[LegacyUG] Phantom marriages

2014-04-07 Thread singhals
I'm having challenges adding parents to people. APPARENTLY it matters whether I use Add/add mother, Add/add spouse, or simply click in correct empty box. I find the death record for X; it gives his parents. If I click on the father's box, sometimes the data-entry screen appears but sometimes

Re: [LegacyUG] Phantom marriages

2014-04-07 Thread Mary Young
I find it cleaner to (1) Make a note of the child's RIN (2) Set up the parents, as a couple (3) Attach the child. Mary On 7 April 2014 15:44, singhals singh...@erols.com wrote: I'm having challenges adding parents to people. APPARENTLY it matters whether I use Add/add mother, Add/add spouse,

Re: [LegacyUG] Phantom marriages

2014-04-07 Thread MikeFry
On 07 Apr 2014 17:04, Mary Young wrote: I find it cleaner to (1) Make a note of the child's RIN (2) Set up the parents, as a couple (3) Attach the child. But you shouldn't have to be restricted to doing it this way. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Phantom marriages

2014-04-07 Thread MikeFry
On 07 Apr 2014 16:44, singhals wrote: I find the death record for X; it gives his parents. If I click on the father's box, sometimes the data-entry screen appears but sometimes the ADD/Link dialogue appears. In 7.5/278, I have a person in Family View with no father. I click on the empty

Re: [LegacyUG] importing from Ancestry

2014-04-07 Thread Ward Walker
Last year I received a large FTM-generated GEDCOM with multimedia links, and a DVD with all the photos and documents. The GEDCOM says “Family Tree Maker (21.0.0.723)”. When I imported the GEDCOM into Legacy 7.5, I was able to successfully link the media files. There was one problem, however.

Re: [LegacyUG] Phantom marriages

2014-04-07 Thread Kathy Meyer
I just did quite a bit of adding individuals and their parents and had no trouble like this. I has another marriage duplicates issue and the new people were fine. I create the person x and then click on thr parent box, get the pop up, choose add father/mother, enter that data, then cick on thr

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[LegacyUG] Toolbar problems, et al

2014-04-07 Thread magnoliasouth
I have just now upgraded to 8.0.0.414 Deluxe from 6.x Deluxe. I'm not loving it yet and that's putting it lightly. The only serious difference I see is visual, which to me matters least. What I was hoping for was better function. Such as typing in Dekalb as a location and getting a list of

[LegacyUG] Missing dates?????

2014-04-07 Thread MVMcgrs
I have had to upgrade my computers to Win 7 pro [I've been an XP user]. I'm still using Legacy 7.5 (Deluxe) and have all the upgrades. When I moved my Legacy files to my new DELL desktop almost all the dates are gone. I used restore but find that some of the people have years but no dates

RE: [LegacyUG] Missing dates?????

2014-04-07 Thread Paul Gray
Marie, I suspect that there may be some inconsistencies in ‘date format settings’ either between Windows on the laptop and desktop, and/or between Legacy on the two machines. I would check date formats in both Windows and Legacy on both machines and see whether something looks inconsistent.

Re: [LegacyUG] Toolbar problems, et al

2014-04-07 Thread Lloyd Hite
On 4/7/2014 4:35 PM, magnoliasouth wrote: Is this the kind of thing that I have to look forward to now? Tons of glitches and it not remembering anything? I'm GREATLY disappointed and am thankful that I didn't uninstall 6.x. I'm also greatly disturbed that I paid so much for a glitchy upgrade.

Re: [LegacyUG] Toolbar problems, et al

2014-04-07 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 07/04/2014 22:39, Lloyd Hite wrote: Is this the kind of thing that I have to look forward to now? Tons of glitches and it not remembering anything? I'm GREATLY disappointed and am thankful that I didn't uninstall 6.x. I'm also greatly disturbed that I paid so much for a glitchy upgrade.

[LegacyUG] Female font colour on main view

2014-04-07 Thread Noddie
HelloI have just downloaded Legacy 8 deluxe and cannot figure out how to change the colour of the text for the females in the family view.Hope someone could guide me with this.Thanks so muchGwen Land of the long white cloud -New Zealand Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] Female font colour on main view

2014-04-07 Thread R G Strong-genes
Goto the Options tab. Change Colors button. Click on one of the children. A window will open where you can change the text colors for male, female, and unknown. From: Noddie Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 7:57 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Female font colour on main

Re: [LegacyUG] Female font colour on main view

2014-04-07 Thread Cathy Pinner
Hi Gwen, Note there are quite a number of preset colour schemes to choose from in Legacy 8 so before you start your own customising, you might want to check them out and start from the one you like best - there are far more than are offered during installation. On the Options Ribbon, click

Re: [LegacyUG] Toolbar problems, et al

2014-04-07 Thread Graham Lambert
Well said Jenny, and I agree wholeheartedly. The response from both users and the Legacy staff is fantastic. I guess if you only follow the replies when you have your own personal problems, then you would miss the amazing amount of help on this list. ...and as you say, you can also contact