Re: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting
Barrie Smart wrote I made a start error when entering dates in a lot of my family records, so there's a number of formats for the same date. After doing what I should have done in the 1st place (RTBM!) I made selections in the OptionsCustomiseDates screen, and am following the conventions I've chosen. My question is: Is there any way I can do a blanket change to the already entered dates so they read as per my customised date setup? I've got quite a number, and if the worst comes to the worst I can manually re-enter them, but it would make life easier if there was a way to do it in one step. As long as what you have entered is read by Legacy as a date, simply selecting the chosen Dates Displayed As option should make them all display as you want them. I am sure that regardless of how you *enter* the date, Legacy stores it in only one format and then displays it according to your chosen options. Unless you have been using formats which Legacy does not recognise as dates, I'm not sure how you can have a number of different formats because there doesn't seem to be an option for don't change what I enter. Selecting the option to Check Formatting and then one of the sub-options should show whether any of your dates are non-standard. -- 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] Date Formatting
Hi Barry - I haven't tried this but you could investigate exporting then importing - worst case using a gedcom, but preferably to another Legacy file (so that all the non-standard data is kept). I suspect that with any export the date is only sent in one format, and the date display can then be selected for all dates. Cheers, Brett - Original Message - From: Barrie Smart To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:06 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting Hi, I made a start error when entering dates in a lot of my family records, so there's a number of formats for the same date. After doing what I should have done in the 1st place (RTBM!) I made selections in the OptionsCustomiseDates screen, and am following the conventions I've chosen. My question is: Is there any way I can do a blanket change to the already entered dates so they read as per my customised date setup? I've got quite a number, and if the worst comes to the worst I can manually re-enter them, but it would make life easier if there was a way to do it in one step. Any help/comments welcomed. Thanks Barrie 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] Date Formatting
Jenny M Benson wrote: Barrie Smart wrote I made a start error when entering dates in a lot of my family records, so there's a number of formats for the same date. After doing what I should have done in the 1st place (RTBM!) I made selections in the OptionsCustomiseDates screen, and am following the conventions I've chosen. My question is: Is there any way I can do a blanket change to the already entered dates so they read as per my customised date setup? I've got quite a number, and if the worst comes to the worst I can manually re-enter them, but it would make life easier if there was a way to do it in one step. As long as what you have entered is read by Legacy as a date, simply selecting the chosen Dates Displayed As option should make them all display as you want them. I am sure that regardless of how you *enter* the date, Legacy stores it in only one format and then displays it according to your chosen options. Unless you have been using formats which Legacy does not recognise as dates, I'm not sure how you can have a number of different formats because there doesn't seem to be an option for don't change what I enter. Selecting the option to Check Formatting and then one of the sub-options should show whether any of your dates are non-standard. -- Jenny M Benson Jenny, Like you, I could not understand what is actually meant by different formats, and I agree that the Optionscustomisedates will set the presentation of all valid dates. It would help, Barrie, if you could give us examples of the formats causing problems, so that we me test them for ourselves. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/ronfergy 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] Date Formatting
Barrie, If you have dates entered in a form that Legacy does not recognize as a date there is a search that will list all the bad dates. Go to Search Find Miscellaneous searches tab. There is a selection there that will search all bad dates. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Barrie Smart wrote: Hi, I made a start error when entering dates in a lot of my family records, so there's a number of formats for the same date. After doing what I should have done in the 1st place (RTBM!) I made selections in the OptionsCustomiseDates screen, and am following the conventions I've chosen. My question is: Is there any way I can do a blanket change to the already entered dates so they read as per my customised date setup? I've got quite a number, and if the worst comes to the worst I can manually re-enter them, but it would make life easier if there was a way to do it in one step. Any help/comments welcomed. Thanks Barrie 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] Date Formatting
That is a great tool and I am very pleased to find something else to help me keep my data consistent. I would like to know where and how others record information without dates where only an age is known. Such as; died in infancy or died at age 18. Thanks, Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Brian/Support Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:11 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting Barrie, If you have dates entered in a form that Legacy does not recognize as a date there is a search that will list all the bad dates. Go to Search Find Miscellaneous searches tab. There is a selection there that will search all bad dates. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Barrie Smart wrote: Hi, I made a start error when entering dates in a lot of my family records, so there's a number of formats for the same date. After doing what I should have done in the 1st place (RTBM!) I made selections in the OptionsCustomiseDates screen, and am following the conventions I've chosen. My question is: Is there any way I can do a blanket change to the already entered dates so they read as per my customised date setup? I've got quite a number, and if the worst comes to the worst I can manually re-enter them, but it would make life easier if there was a way to do it in one step. Any help/comments welcomed. Thanks Barrie 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] Date Formatting
