Re: [LegacyUG] Source - pictures - descendant reports, family group reports,
Margaret Turner wrote I have added a 'marriage license' event to John Grogan. Added a source eg. Grogan, John, marriage certificate, 1879. This source has Source info, Text of Source Picture (.jpg of the marriage certificate). When I want to print out a report, eg. family group sheet or descendant report, in the report options: Pictures tab - event pictures is selected Sources tab - the following are greyed out: Include Master Sources Include Detail Source Pictures Picture Options. For a descendant report, only a thumbnail of the image is printed. For a family group sheet, nothing is printed. What is the correct procedure to have source pictures printed in a report? I don't know why those options are greyed out for you because I have just looked at creating a Family Group sheet and a Descendant Book Report and in both cases the option to print Source Pictures was available. The small size does seem to be the only valid option - by selecting a Custom Picture Area I could make the picture as big as I wanted but it was hopelessly blurred. I don't think you can print Source in a Descendant Chart. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
The original intent of this good post has been hijacked. I would like to get back to what Kirsten Bowman wanted for this thread, so have renamed it from Favorite Features to Favorite Features - #2. As Kirsten asked, please share with new Legacy users the features and shortcuts of Legacy you find most helpful. Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Sorting Index on DOB was Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Not everybody is as computer savy as others. Some have no idea what a spreadsheet is, and some do not have Access. Of course I don't know the code behind Legacy, but as a programmer sorting is normally a simple procedure. I used it extensively when I used FTM, and It is one of the features that I really miss in Legacy. Anne - Original Message - From: Ron Taylor To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source - pictures - descendant reports, family group reports,
The archives should contains several recurring discussions about one point: that pictures of documents are difficult to display in reports at a readable scale. May I suggest that a printed source citation be limited to a minimum of information -- just enough for a cousin to consult the original source later if interested. The picture of the document is certainly valuable to you as a reference, but in my mind it simply augments the source info as a resource in your database. It seems to me that any other material that you really do want to display in reports, beyond this minimal source citation footnote, should be part of the event, not part of the source citation. The event note can contain a full transcription of the marriage certificate, if you wish, or just a summary. If you feel that a picture of the document is important to the audience of your reports, then in my opinion that picture belongs in the event, rather than in the printed portion of the source citation. (Again, assuming that you can get it to scale up adequately.) One administrative bit of advice: We have had confusion on this list in the past when people use the term 'descendant report', since there are several types. (I suspect that you didn't mean Descendant Chart. More likely Descendant Narrative or Descendants Book Report.) Ward - Original Message - From: Margaret Turner mgroga...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:46 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Source - pictures - descendant reports, family group reports, I have been through the legacy archives messages without finding a definitive answer. I have added a 'marriage license' event to John Grogan. Added a source eg. Grogan, John, marriage certificate, 1879. This source has Source info, Text of Source Picture (.jpg of the marriage certificate). When I want to print out a report, eg. family group sheet or descendant report, in the report options: Pictures tab - event pictures is selected Sources tab - the following are greyed out: Include Master Sources Include Detail Source Pictures Picture Options. For a descendant report, only a thumbnail of the image is printed. For a family group sheet, nothing is printed. What is the correct procedure to have source pictures printed in a report? How are people tackiling the problem to have the image dispalyed on a web page (other than putting html code into a note or what ever. Many thanks :) Margaret Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: Sorting Index on DOB was Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
It has to do with the grid controls the programmers use. Being able to sort by any column is on the enhancement request list. In the meantime, Ron's suggestion of GenViewer hit the nail on the head. It's a great little program sold on the Legacy website (Look under Add-Ons) Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Anne Hildrum Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 7:10 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Sorting Index on DOB was Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Not everybody is as computer savy as others. Some have no idea what a spreadsheet is, and some do not have Access. Of course I don't know the code behind Legacy, but as a programmer sorting is normally a simple procedure. I used it extensively when I used FTM, and It is one of the features that I really miss in Legacy. Anne Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Does. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Art Seddon Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features I've often wished I could sort DOB when looking for duplicates. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features : : I'm not sure what the purpose of sorting by birthdate would be. Are you : aware that Legacy has a calendar creator under reports - all reports? : Perhaps that would meet your needs. : : Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Excel does not recognize dates 1900 and earlier and does a horrid job of sorting by dates unless dates are formatted all the same. I love GenViewer! It has some great sorts and searches! Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Ron Taylor Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:45 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Question
