Re: [LegacyUG] individual event screen

2006-06-25 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
from floating around. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup

Re: [LegacyUG] LUG messages out of order

2006-07-03 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Dean Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 12:39 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] LUG messages out of order I haven't had any problems receiving LUG messages, except I have noticed

[LegacyUG] Separate file of a local area

2006-08-05 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Name=m_1828-01-27.jpg, Caption=m_1828-01-27, Date= The unreferenced picture file was linked to a source citation. Picture Name=m_1828-01-27.jpg, Caption=m_1828-01-27, Date= snip = Richard Van Wasshnova Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http

Re: [LegacyUG] Weird Date Problem

2006-08-05 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Nancy, I get almost identical problem for any year; Using 2006 is easiest to do: Jan 1 = 05 Aug 2006 Feb 1 = 02 Jan 2006 Mar 1 = 03 Jan 2006 Apr 1 = 04 Jan 2006 May 1 = 05 Jan 2006 Jan 2 = 01 Feb 2006 Under Options Dates I have selected dates displayed as 21 Jan 1953 Input format

Re: [LegacyUG] Charting error with FTM (was Which charting program?)

2006-08-06 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Rob When any gen program exports to gedcom it always fills in the blank RINs so that the # of Individuals in the file is equal to the highest RIN. Right now Legacy says I have 26703 individuals, (Legacy home page statistics), but looking at the name list - RIN -LAST I see 26766 is last RIN and

Re: [LegacyUG] Separate file of a local area

2006-08-10 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Richard Van Wasshnova wrote: I export from my main file all persons who would be found

[LegacyUG] Godfather / Godmother event

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
in that event. If I act as Godfather for someone it is an event in my life. Thanks for any ideas. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our

Re: [LegacyUG] Event Definition Timeline Sharing

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Keith, Very good suggestion - sharing. I have added Birth Witness, Marriage Witnessand Death Witness for civil BMD registrations. I just now realized the birth / death should be reworded to Birth Registration Witness and Death Registration Witness. Richard Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] Godfather / Godmother event

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm inclined to favor creating new event catagories. I've mainly been concerned with how it looks on my edit Individual screen as a chronological timeline. Fixing the bad grammar on prose reports is so far just an item on my todo list. I noticed the Legacy Godfather /

[LegacyUG] IntelliShare merge message

2006-11-01 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Whenever I do an IntelliShare merge, at completion, I get asked if I want to view the log of the merge. This log always looks about the same, in the most recent case: There are 962 individuals with a modified date that is before the start of this IntelliShare merge process. There follows a

Re: [LegacyUG] IntelliShare merge message

2006-11-02 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: Richard Van Wasshnova [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] IntelliShare

[LegacyUG] Bug in merge log

2006-11-05 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
help. Richard Van Wasshnova (proposed) Bug in merge log Whenever I complete an IntelliShare merge a popup message appears: Messages displayed about not automerging of Intellishare matched individuals were recorded in a log file. Would you like to view the 'Merge log' file? . I would expect

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashes

2006-12-03 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I sure fell sorry for anyone on the list on dial-up who had to endure a 6.2MB attachment. - Original Message - From: RoadRoy To: Henry T. Peterson Jr. Cc: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 5:47 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashes

Re: [LegacyUG] Indicating ancestors by colour

2006-12-09 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I wondered why I suddenly started seeing ancestor colors with vers 117 118. I had done everything EXCEPT Options Customise. Thanks Cathy for solving the mystery. - Original Message - From: Cathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, December

Re: [LegacyUG] still problem with relationship calculator

2006-12-13 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
MessageDonna, Sometimes a refresh of TOOLS / SET RELATIONSHIPS is needed. I don't really expect it to work for you since when you gave the unknown a fake name it fixed the relationship until you changed it back to unknown, right? Richard - Original Message - From: Donna

[LegacyUG] Problem with Backup To Existing Family File

2006-12-26 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
in the missing Individual I could backup to an existing file and after deleting the dummy I could not again. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Legacy.asp or call 1-800

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship calculator wrong...v6.0.0.117

2007-01-10 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Why aren't you at v6.0.0.118? Wasn't this update primarily to fix the 1/2 sibling relationship problem? Richard - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:08 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationship calculator

