You are not alone in your frustrations. While legacy is good at data entry, you are not the first, nor will you be the last, in voicing frustrations over the inability to get your own data back out of it. The archives are full of workarounds to address these issues too - locations vs addresses, single pics per event, no BMD pics, and so on. I'm surprised there isn't plugin packages available for reports, web page generation and even GEDCOM like there is for charts. I suppose the definition of 'basic' is somewhat subjective, but at a minimum you should be able to get on individual, ancestor or descendant reports all the facts, all the pictures, all the addresses (and the rest of the other hostage data issues that go around these threads re: reports) on all the people included in the report (print option flags to turn on or off would be fine). Likewise, well formed source writer citations in GEDCOMs (save the 'can't reimport' comebacks, that's a horrible way to share data between Legacy DBs and is irrelevant to the need of well formed GEDCOM exports).
It would be much, much, much better to get a report with all my data included and let me whittle it down than only getting partial data back and trying to determine what was NOT included and manually adding it in. This is a fair criticism and only a request for complete basic vs partial basic. Finally, you are not the first to note the hostile tone that comes through in this group. I've been around a while and still find it very odd! If you don't let it get to you, and look past it, the group really is quite helpful. On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Paul Richardson < [email protected]> wrote: > What's this, pick on a new user and new member to the forum! > > Ron, when I said 'use in anger' was wasn't referring to me being angry, > just the fact I'm trying to use the program to its fullest capability. It's > a common enough phrase. > > I e-mailed my problem to the forum hoping to find other people who've > encountered similar issues with book reports and perhaps receive practical > and useful advice. Instead it seems some people have nothing better to do > other than criticise and what I say and my experience so far with Legacy. > If this is the purpose of the forum then I'm very disappointed and will > probably unsubscribe. > > I didn't think my question was unreasonable and I certainly didn't expect > criticism. > > -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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
