Re: [LegacyUG] Can this be done I never tried before
Hi Rich, You can get a list of all people who have been modified in the last 90 days. This will only include work you've done on locations and sources if these are attached to one of those people modified. You go to Search Find Detailed Search Who: Individual Where: Modified Date How: after What: enter the date Create new list. In Legacy 7.5, in Family View, the modified date for the highlighted person is shown on the bottom status bar on the right end. Click on it and you can see the added date etc for the couple. In Legacy 8 this information is seen by hovering over or clicking the screen in the bottom right corner where a coloured box shows up when you mouse over the corner. Cathy Richard Falzini mailto:rfalz...@yahoo.com Sunday, 18 May 2014 12:14 AM Hello group, Can I make a change or go to a certain setting with in my 7.5 version and compose a list of all changes made to my genealogy within the last 90 days? Thanks Rich Genealogy Of Castelnuovo di Porto, Italy http://www.castelnuovodiportogenealogy.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 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] Disproved ancestors
It's fine to use the Name Field for a short easily seen note but I'd be putting the note in privacy brackets (double square brackets for those who haven't discovered them yet - they can be used in any field) so that it doesn't mess up publishing. These people may not be published but you can do this for real family members as well when you have trouble remembering which Mary is which. Cathy Ron Ferguson wrote: Jay, Clearly you do not publish your work, so whatever takes your fancy is OK. However I would not like the job of sorting it all out should you change your mind. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone J.M. \Jay\ Ingalls jay_inga...@pipeline.com wrote: Pat, I often put a note in the given name field, such as Mary-Not Pat's direct ancestor. Saves a lot of time, does not require reading the notes. I have some I need to work on, Like John-May be wrong wife, etc. Fortunately, we are no t limited to 12 characters, or whatever it was in the first genealogy programs, for the given name field! Jay = On 5/17/2014 7:26 AM, Michele/Support wrote: Pat, If I have done a lot of work on them I would simply unlink them and leave them in my file. If they were in the same location as your ancestors then they still might end up being connected in some way.  Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com  *From:*Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2014 6:51 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors  I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved.  I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other L egacy users handle the matter.  I could put them in a separate file or leave them where they are and just  unlink them so that they're no longer connected.  I'd appreciate your thoughts/ideas.  Thanks,  Pat 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 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] Disproved ancestors
Sorry Cathy, but on this one I do no agree Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: It's fine to use the Name Field for a short easily seen note but I'd be putting the note in privacy brackets (double square brackets for those who haven't discovered them yet - they can be used in any field) so that it doesn't mess up publishing. These people may not be published but you can do this for real family members as well when you have trouble remembering which Mary is which. Cathy Ron Ferguson wrote: Jay, Clearly you do not publish your work, so whatever takes your fancy is OK. However I would not like the job of sorting it all out should you change your mind. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperiaâ„¢ smartphone J.M. \Jay\ Ingalls jay_inga...@pipeline.com wrote: Pat, I often put a note in the given name field, such as Mary-Not Pat's direct ancestor. Saves a lot of time, does not require reading the notes. I have some I need to work on, Like John-May be wrong wife, etc. Fortunately, we are no t limited to 12 characters, or whatever it was in the first genealogy programs, for the given name field! Jay = On 5/17/2014 7:26 AM, Michele/Support wrote: Pat, If I have done a lot of work on them I would simply unlink them and leave them in my file. If they were in the same location as your ancestors then they still might end up being connected in some way.  Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com  *From:*Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2014 6:51 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors  I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved.  I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other L egacy users handle the matter.  I could put them in a separate file or leave them where they are and just  unlink them so that they're no longer connected.  I'd appreciate your thoughts/ideas.  Thanks,  Pat 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 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors
Sorry Cathy, I can't really agree on this one. I may well make a note in one of the notes but not in specific fields. Wilst I do use privacy brackets, their disadvantage is that you either publish, or not, all of them. That is to say you cannot exclude one type but include another. In my view this limits their usefulness. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: It's fine to use the Name Field for a short easily seen note but I'd be putting the note in privacy brackets (double square brackets for those who haven't discovered them yet - they can be used in any field) so that it doesn't mess up publishing. These people may not be published but you can do this for real family members as well when you have trouble remembering which Mary is which. Cathy Ron Ferguson wrote: Jay, Clearly you do not publish your work, so whatever takes your fancy is OK. However I would not like the job of sorting it all out should you change your mind. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperiaâ„¢ smartphone J.M. \Jay\ Ingalls jay_inga...@pipeline.com wrote: Pat, I often put a note in the given name field, such as Mary-Not Pat's direct ancestor. Saves a lot of time, does not require reading the notes. I have some I need to work on, Like John-May be wrong wife, etc. Fortunately, we are no t limited to 12 characters, or whatever it was in the first genealogy programs, for the given name field! Jay = On 5/17/2014 7:26 AM, Michele/Support wrote: Pat, If I have done a lot of work on them I would simply unlink them and leave them in my file. If they were in the same location as your ancestors then they still might end up being connected in some way.  Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com  *From:*Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2014 6:51 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors  I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved.  I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other L egacy users handle the matter.  I could put them in a separate file or leave them where they are and just  unlink them so that they're no longer connected.  I'd appreciate your thoughts/ideas.  Thanks,  Pat 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 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/
Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors
