Re: [LegacyUG] SW Template for databases on FamilySearc

2016-12-02 Thread R G Strong-genes
I use the credit line to cite the film number like this for the birth and christening records, birth register template created at county level online database: citing St. Joseph County Marriage record, v3 p241 rn 82, FHL microfilm 2342469: Michigan Department of Vital Records, Lansing,

Re: [LegacyUG] Use of credit line field in database sources

2016-11-16 Thread R G Strong-genes
-Original Message- From: Steve Hayes Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 11:14 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Use of credit line field in database sources On 17 Nov 2016 at 11:38, Cathy Pinner wrote: Steve, There are specific templates for the GRO indexes but

Re: [LegacyUG] Descriptions in Events

2016-08-17 Thread R G Strong-genes
It seems that something like that would be a source and not an event. -Original Message- From: Martha Graham Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 12:53 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Descriptions in Events Hi Jennie, Thank you. It is not the event notes I wish to

Re: [LegacyUG] Statistics Report

2016-08-10 Thread R G Strong-genes
John, When you open the report try clicking on the Reset on the right hand side of the screen and try the report again. Russ From: John Groome Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 12:51 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: [LegacyUG] Statistics Report I find the statistic report especially helpful

Re: [LegacyUG] Too many e-mails that I do not want

2016-08-08 Thread R G Strong-genes
FYI, mail to the list from Yahoo mail servers come in as attachments and is not recommended as people usually just delete any messages that come in as attachements. Better off using gmail which you can do the same thing with. -Original Message- From: lucee-...@prodigy.net Sent:

Re: [LegacyUG] Searchable PDF's & linking

2016-07-24 Thread R G Strong-genes
Martha, You did not state which version you are using but in version 8 in family view of the person you want to link the document to. Click on the picture icon to open the Media Gallery, then click on Add Media button and on the dropdown list click on Document then locate your PDG and he will

Re: [LegacyUG] Research / General Notes

2016-07-11 Thread R G Strong-genes
Steve, That is not entirely true, SourceWriter can create a master source for emails as 1. Grouped by correspondent or 2. by each email. I use sourcewriter for emails grouped by correspondent. You might want to take a look at: 7-Other records>E-mail>Grouped by correspondent. I create a

Re: [LegacyUG] GedCom Viewers

2016-06-30 Thread R G Strong-genes
GenViewer is a good one from MudCreek at http://www.mudcreeksoftware.com/ From: Martha Graham Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 9:21 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: [LegacyUG] GedCom Viewers Gloria, There are quite a few of them here:

Re: [LegacyUG] Complete Family Tree

2016-06-02 Thread R G Strong-genes
Shirley, How many individuals and generations are you talking about that you want to chart? From: Shirley Brodt Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2016 7:03 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Complete Family Tree Hi Leon, Thank you for your advice. I tried the Legacy Charting options,

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship calculation - charts, etc

2016-05-09 Thread R G Strong-genes
your 3rd grandfather would be your grandson’s 5th grandfather From: Martha Graham Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 7:24 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship calculation - charts, etc Good Afternoon, I was intrigued by the questions and tried an experiment or two. Here is

Re: [LegacyUG] Question on entries

2016-04-12 Thread R G Strong-genes
Ed, I would make one the birth entry (the one you think is more accurate) and the other as an Alt Birth event, citing both. I would first go to familysearch.org and see if you can find the reference to both of those sources and most of the time there is a link to each of the original batch

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I enter English locations in Legacy

2016-04-12 Thread R G Strong-genes
Rural Delivery -Original Message- From: Brian L. Lightfoot Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 10:57 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How do I enter English locations in Legacy Ummmin regards to your Rule 1: Never User(sic) Abbreviations! Is not "RD" you cite in

Re: [LegacyUG] LUG R.I.P.

2016-04-07 Thread R G Strong-genes
somebody being funny From: Glenny Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 11:51 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] LUG R.I.P. WHat is this??? On 4/7/2016 8:40 AM, bward...@mc.net wrote: April ,Seventh, MMVVVI AJM God Bless America !

