I guess it's time to put out the next "wish list" of suggestions for Version
4 which have been collecting since the last list was put together a couple
of months ago. They are beginning to clog up my email files! There may be
some duplicates, but I've tried to keep them all straight and to understand
what everyone was saying. Those of you who hate this sort of thing, please
bear with me. I think everyone else likes the idea of a quick and easy
list, and the Millennia responses have been good.... Kathi
FIXES:
* Finish correcting RTF report output (constant problems and complaints of
various sorts!)
* Fix the "Save" function in rtf format. It appears that when saving a
Descendant Narrative in rtf format, only the Title page and the starting
person and his wife are saved. The preview shows all descendants. Save in
Text file format gives all descendants. Also when using Descendant Book in
rtf format, it saves all data, but the pictures do not print. It shows as
[insert picture description here]
* Fix problem of losses of format in sending Register Report RTF documents,
created by Legacy, to both WordPerfect 8 and Word 2000. (The RTF document
transfers uneventfully to Word 97 and can then be transferred to WordPerfect
with no deterioration of format, but this is silly!)
* Standardize format transfer when using RTF in different programs... Using
"Legacy Preview," "Outlook Express," and "WordPad" and "Microsoft Word 2000"
to view RTF reports gives different results
* Fix "Notes not Wrapping to fit Screen" problem in Legacy3, Individual
HTML Report
* Fix problem in an Individual HTML Report of the picture not being visible
or printable by people receiving it as an attachment to an E-mail message?
* Fix problem in the PDF function (Deluxe?) in which it is missing the
"daughter of " or "son of" statement in the printout, while RTF function
includes it.
* Fix the problem on the web page creation of the marriage order being
reversed - the first one listed second - or at least the first entered one
second?
* Fix problem when printing an individual report of selecting the
appropriate options (title, fonting, show event pictures, etc.) asking for a
preview, and getting everything asked for, but with the event images out of
place, text overlapping the preceding box and the last event text
overlapping the following "Father" box, etc. (Is there any way to edit the
report before printing? If I generate a text file, I lose the format and
images. I could easily paste it into my word processor and add in the format
and images, but what then is the point of the preview/report? HTML gives me
the wrong title, all the lines run unbroken, and no event images appear. A
metafile is, as far as I can see, uneditable and won't open at all in
WordPerfect. Opened in Word, the text and rules are correct, but the images
are split in half vertically and re-assembled backwards. A PDF has all the
images, but the text overlaps them and runs outside the boxes and margins as
well. The best I can seem to do is print the preview as it shows; surely
there is some other option?)
* Fix the Descendant chart problem in which selecting "Do Not Show Duplicate
Lines" still shows everyone a second time and includes their photos. (Also,
it attaches some photos to incorrect people and shows incorrect parents for
some people? And in a Descendant Narrative, the children's events all show
even if not requested.)
If "Do Not Show..." is deselected, the errant photos and parental details
disappear.)
* Fix problem of marriage photo not showing, no matter what is checked to
try to get it to print
* Fix problem of requesting just TWO generations
to be given in the report, so that a check can be made to see how it will
look, but the report still gives ALL generations (and takes forever to
load!). This
problem did not exist before the last build
* Fix problem that "Jan-Mar 1870" or some other such "between this date and
that date" does not activate the age of death, or years since birth
* Fix the problem of having 3 variations on how 3 different alternate names
are being printed in the same report:
1. Another name for Alice was May
2. ( Another name for Rosemary was Dawn.)
3. Another name for Harriet was Ann.)
* Fix problem caused when closing Legacy while it is minimized.
* In reports, fix the name (and b/d dates, if selected) so that they are
displayed within (not to the right of) the boxes, making the box larger or
type smaller as needed
* Correct spacing in the Descendant Narrative Reports and Modified Register
Reports (and to some extent the Family Group Sheets):
1. There should be a space after the General Notes, Medical Notes, and the
Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death, and Burial Notes. Presently the text begins
right after the colons.
2. In printing out a Source Citation Report, there should be a space after
each colon.
3. The correct punctuation after Event names is a colon, NOT a semicolon.
4. Use a colon (instead of the one directly after the Event name) or a dash
after the date and place which come directly after the Event name and before
the text; and separate the date and place by a comma. Alternatively, use
dashes after the Event name and also to separate the date and place. Any of
these would avoid the
odd-looking periods after those Events which do not have a date or place and
would solve the incorrectly-used semicolon after the Event names.
5. If there is a second or additional marriage, there should be a couple of
spaces after the previous information, which in my report happens to be an
Event for a child by a first marriage. Presently the first line of the
second marriage information prints directly after the last previous line,
whatever it may be. I would also suggest the same number of spaces (two?)
before the first marriage, as that marriage also kind of gets lost in the
information which came before it.
