Re: [LegacyUG] cgf to Legacy
Hi Elizabeth, Someone said Google is your friend. But don't forget eBay can also be a friend. You said you didn't want to buy anymore software but for $11 to $13 with shipping you may want to reconsider. I searched for "Family Tree Creator Deluxe" on ebay and it had 5 listings. If you look carefully at the pictures on the back of the box or CDs you can see 1998 Mindscape Inc.. Of course there may not be a way to export a GEDCOM. But you should be able to see the names and relationships of the individuals in the file. Here is the link: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=%22Family+Tree+Creator+Deluxe%22&_sop=15 On 10/30/2015 3:52 PM, Elizabeth Verchio wrote: > Thank you Bryon and Margaret Turner for the link. I will try that when > I exhaust all other free avenues. It is good to know there are > individuals offering such service. > Thanks again to everyone who responded to the inquiry - it is nice to be > a part of such a helpful group. > Best regards > Elizabeth > still living in Illinois > > On 10/28/2015 4:42 PM, Byron Schafbuch wrote: >> If in the event that you are not able to find someone who might still >> have that program, your next best possibility would be to find some >> service that would be able to convert said file to a gedcom file or >> the like such as Legacy's for a direct import/usage. A quick google >> search turned up >> http://www.twrcomputing.co.uk/store/Data_Conversion.html as a site >> that should be able to help you. But like everything else, effort can >> cost. $$ Supposedly a file of up to 3000 people would run around >> $45-50 USD (UK site). You might try some searching yourself to see >> what you might come up with. Best of luck. Have run into similar >> problems in the past. Byron-MN -Original Message- From: >> Elizabeth Verchio [mailto:borninalabam...@everchio.us] Sent: Friday, >> October 23, 2015 5:36 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: >> [LegacyUG] cgf to Legacy I know this is not exactly the forum for >> this, but, I am at the end of ideas of how to get a cfg file into a >> format I can open with Legacy Deluxe. It is a small file, 409 KB. I've >> had it for 3 or more years. I would really like to see the data, can >> anyone help me? I am so appreciative of any assistance. Elizabeth >> Verchio Born in Alabama 1953 ~ Living in Illinois 1978 > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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] ISO labor-lite suggestions re tagging
Cheryl, Have you thought about using the DATE ADDED information, perhaps that would separate the book from more recent additions. SearchFindIndividualAdded Date After or Beforeestimated date you think you finished added the book. Laird On 4/1/2014 4:42 PM, singhals wrote: Database/familyfile of ~15,000 persons and 5100 marriages. ORIGINALLY created by keying in the contents of a genealogy book. First done in PAF5, then ported to Legacy 7 and then to 8. Everyone in the book ought to be in the db/ff. Unfortunately, while documenting those people, I've added people who should have been in the book but aren't (siblings, children, parents). It's too late to tell me I should've thought of this sooner, so we can skip that part of the class. I need a *quick* way to tag maybe 25% in the db/ff who aren't in the book. I /can/ hypothetically sit here with the book in one hand and page through it again finding and tagging those people. I suspect the Galaxy will atrophy before I could finish that because apparently I have to have the person in the primary position to click a tag. 5 marriages took close to 2 hours. I considered the tag family, but that'll end up tagging everyone, including a sibling and descendants who aren't in the book. I can find /some/ by the omission of the import source. That won't help the ones added prior to moving it into Legacy. Ideas welcomed here. Cheryl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] downloading version 7.5
Have her download the 7.5.0.278 version and send her a Legacy file as opposed to GEDCOM. A Legacy backup file would be best: Menu: FileBackup Family File. This will create a ZIPPED file and will be smaller and have all the Legacy files that go with the file you are working on. The filename will be the same as the Family filename plus the date and time will be part of the name and will have an extension of .zip. Laird On 3/22/2014 10:40 PM, Norma wrote: Hello all I am working on my sister-in-law’s family and would like to be able to send her a GEDCOM of what I have found thus far. I am using the Legacy 7.5.0.278 and she doesn’t have any genealogy software on her computer. Can she go to the Legacy website where it says one can download earlier versions, download the standard version of Legacy 7.5? (or better yet, the deluxe version?) Norma 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] queston re: RIN numbers number of individuals
Norma try these links. You may want to go to HelpGeneral Information and write down your Cust. Num: before you download/install the latest available version 7.50.278. You might also need to backup all of your settings contained in the .usr files. Go to help and search for user files http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpDownloadVersion7.asp#Vista http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpDownloadVersion7.asp Laird On 3/14/2014 11:50 AM, Norma wrote: I tried as you suggested by running File Maintenance/Check repair and immediately got an error 3022 message and wouldn't continue until I solved error 3022. When I go to the Legacy error board it tells me to update my Legacy to the latest version 7.5.0.278 (I am currently on 7.5.0.112). Instructions for doing this suggest I review guidelines at: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpWindows7andVista.asp before downloading onto Windows 7 PC. But then when I click on this link I get an server error message 404: file or directory not found Error 3022 seems to refer to an issue in the marriage files so perhaps that is where my extra person is hiding w/o his/her RIN but I have no idea how to find him/her. Any ideas? -Original Message- From: Laird [mailto:lftu...@bayleenet.net] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 1:36 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] queston re: RIN numbers number of individuals Norma, have you tried a FileFile MaintenanceCheck/Repair? Laird On 3/13/2014 9:50 PM, Norma wrote: I do have the married names (but not the alternate names) option ticked for the name list. An individual should have only one RIN whether she never married or married multiple times. The total number of individuals is derived from “general information’ under the help tab. I have 3 other family files: one is over 10,000 people, another over 5000 and a very small one of only 56 people. I’ve checked all 3 files and the 2 largest do not correspond either, but people have been merged deleted in both files, so I’m not surprised. The very small file of 56 people is correct in that the total number of people corresponds to the largest RIN. The file seems to be working correctly so maybe I’m obsessing over nothing, but I’d still like to have the numbers correspond. Norma H *From:*Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] queston re: RIN numbers number of individuals You can also see that information on the Legacy Home tab, which is a lot quicker to get to! You would only have more individuals than RINs if you're showing the AKAs or married names Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Laird lftu...@bayleenet.net mailto:lftu...@bayleenet.net wrote: Norma, go to menu HelpGeneral Information and see if the number of Individuals match the name list count. And Like Cathy said make sure ALTERNATE and MARRIED names are not ticked under the name list OPTIONS. My name list has 18,767 individuals and HelpGeneral Information matches. I do have a lot of unused RINs so my highest RIN is 18,843, 76 higher. Of course I have the reverse of you. I don't see how you can have more people than RINs. In the name list, click the # button at the top left of window to sort the list and then scroll down to the bottom of the list and verify the highest RIN is lower than the other counts. Laird On 3/12/2014 10:52 PM, Norma wrote: I have just noticed that my RIN numbers do not correspond to the number of individuals in my database. In a new family file, I have 445 individuals, yet when I go to Name List and click on RIN, the highest RIN number is 444. How can there be more individuals than RIN numbers? And if one person is entered twice, yet has only one RIN, how can I determine who that person is? I am using Legacy version 7.5.0012 Norma H 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] queston re: RIN numbers number of individuals
Norma, go to menu HelpGeneral Information and see if the number of Individuals match the name list count. And Like Cathy said make sure ALTERNATE and MARRIED names are not ticked under the name list OPTIONS. My name list has 18,767 individuals and HelpGeneral Information matches. I do have a lot of unused RINs so my highest RIN is 18,843, 76 higher. Of course I have the reverse of you. I don't see how you can have more people than RINs. In the name list, click the # button at the top left of window to sort the list and then scroll down to the bottom of the list and verify the highest RIN is lower than the other counts. Laird On 3/12/2014 10:52 PM, Norma wrote: I have just noticed that my RIN numbers do not correspond to the number of individuals in my database. In a new family file, I have 445 individuals, yet when I go to Name List and click on RIN, the highest RIN number is 444. How can there be more individuals than RIN numbers? And if one person is entered twice, yet has only one RIN, how can I determine who that person is? I am using Legacy version 7.5.0012 Norma H 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] queston re: RIN numbers number of individuals
Norma, have you tried a FileFile MaintenanceCheck/Repair? Laird On 3/13/2014 9:50 PM, Norma wrote: I do have the married names (but not the alternate names) option ticked for the name list. An individual should have only one RIN whether she never married or married multiple times. The total number of individuals is derived from “general information’ under the help tab. I have 3 other family files: one is over 10,000 people, another over 5000 and a very small one of only 56 people. I’ve checked all 3 files and the 2 largest do not correspond either, but people have been merged deleted in both files, so I’m not surprised. The very small file of 56 people is correct in that the total number of people corresponds to the largest RIN. The file seems to be working correctly so maybe I’m obsessing over nothing, but I’d still like to have the numbers correspond. Norma H *From:*Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:50 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] queston re: RIN numbers number of individuals You can also see that information on the Legacy Home tab, which is a lot quicker to get to! You would only have more individuals than RINs if you're showing the AKAs or married names Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Laird lftu...@bayleenet.net mailto:lftu...@bayleenet.net wrote: Norma, go to menu HelpGeneral Information and see if the number of Individuals match the name list count. And Like Cathy said make sure ALTERNATE and MARRIED names are not ticked under the name list OPTIONS. My name list has 18,767 individuals and HelpGeneral Information matches. I do have a lot of unused RINs so my highest RIN is 18,843, 76 higher. Of course I have the reverse of you. I don't see how you can have more people than RINs. In the name list, click the # button at the top left of window to sort the list and then scroll down to the bottom of the list and verify the highest RIN is lower than the other counts. Laird On 3/12/2014 10:52 PM, Norma wrote: I have just noticed that my RIN numbers do not correspond to the number of individuals in my database. In a new family file, I have 445 individuals, yet when I go to Name List and click on RIN, the highest RIN number is 444. How can there be more individuals than RIN numbers? And if one person is entered twice, yet has only one RIN, how can I determine who that person is? I am using Legacy version 7.5.0012 Norma H 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] Entering info in location field
I find this site(USGS)useful for finding places in the United States. It also looks like it searches for foreign, Antarctic and undersea names/features. It also provides Coordinates in the Legacy required DMS format. And it has links to several Mapping Services to view the location you searched for. North Fork Memorial Cemetery SequenceLatitude(DEC) Longitude(DEC) Latitude(DMS) Longitude(DMS) Map Name 1 38.7481687 -79.4156019 384453N 0792456W Circleville http://geonames.usgs.gov/ On 2/27/2014 12:23 PM, CE WOOD wrote: There are many sites that allow you to enter a place name and then give you the coordinates and show a map. Just Google latitude and longitude or mapping coordinates, and you will have a lot to choose from. Most also allow you to enter coordinates, either in degrees and minutes or decimal, and find what is there. All of the sites I have visited give you the coordinates in both formats, so you don't have to do any calculations. I specify coordinates for abbeys, churches, castles, cemeteries, etc. As with anything, you will prefer some sites over others, and, especially if dealing with mediaeval ruins, you may need to do more work. There are scads of sites that help with old places, but that is another subject. CE 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] Focus Group
From the main menu at the very top of the Legacy window select: ViewFocus Group a new window will open, click on the focus group you want then click EDIT. This will open a new window with a list of the people in the group. You can then click the PRINT button if you choose. Laird On 8/29/2012 5:00 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: I have 2 separate databases for my paternal maternal families. For my paternal line(s) I want to create a gedcom of my paternal gr'father's family. (there is at least one intermarriage between my paternal gr'father's paternal gr'mother's lines). In that paternal side dbf I have a total of 2168 fams 5137 indivs So I created a focus group (FG) of my pat gr father's ancestors (only). ( I selected the Direct Line Ancestors all the buttons under it.) Now I want to see who's in that focus group who is not. How do I get that info? 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship calculator and Set Relationships do not complete
Hi Jacques, Don' retype all those 780 modifications. Export them to a GEDCOM and then import them into V6. Laird On 7/9/2012 1:26 PM, Jacques E Decarie wrote: Four weeks ago, I converted from V 6.0 Deluxe to 7.5 Deluxe. My main database contains over 270 000 individuals. The relationship SET and CALCULTE never complete in V7.5 (even after 30 minutes). In the last 4 weeks, I have made over 780 modifications to my database. I need to know *if Legacy 7.5 can handle relationships or not* before I go on. I don’t mind going back to V 6.0.0.190 and retyping my 780 records but I need to know now if that is what I have to do. Any help and comments from users with similar experience would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jacques. 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] Future of my family file?
