I battled Vista for over a year. Finally, a couple of weeks ago, I
found a computer with XP installed and I am happy, happy, happy. That
said, Legacy (v.6 and v.7) worked just fine.
Valerie Garton wrote:
I am about to buy a light weight laptop - any suggestions
I have been trying to avoid
Valerie,
Like you, recently I have had to make the same decision. I first had a look at
what I really needed which was to run OpenOffice.org databases in which I store
details from parish registers and a light copy of my genealogy files for
reference only. Speed was not terribly important but
To the person who was looking a few days ago for a way to back up Legacy
from the keyboard with less than 8 or 10 clicks, there's a program
called Qliner Hotkeys at http://www.qliner.com/hotkeys/ that is designed
to allow the entire Windows keyboard to be programmed to files, folders,
web
Zero problems with L7 and Vista. And Vista itself is fine, very stable
(unlike a couple years ago when it debuted). And the Vista replacement (it is
being referred to as Windows 7) won't be available until at least 2010 and
probably much later.
Re: V7: Just follow the
I want the Volume page number to print out on reports, not just on the
source. The only solution I've found is to make a marriage event including the
Vol. pg number, I also include the recorded date and officiator when I have
it.
It looks like it would be so simple to have a space for this
I am curious as to which Legacy narrative/book reports are most used as
generated by Legacy or found to be most useable by experienced Legacy users.
Do any users print these narratives as created, or are these raw reports
usually transferred to a word processor where they are extensively
I wouldn't consider it an event. My choice would be to put that in the
Marriage Notes.
Mike
Michael J Method
family research of: Method, Feehily, Fredrick, Herzog, tenEyck, Belsley
In a message dated 8/15/2008 8:31:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want the
Syble Glasscock wrote
I want the Volume page number to print out on reports, not just on
the source. The only solution I've found is to make a marriage event
including the Vol. pg number, I also include the recorded date and
officiator when I have it.
It looks like it would be so simple
Syble,
I cannot see how one can describe the volume and page numbers as part of an
event. They are details from an index to the source document identifying the
location of the source.
Ron Ferguson
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*New* Insert Pictures
Syble,
I cannot see how one can describe the volume and page numbers as part of an
event. They are details from an index to the source document identifying the
location of the source.
Ron Ferguson
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*New* Insert Pictures
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:37:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I ask because many of the legacy created sentences read so awkwardly (no
fault of Legacy, a computer generated text can only do so much) that I
wonder if it is really useful to take the time to create alternative
Sorry if this question has been addressed before. Will Legacy and
Pocket PC work on an iphone? I tried to find the answer on Legacy's
website (since they sell Pocket PC) but could not find the answer.
Pati
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Pati,
No. There is only one program out for the iPhone and it looks like it
really needs the corresponding MacIntosh software (MacFamilyTree) to use it
properly. (And it seems very simplistic as well, nothing near as
sophisticated as GEDStar or Pocket Genealogist)
http://www.synium.de
Kevin
I create ancestor Descendant reports frequently for various cousins, and
use the PDF's as is from Legacy (including doing any necessary editing in
Legacy) for two reasons.
First, the RTF comes out not looking nicely formatted like the PDF, and it's
a lot of work to resize pictures for
Jeff,
I was primarily using the Narrative Book Report but have switched to the
Register Book Report for now, due to formatting issues when including photos in
my reports.
I'm in the process of moving material previously entered into notes into an
event I also call notes. If it is a long
aplebary wrote:
Sorry if this question has been addressed before. Will Legacy and
Pocket PC work on an iphone? I tried to find the answer on Legacy's
website (since they sell Pocket PC) but could not find the answer.
Pocket PC is a device. Pocket Genealogist is the program and it runs on
Some of the people I have in my database use their second given name instead
of their first given name. I have shown that the second name was the one
they used by putting the second name in capitals. However my problem arises
when printing out reports is that the first given name is always
On 8/15/08 8:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am curious as to which Legacy narrative/book reports are most used as
generated by Legacy or found to be most useable by experienced Legacy users.
Do any users print these narratives as created, or are these raw reports
Thanks Kevin, I guess I will have to look into another device since I
prefer Legacy to any other program. I am planning a trip this fall
and want to take my Legacy database with me. I have a laptop but it
would be so much easier with a small device. I am not sure though
that I would want
Jeff:
I agree that in any narrative report (from any genealogy software program)
the language is going to be stilted, repetitive, and fairly boring.
Professional genealogists and history writers use software for recording
facts and then convert those to narratives written from scratch. I do use
Dave and I met about this yesterday and have some ideas.
First of all, one of our great challenges when developing the SourceWriter was
to ensure that no information is lost when sharing via GEDCOM. Because the
GEDCOM standard does not have specific fields for the specific SourceWriter
fields,
I haven't learned how to do sentences in Legacy which would probably
help the readability of book reports. It's pretty dry and choppy
otherwise. In any case, I'm doing somewhat similar to this person in
writing my own narratives for publication but using a wiki, and only
using charts for
Put the preferred name in double quotes in the individual entry and check
the box for Use Quoted in the report options. I don't remember whether
you can do this in all reports. I have not tried it in the charts.
