Don't really know how to handle divorces in Charting, I handled mine in
Court :-).
Glad to say I have my new address up and running.
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Can we get it perfectly clear that Legacy Charting *will* display half kids
if they are entered correctly into Legacy, in the same way that the other
programs which you quote do. And in the same way incertain circumstances may
actually appear twice, in, say, descendant reports, once as the
Thank you Brett, I will have a look at that - I was using Hotmail but have
now dumped it.
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That sounds about right. The time to upload obviously varies with the speed
of your internet connection and always the upload speed is a lot less than
the download speed.
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/adopted/foster etc.
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Mary
Mary,
Have a look at your MRIN (ViewMarriages) and check that you haven't ghost
marriges for the family - if so then delete them.
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Brian,
Michele's speed seems to be about the same as mine with an Intel Celeron
2.4GHz.
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Mary,
If you would like to send me your back-up file (not the multi media)
*Off-List*, I will be happy to take a look at it.
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Brian,
Absolutely correct, but Brian (Legacy) aked for the CPU and it's speed
because that does affect how long it takes to create the Legacy webpages.
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you know
exactly what you are doing.
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There is a serious error in my last post. The last sentence should read: I
recommend that you do *not* follow this advice unless you know exactly what you
are doing.
My apologies.
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Bill,
Have you done as suggested by others and loaded your GEDCOM, as recommended,
into a new Legacy file before merging it into your main Legacy DB?
Whilst I have never needed to load a large an FTM generated GEDCOM into Legacy,
I do know that those who have recommend this practice.
Ron
Will my genealogy do instead, Brian :-)
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buying anything
faster. I currently have 8MB, but it only operates at 6MB. I was warned by
my ISP that this would be the case before I signed the contract.
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Mary,
My tiscali address is in the header to this email. Right click on my name in
you email reader and select properties. It is usually also in brackets
after the k...@legacyusers... in the From field in my email.
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an select add and
add a sister. This method should always be used when adding a child to a
couple.
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Lloyd,
At the bottom of your, mine and every other email, and under the Legacy Home
tab there is a link on line technical help. Just click it and select
error by number.
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examples of the formats causing problems, so that we me test them for
ourselves.
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in the Death
Notes to say Died in infancy.
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something?
Pat,
No, you are not missing anything, it is a choice of one or the other.
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to live
with. Lloyd
In a message dated 9/25/2009 5:53:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk writes:
Lloyd,
At the bottom of your, mine and every other email, and under the
Legacy Home tab there is a link on line technical help. Just click
it and select error by number.
Ron Ferguson
Rita,
For the avoidance of future problems it is best to treat only dates as
dates, and notes as notes. But it is your choice.
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Yes, in my reply to your first post that is exactly what I meant by
appearing twice. She does, correctly, have two sets of parents even if one
of the individual parents is duplicated.
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your wife's previous marriage, and once as your daughter. This is standard
for all such relationships. Check also in the marriage list that you are not
left with a ghost marriage to an unknown.
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Jane,
You have entered her married name in the AKAs and in whatever report your
are using you have opted to show AKAs. It is your choice as to which you
wish to change.
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answer I would like to know myself.
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, it was around 1960 that in
England the age of majority was reduced from 21years to 18years - I cannot
remember whether it was before or after my 21st!
BTW. attachments are not allowed on this list, out of consideration for
people on dial-up and the risk of viruses (see the guide lines).
Ron Ferguson
am very uncertain as to whether it will be possible for us to reproduce
this, if it is dependant on a specific combination of settings - unless we
are lucky.
Sorry that I seem to be so pessimistic, but without being able to reproduce
it I have little to suggest.
Ron Ferguson
. This may, of course, be
simply due to the length of my 'natural line length' being different to
yours, and that (obviously) I cannot tell.
I will have another look tomorrow, as it is now very late here (or early
morning if you wish).
Ron Ferguson
fields.
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Jenny M Benson wrote:
Ron Ferguson wrote
I am unable to reproduce this but there are so many settings for the
report that mine may well be different to yours.
It's probably not much comfort to the OP, but I *have* been able to
reproduce this.
It seemed to start at the Fifth Generation. I
Ken,
The bug has been recorded by Legacy and it is now in their hands to put it
right. There really is nothing else that we can do now, except hope!
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Ruth,
It does not matter what you call your File IDs you cannot what you wish from
within Legacy.
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:-)
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individual and click the books. Highlight the
Source and click Remove.
Or if you mean to get rid of the sources altogether go to ViewMaster
Listssources and delete as required.