Hi JL, This should work for you. You can still use the idea Brian suggested. I just created a PDF Family Group Sheet of all of the marriages in my file. There are 5,048 families and the PDF was 7,539 pages and 29.8 MB in size. Next I created individual reports for everyone in my file. There are 13,864 individuals in my file and the PDF contained 32,767 pages and 315 MB in size. I used a software printer driver which looks like a printer to Windows (and Legacy) and creates a PDF file. I use free PDFCreator. There are many other products available such as CutePDF. In Legacy reports don't use Preview. Use the Printer Setup button to select a PDF soft printer driver, in my case PDFCreator. Next click on the Print button and when prompted save the PDF file to your HDD of your choice. Laird On 6/24/2012 4:00 PM, JLB wrote: It looks like it stops. I got up to Page 4297 the second run. And damn! It was such a good idea. JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 6/24/2012 1:55 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: LOL, Sorry JL. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: JLB Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 9:49 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Future of my family file? Oooh, I like that first idea. However, after choosing Entire Family File and some options and PDF file for output it ran til it froze at Page 4296. Does something come next after a requisite period of time (have already waited 15 minutes) or is this where it stops? JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 6/24/2012 1:24 PM, Brian/Support wrote: I have two suggestions: 1. You can create a set of Family Group Sheets (FGS) for everyone in your file as a single PDF file. These will show each family group and you can include FGS for individuals as well. 2. If you are not as concerned about linking the people in your file into families you can also create Individual Reports for everyone in your file as a PDF. To select everyone in your file click the record selection button on the report screen. It is not quite true that these will not require a computer program, to view the PDF files you need Adobe Reader or other programs that can read a PDF file but you also need a program to read a .doc or .rtf file. The only records that do not need a computer program are hard copy on paper. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 23/06/2012 21:29, Susan Perrett wrote: I would like to be able to create some sort of Report, e.g. .DOC or .RTF of the whole of my family file, so that when I depart this life, there would be some sort of readable documentation of everyone in my family (file). Not just my paternal line but everyone, including all the people around the world that are connected in some way to my family. By doing this I can leave my family history recorded, without a computer program needed to see the file. Is this possible, if so, where would I start? And with whom would I start with? 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] need help with updating details of sources when they are part of a master source
Suzanne, You asked the very same question on June 9, 2012. You will find the answers given to you here: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/msg21862.html = On 6/14/2012 4:44 PM, Suzanne Scheraga wrote: I'm having a very frustrating time trying to update mycensus recordsources. I have one master source for each census, and use detail entries for the individual census pages. I want to have a transcription of the family related text and a photo of the census page in each of these areas. Is there a way to do this without copying the information to eachindividual'sevent? For example, if there are six individuals listed on the census page, I want each event for which I cite the source (occupation, residence, etc), to have both a full transcription of the page and the image of the page. This might mean at least 16 specific places I would need to go to update the source. I understand that I can use the source clipboard to add a new version of the source and then delete the old version. Is there a more efficient way of accomplishing this? I have purchased LTools but have not figured out if it can be used to make these changes. Can anyone help? BTW - I'm using the latest version of Legacy on Windows 7. Thanks in advance, Suzanne 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] A picture question
Michele, see this web page: http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/labelling.html On 6/4/2012 1:45 PM, Michele Lewis wrote: How do you add a comment to a picture I DON’T have these photos in Legacy. Michele *From:*Tim Rosenlöf [mailto:spa...@xmission.com] *Sent:* Monday, June 04, 2012 2:36 PM *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] A picture question On 6/4/2012 10:10 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: I am still sorting and organizing my photos that I have on my computer. I am not attaching them in Legacy yet. I just received a photo from my cousin of his grandmother (my grandmother’s sister). It is dated 1940. I have saved it as GlaentzerSusanne01 but is there some way to make a note of the date without putting the date in the file name?  michele Michele, You know I don't use multimedia with Legacy, however how about the IPTC or Comment. I don't use it myself, but I understand IPTC is not searchable Tim 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] What is the best way to do this?
Hi Tim, My answer was specific to the question as it related to Legacy multimedia (Pictures) files. Legacy stores the multimedia folder locations in a hard coded format. I am not suggesting your 87 year old mother would have a problem with a new PC. As far as Legacy is concerned: In Windows XP My Documents is really something like: C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents. In Windows Vista the equivalent folder is Documents and is really something like C:\Users\username\Documents. For any version of Windows: If you store your multimedia in a location like C:\FamilyTree\Multimedia and then copy your files to a new PC using the same folder name there isn't any need to find a new location for the files. These files can be on another drive like D: or E: etc. So long as you copy the files to the same folder name on a new PC there isn't a problem. Laird On 5/28/2012 12:52 PM, Tim Rosenlöf wrote: On 5/27/2012 2:02 PM, Laird wrote: Nichele, I would like to discourage you making this change: Someday you will have to buy a new computer. It will NOT have a folder called My Documents like you have with XP now. The new computer will have a different operating system, in the near future it will be Windows 8. You know something we don't ? Why would Microsoft move away from the convection that has been there for many versions ? That would create havoc for a very large amount of users. My Mother (87), would have no clue how to change. She is one that has a hard time with just the basics. At that time you will have to do this process all over again. That is one of the reasons Legacy puts everything in C:\Legacy\. I don't have mine in the default location and it runs just fine. Even with the Sample.fdb file that has attached multimedia :-) Happy Hunting, Tim Rosenlof Utah, USA You will have to locate/find at least one photo from each folder\sub-folder\etc. Laird 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] What is the best way to do this?
Nichele, I would like to discourage you making this change: Someday you will have to buy a new computer. It will NOT have a folder called My Documents like you have with XP now. The new computer will have a different operating system, in the near future it will be Windows 8. At that time you will have to do this process all over again. That is one of the reasons Legacy puts everything in C:\Legacy\. You will have to locate/find at least one photo from each folder\sub-folder\etc. Laird On 5/27/2012 2:01 PM, Michele Lewis wrote: Right now I have all of my genealogy photos and documents in the Legacy Folder PICTURES (I had subfolders in there). These are only the items that I have actually attached to Legacy somewhere in my file. I have a similar file structure already on my computer under MY DOCUMENTS. I would like to move all of the stuff that is in PICTURES to MY DOCUMENTS so everything is in the same place. I know that this will create a big problem because all of my paths will be wrong. Is there some easy way to fix the paths without having to do it one at a time? I have probably 200 or so documents and photos in the PICTURES folder (I know that relatively speaking that isn’t very many but it will still be time consuming if I have to do this all by hand). Michele 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] combine multiple Family Group Records into one 'book'?
Elizabeth, The Legacy web comparison of the free version and Deluxe version shows the Publishing Center isn't available in the free version. But the Family Group Record is in the free version. Laird On 4/21/2012 4:14 PM, Brian/Support wrote: The Publishing Centre will let you put in a list of FGS reports in any order you choose and will create a book with a single Table of Contents and Index. You can also elect to have all the sources grouped at the end of the book. You will find the source settings on the Additional tab of the Pub Centre. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 21/04/2012 12:45 PM, elizabeth wrote: Is there any way to combine numerous Family Group Records together to create a 'book'? What I mean is...how could I do them so that there is only one index of surnames and one list of sources for all of them...at the end of the 'book'? I use Legacy version 7.4.0.45 (Free) Thank you, 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] What to do with the I think and maybe individuals?
