I have been requesting more (Polish) special characters for a number of years
and was very surprised and disappointed that they apparently are not added to
Legacy 8. Legacy say that it would require major changes in their technology. I
do not understand computer technology but since there are
I have just upgraded to Legacy 8, and cannot find a way to have a color for
each gender in the Index View. (In Legacy 7, male names were in blue and
females in red). Is this an option for Legacy 8?
John
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From: Michele/Support
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 10:38 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] gender colors for Index View in Legacy 8
John,
Go to Options Change Colors. Now click any child in the Children’s List.
This popup box is where you set your
Sometimes I know where ancestors lived but uncertain if they were born in that
place. There is an option which allows you to change the location preposition
from ‘in’ to something else but it only works for the book reports from the
publishing centre. I could mention in the narrative that a
It seems that adding prepositions or modifiers at the end of locations and
adding them as new entries to the Master Location List is the best I can do for
my database purposes, at least for now. I eventually want to include a number
of Family Group Records as ‘Family Story’ chapters in a book.
Hi Ron,
I have been doing something similar to you but I am trying to minimise the
number variations of the same location in the Master Location List e.g.
Sitaniec, Zamość, Crown Province of Galicia, Habsburg Empire
Sitaniec, Zamość, Lublin, Duchy of Warsaw
Sitaniec, Zamość, Lublin, Kingdom
Wow, thank you Paula! I have rediscovered the Address field! I had completely
forgotten about it as I only ever used it a few times, a number of years ago,
but did not find it useful for my purposes. I did not even realise Address
could be displayed in book reports or Family Group Records. As
I have similar problems for my ancestors who are from different parts of
Europe. The Origins Report is pretty useless for anyone serious about
showing their ethnic or cultural origins. A big part of this complex
problem is that borders and names of many European countries have changed
enormously
Knowing the country of origin or nationality is a step toward finding an
ancestor’s culture or ethnicity, but even recording an accurate name of the
nation may immediately say a little more about an ancestor.
For example, Italy was not a nation-state until 1861. If an ancestor lived
before
I have not found any Scandinavian ancestors of my own but some ancestors have
changed names for various reasons e.g. after immigrating. I think the most
important thing is to decide on a system and then be consistent. My way is to
use their name at birth as their main name in my database (even
I have found “RootsMagic†have all the Polish characters. It enables you to
use all the special characters available in Microsoft Word in the same way
as Word does. I have recently downloaded RootsMagic to try out its other
capabilities and functions.
Special characters are a high priority
The Family Search “Standard Finder” may help:
https://familysearch.org/stdfinder/PlaceStandardLookup.jsp
John
From: Jessica Morgan
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:43 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations: towns in multiple counties?
I have one that
I have been requesting Eastern European special characters / diacritics for
years but Legacy has not even added them to their “special character map”, even
in version 8. This is extremely annoying, although I like everything else about
Legacy. Legacy do not even indicate they doing anything to
Font sizes and styles can be changed via the Customise option. For most people,
Times New Roman font is the easiest to read, especially when reading for long
periods.
The Customise option also allows (limited) changing of background colours. I
suffer from Irlen Syndrome form of dyslexia, where
Pictures can be inserted into Word documents where you can also annotate or
explain them. Therefore an option for books (including printed ones) appears to
be:
Use Legacy “Publish Centre” to organise chapters and use the “Place Holder”
option for Word documents which are to be inserted after
Either I am confused or there are technical problems with Legacy.
I saved a set of selected fonts via Customise- “Master Report Fonts (gbl)”. I
loaded them into various reports. The custom fonts however only display in
reports when opened via the relevant toolbar buttons. The custom fonts
Hi Chap,
Thank you for replying. It appears there is a glitch in the system- maybe since
the latest version of Legacy which is what I am using.
The steps that you mentioned are what I have been doing. At step 6, when I
click on Report Fonts my custom fonts are shown. When however, I close the
Chap and Cathy,
Thank you both.
Cathy’s suggestion solved the font problem.
