[LegacyUG] RE: sadly jan passed away in february please delete p00h53 from your mailing list

2013-05-30 Thread Jan Roberts
Cheers Jan From: Garnet Quigley [mailto:garnetquig...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 24 May 2013 09:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New to Adobe Photoshop elements Deanna, you could take a look at some of Geoff Rassmussen's archived webinars on organizing media.

RE: [LegacyUG] still have a duplicate

2012-12-14 Thread Jan Roberts
Yes, but if I am remembering correctly the OP has EVERYONE showing three times - not truly a Duplicate Lines situation. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Ron Taylor [mailto:doit4...@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, 15 December 2012 02:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re:

RE: [LegacyUG] Webinar_ Irish Ancestors

2012-12-06 Thread Jan Roberts
Me too! (Yes I know – we don’t need a flurry of Me Toos, but I really agree with what Tessa said.) Cheers Jan From: Randy Clark [mailto:ceddaco...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 7 December 2012 08:32 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Webinar_ Irish Ancestors Tessa,

RE: [LegacyUG] Australian Electoral Rolls

2012-12-06 Thread Jan Roberts
I have created an event called Electoral Rolls – because it suits my purposes since it provides residence and occupation. I regard the appearance of the person on the electoral rolls as an event / fact. The source is of course the electoral rolls. Off-hand my sentence reads something like

RE: [LegacyUG] Email with Symbols

2012-10-27 Thread Jan Roberts
It seems to happen to my own messages when I convert them to plain text for sending to the list. So I presumed that is what was doing it to other people's messages that come through with the strange symbols. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Ronald Bernier

RE: [LegacyUG] FGS event pictures problem

2012-10-26 Thread Jan Roberts
There is no solution currently as far as I am aware. It has been logged as a problem, but nothing done so far. It is a real pain in the rear end to have to remember to check it every time. It seems to affect all reports, not just FGS. Cheers Jan From: Paula Ryburn

RE: [LegacyUG] Alt Name vs AKA

2012-09-26 Thread Jan Roberts
I have Alt. Birth, Alt. Death, Alt. Christened, Alt. Christening, Alt. Burial, Alt. Buried and Alt. Marriage – none of which I have created or used, and I do not use nFS to import data so they must be default Alt. Events. Cheers Jan From: Ron Taylor [mailto:doit4...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday,

RE: [LegacyUG] Alt Name vs AKA

2012-09-26 Thread Jan Roberts
You must have created Alt. Spelling yourself. As in my previous post, I do not have “many” Alt. Events – only 7 all up. Cheers Jan From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2012 03:20 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Alt Name

RE: [LegacyUG] Viewing images

2012-09-19 Thread Jan Roberts
Why not just add images using the Picture icon? The File icon is meant to be for Word documents and pdf documents. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Tony Rolfe [mailto:geneal...@gillandtony.com] Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2012 13:06 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject:

RE: [LegacyUG] descendant report

2012-09-18 Thread Jan Roberts
Original Poster (of the original message). Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2012 11:34 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] descendant report bgsu1...@gmail.com wrote, With a little work, the

RE: [LegacyUG] Same event for many people - SOLVED

2012-09-16 Thread Jan Roberts
If you go to Events in the Help file in the program this is what you see - Using the Event Clipboard To copy an Event to the clipboard: 1. Click the button. [shows the copy icon - removed because this is in plain text] To paste an Event from the clipboard to a list: 1. Open the Add Event

RE: [LegacyUG] Same event for many people - SOLVED

2012-09-16 Thread Jan Roberts
Only problem with using the repeat button (which I had noticed but never used before, so I have learnt something) is that it doesn't copy the source. By using the copy icon (two paper pages) and then the paste icon (clipboard with paper on it) on the new person's event screen you can repeat

RE: [LegacyUG] Half Siblings

2012-09-14 Thread Jan Roberts
True half-siblings (i.e. they share one parent) can be shown by checking Show Half siblings (click on the siblings icon below any individual – at the bottom of the box that appears there is a tick box for Show Half brothers and sisters). It will show for all families with half-siblings. To

RE: [LegacyUG] Half Siblings

2012-09-14 Thread Jan Roberts
Sorry Sandra, I forgot about Step 1. As I was writing my reply I had a nagging feeling there was something I was missing, but couldn’t work out what. The reason I don't actually use Step 1 is that it gives a false record at times. By that I mean it appears to show *ALL* children of a couple,

