Re: [LegacyUG] Yet another problem with 7.5.0.147

2012-02-21 Thread Robert E. Carneal
, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Kay Fordham kayhawo...@earthlink.netwrote: Robert - I apologize. Included the version in the subject field but not in the text - 7.5.0.147. I am reluctant to download subsequent updates. Thanks, Kay - Original Message - From: Robert E. Carneal

Re: [LegacyUG] giving someone part of my family

2012-02-02 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*And, I don't think, your cousin will be able to take advantage of mapping either. Is that correct, Brian? Thanks. Robert * On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.comwrote: All the data that is stored in your family file will transfer. For the pictures though the

[LegacyUG] Was CVS Report Now: Date format problem

2012-01-28 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*What date format have you chosen? To see what I am talking about, please go to: OPTIONS » CUSTOMIZE » DATE tab. There, in the section titled Dates Displayed As are several dates. I am wondering if that makes a difference. **Thank you. **Robert* *Genealogy without documentation is mythology!

Re: [LegacyUG] Surname pronunciation

2012-01-22 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I try to break up the names into the the nearest syllables. Often, my name is pronounced as corn cal for some reason. I tell people to pronounce it as if they were saying to independent words together. I suggest they pronounce it as: Car (as in automobile) and the word kneel. Car - kneel, and

Re: [LegacyUG] Age at Death

2012-01-15 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Can you give us the child's birth and death dates? I am interested if we use those dates, will we get one or two for the age. * On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Nancy Stevens nancystevens4...@gmail.comwrote: death -- *Thank you. **Robert* *Genealogy without documentation is mythology!

Re: [LegacyUG] Age at Death

2012-01-15 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Can you give us the child's birth and death dates? I am interested if we use those dates, will we get one or two for the age.* *Thank you. **Robert* *Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work.* On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Nancy Stevens

Re: [LegacyUG] Age at Death

2012-01-15 Thread Robert E. Carneal
there - and they all show the one year - 12 months etc Jackie On 1/15/2012 12:03 PM, Robert E. Carneal wrote: *Can you give us the child's birth and death dates? I am interested if we use those dates, will we get one or two for the age.* Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Creating a custom internet search

2012-01-12 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Gene- Is the URL tweaked for Legacy usage? I copied it, and pasted it in Legacy Search, but it is not finding my selected ancestor automatically. If I go to Find-A-Grave, and manually enter my ancestor's first name and surname, it usually finds him/her, so I wondered if perhaps the URL needed

Re: [LegacyUG] Creating a custom internet search

2012-01-12 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*It works!!! Thanks! -Robert * On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Brian Lehman blr...@optonline.net wrote: Thanks Gene, Robert, in the string, before Surname, I needed to add an [ then it worked. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages

Re: [LegacyUG] Two files open ?

2012-01-08 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Thank you. That works. **Thank you. **Robert* *Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work.* On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Carl Cox ct...@centurytel.net wrote: ** *I have Legacy open. I go to Split View and display two different families. I am trying to display

Re: [LegacyUG] Fwd: Greetings from new user group member and a question

2011-12-29 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Emphasis: *Can I add the updated ancestry.com information to my present legacy tree without losing any of the information already added to the legacy tree (to do lists, repositories, etc)? * Yes. But the risk you have is you might have your family file just the way you want it. If you import a

Re: [LegacyUG] Mailing list problems

2011-12-21 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Can you make a sort based on *part* of the header? If you can, do what I do- have it look for LegacyUserGroup in the header- that hardly ever changes. Thank you. Robert * 2011/12/21 Bjørn K Nilssen b...@bknilssen.no I just subscribed tot his mailing list, but am having big problems with it.