Re: [LegacyUG] Getting too much mail that does not concern me

2016-03-29 Thread R G Strong-genes
talk to support From: Rochelle Coslow-Robinson Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:31 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Getting too much mail that does not concern me Good afternoon, In response to the below conversation, I've tried repeatedly, following the directions to

Re: [LegacyUG] Combining locations in Lecacy 8

2016-03-22 Thread R G Strong-genes
Steve, I don't know how you are doing it, but when you open the master location list you can combine more that one at a time by holding the cntrl key while you highlight the ones you want to combine. Once they are all highlighted then you can click on the combine with button and select the one

Re: [LegacyUG] Which report?

2016-03-07 Thread R G Strong-genes
Linda, If you just created it it is not on the web unless you uploaded it to a site. All it has done is created the webpages on your site and you have to view them on your local computer with internet browser. The only time they will be on the actual internet is if you uploaded them there. Russ

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering a sibling without parents

2016-02-25 Thread R G Strong-genes
It does, however, create a marriage record for unknown and unknown. -Original Message- From: MikeFry Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:49 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering a sibling without parents On 25 Feb 2016 3:13 AM, Ed Ladendorf via

Re: [LegacyUG] How to enter the following.

2016-02-24 Thread R G Strong-genes
The best way would be to just add the father's surnames and leave the first names and spouses blank or use privacy brackets ie [[this is the father of John Smith]]. If you start putting initials in for N.N. no name then it is very likely that some one else researching will see that and start

Re: [LegacyUG] Search for Master Source by File ID

2016-02-12 Thread R G Strong-genes
Cathy, DITTO THAT just spent the day cleaning out my document files of old documents and that was just for financial documents that are over five years old and don’t even pertain to genealogy. That folder is even bigger LOL as I am also trying to reorganize my files to be more consistent with

Re: [LegacyUG] Search for Master Source by File ID

2016-02-12 Thread R G Strong-genes
Don, I have mine set up as Jeff does in his example ie: If it has to do with a place ie census, city directory, etc it is named by the place largest to smallest. If it has to do with just the Surname it is filed by SURNAME, ie SURNAME – title, SURNAME-MAIDEN family – title. Just a thought. Ps I

Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter and personal knowledge

2016-01-28 Thread R G Strong-genes
Steve, I use the source writer for email correspondence but I use the template for correspondence by author that way the author is the master source and not each email. Russ -Original Message- From: Steve Hayes Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:27 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Help, please

2016-01-24 Thread R G Strong-genes
Barbara, Is the one on the desktop a folder or is it a link to your data folder? If it actually a folder with just the familytreewip.fdb and user files associated with that family file and it has the most current file information then you can just copy all those files to your Data folder for

Re: [LegacyUG] Help, please

2016-01-24 Thread R G Strong-genes
ciate it. Barbara Sent from my iPad On Jan 24, 2016, at 2:45 PM, R G Strong-genes <rgstrongge...@gmail.com> wrote: Barbara, Is the one on the desktop a folder or is it a link to your data folder? If it actually a folder with just the familytreewip.fdb and

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding images

2016-01-16 Thread R G Strong-genes
The underling program is a database that is why the links to the image are stored and not the image. Your file would start to grow in size if you were to store the images in the database. -Original Message- From: Martin Briscoe Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 7:47 AM To:

Re: [LegacyUG] creating a Gedcom

2016-01-15 Thread R G Strong-genes
Daphne, You must have missed my reply to Boyd on the 13th on the tree subject. I export my whole database which has 14 trees however, since I am the only one that is an admin and I assign new users “Tentative updates to Names, Places and Sources” I only have one Tree on my TNG site. Incase you

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing information/images/documents

2016-01-15 Thread R G Strong-genes
Dale, You can have 10 saved source citations in the source citation. When he right clicks on the triangle the list of those citations appear where you can click which one you want. When you have the source-citation clip-board open in the bottom right there are buttons where you can Clear, Load, or

Re: [LegacyUG] creating a Gedcom

2016-01-13 Thread R G Strong-genes
? View > Trees > Refresh. Boyd On 13/01/2016 4:11 p.m., R G Strong-genes wrote: Daphne, Did you create a private gedcom? I would recommend that you create a GEDCOM for Legacy with the following settings which I use all the time. Options page: Type of file to Produce Produce file for: Lega

[LegacyUG] Trimming footer's

2016-01-13 Thread R G Strong-genes
Seems like people are forgetting or have not read any of the Etiquette links in the footers or are new. I have been seeing a lot of replies where those footers keep growing and you have to wade to get to the gist of the OP’s message. -- Russell G. Strong P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today!

