Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Tagging

2009-11-03 Thread Evert van Dijken
Advanced Tagging is a Standard feature. Evert 2009/11/2 Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.net: Do you have the Deluxe Version? I am wondering if Advanced Tagging is a Deluxe Version feature. Robert At 2009-11-02  09:06 AM, you wrote: From the Help file (Last line on the Help page for

Re: [LegacyUG] Disabled Landscape option for Pedigree Report

2009-11-03 Thread Jenny M Benson
Anne Picketts wrote I had the same problem a while back, and this is the reply I received (it's probably in the Legacy archives): Try using the Books/OtherPublishing CenterPedigree Chart. Once in the Pedigree chart dialog, go to the Options tab and select page setup and you should be good to

Re: [LegacyUG] Read Receipt for Message

2009-11-03 Thread MB
Probably done accidentally but it is a good way to harvest EMail addresses by collecting all the Read Receipts to indicate live accounts. MB From: Lisa Davis lisada...@lexcominc.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, 1 November, 2009

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread M Couch
You don't say which Ancestry records you are linking to. Are they official records like census, or are they submitted trees? Official records should be more acurate- trees are variable to say the least. Some have been carefully researched and others have been flung together, with little

RE: [LegacyUG] Disabled Landscape option for Pedigree Report

2009-11-03 Thread Sherry/Support
Beth, The landscape orientation was removed due to formatting problems. You'll find you have the same problems if you change the orientation in the Publishing Center. The programmers will be reworking the chart to get it to format correctly in landscape Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread Mary Horner
are they submitted trees? Be very careful:-) Thanks for the warning. No I always go right to the original documents - birth, marriage etc. I have already had the experience of someone else taking my research and plugging it into their tree where there is no evidence to indicate we are linked at

[LegacyUG] How to export/import

2009-11-03 Thread Mary Horner
1. I went through all the steps and created a GEDCOM to export to Ancestry. How do I know that step was completed successfully? Can I check the created GEDCOM before exporting? 2. I went into Ancestry to import, read all the 'how to's' but I can't figure it out. Fileimportimport from a file the

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread William H. Boswell
I wouldn't count on anyone asking permission. Only one time have I had someone ask permission to use something from my website and it was a magazine that wanted to publish one of my photos. I gave them permission and they even sent me a copy of the magazine it was in. Other than that, it's take

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread William H. Boswell
It sounds like me. If I download from a tree, I only take the pertinent information by copying and pasting directly from the page to a text file with a note as to where it came from. Other people's trees are highly suspect if there are no sources. No sources usually equals it was taken from

[LegacyUG] Genealogy Pirates

2009-11-03 Thread Mary Horner
Jenny said 'I really don't care if people want to pirate any data I put on line. ' The problem is Jenny; I was trying to find the connection between Canada and Ireland. There is one person who is very active on the message boards when I do searches for my direct line surname. I have discovered

Re: [LegacyUG] Cal vs. Ber Issue - Legacy Programmers

2009-11-03 Thread Kay Fordham
Brian, Thanks, using the reset button appears to work. However, I now see another problem. After resetting to English, I changed the language on a FGS to French. The screen shows ber 10 August 1937. Ber is an abbreviation for the German word for calculated. - berechnet. The French word for

[LegacyUG] PURPOSE OF USER-FORUMS ?

2009-11-03 Thread ...
Thanks Ron - I'll take a look at the terms. You choose not to discuss it here, but others first brought up their experiences with Ancestry.com as it related to uploads or downloads. But I hope this user forum for Legacy is not so narrow as to disallow a related genealogy subject. Plus -

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread William H. Boswell
That's why I prefer to not use any information obtained online. It's good for reference or clues, but that's about it. I always look for an alternative. Even Ancestry.com has transcribed information with no images available. How do I know the transcriber/software didn't make a mistake? I've

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread Ron Ferguson
Jerry, You need to read Ancestry's terms and conditions, which are not hidden away, on their site. When uploading you agree to them, so they do nothing without the user's consent. Whether they should, or should not, accept ownership is a different question, and this is a Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread ...
Hi, I'm a new person back using this forum and recently updated to Legacy 7. One of my genealogy friends said, that the reason she did not share her hard-owned information with Ancestry.com, that she had researched over the years, was because their fine prints states that they own the

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread William H. Boswell
I think you misunderstood my stance on this. I'm not talking about vital record data and the like. I'm talking about specific information that no one else had access to. For instance, I have hundreds of hours of audio interviews where specific information was transcribed and passages used in my

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread William H. Boswell
You should be able to download from your Ancestry.com tree to a GEDCOM. While I've never first posted to Ancestry.com trees then downloaded to a GEDCOM I can only assume it's the same as exporting from Family Tree Maker to a GEDCOM. I'm still cleaning up my Legacy data from an FTM 2009 GEDCOM

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread CE Wood
When you upload to a website that warns that IT now owns your material, you have given away your ownership. It is then is up to Ancestry to pursue. CE -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Tuesday,

