Dirk,
This is a big problem for me too. Like you, I hope they are working on it.
Legacy is fantastic - just wish the reports had a few less problems. But at
least we know they do work on the problems.
Cheers
Jan
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From: Dirk Detmar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
At the risk of buying into an argument, I don't think any of us are saying
we DON'T record our sources - but some people prefer to trust the work of
others, always remaining aware of the pitfalls of doing so, and that if we
receive research from other people THAT is the source of that particular
My thoughts also. I'd love the reports to generate properly for all users
before worrying about geography for some users.
Cheers,
Jan
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From: Jean Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ken McGinnis [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 4:03 PM
Jan Rossen,
Sorry, I can't help it - your problem must be that your copy of Legacy is
just TOO old! VBG
Jan
(July 26 1002 build)
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You could very well be right - on other lists Reply All sends a copy of the
reply to the individual original sender, and to the list. I notice that in
Legacy UG Reply All puts Legacy UG there twice.
Jan
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From: N. B. Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\Graphics. Under How to Find, check exact.
Under How to Replace, check Replace only found text with
replacement text. Then click Start.
Hope this helps,
Sheri Lynn
- Original Message -
From: Jan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:43 PM
Thanks Richard - when I used the browse feature to locate the picture I
wanted I wasn't asked if I wanted to change all in the file, but I did
notice that ALL of the photos in my file called C:/My Documents/My
Pictures/Graphics/GOOD seemed to attach themselves correctly after I
re-linked just one
just the one you are choosing to use.
Message order can be very strange at times.
Wm Voss
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Roberts
Sent: Sunday, 17 February, 2002 14:38
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Creating PDF
My thoughts exactly. Especially where the
STEP relationships are concerned, because not all second marriages involve the
legal adoption of the spouses' children. And this is NOT just a recent
social phenomenon - if you look at the 19th Century Census returns you will find
step-children all
Just realised why I'm not seeing my own
messages. In an effort to organise my email, I have created a number of
rules - some just recently. And as I like to keep what I have sent, so I
can refer back to it, resend if it didn't get through, check to see if I DID
send what I said I would etc.
When I preview a Descendant Narrative Report I have
a note about the birth of my cousin, mentioning that he was born on my 15th
birthday and that we were our respective father's first children. The
notes were imported as part of my TMG GEDCOM. I need to edit the notes -
but do you think I
Just like to report that I have downloaded version 4.0, paid for the upgrade
to Deluxe, and although it is Saturday afternoon here in Oz I received my
customer number within half an hour. (This after I thought I was going to
have to wait until after the weekend, because even with the time
For some reason, Pat's 'attachment' was the message
to which she was replying - nothing sinister.
Cheers,
Jan
- Original Message -
From:
Janet And Rory
Burgess
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:37
AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] NameList
When I downloaded the update last night it still took nearly 20 minutes -
yet I have Deluxe and used the automatic download option. This has been the
case for each update of version 4.0 so far. Is this normal? I have a 56k
modem that tells me it is downloading at about 4.5kbps on average when
Thank you Lisa and Ketil!
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From: Lisa Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New General Release Build - 10 April 2002
Makes perfect sense. 20 minutes times 60 seconds/minutes = 1200
seconds.
Firstly, thanks for the couple of suggestions re the wisdom of removing the
married name AKAs that imported from TMG. I've come to the conclusion that
no harm will be done if I remove them, especially as they are basically
useless in the name search list as AKAs because they only have '~ MARRIED
Hugh, you so often express things exactly the way I feel. I think I've said
it before - must be the name! (My maiden name is Sullivan!)
Cheers,
Jan
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From: J. Hugh Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:04 PM
Subject: Re:
Robert, Tom Purser has just solved the problem. I wasn't using the Numeric
keypad.
Thanks,
Jan
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From: Robert Carneal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pound symbol
Jan, where were you in in
Thanks Tom - I wasn't using the numeric keypad. I can now add the £ sign to
my Legacy notes.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Tom Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pound symbol
Be sure to use the
Hopefully one of the options will be Relationship to Father / Mother :
Step-son or Step-daughter!