Re: [LegacyUG] Baptism and Christening

2011-12-18 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I believe you are wanting to say Chr for some, Bap for some, but I didn't see a way to do that. I don't know of a way to do that. I think it is one or the other. What I would do is pick one. Then whenever you use the other one, indicate so in Notes somewhere. That's what I am doing. Would

Re: [LegacyUG] OFF TOPIC Fake Gedcoms OFF TOPIC

2011-12-10 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*UPDATE: The person who put this up in the beginning took the website down. Still, check a strange Gedcom carefully before adding it to your family file. I won't say anymore about this- it is off topic. Thanks, everyone. -Robert * On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Robert E. Carneal

Re: [LegacyUG] ISBNs

2011-12-05 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*See if this answers your question. It -can- get complicated, depending on what you want to do. http://createbooks.com/faq_copyright_intellectual_property.html#isbn ** Hope that helps. ** Thank you. **Robert* *Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work.* On Mon, Dec

Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-12-01 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Yes, your name would be entered multiple times. Here's how I do it. Suppose I read a letter received by my Aunt Kathy from her sister. The letter details facts about Cousin Joe Blow, facts I want. Here's what I do: 1 Offer to xerox at my expense the letter so I have a copy to refer to from time

Re: [LegacyUG] Re:5

2011-12-01 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I hope you were not hijacked-Robert * On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.netwrote: ..I no time you’ll rid of your problems! stripped Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] Variation of Names

2011-11-30 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Is this what you are looking for? http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2008/04/how-to-find-sur.html Robert * On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Carmen carmenb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: heard Geoff speak of a website that will provide the variations of a surname, does anyone remember it?

Re: [LegacyUG] subscription to the group

2011-11-27 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Elizabeth- one thought, maybe. I, too, subscribe to Gmail, and there is a feature that allows the user to send email but not save a copy of that. Could you have that set to no copy? Therefore making it look like you are not subscribed? I described that badly- I hope Sherry chimes in tomorrow.

Re: [LegacyUG] subscription to the group

2011-11-27 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Sherry- Gmail by default won't save a copy of what you send to the group, but you can set it to save a copy if you want. For those interested click on the gear wheel and check your settings there. There is a lot there!! **Thank you. **Robert* *Genealogy without documentation is mythology!

Re: [LegacyUG] Facebook

2011-11-26 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I hope Millennia doesn't tell me to be quite, but that is my point. Facebook is not telling you that, JANE DOE is! Jane Doe is the source, not Facebook! I.e., I am against crediting Facebook because of this example: Laura Smith sees Uncle Joe's wife's Jane's birthday on Facebook. She copies

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy News on Home tab

2011-11-16 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Don't forget, some of the Millennia crew went on vacation together. There may not have been anyone to update it while they were gone. Thank you. Robert On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote: On 2011/11/16 16:52, Ron Bernier wrote: The information on my Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] shut down Legacy

2011-11-16 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I also have Uninterrupted Power Supply. They are good, just be aware that they don't last forever. I had a client who bought one years ago, and never really needed it. Just recently he contacted me say it looked like he lost of a of customer transactions- could I get them back? He didn't

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy - words of encouragement?

2011-11-11 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Where do we comment? Here on the LUG? **Thank you. **Robert* *Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work.* On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Geoff Rasmussen ge...@legacyusers.comwrote: Marian Pierre-Louis is looking for any words of encouragement on getting

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy - words of encouragement?

2011-11-11 Thread Robert E. Carneal
: Robert, ** ** If you scroll far enough on Marian’s blog, you’ll see a Post a Comment at the very bottom... ** ** Kind Regards Mark Lang ** ** *From:* Robert E. Carneal [mailto:kentuckygenealog...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Saturday, 12 November 2011 8:52 AM

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources

2011-11-10 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I think it is. I have some sources in my file where I indicate, From the conversation of Aunt Melissa's son, 1992. As long as they are his or her *personal* knowledge or personal memories conveyed directly to you, I would say it is fine. Personal knowledge and/or personal memories are master

Re: [LegacyUG] Can anyone help me with a simple question?

