[LegacyUG] Legacy emails going to Junk emails

[Jennifer Hardess]

Many of my Legacy emails are going in to the Junk email folder.
In looking at the Help file I can’t find any assistance with this problem.
I have not had this problem with previous lap-tops so I suspect it happened in 
transferring to this new laptop.
I guess it really isn’t a Legacy problem, but advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Jen H.


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Re: [LegacyUG] Back Up Problem

[Jennifer Hardess]

Thank you Cathy,
Your explanation was very clear and helpful. As a not very computer-literate 
person I have found that some of the Legacy Help explanations hard to 
understand.
Jen H
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From: LegacyUserGroup  on behalf of 
Cathy Pinner 
Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 1:35:50 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Back Up Problem

Jennifer,
The Legacy data backup zips all the files related to your family file together. 
How many there are depends on which features of Legacy you have used. I have 
about 30.
In previous versions you were given some control over which ones were included 
but that was confusing to many and the option has been removed.

If you have Set Relationships you'll have a .Rc3 file as part of your backup.

To see what most of the extensions mean search Legacy Help Index for "file 
extension" (without the quotes).
eg:
familyfilename.Rc3  Relationship term spill file
familyfilename.Rc3.Rc3  Backup of Relationship spill file

If only the .fdb was included in the backup you would lose your relationship 
settings and clipboards etc when you restored a backup.

Cathy

Jen nifer Hardess wrote:

Hello Cathy,

With regard to the: Rc3.Rc3 that Marie has on her back-up, can you
please explain whether this is a regular “extension” (not sure what to
call it) or a problem that has occurred. I have noticed this on my
back-ups also.

Thanks,

Jen H.

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*From:* LegacyUserGroup  on
behalf of Cathy Pinner 
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 4, 2018 2:25:42 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Back Up Problem
Marie,

I suspect on your new computer the associations to files are different.

Legacy backup files have always been a zipped file and show the icon for
the program that is associa ted with .zip files. If you haven't added
another program this is a folder icon that has a zip on it.

Within that zip file are most of the other files you list. I'm not sure
what you mean by the Ancestry logo one. It may be that you have
something that associates a gedcom file with Ancestry and you have a
gedcom in that same folder? I'm not familiar with the apps available for
Ancestry. But it wouldn't be included in the Legacy data backup. Or did
you mean the Legacy logo? If so that's your main family file -
.fdb

You do not use the files within the Legacy data backup zip directly. You
go to Legacy and use File - Restore File when/if you need to use a data
backup.
If you open files from within the backup zip you create a mess with the
file going into a temp folder. If you extract the files using Windows
File Explorer or another program you are creating copies of your file
that have the same name but are in different folders, that most likely
will confuse you later. You use File - Restore File either overwriting
your current file of that name OR renaming the file during the restore
process.

Cathy

mvmcgrs--- via LegacyUserGroup wrote:
> I'm using Legacy 8 and Windows 10 home. I had to buy a new computer
> but now when I backup my Legacy file it has a zipped file icon with
> the date. There are several other files with that family name with
> several extensions. The other files are: Ancestry logo [Family Name]8;
> [Family Name]8.FG; [Family Name]8.SC; [Family Name]8.TC; [Family
> Name]8.Rc3.Rc3
>
> When I was using Win 7 Pro and I backed up my Legacy files there was
> only a Name and a date not the zipped file icon.
>
> What am I doing wrong? And how do I correct it?
>
> Marie


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Re: [LegacyUG] Back Up Problem

[Jennifer Hardess]

Hello Cathy,

With regard to the: Rc3.Rc3 that Marie has on her back-up, can you please 
explain whether this is a regular “extension” (not sure what to call it) or a 
problem that  has occurred. I have noticed this on my back-ups also.

Thanks,

Jen H.




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From: LegacyUserGroup  on behalf of 
Cathy Pinner 
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 2:25:42 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Back Up Problem

Marie,

I suspect on your new computer the associations to files are different.

Legacy backup files have always been a zipped file and show the icon for
the program that is associated with .zip files. If you haven't added
another program this is a folder icon that has a zip on it.