[LegacyUG] Re: recalculating relationships, was Ancestor Color coding

2007-01-11 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
to son S, that is make S a new ancestor. S will be identified as GG...father but H, W and D will not be marked as related. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent

[LegacyUG] Finding multiple parents

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi, Does anyone know of a way to find individuals with multiple sets of parents such as one bio plus one adoptive or any other way? A solution using Access would be great. It would probably take me close to an hour to do an Access solution if I had to. Thanks, = Richard Van

Re: [LegacyUG] Finding multiple parents

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Melanie, That wasn't exactly what I was looking for but in the process of following your direction I found the answer under Search / Misc Searches / Individuals with Multiple Parents. Thank you for leading me into the right ballpark. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA

Re: [LegacyUG] Excel into Text of Source?

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Rob, Why not attach it as a pseudo Sound file to the master source. Then when you click on the icon it loads the file in Ecxcel. = Richard Van Wasshnova - Original Message - From: Rob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday

[LegacyUG] runtime error 6

2007-01-23 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http

Re: [LegacyUG] runtime error 6

2007-01-24 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Individuals. (I originally could get 16,419 Individuals). = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Evert van Dijken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:13 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] runtime

Re: [LegacyUG] runtime error 6

2007-01-24 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Thank you for confirming the problem. Sorry the attempt caused new problems. Perhaps you could try deleting the file C:\Legacy\grid.usr as Evert suggested. It should not hurt as a new one will be created. I did not get the problem you describe. = Richard Van Wasshnova

Re: [LegacyUG] runtime error 6

2007-01-24 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Sherry, Deleting grid.usr did almost nothing for me. Waiting to see what comes of Glenna's new problem. For myself I can get the report using Access2000 so it is not a great concern to me. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Sherry

Re: [LegacyUG] runtime error 6

2007-01-25 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
upgrading the file to v build 118 and again get runtime error 6. Thank you for the suggestion anyway. = Richard Van Wasshnova - Original Message - From: Sherry/Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:24 PM

[LegacyUG] Using Access with Legacy

2007-02-03 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
)) ORDER BY tblIR.IDIR, tblBR.PicOrder; = Richard Van Wasshnova Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User

Re: [LegacyUG] Exporting to Excel, Outlook

2007-02-04 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Sally, If you have MS Access or some other database program you could use it to open YourFile.fdb then open tblAR and export it to Excel spreadsheet or CSV or TXT. Richard - Original Message - From: sally macias To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, February 04,

Re: [LegacyUG] photos of documents for sources

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Not only does it deteriorate, it often grows larger. If you save (from Tif) to jpg to make it smaller, then decide it should be smaller still, resaving the jpg with more compression or with lower resolution will often make a larger file size with less quality. Richard - Original Message

[LegacyUG] Filling in the gaps in RINs

2007-02-13 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
There is a very easy way to fill in gaps in RIN #s. The Legacy Home Statistics will give you the total Individuals in your db. If you look in Name List sorted by RIN # and click Last to find highest RIN used and it is much higher than total Individuals just tag all with higher RIN than total

Re: [LegacyUG] Intellishare ID

2007-02-13 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
The Intellishare # is 32 characters long, each character has 36 alphanumeric possibilities. It is randomly generated when you create a new record. Intellishare works it's miracle merge if you give your database to a cousin or any other relative and when the other person has modified or added

Re: [LegacyUG] photos of documents for sources

2007-02-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Allen, You can attach PDF, (or HTM, and various other document types), as either Sound or Video. It is a klunky workaround but the Sound icon could be replaced to make it look less inappropriate. An added advantage of doing it this way, it opens in a non-Legacy program so you can multitask

Re: [LegacyUG] Direct Line Ancestor not bold

2007-02-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
When you view him as Husband in Family View does he show as 3rd Great Grandfather? Is he bold as Child in his parents family? Richard - Original Message - From: Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:34 AM

Re: [LegacyUG] Intellishare ID- Correction

2007-02-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Excuse me, I goofed. I said the Intellishare was made up of Alphanumeric with 36 possible characters. Your questions here prompted me to take a good look. It is actually hexadecimal thus 16 possible characters rather than 36. The Legacy program shows 32 hex digits long, (16 to 32nd power