Re: [LegacyUG] Household Staff on Census Forms

2016-01-13 Thread R G Strong-genes
Steve, I list everyone in that household in the source citation and/or notes. If you are using shared citation they can be added without being added to your database. They may prove to be connected later on or link to someone else. You never know, ie one of my ancestor’s son later married the

Re: [LegacyUG] creating a Gedcom

2016-01-12 Thread R G Strong-genes
Daphne, Did you create a private gedcom? I would recommend that you create a GEDCOM for Legacy with the following settings which I use all the time. Options page: Type of file to Produce Produce file for: Legacy Character Set: ANSI Break Note lines every 80 characters (at nearest word) if you

Re: [LegacyUG] File Id's

2015-12-17 Thread R G Strong-genes
Barton, That’s because it is a user created ID. It can be used for your external files attached to your family file and will use the file ID numbering/tracking id's you create. The File ID Number Assistant works with your file id's that you have used and can add incremental numbers to those

Re: [LegacyUG] cgf to Legacy

2015-10-24 Thread R G Strong-genes
Elizabeth, Google the name of that software and see if anybody has a copy of it or could make a gedcom from your file. Here is a link I found http://www.glodoksoft.com/product.php?id_product=2325 and a definition of the program: Mindscape Family Tree Creator Deluxe Here everything you need to

Re: [LegacyUG] Seeking suggestions for sorting through a database mess

2015-10-16 Thread R G Strong-genes
for sorting through a database mess On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:28 AM, R G Strong-genes <rgstrongge...@gmail.com> wrote: You did not specify what format of your database you gave him. Sorry if I wasn't clear. In my mind GEDCOM isn't a database in the same way that a .csv file isn't a spreadsh

Re: [LegacyUG] Seeking suggestions for sorting through a database mess

2015-10-15 Thread R G Strong-genes
You did not specify what format of your database you gave him. If it was the Legacy database itself then you would want to use your original file as the main and the other one as the research. Then you would work on the research database and clean it up as to how you want places formatted and

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Files

2015-04-02 Thread R G Strong-genes
Jolene, Do not open them from the USB drive. Copy them to the Legacy/Data folder on your computer and then open them from there. From: Jolene Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 6:39 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy Files I have saved 3 different Legacy Family files

Re: [LegacyUG] GeoExtraCodes-Alt.txt broken

2015-03-12 Thread R G Strong-genes
I also noticed that, that is the only way to get the short location name to work. When will the fix it so that you don't have to edit a new location to get the short name. -Original Message- From: Brian/Support Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:21 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Moving children and replacing people.

2015-02-22 Thread R G Strong-genes
The correct way to remove children from a parent is to have the parents in family view with the parent you want the childe removed from highlighted, then right click the child in the children list and choose Unlink from parents and follow the prompts. Then bring up the correct parents in family

Re: [LegacyUG] Data Entry.....

2014-12-23 Thread R G Strong-genes
British North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia this might help From: W. Bruce Matson Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 9:00 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Data Entry. Hello, Is there a more “correct” way of entering data for a person living during

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with living indicator

2014-11-24 Thread R G Strong-genes
Russ, OptionsCustomize2.3 What Age to Presume a Person is Dead (ff ) If there is no death date when saving a record: Ask if Living if over ?enter age years Set as dead if over ?enter age Apply button Press the Apply button and it will go through the family file and set the living indicater for

Re: [LegacyUG] Couple Marries, Divorces, Re-Marries

2014-11-18 Thread R G Strong-genes
Diana, Because it is an actual marriage there is no way to keep it from printing twice. The only other way for it not to print is to make that marriage private. You may put in a suggestion to them that they put an option in the report format to suppress the info if it is the same RIN . From:

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-17 Thread R G Strong-genes
The only ones that you would have to unzip would be if you do the media backup which would be a different zip file. From: Ron Taylor Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:27 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox Mike will probably answer this

Re: [LegacyUG] FW: Merge issue

2014-10-14 Thread R G Strong-genes
Barton, For the person showing 2 marriages the one to unlink would be the one that has no children attached to the marriage. The quickest way to go through the marriages of the individual is if it is male click on the bar that appears to the left of the husband when the mouse hovers over it or

Re: [LegacyUG] How best to keep track

2014-10-07 Thread R G Strong-genes
You are wrong on this part! It is a Deluxe feature of both version 7.5 and v8 where you can record the results of several different types of DNA tests. You get to it from the individual edit screen and click on the DNA icon on the right side of the screen below the Options button in 7.5 and

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources from one project to another?