Consider having a Maybe event. Even though it isn't a fact or a real event, events can be marked Private so they wouldn't appear in reports and they are searchable. Laird On 4/20/2012 7:08 PM, Marg Strong wrote: For me that's true also, Ron. I was looking for a way to mark them, but it would have to be something different than entering something into any of the name fields. The best I can think of right now is in the note fields, but that wouldn't pull them up in a search. Maybe when I have a better understanding of starting my own individual ID numbers (If I'm wording that correctly) something might be possible. Fortunately, right now, I don't have maybes in my tree except one unattached family, but I have seen some I've been tempted to include. I'm thinking having a lot of unattached individuals would be confusing, so haven't done it again. It's something I'll have to look for a way that I'm happy with, but not a top priority right now. Thanks for your thoughts on this. *From:* Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Sent:* Friday, April 20, 2012 3:49 PM *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with the I think and maybe individuals? Peggy, As somebody else wrote, it is important to consider at this early stage as to whether you may wish to publish your work as a report just for your family, send copies to other researchers, publish formally or as a web site. If so how would they look if full of possibles or maybes. OK, you could put them in Privacy Brackets, but this would stop you using them for other purposes. Ron Ferguson httpp://www.fergys.co.uk/ Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com mailto:tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Eliz, that's an interesting way of doing it. I started trying to think of something like that and adding it but was afraid it might be too non-standard. So far I haven't added many maybes. It is good that Legacy gives lots of leeway so we can do what we think will be helpful. Needs a lot of planning ahead though! From: Eliz Hanebury elizhg...@gmail.com mailto:elizhg...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with the I think and maybe individuals? Marg, I go straight to Maybe and Possible and I put it in the name - Mary (maybe) Jones, where I can easily see it. I have six Davis lines all blood kin to me, but since I am a Davis born this gets confusing G as you can imagine. Yesterday I cried Uncle and entered on one William (married a Phillips) Davis which will tell me his children are blood kin to my Howe line thru my 2Xggf sister. I love that Legacy lets me do these odd things. Also I don't use sources I put the sourcing in the event, I hate a row of numbers after a name G but that is me and Legacy lets me G 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] Window sizes
Arnold, I assume the Windows Task Bar is on the center monitor and that is where Legacy opens maximized, Is that correct? Laird On 4/13/2012 7:52 AM, Arnold Sprague wrote: Sherry, In your final paragraph below, you suggested deleting Legacy2.usr. I did that and nothing has improved. I run three monitors on Windows XP, SP3. I place Legacy on the RIGHT-hand monitor. 1. If Legacy is maximized when I close it down and then reopen it, Legacy opens in the MIDDLE monitor full sized. 2. If, however, Legacy is Restored down (not minimized) when I close it down and then reopen it, Legacy opens in the RIGHT-hand monitor, but not maximized. This is repeatable and has occurred for years. My question is how can I run Legacy maximized (in full-screen mode) on my RIGHT-hand monitor and have it open there again, full sized, after I close Legacy? Thank you, Arnold At 10:24 AM 4/12/2012, you wrote: Russ, I just tested this with Outlook and Legacy on dual monitors in Win7. Outlook was on the far left of the left monitor and Legacy on the far right of the right monitor (I have the dual monitors set to stretch the desktop over the two monitors) I closed the two programs and reopened them. Outlook opened in the middle of the left monitor, Legacy opened still tiled on the right monitor as it should. So Legacy is holding the position of the window when it was closed. If this isn't working for you, close Legacy and delete the Legacy2.usr file as I recommended before and then give it another try. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:53 AM, R G Strong-genes rgstrongge...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Windows 7 and have found that if I have tiled two windows (Legacy and some other program) side by side and have closed both windows and have come back to do a Legacy session, that when Legacy opens it is a little square window that I have to resize all over again. Usually this happens only after I have done a session with Legacy and did not restore its untiled position size before closing Legacy. Russ 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] Census Tool failure?
Michele, I did some more testing: 1. The census tool finds 1848 individuals for the 1930 census and I tagged these with tag 2. 2. Next I did a Detailed Search Look for whom?=Individual Where to look= Birth Place How to look=Equal ToWhat to look for= blank, no entry here. Second Condition: AND Look for whom?=Individual Where to look=Death Place How to look=Equal ToWhat to look for= blank, no entry here. Third Condition: AND Look for whom?=Individual Where to look=Tag 2 How to look=Equal ToWhat to look for=Tagged This search finds 349 Individuals and I looked at about 20% of these. They do have one or both dates and no location. I have run check repair on this file. Laird On 4/13/2012 6:29 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: If you have no location listed at all, then Legacy won't know that they should be in a census. For example, would they be in a US census or a UK one? If the person has no locations filled in at all how would Legacy know. Michele -Original Message- From: Laird Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 1:46 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census Tool failure? I have 13,864 individuals in my database and I happened to notice a person that wasn't listed in the census search list (see the Family Group Record below). I didn't see any reason for this person to be missed. I exported this one person to a Legacy file and the census tool still failed to list him. I didn't have the Exclude individuals from the Search List with location percentages less than: option selected. I discovered if I add a birth or death location, the census tool will list him. I don't know for a FACT where he was born or died so I am not going to enter a location into my database. However I could make a guess when I do a census search IF he were on the list. I feel confident this isn't the only person in my database with dates but without a location. I feel like this a problem that needs to be fixed. I am using Legacy version 7.5.0.182 Anyone else think this is a problem? Thanks, Laird Family Group Record for Verl T. Pitsenbarger Husband: Verl T. Pitsenbarger [11823] Born: 17 Apr 1920 Christened: Died: 26 May 2002 Buried: Marriage: Place: Wife: Born: Christened: Died: Buried: Children Last Modified: 12 Apr 2012 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] Census Tool failure?
Geoff, does this qualify for locations for anyone surrounding the main person The person in the Family Group Record shown at the end of this message: His Father and mother and two brothers have full details on birth, death and locations. One sister has birth + location and the other sister has birth + location and death date. The spouse has a name and no dates etc. -- One example that was found by the census tool: His father had birth+death date and birth location and the mother had birth+death date. The person found had birth and death dates without locations. He had 7 siblings with no dates/no location to as much as birth+death date and no locations . The tool logic seems inconsistent. I feel like the tool should find people with birth and death dates that qualify without any other requirements. It seems to me; if I do not select the Search List Option to Exclude individuals from the Search List with location percentages less than: nn% then I should get what I want. Isn't what that option means? Laird On 4/13/2012 11:53 AM, Geoff Rasmussen wrote: Keep in mind that Legacy is also checking surrounding family members (births of children, etc.) for the report's evaluation. If there are no locations for anyone surrounding the main person, then that person will not show up in the report. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation ge...@legacyfamilytree.com mailto:ge...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Laird lftu...@bayleenet.net mailto:lftu...@bayleenet.net wrote: Michele, I did some more testing: 1. The census tool finds 1848 individuals for the 1930 census and I tagged these with tag 2. 2. Next I did a Detailed Search Look for whom?=Individual Where to look= Birth Place How to look=Equal ToWhat to look for= blank, no entry here. Second Condition: AND Look for whom?=Individual Where to look=Death Place How to look=Equal ToWhat to look for= blank, no entry here. Third Condition: AND Look for whom?=Individual Where to look=Tag 2 How to look=Equal ToWhat to look for=Tagged This search finds 349 Individuals and I looked at about 20% of these. They do have one or both dates and no location. I have run check repair on this file. Laird On 4/13/2012 6:29 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: If you have no location listed at all, then Legacy won't know that they should be in a census. For example, would they be in a US census or a UK one? If the person has no locations filled in at all how would Legacy know. Michele -Original Message- From: Laird Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 1:46 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census Tool failure? I have 13,864 individuals in my database and I happened to notice a person that wasn't listed in the census search list (see the Family Group Record below). I didn't see any reason for this person to be missed. I exported this one person to a Legacy file and the census tool still failed to list him. I didn't have the Exclude individuals from the Search List with location percentages less than: option selected. I discovered if I add a birth or death location, the census tool will list him. I don't know for a FACT where he was born or died so I am not going to enter a location into my database. However I could make a guess when I do a census search IF he were on the list. I feel confident this isn't the only person in my database with dates but without a location. I feel like this a problem that needs to be fixed. I am using Legacy version 7.5.0.182 Anyone else think this is a problem? Thanks, Laird Family Group Record for Verl T. Pitsenbarger Husband: Verl T. Pitsenbarger [11823] Born: 17 Apr 1920 Christened: Died: 26 May 2002 Buried: Marriage: Place: Wife: Born: Christened: Died: Buried: Children Last Modified: 12 Apr 2012 Legacy User
[LegacyUG] Census Tool failure?
I have 13,864 individuals in my database and I happened to notice a person that wasn't listed in the census search list (see the Family Group Record below). I didn't see any reason for this person to be missed. I exported this one person to a Legacy file and the census tool still failed to list him. I didn't have the Exclude individuals from the Search List with location percentages less than: option selected. I discovered if I add a birth or death location, the census tool will list him. I don't know for a FACT where he was born or died so I am not going to enter a location into my database. However I could make a guess when I do a census search IF he were on the list. I feel confident this isn't the only person in my database with dates but without a location. I feel like this a problem that needs to be fixed. I am using Legacy version 7.5.0.182 Anyone else think this is a problem? Thanks, Laird Family Group Record for Verl T. Pitsenbarger Husband: Verl T. Pitsenbarger [11823] Born: 17 Apr 1920 Christened: Died: 26 May 2002 Buried: Marriage: Place: Wife: Born: Christened: Died: Buried: Children Last Modified: 12 Apr 2012 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] Duplicate Problem