RE: [LegacyUG] proper format for Washington, DC

2012-09-08 Thread Jan Roberts
Me too! Seems the current discussion just goes to show that there are more exceptions than not, even in the US - for which the 4 field idea was 'invented'. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Saturday, 8 September 2012 19:22 To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Saving report options

2012-09-01 Thread Jan Roberts
Oops! I've just written virtually the same thing, before I saw your post Sherry. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2012 04:34 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Saving report options

RE: [LegacyUG] How to handle duplicate entries

2012-08-23 Thread Jan Roberts
Yes, but it still repeats all of the information, events etc for the first duplicated person. I believe this is on the 'to be fixed' list after I reported it quite some time ago - but to date it hasn't been fixed. i.e. I have my daughter attached to me and my first husband (her father) and

RE: [LegacyUG] Census List options

2012-08-21 Thread Jan Roberts
Good way of explaining it I’d say. Cheers Jan From: Bruce Jones [mailto:juicebo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:58 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census List options Here is how I see it. Say a person was born in location A, and died in

RE: [LegacyUG] Proof of relationship

2012-08-14 Thread Jan Roberts
Amen to that! At the risk of being reprimanded as this is straying off topic, I have to add my bit about Ancestry and some of the messes I've found there - usually with no response when I've pointed out the errors. I have found Ancestry to be very useful, locating many people and facts I

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback

2012-08-09 Thread Jan Roberts
I'm not sure about Dropbox deleting files. I have shared a folder of files to enable my Legacy created Descendants web pages to display in my wiki. Now, it is possible that visitors to my site have opened those links and therefore accessed the html files on Dropbox. But I certainly haven't

RE: [LegacyUG] Printing

2012-07-25 Thread Jan Roberts
Answering this before I’ve completely reviewed 5 days of messages, so someone else may already have commented. If you are creating a Descendants narrative report (starting with Joe BLOW as earliest ancestor) it will say Joe BLOW married Mary SMITH, daughter of John SMITH and Betty BROWN. Does

RE: [LegacyUG] alignment error under pictures in reports

2012-07-17 Thread Jan Roberts
I sent a program enhancement suggestion to support a couple of months ago about just this issue. I don't know that it is classified as a 'bug', as I think it is deliberately programmed this way, or overlooked by the programmers rather than being something that isn't working as it should. But

RE: [LegacyUG] Printing Family Group Sheets

2012-07-16 Thread Jan Roberts
I have used pdftoword in the past, and always got back my converted document within a few minutes. I suppose you've checked your junk mail folder. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Michele Lewis [mailto:ancestor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 16 July 2012 04:31 To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship calculator and Set Relationships do not complete

2012-07-10 Thread Jan Roberts
Wasn't the reasoning that due to requests for non-blood relationships to be calculated also (such as in-laws) it would slow the program down if relationships were automatically being re-calculated every time a new person was added? Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Tim Rosenlof

RE: [LegacyUG] Age on the family view?

2012-07-09 Thread Jan Roberts
I agree - have never known about this little trick. What a clever way to see at a glance. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Rita Lynn McKale [mailto:cagr...@comporium.net] Sent: Monday, 9 July 2012 23:24 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Age on the family

RE: [LegacyUG] Age on the family view?

2012-07-09 Thread Jan Roberts
Sorry Jenny, I did a quick scan before I sent my reply to RHS and couldn't see that anyone had really addressed his problem - missed yours which seems to do a better job at saying what I was trying to say! Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson

RE: [LegacyUG] Age on the family view?

2012-07-09 Thread Jan Roberts
Richard, a misinterpretation of the label - Display is used as a verb in this instance, saying that this icon will display the Notes. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: RHS Consulting [mailto:rhsconsult...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:51 To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Same sex marriage.