Not for me. I always exclude everything that is in privacy brackets. If I want some things sometimes but not others I use an event which I can make private when I don't want it. Now I guess you could choose to include or not include event notes but since I haven't entered notes with the thought of not including them, this wouldn't work for me as I have years of data entry. The thing is to be consistent. I'm consistent in never publishing things I put in privacy brackets (unless of course for research purposes I want a report of some kind for myself). Ron, you're free to not use them in particular fields so that you can choose to include or exclude things in privacy brackets on other grounds. It's just not my way of entering data to consider putting things in privacy brackets that I may want to publish. For me, they're too useful to not use in Name Fields. Cathy Ron Ferguson wrote: Sorry Cathy, I can't really agree on this one. I may well make a note in one of the notes but not in specific fields. Wilst I do use privacy brackets, their disadvantage is that you either publish, or not, all of them. That is to say you cannot exclude one type but include another. In my view this limits their usefulness. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Cathy Pinnergenea...@gmail.com wrote: It's fine to use the Name Field for a short easily seen note but I'd be putting the note in privacy brackets (double square brackets for those who haven't discovered them yet - they can be used in any field) so that it doesn't mess up publishing. These people may not be published but you can do this for real family members as well when you have trouble remembering which Mary is which. Cathy Ron Ferguson wrote: Jay, Clearly you do not publish your work, so whatever takes your fancy is OK. However I would not like the job of sorting it all out should you change your mind. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperiaâ„¢ smartphone J.M. \Jay\ Ingalls jay_inga...@pipeline.com wrote: Pat, I often put a note in the given name field, such as Mary-Not Pat's direct ancestor. Saves a lot of time, does not require reading the notes. I have some I need to work on, Like John-May be wrong wife, etc. Fortunately, we are no t limited to 12 characters, or whatever it was in the first genealogy programs, for the given name field! Jay 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] Disproved ancestors
Just different ways of working - it's no bad thing for users to know the options. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Not for me. I always exclude everything that is in privacy brackets. If I want some things sometimes but not others I use an event which I can make private when I don't want it. Now I guess you could choose to include or not include event notes but since I haven't entered notes with the thought of not including them, this wouldn't work for me as I have years of data entry. The thing is to be consistent. I'm consistent in never publishing things I put in privacy brackets (unless of course for research purposes I want a report of some kind for myself). Ron, you're free to not use them in particular fields so that you can choose to include or exclude things in privacy brackets on other grounds. It's just not my way of entering data to consider putting things in privacy brackets that I may want to publish. For me, they're too useful to not use in Name Fields. Cathy Ron Ferguson wrote: Sorry Cathy, I can't really agree on this one. I may well make a note in one of the notes but not in specific fields. Wilst I do use privacy brackets, their disadvantage is that you either publish, or not, all of them. That is to say you cannot exclude one type but include another. In my view this limits their usefulness. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperiaâ„¢ smartphone Cathy Pinnergenea...@gmail.com wrote: It's fine to use the Name Field for a short easily seen note but I'd be putting the note in privacy brackets (double square brackets for those who haven't discovered them yet - they can be used in any field) so that it doesn't mess up publishing. These people may not be published but you can do this for real family members as well when you have trouble remembering which Mary is which. Cathy Ron Ferguson wrote: Jay, Clearly you do not publish your work, so whatever takes your fancy is OK. However I would not like the job of sorting it all out should you change your mind. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperiaâ„¢ smartphone J.M. \Jay\ Ingalls jay_inga...@pipeline.com wrote: Pat, I often put a note in the given name field, such as Mary-Not Pat's direct ancestor. Saves a lot of time, does not require reading the notes. I have some I need to work on, Like John-May be wrong wife, etc. Fortunately, we are no t limited to 12 characters, or whatever it was in the first genealogy programs, for the given name field! Jay 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] Disproved ancestors
Well, it looks as though everyone feels it's best to keep them in and unlink them. I've already done the unlinking so I'll just let them stay there. Thanks for your input! Pat On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.ukwrote: Just different ways of working - it's no bad thing for users to know the options. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Not for me. I always exclude everything that is in privacy brackets. If I want some things sometimes but not others I use an event which I can make private when I don't want it. Now I guess you could choose to include or not include event notes but since I haven't entered notes with the thought of not including them, this wouldn't work for me as I have years of data entry. The thing is to be consistent. I'm consistent in never publishing things I put in privacy brackets (unless of course for research purposes I want a report of some kind for myself). Ron, you're free to not use them in particular fields so that you can choose to include or exclude things in privacy brackets on other grounds. It's just not my way of entering data to consider putting things in privacy brackets that I may want to publish. For me, they're too useful to not use in Name Fields. Cathy Ron Ferguson wrote: Sorry Cathy, I can't really agree on this one. I may well make a note in one of the notes but not in specific fields. Wilst I do use privacy brackets, their disadvantage is that you either publish, or not, all of them. That is to say you cannot exclude one type but include another. In my view this limits their usefulness. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperiaâ„¢ smartphone Cathy Pinnergenea...@gmail.com wrote: It's fine to use the Name Field for a short easily seen note but I'd be putting the note in privacy brackets (double square brackets for those who haven't discovered them yet - they can be used in any field) so that it doesn't mess up publishing. These people may not be published but you can do this for real family members as well when you have trouble remembering which Mary is which. Cathy Ron Ferguson wrote: Jay, Clearly you do not publish your work, so whatever takes your fancy is OK. However I would not like the job of sorting it all out should you change your mind. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperiaâ„¢ smartphone J.M. \Jay\ Ingalls jay_inga...@pipeline.com wrote: Pat, I often put a note in the given name field, such as Mary-Not Pat's direct ancestor. Saves a lot of time, does not require reading the notes. I have some I need to work on, Like John-May be wrong wife, etc. Fortunately, we are no t limited to 12 characters, or whatever it was in the first genealogy programs, for the given name field! Jay 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] Migrating from The Master Genealogist (TMG)