I am also very grateful for Chap’s help and publishing information. I had a
look at lulu.com, and it looks very good.
John
From: Cathy Pinner
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 1:09 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject:
Is there a way to add the “Sylfaen” font to the Legacy fonts?
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Hi Carol,
Thank you for the tip. May I ask what kind of errors you found when saving
Legacy as a Word document? e.g. page layout such as line spacing or problems
with the index for names or places etc.
John
From: Carol Boswell
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:30 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Hi Brian,
Thank you- it worked.
I am very aware that Legacy does not work with Eastern European special
characteristics or diacritics. It is my only gripe with Legacy which appears
to be the best genealogy program in every other way.
For now at least, I can use Sylfaen font with English
Is Legacy 9 coming? If so, will include Unicode or at least the same special
character map used in MS Word?
John
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From: Cathy Pinner
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 6:52 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Strange bug in Legacy 9
I was about
I use MS Word 2007. A number of months ago somebody in the LUG mentioned
limitations or problems with MS Word while assembling a book, and suggested
another word processing program (possibly an open-source one). I do not
remember the original question put the LUG, or the alternative word
I am very grateful to everybody who shared their knowledge and experience. It
all helped me to have better sense of the way Legacy and MS Word interact. I
will keep all the replies for future reference. I now feel reassured that Word
has the capacity to handle very large books with high
I recently had my DNA tested via the Genographic Project. They use Y-DNA,
Mt-DNA and autosomal DNA to determine your Haplogroups and regional
ancestry, which is what I wanted.
If you want to try to find relatives, you can, free of charge, transfer your
results to FamilyTreeDNA, and use their
Has anybody else had problems changing/selecting the number of generations to
be printed on pedigree charts (via Reports option) ? Legacy will not allow me
to change it one generation at a time i.e. it jumps about three generations.
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I have been using several different place name entries for the same physical
location. This is OK for me but makes it difficult to exchange information
with other researchers, in charts or reports, because they would be confused
by location names I use. Even Germans do not attempt to use names
A few months ago I sent a suggestion to Legacy for the ability to add a number
of name variations for locations, instead of only a short version. I have
diverse ancestry from different parts of Europe where it is very common for the
same location to have been under various countries or empires
It sounds to me that the new hashtag option is more like another way of
tagging existing events/facts, rather than adding them. Legacy only has nine
tags but the hashtag option appears limitless, therefore no need to ever
clear the hashtags. I presume there would be an option for creating lists
I have been on the LUG email list for a number of years and the issue of how
to cite sources or which template to use constantly comes up. I am fairly
pedantic but when it comes to sources I agree with Geoff Rasmussen- the most
important thing is, for readers to know what the source is and
I do not know about computer programming but I think it would have been better
for all if Millennia had bitten the bullet a long time ago to update its
technology to handle Unicode etc. I imagine the longer it has been left while
adding more “bells and whistles”, the harder it has become to
I realise that Legacy is currently a stand-alone program but I cannot see how
it can last in its current form. First, technology and users expectations
rapidly change and increase, while it my understanding is that Legacy is built
on outdated technology which is why it cannot handle Unicode.
I tried MyHeritage with the basic subscription and don’t trust it for various
reasons. It defaulted to automatic renewals every year and I don’t remember any
other options. It was extremely difficult to find out how to enter an end date
for the subscription because it was buried so deeply. From
I think that default positions should always be for maximum privacy- not the
other way around.
Hi CE, I agree that other people’s websites are not sources but thought they
may cite sources which could be checked by me.
I’m glad scholars are checking primary sources. I saw on a documentary how
I really like Legacy except for its lack of Unicode. I fear its demise due to
its outdated technology. My ideal would be for Legacy to be rewritten on new
technology and kept as it is except for addition of Unicode. That would make it
as close as possible to perfect. I hope that is what
I too am not upgrading to Legacy 9 because you cannot keep your Legacy 8
version if you do.
