Maureen,
I'm afraid you lost me from line 1, but like I said it's now tomorrow here!
I don't understand where your GEDCOM comes into it! Ah! I think I see where
you are coming from. If you are asking whether you can export your data from
Legacy to a GEDCOM and then get it into Excel in a format which the Legacy
Timeline would accept after processing, then off the cuff, I don't think so.
Do you have Access and know SQL? Using that may be possible, but I doubt if
it would be easy to code.
Please take a look at the construction of the Legacy Timeline, as I
suggested in my last post. I suspect that you will find that you will have
to enter the data which you wish to include into your timeline manually.
When I write them I actually find it easier to write them in OO.o Calc (I
don't use Excel), manually insert the "{/n}" where needed, and export them
as a CSV using "|" as the separator. Post saving I change the extension from
CSV to TXT.
The timelines/Chronology Reports will not accept pictures - they wouldn't
fit anyhow.
Ron Ferguson
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Maureen Lake wrote:
> Okay, so if I'm following the logic here, by rights I should be able
> to export a new GEDCom with all the updated data. I should then be
> able to turn thatinto a .txt file which I can inport into an Excel
> spreadsheet, eliminate the data that refers to me, save it as a
> timeline into the timelines folder, and then access through that
> system?
>
> Does this sound about right? Or would it be easier if i just saved
> the timeline out as an .rtf and added my information in manually?
>
> And just off the cuff, I've added pictures to several of these
> events, homes I've lived in and such. Can I get those to print on the
> timeline or chronology reports?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Maureen
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ron Ferguson <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, May 26, 2010 4:02:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Timeline help
>
> Maureen Lake wrote:
>> I'm new to the list, so forgive me if this covers old ground (I
>> couldn't figure out how to get to the archives, if there are any).
>>
>> I'm teaching a class on personal timelines, so I started creating one
>> for myself. I figured it was a good place to start. I pulled my
>> family group and four generations back of my and my husband's lines
>> as background into a GEDCom and started a new file. Then I started
>> adding information from my baby book and anywhere else I could find
>> it to the Events/Facts box in my entry. I added my father's military
>> service into his entry for kicks and grins.
>>
>> When I pulled it all together, it showed all my data, it showed my
>> parent's deaths. It didn't show either of my parents' remarriages,
>> any of my grandparents' deaths, my nephew's death, my daughter or
>> son's marraiges, my granchildren's births, my graddaughter's death,
>> etc.
>>
>> Is there any way to get Legacy to consolidate all the information
>> that happened within my tree in the given timeline period to display,
>> in this case, anything within those six generations from 1962 to
>> present, all of which played a part in my life? Or are those all
>> points I would have to add seperately into the Events/Facts area of
>> the entry?
>>
>> Thanks so much.
>>
>> Maureen Lake
>>
>
> Maureen,
>
> As you have found the standard timeline construction which you have
> used,
> and I am assuming that you are referring to the output from the
> Chronology
> Tab, will only include specific events which you can select using the
> options button on the right.
>
> On clicking that button you may have noticed, at the bottom of the
> Chronology Options screen a button named "Select Background
> Timelines" and
> if you click it it takes you to a list of timelines relating to all
> sorts of
> events, such as the British Monarchy, British Prime Ministers etc.
> etc.
>
> Now I know this is not what you want, but the great thing about it is
> that
> you can write your own background timeline using it. Clicking the Help
> Button tells you how. So, in "Maureen's Timeline" you can include all
> the
> information which isn't showing at present. If you want to look at the
> construction of these timelines, they are contained in
> C:\Legacy\Timelines\
> (assuming you installed Legacy in C:\) and they are only text files,
> so you
> can open them in any text editor (even Notepad!).
>
> If you have Open Office Calc or Windows Excel then you can treat them
> as a
> CSV file use "|" (no quotes) as the delimited, you will also see that
> Legacy
> uses {/n} as line feed/carriage return.
>
> If you hit any problems please do come back and I will happily take
> you
> through the process, probably not today - as it is now my tomorrow!
>
> Ron Ferguson
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> http://www.fergys.co.uk
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