2014-08-29 Thread R G Strong-genes
Cheryl, Yes, since she mentioned that she didn't want to reenter them I would assume she meant that her sources were her templates that were filled in. -Original Message- From: singhals Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 10:15 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] Stuck in endless relink loop-----was: Recovering after crash

2014-08-10 Thread R G Strong-genes
Whenever you unzip the mediazipped file you must extract it to the C: drive or the drive they were originally in and not a folder in the C: drive as the zip file contains the path of the file and will restore it to those same folders. If you were to unzip or “extract” them to a folder on the

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Quality questions

2014-08-10 Thread R G Strong-genes
Yes, The document itself is original, however, the fact of her birth you would have to go by who supplied the data for the birth date to determine if it is Primary or Secondary evidence. If the provider of the info was not your grandmother or her parents then the data is not Primary source.

Re: [LegacyUG] Downloading updates

2014-06-29 Thread R G Strong-genes
Do not know that there is a problem since 427 IS the latest build for v8, and the last build for v7.5 is 278 -Original Message- From: Ray Rhoads Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:14 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Downloading updates The uninstall problem

Re: [LegacyUG] Converting to v8

2014-06-22 Thread R G Strong-genes
Cheryl, Open v7.5 then open the file from within the program. If you have v8 installed then windows has set that program as the default program to open your genealogy files when you double click them from windows explorer. -Original Message- From: singhals Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014

Re: [LegacyUG] Converting to v8

2014-06-22 Thread R G Strong-genes
of the current vs of 7.5. Are you sure you tried to open it from 7.5 and not ver 8? -Original Message- From: R G Strong-genes Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 12:57 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Converting to v8 Cheryl, Open v7.5 then open the file from within the program

Re: [LegacyUG] Does mark as not spam do any good?

2014-06-20 Thread R G Strong-genes
Not necessarily true, as people have said if the email comes from yahoo, aol, etc. if they have changed their DMARC rules then they will be flagged as spam or junk even if you have the person in your contact list and the user group in your list. I will find the same group of user’s responses in

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry findagrave

2014-06-18 Thread R G Strong-genes
All of their sites were hit with a denial of service attack which is keeping them off line. From: Lloyd Hite Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:07 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry findagrave On 6/17/2014 9:57 AM, Bill wrote: All of a sudden I can't get

Re: [LegacyUG] not living triggers

2014-06-04 Thread R G Strong-genes
Set Living. This takes in more parameters than the automatic change to dead on save. It should mark your couple married in the 1700s dead. The Advanced Set Living tool is one of those to run periodically. It supplies a list of anyone it changes from Living to Dead. Cathy R G Strong-genes

Re: [LegacyUG] not living triggers

2014-06-03 Thread R G Strong-genes
Cheryl, There must be a date in the birth field for it to assume that they are dead. No date no calculation can be performed. -Original Message- From: singhals Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 12:50 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] not living triggers Since the

Re: [LegacyUG] not living triggers

2014-06-03 Thread R G Strong-genes
Cheryl, Where did the program ask for marriage parameters? In version 8, Customize setting 2.3 is where you set the Age to resume a Person is Dead. For this to do so, as I said previously the individual must have a date entered in the birth field (not sure about the chr field) for it to work on

Re: [LegacyUG] Combining family files

2014-05-29 Thread R G Strong-genes
Marie, Usually, when you merge the files if there are duplicate people and all fields are the same they will automerge, however, if any field is different then you will get a manual merge screen where you can tell Legacy which fields to keep or discard. Be sure to scroll down if there are bars

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources

2014-05-23 Thread R G Strong-genes
Cheryl, You can search the Archives for “Source conversion” and you will find Geoff’s message on how to do this. The message is dated Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:03”58 –0700 I found it by going to the Legacy Home tab and clicked on the Legacy News hyperlink then on the next screen on the right hand

Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1]....????