I strongly recommend that you back-up before doing this in case it does not
give the result which you are looking for.
Ron
Mary Beth,
Which Version of Legacy are you referring to?
In version 7 you can, but having looked at my post I should have written go
to ViewMaster SourceShow List and delete.
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that you should follow my practice, but I am simply
giving an illustration of one different way of doing things. As others have
said, the choice is yours.
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this morning.
Peter W. Wielhouwer, Ph.D.
Mattawan, Michigan, USA
pwielhou...@comcast.net
Peter,
This first thing to check is, of course, the date on your computer.
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Rita,
SearchFindDetailed search.
then:
1st Row: Individual, Birth Date, Equal to, leave the last field blank.
AND
2nd Row: Individual, Living, Equal to, Yes.
BTW. the advanced set living does work as I stated in my post.
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Which would probably explain why you do not know that, with the exception of
the old style source to source writer converter, everything which they said
would be there is, and why you will never know the advantages of V7.
Naturally you are, of course, quite welcome to go your own way.
Ron
No problem Gene,
Remember also that there is the WUL Group which is set up for that purpose
at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/WUL/ where a number of experienced users
can contributed.
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There is not to my knowledge a convenient way of making a transfer.
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to think of it as downloading and installing a program, but
with a much slower connection speed.
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the parent, and if
both were used by the same person then I used the AKAs.
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Jane,
You can try SearchSearch and Replace and set it so that you have to approve
each change.
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, such as Occupation, Emigration etc. in which case I use the source to
Source the Event and not the name.
I apply the same way of working to all records. I do prioritise according to
reliability, and also use my assessment of the Surety Level.
Ron Ferguson
Judy,
It works OK for me. On the Ancestry Report screen you will see a botton on
the bottom right called Reset, click that and the set you settings as you
wish and see if that cures the problem.
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that I could delete a name and on
entering a new one it would take the place of the one which I had deleted.
In itself that is not a problem, but it certainly becomes one when using
other software to look for changes in files.
Ron Ferguson
Jane,
They appear as you have them in your database. If you wish the AKAs to
appear then set you report parameters accordingly.
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Kirsten Bowman wrote:
Confessions of a sinner . . .
I've been an advocate of a rather cavalier approach to use of
Legacy's source templates, primarily by putting data in any field
you wish (regardless of field name) as long as the resulting
citation format is what you want. Now that's come
use AKAs.
In your case I would not use Daniel as an AKA either, I would put it in a
note to say that the family name was Daniels.
This is only *my* way of working, and I have not changed it :-).
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that the
Reset button does not correct this.
I must be getting tired! Yes, you need to report this as a bug, as Jenny (I
think) suggested - (Legacy Home Tab, bottom right)
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as the focus and click the parents icon, select
Link to Exisiting Parents and link Emily to them. Repeat with Emily's
sister.
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You can't beat a good cringe!
Don't forget that in V7 one can search the Source Citations for eg. contains
Alabama (SeachFindDetailed Search).
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Jim,
To clarify, as far as I know citation is synonimous with Source Detail
in this conext, so it only looks at the Source Detail. There is a separate
search for Master Sources. I suggest you just give it a try with a few of
your sources - you won't break anything ;-).
Ron Ferguson
the replies that I probably can't!
I think CE is right
Regards
Alastair
Alastair,
Just out of interest, if you are not showing where people lived as an Event,
then just how are you showing their residences; or don't you bother?
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Pat,
I am having to go off memory here, but it is pretty obvious when you see it -
if that is not an oxymoron!
Open the Source Master List and I think you will find that the first one is a
blank, if so then delete it.
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Dermot,
LOL, so was mine, but my divorce was terrific!
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I had not considered that as a possible reason as to why I am a lumper, Jim,
but you may well be right. It certainly is natural way of working for me
rather than something which I actually gave consideration to when I first
started out.
Ron Ferguson
with escalating prices in order to meet all the available
customisations.
Please don't think that I am suggesting for one minute, Jim, that this is
your view, I feel sure that it isn't. In one form or an other this argument
has been going on for years, so please excuse the rant :-)
Ron Ferguson
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. That is to do with the text format itself.
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Correction,
My last post should, of course, have said .do not have indices - why
should they when they don't have Sources
Sorry.
Ron Ferguson
Ron Ferguson wrote:
Of course the Individual Report, Family Group Records, Descendant
Chart, Ancestor Chart amd Lineage Chart do not have
the
names from the first chapter.
Enter a suggestion at...
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/suggest.asp
It was only when I read your post, Dennis, that I realised I had a
translation problem, and the OP was concerned indexes! I will have to check
whether that is true or otherwise.