John
From: Mary Young
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 1:04 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Final Build
Thanks Brian. As you surmised I don't use the LDS functions, they're not
I do not think it is helpful to allege “fake news and vitriol”. What is a
priority, concern or experience of some may not be the same for others. I think
Millennia would like please as many customers as possible.
I did not say it was MH’s terms and conditions. Anyway, Companies change their
To me, MH appears to have a company culture or business model of ripping-off
customers. I think it will affect Millennia. There would have been negotiations
going on between them during the lead up to release of Legacy 9. Was it a
coincidence that Millennia did not allow us to run Legacy 8 and
Izhak,
Family Tree Maker 2017 may have what you want. It is overdue for release
(release was delayed due to bugs). I have never used it so I do not know if it
would suit you. Perhaps others in the Legacy User Group can tell you. My
impression is that it is very versatile. Like you, I really
Mea culpa. My desire to help others and my frustration about lack of Unicode
caused me to briefly forget the harsh reality that Legacy’s bottom line is
about making money.
John
From: Sherry
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 6:07 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Data Entry Default
I think I sent an email to Passage Express years ago suggesting that they
develop an ebook option for sharing family histories. I did not use Passage
Express because I thought CDs would quickly become outdated technology. Also, I
did not like the ability of receivers of the CDs to mess with the
Bob,
I think many in the LUG, like me, use Legacy as their main program for building
their family but also use other programs for the rare things Legacy cannot do.
As you said, they all have limitations. At the end of the day, all programs are
merely tools to be used how we want for our own
I have used the Basic Style source template for a few of my sources. The option
to italicise the titles of the publications is selected in each case. However,
when I preview the Bibliography, the titles are not italicised. Is this a bug
or have I missed something?
John
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From: Cathy Pinner
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 12:06 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Italicise title of source in Legacy 8.
Hi John,
I note that there isn't an override on the Basic Sources for Bibliography as
there is for SourceWriter sources.
Hi Sherry,
I would like to respond to this matter. Before I do, I would like to clarify
something- the subject line is now “Warning about MyHeritage / OFF LIST /
Personal Emails”. Does this mean the current thread is off list even though
in the “To:” field it says “Legacy User Group”? If it
Before I sent the email to the LUG, I spoke to my bank and PayPal. They saw the
transaction on their systems but did not mention anything about it being a
possible scam. PayPal told me to send a complaint to the email address, which I
did.
John
From: Jennie Matheson
Sent: Thursday, June 21,
About an hour ago I received an update notice for MyHeritage software. I
clicked on the update to ensure that my computer was protected with the latest
patches. Very shortly afterward I received an email confirming a subscription
to My Heritage. I did not want it. I did not see anything asking
I am having difficulty deleting MyHeritage from my computer. I found its
folder on my C drive within another folder named “Program Files (x86)”. When
I right-click then click delete, a pop-up message says “The action can’t be
completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another
There will always be a grey area in regard to the point at which a response to
a thread or topic is relevant, or should become a whole new thread but perhaps
we can improve how we respond.
For example, “Warning about MyHeritage / OFF LIST / Personal Emails”. People
generally do not
I have not researched MyHeritage DNA testing but maybe it is like Ancestry and
only tests autosomal DNA- not mtDNA or Y-DNA. Autosomal DNA mostly helps for
the last few generations and virtually fizzles out completely after about 5
generations. If you want to way back e.g. thousands of years,
Thank you Cathy. This may be a silly question but I just want to check whether
Legacy 9 has the option to show the nine tag boxes on the Family View screen,
like in legacy 8.
From: Cathy Pinner
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 10:58 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging
If I upgrade from Legacy 8 to Legacy 9, what happens to the tagging systems?
Is everything in the Legacy 8 nine tag system converted to the new unlimited
tag system, or does Legacy 9 run both systems separately? Would I lose my tags
from Legacy 8?
John
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I do not want to ever use Facebook for anything.
John
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From: JoAnne Flynn
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:22 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] STOP THE AFN Numbers Poll
Thanks for explaining the reasoning for so many posts. I understand now.