I left TMG and moved to Legacy several years ago. Legacy is much easier and less cumbersome to input data. The only thing I have missed in Legacy that TMG offered is a true Ahnentafel report. TMG does a very good job of that and I have found no equivalent in Legacy. Quite often I wish to follow one line (or surname) from a particular person back to the progenitor and it is tough to do that in Legacy. Jane Sarles On 5/17/2014 5:54 PM, jim.orrel...@gmail.com wrote: I have been productively using The Master Genealogist (TMG) for some years but I am now considering moving to a new genealogy database; the 2 contenders seem to be ROOTSMAGIC and LEGACY FAMILY TREE. It would be nice to hear if anyone else has moved, and what FEATURES THEY KNOW TMG HAS THAT ARE MISSING in Legacy. As well as the usual the main features I am looking for are: [] Left to Right tree chart with flexible content/persons choice/exclude and formatting. [] Reports with flexible content/persons choice/exclude and formatting with easy manipulating with say Word Macros. [] Global database edits (similar to the TMG addon TMG Utility) [] A database that is easy to enquire/manipulate with SQL or similar with help of an active user group etc. [] A database that is not past its sell by date (TMG uses FoxPro, and as ever with TMG, no time indication of a fix/replacement). Cheers JimO 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] Migrating from The Master Genealogist (TMG)
Have you looked at the Relationship Report created through the Relationship Calculator? It's a direct line report between two individuals. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: I left TMG and moved to Legacy several years ago. Legacy is much easier and less cumbersome to input data. The only thing I have missed in Legacy that TMG offered is a true Ahnentafel report. TMG does a very good job of that and I have found no equivalent in Legacy. Quite often I wish to follow one line (or surname)  from a particular person back to the progenitor and it is tough to do that in Legacy. Jane Sarles 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] Migrating from The Master Genealogist (TMG)
Yes, but it doesn't give the details that I need in a full report. I wish to have the wife, children, and event details. of all those in the line. Haven't found a way to do that in Legacy. Jane On 5/18/2014 9:42 AM, Sherry/Support wrote: Have you looked at the Relationship Report created through the Relationship Calculator? It's a direct line report between two individuals. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: I left TMG and moved to Legacy several years ago. Legacy is much easier and less cumbersome to input data. The only thing I have missed in Legacy that TMG offered is a true Ahnentafel report. TMG does a very good job of that and I have found no equivalent in Legacy. Quite often I wish to follow one line (or surname)  from a particular person back to the progenitor and it is tough to do that in Legacy. Jane Sarles 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] [1][1][1]....????
Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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] [1][1][1]....????
The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON From: elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] Sent: May 18, 2014 01:50 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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] [1][1][1]....????
I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:* elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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] [1][1][1]....????
If you save some other type file, like a word file do you get the same [1] being added to those files? On 5/18/2014 2:10 PM, elizabeth wrote: I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn't want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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 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] [1][1][1]....????
Are you sure you are not using the Save As versus the Backup Family File? Save as can append a bracketed number to a filename if the name already exists. The backup will ask if it is alright to overwrite a filename that already exists. The only mystery is that you say the file has .zip extension which should indicate a backup. If you're not doing backup to a file with date and time appended, then the same filename will be attempted. Windows has the ability to prevent files from being overwritten and perhaps that is what is causing the bracketed number to be appended. Google bracketed numbers being appended to filenames where several articles describe this situation. On Sunday, May 18, 2014 1:28 PM, ChasH howell...@gmail.com wrote: If you save some other type file, like a word file do you get the same [1] being added to those files? On 5/18/2014 2:10 PM, elizabeth wrote: I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON From:elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] Sent: May 18, 2014 01:50 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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 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] Migrating from The Master Genealogist (TMG)
Send in a suggestion on the Suggestion form in Legacy on the Legacy Home tab or on the website I'll add it to the list for the programmers to consider Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but it doesn't give the details that I need in a full report. I wish to have the wife, children, and event details. of all those in the line. Haven't found a way to do that in Legacy. Jane 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] [1][1][1]....????
Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON From: elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] Sent: May 18, 2014 03:10 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON From: elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] Sent: May 18, 2014 01:50 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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 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] [1][1][1]....????
Elizabeth, I tested a backup on the new version of Legacy (8.0.0.427) and Legacy does not add any numbers i.e., [1][1] etc. to the filename. Please check to make sure that you are using “File Backup.” Charles From: elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 1:50 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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] [1][1][1]....????
On 18 May 2014 19:49, elizabeth wrote: Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip Is it possible that your family file was actually saved as john.zip.fdb? -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg 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] [1][1][1]....????
Elizabeth, It sounds as if you have the folder set up not to override the previous backup file. This is the type of addition that you get with Windows when you copy a file to a folder that already has a file of that name and you say you want to keep both. That's good that the previous backup isn't being overwritten, but it's more normal to use the naming ability in Legacy to add the date and time to the file name. See the options button on the backup dialogue. Cathy C.G. Ouimet wrote: Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 03:10 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][ 1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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] Migrating from The Master Genealogist (TMG)
Hi Jane, I was about to ask what exactly you meant and whether you'd found the Relationship Report. Sending in a suggestion is a good idea. In the meantime you could tag and export the people you want in the report and use the Ancestor Book report OR if that's not picking up all the details you want of the family members you want added, use one of the Descendant reports. Cathy Sherry/Support mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com Monday, 19 May 2014 5:05 AM Send in a suggestion on the Suggestion form in Legacy on the Legacy Home tab or on the website I'll add it to the list for the programmers to consider Sincerely, Sherry 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] [1][1][1]....????
