Re: [LegacyUG] How can I successfully use Legacy on desktop laptop?
Kathy Thompson wrote: [snip] Taking the laptop would solve both those issues. IME, though, it creates other issues. I don't know anyone whose laptop battery holds out for more than a couple hours, many libraries don't have easy-access to an outlet (and I know one that charged $1 an hour to use an outlet), they get heavy, and in a few libraries where they are not allowed for a variety of reasons they don't fit in the tiny bin provided (so you have to walk it back to the car, lock it in the trunk, and hope it's still there when you come back). More, there's the lunch-break and powder room stops (the place my laptop was most useful had antique desks and wouldn't let me run the encased cable around the leg to secure the laptop). Given the choice between carting around a pound of paper printout or 5 pounds of laptop, power-cords, and surge protectors ... I voted for the paper. If your research stops are better equipped than mine -- blessed be and go in peace. (g) Cheryl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Surnames
Can I ask for guidance on surnames? Is it better to stick to a general surname for a family and put all others in akas or should I put what is actually on each record as the main name. Index view would be difficult. For example one English parish has 1608 Eliz d Simon Ayres 1611 William s Symon Aires 1617 Simon son of Simon Eire 1673 William son William Eyre In the same register there is Air, Aire, Ayre, Ayer, Eire, Eyre, Eyer + s on some and even Hare! Legacy gives the father’s name so should I leave that for children and put the others in akas? Sue Anderson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] How to print event pics in the multiple lines of descent report
Hello, me again. I do not see how to get the event pics to print in this report from the publishing center? multiple lines of descent report thanks in advance Yolanda -- Yolanda Olsen cell: 239-240-7015 | yola...@swflc21.com Office: 239-471-7592 Fax: 866.650-9501 Century 21 Sunbelt Cape Coral FL, 33914 visit my website yolanda.capecoralhomesnow.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How can I successfully use Legacy on desktop laptop?
This topic has come up many times on this list, and people have a variety of solutions. Mine is not for everyone, but you might want to consider it. The biggest advantage is that it requires no Internet access. It also avoids accidentally updating two different family files, and it avoids the issue of accidentally having simultaneous dropbox sessions. This solution is to keep your active family file(s) on a USB drive. You insert this thumb drive in whichever computer you are using. When you finish a session or otherwise make a backup, ensure that the backup goes elsewhere – normally to a hard drive on the current computer. I keep my Legacy-related multimedia on the USB drive as well. (These are copies of files stored in normal places like My Pictures.) Ensure that your regular computer backup procedure for all your files includes the folders containing Legacy backups. Ward From: Kathy Meyer Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 10:31 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How can I successfully use Legacy on desktop laptop? I will add my support to the Dropbox recommendation. Have used it for years and it is awesome. So versatile to be able to access it anywhere and save things to your own Dropbox account from anywhere else. Don't forget the warning about opening the same account in two places. Kathy On Monday, September 9, 2013, Wendy Howard wrote: That all sounds perfectly fine, and exactly what I would do if I had two working computers. I have my data file (and everything else I want to backup) in Dropbox. The only rider is that you should take care to never open the same file in two machines at the same time. If you have an Android smart phone or iPhone/iPad, you could alternatively use that to carry your data around with you using the Families app. Might be less cumbersome, though the laptop has its uses, too. http://www.telgen.co.uk/families/index.html Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Kathy Thompson said the following on 10/09/2013 12:56 p.m.: Aside from installing Legacy on both machines, is there any other thing I need to do to enable this to happen successfully? Will saving my main Legacy database file in a cloud storage (like Dropbox) be enough? I'm finding I'm using too much paper when going to the library to do research, and the other day I got there and found I didn't have information with me that I knew I wanted to look up. Taking the laptop would solve both those issues. Thanks. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How can I successfully use Legacy on desktop laptop?