2011-11-04 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Wow ok, let me break up the question please. How do you list a couple living together of the opposite sex? I would just link them together but mark them as unmarried. How do you list a couple of the same sex living together? In Legacy, *hard* to do. What I did was simply put both in, list

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging problem

2011-11-01 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Maybe I am not clear on what you are trying to do, but can you clear ALL tags and then retag the direct ancestors? Will that do what you are trying to do? * *Thank you. **Robert* *Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work.* On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:07 PM, CE Wood

Re: [LegacyUG] Windows 7 (Starter)

2011-10-30 Thread Robert E. Carneal
then I guess it is substandard. A basic Chevy will take you to all the same places that a Cadillac will. Bob -- *From: *Robert E. Carneal kentuckygenealog...@gmail.com *To: *LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Sent: *Sunday, October 30, 2011 6:11:01 AM *Subject

Re: [LegacyUG] Four-color filing system (Mary A.V. Hill, earlier current versions) was: Considering Switching from FTM to Legacy 7.5 Deluxe-Old file a mess

2011-10-30 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Let's see if this helps: Standardly, the colors are: BLUE - Paternal Grandfather GREEN - Paternal Grandmother RED - Maternal Grandfather Yellow - Maternal Grandfather All right, let's say the question is: What color is your maternal grandfather's mother's sister's daughter? Red, because she is

Re: [LegacyUG] Replace Names, Dates and Places in the Invivigual Edit Screen

2011-10-24 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Sure. Go to the field containing what you want to change. You can either erase all of it, and enter it anew, or, stick the cursor between Mariette, Ohio and just enter Washington County, in between. Or, are you saying that won't work for you? Thank you. Robert Genealogy without documentation is

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual Report Format Problem

2011-10-23 Thread Robert E. Carneal
I would like to attempt to recreate your problem, but I have a question first. Does this occur for you ONLY IF the person has no events whatsoever? When I say no events, I mean **BOTH** events that Legacy supplies, and events that I myself generate. The reason I ask is I can duplicate your

Re: [LegacyUG] Request for addition to Legacy

2011-10-22 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Jane-  don't forget we can add events/facts ourselves. Go to an individual, open him/her to Individual Information, and select ADD in the Events/Facts.  From there, decide on a name for your event, say Possible Parents for example. This way, you can print your information without having to print

Re: [LegacyUG] Newspaper obit

2011-10-21 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I use a generic name for obits whose name of the paper I don't have. I use Paper name unknown and go on to fill the ancestor's name, dates, newspaper date, etc. It isn't the most professional, I guess, but it gets the job done. Thanks, Robert * On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Mary Roberts

Re: [LegacyUG] Showing Short Location Names on Screens

2011-10-21 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Here are what I use for long and short names. Long: Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States Short: Miami, Fl. Robert * On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:58 PM, M. Brenzel brenze...@roadrunner.comwrote: ** Ron, Yes, that's how I have started to change them. I wanted to experiment

Re: [LegacyUG] Showing Short Location Names on Screens

2011-10-21 Thread Robert E. Carneal
States Short: Southland Meth. Ch., Tenn. And so on. If I sort in reverse (country, state, county, town/city), it keeps everything together. Thanks. Robert * On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Robert E. Carneal kentuckygenealog...@gmail.com wrote: *Here are what I use for long and short names

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I include - no issue (children) and exclude unknown

2011-10-18 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Brian, I add Line not known to continue on my charts, but I cheat. g I make the chart without that line, and shrink it to fit my screen. Then I do a screen shot, save it as a jpg, and use a graphics package to add Line not know to continue where-ever I want it. **Thank you. **Robert* *Genealogy

Re: [LegacyUG] Wording in reports

2011-10-18 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*In your sentence structure customization, what options do you have selected? Go to: Reports All Reports Ancestors Wording 1 tab. This isn't exactly where the options for your report is, but similar. I did this from memory. Check the sentence structure to make sure that offending someone