John
Some of the people I have in my database use their second given name
Hi Geoff, that sounds wonderful to me!! I would be glad to be a
tester for this if you have need for that kind of help. Also, there
is another guy who uses Legacy and TNG and who is also a good
programmer (better than I am anyway!). He said he would work with me
on the TNG end to see if we
That's what the Nickname capability is for, in quotes (e.g., James Robert
Bobbie Smith).
Mike
Michael J Method
family research of: Method, Feehily, Fredrick, Herzog, tenEyck, Belsley
In a message dated 8/15/2008 1:18:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some
Marilyn Streeter wrote
Some of the people I have in my database use their second given name
instead of their first given name. I have shown that the second name
was the one they used by putting the second name in capitals. However
my problem arises when printing out reports is that the
Thank you Kristen. I am coming to the same conclusion. When thinking of
future descendents - isn't that why some of us do this? - I cannot imagine
them going through Legacy to find information or reading through a Legacy
prepared book. Of course printed trees are always crowd favorites and
Marilyn, I believe if you insert the name that is really used in quotes,
Legacy should pick up that name and use it in narratives after the first
time.
For instance:
Mary Caroline Molly Walker
My husband also uses his middle name - in his case it would be:
George Calvin Calvin Gilmore
Janis
If you use quotes instead of capitals you can have the preferred name in
reports. So Alpha Beta Beta Jones, or Albert Bert Smith will show as
Beta and Bert.
Cary
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Sent:
Jeff,
Whenever I email copies of my research to relatives, I send them a
Descendant Modified Register Report because it is easy for them to
read.
About two years ago at a family reunion, I put together a booklet
containing a Descendant Modified Register Report, a
Pedigree Chart, and a Family
Put David between quotes. That does the trick.
You can find this also in the Help.
Bert
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From: Marilyn Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 6:41 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Use of Correct Given Name in
Marilyn
I'm including the relevant bits from the Help screens. In my case it means
my name looks like this on the data entry screens: Pamela Margaret
Margaret Pegler.
From the Help screens:
You can enter a familiar name as part of the given names by enclosing it
in quotes. For example, Margaret
Jenny,
I'm not sure. If this were possible, the entire citation that you create
using the override option would all belong to the detail instead of a master
source. And there has to first be a master source. An interesting suggestion
that we can discuss. Thank you.
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
I could use some suggestions on how to document the repository for
census information I obtained from a specific library. I did go
through the archive messages and reviewed the recommendations for
census, master sources and details but still can't figure out what
to do. FYI, I have
Geoff, that sounds like a very well thought out and effective way to correct
the issue of the export. Well done.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Geoff Rasmussen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave and I met about this yesterday and have some ideas.
First of all, one of our great challenges
Does the middle name get picked up as the usage name for narratives if it
isn't repeated? It seems silly (as in my example below) to write:
George Calvin Calvin Gilmore
Does it work if you just write:
George Calvin Gilmore
Doesn't the latter imply that Calvin is a nickname, rather than a middle
Pati,
You do have the option of setting the Pocket Genealogist database to Read
Only so you don't accidentally make a change. The 2-way syncing still
works though, except there won't be any Legacy database changes on the
device since it's marked read only, but any changes you make to your
I do think that reports make nice addendum to hand-crafted narratives. More
or less as a reference that enables the reader to quickly look up a birth or
death date, etc.
Janis Walker Gilmore
On 8/15/08 2:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
product, though they might supplement
Thank you all for the assistance. I have been using the double quotes but
only for instances such as Sarah Margaret Marg Smith. When I use it for
actually using the second given name, such as George Roland Roland Smith,
it does pick up the second name but I really don't like the looks of the
Why do you need to record where you got federal census information? It is
available in so many places. It's not like there is only an index, or maybe
this is a state census, or something that isn't readily available. As you
say, you've accessed this information in more than one place. Seems to
Geoff:
That sounds like a great solution to me - especially if you have an
option to export to TNG. Thanks for your efforts!
Gene
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At 11:56 AM 8/15/2008, you wrote:
Dave and I met about this yesterday and have some ideas.
First of all, one of our great challenges when developing
Gene,
The iPhone doesn't use Windows Mobile so Pocket Genealogist won't work.
(Nor will GEDStar which uses the Palm Operating System)
And you are correct, Legacy won't run on Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile is
very similar to big windows, but software has to be specifically written
for Windows
Excellent ideas. Thank you.
Jeff
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From: Cathy
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Most used narrative reports
Jeff,
Whenever I email copies of my research to relatives, I send them
I'm using GedStar Pro with a Palm Treo cell phone. I'm finding that some of my
SourceWriter details aren't converting properly. Everything else seems to work
well, including my non-SourceWriter citations.