But
Birth, marriage and death records are usually not available from thousands of
years ago but I agree that mtDNA and Y-DNA can in some cases provide useful or
interesting information, especially if you are very interested in tracing
ethnicities and migrations.
For example, my mother’s
LOL. There are definitely some absurd family trees out there.
John
From: CE WOOD
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:26 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MyHeritage DNA test
And, to top it all off, some dubious genealogies on the internet trace all of
us back to Adam and
I have noticed that may of my locations have been auto geo-coded by Bing. Is
there a way to stop this from occurring? Is there a quick way to delete all the
geo-codes at once or do I have go through each one marked with a V, one at a
time, to delete its geo code, then tick “do not geo code”
I used to have a different colour font for each gender in the Index View but I
cannot find a way to apply it again. I have looked through Customise and
everywhere else I could think of. Please help.
John
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Thank you Jenny and Brian. The problem is solved. Going via the children
list of Family View worked.
John
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From: Brian Kelly
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2018 12:48 AM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Different colour font for each gender in
The problem came back for me too after updating to the newest release- 258.
Although gender colours still work for children in the Family View they no
longer work in the Index or Descendant Views.
Maybe it is related to another problem I am having: I have selected
uppercase surnames in
My worry is also escalating. I have now noticed a third problem. I have just
added alternate surnames to individuals within a family group and swapped
them to be the main surname. The Index does not display the new main
surnames. It still however displays the now alternate surnames.
John
Re warnings about uppercase surnames: Jennie, I navigated to where you
suggested and found “Surname entered as all uppercase” already deselected. I
clicked select then deselected it again and the problem was fixed.
Re new main surnames not displayed in index: After closing Legacy then
I did a similar thing with location names. I basically did it the way Brian
suggested. Bear in mind there may be people born in Colonial America (before
1783) but married or died when the country name was different. I have
individuals among my European ancestors whom have two or even three
I had a bug and in process of fixing it, the person from Legacy Technical
Support told me to delete the usr file. This solved the problem but it also
deleted all of my customised settings including background colours.
I cannot find a way to get the Family View or Pedigree View background
I have been doing that. The only bit of background I was able to change are
strips which tells the relationships, between husband, wife and their
parents.
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From: Gene Young
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 9:45 AM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Re:
Thank you Cathy, you saved me yet again. You way you explained it made me
realize that I should click on the parts of the screen while the pink box first
opens. I had been making the mistake of thinking that I had to change the
background colours after selecting one of the links/options within
Brilliant! Thank you.
John
From: Leon Chapman
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2018 11:44 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Indentation of General Notes when in Book Reports
In Descendant Book Reports, Report Options, Page Layout Tab, you can adjust the
Notes indents
Is there a way to reduce or remove the indentation of General Notes when they
are included in Book Reports? The indentation does not occur in Family Group
Reports.
John
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With the hashtags feature introduced in Legacy 9, is there a way to globally
edit a particular hashtag or do I have go the every individual person with that
hashtag in order to edit it?
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Thank you Bob. I had been clicking on the hashtag symbol on the Legacy toolbar
which does not allow editing. I had presumed the hashtag symbols for
individuals were only for adding or editing their individual hashtags.
John
From: Bob Austen
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2019 4:06 PM
To: 'Legacy
I am working on a comprehensive book with many chapters. I want to preview and
compare some variations to the format of this book e.g. change some of the
reports/chapters or their order etc. To do this, I would like to make a copy of
this existing book with a new name or date of modification.
In Report Title Options, I was able to change the title from Family Group
Record to the couple’s names. I was also able to include their life spans. To
do this used the Embedded Field: [CoupleNames, Span].
My problem is that I tried doing a similar thing with an Individual Report but
it does
Thank you Cathy, you solved the problem. I had presumed that that because
only one set of brackets is required for couples [CoupleNames, Span] that it
would be similar for individuals.