2012-07-08 Thread Jan Roberts
There is no way you can create a union between two people of the same sex in Legacy. Someone did come up with a workaround some time ago, but I can’t remember what it was – a quick search of the archives has just shown me that the link to the workaround explanation is no longer available. (It

RE: [LegacyUG] Event Clipboard

2012-07-04 Thread Jan Roberts
We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 16/06/2012 20:40, Jan Roberts wrote: I have just noticed that the Event Clipboard does not retain its contents when Legacy is closed down. Is this as it should

RE: [LegacyUG] Decendant Narrative Text Report Formatting

2012-07-01 Thread Jan Roberts
Well, I just created an RTF Descendant Narrative using my usual settings which have a margin of 2cm on the left hand side. All left margins appeared to be about 4cm wide - however SOME images were closer to the edge of the page than others - no apparent rhyme or reason to which pictures were

RE: [LegacyUG] Decendant Narrative Text Report Formatting

2012-07-01 Thread Jan Roberts
Belay some of my last message - the RTF report IS honouring settings (I was looking at a later generation when I thought they were showing 4cm instead of 2cm - duh!) However, there is still the issue with the misaligned photos in the RTF report. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jan

RE: [LegacyUG] scrapbook photo layout

2012-06-30 Thread Jan Roberts
I’ve been away for nearly two weeks, so catching up on multitudinous Legacy emails – like you CE I was somewhat amazed that a feature that presumably worked for the majority of users was changed because ONE person wanted it different. Yet there have been numerous times when a large number of

RE: [LegacyUG] scrapbook photo layout

2012-06-30 Thread Jan Roberts
I’ve been away for nearly two weeks, so catching up on multitudinous Legacy emails – like you CE I was somewhat amazed that a feature that presumably worked for the majority of users was changed because ONE person wanted it different. Yet there have been numerous times when a large number of

RE: [LegacyUG] Citing website sources

2012-06-30 Thread Jan Roberts
When I use info found on an Ancestry Tree I use a Master Source (Basic Sources, not Source Writer) which I called Ancestry Public Member Trees – in the Source Detail I will then add the username and the name of the tree. To find it again I simply search Public Member Trees for the individual

RE: [LegacyUG] c:\Legacy_Archive\Pictures ---AND--- c:\Legacy\Pictures ?

2012-06-17 Thread Jan Roberts
To be honest, I don't! That is, I don’t make any distinction. I have a few images that were originally TIFF format, and I have just re-saved them as JPG for use in Legacy, but they are all in the same folder. i.e. I have a Genealogy Scans Folder which contains a folder for each main family

RE: [LegacyUG] c:\Legacy_Archive\Pictures ---AND--- c:\Legacy\Pictures ?

2012-06-16 Thread Jan Roberts
All of your points about file size of images are no doubt valid - but I just wonder that anyone would think Legacy was designed to be a PRESERVATION tool. Surely it is only ever meant to be a Record Management System with capability to produce intelligible reports for sharing / documenting

[LegacyUG] Event Clipboard

2012-06-16 Thread Jan Roberts
I have just noticed that the Event Clipboard does not retain its contents when Legacy is closed down. Is this as it should be? The Source Clipboard retains contents until the source is changed, regardless of how often the program is shut down. Cheers Jan Legacy User Group guidelines:

RE: [LegacyUG] Tagging TIP

2012-06-02 Thread Jan Roberts
But on Individual View and Pedigree View it works without having ‘Display Tool Tips” checked. Works in all if “Display Tool Tips” is checked. Cheers Jan From: unique64 Riley [mailto:uniqu...@msn.com] Sent: Sunday, 3 June 2012 06:01 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

RE: [LegacyUG] To-Do Tasks

2012-05-24 Thread Jan Roberts
I can see exactly what you are getting at – so explained very clearly – sadly I can’t help you with an answer. Cheers Jan From: unique64 Riley [mailto:uniqu...@msn.com] Sent: Friday, 25 May 2012 14:04 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] To-Do Tasks Yes, I understand

RE: [LegacyUG] Index of names

2012-05-06 Thread Jan Roberts
Well, as they say, you learn something every day. Thanks for this tweak Mike. I knew about sorting the Index, but not about resizing the font. I couldn't get it to work by clicking on Zoom lists after right clicking an empty space, but it worked when I used the Options button instead.

