Let me be a bit clearer.
I just made contact with a 6th cousin. Prior to this neither of us knew of each
other's existence. He uses TMG and kindly used some function in TMG to make a
Legacy compatible file. I don't know if he did this as a GEDCOM or what, but he
downloaded the Legacy program
I do very similar to Marilyn but also place a transcript of the Census on
Marriage notes (if family) or General Notes (if individual) including in that
transcript the location and name of the image in my filing system. For each
Residence or Occupation I use a Basic source of that Particular
That was something I did not know about TMG which I used for a few months
and then changed over to Legacy.
I will be interested to hear if he can do what you want, it is worth knowing
that it can be done.
My apologies too, I just went back through your original post and I see you
did say that you
Sydney,
Why would you wish to do this? If your problem is searching for individuals
with references to Clerk of Court, then why not use SearchFindDetailed
Search and then Individual; Source-Master Source (or Source-Citation,
whichever is applicable); Contains; Clerk of Court?
Otherwise I suspect
Jennifer,
In which case couldn’t you create a full GEDCOM, change it as suggested by
Sherry, and import into a new Legacy file?
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
-Original Message-
From: Jennifer Crockett
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:00 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
When adding a source and selecting repositories, I wondered if there was a
way to keep the list by State?
Sydney
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.ukwrote:
Sydney,
Why would you wish to do this? If your problem is searching for individuals
with references
You can list them anyway you want. Here is how I have mine
Lamar County Mississippi Circuit Court Clerk
Marion County Mississippi Circuit Court Clerk
Perry County Mississippi Circuit Court Clerk
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Pike County Alabama Circuit Court Clerk
South Carolina
Sydney,
I am still unclear as to why you would wish to do this, and I cannot see how
it can be done from within Legacy. As no doubt you realise, they are sorted
by Title, and if I wished to identify, say, Clerk of Court by state then I
would give it the title of, say, Alabama Clerk of Court.
Ron
Gerrr!
Whenever I change my emails to plain text any list I have automatically gets
crunched together unless I put spaces between the lines! Here is what I really
typed
You can list them anyway you want. Here is how I have mine:
Lamar County Mississippi Circuit Court Clerk
Marion
I like the State first in the Master Sources. It seems cumbersome in the
Repository list.
Sydney Gabel
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.comwrote:
Gerrr!
Whenever I change my emails to plain text any list I have automatically
gets crunched together
I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can never find what I'm searching
for in the archives. Is there then a useful purpose for doing this comma thing
with Canadian or USA locations? I need to see the reason why it is helpful
before changing the rest of my location list. Some locations are
1) This is the standard of the largest repository in the world, the Family
History Library in Salt Lake City, which is considered the authority when it
comes to genealogical research
2) Standardizing your locations makes searching easier, sharing data easier,
and makes your research look more
Since many records are found at the District Clerk's office, or the Court
clerk, or the Clerk Recorder in the county court house, I thought the
office were records were found was the repository. What would the people
on the list call them?
Sydney Gabel
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Michele
On 2012/04/20 17:09, Michele Lewis wrote:
1) This is the standard of the largest repository in the world, the Family
History Library in Salt Lake City, which is considered the authority when it
comes to genealogical research
But NOT, probably, for UK records!
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Marg - why can't you print your report with a search function and find
your people in a specific city, county or state? You have already
listed the location in the Census event - unless I am missing
something here if your event is the Census (mine are - Census, date,
place) and the source is
Microfilm :)
Michele
-Original Message-
From: Mike Fry [mailto:mike...@iafrica.com]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 11:26 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options)
On 2012/04/20 17:09, Michele Lewis wrote:
1) This is the
Yup, Mike, you are so right.
For a long time a number of us have been pressing them directly and through
publications to stop using it for our locations, and the new records which
Family Search are now publishing seem to have accepted the arguments put to
them. We cannot be certain, but we are
Microfilm of what? Their transcriptions??
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
-Original Message-
From: Michele Lewis
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 5:04 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options)
Microfilm :)
Michele
At this point (I may be sorry because I know others do it differently) I list
the Census as an event. I'm using just the Country/date/name of census as
source, and the county etc. under the detail. Under the marriage, if it is the
family, and under the individual if not married. I am saving the
If you want/need to use other than the 4 standard for the USA levels
the program will accept up to 9 levels separated by commas.
Someone in this thread suggested that 4 levels also apply to Canada.