Re: [LegacyUG] Screen Setup

2011-10-01 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Sherry-  I used to have two monitors.  When I did this, I would put Legacy on the second monitor with a SMALL window.  Exit Legacy. Reopen Legacy, and Legacy would almost always open on the second monitor. Then, I would enlarge Legacy on the second monitor *ALMOST* full size on the monitor, just a

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Size

2011-09-07 Thread Robert E. Carneal
that have used Legacy for some time might have found as the optimum size for your photo editing in prepping them for Legacy. Thanks, Chuck Robert E. Carneal Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:24:06 -0700 I would print a few pages of photos at different sizes, and view them. From those, decide

[LegacyUG] Re: Problem with Gmail- OFF TOPIC

2011-09-06 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Only one email from Paul went to my *delete* folder, not spam. None from Paul went to my spam folder. Thanks. Robert On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Richard Van Wasshnova rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com wrote: The last 6 posts from Paul R went to my s**m folder. Anyone else with gmail notice this?

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Size

2011-09-05 Thread Robert E. Carneal
I would print a few pages of photos at different sizes, and view them. From those, decide on a size you can be very happy with, and stick to that. Personally, I opt for no more than six photos per page. I don't want my photos so small my viewers can't see it.  At the same time, I don't want my

[LegacyUG] NON blood relationship ?

2011-08-25 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Hope I am clear. I have a family with NO blood connection to my family. Can I utilize Relationship Calculator to get an idea if a person is prior to my generation, or, after my generation? I understand why it won't calculate blood relationships- but can I get it to show me the generations? *

Re: [LegacyUG] Events Listing Confusion

2011-08-12 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Jim- That is the way I remember it. Thanks. -Robert * On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Jim Terry/Support jimte...@legacyusers.com wrote: Jerry, If I recall correctly we added Had No Children and Did Not Marry to the list of possible events that users could an a source to because some of

[LegacyUG] OFF TOPIC

2011-08-10 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*This is off topic, sorry. I just visited the Legacy Facebook page, and there is a polite warning about Facebook archiving all groups created using the old groups format. They say when this group is archived, its wall posts, photos and discussion threads will move to the new groups format, and

Re: [LegacyUG] OFF TOPIC

2011-08-10 Thread Robert E. Carneal
with the name Legacy Family Tree Our page is at http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree?sk=wall and I don't see anything about archiving there. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Robert E. Carneal kentuckygenealog...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [LegacyUG] OFF TOPIC

2011-08-10 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I *thought* the one I referred to was set up by Millennia. I didn't realize there was another site. Apologies to Sherry, and thanks for everyone else for helping me out. I will join the official one right now. Thank you. Robert * On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Sherry/Support

Re: [LegacyUG] List of ancestors

2011-08-09 Thread Robert E. Carneal
I am confused.  Let's say you have ten =people at reunion. Do you want to give each of the ten an ancestral report applicable to that one person, or do you want to print *your* ancestral report and give a copy to everyone. Thank you. Robert On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Lorry Wendland

Re: [LegacyUG] FamilySearch (and Legacy file organization)

2011-08-02 Thread Robert E. Carneal
The only time I maintain separate databases is when the main subject is different. I keep human (i.e., my family) in one database, cemeteries I have transcribed in another database. Ie., Kentucky cemeteries I keep under KyCem, Indiana cemeteries I keep in InCem, Virginia Cemeteries I keep in

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Mac

2011-08-01 Thread Robert E. Carneal
With adaptions, yes, it will. I can't think what program was needed on the Mac side to allow Legacy to run, but once you install that, it should run. I don't have one, so I can't say how well it will run. Robert On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jo Comaris jcoma...@yahoo.com wrote: I have used

Re: [LegacyUG] So many pictures

2011-07-25 Thread Robert E. Carneal
You can consider a hard drive outside your computer and leave it plugged in all the time. What is what I am doing. Thank you. Robert On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Joyce s.k...@shaw.ca wrote: Good morning group: I use the latest updated version of Legacy and have just begun adding

Re: [LegacyUG] New buttons?