* Fix the many Run-time Errors problems.
* Fix problem of the first Marriage Notes and dates printing out for every
married couple in a Modified Register Report.
* Fix printing problem for Descendant Charts when
"Show Pictures of Husband and Wife" is checked. Reports just come up with a
blank screen.
* Fix problem of relationships showing outside the line on name reports
* Fix problem of the name list sorting correctly on screen but not when
printing the list. (It then takes the prefix as a given name)
* Fix problem of Legacy not saving the Launch Application Setup for Adobe
Acrobat Reader from the previous day's boot up
* Fix problem of the spouses not printing in bold writing in the Descendant
Narrative and Modified Register Reports
* Fix problem with the size14 font for the whole Descendant Narrative with a
title page using Word 2000 and Windows ME (Without a title page, the
Descendant Narrative shows as MS Sans Serif 10 even if the font selected in
report options is Times New Roman 10 (default) or changed to TNR 12)
* Fix the font problem in which fonts for some people suddenly change,
forcing a "Reset to Defaults" which resets everything, including fonts. (a
real pain)
MISC:
* Add "Twin" on the individual's page
* Add the ability to mark an unusual name or a preferred second name by
underlining it.
* Add the ability to use italics and underlines in Notes, etc.
* Make sure that Legacy has full support for alternate
characters
* Create a way to automatically add a whole list of preselected (checked)
Events from the Master Event List to a new individual's Events area, thus
saving a lot of time and eye-strain/headaches looking through that list
every time. Perhaps this could be accomplished through a source clipboard
with newly created events, with or without attached notes and sources?
* Add a "Copy" button, "Print Screen" button, "Macro" button?
* Add ability to set order of spouses, preferably globally by date. "First"
spouse should not be the first entered, but rather the first by date
* Add switch to turn off BIRTH BEFORE MARRIAGE in Potential Problem Reports.
* Add an "assistant" for location entry similar to the one for entering
source citations
* Change the "Source Name" entry to something like "Source Quick-reference"
so that it does not continually fool new users!
* Add the ability to customize (probably still set as a preference by going
to Options/Customize/Dates)
double-dating for different countries within the same database and reports.
Thus, British double-dating could begin at a different time from German (or
whatever), and American double-dating could be different still. Perhaps
three or four different choices connected to particular countries could be
allowed with a way to set the start and end date for each one? (For
example, British sources prior to 1752 would double date all dates between
January 1st and March 25th, the start of the new year. It is very
frustrating to try and document from records which show a date of 1 Jan
1502/3 when Legacy displays this as 1 Jan 1503.)
* Add the ability to send blank forms in pdf format
* Add buttons to view and edit Born, Chr., Died, Bur. Notes in the name list
notes tab
* Add the ability in the Names List to jump back to the Names List window,
after you have edited, added source info., etc. Is it possible to use the
Letter of the Item to jump back and forth to each place, such as:
Details/Key D Source/Key S Notes/Key N etc. and perhaps using the
Key L to get back to List, thus cutting down on the use of the mouse for
those who prefer using keyboard entry?
* Add the ability to use the arrow keys to navigate through the
Family/Pedigree view like in Paf. This enables you to choose, if you wish,
to go to the children without having to use the mouse or remember the
shortcut keys. Possibly also add a marker (triangle?) on the people in
Family view who are married, so that you can tab to get to the marriage
quickly without having to click to the individual's screen, then the
marriage screen.
* Compare two files and show the DIFFERENCES in the data. Make a way for
Legacy to output a list of just those people unique to each of the data
files being compared.
* Add a Cemetery Recording Form
* Add a "Contact List" for contacts researching a particular family line.
* Create a way to attach the notes for the main events (Birth, Baptism,
Marriage, Death, Burial, Cause of Death, etc.) directly to the event
information or directly after the main information about the individual.
Same for the General Notes and Medical Notes - they should appear BEFORE the
Events in a Family Group Sheet report and in the Book-type reports. They
should SUPPORT the vital information, not be an "after-thought." Ideally, it
would be nice to be able to order them as we wish through a numbering
system.
* Spell out the Master Source Recommendations more clearly, with rationales
given
* Add a more complete Sample file in Legacy for Sources which we could
easily refer to and learn from
* Allow a choice of the phrase 'Grand' Aunt or 'Great' Aunt and 'Grand'
Uncle or 'Great' Uncle for those who are British or who prefer the other
usage.
* Add ability to indicate the actual degree of relationship between two
chosen individuals, thus automatically
calculating degrees of consanguinity.