I hadn't played with Charting much, so my first reaction to this was why can't you simply drag half the boxes down so that they are staggered (so roughly six children across the page, two rows deep). However, when I went to try it, I found that the lines connecting the boxes did not drag in a sensible way, so they look really bad. I couldn't find any way to select and drag a connecting line, or to get the program to automatically tidy up the line routings. Is the program really that crude, or have I overlooked something obvious? Ward - Original Message - From: Lorraine To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Question Thanks for your response, Jenny. I guess I will try to do it across two pages, then. Regards, Lorraine On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: Lorraine wrote I am trying to create a 2-generation chart of only the parents and their 12 children using my Legacy Charting. It adds the spouses of the children automatically, and I have not been able to find in the help/tips anything that allows me to delete the spouses, I don't know if there is a better way, but one option is to temporarily make the spouses invisible (in Legacy.) or to make the chart print out on a 1-page, 8.5 x 11 page, instead of spreading out over 6 pages. Am I just not looking in the right place? If you are to get 12 children across an 11 page, each box is going to have to be quite a bit less than 1, allowing for even a tiny pace between each one. At that size, would you be able to read the names, never mind any other information? Actually, I think 1 is the minimum width for boxes so you won't get 12 children onto one sheet. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Does. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Heather Stovold wrote: Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. And dates taken from the GRO are definitely non-standard, being entered as month Q year, where month is Mar or Jun or Sep or Dec. A standard can not be used for this since the month Q combination is shorthand for 1 month - 2 to last day month. Definitely *not* a trivial exercise for the programmers :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] List Mandates
Bob, no humor to be added is absolutely right on the mark ! The unpardonable Sin for this particular list. [] Tom Watkins Eau Gallie, Florida W_a_t_k_i_n_s, A_d_a_m_s, B_o_n_d, B_o_o_t_h, B_r_o_o_k_s, C_a_i_n, C_l_e_m_e_n_t_s, G_i_b_s_o_n, H_o_w_e_l_l, J_o_n_e_s, L_a_s_s_i_t_e_r, M_a_r_s_h, P_a_r_r_i_s_h, R_e_e_v_e_s, S_a_n_d_e_r_s, W_a_l_l http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tew4515/ http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=tew4515I11.x=26I11.y=5 tomsgenealogy at yahoo dot com A meddling yankee is God’s worst creation. He cannot run his own affairs correctly, but he is constantly interfering in the affairs of others, and he is always ready to repent of everyone’s sin but his own.— M. D. Hall, a prominent North Carolina gentleman in the 1850 s http://www.scv.org/video.php http://www.1800mydixie.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Question
Thanks for your response, Ward. I discovered that, too. What I ended up doing was scrapping it; using the digital photo software to put the pictures on a page with text boxes...there probably is a better way. Best regards, Lorraine On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ward Walker wnkwal...@rogers.com wrote: I hadn't played with Charting much, so my first reaction to this was why can't you simply drag half the boxes down so that they are staggered (so roughly six children across the page, two rows deep). However, when I went to try it, I found that the lines connecting the boxes did not drag in a sensible way, so they look really bad. I couldn't find any way to select and drag a connecting line, or to get the program to automatically tidy up the line routings. Is the program really that crude, or have I overlooked something obvious? Ward - Original Message - From: Lorraine To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Question Thanks for your response, Jenny. I guess I will try to do it across two pages, then. Regards, Lorraine On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: Lorraine wrote I am trying to create a 2-generation chart of only the parents and their 12 children using my Legacy Charting. It adds the spouses of the children automatically, and I have not been able to find in the help/tips anything that allows me to delete the spouses, I don't know if there is a better way, but one option is to temporarily make the spouses invisible (in Legacy.) or to make the chart print out on a 1-page, 8.5 x 11 page, instead of spreading out over 6 pages. Am I just not looking in the right place? If you are to get 12 children across an 11 page, each box is going to have to be quite a bit less than 1, allowing for even a tiny pace between each one. At that size, would you be able to read the names, never mind any other information? Actually, I think 1 is the minimum width for boxes so you won't get 12 children onto one sheet. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Ron Taylor wrote: Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Another available option is to download GEDxlate from http://www.gedmagic.com/GEDxlate.htm === quote from site = What is GEDxlate? GEDxlate quickly and easily translates genealogy data from standard GEDCOM format into MS Access dB (*.mdb), MS Excel Worksheet (*.xls), comma delimited (*.csv), and text file (*.txt) formats. Pick a GEDCOM file to translate; select which fields you want to include in your dB, spreadsheet, csv, or txt file; choose an output format and file name to save the translated data in; and you're there! end quote = It is free and I use it extensively for analyzing data. Once you convert your info to excel or access format you can manipulate it as you wish. It is a perfect companion to Legacy and it is free. There is no single genealogy program that will do everything that everyone desires, although Legacy comes closest. The use of these external programs will probably be necessary for the foreseeable future and I will take advantage of them as needed. This is by no means a criticism of Legacy, which remains the finest program of its type ever created. -- Gene Y. http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source - pictures - descendant reports, family group reports,
Thank you Jenny and Ward. Jenny, it seems that if you do not have the options greyed out for a Family Group sheet and a Descendant Book Report then there must be something else I need to have checked. Ward thanks for pointing out that I should have used Descendant Book Report . :) Margaret On 24/10/2009, Ward Walker wnkwal...@rogers.com wrote: The archives should contains several recurring discussions about one point: that pictures of documents are difficult to display in reports at a readable scale. May I suggest that a printed source citation be limited to a minimum of information -- just enough for a cousin to consult the original source later if interested. The picture of the document is certainly valuable to you as a reference, but in my mind it simply augments the source info as a resource in your database. It seems to me that any other material that you really do want to display in reports, beyond this minimal source citation footnote, should be part of the event, not part of the source citation. The event note can contain a full transcription of the marriage certificate, if you wish, or just a summary. If you feel that a picture of the document is important to the audience of your reports, then in my opinion that picture belongs in the event, rather than in the printed portion of the source citation. (Again, assuming that you can get it to scale up adequately.) One administrative bit of advice: We have had confusion on this list in the past when people use the term 'descendant report', since there are several types. (I suspect that you didn't mean Descendant Chart. More likely Descendant Narrative or Descendants Book Report.) Ward - Original Message - From: Margaret Turner mgroga...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:46 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Source - pictures - descendant reports, family group reports, I have been through the legacy archives messages without finding a definitive answer. I have added a 'marriage license' event to John Grogan. Added a source eg. Grogan, John, marriage certificate, 1879. This source has Source info, Text of Source Picture (.jpg of the marriage certificate). When I want to print out a report, eg. family group sheet or descendant report, in the report options: Pictures tab - event pictures is selected Sources tab - the following are greyed out: Include Master Sources Include Detail Source Pictures Picture Options. For a descendant report, only a thumbnail of the image is printed. For a family group sheet, nothing is printed. What is the correct procedure to have source pictures printed in a report? How are people tackiling the problem to have the image dispalyed on a web page (other than putting html code into a note or what ever. Many thanks :) Margaret Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] List Mandates
I should think the unpardonable Sin for this particular list would be posting with a 9 paragraph sig line. Brian in CA Humor added -Original Message- From: Tom Watkins [mailto:tomsgeneal...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] List Mandates Bob, no humor to be added is absolutely right on the mark ! The unpardonable Sin for this particular list. [] Tom Watkins Eau Gallie, Florida W_a_t_k_i_n_s, A_d_a_m_s, B_o_n_d, B_o_o_t_h, B_r_o_o_k_s, C_a_i_n, C_l_e_m_e_n_t_s, G_i_b_s_o_n, H_o_w_e_l_l, J_o_n_e_s, L_a_s_s_i_t_e_r, M_a_r_s_h, P_a_r_r_i_s_h, R_e_e_v_e_s, S_a_n_d_e_r_s, W_a_l_l http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tew4515/ http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=tew4515I11.x=26I11.y=5 tomsgenealogy at yahoo dot com A meddling yankee is God’s worst creation. He cannot run his own affairs correctly, but he is constantly interfering in the affairs of others, and he is always ready to repent of everyone’s sin but his own.— M. D. Hall, a prominent North Carolina gentleman in the 1850 s http://www.scv.org/video.php http://www.1800mydixie.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Arnold Sprague wrote: The original intent of this good post has been hijacked. I would like to get back to what Kirsten Bowman wanted for this thread, so have renamed it from Favorite Features to Favorite Features - #2. As Kirsten asked, please share with new Legacy users the features and shortcuts of Legacy you find most helpful. Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Legacy Charting
