Re: [LegacyUG] Survey - Syncing

2020-03-29 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
What app do you use to 'sync' Legacy between your MAIN computer and a SECONDARY computer? What do you feel is the advantage of your choice vs another app? 1a. DROPBOX (via cloud) for Legacy data and media, and 1b. EVERNOTE (via cloud) for Research 2. Advantage "set it and forget it" OTHER:

Re: [LegacyUG] Cenotaph

2019-11-13 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
My 2 cents: EVENT sounds like the way to go. There could be more than one Cenotaph, for example one in a family plot and one or more included in a veterans memorial. Another similar situation might be entering cenotaphs for those lost in the sinking of ship like the Titanic. On Wed, Nov 13,

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

2019-08-01 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
location. Same with urban wards. I also use this for > cemeteries and hospitals. I like the sorting better. And yes, I know that > one can use a reverse sort order as an alternative solution. > >Ward > > *From:* William (Bill) R. Linhart > *Sent:* Thursday, Augu

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

2019-08-01 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
I do agree. My standard is: [1. local jurisdiction/repository i.e.township, village, city, etc], 2.County, 3.State, 4.Country and apply to other countries similarly by always using three commas for all locations [usually each has a repository of genealogical data] . The entry might between

Re: [LegacyUG] relationship chart

2018-08-28 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
ct that > they have been involved with. > In any case, I wish the Legacy developers well and I hope that they > continue producing high-value, low-cost software. > Jerry > > On 8/27/2018 7:51 AM, William (Bill) R. Linhart wrote: > > Barton, I feel the same way about finding a lot o

Re: [LegacyUG] relationship chart

2018-08-27 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
Barton, I feel the same way about finding a lot of things in Legacy. I don't think you are alone. I would suggest they they bring in an IT-Human-Factors engineer or whatever they call them today. Bill On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 10:26 PM, BARTON LEWIS wrote: > Where in Legacy is the report that

Re: [LegacyUG] Media Gallery issue

2018-06-12 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
Fixed by *EXPORTING *to a new Legacy File. New exported file works fine. Support suggested this. It worked. Thanks to Jamie at Legacy support. Bill On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:33 PM, William (Bill) R. Linhart < wrlinh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am glad you have a work around. I don't

Re: [LegacyUG] Media Gallery issue

2018-06-11 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
> > The Picture Gallery and Media Gallery really seem quite muddled at times. > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 12:18 AM > *From:* "William (Bill) R. Linhart" > *To:* "Legacy User Group" > *Cc:* "Teresa Williams" > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Media

Re: [LegacyUG] Media Gallery issue

2018-06-11 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
I am experiencing EXACTLY the same problem. My symptoms: (1) preferred picture showing in family view (2) no pictures showing in media gallery (3) no pictures attached to this person according to picture gallery tool (4) in media gallery, no events have an * in the drop down indicating no

[LegacyUG] Using Genscriber and Legacy

2012-07-10 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
After doing the transcribing, the output from Genscriber is a csv file that can be read as a spreadsheet with column headings. While that function works great, I have a question. What is the technique used for moving and re-formating that csv-data-file in Genscriber to be used in the Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding text details to a source/citation and exporting GEDCOM issues

2012-06-20 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
Kirsten, that Citation_101 was very helpful. These are two other elements that I may be confused about. It appears I am not the only one trying to this out. (a) Repository, and (b) Event ... at the bottom of the hierarchy, when applicable. (level in hierarchy, big picture, on

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

2012-06-16 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
I recently attended a meeting of museum curators at the Pennsylvania Historical Society and the recommendation there was a minimum of 300 dpi minimum, and a specification of 600 dpi recommended, for document PRESERVATION. The format recommended was TIF uncompressed. These can be very large

Re: [LegacyUG] Any suggestions? Picture Gallery trouble in Master Source picture gallery - family bible TIF's

2012-05-28 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
Further investigation today I found the following: These images are ONLY linked to a Master Source according to Multimedia List Report runs that I did on the new copy of my Legacy file. Therefore, I decided to add them to an individual to see if that would change the symptoms. In doing so I

Re: [LegacyUG] Any suggestions? Picture Gallery trouble in Master Source picture gallery - family bible TIF's

2012-05-28 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
Ron, thanks. That is a good point about the the source images I have stored in the Legacy/pictures folder not actually being in Legacy. I think that Legacy may read and render those images in Legacy/pictures so that it can present the small pictures in the gallery. In my case that is 13 small

Re: [LegacyUG] SURVEY: What is the highest number of pictures you have in any one Picture Gallery?

2012-05-28 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
Morris, thanks. I have only about 100 picture files so far. They are a mix of JPG, TIF and PDF. I am exploring the possibility that it may be the total number on pictures in one-single gallery that causes my trouble. What is the maximum number of pictures you have in any one single gallery?

Re: [LegacyUG] Does the size of screen annoy you while using Families for Legacy app?

2012-04-12 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
I just consulted with an owner of an iPad 3 this morning about taking notes. He uses his *iPad 3 *with the *Apple blue tooth keyboard* for note taking in the field all the time. He said the touch screen keyboard is good but not what he likes as a fast typist. He also tried using a program on

Re: [LegacyUG] Window sizes

2012-04-12 Thread William (Bill) R. Linhart
... You can use Snap to arrange windows side by side, which can be especially helpful when comparing two documents or when moving files from one place to another. (Snap might not work on some programs that have custom window behaviors.) ...