Robert, In addition to importing your GEDCOM into a new file and clean it up first. You can add one or more sources to indicate where you got the GEDCOM from etc. When it is time to merge it with your main data base: Maintain the new file as a Legacy file, DO NOT export it as a GEDCOM to be merged with your main database. BACKUPBACKUP, maybe rename. When you import the newfile.fdb, tell Legacy to renumber the individual [RIN] and marriage [MRIN] numbers to a number exceeding the highest numbers in your main database. Say if you had 10,000 individuals in your main database and your highest RIN was 11, 381 (you will likely have some skipped numbers and this is OK, don't worry about it) , you might renumber the import starting with 11,382 or a little higher. To find the highest RIN in your main database select the index tab and click the RIN button at the top left of window. Then scroll to the bottom of the list and note the highest RIN used. Same story with the MRINs. To find the highest MRIN go to ViewMarriage List, click MRIN in the top left of window and scroll to the bottom of the list and note the highest number used. Next you will go to: File Import From Legacy File and find your newfile.fdb and click open. You will select Add the Legacy information to the EXISTING Family File. Click Proceed, Continue with import and a new window named Legacy Import will open . This is where you renumber the RINs, in the upper right of the window, selectRenumber RINs from: put a number higher than your highest RIN as noted above. Also do MRINs from: with the higher MRIN as noted above. When you are ready click theStart the Import button. When you do the merge/check for duplicates you will know all the new import numbers are higher than your main database. After the merge the duplicates will become unused RIN/MRINs. Again don't worry about it. Laird On 4/8/2012 10:55 AM, R G Strong-genes wrote: I agree. Are you importing the gedcom directly into your file? You should import it into a NEW file then do all your duplicate checking, place name formats etc, etc. BEFORE you merge it into your main database. This will eliminate most of your duplicates and will merge more smoothly plus you can create the source for that GEDCOM and the info will import with the new source. Russ *From:* RICHARD SCHULTHIES mailto:fourpa...@verizon.net *Sent:* Sunday, April 08, 2012 4:52 AM *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate Problem You just have to buckle up and do the Merge/Unlink like we all do. No easy answer. Sorry, Rich in LA CA *From:* RUNION ROBERT rrun...@cox.net *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Sent:* Saturday, April 7, 2012 2:50 PM *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Duplicate Problem I received a GEDCOM file that I would like to add to my files (to a backup copy just as a safeguard). In importing the GEDCOM of approximately 2000+ names, I have discovered duplication of about half of the persons imported. Is there a recommended way to eliminate the duplications? I tried the duplication process and it appears that I have to address each pair separately. This creates a problem when looking at the names and data as to which one is the accurate one or even if it is a duplication. Suggestions? 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] Handling Photos
Teresa, This is a challenge using Legacy, but think about these ideas, at least it would all be in one book. In the Books / Other, publishing center under the Contents Tab Add your Descendant Narrative CHAPTER Next add a Picture Scrapbook CHAPTER (at the bottom of the list. Although this isn't what you really want perhaps you can make do with this method. Also a way to insert a custom chapter is as follows: A little more difficult thing to think about is the Place Holder CHAPTER. You reserve a set number of blank pages which can be replaced with something of your choice (photo album?). But to do this you will have to be creative about producing a PDF file to send to a publisher like Lulu.com. I have used a free PDF file creator (PDFcreator) which replaces a printer device, from: http://www.pdfforge.org It will let you combine multiple documents into one PDF. For example using the publishing center preview the entire document, Title, TOC, Descendant chapter, PLACE HOLDER CHAPTER, additional chapters and index. Next in the upper right side of the preview window under Print: select the Range button. Enter the page number range from the start of the book to the last page before the place holder chapter and print a PDF using PDFcreator. Repeat this for the range following the end of the place holder chapter to the end of the book including the index. Create a PDF chapter of your choice to replace the place holder chapter. Now using PDFcreator merge the three PDF files into one file. If you need to create a Acrobat 4.0 (PDF 1.3) file for Lulu, email me off list and I can send you setup info for PDF creator to do that. Laird On 4/5/2012 1:55 AM, wt...@aol.com wrote: So I have another question for everyone, and appreciate earlier answers today - it helped tremendously. How do you handle photos? For instance I have photos of the village the family came from in Croatia, and would like to include it in the family Book. Now I can put each photo in an individual event so they all print, but that seems rather cumbersome. What am I missing? I see where I can add an entire photo album and print it separately, but not as part of a book. Am I stuck keeping the photos in separate files so I have to print them separate? The purpose of the individual project right now is as follows: 5 Generations in which the oldest generation had 14 children. There will be one large descendants chart printed in poster form. There will be one printed copy of a book, with photos and sources. There will be a CD containing said book and chart given to each of the 14 families to pass down to their own lines. (There are still 7 of them living, plus one copy will go to the oldest child of those who have passed on). I would use Passage Express, but there will be no computer there to give the presentation, and most of those who will receive the CD would probably not know how to use it. Teresa Who's starting to stress over the huge family reunion in june. 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] Name Index
Georgia, Try this: From the top menu ViewName List then Near the bottom left of center click on the Print... button On the Options tab, Row 1 tab etc. select the items you want to see in the print. Click the preview button. If you a large number of people in your file you can click the cancel button and not wait until it finishes, it will show you what it has created so far. If it looks OK you can use the normal way you want to print it. To a PDF or hard copy. Laird On 3/15/2012 6:19 PM, Brian/Support wrote: From your limited description this looks like it is the Name Index pages for some report. There is nothing in Legacy that will create a report like the one you describe. Do you have a printer on your system that will create a PDF file instead of paper? That is one way you might have created a file with only the Name Index. A normal report from Legacy saved as a PDF will have the body of the report included. The nearest thing I can suggest to get a Name Index with everyone in your file is to create Individual Reports as a batch for everyone in your file. If you include a Name Index that will be at the end of all the reports. From the Preview of the full reports you can print selected pages. Sending that print to a PDF creator printer will create a PDF with only the Name Index from the batch of Individual Reports. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 15/03/2012 6:02 PM, Georgia wrote: I am clearing out some files and came across a name index I created in 2006 on Legacy. It shows each surname in my database in bold caps and then indented below each surname, a list of the given names. Each given name has a life span in parenthesis, the RIN in brackets and then some single digits following the RIN. I see that in the upper right corner it is page 8 of something. I apologize for such a cryptic explanation but I would love to recreate this list showing the new names I have but I cannot figure out how I created this list. Or what it is the index to. It seems to cover my entire database. Can anyone help me? Many thanks, Georgia Chun 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: [Norton AntiSpam][LegacyUG] ZIP Files
From the help file: *Restore Family File* *To restore an existing Legacy Family File:* 1. Choose *Restore Family File...* from the /File/ menu. The /Select a Family File Backup to Restore/ dialog appears. *Note*: You should only select a backup of a Family File. To restore Multimedia files use the built-in compressed files and folders utility in Windows XP and above or a zip file utility such as Winzip. 2. From the /Restore Location/ dialog box, specify the drive and folder where you want the restored Family File placed. See Backup a Family File backup_a_family_file.htmfor more information on backing up a Family File. On 3/8/2012 10:50 AM, sarge1...@cox.net wrote: I have read the Legacy manual and tried to find this subject in the help files - but have been unsuccessful. It would appear that using a program such as WinZip is necessary - another expense. Could you explain how to utilize the '.zip' files that are saved during the back-up process? e.g., If I wanted to open a zip file I saved a month or so back, how would I do so and use it in Legacy? This may be Legacy 101, but I could use some help. Bob Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging a Census Search List
While still in the census search list with all the people showing: click Options click Advanced Tagging select your tag number click Everyone in Search List you are done. On 3/8/2012 11:39 AM, Bobby Johnson wrote: Pardon me. I should have said when I went to Advanced Tagging. -Original Message- From: Bobby Johnson [mailto:b...@brmemc.net] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Tagging a Census Search List I just updated to version 7.5.0.165 and created a search list for the 1940 census. I wanted to tag everyone in the list, but when I went to advanced search the Tag everyone in search list was grayed out. When I view the search list it is there. How can I tag this list? Bobby Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging a Census Search List
Bobby, I don't know if it is intended to work that way but version 7.5.0.77 and 7.5.0.142 did the same thing. Laird On 3/8/2012 12:31 PM, Bobby Johnson wrote: Thanks Mike and Tim. That works for me. I had returned to the family view after creating the list and then decided to tag it. I right clicked on the tag boxes to get to Advanced Tagging. It opens the same screen as the method you use but the Tag Everyone in the search list is grayed out when you use this approach. Shouldn't it work this way. Perhaps a small bug. I'll use the Options button from now on. Bobby -Original Message- From: Mike Fry [mailto:mike...@iafrica.com] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 1:13 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging a Census Search List On 2012/03/08 18:59, Bobby Johnson wrote: I just updated to version 7.5.0.165 and created a search list for the 1940 census. I wanted to tag everyone in the list, but when I went to advanced search the Tag everyone in search list was grayed out. When I view the search list it is there. How can I tag this list? No problems here! After creating the list, you should click on the Options button at the foot of the list, then select Advanced Tagging from there. Is that what you're doing? 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] Upgrading to new version requiring password?
I think you would be using the free version The password is legacy7 -- Laird On 3/8/2012 12:33 PM, Dave Keeney wrote: I'm trying to upgrade to the newest version (Installed Version: *7.5.0.112; *Available Version: *7.5.0.165)* and it's asking for a password. I'm upgrading from the Legacy Home tab. Anybody know it? 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] Family Search Help
Larry, Are you doing this through Legacy or directly on the Family Search web using a Web Browser? There seems to be a problem with Legacy when the person you are searching doesn't have enough dates b. d. to fill in the form on Family Search? Laird On 3/8/2012 7:22 PM, Larry Lee wrote: Can anyone tell me if Family Search in now off limits to non-LDS.I used to use it once upon a time. have tried the new site the old site. My email address, old username and password are still valid but I can't seem to be able to use the search function. I know things have changed are changing but is it still possible to use it at all for non-LDS? Thanks, Larry 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] Universal Source?
Maureen, DON'T FOR GET TO BACKUP THE FILE BEFORE YOU START. 1. I assume this is a Legacy .fdb file.. 2. Go to File MenuFile ImportLegacy File and select your file to import. 3. On the Options window click AutoSource at the bottom of window. 4. Choose Add one source entry per record (in Unspecified)OR Add source to all incoming fields that have information 5. Click Select a Master Source, a new window will open 6. Click the Add button to create a new Master Source OR 6a. Click Options button and select Import Lists 6b. Browse for a Family File to Import Lists From: 6c. Click/select the Master Sources button and click Import Lists button. 6d. You should now be able to select a Master Source from the list 7. Click the Select button 8. This should put you back to the first Import window again. 9. Click the Start the Import button That should get you off to a start. Click the Help button on any window! Laird On 3/1/2012 5:05 PM, Maureen Lake wrote: I have a weird question. I have a friend building me a Legacy file of names from a specific inigration event (a ship and travel list) which will include almost 500 families, and over 1500 people. Once I have that, I will be doing descendancy research on those families for a historic recreation. Does anyone know if it is possible to add a single source to all events recorded when I get the file, or will I need to go through event by event and add the website information she is getting the data from for me? Then I can continue on with additional research and sources. Thanks. Maureen 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] maps?