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Ken McGinnis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Child-Parent Relationships
In
This is also why I would like to be able to change the wording in the
Descendant Narrative Report to Known children of this couple. The option
to change this wording is available in the Descendant Register report, but
not the Descendant Narrative.
Jan
If really needed, something less emphatic
The use of the term Marriage List doesn't bother me, as I know what it
means. But it seems to me that most people are seeing the use of this term
or not as a Legacy issue. Surely MRIN stands for Marriage Record Identity
Number - and MRIN is common to every genealogy program I have ever used.
Sorry, should have checked the subject before I responded.
The use of the term Marriage List doesn't bother me, as I know what it
means. But it seems to me that most people are seeing the use of this term
or not as a Legacy issue. Surely MRIN stands for Marriage Record Identity
Number - and
Thanks, but [CoupleName] doesn't really achieve what I want, as it puts an
ampersand after the husband's name, then wife's name on the next line. I
want to be able to have husband's name on one line, and on the next, wife's
name on the next line. It used to work that way as I have paper copies
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Sorry to disagree, but some other lists show [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously fictional addresses here) - one
being the sender of the message being replied to, the other being the
mailing list to which the message was sent - when you hit ReplyAll. I do
believe this is set by the
Have just been checking out some errors other people were finding - I know,
this one was reported way back in November, but it's a busy time of year,
and I don't recall seeing a response other than from Anna B who says hers
was working fine. I am using the latest build, but when I go to Split
Just checked this out (also 18th Dec. version) and the new event is
highlighted as it should be after being Saved.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Connie Spindel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:14 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Event Definitions
This gets my vote too! I've (willingly) upgraded at a (very moderate) cost
twice since my original purchase - but some report problems that I was
seeing in Version 3 are still problems in Version 5. I fully understand
that everything can't be done at once - but I would like to see reported
I reported seeing the same behaviour on 22.02.04 when Keith first posted
about this problem.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Mark Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:16 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Setting Preferred Spouse - 2nd Posting - No
You have to think outside the usual meaning of marriage when entering the
two people who produced an offspring - think of it as a term that covers any
relationship between two people (dare I say man and woman). No genealogy
program can cater for every term that various users might prefer to use
Wonderful!!! Whilst I am quite prepared to repeatedly edit an rtf report
(i.e. after new information is added etc.) so that it accommodates my
blended families without repeated data for the steps it really is a pain
having to insert all of the images again.
Cheers
Jan
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- Original Message -
Something I have learnt the hard way is that it is
necessary to record what you DIDN'T find as well as what you did find. (I
read this somewhere but its significance didn't penetrate my thick skull
until I kept going back to the same source for the same
Alice,
I would check whether you have inadvertently made changes to your report
settings. I've only checked out Descendant Narrative options, but under
Report Options Format you will see Suppress details for living people
with a sub-option Change name to Living. It also has the option to
Ah yes, but unless you actually link the step-children to the step-parent
they do NOT show up as 1/2 children on reports. For example - I have a
daughter by my first marriage. My husband has a son and a daughter from his
first marriage. The three children are recorded with their respective
Yes, but that means you have to keep changing the SURNAME field in the
record for Mary Louise, and you also have to keep adding to the GIVEN NAME.
(For instance if you add a young girl to your database and she subsequently
marries one or more times - or if you don't know about a name change due
Definitely - at the moment they sort alphabetically which isn't the best.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Bill Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Legacy Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 3:31 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] AKA Function
It would be nice to be able to
You can leave description blank if you like, and put 1881 in the date as
Lewis suggested - but I use description to record the country of the Census.
eg
EVENT = Census
DESCRIPTION = British
DATE = 1881
PLACE = the address as identified in the Census
I modified the Event Sentence (if all fields
Hear! Hear! This is a problem in single line reports as well, not just
Multiple Lines of Descent reports. I have requested many times that the
cut in point for not repeating Duplicate people be altered so that you
don't get pages of events and notes repeated.
Cheers
Jan
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I have just found another anomoly with the half children display. I have
(several probably, but one I just happened to notice) a woman who had a
child with an unknown partner prior to her marriage to a (presumably)
different partner. I have the display set to show half children. In the
family
Hi Cathy,
For immediate families I do link the children to both sets of parents, and
don't usually use Show Half children. But as you say, linking makes for
messy reports. I don't quite understand why, since Legacy can obviously
identify half siblings (although it also identifies step-siblings
I've received it four times! Each time with the attachment intact!
