Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy on external drive
Hi Roger, No Legacy has to be installed onto the actual computer. I know a few programs these days can be installed and run from external drives but not many. I assume you are asking because you want to move from computer to computer. You can have your databases and media on an external drive. However the program and your settings will be on the computer. With Legacy 7 the program and settings will be in the Legacy program folder and needs to be outside of the Windows Program Folder. With Legacy 8, the program itself is by default installed under the Windows Program Folder. Your settings are placed in username/My Documents/Legacy Family Tree/_AppData This folder cannot be changed. Depending on your version of Windows it will be called My Documents or just Documents but it's the windows designated place for Documents for a particular user. You could have the installation file on your external drive so that when you use a different computer you can install Legacy on that computer if necessary. Cathy At 02:04 PM 17/04/2014, you wrote: Greetings, Â Can I install and run Legacy Family Tree from an external hard drive, Thanks, Roger 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] Events in Ancestor Book Report misplaced
Joseph, I agree with all of your steps and also follow the same process myself. In the merge process I take it one step further before I begin the main merge into my masterfile, I 'clean-up ' the smaller file location names and also any incomplete dates (I add abt, aft, bef or bet.. on any incomplete dates) and also any empty given names change to Unknown and any empty surnames change to unknown. The I also run it thru a gedcom validator like Genealogica Grafica or the online Bonkers Sanity check This seems to help when it comes time to make the merge as duplicates were often missed because of some small error within the incoming file. Be careful in merging places as Legacy doesnt always seem to keep' the Long/lat of the location you want. My point in the original message was just to make it a part of the daily task to run a File check it just seems to keep thing in working order. Thanks for adding such a well detailed process Joseph! Thanks Jay On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:46 PM, JV Leavitt jleavi...@att.net wrote: Yea! I'm glad to see that at least one other person has discovered that if you are doing a lot of work on your database, the practice that Jay describes will help make your life a happier one than you might otherwise have been able to enjoy. My largest file is 167,000 records, and the most difficult of operations was to merge a small section back into it after it had been expanded, optimized, and sync'd with FS FT. I supposed that an AutoMerge using IntelliShare ID numbers would be all that was needed. Not so. There are new issues now, having to do with FSID's being lost in the process, for one thing. I learned from others on this list to have the small file come in with very large RIN numbers. I switch them right away to the left side of the merge window, and proceed one by one. A confusion factor would appear if I had allowed abandoned RINs to be reused (Customize 4.4) -- it seemed to cause serious problems in the merge process, but this was only a suspicion of mine, and not proved by testing, etc. Before doing such a merge, I learned to first renumber RINs and MRINs, and a few other preparatory steps I worked out, like backing up first (duh...), and to run the first three file maintenance options on both files, and to make no other changes before starting the merge. My merge operations are coming out clean now, and without difficulty or problems of any kind. I too am thankful for Legacy's overall strength at managing the data. Afterthought -- Okay, here are the steps I worked out: *Before Merge -- of the Master File and the small file to be merged* Backup both files Search and Replace -- Location Names Short Loc. Names (, United States), both files Combine duplicate location names Renumber RINs MRINs on both files File Maintenance - First three options on both files Refresh and print tree list for Master File *Merge Operation* All records - pertains to the imported file *Renumber RINs from 21* - pertains to the imported file. (*Do not renumber from 1*, as this is already being used by the Master File *Do not* Fill all existing abandoned RINs/MRINs AutoBackup option not necessary -- done in a previous step At beginning, when location differences are shown: Keep / transfer GPS data onto left side Keep / transfer best location names onto left side *At first merge window, swap to have large RINs on left side – necessary to keep FSIDs* **(None of the imported sync data from FS FT is kept unless it is on the left side) RINs of imported file are large, this makes merge data easier to see Watch out – the program will call out possible merge of children with same name where one died young, but another was born later with the same name Watch out – names of spouses might be slightly different – might need to make them the same Do not use AutoMerge - IntelliiShare options *After Merge -- Master file* Backup – before any corrections etc. File Maintenance, First three options Renumber RINs MRINs Set relationships Refresh and print trees list, and compare with the one made before the merge Do global sort of child and marriage lists New backup *After Merge – Small File* Rename the small file to move it to the Archive folder. NOTE: Now is a good time to export a small file if one is ready, because the MF is clean. Joseph Leavitt On 4/16/2014 3:51 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree wrote: Since I started running Renumbering both RIN's and MRIN's AND Check Repair EVERY day, I have no longer experienced any inconsistencies or problems with my database. The cleaner and more compact the database file is, the less chance there will be unexpected problems. With over 220,000 persons and over 40,000
[LegacyUG] Replace surname for a family