Thanks for anyone who is trying to help me. I checked and my files are not being saved as .zip.fdb, they are just ,zip. Here is exactly what happens. It has always been this way but I have just never taken the time to ask anyone about it before. I open legacy and do whatever work I want to do in my file. When I am finished I always click on the 'x' in the top right corner to close the program. It brings up the 'Exit Legacy' box that asks if I am sure i want to exit Legacy. I click 'yes'. Then it brings up the 'Backup Legacy Family file Box'. I click the 'Backup' button. (I don't have any Multimedia so I never click on that button) Then it brings up the 'Customize Backup' box. I have 'Data Files' checked so that everything gets backed up. It has a button that says 'Select Name and Location for Data Backup'. (The 'Currently' location is c:\Legacy\Data\ and it is a .zip file) (When I first created this file months ago, I just named it 'john'.but after months of saving this file like this, it has become 'john[1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1[1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1]]2014-05-18 7:22.04PM.zip. - etc.) When I click that button that says 'Select Name and Location for Data Backup', it takes me to 'Backup Data Files' and the file name (with all the '[1]'s) shows in the 'File Name' box and is saved as a .zip file into the C:\Legacy\Data folder. When I look in that folder on my hard drive, there are TONS of files in there with the file name plus all those '[1]'s added to the name (but before the date and time). Each file has added an extra '[1]' when it was saved. I'm obviously not doing something right so I guess what I need to know and am asking is: 1. After I have opened a file in my Legacy program and added information to it, what is the correct way to save that file? (Do I save it or back it up?)[Step by step instructions please] 2. Since the only files in my C:\Legacy\Data folder are .zip files, where are my .fdb files located? Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 3:10 PM, elizabeth newi...@gmail.com wrote: I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.comwrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:* elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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 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:
Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1]....????
My files do add the date and time each time I back them up, but the date and time are added 'at the end' of all the '[1]'s but before the .zip. EX; john[1][1][1][1][1]2014-05-15 07.38.06 PM.zip Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, It sounds as if you have the folder set up not to override the previous backup file. This is the type of addition that you get with Windows when you copy a file to a folder that already has a file of that name and you say you want to keep both. That's good that the previous backup isn't being overwritten, but it's more normal to use the naming ability in Legacy to add the date and time to the file name. See the options button on the backup dialogue. Cathy C.G. Ouimet wrote: Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 03:10 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][ 1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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] [1][1][1]....????
Elizabeth, You've told us exactly how you are backing up your file but you seem a little confused. A backup file is a zip file that contains your .fdb file and other related files depending on what you've ticked in the backup. How are you opening your file? You sound like you think that doing the backup is the process of saving your work - but it isn't. Your work is already saved in the .fdb file you had open. You're just backing up on exit. Is it possible that you are opening your file from within one of those zip files? I'm not sure what happens when you backup after doing that. I'll give it a try with a test file and get back if I reproduce your zip filenames. Cathy elizabeth wrote: My files do add the date and time each time I back them up, but the date and time are added 'at the end' of all the '[1]'s but before the .zip. EX; john[1][1][1][1][1]2014-05-15 07.38.06 PM.zip Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Cathy Pinner geneakit@gmail .com mailto:genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, It sounds as if you have the folder set up not to override the previous backup file. This is the type of addition that you get with Windows when you copy a file to a folder that already has a file of that name and you say you want to keep both. That's good that the previous backup isn't being overwritten, but it's more normal to use the naming ability in Legacy to add the date and time to the file name. See the options button on the backup dialogue. Cathy C.G. Ouimet wrote: Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto :newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 03:10 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newintr@gmail .com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][ 1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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] [1][1][1]....????
Hi Elizabeth, Yes that's what you're doing - and it's a really complicated way of opening a file - but when you do and then backup you get that [1] added each time. So what you are doing wrong is that at some stage you went looking for a file and opened it from within a zip file. If your options are set to open the last file, it then reopens from within the zip it seems. Which folder do you think your data is in? Are the backups going to the same place or not? If you are using Legacy 8, the most sensible place to keep your data file is Documents/Legacy Family Tree/Data Your backups would normally be saved to somewhere else, preferably either a folder that gets synced with cloud storage like Dropbox or OneDrive, or an external drive. What you need to do in Legacy is Restore your latest zip. Make sure you control where the file is restored to and give it a new name without all those [1]'s. Then continue backing up as you are doing (though you may want to choose a different folder or drive) AND make sure you open the fdb file from where you saved it. NEVER open an .fdb file from within a zip file. I know you probably don't realise you've been doing that but at some point you did. To be absolutely sure you open the right file, set your option at Options Customise (1.2 in Legacy 8 - on the general tab in Legacy 7) to open this file. Make sure you browse to the file in an ordinary folder - NOT a zip folder. The problem is that Windows shows you the contents of zips as if they are a folder and you can open things from within them. I hope you can follow all this. Cathy Cathy Pinner mailto:genea...@gmail.com Monday, 19 May 2014 8:22 AM Elizabeth, You've told us exactly how you are backing up your file but you seem a little confused. A backup file is a zip file that contains your .fdb file and other related files depending on what you've ticked in the backup. How are you opening your file? You sound like you think that doing the backup is the process of saving your work - but it isn't. Your work is already saved in the .fdb file you had open. You're just backing up on exit. Is it possible that you are opening your file from within one of those zip files? I'm not sure what happens when you backup after doing that. I'll give it a try with a test file and get back if I reproduce your zip filenames. Cathy elizabeth wrote: My files do add the date and time each time I back them up, but the date and time are added 'at the end' of all the '[1]'s but before the .zip. EX; john[1][1][1][1][1]2014-05-15 07.38.06 PM.zip Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Cathy Pinner geneakit@gmail .com mailto:genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, It sounds as if you have the folder set up not to override the previous backup file. This is the type of addition that you get with Windows when you copy a file to a folder that already has a file of that name and you say you want to keep both. That's good that the previous backup isn't being overwritten, but it's more normal to use the naming ability in Legacy to add the date and time to the file name. See the options button on the backup dialogue. Cathy C.G. Ouimet wrote: Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto :newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 03:10 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newintr@gmail .com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][ 1][1].zip etc. elizabeth elizabeth
Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1]....????