That is not necessarily true and is totally unnecessary for finding
vital records of Birth, Death
You can use the sort button within the Master Location List. If you have used
the 4 location fields it will sort correctly no matter in which order you tell
it to search. You are correct, if you have other countries mixed in that have
more than 4 fields it will mess up your sort a bit but it
Marg:
Here is what I do for Census and associated source using the Basic
Source Writer:
I create an Event for the Head of Household as follows:
Event: Census
Description: Blank
Date: 4 Jun 1880
Place: Columbia, Wapello Co, IA, USA
I source this event with the following information:
Source
I will contact you off list since this is off topic. I am interested and I
have a couple of questions for you :)
Michele
-Original Message-
From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 12:12 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re:
Although you are working on data entry please consider at the
beginning of this exercise your end result. A version of garbage
in, garbage out is data entry in, data entry out. Really think
about how you want to use all the information you amass, how you want
a report to look and after entering
I do both. I have all my census images together on my hard drive AND I link
them to the source for my census events (oops, resident events) :)
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.netwrote:
Ron, I will take your experience to heart, because you have many, many
Here is how I do a census event
EVENT/FACT: 1870 United States Federal Census
DESCRIPTION: population schedule
DATE: 20 Jul 1870
PLACE: , Perry, Mississippi, United States
NOTES:
James Simmons, age 49, white male, works at gris [sic] mill, value of real
estate $400, value of personal property
I have thousands of census events in Legacy. I don’t have the census images
saved or linked because it would take me YEARS to go back and do this. I have
22 year’s worth of data in my file. IF I was brand new and starting out I
WOULD attach the census page because it would make it so much
I just use the default Census event
Description - year US Federal Census Population Schedule
Date - date of census
Location - city, county and state as shown on census
I wouldn't want to deal with that many different Census Event
Definitions nor take the time to create new ones.
I can always
Thanks for the book recommendation. I like the way Legacy automatically enters
the date according to the default (maybe the default I set?) so I can't mess
that up. I have read a bit more about the standard ways of entering names; such
as not entering anything into the name field if it is
Thank you, Leon. I need to think hard about including the state/provice of the
census in the source or detail. Since many of the family are so far located in
one county/province in Canada, that wouldn't add a lot of different sources.
When it comes to the USA, my paternal family line is spread
Tessa, you are right on, I know. I was paying attention to the sentence
structure and sometimes used the over ride feature. It's a great feature
because I can see how it will read without having to run a report. When I
finish cleaning the mess in my locations, I will definitely try running some
You can change how the date displays in Legacy so you must have it set right :)
:) :)
Names are pretty straight forward. You don't want to put any descriptive words
in the blanks such as infant, baby, child etc. They do not recommend all caps
for the last name anymore. Enter the name
Michele, I appreciate seeing your clear example. In the end I'll have to decide
exactly how I am going to do my own but there is nothing more helpful than
seeing examples. My events look similar to yours but I haven't seen anything to
enter for the description so I've been skipping it. I think
Eliz, that's an interesting way of doing it. I started trying to think of
something like that and adding it but was afraid it might be too non-standard.
So far I haven't added many maybes. It is good that Legacy gives lots of
leeway so we can do what we think will be helpful. Needs a lot of
I'm so glad to hear that Legacy doesn't recommend all caps anymore. I really
disliked the way that looked and never used it. I've learned to use the AKA
field instead of the nickname in quotes. I've been tempted to use unknown in
the blank name fields, but restrained myself because I read that
Peggy,
As somebody else wrote, it is important to consider at this early stage as to
whether you may wish to publish your work as a report just for your family,
send copies to other researchers, publish formally or as a web site. If so how
would they look if full of possibles or maybes. OK,
I am going to advertise this on the Legacy website but - the long
and short of it is that some of us Legacy Users are on Google+ are
using the Hangout function/concept to meet online rather than meet in
person (like the majority of Legacy User Groups). The reason is that
we are from various
There are all kinds of way to make Legacy work for you. I like the
surnames in all caps (and customization tab will take care of that); I
use the suffix for farm names of my Norwegian ancestors which is
really nice; if you have doctors or priests or nuns or juniors or
seniors or III's etc., you
Peggy,
To help try and clarify the naming of censuses, For the UK all our censuses
originate at country level - hence England + date, Brian said that in the
States they originate at county level, which I would consider naming as
county, state, US. I don't know about Canada, but if at province
Peggy,
The nice thing about going through your file and doing cleanup is that you
will find mistakes that you didn’t even know you had. One more thing about
names. When you have initials, make sure you put a space between them.