Michele, According to my copy of AniMap software: Marion, MS and Marion Station v-Marion, MS in Lauderdale Co. at 32.417, -88.648 which is Northeast of Meridian, MS. In 1785 it was in Bourbon County established by Georgia in Natchez Region. In 1788 it was in Bourbon County eliminated by Georgia In 1804 in Choctaw Lands In 1829 in Non-county areas (unceded Indian lands) 1830 in Wayne County In 1833 in Lauderdale to 1918, the last date in the software. Also: Marion v-Sidon and Marion Landing v-Sidon, MS in Leflore Co. at 33.408, -90.204 in Sidon, MS Marion Station v-Marion in Lauderdale Co. Legacy sells AniMap in their store. Laird - On 2/24/2012 4:34 PM, John B. Lisle wrote: Michele, You are quite welcome. Mapping is an important function. It would be nice if it were easier... When you start mapping other countries, you start with other layers of problems, including different spellings... of names from other languages. john. At 04:40 PM 2/24/2012, Michele Lewis wrote: Wow, John. That was great advice! Thanks for taking the time to type that all out :) Michele -Original Message- From: John B. Lisle [mailto:leg...@tqsi.com] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:40 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] maps? Michele, I geocode locations from all over the world every day with Legacy and know how frustrating it can be. Let me share with you a few things I have learned and how I do it. 1/ If you add US, USA, etc. it can confuse Bing. I think Legacy now strips that off before it sends the location to Bing to geocode. 2/ If you write out the State, it will get more confused than if you use the Postal code for the state; eg, better to geocode TX vs. Texas. 3/ If the state has a city/town by the same name as the county, it will almost always find the city, even if you wanted the county. Putting Co. or County after a county name will help it understand what is a county. If I have the name of the town, I just enter it without the county. 4/ Bing will find a location differently depending on where the map is placed when it goes looking. EG, I have had it fail miserably to find a location when map was far away from location, but when location is in the view, it finds it precisely. 5/ Bing will USUALLY not find townships. 6/ Clean up the naming of the location after you have let Bing find the location. If you let Bing re-place the pin after you have cleaned up the location name, Bing may recode it elsewhere; usually this happens when the county name is same as a city/town name. My process is to enter a new location with the minimum of information and let Bing try to do its thing. Then I edit the location with the old Geocode database and let that try to get the name expanded properly. -- I have significantly edited the GeoCode-xxx.txt files to get the Geocode database to format the names to my naming standards. I compare the location coordinate found from old Geocode with Bing to see that they seem to agree. The old Geocode results are not as precise as Bing, but it will find places that Bing gets wrong. For coding at Country/State/Province/etc. level, I code to the capital. I use Wikipedia extensively to figure out county seats and townships. I code county level locations at the county seat and townships at the major town. I code cemeteries at the cemetery when I can find the location. (FindaGrave is very helpful with that.) I like to enter historical locations which are often NOT in any GeoCode database so I need to find where the location is now and manually place the pin where it needs to be. These systems are smart, but not smart enough. ;-) I go to this trouble because mapping is important to me, and I export the geocodes to my web publishing tool which does extensive mapping of the events for each person. ok? john. 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] We just upgraded our mail server
Was the upgrade to SmarterMail 9? On 2/22/2012 12:20 PM, KenMcGinnis wrote: We just wanted to let everyone know that we just updated our mail server and hopefully everything will continue as normal. If you see any problems with emails let me know. Thanks, Ken McGinnis Millennia Corporation kenmcgin...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! 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] Using Word for descendant report
Paula and Elizabeth, You don't have to compromise on the export, you can still keep Source Writer sources. 1. DO NOT export as GEDCOM. 2. Export as a Legacy file, from the file menu:FileExport toLegacy File You can use a focus group or tag the subset you want. 3. Export it. 4. It will ask if you want to open it. Laird On 2/22/2012 8:29 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: Elizabeth, I believe you are correct (can't edit standard output) that's why Legacy has the RTF option. Re: showing only some descendents I have seen on this list people recommending you export the subset you need to GEDCOM, then import into a new file, then unlink the branches you don't need in the particular report. (I'm paraphrasing.) Maybe that sort of approach could work for you. ON THE OTHER HAND: There are known issues with GEDCOM vs. Source Writer citations, so maybe it wouldn't work for you. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams *From:* Elizabeth roobee...@gmail.com *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Sent:* Tue, February 21, 2012 8:38:14 AM *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Using Word for descendant report Thanks for all the advice. My original reason for exporting to Word was for subsequent editing. Whilst I probably should be able to get Legacy to produce the wording I need, if I only, for example, need some of the descendants shown, it seems easier to do that in Word. I don't believe one can edit the Standard Output, just print? Elizabeth On 20 February 2012 00:26, Mark Lang markl...@adam.com.au mailto:markl...@adam.com.au wrote: Elizabeth, Upon further examination, I too have found similar results. I will be reporting this problem. Kind Regards Mark Lang Beta Tester -Original Message- From: Elizabeth [mailto:roobee...@gmail.com mailto:roobee...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012 5:20 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Using Word for descendant report I have exported a descendant report, via rtf, to Word but am puzzled by various additions to the text which appear to have inserted themselves. �For example, one event should read: He was resident at Gilbert Street, Paddington, London in 1841 but following 1841 is \up51\up0, with the last five digits in superscript. I think it should simply be a single superscript 1 for the first source quoted. Can anyone suggest where these might have come from, please? - - - - - - - Elizabeth researching ALLAMBRIDGE (Dorset, Somerset and anywhere else they might turn up) 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] Genviewer
Enter your desired price in the EACH box: Delete the 19.95 and then enter your $ amount. Laird On 2/18/2012 12:27 PM, Bain Family wrote: What am I overlooking? I don’t see where it is on sale. Is there a coupon code? I’m looking online at the GenViewer Legacy Edition (download only) for $19.95. I went to check out and it is still the normal price of $19.95. Thank you, Lana (I marked this email as plain text so hope it comes through as such.) 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] Genviewer
I tested my new download of Genviewer today with the updated Legacy database format created with Legacy version 7.5.0.149. Genviewer loaded the database file with no complaints and seems to work OK. Whatever changes Legacy made to the database don't appear to be used by Genviewer. Laird On 2/18/2012 1:09 PM, Tim Rosenlof wrote: From Luc... Quote Hi everyone, To celebrate our 12th year of MudCreek Software, GENViewer 1 and GENMatcher 1 will be retailing at the excellent price of whatever you want to pay until Feb 23rd 2012. _That's right - name your price_. Please tell your friends about this great deal. Go to www.mudcreeksoftware.com You can following MudCreek Software at our new Google Plus page: https://plus.google.com/111362827804897832774 Thanks for your support over the years. Thanks, Luc Comeau MudCreek Software www.MudcreekSoftware.com GENViewer and GENMatcher unquote Tim 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] Sharpen Your Pencils
You can get free 1790 through 1930 Census images (as well as many other things) here: http://www.archive.org/mediatypes-browse.php?mediatype=texts I would guess they will have the 1940 Census at some point. Laird On 2/14/2012 10:55 PM, Eliz Hanebury wrote: Are you refering to the 1940? Ancestry and familysearch are both getting it I believe. Ancestry is running a count downG they will put it online browse only ASAP and then set people to indexing it. What familysearch has to say †On April 2, 2012, NARA will provide access to the images of the 1940 United States Federal Census for the first time. Unlike previous census years, images of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census will be made available as free digital images. Eliz On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:30 PM, elizabethnewi...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I have access from home to HQ through my library card and use it often. Does anyone know who, if anyone, will be putting this new census online, and when? Elizabeth == On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Paula Ryburnpaula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Does anyone else on this list use Heritage Quest through their library? --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams From: Tim Rosenlofspa...@xmission.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tue, February 14, 2012 12:14:35 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils Records Released in 48 Days! -- Tim Rosenlof Always Source Your Work 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] Page numbering problem on Multiple Line of Descent Report
Brian, I installed version 7.5.0.142, build 31 Jan 2012 and verified this problem still exists on my system it appears to still be a bug? Would you please give the LUG an update on the status of this problem? Thanks, Laird == On 5/16/2011 11:42 AM, Brian/Support wrote: The problem you reported has been tested and is confirmed. A report has been recorded in our problem tracking system so this can be fixed. Thank you for helping us make Legacy a better program for everyone. In fact I created two problem reports. One for the standalone report and one for the Publishing Centre. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 15/05/2011 8:47 PM, Ken wrote: Greetings, Although the following appears to be a minor problem, I thought I should bring it to the group's attention to see if I am overlooking a solution. I note it has not been listed in the archives. When producing a Multiple Line of Descendant Report within the Publishing Centre or as a stand alone, the Table of Contents are incorrectly numbered. The second page and those Table of Contents pages that follow are all automatically assigned a page number as though they were the last page of the whole report.In my case each page, 2 through 5, of the Table of Contents were assigned page number 312. The last page of my full report was 311. As the Table of Contents falls at the beginning of the report I was surprised to see it numbered as though it fell at the end but realized the problem was more than that when all the Table of Contents pages, 2 through 5, carried the same incorrect number. Have I done something wrong or is this a bug? If someone tries to duplicate this scenario please make sure your Table of Contents is two or more pages.I tried to see if this situation applied to any other type of report but my line doesn't go back far enough to have at least two pages of generations noted in the Table of Contents for the Ancestor or one name Descendant report. I thank you for reading this and look forward to some guidance with regards to the matter. Ken Marlow, Ottawa 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] Page numbering problem on Multiple Line of Descent Report
Sorry Mike, I misunderstood your statement. I did look at the bug fixes on the web site for this version release and these are the only ones that might be related to printing reports: *Event Report* - When using List format, the event name is now always included. *Publishing Center* - Family Group Records were inserting two entries into the Table of Contents instead of only one. Fixed. As a side note I had reported a different bug with the Publishing Center and I got a personal email directly from Legacy saying it was fixed in the next release, which turned out to be 7.5.0.142. My reported bug fix was also not listed in the Fixed Items list. On 2/5/2012 11:58 AM, Mike Fry wrote: On 2012/02/05 19:19, Laird wrote: I installed version 7.5.0.142, build 31 Jan 2012 and verified this problem still exists on my system it appears to still be a bug? Would you please give the LUG an update on the status of this problem? You could, of course, have had a look for yourself on the website at what had been fixed in the new release, and avoided this unnecessary thread. 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] Page numbering problem on Multiple Line of Descent Report