I'm stuck on how to do a mass replace for a family name at one point a son changed the spelling of his surname from that of his parents. I've isolated all of his descendants with tagging, but can't figure out how to replace the surname for all of the tagged records at once ... there are 421 people with this condition, so i don't want to do it one-by-one. Can someone tell me? Thanks, Scott 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] News
This user's account has been hacked. Do not click on the link. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 17/04/2014 4:12 AM, wstevensh...@aol.com wrote: Hi! News: spam url removed wstevensh...@aol.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] Location merging
This is an excellent suggestion. Perhaps you copy your example of what your search would look like into an enhancement suggestion. We would all benefit from that! Kathy On Sunday, April 13, 2014, magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.com wrote: I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine locations, but that's not working for me. It involves way too much scrolling up and down and all around. Also, the find at the top isn't finding anything. It only looks for the first word which doesn't help me. What I need to do is do a search for one word and get a list of all locations that have that word in its various forms. For example: Let's say I want to search for Sumter. I want to get all of the results like this: Georgia, Sumter Georgia, Sumter County Georgia, Sumter Co. GA, Sumter GA, Sumter County USA, GA, Sumter USA, GA Sumter County USA, Ga. Sumter County United States, Georgia, Sumter Sumter You see the problem and I use this one because it's my worst nightmare. Sumter is all over the place and some location entries don't even have anything else in them. Now as you can see, when I have 300 locations and they're sorted they are at the top the middle the end and so on. Scrolling take WAY too long and that's just not an option. I'd rather not bother if I have to do it that way. How can I fix this? Please, tell me there is an easy way? Many 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Replace surname for a family
Since I presume there are people in the file who legitimately retained the surname of the parents you cannot just edit the existing surname in the Master surname list, that will apply the change to everyone. Legacy does not contain a tool to change the surname for a tagged list so you would have to use some external tool (There is a tool called Ltools sold for manipulating a Legacy database but I do not know if it includes this kind of capability) or access the database using MS Access and an update query. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 17/04/2014 9:32 AM, Scott Hall wrote: I'm stuck on how to do a mass replace for a family name at one point a son changed the spelling of his surname from that of his parents. I've isolated all of his descendants with tagging, but can't figure out how to replace the surname for all of the tagged records at once ... there are 421 people with this condition, so i don't want to do it one-by-one. Can someone tell me? Thanks, Scott 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] Replace surname for a family
Unfortunately there are no options to limit a Search Replace operation to a given tag set or the Search List or Focus Group (sounds like a good enhancement suggestion), but I think you could limit the effort of doing it manually by making the edits in the Edit Tab of the Search List window. Type the new name in on the first record, then just click on each subsequent record in the search list, click the Surname Label, and then click Yes in the confirmation window. -Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:47 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Replace surname for a family Since I presume there are people in the file who legitimately retained the surname of the parents you cannot just edit the existing surname in the Master surname list, that will apply the change to everyone. Legacy does not contain a tool to change the surname for a tagged list so you would have to use some external tool (There is a tool called Ltools sold for manipulating a Legacy database but I do not know if it includes this kind of capability) or access the database using MS Access and an update query. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 17/04/2014 9:32 AM, Scott Hall wrote: I'm stuck on how to do a mass replace for a family name at one point a son changed the spelling of his surname from that of his parents. I've isolated all of his descendants with tagging, but can't figure out how to replace the surname for all of the tagged records at once ... there are 421 people with this condition, so i don't want to do it one-by-one. Can someone tell me? Thanks, Scott 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] Events in Ancestor Book Report misplaced
Hi all, I reset the Ancestor Book options and that fixed my report. I had not done that before. Check/repair alone did not help. Just btw, I do perform the check/repair often, but not daily. Thanks, Marnie On 4/16/2014 6:34 PM, Jim Terry/Support wrote: I spoke too soon. After running Check/Repair on my family file and resetting the ANcestor Book options I can no longer re-create the Events problem. Jim Technical Support Legacy Family Tree 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] Location merging