Re: [LegacyUG] Filling in the gaps in RINs

2007-02-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Cathy, Actually it sounds like it should work the same way but I've always been afraid to try it. I have Legacy Deluxe and have noticed the Renumber RIN feature. If RIN # 100 and 200 ware vacant would that procedure renumber only the 2 highest RINS into those missing slots? In PAF I once

[LegacyUG] still a problem with dynamic relationship calculator

2007-03-10 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I'm not sure if anyone has reported a minor problem with dynamic relationship calculating. When adding a new child to a family his relationship to me is automatically calculated. If the child's father is 1C7R and mother is 4GGAunt the child is reported as 2C6R but after doing Tools/Set

[LegacyUG] Set Living = No for anyone married before 1905

2007-03-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
If you have a marriage date but no birth, bapt, death or burial date you can easily mark as not living anyone born over 120 years ago. (If they were born 1886 and married at 18 bef 1905 they would be age 120 now which is Legacy default max living age). Click the Search button on the toolbar

Re: [LegacyUG] exporting made more people or found missing persons

2007-03-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Dee, I'm pretty sure your extra persons in your new file were actually 2 missing persons from your original file. I suspect two individuals named unknown was not getting tallied by Legacy in original but are counted in the new file. In (New File) Name List type Unknown in Given, Does any

Re: [LegacyUG] Keeping track of Costs

2007-03-25 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Have you figured a way to use it as tax deduction? Richard - Original Message - From: Natalie Chopey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 2:15 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Keeping track of Costs I spend a lot of money obtaining copies of

[LegacyUG] Removing duplicate source citations

2007-03-26 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Is there any easy way to remove duplicate source citations either with Legacy or by using MS Access? I love the intellimerge feature to sync desktop and laptop data however I once did it carelessly. On the desktop I changed some Source list names to group all FHC films together. When I merged

Re: [LegacyUG] Removing duplicate source citations

2007-03-26 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Susan, Yes, that is exactly what I did. As I said, that was my 2nd mistake. If you do a source citation and attach a jpg for a birth event then copy it to the source clipboard you can then paste the whole thing to the baptism event. Legacy will not let you paste the identical source twice to

Re: [LegacyUG] Removing duplicate source citations

2007-03-26 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Cathy, I did your method on the smallest source, about 50 citations. I do hope I have only 2 more to do. Thanks Richard - Original Message - From: Cathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] HELP! duplicate multimedias

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Go to VIEW /MASTER LISTS / PICTURE LOCATIONS. Print list. See which locations you set yourself. Delete the locatons set by other program. Richard - Original Message - From: WebMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [LegacyUG] HELP! duplicate multimedias

2007-06-13 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
. ANYTHING would be better than just trying to search through every one of some 24,000 names! I'm so irritated this other software did this! It has wreaked havoc on our database! :( Thx! Lisa Quoting Richard Van Wasshnova [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Go to VIEW /MASTER LISTS / PICTURE LOCATIONS. Print list

Re: [LegacyUG] HELP! duplicate multimedias

2007-06-15 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
doesn't apply to your case. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: WebMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] HELP! duplicate multimedias Richard, It sounds like

[LegacyUG] delete master records

2007-06-18 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Help please! I tagged everyony in my main db who use one master source. I exported all tagged to a Temp Legacy file. I want to purge the Temp of all but the one master source. Legacy doesn't seem to allow me to do this. Help appreciated. Richard Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy?

Re: [LegacyUG] delete master records

2007-06-18 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
the references throughout your database. 2. If you are trying to delete People, that is a different problem. Leon Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/18/07, Richard Van Wasshnova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help please! I tagged everyony in my main db who use one master source. I exported all tagged to a Temp

Re: [LegacyUG] delete master records

2007-06-18 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
will be assigned that new Master Source. Susan Daily On 6/18/07, Richard Van Wasshnova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help please! I tagged everyony in my main db who use one master source. I exported all tagged to a Temp Legacy file. I want to purge the Temp of all but the one master source. Legacy doesn't seem

Re: [LegacyUG] delete master records

2007-06-18 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Cary, I too have been importing with the Master source such a Baden, Belgium and Lorraine(France). I always thought it was an improper use of Source but just an easy way to separate them off by where they Immigrated from. I always thought I could easily delete this Location as a source per

