My main error was not using the period at all. I think Legacy has a pop up that reminds me. Or maybe it's an ancestry pop-up?
>________________________________ > From: Michele Lewis <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 5:14 PM >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options) > >Peggy, >The nice thing about going through your file and doing cleanup is that you >will find mistakes that you didn’t even know you had. One more thing about >names. When you have initials, make sure you put a space between them. > >J.E. Simmons is wrong >J. E. Simmons is right > >Legacy WILL find this error if you have that particular option turned on BUT >it WON'T find them in the AKA field even if you do have the option turned on. >This is a known bug and they programmers say that it is on their list to fix. > > >Michele > > >From: Marg Strong [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 4:40 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options) > >I'm so glad to hear that Legacy doesn't recommend all caps anymore. I really >disliked the way that looked and never used it. I've learned to use the AKA >field instead of the nickname in quotes. I've been tempted to use "unknown" in >the blank name fields, but restrained myself because I read that is not the >best thing to do. I have learned quite a bit just reading this list so it's >worth the time it takes. > >So far I haven't had any, or anything that I remember, to put in the prefix or >suffix fields. And I've no reason to think I'll need peerage titles, even >though we do have the usual family myth about the great grandmother disowned >for marrying a commoner. :) Lots of "laborers" and no royalty in this line. >One murderer though to make it interesting. > >I've messed up on the short location name, just pasting the same as in the >long field. Now I would have to redo that too. Maybe some day. I wonder if it >would be too messy if I started doing it now as I'm working on the clean up? >Just on the locations I have left to clean up? > >Peggy > >________________________________________ >From: Michele Lewis <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 4:15 PM >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options) > >You can change how the date displays in Legacy so you must have it set right >:) :) :) > >Names are pretty straight forward. You don't want to put any descriptive >words in the blanks such as infant, baby, child etc. They do not recommend >all caps for the last name anymore. Enter the name Michele Lynn Simmons. >There is a way you can have it print in all caps if you want it to but don't >enter the name that way. (I would never print it that way because it looks >bad. If you want the surname in all caps the proper way is to reduce the >font by 2 point sizes so that you have small caps). Always use maiden names >for females. There are separate blanks to put prefixes and suffixes. All >alternate spellings and nicknames go in the AKA field. It gets a little more >complicated for patronymic names and peerage titles which you will run into if >your research is in the UK. Slaves are entered with their first and then >WHERE they were a slave as their last name in case you do any AA research. > >Another thing about locations. > >You will enter Purvis, Lamar, Mississippi, United States BUT you can also >enter a short location name like this Purvis, Lamar Co, MS. You can tell >Legacy to print reports using the short location name if you want. > >Legacy will let you do all kinds of things :) > >Michele > > >From: Marg Strong [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 3:57 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options) > >Thanks for the book recommendation. I like the way Legacy automatically enters >the date according to the default (maybe the default I set?) so I can't mess >that up. I have read a bit more about the standard ways of entering names; >such as not entering anything into the name field if it is unknown. I kind of >liked using "unknown" but since they end up at the top of the list anyhow, it >seems better to do it the standard way. I'm thinking that after I merge my >duplicate locations (result of sloppy entering) I could then use the commas >for the countries that have four locations. Then I won't have to keep >scrolling up to the to merge them. > >I have a lot of research to do for other countries. Ron gave me some good >links. but so far I don't have a large percent of people. Most ancestors >originated from Ireland and England, a few from Scotland (in the line I'm >researching now) so eventually I will have to do that research for sure. > >Peggy >p > > > > >Legacy User Group guidelines: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on >our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > >Legacy User Group guidelines: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on >our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > >Legacy User Group guidelines: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on >our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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