RE: [LegacyUG] Blank Page in Reports

2012-05-06 Thread Jan Roberts
I bet you are creating rtf format reports. I wrote about this situation back in 2006 (check the archives for before November 2009 – search for blank pages) and the answer I was given was that it is industry standard. At the time there was also actually a problem in that there were two blank

RE: [LegacyUG] Blank Page in Reports

2012-05-06 Thread Jan Roberts
Hmm! Sorry, I don't understand metafile copies and the implications of that, however, I just created an rtf version of a Descendant Narrative Report, and I got a blank page after the Title Page. Without changing anything I then created a pdf version and had no blank pages. But, quite aside

RE: [LegacyUG] Photos - linking multiple ppl

2012-04-29 Thread Jan Roberts
If I have a photo of several member of the same family I add it as a Marriage Event. I have created an event called Photograph - [Desc] had a [-EventName] taken [atPlace] [OnDate].[Sources] [Notes] In the Notes I describe the occasion on which the photo was taken, and identify the people in

RE: [LegacyUG] Photos - linking multiple ppl

2012-04-29 Thread Jan Roberts
of it but I have done it numerous times and it saves a lot of time, effort and energy. Marion On 30 April 2012 08:37, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: If I have a photo of several member of the same family I add it as a Marriage Event. I have created an event called Photograph - [Desc] had

RE: [LegacyUG] Photos - linking multiple ppl

2012-04-29 Thread Jan Roberts
: [LegacyUG] Photos - linking multiple ppl It will print if you print from the person's Photo Album but when you print reports the only photo that is printed is the selected :Preferred Picture unless you have attached a picture to a Source. Marion On 30 April 2012 09:20, Jan Roberts poo

RE: [LegacyUG] Attach every City Directory scan??

2012-04-27 Thread Jan Roberts
I tend not to get hung up on the “correct” way to list a source, since I am primarily sourcing for me so I know where I got something from. However, when I source anything from Ancestry, and want to create a new source for a particular record type, I copy and paste the source information from

RE: [LegacyUG] Viewing step children

2012-04-26 Thread Jan Roberts
Seems to me the option is in the View option, immediately under the Children's Setting option when you right click on a child. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: R G Strong-genes [mailto:rgstrongge...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 27 April 2012 04:02 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com

RE: [LegacyUG] Viewing step children

2012-04-26 Thread Jan Roberts
If you link a child to two families, although the child is recorded only once, but shows up in two families, you can set the child status, and child relationship to parents independently for each family. For example, in Family View showing my husband and self, my step-daughter’s ‘status’ is

RE: [LegacyUG] Event Pictures

2012-04-16 Thread Jan Roberts
the appropriate usr file. You can find a list of them in the Help file under usr files. In this case, it would be the DescNarr.usr The file will be recreated when you use the report again. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Jan Roberts

RE: [LegacyUG] Location Notes

2012-04-15 Thread Jan Roberts
On 15 April 2012 16:52, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I have just reviewed a pdf Descendants Narrative Report that I created some time ago. I notice that Location Notes are printed. To my knowledge I've never changed a setting so that will happen - but the Descendant Narrative pdf

RE: [LegacyUG] Location Notes --

2012-04-15 Thread Jan Roberts
21 0428005 www.shamrockspider.com On 15 April 2012 16:52, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I have just reviewed a pdf Descendants Narrative Report that I created some time ago. I notice that Location Notes are printed. To my knowledge I've never changed a setting so that will happen

RE: [LegacyUG] Location Notes

2012-04-15 Thread Jan Roberts
www.shamrockspider.com On 15 April 2012 16:52, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I have just reviewed a pdf Descendants Narrative Report that I created some time ago. I notice that Location Notes are printed. To my knowledge I've never changed a setting so that will happen

RE: [LegacyUG] Event Pictures

2012-04-14 Thread Jan Roberts
-Original Message- From: Jan Roberts [mailto:poo...@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:11 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Event Pictures Sherry, Today when I reread the Solutions by Error number I do see that is says, almost at the top of the instructions

[LegacyUG] Location Notes

2012-04-14 Thread Jan Roberts
I have just reviewed a pdf Descendants Narrative Report that I created some time ago. I notice that Location Notes are printed. To my knowledge I've never changed a setting so that will happen - but the Descendant Narrative pdf report I created today does NOT have Location Notes. Could someone

RE: [LegacyUG] Event Pictures

2012-04-13 Thread Jan Roberts
compression by cleaning up empty spaces within the file. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Well, I ll go He for tiggy! I was having trouble with an Error 3021 which didn t appear to be related

RE: [LegacyUG] Narrative Reports

2012-04-12 Thread Jan Roberts
What a clever idea! Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:11 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Narrative Reports On 11/04/2012 16:26, A. J. Rawls wrote: Notes attached to Events/Facts.