2011-07-24 Thread Robert E. Carneal
I see your point. I use the numbers to quickly tell me my interest in the individual I am examining. But since the numbers range from zero to three, I think the original intention of the ancestor number was someting like this: 0: No interest 1: Low interest 2: Medium interest 3: High interest I

[LegacyUG] Name Change (not by marriage)

2011-07-15 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Not to open a can of worms, but I have a related question. This is not a gender changing, but a gender-name changing. I.e. I have an ancestor born as Mark Paul Carneal. He decided Mark was too common a name, so he changed to a gender neutral name. He changed his name to Kelly Jessie Carneal.

Re: [LegacyUG] Customizing colors

2011-07-15 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Try rebooting. *Cold* boot, completely shut down and wait a minute or two.  That might resolve the problem for you. Robert On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Sheila Burks sburks...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, please help! I was attempting to customize the colors and made several changes and

Re: [LegacyUG] Customizing colors

2011-07-15 Thread Robert E. Carneal
it just locks up if I try to go to colors again. On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote: On 2011/07/16 01:12, Robert E. Carneal wrote: Try rebooting.*Cold*  boot, completely shut down and wait a minute or two.  That might resolve the problem for you. Why

Re: [LegacyUG] Unknown father

2011-07-13 Thread Robert E. Carneal
If I know the son is John Doe, I assume the father's last name is Doe. So I enter his last name, but leave the first name blank. Will that work for you? OTOH, if the person is a daughter, and I don't know if I have the daughter's maiden name or married name, I just put in father name unknown.

[LegacyUG] AKA/Nickname problem

2011-07-10 Thread Robert E. Carneal
I swore this would never happen. I finally found some ancestors for whom have more than one AKA or more than one Nickname. How best to handle that in the name fields? Just pick the one I think was his/her most used AKA and run with that? I surely can't do this: Robert Robby Bobby Bob Rob Gene

Re: [LegacyUG] Mass change a sentence definition - Possible?

2011-07-09 Thread Robert E. Carneal
That is what I was afraid of. Thanks. Robert On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 22:31:57 -0500, Robert  E. Carneal kentuckygenealog...@gmail.com wrote: Can I change sentence definition en-masse? Only way I can think of is to use

[LegacyUG] Mass change a sentence definition - Possible?

2011-07-08 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Hello.  Can I change sentence definition en-masse? For example, if I have: [FirstName]'s in every sentence definition, and I wanted to change it to: [HisHer] and replace every occurrence of [FirstName]'s, could I do that? If so, how? I don't see it. Thank you. Robert Legacy User Group

[LegacyUG] AKA in sentence definition ?

2011-07-08 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Also, one more thing. Suppose I don't want the first name in the sentence definiton. What if I want a person's AKA? I didn't see AKA nor nicknames in the list of possible fields. Can I select an AKA for the sentence? Thank you. Robert Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Short Location Name List question

2011-07-06 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Take a look at Options Customize View and see what the settings are.   For a lot of my friends, deciding whether or not to show just short location names versus long location names depends on the readability of the font they have chosen. I prefer the short location names, but that is just me.

Re: [LegacyUG] Short Location Name List question

2011-07-06 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Jenny-  What setting do you have? If you go to: Options » Customize » View Take a look at the setting for Short Location Name Setting box. Is that checked? For me, checking it and unchecking it makes all the difference. Robert On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:01 AM, P Jones kinhunte...@gmail.com wrote:

[LegacyUG] Same couple, married 4 times

2011-07-06 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Hello everyone. New one to me- How do properly indicate in Legacy that the same couple married each FOUR times? Just do this? 1 Married Jun 10, 1934 2 Divorced Oct 2, 1941 3 Married Jan 15, 1943 4 Divorced Feb 20, 1946 5 Married Mar 13, 1948 6 Divorced April 23, 1953 (Husband left wife, and wife

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Tip: How to Display Conflicting Information

