Kathy, you're right, I can attach a Word document as a multimedia file to each name explaining the diacritical situation and giving the correct names (meaning with diacriticals)for each surname, given name and location, especially all the AKAs, different ways the names were spelled. I hadn't thought about that before. It just won't be very user friendly in reports. And yes, I know Legacy is a genealogy program and not a publishing program. But I love being able to easily print reports from Legacy.
I think Legacy is a wonderful genealogy program with a lot of flexibility, wonderful shortcuts, easy to use sourcing, not to mention great support with this group, the webinars and their training videos. But for me a very important part of my genealogy is having names listed correctly on my screen and in my reports. I use the book reports a lot to engage family and jog memories for additional information. And those family members in their nineties are quick to remind me how names should be spelled! So yes, I think correct spelling of names with diacriticals is important in a genealogy program and wish the Legacy programmers would move that up on their to-do list. Faith ---- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Meyer" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 9:46:02 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] National characters in names Does Word (for example) accept the diacriticals in question? Perhaps you could create a source just for this problem - attached to the 'name' field - and then attach a 'file' under multimedia with the Word document showing all of the correct name/place spellings with the diacriticals. The file would open outside of Legacy and wouldn't be subject to it's restrictions. Well, that's my theory anyway; what I would probably try with that situation. And this does interest me greatly since I have tons of Polish research to do; thank you for bringing this up because now I will be aware. It's ok if all you techies/experts shoot down this idea; this way I will be prepared when I really get into the Polish records (yes, I've been putting that off for a long, long time - letting other family members handle it but it turns out they are not sourcing so I need to go through their research and do that part :-/ Kathy On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:29 PM, < [email protected] > wrote: I,too, am struggling with my Slovak names. How are the rest of you showing what the names actually are (especially surnames and village names)in Legacy if you can't use the actual names with the diacriticals? In the village for one family surname I am researching I have found the same surname as mine but with a diacritical on a letter. And with the first names being pretty much the same in the village, one could very easily take the wrong research path for the lack of a mark. So, how do you let everyone know what those diacriticals are? I have tried writing my notes in Word and copying them over to Legacy notes, but the diacriticals do not copy correctly. I started on Legacy with my husbands English, Irish and Swedish ancestors and found Legacy a joy to work with. Now, working on my side of the family, with all four of my grandparents coming from Slovakia, I am constantly frustrated and have piles of paper documents that I can't enter correctly into Legacy. What is a work-around to let everyone looking at my reports (or myself after a Legacy absence)know exactly what specific names I am researching? Faith Anderson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jurek Hirschberg" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:53:49 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] National characters in names I am new to Legacy and thus have possibly missed something obvious. I am unable to enter nor import names that include Polish national characters. The answer from Legacy Support is: “ Currently Legacy will only work with Western European fonts. Legacy was developed with Visual Basic 6.0 and our goal is to port it to another programming language which will allow us to have full Unicode support. ” Is there a work-around? – or is this genealogy software really unable to correctly spell family and place names that go outside the basic character set? 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