Try this:
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/help4Over2.asp
But I think there is a typo in 1. Before you install 6.0.
I suppose this should read as Before you install 7.0 again, because
the user had allready installed 7.0 over 6.0.
Evert
2009/9/22 Catherine Birch c.bi...@clear.net.nz:
I have been
Robert Arens wrote
I approximate 30 years per generation, marriage at about 25, first
child one year after marriage, a child every two years, the wife is 2
years younger than the husband. In some large family groups I've been
off by as much as 40 years.
Which is why I don't like estimating
Catherine Birch wrote
Last year I installed Legacy 7 Deluxe. I already had Legacy 6.
I thought that 7 would have over ridden 6 but have had both since
then. I recently tried to make a gedcom file in 7 but it will only
come in 6.
You problems uninstalling Legacy 6 have been responded to
When you have a file like mine with over 200 people with the same name
(Nicholas Arens), born between 1500 and 2009, I need a method to roughly
sort them into approximate decades and centuries..
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.ukwrote:
Robert Arens wrote
I
I did the speed test and these are the results...
download 3.89
upload 1.00
so now tell me what that means.
michele
- Original Message -
From: Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:17 PM
Subject: RE:
Suzanne:
I'm a huge creator of PDF files and have been for a number of years. I used
to save and scan all of my sources to PDF files because I dislike having
tons of paper files. Digital is better. However, over the years when
incorporating them into genealogy software they can become quite
I would uninstall both, then reinstall Legacy 7. If you have any utilities
that will clean up your registry you might want to consider running them.
I do this after uninstalling anything as well as deleting any configuration
files that most uninstall utilities leave behind. Such as under
Seems like someone recently posted here (I have a stickie on this!) that they
use abt 1820 when the year has been indicated by a source; e.g., census
listing. But they use est 1820 when they're using some other algorithm to
come up with the year; e.g., Robert's calculations. Anything with abt
Carl - Could you expand a bit on your system of tagging the individuals and/or
the groups. I have a lot of unrelated folks in my system, and this might help
me better manage the files.
Bob
Carl Cox ct...@getgoin.net wrote:
I like the two suggestions I received. Thank you. I will start
Do *not* delete the program folder unless you have saved your Data folder to
another location. Not only does it contain your working file but also your
backup.
In fact if you delete the program folder you will also lose *all* your
settings. I recommend that you do now follow this advice unless
Offhand, I would say you have excellent connectivity to the Internet.
Uploading your Legacy web pages should not be much of a problem. Your
specific numbers indicate a 3.89 megabit download speed which is very good.
You are probably paying for a 4 megabit connection but if you are actually
paying
Jenny M Benson wrote
I have a Comment on a Master Source which is *not* checked for
inclusion in Reports, but it is being included, and it is included on
every Citation using that Master Source.
Further information about this. I now see why this is occurring. On
some SW templates (I have
I have taken to putting in an estimated birth date for partners for
the people I am connected to as Robert says just to try and make sense
of things. I use @185ish, and ish is really generous G It alerts me
that it isn't a census age, and really tells me I have to get to work
on that person G
There is a serious error in my last post. The last sentence should read: I
recommend that you do *not* follow this advice unless you know exactly what you
are doing.
My apologies.
Ron Ferguson
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I'm thinking that people don't save their data files to the same location as
the program--at least I don't.
I should have mentioned this would be for the advanced computer users
especially anything to do with the registry and after an uninstall not
before.
-Original Message-
From:
After practically giving up on my last GEDCOM import into Legacy, I did a
new one that is just as messed up as the first. I just discovered that I
have a person Marie G. Kelly who married Samuel E. Boswell. I'm finding two
Marie Kelly's: one with a husband and one without. She is not listed
For what it's worth, I use Cal 1820 when a dob is calculated from a record
such as a census listing or age at death. Legacy accepts this as well as
Cal 20 Nov 1820 and even a date range such as Cal 1820-1826 (for when
sources differ). I wasn't comfortable with the Cal abbreviation in the
My web pages = about 35.73. At an upload speed of 1.00, should it still be
taking 2 hours?
michele
- Original Message -
From: Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:09 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG]
Bill,
Adobe Reader is able to add annotations to a PDF if the appropriate user
rights have been applied to the PDF. I suspect that the PDF must also be
created as interactive (not printform). Applying user rights might be done
by the software that creates the PDF, or even after the fact by
Jenny,
I think you should just go ahead and report that as a bug. If it was ever
intentional, then it was a design bug (as opposed to a programming bug).