Rita, For me, I just deduct the age from the year of death and use about eg. 1888 less 18 gives Abt1870. With respect to died in infancy, personally I would leave the date blank, change the 'living' to 'dead', enter the place of death (if I know it) in the location field, and add a note in the Death Notes to say Died in infancy. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ Rita Lynn McKale wrote: That is a great tool and I am very pleased to find something else to help me keep my data consistent. I would like to know where and how others record information without dates where only an age is known. Such as; died in infancy or died at age 18. Thanks, Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Brian/Support Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:11 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting Barrie, If you have dates entered in a form that Legacy does not recognize as a date there is a search that will list all the bad dates. Go to Search Find Miscellaneous searches tab. There is a selection there that will search all bad dates. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Barrie Smart wrote: Hi, I made a start error when entering dates in a lot of my family records, so there's a number of formats for the same date. After doing what I should have done in the 1st place (RTBM!) I made selections in the OptionsCustomiseDates screen, and am following the conventions I've chosen. My question is: Is there any way I can do a blanket change to the already entered dates so they read as per my customised date setup? I've got quite a number, and if the worst comes to the worst I can manually re-enter them, but it would make life easier if there was a way to do it in one step. Any help/comments welcomed. Thanks Barrie 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] Date Formatting
Thanks Ron These particular ones I have no birth or death date for, only the notes died in infancy or died at age 18 etc. I had entered that in the died field because I like seeing it there and on family group sheets. I guess it's not wrong just because Legacy does recognize it as a date.. Thanks again Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Ron Ferguson Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 1:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting Rita, For me, I just deduct the age from the year of death and use about eg. 1888 less 18 gives Abt1870. With respect to died in infancy, personally I would leave the date blank, change the 'living' to 'dead', enter the place of death (if I know it) in the location field, and add a note in the Death Notes to say Died in infancy. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ Rita Lynn McKale wrote: That is a great tool and I am very pleased to find something else to help me keep my data consistent. I would like to know where and how others record information without dates where only an age is known. Such as; died in infancy or died at age 18. Thanks, Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Brian/Support Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:11 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting Barrie, If you have dates entered in a form that Legacy does not recognize as a date there is a search that will list all the bad dates. Go to Search Find Miscellaneous searches tab. There is a selection there that will search all bad dates. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Barrie Smart wrote: Hi, I made a start error when entering dates in a lot of my family records, so there's a number of formats for the same date. After doing what I should have done in the 1st place (RTBM!) I made selections in the OptionsCustomiseDates screen, and am following the conventions I've chosen. My question is: Is there any way I can do a blanket change to the already entered dates so they read as per my customised date setup? I've got quite a number, and if the worst comes to the worst I can manually re-enter them, but it would make life easier if there was a way to do it in one step. Any help/comments welcomed. Thanks Barrie 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] Date Formatting
Rita, For the avoidance of future problems it is best to treat only dates as dates, and notes as notes. But it is your choice. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/ronfergy Rita Lynn McKale wrote: Thanks Ron These particular ones I have no birth or death date for, only the notes died in infancy or died at age 18 etc. I had entered that in the died field because I like seeing it there and on family group sheets. I guess it's not wrong just because Legacy does recognize it as a date.. Thanks again Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Ron Ferguson Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 1:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting Rita, For me, I just deduct the age from the year of death and use about eg. 1888 less 18 gives Abt1870. With respect to died in infancy, personally I would leave the date blank, change the 'living' to 'dead', enter the place of death (if I know it) in the location field, and add a note in the Death Notes to say Died in infancy. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ Rita Lynn McKale wrote: That is a great tool and I am very pleased to find something else to help me keep my data consistent. I would like to know where and how others record information without dates where only an age is known. Such as; died in infancy or died at age 18. Thanks, Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Brian/Support Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:11 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting Barrie, If you have dates entered in a form that Legacy does not recognize as a date there is a search that will list all the bad dates. Go to Search Find Miscellaneous searches tab. There is a selection there that will search all bad dates. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Barrie Smart wrote: Hi, I made a start error when entering dates in a lot of my family records, so there's a number of formats for the same date. After doing what I should have done in the 1st place (RTBM!) I made selections in the OptionsCustomiseDates screen, and am following the conventions I've chosen. My question is: Is there any way I can do a blanket change to the already entered dates so they read as per my customised date setup? I've got quite a number, and if the worst comes to the worst I can manually re-enter them, but it would make life easier if there was a way to do it in one step. Any help/comments welcomed. Thanks Barrie 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
