.
1. You probably have to set relationship again (Tools Set Relationship).
2. Did you try to set this wife as preferred?
Evert
2008/3/26, Valerie Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I did a check/repair and got this error message:
Error re-building deleted marriage list. Error 3021: No current record
Family View
Husband
Look at the icons below the box of his info and above the marriage line
First icon (at least on my screen) shows a person with a blue jacket and
white blouse - it shows the number of wives he has
Click on that icon
In the box that pops up, look at the lower right hand
Valerie Garton wrote:
What made you think I was impatient.
How about the change in the title of the thread with the addition of the
impatient sounding ' I still need'.
All I have done is ask a question and again I get stabbed in the back.
And re-asked it, without letting those in the
Valerie,
I do not stab people in the back, if I have a point to make I do it openly.
Your message effectively asking us to reply to your first one arrived on my PC
only 15 minutes after the first one I replied to, *and*, as it happens, I had
already sent a reply.
Ron Ferguson
Valerie,
The attached message from Mike applies to all of us. While it may see
like no-one is answering your e-mail after a working day, do remember
that those on this list in the UK or Ireland are 11 hours behind you
in Sydney, while those in USA are between 15 and 18 hours behind.
Given the
Hi all,
I just downloaded the trial wall charting software. I can't find a place to
just tell it to make a chart fit on one standard page. Is there a way to do
this? I see a way to edit the size of each individual box, but there should
be a global way to shrink a chart.
I am using half-circle
Why did he think you were getting impatient? This is why.
Your first message, subject First wife, was sent on 3/25 at 7:13 PM
Bt 7:31 PM there was a reply by Cathy, and by 8:40 PM one by Wayne. That is
two responses in 30 minutes.
On 3/26 at 2:51 AM you said that those suggestions didn't work.
Thank you, Judy, and everyone else who weighed in on this. I did try to
use the tags to take care of this when it first raised it's ugly head, but
I didn't really understand all the steps involved and ended up giving up.
Now I know what to do if something similar happens again.
Thanks!
At this point I'm not sure of what's been said anymore, but if you don't
have a marriage date for the first wife, the last step is to click on Set to
Preferred after you have highlighted the first wife.
Ruth
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Is there a way to tell the wall charting software to fit legal-size paper?
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Charting does not respond to printer settings that are changed after the
program starts (bug), so you need to set the default printer to landscape
before starting Charting.
I don't remember the steps (senior moment?), but I do have a landscape
chart with the title properly placed.
John
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Dee,
It doesn't seem able to do this, but do bear in mind that even if it could the
chart may well be too small to read. I knw that the programmers are looking at
the cutting off of the right and bottom sides of some charts. Saving as a jpg
etc. is also of limited use.
I only have a printer
Hello Valerie,
Many of us are patient people who know about Time Zones and so forth.
When you are sending a query, at least one third of the world is asleep.
Do, try and be patient.
I suspect you are about folk who have been dead for two hundred years.
Allow us in the Northern and Western
Yes I had set the first wife as the preferred wife.
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
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Valerie -
I've had odd problems from time to time too, and usually it's due to
some circumstance that neither I nor anyone else has thought of
because it wouldn't ordinarily even be relevant.
I've tried this, and I can't make mine NOT list the first wife first,
in all of the various ways of
I am trying to shrink a half-circle fan chart to fit on one page. I can't
find a place that gives this global capability. I only find a place to
change the size of boxes. Also, I have rotated the chart to landscape
(better use of space), but the title remains on the landscape side. Is there
any
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IMHO, the program creating a chart like you are asking
for, might make the characters on the page
microscopic, and when the print preview is used you
can generally change paper size. How many generations
are you wanting to fit on one page? My 34 generations
preview was over 1 pages?
Rich in LA
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If you don't get a response to a message in 6 hours after sending it,
don't think you're being ignored - the rest of us may not have seen it
yet (4 hours for the original message to get to us, another 4 hours for
an answer to get back to you).
And not everyone logs on every
Hi,
When you have time, could those of you who have dealt with this tell me what
method you used?
I have some wonderful family stories that cannot be proved, nor would
proving them make a bit of difference to the genealogy of the family in any
way, but I would like to have them in my Legacy
I played around with this problem a bit and will give it a try. I only
tested it in the Individual View
In family view click on the wives icon in the bottom left corner of the husband.
This will bring up a list of his wives - I believe that the reports
will use the order shown in this list.
If
I skip the known generations. I am doing only eight generations in a half
fan. I have done it before with the previous chart software. It's just for a
quick look as I do research on the microfilms. It fits on one page, but I
keep thinking there should be an easy way to make it happen.
Dee
On
First, select to topmost, left icon (looks like pedigree chart)
Select Page Setup
Select Landscape
The chart will align to the Landscape orientation and the Title block will be
correct
Now adjust the box sizes until your chart fits on one page
I just did this for a 6 gen half-fan chart and
Six hours isn't enough either. I have always waited
for 24 hours on a weekday and even more going into a
weekend. Except for the PAID staff the rest of us are
volunteers, and need sleep, and food, and living
family members, to keep us from the LUG group.
Rich in LA CA
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You still have not said how many generations?
Rich in LA CA
--- Dee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to shrink a half-circle fan chart to fit
on one page. I can't
find a place that gives this global capability. I
only find a place to
change the size of boxes. Also, I have rotated the
Sally, that is exactly where and how I would do it.
I don't think there is an exact way, it is up to you as to where you
would like to put all the 'stories'.
At 09:32 AM 27/03/2008, you wrote:
Hi,
When you have time, could those of you who have dealt with this tell
me what method you
Big improvement on printing/page size. Thank you.
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Hi Sally,
Notes sounds like as good a place as any to record this sort of thing.
Before you make any decisions, though, think about what you would like
to do with that information - do you want to have it print on reports,
and do these Notes print on the reports you want them in? If the
Sorry to bother again but I have a new problem/concern now. I was using
Legacy 5 Deluxe and the Descendents Report would not print the Name Index
correctly when Suppress Information for Living People was selected. In the
process of trying to solve this, I exported my data to a new family file
Hi Dee,
Have you found the Print settings and Page Layout under the round
button on the toolbar? It's the equivalent of the file menu.
With only name and lifespan, I have just printed a 6 gen half fan
chart on one A4 page in Landscape.
However, you could save to PDF or JPG and then use
I put family traditions in the Notes of the primary person involved;
i.e., Grandma talked about traveling from Georgia to Alabama in a covered
wagon, so the story is in her general notes. Because of her birth date,
we know that her stories of the trip were actually what her older siblings
or
Funny this topic has come up, I was just thinking about this and was
going to post it myself, though slightly different.
What about stories my family has told me directly about themselves? My
grandmother told me a bunch of stories about her growing up before she
died a few years ago. These were
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First run the file check/repair utility and see if any errors are found. If
that doesn't fix the problem then I would go back to a computer with Legacy
5 installed and restore your backup file. Check it carefully, also running
file check/repair in v.5 to be sure there are no pre-existing issues
Thank you for the reply.
Sally, that is exactly where and how I would do it.
I don't think there is an exact way, it is up to you as to where you
would like to put all the 'stories'.
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Sally,
Sounds like using the General Notes is working fine for you.
I am just now in the process of transferring my family stories from general
notes to an added event I named Family Stories.
My reason is simple - when anyone asks about family stories, I will be able
to easily find the list of
I love reading all the work-arounds that folks come up with in this
group! Excellent idea.
Dawn
Mary Moyer wrote:
You could print it out on letter size paper and then take to a copier that will
print legal size paper, enlarge it reprint on legal size paper.
Mary
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