Cheers
Jan
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From: Connie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:36 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] family information in MS Access database
I too have received
Actually, by the time I sift through the more than 50% of my mail that is
JUNK, then read most of the messsages in my Legacy folder (the second
biggest group of messages I receive daily) I am too tired to do any
research!!
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I had a similar (it seems) problem with a Descendant Narrative Report some
time back. I finally isolated it to one person in my database. To find it,
I began the report from each successive generation until I got to the person
who caused the report to lock up. Now, I'm sorry to say that for the
And while we are at it, I reported quite a long time ago that repeating
information in any of these fields by clicking on the hot spot
automatically moves the cursor into the next field. So if you then add a
source, expecting it to be added to the (say) birth data you will find
yourself
Resending this, as it hasn't appeared yet, but a subsequent message appeared
seconds after posting.
And while we are at it, I reported quite a long time ago that repeating
information in any of these fields by clicking on the hot spot
automatically moves the cursor into the next field. So if
I keep mine all in one database, mainly because I look at it from my
daughter's perspective - they are ALL her ancestors so I need them in the
same database if I am going to create accurate reports.
Cheers
Jan
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From: The Lavenders [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
Ah, but the point is that I do NOT have mine set to Move the cursor to the
next field - so it shouldn't happen under any circumstances. It only
happens when I use the much discussed 'hot spot' to insert data. By the
way, if I right click, to gain access to the ten most recent entries for the
Mary,
The 'hot spot' in this particular instance is the word in between the date
and place fields for Birth, Christening/Baptism/ and Death. The term 'hot
spot' is being used here because the original discussion began with a
complaint that some 'hot spots' extend quite a way from the box they
Hi Ron,
No, there is something strange happening, because I have been advised by
several people that my last re-sent message did in fact appear twice. But
it hasn't appeared ONCE in my mailbox. (I get individual messages from LUG,
and they are all automatically directed to my Legacy mail
Hi Mary,
No need to feel foolish! I didn't know that any of the hot spots beeped! I
usually don't have my speakers turned on, so I've never heard a beep! Just
tried it now - it seems to beep when you change from preferred spouse to
non-preferred spouse, but not vice versa. No, that's not
Ah, thank you! It had to be something simple.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Carl Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cursor jumping to next field (was Hot spots)
By the way, why does that hot spot beep at
Resending this one too, as it hasn't appeared yet. Don't know what's
happening, but this has happened a couple of times in recent days.
Mary,
The 'hot spot' in this particular instance is the word in between the date
and place fields for Birth, Christening/Baptism/ and Death. The term 'hot
Thanks to Brian I did some investigating, and found that somehow my own
address had appeared on my MailWasher blacklist and was apparently being
deleted from my ISP server before it appeared in the MailWasher list of
messages.
So I apologise to everyone for my couple of repeated messages - I
Yes, but the problem appears to be that in order to get a report to read
accurately where there is an ex-nuptual child one must use the This person
never married feature. This then creates a further problem if the parent
later married and had other children because the This person never
I started a response to this problem a few days ago, to say that I wasn't
having a problem if I did such and such. I had even included a thanks to
Legacy for apparently having fixed the strange way Legacy handles date
ranges because I queried this some time ago. My original problem was that
Good idea! This would be much more informative.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Valerie Laskowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Legacy Group LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Showing Half Brothers and Sisters
The
Hi June,
How right you are! I hadn't noticed that this was another situation where
the Quoted Name isn't used according to the report options set. I've
previously mentioned the problem that there are places when the quoted name
itself isn't removed in Narratives, but hadn't noticed that the
No, (I've never heard 'christening' used to refer to anything but a
baptism -- except when naming a ship.) but 'baptism' often refers to
adult baptism. I was never christened as a baby, but I was baptised as
a teenager - both are really done to signify entry into the Christian
church rather
Same here - I choose not to use Geo database, and also wish I could use the
IGI search facility without having to close the Geo database box EVERY time.
