Re: [LegacyUG] AFN Numbers

I do not use the AFN field. Mary > On Feb 20, 2018, at 11:01 AM, David Turley wrote: > > The AFN numbers are were replaced with the FSID numbers and I use the space > for other purposes. > >> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Michele/Support >>

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationships

Graham I had this happen a few days ago. Even though I never change the root person (me), my husband was showing as my grandfather, my children were various other relationships. All relationships were garbled and made no sense. However, when I changed the root person back to me, all the

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationships

At least it's an easy fix :) Mary On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Graham Love love-fam...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: Thanks Mary that fixed it for me too. G *From:* Mary Moyer [mailto:mgmo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 15 March 2014 07:02 *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re

Re: [LegacyUG] Setting Font Size

Try CTRL and hold down the + button at the same time. Mary On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Click on the Chronology view and hold down the ctrl key while scrolling the wheel on your mouse??? Could be mouse settings - I don't know.

Re: [LegacyUG] Export to new Legacy family file, error or bug?

And I'm getting error 3021 when I am trying to SAVE an event. Mary On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Dave famho...@gmail.com wrote: Richard, it isn’t just you.I’ve experienced similar problem (error 3021). Also, I can’t run a check/repair without an immediate error 91, I think it

Re: [LegacyUG] no pop up information when mousing over children in upgrade to version 8

...@outlook.com wrote: Ah … But what we’ve been tallking about about is scrolling while the children are in List View, not 1, 2 or 3 columns …   C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON  From: Mary Moyer [mailto:mgmo...@gmail.com] Sent: December 10, 2013 07:33 PM To: LegacyUserGroup

Re: [LegacyUG] no pop up information when mousing over children in upgrade to version 8

I still can't get the scrolll function to work, whether I click first on the mother or father or in the children's grid, or have 2 columns, 3 columns or best fit columns. Mary On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.ukwrote: On 11/12/2013 07:38, Cathy Pinner wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] no pop up information when mousing over children in upgrade to version 8

The mouse scroller doesn't work for me either. Mary On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Elizabeth Hatchell elizab...@hatchells.co.uk wrote: I don't find it scrolls the list of children at all - I have the same problem as Rita. The only way to scroll is using the bar on the right-hand end,

Re: [LegacyUG] no pop up information when mousing over children in upgrade to version 8

. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:* Mary Moyer [mailto:mgmo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* December 10, 2013 04:00 PM *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] no pop up information when mousing over children in upgrade to version 8 The mouse scroller doesn't work for me either

Re: [LegacyUG] no pop up information when mousing over children in upgrade to version 8

, not 1, 2 or 3 columns … C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:* Mary Moyer [mailto:mgmo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* December 10, 2013 07:33 PM *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] no pop up information when mousing over children in upgrade to version 8 1. Yes, I can

Re: Exporting Shared Events [WAS: Re: [LegacyUG] Shared vital Events]

FYI, RootsMagic Shared Events don't transfer via GEDCOM either. Mary On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.comwrote: Look at the big picture. How can Legacy create a 'work-around' if whatever other software doesnt support it when its imported into their

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM

Syble Using L7.5, open your file and go to File Save Family File As. Give it a different name, something like Smith-Copy, and use Smith-Copy in L8 to play with. That way, you still have your original L7.5 file that you can go back to any time. Mary On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Syble

Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Location as a Cemetery Event

Agreed! Just sort your locations from right to left (big to small), and you don't have to deal with the annoyance of clicking on another field just to see the cemetery, and you don't have the burial location repeat in reports. Having done it both ways, I much prefer the cemetery name in the burial

Re: [LegacyUG] Citing UK census using basic sourcing

Jennifer Here's how I set up census citations for US censuses using basic sources. I set it up this way to get as close to Evidence Explained as I can. The Source Detail field is somewhat limited in the number of characters it holds, so I put the last part in the Source Comments field, and the

Re: [LegacyUG] Another wish

Mary If you go to the View Menu, then choose Event Definitions, then highlight that event, and choose Edit, you can see what custom editing you've used for that event. Is that what you're looking for? Mary On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Mary LeClerc quiltingm...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks

Re: [LegacyUG] Scanning question

Michelle You can use the free program Irfanview to create a single image (panorama) from the multiple images you have. Mary On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.com wrote: I want to get my documents scanned and attached to the right people in Legacy as Geoff has

Re: [LegacyUG] Organization of Photos, Scanned Documents and etc.