2014-05-22 Thread R G Strong-genes
Elizabeth, Be aware that if you have attached any media to your family file that those images are in a different zip file that has the family file name-media in the zip file name. So you would have to send them that file also and they would have to Extract those files to their C: drive, as legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I find a specific Event ID #?

2014-05-20 Thread R G Strong-genes
Heeren, The easiest way to fix it is to go to the View tab, Master Lists and pick the Event Definition from the list. In the list you will find Fix this Event Type highlight that in the list and then click the button Show List to see who has the event so you can jog your memory of what the event

Re: [LegacyUG] Child Status

2014-05-14 Thread R G Strong-genes
Merrelyn, By using the child status it will also show on the family view screen and can be included in some reports and the child status line can also be sourced. Stillborn and Twin are in the default family file, so you would have to add any other status labels you would want to use. From:

Re: [LegacyUG] pdf's

2014-05-07 Thread R G Strong-genes
I have Adobe Acrobat XI reader which is free and that is probably what she has downloaded. From: Brian L. Lightfoot Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 11:04 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] pdf's Before we confuse anybody, Adobe Acrobat XI is the full program which

Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem - Unrecognized Event Date

2014-04-21 Thread R G Strong-genes
the correct recognized date is “From 1980” From: Howlanddavisii Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 3:40 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem - Unrecognized Event Date In trying to clean up my Potential Problems, my sister has an unrecognized event date. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Report questions.

2014-04-20 Thread R G Strong-genes
Cindy, See below -Original Message- From: magnoliasouth Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 2:17 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Report questions. Hello all, I have two report questions. The solution, I think is just putting it in the clipboard and stamping over

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

2014-04-17 Thread R G Strong-genes
SearchLook for whom: Individual, Where to look: Tag 5, How to look: Equal To, What to look for: Untagged Clear List before this search. Create List From list click on OptionAdvanced Tagging on the advanced tagging screen tic Tag, Make changes to Tag 6, Click on button Everyone in Search List.

Re: [LegacyUG] Location merging

2014-04-13 Thread R G Strong-genes
The first thing you could do is to go to the Master location list and on the right side click the Options button and pick Purge unused. This will eliminate all the locations that are not being used by anyone in your file. Sumter is all over the place and some location entries don't even have

Re: [LegacyUG] Female font colour on main view

2014-04-07 Thread R G Strong-genes
Goto the Options tab. Change Colors button. Click on one of the children. A window will open where you can change the text colors for male, female, and unknown. From: Noddie Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 7:57 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Female font colour on main

Re: [LegacyUG] unsupscribe

2014-04-05 Thread R G Strong-genes
Ann, You cannot unsubscribe by sending a message to the list to do it. You must use the link at the bottom of the email on the last line. From: Ann Brown Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 12:35 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] unsupscribe unsubscribe -- Ann Brown

Re: [LegacyUG] Bad job of installing

2014-04-05 Thread R G Strong-genes
Jane, When you open your family file, what name shows at the top of your screen in the windows title bar? It should say Legacy - [name of family file]. If it says Legacy Another Format 1-19-14 2014 then that is why all your backups say that. To fix it go to the File tab and click on Rename File

Re: [LegacyUG] Restoring picture links

2014-04-03 Thread R G Strong-genes
Morris, All the media file backup will do is restore the media to their original location it will not restore the links in the family file. The easiest way would be to save your current file with a different name or save it as a copy with a different name and then restore your family file from

Re: [LegacyUG] ISO labor-lite suggestions re tagging

2014-04-01 Thread R G Strong-genes
Cheryl, If you did not assign a source to those individuals you keyed in then there is no way of doing what you are asking other then to do the page by page look up. However, if you did assign a source then you could just tag all those individuals or marriages that are assigned that master source.

Re: [LegacyUG] Family File Information Notes

2014-03-29 Thread R G Strong-genes
Have you tried the Compiler info screen which applies to the whole database: OptionsEdit Compiler there is a Comments section that you could use to enter that info and a check box if you want it to show or not. From: Ron Taylor Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 11:54 AM To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Multiple versions installed?