Could it disappear once the option has been refused once?
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: John R. Bayle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Methinks he might be refering to the Free Legacy Mouse Pad offer made
recently - free if you spend $50 or more in the Legacy 'shop'. Guess some
people are just never satisfied!
Cheers
Jan
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No, I'm another who would prefer that report issues are resolved before new
bells and whistles are added - although I have to say that the IGI search
facility looks to be very useful from what I've fiddled with!
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Claire Quortrup [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Choose a report click Report Options then chose the Page Set Up tab, and
select the size you want in the Paper Size box.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Mark Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:02 PM
Subject: Re:
It may be that your email is set to send in HTML format as the default. But
it might also be set to reply in the format of the sender. If this is the
case you WILL be able to send a message to the list because you will be
replying to a plain text message. However, if you get the address from
You can create your own label - Partner. OPen the Marriage Information
screen. Click the arrow at the right hand edge of the Status box. You will
be presented with the current relationship labels. Click on the add
button and create whatever label you would like. You can also change the
Glad I could help - but you might need to continue checking, because if
there are any children of this relationship you could find the report says
Children of this marriage were:.. To overcome this, the actual
Marraiage Status has to be set to Unmarried. You can still use the word
Not so. I use Outlook Express 6 and my replies do not include the original
as an attachment. In fact, other than the option to include message in
reply, I can't see a setting relating to replying. I know that in Outlook
you have the option of including the reply as an attachment or as part
True - but then you are not necessarily replying, just forwarding the
original message to someone else as an attachment to your message, rather
than simply forwarding the original.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Gene Rusty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Nor did I!
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Mary Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Update 12th. Apr.
Hello, Jack
On 4/14/05, Jack Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the first time I didn't
Hello All,
I have been trying to create an event that I know will only be used as a
Marriage event. I have called it 'Husband Deserted Wife'. I have set the
sentence definition as: The marriage ended when [FirstName] is said to have
deserted [WifeFirstName] [onDate] and gone
Thanks for the suggestion Don, but that is actually what I did first off -
the result is the same.
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From: Don Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:52 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Strange Happenings With Name
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To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Strange Happenings With Name Fields in Sentence
Definitions
Jan Roberts wrote:
Hello All,
I have been trying to create an event that I know will only be used as a
Marriage event
I have used Internet as a source type if I have found some information on
the net about a place, or an occupation, or a ship for example - or if I am
recording the fact that I have found information about the family on someone
else's web site.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Kay
Thanks for this tip about customising the columns in index view. I didn't
know it existed and have often wished I could see a person's parents without
having to go back to Family View, especially as I have many people with the
same names. I have just saved an index view that allows me to see
Yes, but you can use the Source details or comments to specify exactly what
each source is referencing. You can elect to have the source details show
or not, for each specific sosurce. So you can elect to show details for
sources which provide only part of the information.
Cheers
Jan
-
Thanks for the thought Harvey, but I have actually tried all sorts of
possibilities, and they all throw up incorrect results.
I originally thought it was a problem because I was using the event as a
Marriage Event, but Individual Events also.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: HDH
Linda,
You tracked the problem down to having used sentence override, but it seems
a bit strange to me that you aren't getting ANY notes for events. It
occurred that you might be using Sentence Override for all of your events.
Is this the case? I rarely use Sentence Override - only if the
about it changing the current future ones, but sure didn't
know it would the prior ones.
Hope this makes sense I am quite distraught over this.
Ann in New Mexico
- Original Message -
From: Jan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005
The trouble is that even when I use [HusbFirstName] etc. for a marriage
event I get the strange results that I first reported. i.e. The marriage
ended when [HusbFirstName] is said to have deserted [WifeFirstName] [onDate]
and gone [toDesc].[Sources] [Notes] I get - The marriage ended when Bill
don't
see it in pages 85-87.
Jan I am VERY glad you wrote about this. If not for you I would have never
know this was retroactive. I appreciate you.