I looked to see what file I open when I use Legacy.It isn't a .zip file, it is a .fdb file. Here is how I always open a file in Legacy: I open Legacy from my desktop. I click on 'File', then 'Open Family file'. Then I just click on the name of the file because it is always shown in the right side of the 'Open Family File' window. It is a .fdb file. I just looked to see where it is and it says it is in Windows\Temporary Internet files\Content IE5\2YWAM2EK That is very weird because I then tried to find the folder called 'Temporary Internet Files' in the Windows folder on my hard drive but it isn't there??!! Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, You've told us exactly how you are backing up your file but you seem a little confused. A backup file is a zip file that contains your .fdb file and other related files depending on what you've ticked in the backup. How are you opening your file? You sound like you think that doing the backup is the process of saving your work - but it isn't. Your work is already saved in the .fdb file you had open. You're just backing up on exit. Is it possible that you are opening your file from within one of those zip files? I'm not sure what happens when you backup after doing that. I'll give it a try with a test file and get back if I reproduce your zip filenames. Cathy elizabeth wrote: My files do add the date and time each time I back them up, but the date and time are added 'at the end' of all the '[1]'s but before the .zip. EX; john[1][1][1][1][1]2014-05-15 07.38.06 PM.zip Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Cathy Pinner geneakit@gmail .com mailto:genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, It sounds as if you have the folder set up not to override the previous backup file. This is the type of addition that you get with Windows when you copy a file to a folder that already has a file of that name and you say you want to keep both. That's good that the previous backup isn't being overwritten, but it's more normal to use the naming ability in Legacy to add the date and time to the file name. See the options button on the backup dialogue. Cathy C.G. Ouimet wrote: Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto :newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 03:10 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newintr@gmail .com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][ 1][1].zip etc. elizabeth 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
Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1]....????
sorry, i should have said in the beginning that i use legacy 7.5, the free version. I do not want to go to version 8 because other people in my family all share and we all use the free 7.5. Will these instructions still work? Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Elizabeth, Yes that's what you're doing - and it's a really complicated way of opening a file - but when you do and then backup you get that [1] added each time. So what you are doing wrong is that at some stage you went looking for a file and opened it from within a zip file. If your options are set to open the last file, it then reopens from within the zip it seems. Which folder do you think your data is in? Are the backups going to the same place or not? If you are using Legacy 8, the most sensible place to keep your data file is Documents/Legacy Family Tree/Data Your backups would normally be saved to somewhere else, preferably either a folder that gets synced with cloud storage like Dropbox or OneDrive, or an external drive. What you need to do in Legacy is Restore your latest zip. Make sure you control where the file is restored to and give it a new name without all those [1]'s. Then continue backing up as you are doing (though you may want to choose a different folder or drive) AND make sure you open the fdb file from where you saved it. NEVER open an .fdb file from within a zip file. I know you probably don't realise you've been doing that but at some point you did. To be absolutely sure you open the right file, set your option at Options Customise (1.2 in Legacy 8 - on the general tab in Legacy 7) to open this file. Make sure you browse to the file in an ordinary folder - NOT a zip folder. The problem is that Windows shows you the contents of zips as if they are a folder and you can open things from within them. I hope you can follow all this. Cathy Cathy Pinner mailto:genea...@gmail.com Monday, 19 May 2014 8:22 AM Elizabeth, You've told us exactly how you are backing up your file but you seem a little confused. A backup file is a zip file that contains your .fdb file and other related files depending on what you've ticked in the backup. How are you opening your file? You sound like you think that doing the backup is the process of saving your work - but it isn't. Your work is already saved in the .fdb file you had open. You're just backing up on exit. Is it possible that you are opening your file from within one of those zip files? I'm not sure what happens when you backup after doing that. I'll give it a try with a test file and get back if I reproduce your zip filenames. Cathy elizabeth wrote: My files do add the date and time each time I back them up, but the date and time are added 'at the end' of all the '[1]'s but before the .zip. EX; john[1][1][1][1][1]2014-05-15 07.38.06 PM.zip Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Cathy Pinner geneakit@gmail .com mailto:genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, It sounds as if you have the folder set up not to override the previous backup file. This is the type of addition that you get with Windows when you copy a file to a folder that already has a file of that name and you say you want to keep both. That's good that the previous backup isn't being overwritten, but it's more normal to use the naming ability in Legacy to add the date and time to the file name. See the options button on the backup dialogue. Cathy C.G. Ouimet wrote: Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto :newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 03:10 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newintr@gmail .com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1]....????
Hi Elizabeth, I've written privately about this. Please - follow my instructions to RESTORE the latest zip file to get out of your mess. Windows is doing it's best by opening the fdb in a temporary area (and probably hidden as well). That is proof that I've diagnosed the problem correctly. Cathy elizabeth wrote: I looked to see what file I open when I use Legacy.It isn't a .zip file, it is a .fdb file. Here is how I always open a file in Legacy: I open Legacy from my desktop. I click on 'File', then 'Open Family file'. Then I just click on the name of the file because it is always shown in the right side of the 'Open Family File' window. It is a .fdb file. I just looked to see where it is and it says it is in Windows\Temporary Internet files\Content IE5\2YWAM2EK That is very weird because I then tried to find the folder called 'Temporary Internet Files' in the Windows folder on my hard drive but it isn't there??!! Eliza beth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com mailto:genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, You've told us exactly how you are backing up your file but you seem a little confused. A backup file is a zip file that contains your .fdb file and other related files depending on what you've ticked in the backup. How are you opening your file? You sound like you think that doing the backup is the process of saving your work - but it isn't. Your work is already saved in the .fdb file you had open. You're just backing up on exit. Is it possible that you are opening your file from within one of those zip files? I'm not sure what happens when you backup after doing that. I'll give it a try with a test file and get back if I reproduce your zip filenames. Cathy elizabeth wrote: My files do add the date and time each time I back them up, but the date and time are added 'at the end' of all the '[1]'s but before the .zip. EX; john[1][1][1][1][1]2014-05-15 07.38.06 PM.zip Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Cathy Pinner geneakit@gmail .com mailto:genea...@gmail.com mailto:genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, It sounds as if you have the folder set up not to override the previous backup file. This is the type of addition that you get with Windows when you copy a file to a folder that already has a file of that name and you say you want to keep both. That's good that the previous backup isn't being overwritten, but it's more normal to use the naming ability in Legacy to add the date and time to the file name. See the options button on the backup dialogue. Cathy C.G. Ouimet wrote: Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto :newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 03:10 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.ouimet@outlook. com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newintr@gmail mailto:newintr@gmail .com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to
Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1]....????