OK Mike, I did not file the original bug report. Please tell me how to do this. Laird On 2/5/2012 11:58 AM, Mike Fry wrote: On 2012/02/05 19:19, Laird wrote: I installed version 7.5.0.142, build 31 Jan 2012 and verified this problem still exists on my system it appears to still be a bug? Would you please give the LUG an update on the status of this problem? You could, of course, have had a look for yourself on the website at what had been fixed in the new release, and avoided this unnecessary thread. 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] Pictures - how to handle ones with more than one person in the photo
Daphne, I am with Jenny on this one. Using photo editing software, I also crop the photo to show one person and use the name and RIN of the person as the filename. I find the following works for books in the Publishing Center: I crop the person from the group photo and resize it to 1.5 tall x 1.5 wide @ 300 pixels per inch. I then merge a youth photo on the left side and an adult (later in life) on the right side which makes it 1.5 tall x 3 wide. When I only have one photo I center it as 1.5 x 1.5 within the 3 width with white space on both sides. In the Publishing Center: Report Options Pictures Picture Options. I select Custom Picture area: Width [3] Inches, Picture Reduction Width is set to Original size. As Leon said you can only print a single photo in book reports. You could extend the above concept to include more than two photos of a person by merging several photos into one. What you must keep in mind is the Report options photo size option is GLOBAL. That is why I put a single photo into the center of 1.5 x 3. If you used a single photo as 1.5 x 1.5 it would print as 3 x 3 using Custom Picture area: Width [3] Inches in my example above. Laird = On 2/5/2012 6:23 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: On 05/02/2012 23:21, Daphne Eze wrote: I'm in the process of attaching my photos to the records in Legacy. How do others handle it when there are more than one person in fthe photo? Do you attach the photo to each person that is in it? How do you name the photo? Whenever possible I crop the photo to show just the individual I want and save that picture to attach to the Individual. I attach group photos to Events where it is appropriate, such as a picture of a Wedding or a special family occasion. I don't have any particular scheme for naming photos, except that I use the RINs along with people's names. 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] Help Files - Search Function
Jerry, try what Sherry said. I clicked on the Search tab and entered ancestor It produce a list of 89 help pages by rank, which contain the word ancestor at least once. Double click on an item in the list to see the word(s) highlighted on the help page. You can also click on the Title heading or the Rank heading to change the way the list is sorted. Rank # 24 had 4 occurrences of ancestor Laird On 1/21/2012 7:15 PM, Jerry wrote: Thanks, Sherry, but even though it says search, it is still a table of contents, not really an index. The first tab is not really an index either, but that is the way with the Windows world now. You used to be able to search for every instance in which a word was used, but no more. If the complete help file would produced as a pdf and fully searchable by every single word of phrase, therefore, that would be a good thing. Anyway, I'm looking for the meaning of the error code 3260, which occurred when I was running a potential problems list. Jerry - MerriamFamilyTree.org On 1/21/2012 5:57 PM, Sherry/Support wrote: In the Help file, click on the Search tab and enter the search term you wish to use. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Jerryjerrysemailgro...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way in the help files to bring up every instance in which a word or phrase is used? Several years ago, this was the beauty of the Windows' environment help menu system. It seems that everybody is getting away from how well it used to work. I already have the printed manual, but it would be nice if there was a fully-searchable online help file system in place. -- Jerry - MerriamFamilyTree.org 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] Checking for file DIFFERENCES
Hi Laurie, I really agree with you about the difficulty of version control. I have complained on this LUG about Legacy changing the file date stamp even if you just view a database. Seems as though this isn't a Legacy problem but a problem with the Microsoft database system they use. In my case my database got corrupted and I needed to compare the Legacy zipped backup files to see which version one was good. Sometimes when I know I am just browsing I will create a copy of the data file to use for viewing so the real file doesn't get a new date stamp. This is what I do to compare file1 vs file2: Do this for both file1 and file2. In Legacy, click FileExport ToGEDCOM File A window will open-in the top on the Options tab Produce file for: (select) Legacy, Character Set ANSI then click Select File Name and START EXPORT Now you have saved two GEDCOM files which you can compare. I use WinMerge which is free/open source, user friendly and presents the differences quite well. You can get WinMerge here: http://winmerge.org/ When viewing the GEDCOM data note the Update/modified date in the GED file. This isn't the best solution, i.e. it doesn't do a direct compare of Sourcewriter sources. And likely some other things I am not aware of. I spent a lot of time trying to do this. I bought MudCreek GENMatcher hoping it would do what I wanted but it didn't. On 1/20/2012 9:32 AM, laurie curtis wrote: I’m made a mess of things and cannot be the only one with this problem. Really lost the plot with version control and have managed to enter new data in to back up versions of files. Also because every time a file opens, it gets a new date, I don’t always know what file is the newest –just know which one I opened most recently. This compounds the version control issue when I THINK I’m entering data in most current file, but entering it in a back up. Because I’m afraid to lose what I’ve done, I save the backup with a new name. Now I’m in a real mess. Would love to know if anyone has figured out a way to compare files for what is DIFFERENT. I know we can compare for what is the same, but that won’t help me figure out which files have new data? Thoughts for how to get myself out of this mud hole? Would also really welcome ideas for how people handle file management – I obviously need some lessons!! Laurie 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] RIN renumbering
Hi Bob, I have been down this road before, but it has been a couple of years ago. I feel your last option is the best. (make all USER IDs equal to FILE 2 RINs) It WILL preserve the original RINs. I would renumber using Brian's suggestion. 1 If there are missing/skipped RINs I think this will be a problem to preserve the original numbers. Therefore some renumbered RINs will be offset. 2 A higher range of numbers for file 2 will make it simpler to keep up with the source of the individual when you are doing the merge process. To answer the question of why it is better to use 10001 instead of 1: The renumber function starts at the number you enter and and does NOT add to the current RIN. Laird On 12/26/2011 8:37 PM, Robert57P_gmail wrote: I have 2 Legacy files I want to merge. To more easily identify which record came from which file (while I do the importing/merging), I'd like to renumber one of the files. File 1 = RIN 1 through 307 File 2 = RIN 1 through 1623 I'd prefer to renumber all RINs (and MRINs) in file 2 so that 10,000 is added to each existing RIN number. Thus: 1 would now be 10001 45 would now be 10045 1623 would now be 11623 This way I can tell, at a glance, what the original RIN was in case I need to go back to the original file for some research/comparison/etc. For example, if I see a RIN of 10540, I know it came from file 2 and was originally 540. I know I can renumber them one at a time via TOOLS/RENUMBER RINS, but is there a better way to do this renumbering? Either within Legacy or via some 3rd party tool? I see a renumber option in the IMPORT dialogue box, but it looks like it would not keep any relationship between the original RIN and the new RIN. (I'd prefer to not export them to MS Access - I've tried going the Access route in the past and always seem to have some kind of problem). I believe another option would be to make all USER IDs equal to FILE 2 [RIN] in file 2, but I have a feeling in my gut that it would be better to deal with the RIN field instead . . . Thanks, Bob 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] Legacy UG How List/print Research, All and nothing but
Try this and let us know if you get what you are looking for. Go to Search Detailed Search Individual Notes-Research Not Equal to (What to look for) should be blank Click Create List At the bottom of the Search List window click the Print button and the List Report Options window will open On the Options tab give the report a Title choose your options and BE SURE to select Wrap long lines down columns at the bottom of the window. On the *Row 1 tab select Surname, Given names and un-check everything else click the Customize button click on one of the boxes with three dots, the window Field Names to Display will open scroll down to Research Notes and click the Select button click the Close button rNotes will appear on one of the Optional Fields, click this selection. On the tabs for Row 2 and Row 3, un-check, don't include these in the report Click Preview and see if you get the results you want. You can then Print the report or Create a PDF file. Laird On 10/9/2011 7:32 PM, Todd B wrote: I'd like to use Research Notes as repository of Research to do. I can not find a report that contains just Research Notes by Person Name without the persons vital records, and shows multiple people per page. I'd like to print ALL people with Research Notes. I have Legacy 7.5, Deluxe ed. I charting. I have looked at all reports, the To Do mechanism, and Search. Search produces a nice Research Notes complete list, ( via Show Research Notes with no Sources) , but you can only select one to print at a time, as far as I can tell. I like the Research Notes because it is so close to the person you are working on. Other methods, e.g. To Do, research log etc for many keystrokes away from the person you are working on. Any suggestions? Thank you for your replies. I'll be back on Monday morning. 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] Down Ampney not recognized as a location
Dennis, My V7.5 has the file Preposition_English.lst with a created date of 10/11/2010. I first installed my Legacy in December of 2009. Perhaps that created date might be close to one of the Legacy updates. It is the only file with that creation date. Laird On 8/27/2011 2:36 PM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:25:15 -0700, CE Woodwood...@msn.com wrote: Preposition_English.lst That's funny. My V7.5 folder doesn't have a Preposition_English.lst, but my V6 folder does. Did you install V7 on top of an older V6 install? I wonder if V7 no longer uses Preposition_English.lst. 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] a very strange thing!
Dennis, I think you will find this is the Ethernet connector. The Ethernet circuitry is powered by a standby section of the main power supply in your PC. The reason behind this is to allow the PC to boot from a network connection as opposed to the local HDD. Laird On 8/2/2011 5:53 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:19:20 +0100, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I also picked up the shut down and leave it for a bit message years ago, and use it more out of habit than for any other reason. The only benefit that I can imagine is that it will allow the machine to cool down a little. This might be getting OT... My PC has a jack (don't know if it is for the phone cable or the ethernet cable off the top of my head) with a lamp that stays lit when I shut the PC down. But it will turn off if I unplug the power from the PC. So a component on my PC might not be fully resetting even after I shutdown Windows. Just another thing to watch out for if you are having problems. 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] Need Version 7.5.0.98
I upgraded to 7.5.0.105 and noticed a problem with my file report and would like to rollback to 7.5.0.98 to verify that version was OK. Can someone please send me a attachment of version 7.5.0.98 by private email to see if I can duplicate the problem. Thanks, Laird 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] FamilySearch.org internet search
Version 7.5.0.112 claims to fix the problem with FamilySearch.org internet searchs From 7.5.0.112 fixes: Internet Search - Updated the FamilySearch.org internet searches. It looks to me like it still doesn't work with a person that only has a death date and no birth date. Anyone else notice this? Laird 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] a very strange thing!