J.E. Simmons is wrong
J. E. Simmons is right
Legacy WILL find
Is the virtual group video? Audio? Either?
Michele
-Original Message-
From: Tessa [mailto:murke...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 4:49 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sourse vs. event
I am going to advertise this on the Legacy website but - the
Michele - a Google+ Hangout is both audio and video - we attend the
hangout and are all connected through the internet and google) check
out Hangouts through Google; but we are able to talk and listen and
share our screens (can watch someone's powerpoint or watch them work
with their Legacy
Oh yes - let's always remember to run a Potential Problems report - I
fix so many things this way!
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.com wrote:
Peggy,
The nice thing about going through your file and doing cleanup is that you
will find mistakes that you didn’t
I have the Deluxe 7.5 Legacy, and am generating ancestor reports. I have
unchecked the boxes for RIN, User ID, etc. because I don't want any numbers
showing in the report. But the system continues to show all the numbers for
every name under each name, even though the box for that is
I like that I can find my maybes and my I think. Anyone checking
my tree knows immediately that I don't have a world of confidence in
that G but it also brings me corrections and tidbits of advice from
people I suspect wouldn't write otherwise.
I have ended up having what approaches a town
Thanks for reminding me to snip. I keep forgetting. Maybe I'll find out more
about those archives since cheatsheets would be so much easier than trying to
google it every time. Someday I will need the prefix - I have a relative by
marriage who is a Rev. and another who is an M.D. (That would be
Canada has their censuses under Township and County, and Province I think.
Almost all of mine are in Ontario, so f I just use Province that shouldn't be
hard to change. Sometimes County seems to be District.
I'm really going to have to study those links you've sent. Sometimes a source
has a
It seems like all the work I did yesterday, combining duplicates that were just
entered a bit differently, has reverted to the way they were when I started.
Now I'm wondering if the correction will be made on all the individuals listed
under the combined location like I assumed. Or do I have to
My main error was not using the period at all. I think Legacy has a pop up that
reminds me. Or maybe it's an ancestry pop-up?
From: Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 5:14 PM
Subject: RE:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:28:54 -0700 Brian/Support wrote:
If you want/need to use other than the 4 standard for the USA levels
the program will accept up to 9 levels separated by commas.
I've never used the 4-field convention and I always put the full address
into the location, so I'm sure I
Tried that – didn’t work.
Regards,
Jennifer
http://colston-wenck.com
From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, 20 April 2012 8:27 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Baptism event
Jennifer,
In which case couldn’t you create a full GEDCOM,
You've inspired me to go into the Options Customize box. There is actually an
option for putting Unknown in blank fields. I thought Legacy's preference was
to leave it blank. It was set to 'Unknown but I used this box when I first
started using Legacy so might have set it there myself. And for
I think I've covered all the options in customize but didn't find one that
told Legacy to find the error with initials.I like the Alarm setting: It's
late...go to bed. I need that one!
From: Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.com
To:
I know some will tell you about tablets like the iPad that run on the Apple's
operating system and others will tell you about tables that run on the Android
operating system. The drawback to these is that you have to use the Families
app but then you do not have the full function of Legacy.
I found out why my combining work wasn't sticking. I changed hard drives two
days ago and didn't manage to move my legacy file to the new hard drive. I
don't know why that happened but somehow it seemed like the new information was
only in the backup file and Legacy kept loading the old file.
Thanks, Michele. I just posted an update. Found out what the problem was.
Peggy
From: Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:33 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Combining Locatins in Master Location
Just realized one more thing. Every evening I sync my main drive to my backup
drives. My new backup drive (external) was my main drive with my Legacy
database. It was faster than my old drive. When I switched, I forgot to change
that and synced the old files back to my new drive.
I've been
Brian,
You MAY want to consider a convertible(?) also. Though these seem to
be disappearing with the arrival of the tablets.
A convertible (don't remember if that's the right name) is a full
blown laptop that also allows you to either:
* pivot the screen and then lay it on top of the keyboard
Marg,
Do your clean up of the locations using the Master Location List.
Changes you make there will propagate to everyone who uses the changed
location. If you do it at the person level you are actually creating a
new Master Location entry.
Go to View Master Lists Location
You can combine
If you open the Master Location List and click on the Sort button you
will see that there are 9 spaces for you to define sort order. That is
why I said Legacy can accept 9 levels. If you were able to put in more
those beyond 9 cannot be used in sorting.
You also cannot apply names to the 5 extra
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