Kathy, Legacy does have a smart phone app, a tablet is another answer. I have been to libraries from Bakersville, North Carolina to Kansas City, Mo Genealogy Library. In neither Burnsville or Bakersville did I have trouble finding power, nor in Kansas City. I might take an extension cord just to be safe. They have Dropbox for smart phones. I am just starting with Dropbox. Courthouses or newspaper archives might be a problem bringing in a laptop. One thing you can do is bring either a camera or smart phone and take pictures of the information you find. Ask permission to record with a picture first. Avoid flash. Deanna From: Bruce Jones juicebo...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 8:28 PM I have had my Legacy database on Dropbox for several years and like it. Just make sure you never have your database open on both computers at the same time. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Kathy Thompson kmthoms...@gmail.com wrote: Aside from installing Legacy on both machines, is there any other thing I need to do to enable this to happen successfully? Will saving my main Legacy database file in a cloud storage (like Dropbox) be enough? I'm finding I'm using too much paper when going to the library to do research, and the other day I got there and found I didn't have information with me that I knew I wanted to look up. Taking the laptop would solve both those issues. Thanks. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Master Source for Crew Lists in Source Writer
Does anyone have a suggestion for what Master Source to use when entering Crew Lists? I have a person in my one-name study that worked on ships. Also, my father shipped out for about ten years and if I can ever figure out the Master Source to use, I can enter them both. I don't think the immigration emigration templates work too well. Besides, they weren't doing either, just working! Thanks for any help anyone can offer. Joyce Drinkwater Herzog -- Researching Drinkwater surname all over the world, any time, any place, but especially Descendants and Ancestors of Paul Drinkwater, born 1789 in Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, England. GOONS #5057 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/drinkwater.html Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Two Computers
I have been following the dialogue the last few days and am now wondering what will happen if you have two computers on with the same program/information at the same time? I have not tried it but have thought it could be helpful at times. BettyJean Fritts bjfri...@smt-net.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Master Source for Crew Lists in Source Writer
Quick question - what are you looking at? If the crew list is from an online database, is that a database or an index? If you are looking at original records, it might be a journal or log. I always take a look at the description of the document type (easily done at ancestry for example). In the instance of Dorset Crew Lists their reference to the source reads as follows: Ancestry.com. Dorset, England, Crew Lists, 1863-1914 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Dorset Crew Lists. Dorchester, Dorset: Dorset History Centre. Elizabeth Shown Mills always asks - what are YOU looking at (what are you holding in your hand)? And then go from there. In the example above it is an online database. I might be all wrong (and I am sure someone will tell me) BUT your source is different from the event/fact - the event/fact would be employment and the source would be the crew list. Does that help or does it muddy the waters for you? Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, No. 5089 Legacy Virtual Users' Group One Place Studies - Plate Cove, Newfoundland On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Joyce Herzog joyce.her...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion for what Master Source to use when entering Crew Lists? I have a person in my one-name study that worked on ships. Also, my father shipped out for about ten years and if I can ever figure out the Master Source to use, I can enter them both. I don't think the immigration emigration templates work too well. Besides, they weren't doing either, just working! Thanks for any help anyone can offer. Joyce Drinkwater Herzog Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Surnames
Hi Sue, I would enter the surname into Legacy as it was entered on whatever record I find. If I find the same person with multiple spellings of their surname in different records, then I will pick the one that was either most used, or that the person was generally known by (if I know that), and use that spelling, making an entry in notes indicating the alternate spellings, and usually entering an AKA as well. One place where I definitely use the same surname spelling every time is in naming image files. I choose a standard spelling for a surname line and use that spelling for every image file name for members of that line. That way they all sort in an orderly fashion, making it easier for me to find a particular image, or document. So a digital image of a birth record document for both a SMITH and a SMYTHE (who were in the same line) would be named in my folders as SMITH_John_James_Birth_Rec_1879_Aug_10_Lawrence_Twp_Lawrence_Co_OH and SMITH_George_Birth_Rec_1838_May_4_Ironton_Lawrence_Co_OH I would likely add a -SMYTHE- to the second record with the leading and trailing dashes indicating an alternative spelling, so that the record would look like this: SMITH_-SMYTHE-_George_Birth_Rec_1838_May_4_Ironton_Lawrence_Co_OH That way a search with Windows Explorer would find the record no matter which way I spelled it in the search field. I have developed a standard for naming image files that has served me very well over man years, even when dealing with thousands of image files. I have documented that standard in a PDF paper (Describe Your Photos In Their Filenames.pdf) which I will be happy to send to any subscriber if they request it in a private e-mail. The last time I made the offer to send the standard I received well over 100 requests, so please do not send such requests via this e-mailing list as they really clutter up the mail. :-) John Zimmerman Mesa, AZ On 10-Sep-13 12:16 PM, Sue Anderson wrote: Can I ask for guidance on surnames? Is it better to stick to a general surname for a family and put all others in akas or should I put what is actually on each record as the main name. Index view would be difficult. For example one English parish has 1608 Eliz d Simon Ayres 1611 William s Symon Aires 1617 Simon son of Simon Eire 1673 William son William Eyre In the same register there is Air, Aire, Ayre, Ayer, Eire, Eyre, Eyer + s on some and even Hare! Legacy gives the father’s name so should I leave that for children and put the others in akas? Sue Anderson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