Within that zip file are most of the other files you list. I'm not sure
what you mean by the Ancestry logo one. It may be that you have
something that associates a gedcom file with Ancestry and you have a
gedcom in that same folder? I'm not familiar with the apps available for
Ancestry. But it wouldn't be included in the Legacy data backup. Or did
you mean the Legacy logo? If so that's your main family file -
.fdb

You do not use the files within the Legacy data backup zip directly. You
go to Legacy and use File - Restore File when/if you need to use a data
backup.
If you open files from within the backup zip you create a mess with the
file going into a temp folder. If you extract the files using Windows
File Explorer or another program you are creating copies of your file
that have the same name but are in different folders, that most likely
will confuse you later. You use File - Restore File either overwriting
your current file of that name OR renaming the file during the restore
process.

Cathy

mvmcgrs--- via LegacyUserGroup wrote:
> I'm using Legacy 8 and Windows 10 home.  I had to buy a new computer
> but now when I backup my Legacy file it has a zipped file icon with
> the date. There are several other files with that family name with
> several extensions. The other files are: Ancestry logo [Family Name]8;
> [Family Name]8.FG; [Family Name]8.SC; [Family Name]8.TC; [Family
> Name]8.Rc3.Rc3
>
> When I was using Win 7 Pro and I backed up my Legacy files there was
> only a Name and a date not the zipped file icon.
>
> What am I doing wrong? And how do I correct it?
>
> Marie


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Re: [LegacyUG] Have I slipped off the UG list?

[Jennifer Hardess]

Yes I was thinking the same thing as Ian. I can’t understand those that 
complain abut too many Legacy emails. They are getting fewer and fewer. I was 
thinking there was something wrong with my email a/c. Nothing since last week 
until Ian’s email today.
Jen H.

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From: Ian Thomas<mailto:il.tho...@outlook.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 September 2017 2:55 PM
To: Legacy User Group<mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Subject: [LegacyUG] Have I slipped off the UG list?

I’m not one to complain about TOO MUCH email traffic (it’s easy to ignore).
But the last email that I received from the Legacy UG list was 21/09 from 
Jennifer Hardess.

Is that the last activity? Or have I been removed from the list somehow?

Regards, Ian
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia


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Re: [LegacyUG] Media not down-loading/adding to person

[Jennifer Hardess]

Thanks Wendy,
It seems that the particular media I was trying to attach was problematic. I 
tried attaching a different picture that I had successfully added previously 
and that worked fine. Tonight while trying to attach the problematic picture 
Legacy put up a run-time error 75, which alerted me to the problem.
Thanks again. Jen H


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From: Wendy Howard<mailto:wendy.how...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 21 September 2017 5:56 AM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Media not down-loading/adding to person

Are you sure that there isn't a window open in Legacy that is simply not
visible to you at that moment?  That is often the cause of what appears
to be a freeze.

Try using Alt-Tab to cycle through your open windows - hold your left
thumb on the Alt key, and tap the Tab key as many times as you need to
cycle through the open windows until you get to the one you're looking
for (or get back to where you started). When you're where you want to
be, let go of the Alt key.  To cycle "backwards", hold down the Shift
key as well.

Alternatively, take your cursor to the taskbar (usually at the bottom of
the screen, though it can be set elsewhere), and hover over the Legacy
icon. Exactly what you see depends on the version of Windows you're
using, but they're mostly similar. Do you see the window you're
currently using, or a different one? Click on it to go to that window.

If this doesn't solve your problem, would you tell us *exactly* what
you're doing when you encounter this behaviour, please? It may help us
pinpoint what is going on.

Wendy


Jennifer Hardess wrote on 19/09/2017 19:15:
>
> I am using Legacy 8, and am recently having trouble adding media to
> individuals in the media gallery. The legacy page freezes and I have
> to cntrl/alt/delete to get it started again, consequently losing all
> my pages open on the internet also. If I haven’t saved the most recent
> work in conjunction with the media on legacy I lose that too.
>
> Is this a known problem, or am I not doing it correctly? I used not to
> have any problems adding media.
>
> Thanks for advice,
>
> Jen H.
>

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[LegacyUG] Media not down-loading/adding to person

[Jennifer Hardess]

I am using Legacy 8, and am recently having trouble adding media to individuals 
in the media gallery. The legacy page freezes and I have to cntrl/alt/delete to 
get it started again, consequently losing all my pages open on the internet 
also. If I haven’t saved the most recent work in conjunction with the media on 
legacy I lose that too.
Is this a known problem, or am I not doing it correctly? I used not to have any 
problems adding media.
Thanks for advice,
Jen H.