Hi Elizabeth, I've been trying to give the instructions for both 8 and 7 (7.5). The process is still the same though where you choose to save your actual data file may be different. File Restore the latest zip file. Choose where to save the restored file and give it a new name. The default place for Legacy 7.5 is C:\Legacy\Data or the Data folder wherever Legacy has been installed. Legacy 7.5 should not have been installed to Program Files as Legacy 7.5 writes constantly the Program Folder and Windows doesn't allow that and so saves the files in weird hidden places. You can choose wherever convenient for your Legacy data file. I had mine at D:\Genealogy\Legacy 7\Data Then both make sure that is where you are getting your file when you open your file again and/or set up Options Customise - Starting Family File section. Cathy elizabeth mailto:newi...@gmail.com Monday, 19 May 2014 8:52 AM sorry, i should have said in the beginning that i use legacy 7.5, the free version. I do not want to go to version 8 because other people in my family all share and we all use the free 7.5. Will these instructions still work? Elizabeth 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 Cathy Pinner mailto:genea...@gmail.com Monday, 19 May 2014 8:22 AM Elizabeth, You've told us exactly how you are backing up your file but you seem a little confused. A backup file is a zip file that contains your .fdb file and other related files depending on what you've ticked in the backup. How are you opening your file? You sound like you think that doing the backup is the process of saving your work - but it isn't. Your work is already saved in the .fdb file you had open. You're just backing up on exit. Is it possible that you are opening your file from within one of those zip files? I'm not sure what happens when you backup after doing that. I'll give it a try with a test file and get back if I reproduce your zip filenames. Cathy elizabeth wrote: My files do add the date and time each time I back them up, but the date and time are added 'at the end' of all the '[1]'s but before the .zip. EX; john[1][1][1][1][1]2014-05-15 07.38.06 PM.zip Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Cathy Pinner geneakit@gmail .com mailto:genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, It sounds as if you have the folder set up not to override the previous backup file. This is the type of addition that you get with Windows when you copy a file to a folder that already has a file of that name and you say you want to keep both. That's good that the previous backup isn't being overwritten, but it's more normal to use the naming ability in Legacy to add the date and time to the file name. See the options button on the backup dialogue. Cathy C.G. Ouimet wrote: Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto :newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 03:10 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newintr@gmail .com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip
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I must go for now but will try to return tomorrow because I am still confused. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Elizabeth, I've been trying to give the instructions for both 8 and 7 (7.5). The process is still the same though where you choose to save your actual data file may be different. File Restore the latest zip file. Choose where to save the restored file and give it a new name. The default place for Legacy 7.5 is C:\Legacy\Data or the Data folder wherever Legacy has been installed. Legacy 7.5 should not have been installed to Program Files as Legacy 7.5 writes constantly the Program Folder and Windows doesn't allow that and so saves the files in weird hidden places. You can choose wherever convenient for your Legacy data file. I had mine at D:\Genealogy\Legacy 7\Data Then both make sure that is where you are getting your file when you open your file again and/or set up Options Customise - Starting Family File section. Cathy elizabeth mailto:newi...@gmail.com Monday, 19 May 2014 8:52 AM sorry, i should have said in the beginning that i use legacy 7.5, the free version. I do not want to go to version 8 because other people in my family all share and we all use the free 7.5. Will these instructions still work? Elizabeth 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 Cathy Pinner mailto:genea...@gmail.com Monday, 19 May 2014 8:22 AM Elizabeth, You've told us exactly how you are backing up your file but you seem a little confused. A backup file is a zip file that contains your .fdb file and other related files depending on what you've ticked in the backup. How are you opening your file? You sound like you think that doing the backup is the process of saving your work - but it isn't. Your work is already saved in the .fdb file you had open. You're just backing up on exit. Is it possible that you are opening your file from within one of those zip files? I'm not sure what happens when you backup after doing that. I'll give it a try with a test file and get back if I reproduce your zip filenames. Cathy elizabeth wrote: My files do add the date and time each time I back them up, but the date and time are added 'at the end' of all the '[1]'s but before the .zip. EX; john[1][1][1][1][1]2014-05-15 07.38.06 PM.zip Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Cathy Pinner geneakit@gmail .com mailto:genea...@gmail.com wrote: Elizabeth, It sounds as if you have the folder set up not to override the previous backup file. This is the type of addition that you get with Windows when you copy a file to a folder that already has a file of that name and you say you want to keep both. That's good that the previous backup isn't being overwritten, but it's more normal to use the naming ability in Legacy to add the date and time to the file name. See the options button on the backup dialogue. Cathy C.G. Ouimet wrote: Hmm … You didn’t say your backup files had Date and Time embedded in them. My backup files all show as something like … CGO Master 800 2014-05-13 06.48.20 AM.zip with no [1] C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto :newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 03:10 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON *From:*elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newintr@gmail .com mailto:newi...@gmail.com mailto:newi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* May 18, 2014 01:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1]....????