Re: [LegacyUG] delete master records

2007-06-18 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I used Access to delete unwanted source(s) from tblSR. This, however left me with all source detail on no source. Fortunately Legacy's File Maintenance / Check Repair removed the orphaned source detail. Cory this should work for you too. Thanks to all for suggestions - all OK now. Richard -

Re: [LegacyUG] delete master records

2007-06-18 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Carl and Cathy, Thanks for cluing me in to follow to the next step to complete the deletion. I had already taken care of this one but will probably do again for other LDS films as well and let Legacy do it that way. The Source Citation Report is useful but I'm looking at it as a spreadsheet

Re: [LegacyUG] HELP! duplicate multimedias

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Lisa, I had tried Dennis' delete query before on a small file made to simulate your dupes and it worked great but I wanted to be sure it would do no harm so I tried it on my main db (a copy) hoping it would do nothing since I didn't have your problem. It showed me 19 picture files it wanted to

Re: [LegacyUG] To Do List - Master Source Deletion Issue.

2007-06-27 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
citations to the ghost MRIN or I can remove the marriage link. Have you tried File Maintenence / Master Lists Cleanup and under remove abandoned info tick To Do Categories? good luck = Richard Van Wasshnova - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big

2007-07-21 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Natasha Your email post was 79kb due to the html and the cutesy animation. This is much larger than typical postings in plain text. Your pictures should be in compressed jpg. Richard From: Natasha Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007/07/20 Fri PM 09:22:06 CDT To:

Re: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big

2007-07-22 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
If you use Access 2000 you could do a simple search and replace .bmp to .jpg. You could also do search and replace using a text editor on a GEDcom file. This way you would still have only one picture (now jpg). Either way do so on a copy of your program and check results carefully. Richard

Re: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big

2007-07-23 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
is what the original poster needed to do. I just did a test and converted a 1.6 MB BMP file to a 368 KB JPG at the 100% setting, and to 42.8 KB at the 50% setting. Gary Templeman - Original Message - From: Richard Van Wasshnova To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, July 22

Re: [LegacyUG] Sneak Peek of Legacy 7

2007-08-01 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Give me top posting too, anyday. Nothing I hate worse than scrolling down through a mile of rehash looking for something new, then not finding anything. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [LegacyUG] New General Release Build - 28 Jul 2007 - ver 6.0.0.155

2007-08-07 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Get Real. It takes 5 seconds. Much less than all the time you've spent complaining about it. = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Mike Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 3:38 PM

Re: [LegacyUG] New General Release Build - 28 Jul 2007 - ver 6.0.0.155

2007-08-07 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Thank you Jim. I regretted the tone of my message after I sent it. My apologys to the group. I also wondered after I sent it if perhaps earlier versions (than XP) of windows worked differently regarding remembering the variable size settings at last exit. - Original Message - From: Jim

Re: [LegacyUG] County Didn't Exist Then

2007-08-07 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: William Range To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:06 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] County Didn't Exist Then When you are entering a place and the window County Didn't Exist Then pops up, what do

[LegacyUG] Child status menu is blank

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
in which all blank selections are tagged. If I click on Show list it shows me all the twins in my db. Would appreciate if someone could verify if this is a new bug or something wrong with my file. Thanks = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA Have you unlocked the real power

Re: [LegacyUG] Child status menu is blank

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
. Temp file is 52.6MB?? After check/repair it dropped to 41.1MB. I guess all my special Access querys are out. Check/repair didn't help on the original file. Thanks very much Phil and Ron = Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Child status menu is blank

2007-08-16 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
after doing a Check/Repair. Cathy Thanks for the suggestions. = Richard Van Wasshnova Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com

[LegacyUG] please forgive my HTML (was OT but pertinent IMHO)

2007-08-18 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
setting to prevent sendig HTML when replying to same. -- Richard Van Wasshnova - Original Message - From: Yvonne Murgatroyd To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] OT but pertinent IMHO Cathy, I agree

Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put age at death

2007-08-18 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Mine always shows, doesn't toggle off. That's the way I like it but just curious about toggling. -- Richard - Original Message - From: Mike Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put age

Re: [LegacyUG] Where see age at death, years since birth

2007-08-19 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
: [LegacyUG] Where to put age at death Richard Van Wasshnova wrote On Individual screen of a deceased person the age at death is always dispayed. Hovering on the number tells me it is age at death or age at burial. Right or left clicking there does nothing for me it continues to be displayed. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Misc Papers Sourcing

2007-08-19 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Sorry to be a nit picker but Julie created a new topic in rich text format, not plain text. David replied in the same format, (probably slaved to the format of original message). I am not complainig, just a suggestion to all who reply to check for plain text format. I think you would want to

Re: [LegacyUG] 5 lines of text on family view....how?