RE: [LegacyUG] Event Pictures

2012-04-12 Thread Jan Roberts
has also been ‘cured’, so I’m a happy little camper. Cheers Jan From: Jan Roberts [mailto:poo...@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:15 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Event Pictures Just checked mine again, and the option to include Event Pictures does

[LegacyUG] Split Screen View

2012-04-11 Thread Jan Roberts
Is anyone else having a problem with split screen view with the latest version 7.5.0.182? When I invoke Split Screen View I don't seem to be getting the option to open a different file. I only get two screens with the same file. Was working fine in the previous version, because I recently used

RE: [LegacyUG] Split Screen View

2012-04-11 Thread Jan Roberts
Should add that I can get the second file open by manually Opening a family File - it populates one panel, and original stays in other panel. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jan Roberts [mailto:poo...@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:55 To: LegacyUserGroup

[LegacyUG] Event Pictures

2012-04-10 Thread Jan Roberts
When I first checked the version 7.5.0.182 I thought the problem with Event Pictures selection not sticking had been solved - I'm sure it did at least once. But subsequent trials show it still isn't sticking. Cheers Jan Legacy User Group guidelines:

[LegacyUG] Not printing notes in Narrative Reports (Was New Census Tool)

2012-04-08 Thread Jan Roberts
Mike’s comments about not hijacking a thread (i.e. asking a question that is totally unrelated to the subject of the email you are using to ask your question) are correct, but certainly didn’t answer your question. If you want the notes to print for some reports (e.g. chronology report) but not in

Event Pictures selection - was - RE: [LegacyUG] Questions about Sorting and Printing

2012-04-06 Thread Jan Roberts
Sorry, but for the Descendants Narrative report at least the Event Pictures is greyed out on the Pictures tab if you HAVEN'T selected Event Pictures on the Include tab. Moreover, if you have selected Event Pictures in the Include tab, Event Pictures in the Pictures tab is ticked, but greyed

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

2012-03-23 Thread Jan Roberts
As I am producing reports for myself and other rellies (who couldn’t care less about, nor even know about the existence of, “standards”) I always capitalise surnames – when I enter data and when I type any sentence. This carries over to letters / emails I write in the course of my research.

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File

2012-03-23 Thread Jan Roberts
tab. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: As I am producing reports for myself and other rellies (who couldn t care less about, nor even know about the existence of, standards ) I always capitalise

RE: [LegacyUG] Examples of marriage events?

2012-03-22 Thread Jan Roberts
I'm sure all I do is use CTRL+I before and after the words I want in Italics - works every time. I know I never use the ASCI character numbers. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Mike Fry [mailto:mike...@iafrica.com] Sent: Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:40 To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Examples of marriage events?

2012-03-21 Thread Jan Roberts
As I use my census event to document the address also, by default I do have a married residence event (sort of embedded in the census even as it were!) Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:56 To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Examples of marriage events?

2012-03-21 Thread Jan Roberts
As I almost exclusively create Descendant Narrative Reports, which include events, starting with the earliest known ancestor in the line, the marriage events always show for the whole family. Cheers Jan From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:05

RE: [LegacyUG] Examples of marriage events?

2012-03-20 Thread Jan Roberts
I add anything that happened to the family (as a whole, or part of e.g. mum and son, dad and three out of four children, mum and dad, the three siblings) - some examples are group photos, a family holiday, a census event. If, for arguments sake, I had a photo of a child's graduation and mum

RE: [LegacyUG] Examples of marriage events?

2012-03-20 Thread Jan Roberts
In my case, basically – yes! Only thing is, it has just occurred to me that to date I HAVEN’T added wedding pictures as an event. I’ve got several, but haven’t attached them anywhere yet, mainly because I know they don’t show up in reports. Cheers Jan From: julia m

RE: [LegacyUG] Event dates - date plus date

2012-03-17 Thread Jan Roberts
As well as what Tony has suggested the way I do it is to use the first date for the event, then in the notes I just add something like . There was also a report on 2nd date, or . A follow up report on date 2 read:.. or if the text is not too long to transcribe I would attach a pdf

RE: [LegacyUG] Persons with only assumed/acquired surnames

2012-03-14 Thread Jan Roberts
Hmm! And I thought I had problematic families! Sorry, can't offer any advice though. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: britton...@comcast.net [mailto:britton...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2012 02:09 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Persons with only