* Add a check-box on the individual screen (perhaps at the bottom of the
events entry area?) to choose whether to display this individual's birthdate
in the calendar and whether to display by married (or single as default)
name. The present calendar report options allow only a blanket option to
show all living individuals or an option to do a lengthy tagging procedure
just to get the few people one normally is interested in. It would be nice
to be able to pull up calendars by the month in order to get birthday
reminders for our frequent contacts.
* Optimize the web pages and reduce the bulk of the code using cascading
style sheets to give us more flexibility for color and fonts and to allow us
to make our introductory pages and the generated pages match.... Allow us to
choose the HR tag for rules instead of a graphic.
* Add ability to put page updates on the web within
Legacy
* Match the Family Treemaker charting abilities:
- U.S. and World Maps - fully-integrated map feature
plots birth, marriage, death, + events with locations on your choice of
several maps. Select which events and individuals to include, then decide
if you want a map of the United States, North America, Western Europe, or
the World. You can choose between maps showing current political boundaries
or topographic detail, and you can crop and scale all maps to focus on any
area you want. Then print them in your books or separately.
- One-click web searches, including FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com,
Rootsweb.com, Gendex.com, and
GenealogyPortal.com., etc., which search multiple sites at the same time for
individuals or groups of names, including all spelling variations.
- Create ancestor or descendant box charts in any orientation. Create fan
charts up to full-circle. Click-n-drag boxes or any object on the chart,
rotate text, add additional images, text, etc.- plus.display the names of
people in different colors for different conditions ("accents"), save
user-defined screen layouts, and more.
* Create other-language versions of Legacy (German, French, Spanish)
... The following link provides a list of programs with German interfaces:
http://www.genealogy.net/gene/misc/software/neu/
REPORTS:
* Make an automatic change of title (i.e. individual's name) when printing
reports such as Descendants of ....., so that the name of the person changes
if a new starting individual is chosen
* When you load a GEDCOM Export List, web pages, or reports, make the
settings and chosen individuals "stick" until you load another list. This
would allow you to return to the report at a later time in order to make
further changes in format, etc. Perhaps this could be a choice by way of a
check box?
* Add an internal editing program so that documents don't have to be sent to
WP, MS Word, etc., but could instead be corrected, switched around as
desired, and then
be either printed or saved for further future editing and printing. This
would end the many, many problems others have spoken of concerning the RTF
reports and difficulties importing reports into Word, Word Perfect, etc.,
etc.
* Allow a choice of superscript numbers for source numbers and generation
numbers in parentheses.
* Allow the addition of a free-form comment to the footer area of reports
* In the Book-style reports, the wording should automatically be changed
from "Children from this marriage were" to "Child or this marriage was" or
"Issue was" when there is only one child.
* Add a sentence, when telling about the spouse, telling his or her date of
birth and death and burial place if these are known. Just saying "X married
Y on -date- in -place-" and then going to his/her events (assuming that you
choose to show events) without giving the individual's particulars sounds
rather strange.
* Add ability to choose the order of Notes and Events in the reports,
perhaps by having a list of the Notes items and Events (all) with check
boxes next to them into which we could place the desired order numbers
1-2-3-etc.? Alternatively, if this is not possible, place the various Notes
in the following order directly after the individual's general information,
so that they make more sense and flow better like a story in the reports:
Birth Notes
Baptism Notes
(Marriage Notes) - either here or below -
Death Notes
Cemetery Notes
General Notes
Medical Notes
Then, following the "John married Sue Smith, daughter of ..." information,
have "She was born, baptised, died, buried" information and then:
(Marriage Notes)
Birth Notes
Baptism Notes
Death Notes
Cemetery Notes
General Notes
Medical Notes
* Add a choice of whether to print the Sources with the author first or the
title first.
* Add the ability to have a larger range of items to be used in a Custom
report when printing out the people in a tagged/untagged search list, and
the ability to sort these items.
* Add to report indices the option of indexing females' married names along
with the maiden names (like the PAF Gen-Book)
* Allow optional list creation of all the women by their married surnames in
order to facilitate research of death dates and obits.
* Allow scanned documents and photos to print out in different sizes in
reports, so that the following will be usable: "Include Master Source
Pictures-Include the preferred image (if any) for each master source."
"Include Detail Source Pictures-Include the preferred image (if any) for
each source citation detail."