When Charting was released, there was an indication that there would be an update at some stage which amongst other things were to add the option to not split boxes at page breaks, add the left to right descendancy chart and an all-in-one chart. There hasn't been an update for about a year for Charting. Does anyone know when such an update may be released? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Sherry - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:38:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
You can cut and paste text but not pictures. Legacy does not store pictures. It links to the location on your computer where you have saved the picture. CE -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:47 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Sherry - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:38:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.20/2444 - Release Date: 10/22/09 18:44:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Sherry/Support wrote: snip The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Doe's.snip Yes Sherry, but it would be much simpler and more helpful to tag a group of ancestors and sort by DOB regardless of name variations. Art Seddon : : : Thanks for using Legacy. : : Sherry : Customer Support : Millennia Corporation : supp...@legacyfamilytree.com : http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com : Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Why have to pay for an add-on to do a simple sort? Art Seddon - Original Message - From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 7:56 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Excel does not recognize dates 1900 and earlier and does a horrid job of sorting by dates unless dates are formatted all the same. I love GenViewer! It has some great sorts and searches! Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Ron Taylor Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:45 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
Yes. I frequently have Legacy visible on 1/2 screen, the Swedish online pages on the other, and the program Paint, and the 'photos subdirectory' hiding on the bottom, to check which pages I already have, then copy new pages using the Swedish copy numbering system. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Sherry daughterofmyfat...@comcast.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:47:29 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Sherry - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:38:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only 1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Art- Let me reword what I think you said-- You want to be able to open a family file, any family file, and select several people. Their names may, or may not, be similar. Then, using the list of people you selected or tagged, and just those people only, you want to sort by birthdate, perhaps oldest to youngest, or youngest to oldest. Have I got it? Thanks. Robert At 2009-10-23 03:55 PM, you wrote: Sherry/Support wrote: snip The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Doe's.snip Yes Sherry, but it would be much simpler and more helpful to tag a group of ancestors and sort by DOB regardless of name variations. Art Seddon : : : Thanks for using Legacy. : : Sherry Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Why have to pay for an add-on to do a simple sort? Because it's the only option for now? Duh... -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
I have used Legacy for 3 years now ( switched from FTM) and cannot imagine using any other type of software program (as of today anyways). I have been extracting records from some parishes in Germany and would have been utterly lost without the Search tools. There are all sorts of problems with these old church records but with the Search tools I can get around many obstacles. Also, being able to identify locales has been simplified with the Geo Loacation Database. My latest discovery has been being able to utilize ALL 9 tags instead of only 3. In the Index view I have altered the columns and it can include all of my tags which is important to me as I use them all. Regards Robert On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:21 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.netwrote: Yes. I frequently have Legacy visible on 1/2 screen, the Swedish online pages on the other, and the program Paint, and the 'photos subdirectory' hiding on the bottom, to check which pages I already have, then copy new pages using the Swedish copy numbering system. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Sherry daughterofmyfat...@comcast.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:47:29 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Sherry - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:38:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Yes, it is more dificult I recognized that. However - if the programmers are already doing a secondary sort on dob (the primary sort being on Name - and Sherry from Legacy said that Legacy does the secondary automatically when you are sorting by name for all names that are the same) - they obviously have the code available to sort the dates (even the non-standard ones) so that makes it pretty trivial to this programmer mind. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote: Heather Stovold wrote: Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. And dates taken from the GRO are definitely non-standard, being entered as month Q year, where month is Mar or Jun or Sep or Dec. A standard can not be used for this since the month Q combination is shorthand for 1 month - 2 to last day month. Definitely *not* a trivial exercise for the programmers :-)