Ann
- Original Message -
From: Jan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 7:22 AM
Ann,
I think I would probably leave the event sentences as they are - then, if
and when you print out a report for a particular person / line you can chack
to see if the events read correctly. If they don't, go in and change them
for the individuals affected in that specific report. You can
You learn something every day! The Event Report is wonderful - I'd never
looked at it before. It might take Ann a while to work through, but she
wouldn't have to print the report out for each event - just preview it on
the screen and note down the names of those where it doesn't read
: Jan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Defining the Event Sentence was Event Definition
looked at it before. It might take Ann a while to work through, but she
wouldn't have to print the report out
Unless I'm looking in the wrong place I can't confirm this. I've tried
creating the report using a single event, and also a selection of events.
All event locations are showing correctly. However, it isn't picking up
Marriage events, as Dennis has noted. I have the April 14th build.
But
I have 14th April build - and locations are showing correctly. But where is
the include menu you mention?
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Kay Fordham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event
to the right where you may select an
event type; i.e., deed, obit, etc.
Hope this helps.
Kay
- Original Message -
From: Jan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event Report Glitch
I have 14th April
Ah yes! I had seen the events to print option and had selected a specific
event when I first tried this - but Kay mentioned an include tab so I
thought I must have been missing something else. Didn't put two and two
together is all! Silly me!
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From:
I went from TMG (which I purchased at considerable cost) to Legacy about 4
years ago and have never regretted it for a minute. Yes there were things
about TMG that I liked, but there was an enormous learning curve. I began
with the Standard (free) version of Legacy - Version 3. I liked it so
Adeptec (Roxio) Direct CD allows writing of Legacy backup files direct to
CD, from within Legacy. Unfortunately when I converted to XP my particular
version of Adeptec no longer worked! Prior to that I regularly selected E:/
drive (my CD burner) as the location of my backup saves, just as I
I assume you are talking about the RIN numbers. The only way I can think of
to make them consecutive in a partial report is to tag the people you want
included, export only the tagged individuals, import them into a new family
database and choose the option to renumber RINs. That will give
Why would you use sentence override for this? Override only affects the
specific instance of the event for which you use override. If you are going
to override I don't see the point in using the variable fields - why not
just type the sentence exactly as you want it for that instance?
True, I hadn't thought of that.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Jim Winfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Occupation Event
Problem with changing the default sentence is that it
Oops! Sorry about the double posting. My Virus scanner told me it hadn't
been sent due to a timeout (or somesuch) so I resent it. Just checked my
Legacy folder and found it HAD been sent.
Cheers
Jan
- Original Message -
From: Jan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup
I have 'inherited' (pardon the pun) some quarterly dates from a fellow
researcher. He recorded them as Q1 1970 etc. I imported them into my
Legacy database and haven't found them to be a problem. The age is still
calculated accurately e.g. a birth recorded as Q1 1970 = 35 years old.
Just
Hadn't thought to check Potential problems when using Q1 etc. As Ron found,
they are reported as Bad Dates when you run the report. But when I tried to
enter a new person with a Q1 1972 date it didn't flag a bad date, and it DID
calculate the age now. So I'm happy to leave it as Q1 etc. and
Hi Susan
I have dealt with this problem by linking Mary to a person called an
unknown man (First name an unknown Surname man - no quotation marks -
and NO capital letters.) The report then reads Mary had a child with an
unknown man. They had one child, George. I make sure the child has
Maybe Mary wasn't married to the father of Ann, but it isn't correct to say
Mary never married in relation to one child if she later married and had
other children.
Cheers
Jan
Using latest build, same situation, mine reads:
Mary never married. She had one daughter: Ann
Steve
Legacy
Welcome to the world of Legacy, Bruce.
You can certainly enter more than 15 children, but you can't see all fifteen
at once. If you have the view set to show three columns of five children
and you need to add more children you will see that an arrow appears in the
right hand margin of the
When you think about it there really isn't a problem. The coded fields are
used to set up the main (leading)sentence for the event - which will be the
same for each person for whom the event is used. Anything additional can
easily be added in the Notes section - and surely the exact content of
Hi Pati,
You can set Outlook Express to include the original message when you reply.
I used Outlook Express for years - but changed to Outlook a few weeks ago,
and guess what - I can't remember exactly where you choose this option in
Outlook Express. But you will find it somewhere in Tools
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