RE: [LegacyUG] Advanced Tagging

2009-11-03 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I love it! The standard BING/Virtual-Earth mapping feature is in the deluxe edition and the advanced tagging feature is in the standard edition. :-) Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Evert van Dijken [mailto:evandij...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:08 AM To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mary Horner wrote I have just linked onto Ancestry.ca for my first 14-day trial. Is there an easy way to download the data there directly into my legacy tree? I spent hours entering and sourcing 3 marriages and I have piles to do. Then in frustration I created a mini tree on Ancestry and with

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread WALTER D. CONNER
I agree completely with the statement below, not because I don't want to share my work but because I do not believe Ancestry has a right to claim and then sell my info to someone else. Walt Conner One of my genealogy friends said, that the reason she did not share her hard-owned information

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread Ron Ferguson
Brian, Whilst you are correct in saying that data cannot be copyrighted, images can, and the Ancestry images are copyright, indeed those relating to the UK are Crown Copyright and may not be reproduced without the consent of the appropriate authorities. Arguably their indexes are copyright

RE: [LegacyUG] Genealogy Pirates

2009-11-03 Thread William H. Boswell
That's the problem I've had with Ancestry.com searches. They'd turn up not only old information I posted to Rootsweb ten years ago, but my same people connected erroneously to their families when I knew they were not. I know many people have good intentions posting their information to internet

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread Mary Horner
Bill, thanks for the comments but can you translate into simple stupid for me. I would like to get the data off Ancestry as simply as possible for me. I am a two-finger typist, struggling with sourcing, clipboards etc. It literally can take me a day to enter a handful of Marriage registrations. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread linda chapman
Hi I have my tree on Ancestry, Genes and Tribal Pages with over 4000 names in it, but not one source. They have been created this way for three reasons. Firstly, when you send a gedcom, there is only one certainty, and that is that some of the sources will be missing, so I would rather have

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread Mike Fry
Mary Horner wrote: Bill, thanks for the comments but can you translate into simple stupid for me. I would like to get the data off Ancestry as simply as possible for me. I am a two-finger typist, struggling with sourcing, clipboards etc. It literally can take me a day to enter a handful of

RE: [LegacyUG] How to export/import

2009-11-03 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I need to ask a question concerning your semantics involved with your questions. I've talked with others before and sometimes they get Ancestry Family Trees mixed up with Ancestry's RootsWeb. They are two completely difference services, one is fee based and the other is free. Legacy has a file

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread William H. Boswell
I totally agree with you and commend you for that. It should be that way (all your points). I've thoroughly researched everyone in my data several times and I've gone back about as far as I can go. There are some distant lines that still need work, but they are so distant that it would be

Re: [LegacyUG] Cal vs. Ber Issue - Legacy Programmers

2009-11-03 Thread Brian/Support
Kay, The .trn files which are used for translating chart reports were fixed in August so they are included in the newest version. What you may be seeing however is a problem with the report.usr files. If you have the ber problem after changing languages use the reset button on the report

Re: [LegacyUG] Genealogy Pirates

2009-11-03 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mary Horner wrote The problem is Jenny; I was trying to find the connection between Canada and Ireland. There is one person who is very active on the message boards when I do searches for my direct line surname. I have discovered that he pirates others' information and plugs it into his

Re: [LegacyUG] How to export/import

2009-11-03 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mary Horner wrote When I go to Ancestry.ca and click on 'File' on the toolbar at the top of the page Import it says 'How do you want to import or export your browser settings?' This doesn't seem like the right set of options. I think I must be missing the toolbar for the Ancestry site.

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread William H. Boswell
I think you're directing this to the person that asked about uploading to Ancestry.com under their terms and conditions. Mine was uploaded to Rootsweb's Freepages prior to the Ancestry.com takeover which came under different terms and conditions that did not state anything like this. I removed

RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy

2009-11-03 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I agree with Jenny on this. I could care less how many people copy verbatim the information and dialog found within my family file. I have many photographs supplied by others on my web site but I always include Photo Courtesy of ... But just one additional point for William: your data does not

Re: [LegacyUG] PURPOSE OF USER-FORUMS ?

2009-11-03 Thread Gene Young
... wrote: Thanks Ron - I'll take a look at the terms. You choose not to discuss it here, but others first brought up their experiences with Ancestry.com as it related to uploads or downloads. But I hope this user forum for Legacy is not so narrow as to disallow a related genealogy

RE: [LegacyUG] PURPOSE OF USER-FORUMS ?

2009-11-03 Thread Mary Horner
I believe that I was the initial poster who started the contested thread that generated this post. According to the guidelines: I am a new user of Legacy (paid deluxe plus learning tapes) and I was seeking help with respect to Legacy add-ons, namely the hows and safety of linking to Ancestry which

Re: [LegacyUG] PURPOSE OF USER-FORUMS ?

2009-11-03 Thread ...
Bravo Mary! If they want us new folks, they better treat us nice! Jerry :-) Mary Horner wrote: I believe that I was the initial poster who started the contested thread that generated this post. According to the guidelines: I am a new user of Legacy (paid deluxe plus learning tapes) and I was