Regards,
John
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From: Cathy Pinner
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 12:46 PM
To:
In Ancestor Book Reports I cannot see any difference whether or not Marriage
Notes has been selected (under Notes/Stories). The Marriage Notes are always
included and appear identical. What have I missed?
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I just did what seems to work/look best in charts. For example, a person in
my database is Count Philipp I of Nassau-Saarbrücken-Weilburg. I put “Count”
in the title prefix, “Philipp I” as the given name and left the surname
field empty. Finally, I put “of Nassau-Saarbrücken-Weilburg” in the
There is actually a chart in Legacy Charting that possibly does what you
want. Have you tried the “Family” chart located among the Hour Glass and Bow
Tie options? Select a parent as the starting person and their children will
be displayed.
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From: Brian Kelly
Sent:
Under Report Options, I am able to select/check the option to include
Children’s notes in Descendant Book Reports, but not in Ancestor Book Reports.
Is there a bug in the latter? The option is there but greyed out. There is also
a greyed out check mark in the box for Children’s notes.
John
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I agree with Chris, especially if your ancestors have non Anglo-Saxon/Celtic
names. Family Search is generally better than the others. I think their staff
are better trained at indexing names, including foreign ones.
John
From: Chris Hill
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 7:15 AM
To: Legacy User
It appears the correct spelling is Towson County. Wikipedia has information
about it.
John
From: Ian Macaulay
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 9:20 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: [LegacyUG] a problem Perhaps
Now it could be me doing something stupid for which I apologize in advance, but
Perhaps there are Legacy users who are experienced in using the Legacy add-on
called TreeDraw, who can tell you if that software can do what you want.
From: John S. Adams
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 9:23 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] charting selecting a starting point
I found Geneanet useful for finding German ancestors who lived near the French
border or in the Duchy of Lorraine. In most of Europe, borders shifted many
times over the centuries. Also, during the time of the German Holy Roman
Empire, there were French enclaves and exclaves in German states,
I strongly agree with the others who warned about deleting people from your
database according to DNA ethnicity results. Such results are not exact. DNA
only suggests a region where people with a particular cluster of genes in
common mostly originate from. The regions or countries given by
I noticed that for someone in my database, the order of his wives is shown
incorrectly in Ancestor Book Reports. I have double checked that the marriage
date of each wife is entered accurately. The marriage status has been entered
as divorced. However, in reports it says Johnny “next married”
Thank you Brian. I had completely forgotten that the spouse list existed. I
think people often stop seeing icons that they rarely use.
John
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From: Brian Kelly
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 4:04 PM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Report
Pasting from MS Word works until you save it. Then the Eastern European special
characters turn into bizarre symbols.
John
From: Andrew Robbie
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 1:37 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Using special alphabet characters in Legacy
You can always
Gloria,
If the new family file was exactly the same as the original before the 11 days
of adding new data, you could keep the new family file as your main one.
John
From: Andrew Robbie
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:42 AM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Merging only
My experiences with MyHeritage were horrendous. I will never again have
anything to do with them, except using Legacy software which they now own. If
Legacy stops being standalone and becomes some kind of cloud software, I would
never upgrade to it and may transfer my data to another genealogy
You can save your Index columns settings. From the Index screen, select
Options, then select Customise Columns. Save your customised settings.
John
From: Margaret Gagliardi
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:00 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: [LegacyUG] "Index" columns
When I use the
Thank you Jenny.
John
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From: Jenny M Benson
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2021 7:53 PM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] file for customised settings
On 16/05/2021 08:05, johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
Would someone please remind me of the
Would someone please remind me of the filename extension for the file in which
customised settings are saved.
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Is there a simple, quick way to transfer narratives from General Notes to
Stories, for everyone in my database? (When I began using Legacy I wrote each
person’s narrative story in General Notes. Since Legacy 9.0 there has been an
option to write narratives in “Stories”. I would prefer to use
Thanks Cathy
John
From: Cathy Pinner
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2021 6:01 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer narratives from General Notes to Stories.
No John.
The quickest way would be to search for all those with General Notes
The search is Individual > Notes-General >
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