Ron Ferguson
will be not to offer an index with
these two format - I can't really see the use for one really.
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Please see my comment in response to Dennis - an INDICES over here is used
as a superscripted number referencing another place, or a power to which a
number may be raised. x squared would have an indices of 2. The
superscripted number referencing a source is an indices.
Ron Ferguson
Brian L. Lightfoot wrote:
You people drive on the wrong side of the street anyhow. :-)
Brian in CA
-Original Message-
From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:32 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG
Mike Fry wrote:
D MG wrote:
Just don't rely on the Irish this time around! ;-)
I think the Ulstermen might help, and what about the native peoples?
--
Best regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg.
Oh dear: while America sleeps the world moves on . ;-)
Ron Ferguson
I think that Jan is certainly correct in saying that for the technical
reasons she gave, one cannot have an index in a TXT file. And as I stated
earlier, two files would be needed in HTML since it is not possible to have
2 pages in one file as can be done in a PDF.
Ron Ferguson
is rather a
large number or string?
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reasonable, for
what you have described and the Event could be the name of the court. I have
some Events such as Coroner's Court, Westmorland Quarter Sessions etc.,
Description: the type of case - this is usually on the Court Documents, Date
and Place are obvious.
Ron Ferguson
Jim,
I don't understand what you are saying here. If somebody has a date in the
death, no matter what their age at death then the living flag will already be
set to No. Advanced set living only sets this flag.
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it is not working for you I can't imagine.
If you would like to send me your back-up file off list I will happily have
a look for you. It is almost 3-00am here so it will be about 5 hours before
I will look at it. Don't forget to send off-list.
Ron Ferguson
to put it on the list of enhancements then go to the Legacy Home
tab in your program and at the bottom right there is an option to suggest
new features.
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the significance in
another post, has not been mentioned on-list.
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across before and may be
quite rare, at least in number/database. In Michele's case most of those of
those involved had (their children's) names found eg. in wills, with no other
record, so the best guess at a date is likely to be wildly inaccurate, could be
around +/-20yrs, maybe more.
Ron Ferguson
Answered off list
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OK, Lorraine, I have now looked at Google sites and it cannot accept HTML nor
can you use FTP. In a nutshell it is not suitable for Legacy web pages.
Can we first consider your concerns about your ISP's site; you say: couldn't
trust that it would be completely private and it had little space
big for your email client,
again see it's help file for the maximum size, if so there are other ways of
doing it.
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Sorry, All, this should have been sent off-list - hence html not being
corrected and other stuff!
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in OptionsCustomiseFonts and the
problem is still there.
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Best regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg.
10/11/09 06:39:00
Mike,
For some users nothing appears at all so one can't navigate - it was that
situation which I thought John meant.
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, At Sea, The
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the reset
button on the bottom right?
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will be somewhat less than happy if you do.
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Eliz,
That is very dependant on what and why. What definitely would not be allowed
is the publication of documents from which they make money, except of odd
examples or research and education purposes.
This includes censuses and certificates.
Ron Ferguson
to the
Location Report, why don't you suggest it?
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I really do not understand what you mean. There are Given name, Surname,
Dates-Birth, Dates-Baptism, Location fields for each and notes, for all of
which one can use Search and Replace, so exactly where are you putting this
word?
Ron Ferguson
Thanks Christopher, without the explanation I would have got nowhere!
For your information that is Source Detail Text/Comments. If you Search
Replace using Citation-Text you will be able to change them all.
Ron Ferguson
PS please use Plain Text on this list
in the report.) Can anyone
reproduce?
Cheers
Jan
Jan,
I have just noticed that nobody has replied to this. I checked the numbering
on my set up and it was fine. I would suggest that you try using the reset
button on the bottom right and then set your parameters again.
Ron Ferguson
a
plain list?
Thanks in advance,
Elizabeth C
Elizabeth,
Use SearchFindDetailed Search and create a list of those with the tag you
have allocated. On the new screen you will see an option to print, click
this and select the details you require.
Ron Ferguson
Mary Horner wrote:
Is there a way of creating a list or searching for whatever has been
modified since the last backup?
Mary,
Go to SearchFindDetailed Search and select the fields as follows:
Individual
Modified Date
After
Insert Date
Ron Ferguson
are here, I do not know a location database
that has a create button - do you mean Geo Location by any chance? If so you
first have to download the databases - OptionsCustomiseOther and click the
Geolocation button - Database Maintenance - at the bottom of the screen.
Ron Ferguson
straight to the download, and follow the instructions.
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