At least Millenium tries. I still have not got my answer from MS about changes
in Windows 95. (I know).
Rich in LA CA
--- On Sun, 3/8/09, Jackie King jkin...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jackie King jkin...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Impatience with Legacy
To:
I don't use the Source Writer myself. It's just another thing to get in
sync with. Right now, it's easier not to. If there's any kind of
notation at all on the tree that you found, I'd put that in. I have
some similar 'unknowns' and I put them under a general category. For
instance,
Thank you Connie, your second suggestion worked.
regards
Frances
- Original Message -
From: Connie Sheets clshee...@yahoo.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Create a list by source detail - addendum
Actually,
Since I use Ancestry.com as the repository of the record creator, and in the
Source fields use both names, I would list it as an authorless document, the
same way I treat Newspaper clippings with no date or paper name. But of the
about 20 I had at one time, I mhave located 18 of them.
Rich in
Actually one of the reasons I chose to move to Legacy when it became
obvious that the program I had formerly used was no longer going to be
supported by the company that bought it, was the responsiveness I did
see from Legacy.
Very few of the other programs that are out there actually have
Thanks Richard...I think Connie's suggestion worked fine.
Cheers
Frances
- Original Message -
From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Create a list by source detail
Is this
Vicki,
I have used these Family Trees from Ancestry. I use the Family Group
Sheet template in Source Writer. If the author's name is given, I
will use it. If not, I use the Ancestry user name that is posted with
the Family Tree. I choose to use online images since that is where
they are, even
Thanks to all - there are some good ideas here.
But now it's Monday and back to work, so I'll have to try this when I
can squeeze in time during the week.
Judy, I like your idea. I'll try it to see what happens. Jane, I
thought of tagging, as you suggested, I was just wondering if there
was an
Hello Ron,
Yes, that is where on the Family Group Reports I am having a problem. I
totally agree that the abbreviation should be there for the parents. My
problem is - it shows Cir 1815 yet I have entered Abt 1815.
I looked at others in my database that have parents with About birth year.
The
David E. Damouth wrote
I see no reason to save *any* paper documents, unless you are the
custodian of a one-of-a-kind public archive.
I have all sorts of reasons for keeping paper documents and have masses
of them, but I don't think it's relevant to the use of Legacy and to
therefore to this
On 3/9/09, v pedersen amigo...@yahoo.com wrote:
I found what Ancestry.com calls a Family Tree on their website. It isn't
really a family tree but a short list of related people.
How would I source this? No author is listed, nor contact information, it
is simply a short list of related
I would also use a Surety of 0 until I could prove the information myself
from other sources.
Marty McMahon
ma...@mcmahon.com
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of Dede Holden
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:28 AM
To:
v pedersen wrote
I found what Ancestry.com calls a Family Tree on their website. It
isn't really a family tree but a short list of related people.
It sounds as though you have found a Private Member's Tree rather than a
Public one. For Public Members Trees you should be able to see a tree
I have been a user of the Basic version of source entry and had built
my own templates over time I'm comfortable using. Yesteday I thought
I'd play around some with the Sourcewriter entry process on my 'Test'
database. Today I'm working on my 'Main' database and went to add a
new source. The
Olds-Wills-Anderson-Simonson Hodges-Harris-Liikala-Jukkara wrote:
I have been a user of the Basic version of source entry and had built
my own templates over time I'm comfortable using. Yesteday I thought
I'd play around some with the Sourcewriter entry process on my 'Test'
database. Today I'm
Connie and Ward,
The Subsequent Citation issue is a troubling one. For the most part, I do
narratives and reconstruct citations by hand, rather than relying on
reports. Even so, there are occasions when I would like to kick out a little
booklet for an interested family member.
I would like to
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:55:09 +, Mary Young m...@cmy.org.uk wrote:
Because your new file was created TODAY, all your Added and Modified
dates will change to TODAY'S DATE.
There is a way around it ... have the programmers change the code to
copy these dates to the new database. Is there any
The choice of resetting or retaining these dates should be a user option when
exporting to a new family file.