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
Sherry wrote I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? Yes. It's possible to do that with pretty much any program - you just reduce the size of the 2 (or more! - I know someone who habitually works with about 4 windows open at the same time!) windows and position them as you want. I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Certainly if the website allows copying of text you can paste it into a field in Legacy, but you can't do that with pictures. With pictures you have to save them to your hard drive or some other local storage device from where Legacy can access them. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Now, just sort the name list... (the name index) - then I don't need to know who to select or tag beforehand. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.netwrote: Art- Let me reword what I think you said-- You want to be able to open a family file, any family file, and select several people. Their names may, or may not, be similar. Then, using the list of people you selected or tagged, and just those people only, you want to sort by birthdate, perhaps oldest to youngest, or youngest to oldest. Have I got it? Thanks. Robert At 2009-10-23 03:55 PM, you wrote: Sherry/Support wrote: snip The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Doe's.snip Yes Sherry, but it would be much simpler and more helpful to tag a group of ancestors and sort by DOB regardless of name variations. Art Seddon : : : Thanks for using Legacy. : : Sherry Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
You got it, Robert. Just like you can tag any group of names and then show just the tagged names and sort by Given name or Surname or RIN. Art - Original Message - From: Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features : Art- : : Let me reword what I think you said-- : : You want to be able to open a family file, any family file, and : select several people. Their names may, or may not, be : similar. Then, using the list of people you selected or tagged, and : just those people only, you want to sort by birthdate, perhaps oldest : to youngest, or youngest to oldest. : : Have I got it? : : Thanks. : : Robert : Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Don't you just HATE it when ...
... You enter a whole batch of sourced records and then realize you've used the template for Database instead of the one for Digital Images?! -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Actually the Legacy database ALREADY contains the sorted birth dates in a field called BIRTHSD in the Indivdual's record in the tblIR. There is also the sorted Death date in DeathSD and BurialSD for sorted burials. From: Heather Stovold Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:53 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Yes, it is more dificult I recognized that. However - if the programmers are already doing a secondary sort on dob (the primary sort being on Name - and Sherry from Legacy said that Legacy does the secondary automatically when you are sorting by name for all names that are the same) - they obviously have the code available to sort the dates (even the non-standard ones) so that makes it pretty trivial to this programmer mind. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote: Heather Stovold wrote: Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. And dates taken from the GRO are definitely non-standard, being entered as month Q year, where month is Mar or Jun or Sep or Dec. A standard can not be used for this since the month Q combination is shorthand for 1 month - 2 to last day month. Definitely *not* a trivial exercise for the programmers :-) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
I do this for cemeteries. Several cemeteries are interred by date. That is, they start in one corner or one spot, and from there spiraled outwards. I know Sherry already said this, but what I do here is enter everyone I have for that cemetery. Since I need it sorted by BURIAL date, I open it up in GenViewer and make a copy for the spreadsheet. Then in Excel (or whatever spreadsheet I am using), I make my burial date my primary sort, secondary sort is the name, and ternary sort based on the birth date. I don't know what I would do without GenViewer! I have the full version of GenViewer, but don't forget GenViewer Lite is free; though I don't know what features are deactivated for the Lite version. Basically, what you are asking for is a fourth way to sort the names. You can suggest it by going to the Legacy Home Tab, and on the left side under Support, there is a line there to Suggest a new feature. That is not a guarantee the developers will put it in, though, but they will see the suggestion. Thanks. Robert At 2009-10-23 05:57 PM, you wrote: You got it, Robert. Just like you can tag any group of names and then show just the tagged names and sort by Given name or Surname or RIN. Art - Original Message - From: Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features : Art- : : Let me reword what I think you said-- : : You want to be able to open a family file, any family file, and : select several people. Their names may, or may not, be : similar. Then, using the list of people you selected or tagged, and : just those people only, you want to sort by birthdate, perhaps oldest : to youngest, or youngest to oldest. : : Have I got it? : : Thanks. : : Robert : Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