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Re: [LegacyUG] Location lookup causes Legacy freeze

[Jennifer Hardess]

Hi Ian,
I also was stumped by K Hill. I have it as a birth place in a record of 1909. I 
was told it was Kensington Hill, as part of the suburb of Kensington, 
Melbourne. If you disagree or have found something else please let me know.
Cheers,
Jen Hardess
Montrose


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From: Ian Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2017 10:55 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location lookup causes Legacy freeze

Cathy -  thanks for trying to generate the same problem that I have had. I will 
carefully try to generate the same problem, after making a test copy of my data.

As I described, it occurred with a newly-created record, when I typed a death 
location K Hill (exactly those chars) and clicked the button to the RHS that 
has a small down-arrow, which activates the Master Location List (MLL). A small 
picture would help, instead of all these words.
Within that interface, nothing was found and the freezing of Legacy occurred 
when attempting to click Close to exit the MLL. Of the past occasions on which 
programme freeze occurred, I can’t give a blow-by-blow account of what caused 
the exact same result, but the application freeze did occur within the MLL and 
required Task Manager to close Legacy – as it did today.

I’m well aware that a grouch here is not a report of the error to Millennia. 
Before I decide whether to do that, I will have a few tries to replicate the 
error – but trying to suggest a very simple improvement to the UX with Hints in 
v9 a week or two ago left me exasperated. I may just put up with the faults and 
protect my data against damage by regular backups.

Ian Thomas
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On 
Behalf Of Cathy Pinner
Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2017 6:37 PM
To: Legacy User Group 
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location lookup causes Legacy freeze

Ian,
Writing to this list isn't reporting to Millennia.

I've followed your instructions using the Legacy Sample file.

Understandably, K Hill, Victoria, Australia wasn't in the Location list.
I closed the List and entered it on the Individual Information screen without a 
problem.

What have I missed?

Tried again with my test file which is much larger. Messed around in the 
Location list changing the sort.
Still no problem.

Probably I'm clicking on the wrong thing. I click on the down arrow to access 
the Master Location List and not the world icon for the geo location database 
as I don't use that and don't have it installed. Is that where the problem is?

Cathy

Ian Thomas wrote:

I have noticed this many times, and it has finally annoyed me enough
that I should report it to Mille nnia.

If a Location lookup is attempted in the Individual Info edit screen,
by selecting the control at right, under the condition below the
action of simply closing the Master Location List module (using the
Close button) will cause Legacy Family Tree to lock up. This requires
a restart; the current person’s data edit is of course lost.

This happens when the newly-entered locality cannot be found by the
module. In my latest mishap, my entry was K Hill, Victoria, Australia
(I hoped that I had an entry that was similar, in the Master Location
List; not so).

I believe this is ONLY when a new person is added and his/her details
are being entered, and have not yet been saved; if the person does
already ‘exist’ in the database, the list under ‘Geocode’ in the
Location module, headed “People using this location”. Perhaps it is
due to a slow lookup to Bing Maps – whatever the reason, it ’s annoying.

K Hill is an abbreviation used by state of Victoria (recorded in its
BDM index) around 1900s for some location – I have searched a bit,
cannot find a credible match.

For those paranoid about Legacy v9 – this occurred in v8 Deluxe , many
times.

Ian Thomas

Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

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Re: [LegacyUG] Emdash rendered '97

[Jennifer Hardess]

I also have this problem with Trove.

It’s helpful to read other suggestions & I agree with Ian that it is a good way 
to have to read the article thoroughly, in-
stead of just scanning as we all do (but it is still annoying).
I notice that there are a couple of Melbournites replying to these emails these 
days.
There used to be a Legacy User group operating in Melbourne; it was good to 
meet other users and discuss “issues” especially for us computer illiterates.
I haven’t braved upgrading to 9 yet.

Jennifer
Montrose, Victoria, Australia


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From: Jennifer Crockett
Sent: Friday, 21 April 2017 11:25 AM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Emdash rendered '97

Trove is where all my notes with Emdash come from.