At 07:03 AM 3/9/2009, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
There is a way around it ... have the programmers change the code to
copy these dates to the new database. Is there any advantage to
Janis wrote:
The Subsequent Citation issue is a troubling one. For the
most part, I do
narratives and reconstruct citations by hand,
rather than relying on
reports. Even so, there are occasions when I would like to
kick out a little
booklet for an interested family member...
Thanks,
Since far too many Ancestry trees are complete works of fiction, I too would be
very hesitant to enter the data into Legacy, however, if for some reason I did
do so, I would use the Internet Database template.
Connie
Legacy User Group guidelines:
Not sure I understand. If the year is entered then the age is in the
Chronology. Do you want to enter (example) 18 for the age at time of
marriage?
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Christine Pearce
christ...@great-chishill.demon.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it appears there isn't
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:48:25 -, Christine Pearce
christ...@great-chishill.demon.co.uk wrote:
I'm really keen to have age in events and, since Legacy is an Access
table/dB, wonder if I could create a new Select Query in the database
I'd add a new column with (for example)
Thinking about it some more...
If you aren't using the Description field, you could probably write a
custom function (in VB) that you could call to populate
tblER.Description with the age at the time of the event. All this would
be done in MS Access. Then you could use [Desc] in your event
I have never been able to have a clear understanding as to this
question: Is it possible to do something OTHER than saving, closing,
ETC., several times, to add the same source to each aspect of a
person. That's not clear, sorry. What I mean is this: When putting in
information about a person,
Barbara:
Go to Legacy, Help, and search for Source, Clipboard.
This has all the information you should need.
Chap
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Barbara Ford pastors...@gmail.com wrote:
I have never been able to have a clear understanding as to this
question: Is it possible to do
Ed:
After looking at the site, new.familysearch.org, you cannot use their site
unless you are a member of the church and have a membership record number.
So, I would guess, for the majority of Legacy users, the integration / tie
to the NewFamilySearch.org is of no interest - we cannot access it
Barbara Ford wrote:
I have never been able to have a clear understanding as to this
question: Is it possible to do something OTHER than saving, closing,
ETC., several times, to add the same source to each aspect of a
person. That's not clear, sorry. What I mean is this: When putting in
Barbara,
You are not missing anything because what you are requesting is not available
in Legacy. Remember that you are *not* linking the source to a person but to
different events eg. a census linked to: name, birth date, residence, place of
birth, occupation. All of these are either
Or, after the copy to the clipboard you can use the little button with three
bars in it to assign the same source to all events and facts which contain
any information with one single click
Bert
- Original Message -
From: Gene Young n2...@cfl.rr.com
To:
Oh Barbara, that's so sad! What you're missing is one of Legacy's greatest
features: the Source Clipboard. Build your source citation on the Source
Clipboard and then it takes just one click on each field where you want to
attach it. If you find later that you inadvertently missed a field, you
Okay, that absolutely answers my question, though I still will read up
on the Source Clipboard, so that Kirsten won't be sad! ;-)
And I can see where Bert's suggestion will work where, as is mostly
the case, I want to assign the same source to every field that is
completed about that person.
I will read about it as suggested, but your steps seem fairly easy.
Problem is, everything works until I get to the F2 part. It doesn't do
anything. What am I doing wrong?
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Gene Young n2...@cfl.rr.com wrote:
Barbara Ford wrote:
I have never been able to have a
Okay, the Alt-2 seems to work for me instead of F2 (to load the one
source citation into one blank field). Make sense?
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Barbara Ford pastors...@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, that absolutely answers my question, though I still will read up
on the Source Clipboard, so that
Click on the minus sign box which is below the triangle box on the left of the
Individual Info screen.
Carolyn
- Original Message -
From: Barbara Fordmailto:pastors...@gmail.com
To:
LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.commailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday,
Seems like a reasonable add-in. The age 'at an Event' is found in Chronology
reports, but may not carry well.