"Picture Options-You can choose the relative size of the pictures printed
(small, medium, or large) or a specific size. The pictures can be printed
with their captions and descriptions. Pictures can also be printed with a
background shadow of various shades and widths. All Rights Reserved"
* Provide a way to ADD our own optional information to show on a timeline
report
* When adding Timeline Reports, include optional UK and European events
* Add timeline chart/reports something like Genelines.... Or perhaps as a
"Family History Profile View"? See for a simple example from one person:
http://bootha.com/FHTemp
* Allow a choice of the word "of" instead of "in" before a place name in the
Location List and in reports, so that reports can read "of Salisbury, Essex
County, MA" with a small -o- instead of the present automatic
capitalization. ("Don't change what I type" does not work; it seems Legacy
is forcing a capital letter onto each location word as it comes in from a
GEDCOM.)
* Add the ability to choose what number to put into the "next" chart numbers
at the right side of a Pedigree Chart Report. (We are presently allowed to
choose what number to start with and how many generations to print, but the
computer fills in numbers at the right)
* When printing pedigree charts add the ability to standardize the size of
the pictures. (The choice seems to be pre-set and stuck at 1.5 inches, even
though the sizing box is a lighter gray than the rest of the screen and
looks like it should be able to be changed. Also, strangely, the photo for
individual #1 on my chart comes out quite small, while those for individuals
#2 and #3 are twice the size!)
* Add an additional way to privatize living people in reports by noting
their names but not their personal information. Perhaps this could be done
by means of a check box?
SEARCHING:
* Either include AKAs in the regular Surname List Index, or allow a choice
of creating a separate AKA List with the same capabilities so that they do
not get "lost." Also, it would be far better if the AKAs were shown on the
Name List in a different color (green, red, whatever) so that they stand
out. When selecting the AKAs from the name list, Legacy could then jump to
the person's "real" name on the Name List. (There are lots of people who
are faced with trying to locate people in their data who have multiple
names -- through adoption, marriage, arbitrary change due to a difficult
foreign name being Anglicized, taking assumed names, or having the name
change with the location, occupation, etc. (see Kristian's). We really need
some means of easily locating them once they have been entered into Legacy.
Providing a
"Picklist" filter to show primary (maiden), nonprimary, married,
female/male, or all names (like TMG's filter) would be terrific.
* Make Source Text and Source Detail Text searchable!
* Add the ability to search for Source/Citation and Event/Citation in order
to be able to find things like film numbers, etc. Presently you can search
for Comments, Text, etc., but not the Citations. This is only available in
Search/replace.
* Add a Wildcard option for searching of locations.
* Make all Address fields (Born, Bapt, Married, Died, Buried, Events)
searchable and optionally printable directly after the item it is attached
to, with a choice of "in" or "at" placed before the address. This would
help to address the present problem of needing a searchable
cemetery/gravestone area (as part of the Burial Address entry area).
* Add a printable/searchable Notes section for these addresses.
* Add the ability to generate a list of all people associated with a
particular address. Perhaps it could even include a check box to choose the
latest married name for lists of living individuals and to have separate
address tag choices in order to choose present contacts for various family
lines, to print address labels for newsletters, etc.?
* Add as a Second Condition in Detailed Search, options for "Father's given
name" and "Mother's given name" in "Where to look." Then, in "How to look,"
add the option "Contains."
* Broaden the "sounds like" comparison capabilities so that, when doing a
Merge/Find Duplicates, similar names such as Jeremy and J�r�my can be found.
Perhaps this should be based upon a soundex system?
* Make the To Do List searchable!
TO-DO LIST:
* Make the To-Do List NOT modal, so that it can be left open while working
in other areas of Legacy
* Allow mass addition of To Do Items (like search Ancestry.com) for a group
of tagged individuals. Perhaps this could be accomplished using a
sub-routine similar to the Source Clipboard? You would fill out one "To Do
List" entry page, copy it to a "To Do" clipboard, then paste it into
whatever list of people you need to.
* Allow the creation of one To Do item with 117 names asking it to "search
Ancestry.com" (or whatever), and have it do this for all of the names and
return the results to each record or optionally to the To Do List as a
report.
* Create a separate Research Log (like Bygones?) for completed research so
that the To Do List doesn't get clogged up.
* Create a TO DO list just the same as a Source Citation. Then if I want to
take 50 people to the library to do the 1900 US census Indiana, the program
would understand that for a census TO DO, it should:
1.) calculate the age of tagged individuals for the year of the census
2.) pull the name of the spouse and children with ages
3.) pull known locations for the person ( incl. Events locations)
(Having the TO DO list to create itself like this would definitely be a
powerful tool. It would also be nice to have buttons to use or not for the
above stuff. In a different vein, it would be nice to be able to duplicate
and change an existing TO DO, i.e.. 1810 census to 1820, 1830, whatever... I
use Ctl-V to copy the comments, then add the appropriate years to the ages,
but any step simplified by the computer is a plus.)
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