2011-07-01 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Go to Family View. Put your mouse over the field names. RIGHT click.  Select Customize.  Do what you want. You can save several schemes if you want. I have saved three and toggle between all three pretty often. Thank you. Robert On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Cathy Claycamp cathg...@yahoo.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter

2011-06-25 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Do you have copy of Elizabeth Shown Mills's Evidence Explained? SourceWriter is largely based on that book. As helpful as SourceWriter is to me, I find myself reading the book for a better understanding. SourceWriter is a template driven sourcing system that makes it easy for you to select the

Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching files

2011-06-21 Thread Robert E. Carneal
I have several folders for photos. I divvied them up by grandparent. I have another folder for censuses. Well, actually I have two for censuses. One is scans of a census, and the other is where I have entered a census into a spreadsheet to make it more readable. I, took, link them to which every

Re: [LegacyUG] Index view appearance

2011-06-20 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Not really.  But you can have different colors on ancestors. I.e., you paternal grandfather's ancestors are *coded* one color, paternal grandmother's ancestors are coded another color, maternal grandfather's ancestors another color, and maternal grandmother's ancestors are yet another color. This

Re: [LegacyUG] the mapping feature

2011-06-11 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Ricki, I am guilty of this also, but when your maps don't come up, make sure you are actually online. When they don't come up for me, I am ready invent a new cuss word- I just knew I was online! Then I check, and I wasn't. That should teach me some patience! Thank you. Robert On Sat, Jun 11,

Re: [LegacyUG] Personal Photos Sourcing

2011-06-11 Thread Robert E. Carneal
I also do all of this, but I add one more identifying piece of information. I pick a landmark that is probably going to be permanent, and describe each stone's location based on that landmark. Cemetery signs are poor landmarks, they often get moved closer to the entrance, or closer to the road,

Re: [LegacyUG] A suggestion

2011-06-10 Thread Robert E. Carneal
In my book, the second page, is a listing of all abbreviations I use in my book.  At first, I wasn't going to put one in, and after someone asked me if NMN meant namaste, I knew I had to put one in! NMN means no middle name. Thanks. Robert On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Ron Ferguson

Re: [LegacyUG]

2011-06-08 Thread Robert E. Carneal
This goes to a dead end for me. Please be careful. Thank you.  Robert On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:31 AM, John D. Taylor III john...@hotmail.com wrote: http://aufgehorcht.com/go.friends.php Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21

Re: [LegacyUG] location question

2011-06-05 Thread Robert E. Carneal
We can't actually search on location yet, though some of us keep asking for it.  You are right, using of is ok by the LDS standards, but, if you sort by location, I believe it would use of to sort by instead of Sturgis.  Be careful. Thank you. Robert On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:21 PM,

Re: [LegacyUG] Color of Labels changes when Source is attached

2011-06-02 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Go to: Options Customize Colors, and click on the Contents button. Choose whatever color you want, but do NOT choose a color the same as the background. Have fun. Robert On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Cathy-0 chorn0...@optimum.net wrote: I was watching Geoff Rasmussen webinar about

Re: [LegacyUG] spam reaching the list

2011-05-31 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Wendy, I agree, we should not have to put up too much with this (they cannot stop all of it), but don't forget this is memorial holidays- they may have spent less time at the computer. Believe me, someone will lower the boom on this person. Meanwhile, I set up my email client to delete all email

Re: [LegacyUG] hello

2011-05-24 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Please be careful. That link goes to a site that is a bad site. Nothing to do with Legacy or genealogy. Thank you. Robert On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:27 PM, sigmentenb...@gmail.com wrote:  hi get started as soon as possible

Re: [LegacyUG] TO DO List

2011-05-23 Thread Robert E. Carneal
I do that, but I used eight colors.  What I do is save the list in text, and import it to Excel, and color the cells to indicate which one is related to which of my great-grandparents. I can't supply a graphic example here, but I will try a text example. My list might look like this: RED ORANGE