Thanks everyone for such a quick response to my questions. This group is great. Sherry - Original Message - From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:57:59 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 Sherry wrote I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? Yes. It's possible to do that with pretty much any program - you just reduce the size of the 2 (or more! - I know someone who habitually works with about 4 windows open at the same time!) windows and position them as you want. I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Certainly if the website allows copying of text you can paste it into a field in Legacy, but you can't do that with pictures. With pictures you have to save them to your hard drive or some other local storage device from where Legacy can access them. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Converting Basic Sources to the SourceWriter
I have switched from TMG 7.0 to Legacy 7.0 Deluxe. Since I had to do an import via GEDCOM I am in the process of cleaning up 7,000 plus records. All of the Source's imported to the Basic Source System. Since the Source Conversion Tool has not been released yet, has anyone figured out the easiest way to convert sources in the Basic Source System to the SourceWriter? I read Geoff Rasmussen's article, dated 18 June 2008, in the archives referencing his method of manually converting Basic Source's to the SourceWriter. Since the article is more than a year old, I was just wondering if anyone has come up with an easier way. I apologize for bringing this up, I am sure it has been thorougly discussed before. That's one of the problems with being a Newbie. Thank you for your assistance, Charles Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Converting Basic Sources to the SourceWriter
Hi Charles, If you have MS Access I can give you instructions for that. If not, the your best bet is with ltools. See: http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm You can download a free version with some basic tools or upgrade to deluxe for a small fee and get lots of tools to do things with your Legacy data that you can't do in Legacy. Source conversion with Access or ltools is very easy to do but it just adds the SR template which you have to fill in yourself. No use waiting forever for Legacy to add their own SourceWriter as there is absolutely no way they can produce a tool that will fill in the template for you with the conversion. -- Richard Van Wasshnova http://www.gencircles.com/users/vanwasshnova http://gw.geneanet.org/vanwasshnova On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Charles Apple apple1...@embarqmail.com wrote: I have switched from TMG 7.0 to Legacy 7.0 Deluxe. Since I had to do an import via GEDCOM I am in the process of cleaning up 7,000 plus records. All of the Source's imported to the Basic Source System. Since the Source Conversion Tool has not been released yet, has anyone figured out the easiest way to convert sources in the Basic Source System to the SourceWriter? I read Geoff Rasmussen's article, dated 18 June 2008, in the archives referencing his method of manually converting Basic Source's to the SourceWriter. Since the article is more than a year old, I was just wondering if anyone has come up with an easier way. I apologize for bringing this up, I am sure it has been thorougly discussed before. That's one of the problems with being a Newbie. Thank you for your assistance, Charles Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Converting Basic Sources to the SourceWriter
Hi Richard, Thank you, Yes I have Access and I would appreciate the instructions. In the mean time I will check out ltools. Charles -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Richard Van Wasshnova Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:06 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Converting Basic Sources to the SourceWriter Hi Charles, If you have MS Access I can give you instructions for that. If not, the your best bet is with ltools. See: http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm You can download a free version with some basic tools or upgrade to deluxe for a small fee and get lots of tools to do things with your Legacy data that you can't do in Legacy. Source conversion with Access or ltools is very easy to do but it just adds the SR template which you have to fill in yourself. No use waiting forever for Legacy to add their own SourceWriter as there is absolutely no way they can produce a tool that will fill in the template for you with the conversion. -- Richard Van Wasshnova http://www.gencircles.com/users/vanwasshnova http://gw.geneanet.org/vanwasshnova On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Charles Apple apple1...@embarqmail.com wrote: I have switched from TMG 7.0 to Legacy 7.0 Deluxe. Since I had to do an import via GEDCOM I am in the process of cleaning up 7,000 plus records. All of the Source's imported to the Basic Source System. Since the Source Conversion Tool has not been released yet, has anyone figured out the easiest way to convert sources in the Basic Source System to the SourceWriter? I read Geoff Rasmussen's article, dated 18 June 2008, in the archives referencing his method of manually converting Basic Source's to the SourceWriter. Since the article is more than a year old, I was just wondering if anyone has come up with an easier way. I apologize for bringing this up, I am sure it has been thorougly discussed before. That's one of the problems with being a Newbie. Thank you for your assistance, Charles Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] List Mandates