Rich in LA CA
--- On Mon, 3/9/09, Christine Pearce christ...@great-chishill.demon.co.uk
wrote:
From: Christine Pearce christ...@great-chishill.demon.co.uk
Subject: [LegacyUG] Age
It doesn't sound like you are copying sources to the clipboard
- If you are on the Sources screen, highlight the source you want to repeat
- in the bottom left, click on the clipboards icon, then click
Copy/Overwrite Existing
- highlight another event you want to use the same Source
- click
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:42:32 +, Mary Young m...@cmy.org.uk wrote:
On 3/9/09, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote:
Because your new file was created TODAY, all your Added and Modified
dates will change to TODAY'S DATE.
There is a way around it ... have the programmers change the
NOW we're cookin'.
Thanks to all--this was all excellent help. I'm always glad when I ask
a question; I often wish I had asked much earlier, as in this case.
Thanks,
Barbara
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:01 PM, CE WOOD wood...@msn.com wrote:
Click on the minus sign box which is below the triangle
You are accurate (kind of), but LDS is opening access to the link at a 'safe'
pace, which means adding more hardware, etc., as available. In the testing
phase, non-church members were invited to join in the project, (I declined) but
the plan, had an open by regions 'flavor' to it. I watch the
I am curious. To where is the family file backed when you backup before a
Manual Merge? So far, I get no Error 91 when doing so. Why not? How does it
differ from a regular BackUp?
Carolyn
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived
The easiest way to do is, switch 'Customize Display' fifth line to User ID.
Create the prefix, using the partial or whole surname, then (I don't remember
how I originally moved my RIN into that field), but once you do that, paste the
prefix in front of the number. If you pre-tag everyone, then
It doesn't - shouldn't.
Rich in LA CA
--- On Mon, 3/9/09, CE WOOD wood...@msn.com wrote:
From: CE WOOD wood...@msn.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Saving when merging
To: LegacyUserGroup LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 1:32 PM
I am curious. To where is the
Leon:
We were told last summer in a conference at Brigham Young University that
ultimately non-members will have access.
Last I heard the New Family Search team was still working on the big stumbling
block that has kept Utah and a few other places from being able to use it yet.
That is so
Barbara Ford wrote:
Okay, the Alt-2 seems to work for me instead of F2 (to load the one
source citation into one blank field). Make sense?
Sorry,
You're correct about Alt-2. That's what happens when you try to dash
off a quick answer. (;-)
--
Gene Y.
n2kvs
Researching Young, Zies, Harer
Clarification: The LDS Church has announced that newFS will be freely
available to everyone after all members have access.
newFS is being made available first to members of the LDS Church, in
a gradual rollout. All temple districts worldwide have it now except,
I believe, most of Utah and
From: kowal...@iglou.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Exporting to a new Family File
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:13:15 -0400
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:42:32 +, Mary Young wrote:
On 3/9/09, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
So where do I find the backup done before the merge? It is not to be found
with my other backups.
Carolyn
- Original Message -
From: RICHARD SCHULTHIESmailto:fourpa...@verizon.net
To:
LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.commailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent:
If you are thinking of customising the user ID, it is made much easier
using LTools produced by Dennis Kowallek from this LUG. I used it to
prefix a number of people with a particular User ID and it was very
efficient. http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm
--
Elizabeth
Researching
Hi to the List:
We in the Washington State area have been using New.familysearch for a year.
We have been putting names and preparing names in Family search, but the
opportunity inagreate Legacy and newfamily search and like wise newfamily
search in to your own database which one you use Paf,
I keep all my originals in files by subject (census, death-obituaries,
death-gravestones, birth-certificates, etc) and then keep my smaller
versions for Legacy in family files.
If I want to know what census records I have, I can look in the
original (census) file. If I want to know what I have
I Don't source ancestry, I put an online family tree under notes with
the URL and then I set out to prove or disprove it.
Eliz
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:14 AM, v pedersen amigo...@yahoo.com wrote:
I found what Ancestry.com calls a Family Tree on their website. It isn't
really a family tree
I agree. A family tree is a set of clues, not a source.