The turn it off and wait a bit was from the older days of PCs when it was safer for the power supply. Maybe something like a larger surge if you turned it back on immediately. I don't think that is a problem anymore these days. Laird On 8/2/2011 5:19 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: Mike, I also picked up the shut down and leave it for a bit message years ago, and use it more out of habit than for any other reason. The only benefit that I can imagine is that it will allow the machine to cool down a little. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Mike Fry Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:10 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] a very strange thing! On 2011/08/02 02:23, Don Varner wrote: Sorry I don't know. That is just something my IT group manager had told me. Something about allowing the hard drive and RAM to completely clear. If you don't feel its necessary then don't do it. a) RAM clears once power is removed. b) You really don't want your hard drive to clear :-) -- Notice to All: If you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history, which includes my email address. It is a courtesy to me and others who may not wish to have their email addresses sent all over the world. Erasing the history helps prevent spammers from mining address and viruses from being propagated. Thank you. 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] Organizing your picture folders
To anyone, On thing to consider avoiding is to locate Legacy linked photos and documents in a Windows standard folder. Microsoft may change it at a later date as they did from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Windows XP My Documents - My Pictures In Windows Vista and Windows 7 the above folder names have changed to Documents and Pictures. What will Microsoft change the folder names to with the next release of Windows I don't much like the recommended Legacy location within the Legacy program folder, but it will work when Microsoft makes a change as above. Unless they drop the C:, D: convention for drives, perhaps a name of your choosing. Using Windows Vista I had my photos in this folder path: Y:\Users\Laird\Documents\Family Tree\Multimedia\Photos. I needed to make a copy of my genealogy data for a cousin who only had a C: drive. So I changed all my Legacy photo links to C:\FamilyTree\Multimedia\Photos\... This is a big job if you have a large number of photo folders. I also had a small C: drive and a very large Y: drive on my PC so I didn't have room on my C: for all my photos etc. What I did was create a redirection junction point on my C: drive to point to the files on the Y: drive, sort of an alias. All the photos etc. look just like they are on the C: drive even though they are still on my Y: drive. This is something that is supported by Windows Vista and later operating systems. Another thing to consider is the character length of the folder path, there is an upper limit of about 255(XP) or 260 (Vista) characters. You can reach this limit before you realize it, my Y: drive length as written above is 55 characters even before you add sub-folders for surnames-locations etc. If I were starting from scratch I would use something like C:\FamilyTree\Multimedia\Photos\ Sooner or later you will need to purchase a new PC and then this problem may arise. Laird On 7/7/2011 12:01 PM, Syble Glasscock wrote: There's really not a right or wrong way, it's what works best for you. When I started genealogy, I never thought I'd have 8,000+ people in my files, many documents and photos, or having a family website was not in my thoughts either, but I do have this now and there are certainly many things to consider when naming a folder or file. For Legacy, I have one folder inside My Documents - titled : Legacy_pics_docs; inside this folder, I have all documents, photos etc. that are attached to my Legacy program, with a folders for documents, tombstones and photo for each surname, i.e. Brown_pictures, Brown_tombstones. (within the Brown_tombstone folder for example, if I have a lot of tombstone photos for a particular cemetery, I have a folder for that cemetery), then I have a Brown_documents folder, if you'll name your docs what they are first, i.e. wwi_draft_brown_john or land records_brown John_1852, then they will be easier to find. One thing I was told with a website, is to try to keep the file names short, I don't know if that's true or not, but this was from a professional. Also I've been advised to have all files the same as far as - or _ and upper or lower case. This has been a hard habit to form, but I'm woking on it. My main reason for setting up a Legacy file is that I know anything in that file is a lower resolution and therefore ok for the web or to e-mail someone, I keep the important originals in a higher resolution in: My DocumentsGenealogy_Brown_family etc., by having Genealogy first all my Genealogy family files will be listed together. My higher resolution photos are in : My Pictures I have very few documents outside the U.S., so starting a file with the country would be out of the question for me. Good Luck, Syble 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] I just sent this in as a suggestion
Sherry, In your example, let's say I choose the Edit tab. I then make a change, whoops I have the wrong person or some other dumb mistake. I can't recover from the change I just made, there isn't a [CANCEL] button to click. Right? If I can't cancel, the program shouldn't allow me to make an edit. Laird On 7/5/2011 10:32 AM, Sherry/Support wrote: I always work with a tagged group using the tabs on the right in the Name List. Lot less clicking. Bring the tab forward that you want to work on and just go right down the list, leaving that tab forward. Before working on the next person, make sure the info in the tab changes to that individual's record - there might be a slight delay after clicking on the next person in the list. Also, then it's really easy to double click on the X to remove the tag. When you want to pick up where you left off, open the Name List and go to Search Show All Tagged. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:08 AM,cranberryf...@cobridge.tv wrote: I just sent the following in as a suggestion to Legacy. I wanted to see if I am the only one annoyed by this or do other people have this same problem. I am hoping a lot of people have had this problem so that they will consider my suggestion :) :) :) Let's say you tag a bunch of people, for example... let's say I tagged everyone in my file that doesn't have any sources at all. I want to go through them and work on them. I get to the first person and I decide to skip that person. Or maybe I decide to skip the first 10. I get to one I want to work on. I find records on that person and I fill in all of the sources. I then UNTAG the person. I hit the arrow on the bottom to go to the next person but instead I get the message that I have come to the last tagged person and it will start over again. When I hit that then I have to arrow through the first 10 people before I can get to the real next person. I find what I want on that person and I untag them. I can't get to the next person on the list without having to scroll through them all. I have to do this every time I untag someone on the list! Here is another real life example. Let's say I tag everyone that lived in MS that doesn't have marriage information. For some counties I can get the info off of an Ancestry database. For other counties I have to go through the MS Dept of Archives. When I go through the list I want to fill in all of the ones I can get from the Ancestry database first which means I have to skip all the ones that I will have to go to the archives for. As I untag the ones I find at Ancestry, every time I hit the arrow on the bottom it will tell me I am at the end of the list and I have to start over from the beginning. If I have 600 records tagged (which I do on one thing I am working on) I have to tab through A LOT of people to get to the next one on the list EVERY time I untag one. It is very annoying. Is there anyway that the program can be made to understand to go to the next person on the physical list without starting over from the beginning if you untag someone on the list? michele 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] I just sent this in as a suggestion
Thanks Sherry, l also backup frequently, about every twenty minutes when I am doing extensive editing etc. Like you say one can go back and correct that person, but I would have to look up that person in a prior version to see what I changed. I really appreciate you sending a suggestion to the programmers for cancel/undo button. Thanks, Laird On 7/5/2011 10:43 PM, Sherry/Support wrote: Nope, there's no cancel, but if you've entered the information in the wrong person, go back to that person and correct it. The tabs function more like Access than the rest of Legacy does. When you're working in Access, when you make a change in a field, it's there to stay if you miss clicking on the undo button (which isn't too visible) Have I mentioned regular backups before?g I've been known to backup periodically while working in the file if I'm doing a lot of edits or additions. I'll pass a suggestion on to the programmers for undo in the tabs. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Lairdlftu...@bayleenet.net wrote: Sherry, In your example, let's say I choose the Edit tab. I then make a change, whoops I have the wrong person or some other dumb mistake. I can't recover from the change I just made, there isn't a [CANCEL] button to click. Right? If I can't cancel, the program shouldn't allow me to make an edit. Laird 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] Is this possible
Michele, Make a backup first FileBackup Family File Go to ToolsAdvanced Sourcing on tab Which Records to Use select the tag number then on tab Where to Assign the Citations tick All fields that contain information. You must have the citation on the clipboard then click on Apply Laird On 7/3/2011 5:59 AM, cranberryf...@cobridge.tv wrote: I have a dilemma and I don’t know if it can be fixed. I am going through my master sources cleaning things up. I have a few sources in which I want to change the template that was used. Legacy will not allow you to combine sources if the templates are different. I can tag everyone that uses a particular source. However, each one of these people use the source more than once. Is there any way to tag each individual use of the source so that I can assign then new source to all of the spots where it is needed? Deleting all the old ones isn’t a problem, I can simply delete the old source once I have the new one in place. Going through 50 people that use a source and having to hand assign the source to each field where it was used is beyond tedious. When I first started using Sourcewriter I wasn’t as careful as I should be. Now what I do when I add a new source is I check it as soon as I add it to make sure the output matches Evidence Explained perfectly. If if doesn’t, I either use another template or tweak it right then get it just right. Michele 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] GEDCOM preview results
I don't see an answer to your first question. You can import into Legacy your exported GED 5.5 for preview etc. Just give it a different filename so it isn't a conflict with your database filename. Select from the file menu: FileImport FromGEDCOM File. It will ask you to Open filename. Laird On 6/30/2011 11:09 AM, Margaret DeAcetis wrote: Hi all, I'm planning to create my first GEDCOM file. I've looked into the Legacy Help Section and found archived messages helpful. I see mention of unexpected consequences. Even using the GEDCOM 5.5 options and selecting basic GEDCOM file, is there anyway to preview the results? I'm planning to select a focus group of fewer than 15 people. Can I create it, and export it into my Legacy under create a new family file? Would this allow me to preview the results? Or is there any way to preview the results? My intention is to eventually export the file into Ancestry.com so that I can attach specific Census forms, a WW I draft registration card and a SS death index doc. I intend to make comments on these records. It is my belief that all these people are dead. If not, they would be in their nineties. I do not see how attaching a 1930 Census would compromise the privacy of any of the individuals if they are still alive. Am I wrong about this? Any comments would be appreciated? I've found this Users Group super helpful. Margaret 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] Publishing Center bug?
Brian, The reason this was a serious problem for me was because I required a PDF/A-1b ver. 1.3 file to send to LuLu.com for publishing. I believe Legacy produces a PDF ver. 1.2 without /A-1b thus fonts can't be properly embedded in the file. I am using PDFCreator as the printer device. This works great IF you knew the correct method to produce a print (file) with the TOC at the beginning. I spent the better part of a day experimenting. reading help and the archives before I discovered the alternate print button in preview. I guess I am just slow.:-) A wonderful enhancement would be for Legacy to produce a PDF/A-1b ver. 1.3 file. Thanks, Laird On 5/15/2011 11:20 PM, Brian/Support wrote: You are getting exactly what you should. Legacy cannot calculate the page numbers for the TOC until the entire report/book has been generated. When sending direct to the printer that means that the TOC has to be printed last. The alternative would be to delay the start of printing until the entire report is generated, by printing the TOC last the report can be sent to the printer as the individual pages are created. For convenience the other front matter pages are printed then also. All you have to do is take the pages and move them to the front of the book. When the report is previewed those pages, which are generated last just like when printing, are moved in the preview file so they appear at the front of the book. By the way, I remember when the programmer figured out how to do that, he said it took him most of one day to get it to work. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 15/05/2011 9:27 PM, Laird wrote: Legacy version 7.5.0.77 on WinXP and on Vista 64. I didn't find anything in the archives or help file about this. I have a problem with the sequence of the TOC/chapters in ReportsBooks/OtherPublishing Center. I see this problem with Ancestor, Descendant and Multiple Lines of Descent Chapters, I haven't tested Descendant Narrative but feel it has the same problem. Under the Additional Tab I have a Title Page, Copyright Notice Page, Dedication Page, Preface Page, Table Of Contents and an Index selected. Under the Contents Tab I can have as few as one Ancestor Chapter or up to a mixture of ten chapters, all with the same problem. On the same screen with the Contents, Additional tabs, in the upper right hand corner is the Print button. First I did the Printer Setup with an Epson printer with PRINTER PREVIEW turned, so I can see the result before I commit to printing on paper. The items which should be at the front of the book, (Title Page through Table of Contents) are at the end after the index. Using an alternate method to print: Select the Legacy Preview button in the upper right of screen, then on the Legacy Print Preview screen in the upper right of the screen down about 6 buttons is the Print: selection of All Pages, Range and This Page. I select All Pages and the output result is exactly what you would expect with the (Title Page through Table of Contents) at the front. Can anyone duplicate this? Thanks, Laird 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Page numbering problem on Multiple Line of Descent Report
Ken, I don't have this problem. Legacy version 7.5.0.67 on Vista 64. Are you seeing this problem on preview or on a printed paper copy? I have not been able to reproduce your problem using. My TOC settings on the Additional TAB are Bold and Use leaders Example 1: I have a Title Page, Copyright Notice Page, Dedication Page, Preface Page, Table Of Contents and an Index selected. Chapters are 2 Ancestors reports, 1 Descendant report, 1 Multiple Lines of Descent followed by 6 Ancestors reports. This produces a book of 174 pages with 3 pages of TOC which doesn't have page numbers. My page number 1 starts with the first page of the first Ancestor chapter. Example 2: I have a Title Page, Copyright Notice Page, Dedication Page, Preface Page, Table Of Contents and an Index selected. It only has one chapter of Multiple Lines of Descent with 11 marriages. This produces a book of 573 pages with 2.5 pages of TOC. As above they do not have page numbers. My page number 1 starts with the first page of the first Descendant. Two hundred thirty six individuals have a photo attached. I have the following settings on the Options TABHeadings and Page Numbering: 1) Header Position: I have used both Left or Center. 2) Include page numbers on report, Starting page number 1 3) Include the word Page before the page number 4) Page Number Position: = Top Right 5) Page Number Font: Arial 8 Footers are not used. Laird On 5/15/2011 7:47 PM, Ken wrote: Greetings, Although the following appears to be a minor problem, I thought I should bring it to the group's attention to see if I am overlooking a solution. I note it has not been listed in the archives. When producing a Multiple Line of Descendant Report within the Publishing Centre or as a stand alone, the Table of Contents are incorrectly numbered. The second page and those Table of Contents pages that follow are all automatically assigned a page number as though they were the last page of the whole report.In my case each page, 2 through 5, of the Table of Contents were assigned page number 312. The last page of my full report was 311. As the Table of Contents falls at the beginning of the report I was surprised to see it numbered as though it fell at the end but realized the problem was more than that when all the Table of Contents pages, 2 through 5, carried the same incorrect number. Have I done something wrong or is this a bug? If someone tries to duplicate this scenario please make sure your Table of Contents is two or more pages.I tried to see if this situation applied to any other type of report but my line doesn't go back far enough to have at least two pages of generations noted in the Table of Contents for the Ancestor or one name Descendant report. I thank you for reading this and look forward to some guidance with regards to the matter. Ken Marlow, Ottawa 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] Publishing Center bug?