Re: [LegacyUG] How to enter questionable date of death

2011-05-18 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I use 1925-07-20 Abt Would that do the job for you? And also: 1930-Aug-20 Befmeaning before August 20, 1920 1940-Sep-01 Aftmeaning after September 1, 1940 Go to Options, customize,and select the Dates tab. Take a look at the options there. Thank you Robert * On Wed, May 18, 2011 at

Re: [LegacyUG] Surnames - Capital and other

2011-05-15 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Select Do not change what I enter in your customizations. Be careful, though, it really does just that. Smith could be entgered as Smtih, and Legacy will accept it. You would need to be more deligent, but this is the option I prefer. It allows me enter names such as DeCollings, MacKemberton,

Re: [LegacyUG] Error - Customer support tool A203

2011-05-07 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Which version of Windows? Thank you. Robert On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote: On 2011/05/07 23:34, Perk Bingham wrote: Every time I load Legacy 7.5 (Windows7) I get an error box with a slider, that tells me it's Configuring something called a Customer

Re: [LegacyUG] Error - Customer support tool A203

2011-05-07 Thread Robert E. Carneal
No, no... I meant to say: What version of LEGACY? You said 7.5, but I believe there are more numbers after that. Thanks. Robert On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Robert E. Carneal kentuckygenealog...@gmail.com wrote: Which version of Windows? Thank you.  Robert On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:03 PM

Re: [LegacyUG] Error - Customer support tool A203

2011-05-07 Thread Robert E. Carneal
step backward means progress (:) Researching: Clawson, Kibby, Ford, Starek Rohrer (in Ohio) And Black, Webb, Millar, Nichol (in Ontario UK) On 5/7/2011 3:26 PM, Robert E. Carneal wrote: No, no... I meant to say: What version of LEGACY? You said 7.5, but I believe

Re: [LegacyUG] Choose branch of tree

2011-04-01 Thread Robert E. Carneal
It is. Select the oldest person in that branch, go to File, and: 1 Right click. This brings up advanced tagging. This allows yhou to select who you want to break off (i.e., export). 2 Tag #3, and click descendents. 3 Brings up another window- select the number of generations. Since I usually don't

Re: [LegacyUG] LWC

2011-03-28 Thread Robert E. Carneal
LWC is a file extension associated with Living Word Commentaries Bible files.  I had not realized Legacy could read that. Can it?  Thank you. Robert On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, cgs1...@aol.com wrote: How can a person, not using Legacy, Read a .lwc file? Thanks Chuck Legacy User

Re: [LegacyUG] Connecting Child to Mother

2011-03-06 Thread Robert E. Carneal
They had a father, someone even if not married. If you don't know the father, consider entering Unknown or use a made up pseudonym that will be meaningful to you. I imagine most of us have at least one ancestor who had children out of wedlock- so don't be too embarrassed about it. I have a couple

Re: [LegacyUG] Calendar

2011-02-06 Thread Robert E. Carneal
GREAT!!  -Robert On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: The calendar has been revised. Now when you calculate a date there will be a select button beside that date to return the calculated date. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation

Re: [LegacyUG] Inquiry - PLEASE reply OFF LIST!

2011-02-05 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*I don't remember that name. Could I know him by a nickname? * ** *I wonder if you could search the Legacy Archives and get an email address for him?* *-Robert * On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 4:38 PM, gcr...@juno.com gcr...@juno.com wrote: I'm trying to contact Dermott McGlone who was a subscriber to

Re: [LegacyUG]

2011-01-24 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Someone can correct me, abut, isn't BEPSC options just for Report Options? Try going here: 1 Go to Help, and, 2 Go to the Search tab of Help, 3 Enter in BEPSC, 4 It explains what can be included in Reports, under Report's Include tab. Is this what you are looking for? Robert On Mon, Jan 24,

Re: [LegacyUG]

2011-01-24 Thread Robert E. Carneal
They are LDS markers. When one has been done, it the corresponding letter will be there. BEPSC are abbreviations for the LDS temple ordinances. When any have been done, the appropriate letter will be there. -Robert On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:24 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net

Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems - Death over 100 years old.