Hi Elizabeth, I'm sorry you are still confused. Let me see if I can summarise your interesting problem. From your point of view, the only problem was that the backup zips were getting an extra [1] each time you backed up. Your file was opening fine and you were getting on with your data entry etc. However, the cause of the extra [1] being added to your backup zip file was that your data file was being opened from within the zip file. I think your setting at Options Customise - General Tab - Starting Family File has been to open the last used file. So on opening you didn't notice. OR you were choosing each time which file to open and just choosing the top on of the list not noticing it was in a very strange folder. At some stage you had opened your file from within a zip backup file. The confusion perhaps originally is that you thought the backup on exit was the way your family file was saved as well as backed up. Actually the family file saves every time you change a piece of data. There is no need for an autosave every 5 minutes or so as it saves immediately you click save for each person or event. To fix the problem: 1) Decide where you want to keep your family file. Create a new folder if you need one. The default for Legacy 7.5 is C:\Legacy\Data if you've installed to the default folder. Otherwise you may want to use Legacy\Data wherever you installed Legacy - provided you didn't install Legacy to the Program Files folder of your computer. Previous versions of Legacy write to the Program File and Windows no longer allows that - I can't remember whether the change was with XP or Vista. Legacy 8 is installed to the Program Files as it has changed some of the ways the settings files are handled. 2)Open Legacy and go to File Restore and choose to restore the most recent Zip file John [1] [1] most recent date/time. 3) Say yes if you are asked whether it's OK to close open files. 4) The restore dialogue will suggest a place and a name for the restoration. Don't just click OK. Change the place to the folder you decided on or created at step 1 Change the name to a new distinctive name for the Family File so you don't get confused. 5) The file will restore and open. It should look familiar and have your latest changes in it - but you probably want to check so you feel confident with the new file. 6) Set Options Customise - General Tab - Starting Family File either to open the last used file OR to open this particular file. 7) Use the file as normal. 8) Backup on exit as usual - but you may want to choose a new backup folder. When you open Legacy next, it should open to your new folder and it shouldn't have any [1]'s added to the name. When you backup on exit next, there shouldn't be any [1]'s in the backup file name. The problem should be solved and you can go back to research. Cathy elizabeth wrote: I must go for now but will try to return tomorrow because I am still confused. Elizabeth 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] Disproved ancestors
Ron, Have not done an actual count, but have about 100 with notes in the given name field, out of about 65,000 people. And very few will be the ancestors of my descendants. I collect data on all Ingalls of all spellings in the USA and Canada, warn people when I send them data that they need to verify everything. I will not live long enough to do the work for everyone. The suggestion to put the notes in the given name field in the double brackets so they will not be published is good and bad. It may look better, but does not warn the reader that I suspect there is a problem with the data. I believe function or usability is much more important than beauty. Jay === On 5/17/2014 8:51 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: Jay, Clearly you do not publish your work, so whatever takes your fancy is OK. However I would not like the job of sorting it all out should you change your mind. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone J.M. \Jay\ Ingalls jay_inga...@pipeline.com wrote: Pat, I often put a note in the given name field, such as Mary-Not Pat's direct ancestor. Saves a lot of time, does not require reading the notes. I have some I need to work on, Like John-May be wrong wife, etc. Fortunately, we are not limited to 12 characters, or whatever it was in the first genealogy programs, for the given name field! Jay = On 5/17/2014 7:26 AM, Michele/Support wrote: Pat, If I have done a lot of work on them I would simply unlink them and leave them in my file. If they were in the same location as your ancestors then they still might end up being connected in some way.  Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com  *From:*Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2014 6:51 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors  I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved.  I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other Legacy users handle the matter.  I could put them in a separate file or leave them where they are and just  unlink them so that they're no longer connected.  I'd appreciate your thoughts/ideas.  Thanks,  Pat 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 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] Disproved ancestors
Hi Jay, I also have a few of notes in name fields to warn the reader. For example, when I think I've found the parents of an ancestor, I add them, make them invisible so they're not published and for my use visually on the screen add to the given name - guess (meaning best guess rather than wild guess), possibly or probably depending on my evidence. When I'm almost sure I remove the invisibility but leave the probably to make it very obvious I'm not 100% sure of this link. I also, of course, put the reasoning in notes. I agree that clarity is more important than beauty or keeping to name standards. Cathy J.M. Jay Ingalls wrote: Ron, Have not done an actual count, but have about 100 with notes in the given name field, out of about 65,000 people. And very few will be the ancestors of my descendants. I collect data on all Ingalls of all spellings in the USA and Canada, warn people when I send them data that they need to verify everything. I will not li ve long enough to do the work for everyone. The suggestion to put the notes in the given name field in the double brackets so they will not be published is good and bad. It may look better, but does not warn the reader that I suspect there is a problem with the data. I believe function or usability is much more important than beauty. Jay === On 5/17/2014 8:51 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: Jay, Clearly you do not publish your work, so whatever takes your fancy is OK. However I would not like the job of sorting it all out should you change your mind. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperiaâ„¢ smartphone J.M. \Jay\ Ingalls jay_inga...@pipeline.com wrote: Pat, I often put a note in the given name field, such as Mary-Not Pat's direct ancestor. Saves a lot of time, does not require reading the notes. I have some I need to work on, Like John-May be wrong wife, etc. Fortunately, we are not limited to 12 characters, or whatever it was in the first genealogy programs, for the given name field! Jay 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] Migrating from The Master Genealogist (TMG)