John
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Could anyone tell me whether they have used
Personally I like the way the Germans do it in their church books,
underline the name the person is called.
Elsie
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Janis,
If I remember correctly it does but also has the disavantage that you cannot
remove it without losing a name. For example not only would George Calvin
Gilmore use Calvin when referring to the person eg. Calvin married - no quotes.
but would write George Calvin Gilmore born 25 Dec 1881
Marilyn Streeter wrote
Thank you all for the assistance. I have been using the double quotes
but only for instances such as Sarah Margaret Marg Smith. When I use
it for actually using the second given name, such as George Roland
Roland Smith, it does pick up the second name but I really
Elizabeth
With the number of indexing errors I have found using the Ancestry
census renditions, I do like to note those that I got from that
particular source. (Not that other sources don't also have indexing
errors - I just find Ancestry particularly egregious - especially in
linking the
Steve Ehrler wrote
I could use some suggestions on how to document the repository for
census information I obtained from a specific library. I did go
through the archive messages and reviewed the recommendations for
census, master sources and details but still can't figure out what to
do.
You are correct. I was overwhelmed by the multitude of different reports
available and focussed on the sentence structure problems. But looking
further into the reports they are actually quite nice.
Thank you all for your thoughts.
Jeff
Janis L Gilmore wrote:
I do think that reports make
Thank you Geoff and Dave!
I use TNG for web publishing and up till now have abandoned using SourceWriter
because of the output to gedcom and subsequent formatting of sources in TNG.
Jennifer
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I have done the wrong thing, by choice, which is
created a source which is the appropriate US govt.
agency for the year in question, and in repository I
have listed the federal 'roll numbers'; and Ancestry,
LDS, and others as co-repositories.
I decided that the 12+ different stake libraries in 2
Can anyone reproduce this?
I just added a line of my tree with new information, and only one
marriage had both the date and place. When I output a Descendant
Report to email to the provider of data (for verification of data
entry) I noticed that the date and place of marriage run together as
show
I use either HeritageQuest or Ancestry almost entirely. Sometimes, for
one reason or another I occasionally use first one and then the other
for the same census (for one reason or another).
For example I have a Source List Name:
1850 Census-VA-Washington Co.-Dist 67-Anc
and another entry as
These are not from an index, they are from the original records at the county
courthouse. I like to create a timeline with my Events, but after thinking
over this Vol. Pg. # issue, you're right, adding it to the marriage notes
would get it into reports. I don't add the sources to reports.
These are not from an index, they are from the original records at the county
courthouse. I like to create a timeline with my Events, but after thinking
over this Vol. Pg. # issue, you're right, adding it to the marriage notes
would get it into reports. I don't add the sources to reports.
If you were told the exact location of the census page, would you bother
using an index? The index has nothing to do with your source if you are
citing the exact image, not the index. Whether you accessed that image
through Ancestry, the FHL, or NARA matters not.
Elizabeth
researching the
Jessica, there is no space between the marriage date and place on a
descendant report here either.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
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From: Jessica Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup
I too am tidying up my sources. I am going with having duplicate
master sources - one for each different repository and with an
indication in the title which repository that master source
references. For example, I am trying to keep digital copies of the
census pages I reference. Therefore I am
Yes, I see it on multiple marriages I entered with a previous version of
Legacy as well as a test marriage I just now entered. So I agree it is a
bug.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Jessica Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone reproduce this?
I just added a line of my tree with new
Thank you all for your perspective on the issue. Maybe I'm getting
carried away with the guidance to be sure and document your
repository so someone else can find it when the census are so easily
found. Still, census may not be the only source I run into that
warrant one master source
Elizabeth,
Elizabeth
Unfortunately, because some of the images are attached to the wrong
names on the index - and some have cut off tops, it is sometimes
impossible to tell what image you have - and what roll it came from. You
aren't certain that the numbers ancestry is giving you are
Jackie, I have hundreds of images from Ancestry, quite a few from Heritage,
and even some paper copies from the FHL and NARA. The images from Ancestry,
Heritage and the FHL are duplicates of the NARA films. Sometimes that
transfer to digital wasn't as good as we might want, but it's still the
Elizabeth -
The problem with a couple of these counties is that I can't tell you
with any certainty what ED or what Page they are on - which is why I
have chosen to separate out the ancestry censuses. I can tell you in
some of these counties that the ED and page number ancestry sources for
I wholeheartedly agree with Jacki about the egregious indexing errors
found in Ancestry -having names in the index that in no way resemble
what is found on the census image. It especially annoys me that you
can only provide an alternative spelling, and note that it is a
transcription
This problem has been resolved for the next update. I don't know when that
will be - just keep an eye on the Updates section of the Legacy Home tab.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
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http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are changing the
All I can say is that if someone is not really into genealogy then they are
*very* unlikely to get any type of report from me- lengthly or otherwise..
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