2011-01-23 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Ron- wait-  you want to actually EXCLUDE a person who is 108 years old, or do you actually want to privatize some (or part) of their information? Or make this person invisible to all reports? Thanks. -Robert On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote:

[LegacyUG] Ances / Descen Interest

2011-01-22 Thread Robert E. Carneal
If you go to Options » Customize »Data Entry, you will see a place for Ancestor/Descendant Interest.  I checked it, and it says it Shows on screen.  Where do I get that information to appear? Thanks. Robert Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp

Re: [LegacyUG] RE: township and cemeteries

2011-01-21 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Here's what I do: United States Colonies, Virginia, , Moorefield I like listing country, state, county, city, but I do understand not everyone likes that. This won't serve everyone, but it serves me pretty well. If I know the county, I include it. (Some towns were not in a county- just the

Re: [LegacyUG] Cannot export Lat/Long

2011-01-20 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Let me ask this: If I print an ancestor as an Individual Report, the portion that prints data from General Notes, which font is supposed to be used? Anyone know for sure?* ** *Thanks.* ** *Robert * On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Gene Wheeler bridge...@gmail.com wrote: I'm saying that LATI

Re: [LegacyUG] Cannot export Lat/Long

2011-01-20 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Gene- This doesn't help your case, but they *DO* show up like for me. They showed up six or seven times, I think for everyone I do have Lat and Long information for. Obviously, we have something different, probably a different setting somewhere. Yes, I am on Legacy 7.5. Or, did I misunderstand

[LegacyUG] Agriculture template in Legacy - suggestion

2011-01-19 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Not perfect, but I used the Census template as a basis for making my own Agriculture template. You can do this by: 1 Go to Sources 2 Select Add a new source 3 Enter Agriculture as your template name. It will warn you it didn't find it, but that's fine- you just want the name entered. 4 Country =

Re: [LegacyUG] P.S.

2011-01-18 Thread Robert E. Carneal
Events is working for me. I wonder what we have different. You can uninstall. That should be listed on START » Programs » Legacy 7.5 » Uninstall Legacy 7.5 Robert On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM, sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to un-install? Jane Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] enhancement suggestion

2011-01-17 Thread Robert E. Carneal
I made an event for this. I titled it Headstone GPS. I set the sentence to read: His headstone is in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. The stone's coordinates are 38 57' 23.86N 077 10'47.77W. Would that do what you want to do? It was a little tricky to set up at first, but once done, I

Re: [LegacyUG] What are the pros and cons of splitting or lumping facts?

2011-01-13 Thread Robert E. Carneal
This is just me, but in my case, lumping developed some sources I meant to get rid of. After a few months, I ended up taking a day and going through my sources to get rid of the ones I no longer wanted. Would splitting have prevented those unwanted sources? I would like to think so; I am not

Re: [LegacyUG] Information on report no in family view

2010-12-22 Thread Robert E. Carneal
One thought-  are you using Sources?  I am wondering if the notes are in a Source you may have used. I use Notes in my Sources. Hope that works. Robert On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:34, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: I wish to do a desecendant narrative report on an ancestor.  The

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Text into a Legacy Note

2010-12-12 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*It would, except if the speaker has an accent the software can't adapt to, then it gets confused. That is what happened to me. Robert * On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:51, William Dukstein wdukst...@gmail.com wrote: What about using speech to text software? Read the text aloud, have the software

Re: [LegacyUG] Deaths As Infants

2010-12-06 Thread Robert E. Carneal
You can put anything you want to, but Legacy won't be able to calculate ages from that if that is important to you. If they were very young, put down Before date.  date would be equal to one year after birth. If they were born July 1, 1955, put down Before July 1, 1956 as the death date. Then

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