Re: [LegacyUG] Children View - Show ½ kids

2014-02-22 Thread Kathy Thompson
forget it then - never mind - I'll keep my ideas and thoughts to myself since they seem to be so hard to grasp by others On 22 February 2014 17:46, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.comwrote: yes, create an event called Census and then use one of the parents as head of household then via

Re: [LegacyUG] Children View - Show ½ kids

2014-02-22 Thread Brian/Support
When you know that children of previous marriages for either party were living in the household (from census or whatever sources) you can easily link those children to the family (that husband wife combo) then set the relationship to each parent as step or biological. Once you do that the Family

Re: [LegacyUG] Endless Loops and Ancestor Book

2014-02-22 Thread Brian/Support
Diane, Those are not really endless loops, just repeating lines because there are interconnections between descendants. i.e If the great grandchildren of a person marry then that person is an ancestor to both and will appear multiple times. A true endless loop occurs when, by accident due to

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Charting - Show Duplicates

2014-02-22 Thread Brian/Support
We need a lot more information than this to even begin to help you if this is a real problem. The first thing I would say however would be to say check the family groupings in Legacy. Charting uses the parent-child links defined in your Legacy file to make the chart so if a child shows with the

Re: [LegacyUG] Children View - Show ½ kids

2014-02-22 Thread singhals
I rise to concur w/ Kathy that it is confusing to look at the CHILDREN list and find it chrono-unsorted. Seems to me that if the program can keep track of which child goes to each marriage--and flag it, it ought to be able to do a chrono sort on 'em. This would be useful in a number of ways,

Re: [LegacyUG] How to add children?

2014-02-22 Thread R G Strong-genes
nothing until you know From: Richard Falzini Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 11:23 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to add children? Yes I know I can add the children with the mother in family view. But since the father of the children is unknown, what would

Re: [LegacyUG] Children View - Show ½ kids

2014-02-22 Thread Jay 1FamilyTree
Kathy, Please dont keep your thoughts to yourself, BUT try to step back and look at the big picture, both from the programming aspect and from users side. We all want to improve things but those changes have to be weighed on how they will affect current users or programming logic. As Ron

Re: [LegacyUG] Children View - Show ½ kids

2014-02-22 Thread Jay 1FamilyTree
GREAT suggestion Brian ! What a good way to show the programmers what we are thinking when making a change. On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.comwrote: When you know that children of previous marriages for either party were living in the household (from

Re: [LegacyUG] Children View - Show ½ kids

2014-02-22 Thread Ron Taylor
Brian's suggestion is really the only logical way to show children from multiple marriages that lived together in the same household.  The ViewShow 1/2 Kids will display children from multiple marriages even when they never did live in the same household simply because the child is linked in

[LegacyUG] Set Tag Colors (Customize 9.2 / Other User-Interface Colors)

2014-02-22 Thread Arnold Sprague
It appears that a tremendous amount of time and effort went into designing Color Palettes and Pre-defined color sets for Set Tag Colors (Customize 9.2 / Other User-Interface Colors). However, the new subtlety does not make the Tags really stand out as before. For example, with L7.5, I set up Tag

Re: [LegacyUG] Children View - Show ½ kids

2014-02-22 Thread Jay 1FamilyTree
Ron, Agreed... If they could put the little icon in the right upper corner of the childrens' container, in front of the child name, and then when you mouseover that symbol it would display the child status and relationships. So many more places could use mouseover events all of those icons on

Re: [LegacyUG] Set Tag Colors (Customize 9.2 / Other User-Interface Colors)

2014-02-22 Thread JV Leavitt
Here here! Good suggestion. How about making it formal by using the link to Make a Suggestion on the Legacy program's Home tab? Joseph Leavitt On 2/22/2014 4:24 PM, Arnold Sprague wrote: It appears that a tremendous amount of time and effort went into designing Color Palettes and Pre-defined

[LegacyUG] Descendant chart filling only half page width

2014-02-22 Thread Boyd Miller
Periodically, after several perfectly normal Descendant charts, the right margin on the next chart comes to come in to about the middle of the page, and any remaining data on a person is wrapped to the next line. This happens even when the margins are set to 1 cm. If I close the chart and go to