Ron It's just a personal preference. I'd rather scroll through 100 file names than 10,000. Mary (not Cathy) On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Ron Walter ronwal...@sonic.net wrote: Cathy What are the things that make it unwieldy for you? Ron ** ** *From:* Mary Moyer

Re: [LegacyUG] Organization of Photos, Scanned Documents and etc.

I have mine organized by surname with subfolders, and it works well for me. For example: Smith Family --Smith cemetery records --Smith census records --Smith correspondence --Smith genealogy pics --Smith land records --Smith military records --Smith research --Smith tombstone pics --Smith vital

Re: [LegacyUG] Organization of Photos, Scanned Documents and etc.

and sub-folders for every single surname? Is it that straightforward or are there problems that come up with duplicate records or before/after people are married? - JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://jlog.jgen.ws/ On 3/15/2013 4:08 PM, Mary Moyer wrote: I

Re: [LegacyUG] Organization of Photos, Scanned Documents and etc.

for genealogists http://jlog.jgen.ws/ On 3/15/2013 4:40 PM, Mary Moyer wrote: JLB I don't make a surname folder for every surname (way too many) - I make a folder for every direct ancestor surname and put related families in that folder. Before her marriage, the woman's information goes

Re: [LegacyUG] Organization of Photos, Scanned Documents and etc.

Ron I used to put everything into one surname folder (for each direct ancestor surname), but it got too unwieldy. I probably have at least 10,000 digital files. That's when I put everything in subfolders. Mary On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Ron Walter ronwal...@sonic.net wrote: Cathy,

Re: [LegacyUG] Tool to add missing period after an initial in a name

My son has a middle initial only as his middle name because we didn't want to saddle him with his father's middle name. Mary On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: Really? I’ve never run across any such practices. I’ve run across many individual

Re: [LegacyUG] Charts

AM, Mary Moyer mgmo...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you try putting in an estimated marriage date so they'll sort properly. mary On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Sandra Hopgood sandi_...@yahoo.com.auwrote: I've tried changing the order of the spouse and also tried changing the selected

Re: [LegacyUG] Charts

Why don't you try putting in an estimated marriage date so they'll sort properly. mary On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Sandra Hopgood sandi_...@yahoo.com.auwrote: I've tried changing the order of the spouse and also tried changing the selected preferred spouse. It makes no difference, the

Re: [LegacyUG] How to handle multiple sources for General /or Research Notes

I'll have a record for bibliographical purposes. Pat On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Mary Moyer mgmo...@gmail.com wrote: I use a short separating line between sources to separate them and then write the name of the source, then the information I found in it, page number, etc. Mary

Re: [LegacyUG] Webinar_ Irish Ancestors

Bravo, Tessa! Well said. Mary On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Tessa Keough murke...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely an interesting conversation. Geneabloggers has daily memes and Thursday always includes a Thankful Thursday. This seems like an appropriate place for my thoughts today. (1) I am

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding existing parent problem

Pat Add the existing child to the parents, not the parents to the child. Mary On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: I repeatedly have this problem, or a variation of same. I just learned that a Mary Springer I have is a daughter of Nathan Springer and Hannah

Re: [LegacyUG] creating a NEW Master Source

I would use the following (based on Evidence Explained DERIVATIVES CHURCH RECORDS DATABASE, ONLINE): Charles Surman, compiler, “Surman Index Online,” database, Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies (http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/ : accessed date), entry for John Doe (1850-1920). Dr

Re: [LegacyUG] cleaning and finding my family tree

Go to Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp and scroll down to error 3800. -- Original Message -- From: MJ SA michs...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] cleaning and finding my family tree Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Chart of All Individuals

Terry You're welcome! I just looked at the Legacy webinars, and it's still available to watch. It's called Further Your Research and Unify Your Family Reunion with Beautiful Genealogy Charts by Janet Hovorka and it was on May 11, 1011. She sounded as if she was willing to work with customers

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Chart of All Individuals

Terry I think I remember Janet Hovorka with the Family Chartmasters (also known as the chart chick) saying that her company does a chart that includes everyone in your database. She did a webinar for Legacy a few months ago. Check out their website at

Re: [LegacyUG] census event

Michele I use the actual date the census was taken because I found many families were enumerated twice and it helps me track them. Mary From: Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.com When you add a census event, do you use the official census day as your date or do you use the actual date

RE: [LegacyUG] census event

Michele I used to use the official date, but I found a lot of families who were enumerated twice, so I started keeping track with the date it was taken. Even though the enumerators were supposed to get the information as of the official date, I find that the information is often as of the date