[LegacyUG] Newest Version

2012-03-13 Thread Jan Roberts
Just had a look at the Revision History for the latest updates and I can't tell whether the problem with Show Event Pictures not sticking in report settings has been fixed. Could someone let me know please? Cheers Jan Legacy User Group guidelines:

RE: [LegacyUG] census event

2012-03-13 Thread Jan Roberts
But doesn’t the OP say (in the 10 March post below) that the second family found had “a different surname spelling, at a different address, and with different family members”? So I would also say – how do you know it is the same family? Cheers Jan From: R G Strong-genes

RE: [LegacyUG] probate index

2012-03-10 Thread Jan Roberts
I have found several probate records in UK too, and the wording of the actual entry seems to differ i.e. I haven't found that there is a set wording. My probate event sentence reads [HeShe] had an estate probated [Desc] [onDate] [inPlace].[Sources] [Notes] In the Description I put to Bill

RE: [LegacyUG] Descendant Narative Report Version

2012-03-06 Thread Jan Roberts
I have just tried it in Descendant Narrative and it doesn't stick. I am also using 7.5.0.154, Deluxe and Windows 7 64 bit. I must admit I remember recently (when I had version 7.5.0.112 or even earlier) having to reset the pictures option. At the time I was surprised, but just thought I must

RE: [LegacyUG] Removing children listed twice

2012-02-28 Thread Jan Roberts
...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 28/02/2012 1:04 AM, Jan Roberts wrote: Yes, but unfortunately if you have events for the duplicate person the events

RE: [LegacyUG] Removing children listed twice

2012-02-27 Thread Jan Roberts
Yes, but unfortunately if you have events for the duplicate person the events are all printed twice and THEN it brings the Duplicate Line feature into play. i.e. the Line isn't duplicated, but the first duplicate person in each line IS. I would like to see where the name and events are

RE: [LegacyUG] suggestion I submitted

2012-02-27 Thread Jan Roberts
Me too! I have never been able to see why it is seen as a problem that a source might only refer to a particular item of information. The details of the source clearly show what bit it refers to. If there is any doubt I might add a note such as provided the second name of xyz or provided

RE: [LegacyUG] Link to a site that has a nice way of presenting the family info

2012-02-27 Thread Jan Roberts
If you’d like to have a look at a ‘book’ I’ve generate from Legacy go to http://www.branchesandtwigs.wikispace.com Scroll down the left hand side until you get to a link to Descendants of Thomas SULLIVAN. Click on that, then click on the link to Descendants of Thomas SULLIVAN.pdf. That will

RE: [LegacyUG] Using Word for descendant report

2012-02-27 Thread Jan Roberts
I reported it a couple of years ago - didn't notice it hadn't been fixed, because I changed from using rtf output to pdf. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Mark Lang [mailto:markl...@adam.com.au] Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012 11:27 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE:

RE: [LegacyUG] How to add illegitimate child

2012-02-08 Thread Jan Roberts
I create a husband called (First name) an unknown man - (no surname). I select 'this couple did not marry' in the subsequent marriage Info screen. Then, in reports it reads Mary had a relationship with an unknown man. They had one child Mary did have a relationship - even it was the

[LegacyUG] Wrong children in report

2012-01-24 Thread Jan Roberts
I have just noticed a couple of strange things with my file – or rather with a report from my data. I have created a Descendant Narrative report. One woman, named Eliza, is reported as having a husband called Tom. Trouble is, my data does not show any husband for Eliza. Nor is there a Tom in

RE: [LegacyUG] Wrong children in report

2012-01-24 Thread Jan Roberts
invisible - I would delete the entire records involved and put them back in again and see if the results are the same. Just a thought...but it would be nice to figure out why. Jerry Boor - MerriamFamilyTree.org On 1/24/2012 3:55 AM, Jan Roberts wrote: I have just noticed a couple of strange things

RE: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Jan Roberts
Or you could just add a note in the text/comments box of the source in which the alternate spelling was found. That wouldn't show up in an index, but then I have never used the index to point me to possible spellings when I am searching for someone. I have one family where I have seen the

RE: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Jan Roberts
Sorry, I include married names, not alternate names in the index view. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jan Roberts [mailto:poo...@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Saturday, 14 January 2012 03:51 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] AKAs Or you could just add a note