A heartfelt apology and graciously changing mail patterns has been accepted by most, and punishing yourself further may be overkill. Welcome back. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Tom Watkins tomsgeneal...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:51:37 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] List Mandates Brian, I should think the unpardonable Sin for this particular list would be posting with a 9 paragraph sig line. You are most likely correct. I was not aware that the length of the signature line was a matter of such importance. However, ignorance on my part is no excuse. As a form of penance, I will attempt to refrain from including it in the future. I will also ban myself from posting to this list for one month. Please advise if this punishment is sufficient or if any additional chastisement will be required ?. [] Tom Watkins Eau Gallie, Florida Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Converting Basic Sources to the SourceWriter
As an oldtimer, I am still waiting for the conversion system. I have 2000+ sources, and will wait for the tool. There have been some tweaks to the program since that article, but I do not think there has been a major fix up (or it would be in the archives), for the Source stuff. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Charles Apple apple1...@embarqmail.com To: Legacy User Group LegacyUserGroup@Legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 6:56:33 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Converting Basic Sources to the SourceWriter I have switched from TMG 7.0 to Legacy 7.0 Deluxe. Since I had to do an import via GEDCOM I am in the process of cleaning up 7,000 plus records. All of the Source's imported to the Basic Source System. Since the Source Conversion Tool has not been released yet, has anyone figured out the easiest way to convert sources in the Basic Source System to the SourceWriter? I read Geoff Rasmussen's article, dated 18 June 2008, in the archives referencing his method of manually converting Basic Source's to the SourceWriter. Since the article is more than a year old, I was just wondering if anyone has come up with an easier way. I apologize for bringing this up, I am sure it has been thorougly discussed before. That's one of the problems with being a Newbie. Thank you for your assistance, Charles Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
As I said in my previous sending, the fourth screen is the 'photo directory', which I have subdivded as such: E:photos/ pictures/ photos1 through photos9-locations-censusUS-censusSwedish-documents-graves under each category I have further 'split' by location or year. In some cases I have over 50 in a category. This way I can copy a 'photo' from a print screen, save with paint, then add that to the new event screen, changing windows back and forth. It took me a while to formalize the process and simplify it. I no longer use my written instructions, but reccomend creating something to assist your process until learned. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:57:59 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 Sherry wrote I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? Yes. It's possible to do that with pretty much any program - you just reduce the size of the 2 (or more! - I know someone who habitually works with about 4 windows open at the same time!) windows and position them as you want. I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Certainly if the website allows copying of text you can paste it into a field in Legacy, but you can't do that with pictures. With pictures you have to save them to your hard drive or some other local storage device from where Legacy can access them. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] List Mandates
Wait a minute . . . Watkins?!? . . . as a possible distant relative, I must accept this immediately and ask: Any connection to the Watkins in Oneonata NY in the mid 1800's? Dawn Crowley Tom Watkins wrote: Brian, I should think the unpardonable Sin for this particular list would be posting with a 9 paragraph sig line. You are most likely correct. I was not aware that the length of the signature line was a matter of such importance. However, ignorance on my part is no excuse. As a form of penance, I will attempt to refrain from including it in the future. I will also ban myself from posting to this list for one month. Please advise if this punishment is sufficient or if any additional chastisement will be required ?. [] Tom Watkins Eau Gallie, Florida Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] List Mandates
Naw. This is a forum. Go ahead and post. Besides I like good sig lines. Brian in CA Like I was in control or something...:-) -Original Message- From: Tom Watkins [mailto:tomsgeneal...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:52 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] List Mandates Brian, I should think the unpardonable Sin for this particular list would be posting with a 9 paragraph sig line. You are most likely correct. I was not aware that the length of the signature line was a matter of such importance. However, ignorance on my part is no excuse. As a form of penance, I will attempt to refrain from including it in the future. I will also ban myself from posting to this list for one month. Please advise if this punishment is sufficient or if any additional chastisement will be required ?. [] Tom Watkins Eau Gallie, Florida Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