Diane
- Original Message -
From: Eliz Hanebury elizhg...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How do I source a Family Tree found on
Ancestry.com
I
To add one source to multiple facts (the basic ones, i.e. name, birthdate,
death date, burial), you must first load the source onto the source clipboard.
You must also enter the data into each field.
Then, look at the left hand side of the edit screen, and you will see 4 blue
symbols; choose
Ralph,
On subject of birth name vs later aka used as primary. You may be interested
in a book called Getting It Right, the Definitive Guide to Recording Family
History Accurately. by Mary H.Slawson, published by Deseret Book Company in
2002. I believe it is available through Amazon.com, I
So how would you use FileID when you appear to have two copies? or have I
misunderstood you.
Regards
Frances
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Jones juicebo...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituaries
From: Momalot66
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: 3/8/2009 3:51:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: ProMedia Manager
Has anyone had experience with the ProMedia Manager mentioned on the
Pictures CD? It sounds neat, but I cannot find
Charlotte,
Good Heavens!! For once I'm doing something by the book.
Ron Ferguson
_
*New Tutorial* Using the GIMP Mask
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
View the Grimshaw Family Tree at:
http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/
For The
Better be more careful! :)
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:38 PM, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote:
Charlotte,
Good Heavens!! For once I'm doing something by the book.
Ron Ferguson
_
*New Tutorial* Using the GIMP Mask
I do have two copies, but I only point Legacy to the smaller version.
Is that what you are asking?
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Frances jenkins...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
So how would you use FileID when you appear to have two copies? or have I
misunderstood you.
Regards
Frances
- Original
When I run a backup, I NOW look where it is sending itself. I still lose stuff,
like photos saved in a different directory.
Rich in LA CA
Now I just re-do it and see where it goes.
--- On Mon, 3/9/09, CE WOOD wood...@msn.com wrote:
From: CE WOOD wood...@msn.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]
How would any DB have identical RINs. Rich in LA CA
--- On Mon, 3/9/09, Frances jenkins...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
From: Frances jenkins...@xtra.co.nz
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituaries
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:48 PM
So how would you use FileID
Carolyn,
I don't know where it gets backed up during a merge either. I do know
that you can undo they merge by clicking on Edit, then undo
merge
Viv
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:32 PM, CE WOOD wood...@msn.com wrote:
I am curious. To where is the family file backed when you backup before a
I have created a search list that is limited to people (1) born before
1930 and (2) with Living marked as NO. I used this list to
created my web page, using Selected Records and Set Focus Group.
However, the names of people who aren't supposed to be there, and who
do *not* appear on the
So HOW do I look where it is sending itself since there is no clue on the Merge
Backup screen that tells me.
I THINK it is backed up in the Legacy Temp folder, as a ~BM file, but have no
idea how to access it.
The fact that some sort of backup file can be created without an Error 91 might
Yes thank you
Frances
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Jones juicebo...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituaries
I do have two copies, but I only point Legacy to the smaller version.
Is that what you
This does not appear to be a standard backup (zipped) file. Sounds more
like an internal backup used for an undo process during the session that
you are currently working on. Once Legacy is closed does this file go
away? I doubt if you could access this file except through the merge
reversal
CE WOOD wrote:
So HOW do I look where it is sending itself since there is no clue on
the Merge Backup screen that tells me.
I THINK it is backed up in the Legacy Temp folder, as a ~BM file, but
have no idea how to access it.
The fact that some sort of backup file can be created without an
Legacy does not make a backup before merging in the way it does when
you make a backup. It makes a temporary copy of the family file not a
zip backup.
That temporary copy is only kept until you stop Legacy.
If you decide to undo the merge you can go to Edit Undo merge and
Legacy will
Thank you to everyone who gave their thoughts on how to source what Ancestry
calls a family tree.
I hope that I did not give the impression that I was assuming that the tree is
factual. I just want a way to record where I found clues as to where a
collateral line may have moved to.
So what is wrong that the zip backup doesn't work when a copy does?
Why is Legacy not able to zip the file?
Should those many of us with this problem simply make copies of the file
instead?
Knowing what other files to copy would help us greatly, which is what you try
hard to do.
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