I hope I'm not repeating too much already found in previous posts, but, since we don't have a Location Merge function, would it help to do these things: First (of course), if there are MANY records using the SAME incorrect format, then I presume that you would for sure want to use the Master Locations List to edit (or combine) that master location so it has the desired format. You could see how many are involved by having a check mark in the Show People check box. This could potentially reduce the number of problem records quite a bit. Then, would it help in some way to do this kind of search: Search (Detailed Search tab) 1st condition: Individual, Birth Place, Contains, Sumter. 2nd condition: Or, Individual, Death Place, Contains, Sumter 3rd condition: Or, Individual, Burial Place, Contains, Sumter At least you would have a list of the records that have these particular location fields containing the word Sumter. I liked the suggestion to leave the Search List open, and do the editing from the Edit tab. Clicking on the label in front of a location field will copy into it what you have saved in that field preciously. As you step down the list, you see on this tab only location fields for individuals (not marriages) so this would limit using this procedure to the individual locations involved. I know that this leaves out some location fields, but I think they could be handled in a similar way, if necessary. This could be done for marriage locations separately, but using the results in the Name List isn't as straightforward. I can see that if we had an option for the Master Locations list, which would provide a way to show only those records having a particular Tag number, it would be very helpful in situations like yours (which, I presume, might not be uncommon). Joseph Leavitt On 4/17/2014 6:59 AM, Kathy Meyer wrote: This is an excellent suggestion. Perhaps you copy your example of what your search would look like into an enhancement suggestion. We would all benefit from that! Kathy On Sunday, April 13, 2014, magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.com mailto:magnoliaso...@gmail.com wrote: I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine locations, but that's not working for me. It involves way too much scrolling up and down and all around. Also, the find at the top isn't finding anything. It only looks for the first word which doesn't help me. What I need to do is do a search for one word and get a list of all locations that have that word in its various forms. For example: Let's say I want to search for Sumter. I want to get all of the results like this: Georgia, Sumter Georgia, Sumter County Georgia, Sumter Co. GA, Sumter GA, Sumter County USA, GA, Sumter USA, GA Sumter County USA, Ga. Sumter County United States, Georgia, Sumter Sumter You see the problem and I use this one because it's my worst nightmare. Sumter is all over the place and some location entries don't even have anything else in them. Now as you can see, when I have 300 locations and they're sorted they are at the top the middle the end and so on. Scrolling take WAY too long and that's just not an option. I'd rather not bother if I have to do it that way. How can I fix this? Please, tell me there is an easy way? Many 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:
[LegacyUG] Tagging
I want to tag everyone who doesn't have a tag5 with a tag6 regardless of other tags. Can do? 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging
Do a Search using the Detailed Search tab, and use: Individual, Tag 5, Equal To, Untagged. Uncheck other conditions, and tick Clear List before this search, and click on Create List. When the list comes up, click on the Options button at the bottom of the list, and select Advanced Tagging; use Make changes on # 6, and also tick Tag, and then click on the button Everyone in Search List. Joseph Leavitt On 4/17/2014 2:46 PM, singhals wrote: I want to tag everyone who doesn't have a tag5 with a tag6 regardless of other tags. Can do? 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 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] Tagging
SearchLook for whom: Individual, Where to look: Tag 5, How to look: Equal To, What to look for: Untagged Clear List before this search. Create List From list click on OptionAdvanced Tagging on the advanced tagging screen tic Tag, Make changes to Tag 6, Click on button Everyone in Search List. -Original Message- From: singhals Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 5:46 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Tagging I want to tag everyone who doesn't have a tag5 with a tag6 regardless of other tags. Can do? Cheryl -- Russell G. Strong P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/Articles.asp?ID=133Click=1114 Oh so many branches and not enough time to check out all the roots!!!. Check out my Genealogy Pages at http://www.rgstrong-genes.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] Location merging
Replying to my own post: I read my message over several times, making changes, and finally sending it, after which I see it posted with the word preciously instead of previously, and other words left out, etc. Woe is me. :-) Joseph Leavitt On 4/17/2014 12:26 PM, JV Leavitt wrote: I hope I'm not repeating too much already found in previous posts, but, since we don't have a Location Merge function, would it help to do these things: First (of course), if there are MANY records using the SAME incorrect format, then I presume that you would for sure want to use the Master Locations List to edit (or combine) that master location so it has the desired format. You could see how many are involved by having a check mark in the Show People check box. This could potentially reduce the number of problem records quite a bit. Then, would it help in some way to do this kind of search: Search (Detailed Search tab) 1st condition: Individual, Birth Place, Contains, Sumter. 2nd condition: Or, Individual, Death Place, Contains, Sumter 3rd condition: Or, Individual, Burial Place, Contains, Sumter At least you would have a list of the records that have these particular location fields containing the word Sumter. I liked the suggestion to leave the Search List open, and do the editing from the Edit tab. Clicking on the label in front of a location field will copy into it what you have saved in that field preciously. As you step down the list, you see on this tab only location fields for individuals (not marriages) so this would limit using this procedure to the individual locations involved. I know that this leaves out some location fields, but I think they could be handled in a similar way, if necessary. This could be done for marriage locations separately, but using the results in the Name List isn't as straightforward. I can see that if we had an option for the Master Locations list, which would provide a way to show only those records having a particular Tag number, it would be very helpful in situations like yours (which, I presume, might not be uncommon). Joseph Leavitt On 4/17/2014 6:59 AM, Kathy Meyer wrote: This is an excellent suggestion. Perhaps you copy your example of what your search would look like into an enhancement suggestion. We would all benefit from that! Kathy On Sunday, April 13, 2014, magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.com mailto:magnoliaso...