2007-08-19 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
all of Diana's message but converted to plain text, (size only 4KB), which is easier to read, takes less archive storage and people in remote areas on dialup really appreciate reduced download time. I truly hope no-one takes offence to these comments. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA

Re: [LegacyUG] please forgive my HTML

2007-08-22 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
that says Send EMail in the format in which it was received then you will always send Plain text even when you reply to those who insist on originating emails in RTF. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features

[LegacyUG] Hijacking subject Re: Gedcom Export

2007-09-15 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I believe Tom set a record @ 28KB file size on this list. Not complaining, just curious. what made it so big? HTML, small hi density fonts? Only 2 colors, Only 4 or 5 font styles. I'm not trimming anything but reply in plain text to compare file size. Richard - Original Message -

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 5 thoughts for Legacy team

2007-09-15 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
the edit indiv screen. Your #3 problem does not seem to be evident in V6. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Robert57P via Gmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy 5 thoughts for Legacy team I assume the Legacy programming team monitors this UG

Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage Status

2007-10-07 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Thad, Partners Unmarried are not Legacy originated. Annulled, Common Law, Divorced, Married, Other, Separated, Unmarried are Legacy original. There should be no problem using self created statuses. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: TH [EMAIL

[LegacyUG] Restore multimedia files

2007-10-12 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
download. Emphasis on Free. As I said in the email a few minutes ago, I now have it sort of working. He means he can locate a source document in a very roundabout way. Not the way Legacy works. How can I get him to unzip to location I tell him? -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA

Re: [LegacyUG] Restore multimedia files

2007-10-13 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
a link to a good zip utility. My cousin is away a few days. I have to break up multimedia into several smaller files to email so I need to get him to unzip to proper place. Bob's tip to control his computer is not for me but thanks for the suggestion. Thanks, -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach

[LegacyUG] tagged locations

2007-11-19 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
. The Locations is a very long list so Legacy should add a Show only tagged button to it. Otherwise I see no reason to have tags. I wrote an Access query to show only tagged. Anyone know how to use these tags in Legacy? -- Richard Van Wasshnova Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http

Re: [LegacyUG] tagged locations

2007-11-21 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
in Legacy? -- Richard Van Wasshnova Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support

Re: [LegacyUG] IntelliShare

2007-11-25 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
or both collaborators has their multimedia in My Documents the multimedia will not merge but will duplicate. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Plain Text vs. Rich Text

2007-11-25 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
1. In you address book Go to Legacy user group. Under Name at bottom tic Send E-Mail using plain text only. 2. Under Sending: Untic Reply to Messages using the format in which they were sent 3. Under Mail Sending format tic Plain Text Step 1 will generate a new message to Legacy in Plain

Re: [LegacyUG] Plain Text vs. Rich Text

2007-11-25 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Pat, What are you settings? Richard - Original Message - From: Pat Jones To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Plain Text vs. Rich Text What email program are you using? Pat Give Legacy as a Gift for 25%

Re: [LegacyUG] Old Issue with Unwanted Punctuation (Period)

2007-11-29 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I agree with you Tom. Since the Unwanted Punctuation (Period) problem has been fixed and the original complainant still doesn't want to bother to download the update it must be trivial. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Thomas Herson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [LegacyUG] mrin search

2007-12-17 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I am using V.155 and I get a good list of individuals. MRIN less than 5; get 8 individuals. MRIN less than 6; get 10 individuals. MRIN less than 11; get 20 individuals. MRIN less than 100; get big list, guessing about 198 individuals. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original

[LegacyUG] Re: Posting in Plain Text

2008-01-10 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Donna, Your reply was in rtf. One giveaway is the size (14KB). I know I should trim from previous posts but in this case I will not to show my plain text shrinking msg size with no trimming. Since you are using MS Outlook 10, (I use OE) I can't give you specific instructions but there is a

Re: [LegacyUG] Child status in index view

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
add that tag to display in Index View. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Johnny V To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 6:03 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Child status in index view Is there a way to get the child status

