[LegacyUG] Persons with only assumed/acquired surnames

2012-03-14 Thread brittongen
One of my lines has a Richard Pratt with a spouse Richord, per IGI and other sources. Her PCC Will gives the true tale. She describes herself as Richard Pratt, widow, and her daughters by surname, e.g. my daughter Osmond. A collateral Pratt line was then nationally famous, Lords Chief

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

2012-03-14 Thread Michele Lewis
I would put Richord Pratt and Richard Pratt in as aAKAs. In her main name field I would put Mrs. Pratt [Pratt surname, Mrs. in the prefix field]. This would be one of the rare time that I would put Mrs. Last Name in as a main name but you have no other way. I am sure you have it all

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

2012-03-14 Thread Bob Bashford
'Unknown' as a given name tells it like it is ... as does 'Pratt-Wife' if the maiden name is unknown. Bob On 3/14/2012 11:19 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: I would put Richord Pratt and Richard Pratt in as aAKAs. In her main name field I would put Mrs. Pratt [Pratt surname, Mrs. in the prefix

Re: Fw: Fw: [LegacyUG] - 7.5.0.166 - Still Have Screen Font Problem

2012-03-14 Thread Kay Fordham
Follow-up to Brian's message. Sent my file to Tech Support and they cannot determine the source of the problem. They noted they are aware of several font issues as follows: Legacy has a variety of screen font problems, which I hope will be corrected in version 8 when it is released. Here are the

Re: Fw: Fw: [LegacyUG] - 7.5.0.166 - Still Have Screen Font Problem

2012-03-14 Thread Tim Rosenlof
Use 'Zoom' on the right hand side of the window. This helps me change font sizes on the fly, and it sticks. Tim On 3/14/2012 9:35 AM, Kay Fordham wrote: Follow-up to Brian's message. Sent my file to Tech Support and they cannot determine the source of the problem. They noted they are aware

[LegacyUG] search question

2012-03-14 Thread Susan Swindell
Is there a way to search for all records modified on or after a certain date? -- Susan swind...@value.net Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived

[LegacyUG] Searching for place of marriage

2012-03-14 Thread Michele Lewis
I am having a hard time figuring out how to make Legacy do what I want. I want to find everyone in my file that was married in Greene Co, GA. When I put MARRIAGE, MARRIAGE PLACE, CONTAINS, GREENE I get a list of people that have things like , , North Carolina, United States as their

Re: [LegacyUG] search question

2012-03-14 Thread Sherry/Support
Using the Detailed Search tab: Look for whom? Individual Where to lookModified Date How to look After What to look for enter the date *before* you want to search - i.e., if you want to search for records modified today and later, enter yesterday's date) You can add a

Re: [LegacyUG] search question

2012-03-14 Thread Susan Swindell
Thank you so MUCH! I didn't notice the scroll bar on the where to look box. I got what I needed. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Using the Detailed Search tab: Look for whom? Individual Where to lookModified Date How to look

Re: [LegacyUG] search question

2012-03-14 Thread Tim Rosenlof
Search Detailed Search Search Whom 'Individual' Where to look 'Modified Date' How to look Your turn from here. Tim On 3/14/2012 10:29 AM, Susan Swindell wrote: Is there a way to search for all records modified on or after a certain date? -- Susan swind...@value.net

Re: [LegacyUG] Searching for place of marriage

2012-03-14 Thread Tessa
Try this - in the search box, Marriage, Marriage Place, Equal To and then your place - in my instance Seattle, King, Washington, USA - and it brought up my marriages that contained that place (but of course you needed to enter that) then I went to options an unchecked married names - got my 148

RE: [LegacyUG] Searching for place of marriage

2012-03-14 Thread Jack Earnshaw
I just tried the same search (version 7.5.0.116) and got all the marriages I know took place in the town I chose and there were no others listed. Have you checked that the Clear list before the search button is selected? Jack -Original Message- From: Michele Lewis

Re: [LegacyUG] Searching for place of marriage

2012-03-14 Thread Ron Ferguson
Michele, What you are getting is clearly incorrect. Obviously I cannot test for Greene, so I used Eccles and the same criteria as yourself. It returned 124 people all of whom (or at least the quite large sample which I checked) had Eccles in their place of marriage. It may just be that a

Re: [LegacyUG] What happens after I press the This Person is the Same as Mine button.

2012-03-14 Thread Brian/Support
The only time Legacy transfers information from your file to nFS is when you use the arrow icons to send data from your Legacy person to nFS. The This Person is the Same as Mine button adds the Person Id from nFS to the Family Search ID for the person in your Legacy file. This ID is the link

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Locking up after Update

2012-03-14 Thread James Cook
Thanks for checking. I've rebooted several times, turned off McAfee, downloaded the update vs install from web. Nothing fixed it for me. Have sent an emal to support. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

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