@gmail.com wrote: I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine locations, but that's not working for me. It involves way too much scrolling up and down and all around. Also, the find at the top isn't finding anything. It only looks for the first word which doesn't help me. What I need to do is do a search for one word and get a list of all locations that have that word in its various forms. For example: Let's say I want to search for Sumter. I want to get all of the results like this: Georgia, Sumter Georgia, Sumter County Georgia, Sumter Co. GA, Sumter GA, Sumter County USA, GA, Sumter USA, GA Sumter County USA, Ga. Sumter County United States, Georgia, Sumter Sumter You see the problem and I use this one because it's my worst nightmare. Sumter is all over the place and some location entries don't even have anything else in them. Now as you can see, when I have 300 locations and they're sorted they are at the top the middle the end and so on. Scrolling take WAY too long and that's just not an option. I'd rather not bother if I have to do it that way. How can I fix this? Please, tell me there is an easy way? Many 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
[LegacyUG] File Importing and Merging Problems and Needed Fixes and Options
Hoping that the Legacy programmers fix the file importing and merging problems. I lost a lot of info on an import from another copy of my Legacy data a while ago. Appeared to lose Ancestry numbers, etc. Following your recommendations might have helped, but it should not be necessary. I detest the large numbers used by FS, and have tried to eliminate them when doing merges! On a related topic, I still say, as I said years ago, the Source data should be one of the clickable tabs when doing merges! We should be able to see the sources and select the ones we want to save or combine when merging Jay Ingalls == Subject:Re: [LegacyUG] Events in Ancestor Book Report misplaced Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:46:41 -0700 From: JV Leavitt jleavi...@att.net Reply-To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Yea! I'm glad to see that at least one other person has discovered that if you are doing a lot of work on your database, the practice that Jay [not Jay Ingalls] describes will help make your life a happier one than you might otherwise have been able to enjoy. My largest file is 167,000 records, and the most difficult of operations was to merge a small section back into it after it had been expanded, optimized, and sync'd with FS FT. I supposed that an AutoMerge using IntelliShare ID numbers would be all that was needed. Not so. There are new issues now, having to do with FSID's being lost in the process, for one thing. I learned from others on this list to have the small file come in with very large RIN numbers. I switch them right away to the left side of the merge window, and proceed one by one. A confusion factor would appear if I had allowed abandoned RINs to be reused (Customize 4.4) -- it seemed to cause serious problems in the merge process, but this was only a suspicion of mine, and not proved by testing, etc. Before doing such a merge, I learned to first renumber RINs and MRINs, and a few other preparatory steps I worked out, like backing up first (duh...), and to run the first three file maintenance options on both files, and to make no other changes before starting the merge. My merge operations are coming out clean now, and without difficulty or problems of any kind. I too am thankful for Legacy's overall strength at managing the data. Afterthought -- Okay, here are the steps I worked out: *Before Merge -- of the Master File and the small file to be merged * Backup both files Search and Replace -- Location Names Short Loc. Names (, United States), both files Combine duplicate location names Renumber RINs MRINs on both files File Maintenance - First three options on both files Refresh and print tree list for Master File *Merge Operation* All records - pertains to the imported file *Renumber RINs from 21 * - pertains to the imported file. (*Do not renumber from 1*, as this is already being used by the Master File *Do not* Fill all existing abandoned RINs/MRINs AutoBackup option not necessary -- done in a previous step At beginning, when location differences are shown: Keep / transfer GPS data onto left side Keep / transfer best location names onto left side *At first merge window, swap to have large RINs on left side – necessary to keep FSIDs * **(_*None of the imported sync data from FS FT is kept unless it is on the left side*_) RINs of imported [FS] file are large, this makes merge data easier to see Watch out – the program will call out possible merge of children with same name where one died young, but another was born later with the same name Watch out – names of spouses might be slightly different – might need to make them the same Do not use AutoMerge - IntelliiShare options *After Merge -- Master file * Backup – before any corrections etc. File Maintenance, First three options Renumber RINs MRINs Set relationships Refresh and print trees list, and compare with the one made before the merge Do global sort of child and marriage lists New backup *After Merge – Small File * Rename the small file to move it to the Archive folder. NOTE: Now is a good time to export a small file if one is ready, because the MF is clean. Joseph Leavitt 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