2014-03-24 Thread R G Strong-genes
Bob, I am running Widows7, 32-bit for Legacy 8: and my Legacy8.lic is in C:\Users\UserName\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData and the main program folder under C:\Program Files is Legacy8 not Legacy. and these are from the default installation. I believe the location of the main program is

Re: [LegacyUG] A simple place-name question

2014-03-12 Thread R G Strong-genes
Roger, I use the following website, it may help I use British America for the location depending on the time frame or New France, etc, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_America From: Roger Lamprey Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:09 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject:

Re: [LegacyUG] Master sources

2014-03-11 Thread R G Strong-genes
Be aware that you only get that message if that source is already being used otherwise it will overwrite that source if no citation is being used. Make sure you choose one that is being used already. -Original Message- From: Michele/Support Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:17 AM To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Question - Cemetery or Tombstone as the source?

2014-03-11 Thread R G Strong-genes
Ted, I would say that the photo is the record of your personally read headstone, and the cemetery is the source and/or the repository of those headstones. From: Poppke Genealogy Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 2:16 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Question - Cemetery

Re: [LegacyUG] Question - Cemetery or Tombstone as the source?

2014-03-11 Thread R G Strong-genes
I use the Cemetery recordsCompiled records: database online template for those like at rootsweb and if they are for those from find a grave then I use the InternetWebsite, generic with a new source for each contributor to that Cemeteries find a grave memorials. So I may have several find a grave

Re: [LegacyUG] Question - Cemetery or Tombstone as the source?

2014-03-10 Thread R G Strong-genes
Ted, That should be the preferred way of doing it. I have this for one of my master sources: Using Source Writer template Cemetery recordsGrave markers, plaques, tombstones, monumental inscriptionsGrave markers, urban or the rural Michigan, St. Joseph, Constantine - Constantine Township

Re: [LegacyUG] Still using 7,5 for some files

2014-03-09 Thread R G Strong-genes
Anne, When you get the message to convert you need to say yes as the 7.5 file was created with an earlier version of it so you need to have it convert it to it’s 7.5 version From: Anne Hollingshead Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:32 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate ID Numbers Software Problem?

2014-03-07 Thread R G Strong-genes
Jay, If you are referring to the User ID field. There is no software problem with that field. That field is not a number field but is a text field and can have any data in it you designate. The only numbers that should not have duplicates are the RIN and MRIN which are assigned automatically by

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People

2014-02-24 Thread R G Strong-genes
and on another note to add to the confusion. I kept searching for a surname in my database that had been imported from someone else's gedcom file. That surname that was unfamiliar to me and I wanted more info! The surname was “UNK”! Until I realized that they had used this surname for all their

Re: [LegacyUG] How to add children?

2014-02-22 Thread R G Strong-genes
you put down for the father? On Friday, February 21, 2014 11:06 PM, R G Strong-genes rgstrongge...@gmail.com wrote: With the mother in the family view just click Add Child in the children area From: Richard Falzini Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 10:35 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com

Re: [LegacyUG] How to add children?

2014-02-21 Thread R G Strong-genes
With the mother in the family view just click Add Child in the children area From: Richard Falzini Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 10:35 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] How to add children? Hello group, I have a cousin (now desceased) and she had

Re: [LegacyUG] Checking in!

2014-02-19 Thread R G Strong-genes
it may be slow From: Darlene Don Hicks Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:36 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Checking in! I have not received any Legacy mail for three days! If it is just slow please let me know! -- Russell G. Strong P. S. Check out Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] OptionsCustomize (ff) or (gbl)

2014-02-14 Thread R G Strong-genes
Mary, The OP states that in Legacy 7 and earlier they were all global and she was asking about the options in ver 8. From: Mary Fowler Leek Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:24 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] OptionsCustomize (ff) or (gbl) Kurt, In Legacy v7.5,

Re: [LegacyUG] Statistic/Search List

2014-02-11 Thread R G Strong-genes
Mine works as expected. -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:08 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Statistic/Search List I was looking at the Family File Statistics screen and noticed that my file includes one man who was

Re: [LegacyUG] syncronizing two computers

2014-02-10 Thread R G Strong-genes
if it is set up properly then usually the router is behind its own firewall -Original Message- From: Brian Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 3:54 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] syncronizing two computers Mike, Never thought, whats in my routers thumb

Re: [LegacyUG] Unlinking/Linking

2014-02-10 Thread R G Strong-genes
You can get to the same menu by right clicking any of the children number labels. -Original Message- From: Bob Austen Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 6:51 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Unlinking/Linking Click (right or left) on the + in the upper right

Re: [LegacyUG] Unlinking/Linking

2014-02-08 Thread R G Strong-genes
If you right click on one of the children there is an option to Add Brother or Add Sister -Original Message- From: Dale E O'Connor Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 3:10 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Unlinking/Linking The option I have set is best fit.