When correcting the OCR there is a place at the top of the page where you can 
insert a symbol and Emdash is top of the list. I have been inserting the symbol 
in place of a simple dash if an Emdash is shown on the image of the article.

I then do as you do and copy the article into a .txt file (I use Notepad++) and 
tidy it up before copying and pasting into Legacy. In Legacy v 7.5 there was no 
problem with the Emdash.

As it looks like this is an ongoing problem in Legacy post v 7.5, I will need 
to go and replace all those ’97 instances with a simple dash (if I can find 
them all) , and remember to just use a dash in the .txt file from Trove before 
pasting into Legacy.

Jennifer
Ringwood North, Victoria, Australia

From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On 
Behalf Of Ian Thomas
Sent: Friday, 21 April 2017 10:47 AM
To: Legacy User Group 
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Emdash rendered '97


This is probably peripheral to the discussion on Emdash / Endash and Legacy 
FT’s clean-up abilities.

One source of information that I use a lot is from digitized (Australian) 
newspapers, at Trove. The OCR text usually 
requires correction (human recognition)  and that includes changing Emdash to 
hyphen, inserting spaces, concatenating hyphenated words, etc etc.

But a simple Copy then Paste into a Notes field in Legacy isn’t an option for 
me. Stripping the HTML doesn’t improve the situation – but that’s fine by me.

Routinely, I paste into a plain-text editor set up in a simple Encoding (for PC 
of course) – using an Encoding like Unicode BOM is asking for trouble, I have 
found. Then, I create accurate text but sometimes leave it in newspaper column 
format – or, make it more readable in continuous-text paragraphs.

This process is much lengthier than just changing a few single-symbol bits like 
an Emdash. But I have seen the ‘conversion’ by Legacy to ‘97’ which is why I 
adopted the method described.

I find it has a benefit – I read more attentively, and understand better. Some 
of the articles – and even common-place advertisements - are fascinating.

>From Trove, an image or PDF file at a selectable range of resolutions can be 
>saved to disk, so the scanned source imagery is available and can be attached 
>to Legacy as a media file, if warranted.



Ian Thomas

Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

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Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

[Jennifer Hardess]

Hi Cathy,
All I wanted to do was get my Master Location list in order so all places of 
each country, county, town are together, not scattered as some had commas 
before the country etc. I tried to explain my problem in my first email in this 
thread.
Cheers
Jen H

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From: Cathy Pinner<mailto:genea...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 5 April 2017 3:58 PM
To: Legacy User Group<mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

Steve and Jennifer,

Are you wanting a list of locations or a list of people associated with
those locations? or both?

Either way, you can get it easily.

What you need is a Location Report for Tagged Locations.

In the Master Location List
Options button
Print - Location Report
with the options you can get either a list of locations OR a list of
locations and who and where uses them.

But first you'll want to tag the locations you want.
For an English county:
Sort your Location list from right to left.
Find the first location of interest:
eg Find: England, Cornwall
Click on the first, then right click and click on the last.
That highlights the group.
Then Options - Tag - highlighted records.
Then go to Options - Print - Location Report, choose what you want and
do it for tagged records.

If you can't get it easily, then you need to do some work on cleaning up
your Location List so everything is entered consistently.