RE: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter conversion to Basic

Lew Alan's right - it might be easier to do the conversion to Basic sources in your existing file rather than trying to do it through the GEDCOM process. If I hadn't made changes in another program (something I seriously regret having done), that's what I would do. Mary -- Original

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter conversion to Basic

Lew Converting SourceWriter sources back to Basic will work with a GEDCOM, and you're not going to lose information. What you lose is any bolding or italics that you've added or that SourceWriter used. What also happens is that the order of the elements in the source changes and what it refers

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.5 and source citation import?

many times when we look at what happens to our databases in transferring through Gedcom we are blaming Legacy for things that are actually problems with Gedcom. And it is important to remember that Gedcom is not just a Legacy tool. Jackie On 2/15/2012 9:33 PM, Mary Moyer wrote: Chick I

Re: [LegacyUG] More on the Basic style

Michele I also believe in citing your sources, but like you, find some of ESM's method too wordy, so have shortened some of them (sometimes I have to shorten to get it to work in Legacy because of the limitation on the number of characters allowed). Each of the major genealogy magazines has

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.5 and source citation import?

Chick I started converting my SW sources back to Basic about 6 months ago, mainly because I saw how mangled they are in transferring via GEDCOM to other programs. I've found it best to do it one source at a time. It's possible with Basic sources to figure out a way to match EE sources, but it

Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list revision

Jane [snip from Jane] Examples of what I have now: , Abdingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia , , Pickens County, South Carolina Borden, Wood Township, Clark County, Indiana Cane Creek Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina 637 N. Pine St., Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Re: [LegacyUG] How do you all use the resource notes

Marli I put my notes in the Research Notes section in chronological order in order to find them easily, and I separate each note by a line. I put the source at the top of the note and any analysis of the source. Then I also copy paste them separately into an Event/Fact. It's double work but

Re: [LegacyUG] Windows 7 (Starter)

Robert I have an HP netbook with Windows 7 Starter, and Legacy works fine on it. The netbook just works a bit slower than what you're used to and you can't have very many programs open at the same time on it, but for working in libraries or traveling, it's a great resource because it's fairly

Re: [LegacyUG] book production

Leon Would you mind sending me a copy of your Word doc? I get a lot of extra gobbledy-gook letters in my inbox (shown below). Thanks! Mary -- Original Message -- From: Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] book production

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy on a netbook and pictures

Hi If I buy a netbook, can Legacy's attached pictures be viewed on it? I'm not talking about editing pictures, which I understand isn't advisable on netbooks, just viewing the attached pictures. Mary Groupon#8482 Official Site 1

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

If you've labeled your tags, when you hover over the tag number in Family View, it shows the label you've assigned. Mary -- Original Message -- From: Genealogy mail rgstrong-ge...@hughes.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging Date: Thu, 24 Feb

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

I also just discovered a shortcut to advanced tagging - right click on the tag numbers when you're in Family View. Mary -- Original Message -- From: Genealogy mail rgstrong-ge...@hughes.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging Date: Thu, 24 Feb

Re: [LegacyUG] Citing Death Certificates from Ancestry.com

I would use the newest version of NC State Board of Health and then note that other names such as NC Department of Health and NC Department of Health and Human Services have also been used in the past. Mary From: Joshua Crump j...@joshuacrump.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject:

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note

There's a free program I've used called FreeOCR available at FreeOCR.net. For a free program, it's pretty good. Mary -- Original Message -- From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note

Re: [LegacyUG] curious behavior: Family View to Marr List

This behavior was happening to me even before I started using ltools, and I don't use Access, and none of the people it happened for were new to my database. The other thing I've noticed is that it is consistently the same people, not just random entries. Mary -- Original Message

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Names

I put all the surnames in folders and in the surname folder, I put folders for census, newspapers, WWI draft cards, etc. For census, I put lastname-firstname-year-county-state-roll-page and a or b if the family is spread over 2 pages. If it's a widow, I add wife of ___, and if I have more than

RE: [LegacyUG] Seminars?

You could also check your local Family History Centers and see if someone there knows Legacy and is willing to spend some time teaching you. Hands-on learning can't be beat! Mary Penny Stock Jumping 2000% Sign up to the #1 voted

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on Sourcing of marriage record

This is the source citation I've been using for Ancestry's Missouri Marriages, with Ancestry.com italicized. Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002, database and images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 Nov 2009), Miss Mary A Tracy / Mr Claburn Roberts entry; citing Missouri