Re: [LegacyUG] Large Files Size of Files and Plain text

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I think in this case Thomas meant he LAUGHS OUT LOUD at our concerns about plain text and file size. Richard - Original Message - From: Wendy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Large Files

Re: [LegacyUG] Return Receipts

2008-01-13 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
server can't do this but they request we co-operate by self control. Legacy gives us an excellent product value for the money. I wouldn't want them to overspend on a server if they had to pass on the costs to us users. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From

Re: [LegacyUG] Share or copy sources between Family files

2008-01-13 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
luck -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Carl Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Share or copy sources between Family files I'm researching two family lines, so I

Re: [LegacyUG] Does anyone???

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
with the attachement so shame on the list server for putting it through but it is in the ettiquet guidelines so I hear. I don't necessarily read them all myself. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Susan Perrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Automatically create AKA for married women

2008-02-11 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
use for going to all that work? -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: William Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had a look at the legacy tables in MS Access. Table tbIMR includes the following fields WifeSurname WifeGivenName WifeMarrSurname It's the last

Re: [LegacyUG] Navigation in the family view

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Cathy, I have a dozen or so families where 2 or 3 siblings are bold, being in direct line. When you get far back one sibling could be 8th Great-Grandparent and another 9th or 10th Great-Grandparent. In one case ... Oh! But that calls for a new subject. See: Relationship Indicator

[LegacyUG] Relationship Indicator problem

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
A couple years back I noticed a Relationship Indicator problem (or not). I showed a 9th Great-Grandfather in Family View. When I clicked on his parents I got a 8th Great-Granduncle married to a 10th Great-Grandmother. The 8th Great-Granduncle was also a 10th Great-Grandfather but his brother

[LegacyUG] Alternate Names

2008-03-01 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
). More often I would have them with a compound Given name Elizabeth Isabelle and compound Surnames Garnier Grenier. Where can I find alternate names in Access? Thanks -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp

Re: [LegacyUG] Alternate Names

2008-03-01 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Thank you Susan and Wendy for the helpful suggestions regarding my first question. I think I will add married names to women married after about 1850. In earlier times under French-Canadian and German customs women kept their maiden names. Would a Mrs prefix be appropriate with married names?

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a new source, using an old one

2008-03-02 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I would also combine to one source but if you insist: From View / Master Lists / Source select the existing part 1, Edit / Change part 1 to part 2 / Save / nest select option #2 (Apply changes to a NEW copy). Now you have 2 sources part 1 and part 2. Richard - Original Message -

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Formats? Totally confused!!

2008-03-04 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Gary you are so right. I have Heritage Quest at home to copy and link to Legacy census source. Trouble is HQ is not too well indexed so some people are not found in index. I can drive 10 minutes to library to access Ancestry. Ancestry index is better at finding people. I get 45 minutes on

Re: Mom re [LegacyUG] Email number

2008-04-01 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Thankfully LUG doesn't have a digest mode. Mail filtering has been covered here and works better. On groups that allow digests people reply with meaningless subject like Re: digest # 657 Richard - Original Message - From: Shirl To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [LegacyUG] Finding placenames and associated family files

2008-04-10 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
View / Master Lists / Locations / In the Find data entry box start typing in the city. When you find it, check for adjacent similar versions, Click on the radio button Show List Good luck -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Meg Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [LegacyUG] children's list showing spouses (was Siblings)

2008-04-13 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
What you describe is consistent for me. If cursor stops on a child I first get small spouse list momentarily, then the second larger box. If I then move cursor slightly within the child box the first box reappears along with the second box. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA June

Re: [LegacyUG] Residence vs Census -print reports choosing only one

2008-04-14 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Jane, Master events are the 4 primary events: Birth, Christening (or baptism), Death Burial. -- Richard Van Wasshnova - Original Message - From: Trippsibs5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG

[LegacyUG] Restore multimedia zip file

2008-04-19 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
created there. -- Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp

Re: [LegacyUG] Restore multimedia zip file

2008-04-19 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply. Regarding ZipGenius: A cousin has ZipGenius and when I sent him a zip multimedia to go with a zip backup that he restored on his, I instructed him to copy both zip files to C:\Legacy\data. I told him to Extract multimedia to C: but it seems ZipGenius can only

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