I have tried various work-arounds, but would really like something that is not as labor/proficiency required. Like a report titled, Ahnentafel. I am very easily confused and have some trouble with the various options of tagging and exporting. I will make the suggestion, but i think I have done that before. Jane On 5/18/2014 8:04 PM, Cathy Pinner wrote: Hi Jane, I was about to ask what exactly you meant and whether you'd found the Relationship Report. Sending in a suggestion is a good idea. In the meantime you could tag and export the people you want in the report and use the Ancestor Book report OR if that's not picking up all the details you want of the family members you want added, use one of the Descendant reports. Cathy Sherry/Support mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com Monday, 19 May 2014 5:05 AM Send in a suggestion on the Suggestion form in Legacy on the Legacy Home tab or on the website I'll add it to the list for the programmers to consider Sincerely, Sherry 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 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] Ahnentafel report (was: Migrating from The Master Genealogist (TMG))
Hi Jane, I'm not sure what you're looking for in this report exactly (ie, what's a 'true' Ahnentafel report, as opposed to other reports on offer?), but I do know that there is an entry in the Legacy Help for Ahnentafel Reports - have you seen that? Have you tried running an Ancestor Book report? In Legacy v8 it's under Report Ancestor Book. In Legacy v7.5 it's Reports Books/Other Ancestors. You can include or exclude types of data in this report as you please. Is this what you're looking for? If not, what's the difference? Kind Regards, Wendy Jane Sarles said the following on 19/05/2014 15:59: I have tried various work-arounds, but would really like something that is not as labor/proficiency required. Like a report titled, Ahnentafel. I am very easily confused and have some trouble with the various options of tagging and exporting. I will make the suggestion, but i think I have done that before. Jane On 5/18/2014 8:04 PM, Cathy Pinner wrote: Hi Jane, I was about to ask what exactly you meant and whether you'd found the Relationship Report. Sending in a suggestion is a good idea. In the meantime you could tag and export the people you want in the report and use the Ancestor Book report OR if that's not picking up all the details you want of the family members you want added, use one of the Descendant reports. Cathy Sherry/Support mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com Monday, 19 May 2014 5:05 AM Send in a suggestion on the Suggestion form in Legacy on the Legacy Home tab or on the website I'll add it to the list for the programmers to consider Sincerely, Sherry 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
[LegacyUG] Citing source -- an easy way to clear a real mess???
I cannot believe that I've been using Legacy all these years and did not know this: The little icon on the left -- the one with 3 dashes -- that you can use to enter the source that's on the clipboard -- I thought it entered the clipboard source for the name, born, died buried fields all at one click -- well I just discovered that when you click that icon it *also* enters that source for very single event you have for that person!!! *Mon dieu!! *Why does Legacy not warn us that it will do that!!?? I ordinarily add events from a variety of sources -- and now I have to go thru and take that citation out -- and God knows how many other individuals I have done that to over the years!!! If anybody has any brilliant ideas on the subject I will greatly appreciate them!! Pat Pat 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] Citing source -- an easy way to clear a real mess???
Sorry Pat. It's always been that way. The three dashes has been explained in the Help file for a long time. I know I initially thought that it also attached the source to the marriage details and I know I have some marriages without sources because of this. They're easier to find as you can source for data without sources. That's why I know it's been in the Help file for a long time as it's a few years since I discovered all data meant all individual data and marriage data wasn't included. I don't think there is any easy way to fix your problem. You'll just have to go through and check event sources. It's a long project so you might want to set aside a tag to either tag or untag when you've checked - however you set it up. I only use the 3 dashes when I'm entering a new person or haven't much data entered and I guess it will be quicker to remove the source from one or two fields to which it doesn't apply rather than to attach it individually to all the ones it does ap ply to. Cathy Pat Hickin wrote: I cannot believe that I've been using Legacy all these years and did not know this: The little icon on the left -- the one with 3 dashes -- that you can use to enter the source that's on the clipboard -- I thought it entered the clipboard source for the name, born, died buried fields all at one click -- well I just discovered that when you click that icon it _also_ enters that source for very single event you have for that person!!! /Mon dieu!! /Why does Legacy not warn us that it will do that!!?? I ordinarily add events from a variety of sources -- and now I have to go thru and take that citation out -- and God knows how many other individuals I have done that to over the years!!! If anybody has any brilliant ideas on the subject I will greatly appreciate them!! Pat Pat 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] Citing source -- an easy way to clear a real mess???
But Legacy makes it VERY plain what that three-bar icon is for. I'm sorry you have misunderstood this for so long. It is Assigns to all non-blank fields or Add Clipboard Source to All Used Fields and Events - I got one from the Help and the other from the box that appeared when I hovered over the icon just now. What part of that is unclear to you? I don't think it has changed since I came in at v5. I never use that icon, I prefer to apply the Source Clipboard to each item of data as I work (the single-bar icon, or Alt-2), though I can see its attraction when you're adding a new person and have several items from the one source. BTW, if you prefer keyboard shortcuts to clicking with the mouse, the equivalent to this icon is Alt-3. Wendy Pat Hickin said the following on 19/05/2014 16:30: I cannot believe that I've been using Legacy all these years and did not know this: The little icon on the left -- the one with 3 dashes -- that you can use to enter the source that's on the clipboard -- I thought it entered the clipboard source for the name, born, died buried fields all at one click -- well I just discovered that when you click that icon it _also_ enters that source for very single event you have for that person!!! /Mon dieu!! /Why does Legacy not warn us that it will do that!!?? I ordinarily add events from a variety of sources -- and now I have to go thru and take that citation out -- and God knows how many other individuals I have done that to over the years!!! If anybody has any brilliant ideas on the subject I will greatly appreciate them!! Pat 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