RE: [LegacyUG] Best practice for adding scans/PDFs of source documents

2011-12-14 Thread Jan Roberts
And the only times I have even tried to view the scrapbook it has never worked - possibly due to the large number of images I have for some people - it has just sat there, doing its thing, but never actually showing me the pictures. Haven't bothered to retry lately I must admit. Cheers Jan

RE: [LegacyUG] Get person to show on Descendent Narrative Book Report

2011-12-12 Thread Jan Roberts
You will have to attach the child to the marriage of his mother and her new husband. He will effectively be in two families. You have that marriage on the screen, and you add an individual by linking to an existing person (assuming you already have the child with his natural parents). You

RE: [LegacyUG] relationship indicators

2011-11-30 Thread Jan Roberts
Have you re-set the relationship calculator since adding the new people (i.e. parents of 5th great grandfather)? You have to reset after entering new people. I wouldn’t do it after entering each individual – I’d enter a few and then recalculate if you need the relationship to help you enter

RE: [LegacyUG] Sources

2011-11-11 Thread Jan Roberts
I would say the repository is you in this instance, because you have the copy of the email (either a paper version or stored on your computer.) Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jerry [mailto:jerrysemailgro...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 11 November 2011 05:21 To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Individual Report Format Problem

2011-10-23 Thread Jan Roberts
Which report were you generating? Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Joshua Crump [mailto:j...@joshuacrump.com] Sent: Monday, 24 October 2011 10:44 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Individual Report Format Problem Dear Legacy User Group, I submitted a bug report

RE: [LegacyUG] How to record this location.

2011-10-22 Thread Jan Roberts
Not in Australia to my knowledge. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Bernhard Scholz [mailto:scholz-c...@gmx.de] Sent: Saturday, 22 October 2011 21:34 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] How to record this location. Ron, I have to disagree as the 4 field

[LegacyUG] Report option not sticking

2011-10-21 Thread Jan Roberts
Just discovered another glitch with reports - this time with Descendant Narrative Report options. I always have Event Pictures selected, but I discovered today that the setting is not 'sticking'. If I select 'Event Pictures to be included and then print a report the pictures are there. But if I

RE: [LegacyUG] Next married wording

2011-10-21 Thread Jan Roberts
names' is selected. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Friday, 21 October 2011 21:20 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Next married wording On 21/10/2011 05:44, Jan Roberts wrote: Also - 'The following involved

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering individual notes

2011-10-21 Thread Jan Roberts
I see [CR] is working again. For a while, quite some time ago now, it wasn't working because I had quite a few events where I had used [CR] and they showed in reports as [CR] instead of creating a carriage return so I had to go in and change them all to a manual CR. However, it would appear

RE: [LegacyUG] Next married wording

2011-10-20 Thread Jan Roberts
remembered that correctly ! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Jan Roberts Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:34 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Next married wording My brother has just highlighted a small problem with the Descendant

RE: [LegacyUG] Next married wording

2011-10-20 Thread Jan Roberts
replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 18/10/2011 7:34 PM, Jan Roberts wrote: My brother has just highlighted a small problem with the Descendant Narrative Report. Our father, named John Rees SULLIVAN, married twice. So in the report it shows John

RE: [LegacyUG] Next married wording

2011-10-20 Thread Jan Roberts
the [couplenames] replaceable field. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jan Roberts [mailto:poo...@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Friday, 21 October 2011 15:45 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Next married wording Unfortunately this work around doesn't! I have

RE: [LegacyUG] Next married wording

2011-10-20 Thread Jan Roberts
- From: Jan Roberts [mailto:poo...@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Friday, 21 October 2011 15:24 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Next married wording Hmm! At first glance it would seem that this should work - but it doesn't! I have recorded my father as John Rees John Rees

RE: [LegacyUG] Next married wording

2011-10-20 Thread Jan Roberts
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Next married wording On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:34:29 +1100, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I looked for a way to change the wording from using first name only to using both Christian names but can't see any way of making this change

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering individual notes

2011-10-20 Thread Jan Roberts
For most instances like this I do create an event or use an existing one. For instance if I had info about a Christmas party I would use an event I have called “attended” and the event sentence definition reads something like [Name] [Event] [description] [ondate] [atplace]. [Notes][sources]

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