Ian, I have an interest in this location because it is the city of my husband’s birth. I don’t know what the proper location entry fields should be. Anchorage, before statehood, was known as Anchorage, Territory of Alaska. All areas of Alaska are boroughs except for Anchorage, which is known as one type of legality, incorporated as a city government but I believe the state recognizes it differently for legal or technical purposes. Before statehood, it’s pretty easy to figure out how to format the location, but following statehood, exactly how should it be entered? Perhaps Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska would be acceptable? Here are my location notes for Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska became the 49th state on Jan. 3, 1959. Prior to this date, Anchorage was known as Anchorage, Territory of Alaska. It is the state's largest city. Though its legal name is the Municipality of Anchorage, it is considered a consolidated city-borough under state law. Mary From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Macaulay Sent: Monday, October 02, 2017 10:04 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is Legacy falling apart? I fully understand the two data base bit but It contradicts itself or is redundant to legacy. How can software pull up data and then say its wrong and survive. This has been a problem in Legacy since it was first installed. On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Jill A Baty <[email protected]> wrote: Hi regarding Anchorage. I was told by the help desk that the drop down menu and the green ball refer to two different databases when I first encountered this issue a couple years ago and to pick whichever makes the most sense. (I like all the features and capabilities of Legacy, like the county checker, but my "dream" has always been for Legacy to evolve into the Microsoft or Apple format which have become industry standard whether other software companies like it or not. Then we wouldn't have to guess what the green ball means or how to copy/paste etc.)
Best Regards, Jill On Oct 1, 2017, at 11:46 PM, Ian Macaulay <[email protected]> wrote: Lets start with one thing at a time. Anchorage, Type that in to the location field in Family view for Born, Chr, Died, or Buried, Then click on the green ball (Not sure what it represents ) and low and behold Anchorage , Anchorage, Alaska, United States shows up. Click ok. You get the message that there is no County Anchorage. And that stops the next entry. So Being old and decrepid, I stop and fix that problem, Now what was I going to enter ???? Second thing is search tools, I search using (For Example) individual, given name,contains , AND individual, surname, contains and individual death date contains. This happily works time and time again until suddenly without any warning, given name will change to event notes, and my search is pooched. If I see it right away great but If I miss it I end up making a duplication in my file. Third That duplication may turn up in the automatic duplicate check where the fellows only wife will be marked as second spouse. Ian On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: Ian, I don't know what tool you are using re Anchorage so won't comment on that. Which search fields change by themselves? If you haven't got your spouses sorted go to Tools - Other Tools - Sort and sort them if they have dates -otherwise you have to sort them individually in the spouse list. See Search - Find - Detailed Search tab Individual - Find a Grave ID - and choose from equals, not equal to, contains, starts with and wildcard What more do you want? Screen can be difficult to resize sometimes and why that is, is unknown. If windows are opening in a different place, you probably need to delete Legacy2.usr and perhaps some of the other Legacy#.usr to reset to defaults. You'll find them in ...\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\usr\ folder Legacy isn't perfect. It's just better than other programs. Cathy Ian Macaulay wrote: I tried to input Anchorage to-day, It came back with Anchorage, anchorage etc and then when I said Yes thats it!!, It says there was never a county such as Anchorahe in Alaska. The minor annoyance of The Search Fields changing By them selves now happens far more often, It never got fixed and now is worse. The second spouse is still the first, Should have been fixed by now. The FAG number should be in the search fields same as Family Search and AFN. I know it was not promised but that was a lot of work transferring the FAG numbers to be useless in a search. And now since the last update my Screen (window) never opens where it is supposed to. and it changes its size.. Just mumbling out loud for anxiety releif. Ian -- ICMac Sales: Hobby consultan t (1986r.) Office hours: 10:00 Am - 5:00 PM most days Macaulay Genealogy Family Matters Ian Macaulay of Carp, Ontario -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- ICMac Sales: Hobby consultant (1986r) Office hours: 10:00 Am - 5:00 PM most days Macaulay Genealogy Family Matters Ian Macaulay of Carp, Ontario -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- ICMac Sales: Hobby consultant (1986r.) Office hours: 10:00 Am - 5:00 PM most days Macaulay Genealogy Family Matters Ian Macaulay of Carp, Ontario
-- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