Cathy


Jennifer Hardess wrote:
>
> Thanks Steve,
>
> You have grasped exactly what I was trying to explain & get an answer
> for to solve this dilemma.
>
> Jen H
>
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>
> *From: *Steve Hayes <mailto:hayes...@telkomsa.net>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, 5 April 2017 2:51 PM
> *To: *Legacy User Group <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names
>
> On 4 Apr 2017 at 17:56, Trevor Carlson wrote:
>
> > Works very well if you sort the list in reverse order - largest
> denomination
> > to smallest - which is what I do. It even allows for a 5th field which I
> > sometimes use (Ward in a city). If I need to search for a particular
> city, but
> > don't know exactly where it is, I will just temporarily reverse my sort,
> > search it, and then put it back after I'm done.
> >
> > Would be nice if Legacy had a search function that would search for a
> given
> > location name regardless of position, though. That would make the
> re-sorting
> > unnecessary.
>
> Yes, following this thread I tried to produce a location list, and
> discovered
> lots of limitations.
>
> I was sure I had produced a location list from Legacy when we visited
> the UK
> in 2005, and I wanted a list of places where family members had lived,
> sorted, so that I would have a list of towns. Perhaps earlier versions of
> Legacy could do that, or perhaps I used another program.
>
> What I tried to do this time, and failed, was to produce a list for an
> English country -- say Cornwall.
>
> Yes, it would be possible to produce a list by searching five times and
> adding to a list -- first birth, then baptism, then death, then
> burial, then
> marriage. I'm not sure if the search screen lets you search for marriage,
> though.
>
> So it would be marvellous if ii let you search for, and tag, any place
> for
> any event, with one search, and then print a list with just those.
>
> And then print the list in the order of largest place to the smallest
>
> The list I did manage to print was useless, because it sorted in the
> order of
> the number of blank spaces with commas, and it printed everything,
> with no
> selection.
>
>
>
>
> --
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> Steve Hayes
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> Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm
> E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk
>
>
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> Jennifer Hardess <mailto:wmjah...@hotmail.com>
> Wednesday, 5 April 2017 1:26 PM
>
> Thanks Steve,
>
> You have grasped exactly what I was trying to explain & get an answer
> for to solve this dilemma.
>
> Jen H
>
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> *From: *Steve Hayes <mailto:hayes...@telkomsa.net>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, 5 April 2017 2:51 PM
> *To: *Legacy User Group <

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

[Jennifer Hardess]

Thanks Steve,
You have grasped exactly what I was trying to explain & get an answer for to 
solve this dilemma.
Jen H

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From: Steve Hayes
Sent: Wednesday, 5 April 2017 2:51 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

On 4 Apr 2017 at 17:56, Trevor Carlson wrote:

> Works very well if you sort the list in reverse order - largest denomination
> to smallest - which is what I do. It even allows for a 5th field which I
> sometimes use (Ward in a city). If I need to search for a particular city, but
> don't know exactly where it is, I will just temporarily reverse my sort,
> search it, and then put it back after I'm done.
>
> Would be nice if Legacy had a search function that would search for a given
> location name regardless of position, though. That would make the re-sorting
> unnecessary.

Yes, following this thread I tried to produce a location list, and discovered
lots of limitations.

I was sure I had produced a location list from Legacy when we visited the UK
in 2005, and I wanted a list of places where family members had lived,
sorted, so that I would have a list of towns. Perhaps earlier versions of
Legacy could do that, or perhaps I used another program.

What I tried to do this time, and failed, was to produce a list for an
English country -- say Cornwall.

Yes, it would be possible to produce a list by searching five times and
adding to a list -- first birth, then baptism, then death, then burial, then
marriage. I'm not sure if the search screen lets you search for marriage,
though.

So it would be marvellous if ii let you search for, and tag, any place for
any event, with one search, and then print a list with just those.

And then print the list in the order of largest place to the smallest

The list I did manage to print was useless, because it sorted in the order of
the number of blank spaces with commas, and it printed everything, with no
selection.




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Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm
E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk



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Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

[Jennifer Hardess]

Thanks for all the input re place names, it was much appreciated.
My thought was to have all the places of a particular country in one unified 
list so I would have all the towns of say Essex under  : England, Essex .. 
.. That way if I have the opportunity to visit those places I will have a 
complete list of towns in order under County.  Legacy puts default commas in if 
there isn’t 4 place names.
Regards,
Jen in Australia

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From: Brian Lightfoot
Sent: Tuesday, 4 April 2017 4:05 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

Yes sometimes it seems a little bit overdoing it when writing out a long 
description, i.e. Ashland Township, Ashland County, Ohio. All I know is that it 
makes  source citations very specific as to locations. There are certain areas 
of the US in which township governments remain quite strong especially in their 
administration and record keeping duties. I’ve been to many county Genealogical 
Societies in which their list of local cemeteries and churches are kept on 
separate list organized by Township name. Using these lists I’ve visited many 
rural cemeteries based on what list I was given not realizing that less than 1 
mile away was another cemetery but because it was in a different township, it 
was on a different list.