After the 'Comments about this master source' have been surreptitiously
copied to the 'Comments' field, can you manually clear the
Forget my previous message. I exported from FTM to a GEDCOM and had Legacy
ignore the image links. I'm going to relink all the images later after I do
some cleanup. The problem isn't there with this new import. I just have to
stay away from The Master Genealogist importing of FTM2009 files
You could try to Swap Husband and Wife ... in Legacy (menu Edit)
Evert
have a person Marie G. Kelly who married Samuel E. Boswell. I'm finding two
Marie Kelly's: one with a husband and one without. She is not listed twice
in the index for some strange reason. With the husband, she's listed
Bill,
Have you done as suggested by others and loaded your GEDCOM, as recommended,
into a new Legacy file before merging it into your main Legacy DB?
Whilst I have never needed to load a large an FTM generated GEDCOM into Legacy,
I do know that those who have recommend this practice.
Ron
Oh, too late. I deleted everything.
:-)
Brian in CA
From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:48 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help required
There is a serious error in my last post. The last sentence
I think you're speaking of the permissions for sharing with people who are
only using the Reader.
I forgot to mention that I'm using the latest Adobe Acrobat software. I
don't remember what the capabilities were of previous versions, or the
Reader since I don't use it. I believe version 9.xx
We had a problem report on the issue of combining sources in our system.
It was marked as resolved in our latest update so I tested it today. I
have now passed it back to the programmers for more work. You should not
have to edit the source and cancel before the combine button works.
Brian
I found that by accident. I was afraid there were others like this that
were also reversed so I just re-imported a new GEDCOM file. This one
appears to be okay.
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of Evert van Dijken
You and I (and probably many others) think alike on this. My data folders
reside on a totally different physical hard drive other than C:. Ive been
doing it this way for quite a while and Legacy is perfectly happy with those
non-default locations. Personally, I dislike any program that invades
Ron:
I never merged a GEDCOM into an existing file. That would be a nightmare
since things have gotten corrupt exporting from TMG. I always import a
fresh GEDCOM and start from scratch. This time I had Legacy ignore all
image links. I think it works better that way. I can relink them later.
Will my genealogy do instead, Brian :-)
Ron Ferguson
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http://www.fergys.co.uk
Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw
http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/
For The Fergusons of N.W.
The point that I'm trying to make is that if you use special features to
create PDF documents using Acrobat, and then make these documents available
to cousins or anyone who only has Reader, then their ability to see and use
these features in Reader is dependent on options that you made when
Your last paragraph is exactly why I don't put anything on the C Drive. I
reformat at least once a year if not more when things start getting
cluttered and causing problems. Windows XP updates tend to bring more
problems than they solve. I also use an external drive only for archiving
old stuff
Bill
You may not need to relink all the photos. A gedcom from Legacy includes the
full path for the photos (drive:\folders\filename) and FTM may do as well. If
you have the photos in the same location they could/should load. Alternatively
Legacy has a setting for where to look for photos, and
Ward Walker wrote
After the 'Comments about this master source' have been surreptitiously
copied to the 'Comments' field, can you manually clear the Comments
field, as a workaround?
No! Deleting text from one place deletes it in the other.
It's all a bit odd: I now see that the grey hint
On Sep 22, 2009 7:45 PM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote:
Ward Walker wrote
After the 'Comments about this master source' have been surreptitiously
copied to the 'Comments...
No! Deleting text from one place deletes it in the other.
It's all a bit odd: I now see that the grey
Thanks Brian! It is not holding me up, but I'm glad you followed up on it. Do
you think there is an additional field that goes along with being a SW source
that we should be changing in Access? A field that gets set correctly when the
SW source is opened for Edit?
--Paula in Texas
I have seen inconsistencies in those grey hint text lines... different issues
on different templates. E.g., when you start typing the hint doesn't go away
and what you type is grey, when you start typing the hint goes away but what
you type is centered and grey, etc. Do you think I should be
Just to give you an idea, I live in Korea so I ran two tests. The first to a
local server in Seoul showed
Down: 13.40
Up: 7.85
I then switched to a server in San Francisco, half-way around the world and
got these results
Down: 7.61
Up: 2.01
My worst case is twice your speeds. Korea, however,
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