Re: [LegacyUG] Names in Family View - show AKA

2014-02-08 Thread R G Strong-genes
Kathy, You will find a lot of info on this subject in the Help file under NicknamesInformation screen From: Kathy Thompson Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 8:48 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Names in Family View - show AKA ahh - you you would suggest I put Bill

Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397

2014-02-07 Thread R G Strong-genes
You could use the split screen function and then you could have both showing at the same time. -Original Message- From: singhals Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 2:40 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Installed Version: 8.0.0.397 MikeFry wrote: On 07 Feb 2014

Re: [LegacyUG] Detail Text - no indent on the first sentence?

2014-02-05 Thread R G Strong-genes
I just enter a blank line before any text in those boxes and then it appears as I want. That is how Geoff does it in his book. From: robs_familytree . Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 8:45 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Detail Text - no indent on the first

Re: [LegacyUG] Editing marriage definition glitch?

2014-02-03 Thread R G Strong-genes
The problem is that you have that event in the Individuals events so you cannot use the [CoupleNames] in an individual event. If the person was married more than once how would it know which couple, that is why it is a marriage event and should be an event in the marriage screen. -Original

Re: [LegacyUG] Export Gedcom file without pictures

2014-01-31 Thread R G Strong-genes
If you wish to exclude the media links then you need to EXCLUDE them from the GEDCOM. On the GEDCOM Export screen click on the “Customize” button on the right side of the screen. On the Items to Incude in GEDCOM for Legacy screen there is a section called Groups of items to EXCLUDE from Export

Re: [LegacyUG] v7.5 - how can I send info to someone by email?

2014-01-30 Thread R G Strong-genes
Elizabeth, You have to use the Advanced Tagging feature to tag the line or individuals you want to send. Have you read the help file on splitting your family file? Only 3 tags are available with the free version. So if they are all being used then you will have to free one of them up to use it.

Re: [LegacyUG] Customise - 7.4 Source Clipboard - Prompt for Detail

2014-01-30 Thread R G Strong-genes
Mary, Have you checked option 7.4 to see what it is set at? From: Mary Young Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:49 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Customise - 7.4 Source Clipboard - Prompt for Detail I have unticked this - so the default should be OFF. But the Source

Re: [LegacyUG] Customise - 7.4 Source Clipboard - Prompt for Detail

2014-01-30 Thread R G Strong-genes
Mary, I guess I should have read the subject line. Changing the Default to off does not automatically untick that same box on the source clipboard, you have to open that up and untick the box there also. Changing the default will be for any new sources that are created. From: R G Strong-genes

Re: [LegacyUG] Customise - 7.4 Source Clipboard - Prompt for Detail

2014-01-30 Thread R G Strong-genes
. Is this not happening to anyone else? Mary Young On 30 January 2014 22:30, R G Strong-genes rgstrongge...@gmail.com wrote: Mary, I guess I should have read the subject line. Changing the Default to off does not automatically untick that same box on the source clipboard, you have to open that up and untick

Re: [LegacyUG] Research notes

2014-01-21 Thread R G Strong-genes
You can still do that in your notes! If you don't want them to appear in reports then just surround them with the privacy brackets [[ some text ]] and they will be visible in your file but will not appear in reports unless you change the Privacy Options of the report. If you want the whole note

Re: [LegacyUG] Research notes

2014-01-21 Thread R G Strong-genes
12:59 PM, R G Strong-genes wrote: Why not just use the General-to-Do feature to add those research notes that pertains to the file. -Original Message- From: JV Leavitt Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:18 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Research notes

Re: [LegacyUG] Merging Sources

2014-01-21 Thread R G Strong-genes
If they use different templates then they cannot be merged you will have to copy and paste the data that you want to appear in the correct source. From: Charles Apple Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:30 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Merging Sources I have recently

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not backing up

2014-01-21 Thread R G Strong-genes
I have 385 and it prompted me for a backup after I changed some one. When I do an update I see the skip file message also, which means that the file already exists and doesn’t need to update. From: Boyd Miller Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 2:14 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject:

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