The concept of townships is not universal across the US. Most of the western 
states in the US have only state and county governments (as well as city). For 
example, there are no townships in the state of California. But then again 
there is that other strange animal known as the borough found in several 
eastern seaboard states. Even people that live there are confused about how 
that level of government fits into the equation. And then many states have 
another legal entity called a “village”; it’s not quite a town or city. One 
good example is the village of Trempealeau which is located inside the city of 
Trempealeau, all in the township of Trempealeau, in the county of Trempealeau, 
Wisconsin. I unfortunately have most of my family members from that area and I 
can attest to the fact that the city of Trempealeau knowns nothing about the 
county of Trempealeau. And then we won’t even begin to discuss the parishes of 
Louisiana. :)

Brian in CA


From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On 
Behalf Of Trevor Carlson
Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 5:59 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

Brian, I do much like you do. Long place description is fully written, but I 
use abbreviations in the short descriptions. I also have an example like yours 
for Kasota, Le Sueur County, Minnesota and Kasota Township, Le Sueur County, 
Minnesota, (among quite a few others). Like many other users, I found it 
difficult to know where a particular event really was until I cleaned up my 
location list by writing them out in full. I also agree with someone else's 
point that it is more useful this way for other people who look at my work.

Thanks,

Trevor Carlson
Edmonton, AB


From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On 
Behalf Of Brian Lightfoot
Sent: 2-Apr-17 6:31 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

I started adding the additional word “County” to all my county descriptors, 
regardless of if the city or township was also known. I found that I have a 
great deal of ancestors in and around Ashland County, Ohio so I noticed many 
docs from a variety of sources merely stating “Ashland, Ohio”. But a close 
examination of the source itself revealed some were from the city of Ashland, 
some were from the Township of Ashland, and others were merely describing the 
county of Ashland. I found other citations giving the location as “Ashland, 
Ashland, Ohio” which by many others’ convention would seem to be describing the 
city of Ashland in Ashland County but in reality was describing the Township of 
Ashland (not all parts were within the city limits) in Ashland County.

Thus I end up with the following variations:
Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio (meaning in the city of Ashland)
Ashland Township, Ashland County, Ohio (self-explanatory)
And finally “, Ashland County, Ohio” meaning a location somewhere in the county 
with the township not known.


From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On 
Behalf Of Sherry
Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2017 3:58 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

I add "County" only when I don't know the city.
, King county, Washington, United States
Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
Although I can understand how confusing it might be if the city and county are 
the same.
Plus I'm not a fan of abbreviations so I spell "county" out. There might be

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names

[Jennifer Hardess]

I am trying to tidy up my locations / place name list. I notice that if I only 
have 2 or 3 names in a sequence e.g. London, England or Horsham, Victoria, 
Australia I end up with a comma or two before the place in the master location 
list. I have my
Master location list starting with the Country e.g. England. I need advice as  
to how I can eradicate that comma. Is there a “standards list”
I can refer to somewhere? Especially for England...do I add the county name or 
whatever? I have tried looking up the place name on the internet e.g. using 
Wikipedia but often “Hundred” or borough is quoted in the information.
I am in Australia & it is very confusing, & time-consuming!
Thanks, Jen Hardess
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From: Jean Gobel
Sent: Sunday, 2 April 2017 10:52 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Test Message

Hi All,
Not a question, but a wish-for.
When entering things in Legacy, the curser usually anticipates and goes to the 
next spot.  When adding a photo, I always find myself typing (or rather NOT 
typing) in mid-air.  You select the picture to enter, hit open, which it does 
at the correct spot in Legacy, providing you a place to type description and 
other info.  The curser is nowhere.  Wish it would be at the Caption block, 
waiting for me...
Jean Gobel

Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2017 4:58 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Test Message
Ask away, Cathy and others from Legacy pop in to answer a question or two.

You are right FB has done a number. In some cases it is easier to show a screen 
capture there than here, quicker at least.

Gene

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Sherry  wrote:
It's killed a lot of mailing lists The Yahoo Groups are quite inactive 
these days, at least the ones I'm subscribed to.
Sherry

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Chick Lewis  wrote:
I also agree...  Facebook and social media has effectively killed this list.

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 12:49 PM, CE WOOD  wrote:

I couldn't agree more! It's a real shame they did that instead of making the 
easy fixes to this list whereby screen shots are safe.





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