Legacy version 7.5.0.77 on WinXP and on Vista 64. I didn't find anything in the archives or help file about this. I have a problem with the sequence of the TOC/chapters in ReportsBooks/OtherPublishing Center. I see this problem with Ancestor, Descendant and Multiple Lines of Descent Chapters, I haven't tested Descendant Narrative but feel it has the same problem. Under the Additional Tab I have a Title Page, Copyright Notice Page, Dedication Page, Preface Page, Table Of Contents and an Index selected. Under the Contents Tab I can have as few as one Ancestor Chapter or up to a mixture of ten chapters, all with the same problem. On the same screen with the Contents, Additional tabs, in the upper right hand corner is the Print button. First I did the Printer Setup with an Epson printer with PRINTER PREVIEW turned, so I can see the result before I commit to printing on paper. The items which should be at the front of the book, (Title Page through Table of Contents) are at the end after the index. Using an alternate method to print: Select the Legacy Preview button in the upper right of screen, then on the Legacy Print Preview screen in the upper right of the screen down about 6 buttons is the Print: selection of All Pages, Range and This Page. I select All Pages and the output result is exactly what you would expect with the (Title Page through Table of Contents) at the front. Can anyone duplicate this? Thanks, Laird 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] Backup Of Family File
Before (2006) I learned my lesson to make frequent backups I used this $50 software to recover my files: http://www.quetek.com/products3.htm In one instance I quick formatted a HDD and destroyed the directory structure and I got back almost everything on the drive. Laird On 5/6/2011 5:14 PM, John Carter wrote: I have used (expensive ~$300) software to recover files from otherwise unreadable drives. If there's no physical damage, the odds of recovery are high. If you're in the US, email me off-list for more info. John If all else fails, do not trash the drive. Depending on the damaged areas, data is sometimes retrievable. I recovered 90% of my data from a crashed drive by mounting it as an external drive when I got the new system up and running. Sometimes it works - sometimes it don't. Larry On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Ron Fergusonronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Howland, Join the club – the HDD on my old XP machine went kaput last Saturday. Following which I would make one point to others, ensure that you have your email copies of your software registrations backed up on another disk. Unfortunately I had not done this for my Tree Draw Legacy program and Legacy Sales are extremely slow in replying to my urgent emails requesting copies of the registration (6 days at the moment). Having got that off my chest (at least for the time being) Legacy stores the back-up for your files on the same HDD as the program in C:\Legacy\Data. Unfortunately if that HDD has gone you are in trouble. Whether or not it will be on your external drive, rather depends on what you have set it up to save. I suggest that you search this drive for it. If your Family File was, say, Ferguson.fdb then the back up will be of the form “Ferguson date time.zip†in which case I would just search for the “Ferguson†bit. You may get a lot of results, but it should not be too hard to pick it out. Ron Ferguson From: Howlanddavisii Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 7:34 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backup Of Family File Listers: My hard drive crashed last week. I always backed up my family file when exiting the file and I had an external hard drive that saved my files once a week. My question is where would the backup file be? What drive would it be in and what file name if I did not change anything from the default. Howland Davis 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] Book Report Index bug?
Thank you BJ, You nailed the problem, there were a few people spelled O'dell. They did show in the Master Surname list, however they were AKAs. I had used Search and Replace for Surname and Alt. Surname (two different runs) so it didn't replace the O'dell with O'Dell for some reason. When I edited the people, Legacy didn't want to change the spelling by changing the lower o to Upper O. I had to delete the surname and retype it to be accepted. I used the SearchFindDetailed Search--IndividualSurnameEqual To o'dell and it finds all 49 O'Dell surnames. I would have thought Equal To would have been case sensitive. Thanks again, Laird On 5/5/2011 12:58 PM, BG Johnson wrote: May I also suggest that you visit the Master Surname list and be sure there is no O'dell surname in the list. If there is, combine it with O'Dell. bgj -Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:42 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Book Report Index bug? I added a new husband to one of the single women (Josephine Brown RIN 8) in the Sample file provided with Legacy. I am using 7.5.0.77 dated 26 Apr 2011. There was no problem with the O'Dell surname in the index, both the newly added husband and Josephine were indexed under O'Dell. I am not aware of any change to the publishing centre between version 7.5.0.67 and my version but I suggest you update to the latest version. Also visit that couple and edit their marriage. In the bottom of the marriage screen you will see the married names for the husband and the wife. Perhaps the error is occurring there. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation On 05/05/2011 12:03 PM, Laird wrote: Hi, Legacy Version 7.5.0.67 using Windows Vista 64 bit. Using: Reports Books and Other Publishing Center Add Descendant Book Report on the Additional tab Index Options The following items are checked: x Include a Name Index x Birth Date Years on Names x Include alternate names x Include married names for wives-This selections caused the problem. --- x Style 1 x Bold x Three Columns x Use Leaders . The problem shows up in a surname such as O'Dell when using married names for wives. Name Index Odell for a wife Anna (Jones) O'Dellfor a person with surname O'Dell Tom Can anyone duplicate this problem? Thanks, Laird 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] Missing RINs
On 2/9/2011 6:49 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:48:25 -0600, Lairdlftu...@bayleenet.net wrote: Maybe tblXI is for RINs that been used and then deleted? Have you tried turning off Reuse abandoned RINS and then turning it back on to see if things sync back up? Yes. column 1 | column 2| column 3 | column 4 | column 5 | column 6 LTOOLS | LEGACY| LEGACY, | Calc | LTOOLS | LTOOLS tlbXI RIN count | Legacy # | highest | unused | tlbXI| After Reuse tlbIR,IDIR | individuals | RIN| RINs| count| RINs enabled [1] 19134 | 19133 | 26944 | 7811| 7303 | 7303 [2] 19134 | 19133 | 26944 | 7811| 7303 | 500 [3] 12971 | 12970 | 13978 | 1008| 496 | 496 [4] 13068 | 13067 | 15096 | 2029| --- | 500 [5] 13068 | 13067 | 15096 | 2029| 500 | 500 [6] 13068 | 13067 | 15096 | 2029| 500 | 500 [7] 13068 | 13067 | 15096 | 2029| 500 | 500 (GP) General procedure: Step 1: Open file and read col. 1 and 5 with Ltools, close file. Step 2. Open file with Legacy, enable Reuse abandoned RINs, read col. 2 and 3 then disable Reuse RINs and close file. Step 3. Open file in Ltools and read col. 5. Following data is for file # 5, where the numbers were close to correct. [1] 8-Feb-2011: General procedure above. [2] 9-Feb-2011: GP Step 1 above. Then open in Legacy and leave Reuse abandoned RINs enabled then close file. Do step 3. Table tblXI changed from 7303 to 500. Note: File 5 was originally from a unzipped version of a file backed up using FileBackup Family File from last Aug 2010, it had been modified in November to add 6163 individuals for some import testing I had done. RINs for the original 12,970 individuals were from, 1 to 13,978. The 6,163 import RINs were in the range of 13,979 to 26944. [3] 9-Feb-2011: I restored the original Backup file 5 with Unzip (called it file 5-2) and did Step 1, tblXI=496. Next I opened it in Legacy and noticed Reuse abandoned RINs was already enabled. My normal settings are disabled but I don't know for a fact I didn't have it enabled back in August. I read the individual and max RIN counts and closed the file. Next I did step 3 tbl = 496, no change. [4] 9-Feb-2011: Next I imported 97 individuals into file 5-2 with Reuse abandoned RINs disabled. This will be called file 5-3. The RINs and MRINs were set to begin at 15,000. Read col2 and col3 then without closing the file in Legacy I read the tables with Ltools. tblXI = 500 and tblXM = 500, closed the file in Ltools. [5] 9-Feb-2011: With Reuse abandoned RINs still disabled, I closed file 5-3 in Legacy. Next I read tblXI = 500 and tblXM = 500 with Ltools. [6] 9-Feb-2011: Opened the file-3 in Legacy and enabled Reuse abandoned RINs. Didn't close the file in Legacy. Oened in Ltools and read the tables, no change. [7] 9-Feb-2011: From [6] close file 5-3 in Legacy, read the tables in Ltools. No changes. [8] 9-Feb-2011: Open the file 5-3 in Legacy, leave Reuse abandoned RINs enabled. Delete two children from MRIN 15039 (RINs 15085 and 15086) and husband RIN 15084. next open the file in Ltools, tblXI count = 503 and the three deleted RINs are listed. TblXM count = 501 and MRIN 15039 is listed. Cool. Close file in Ltools. Disable Reuse abandoned RINs and close file in Legacy. Read tables in Ltools, tblXI = 500 and tblXM=500. Seems to me that tblXI only contains deleted RINs and not unused RINS. 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Missing RINs
Thanks Brian for the info. Laird On 2/9/2011 12:09 PM, Brian/Support wrote: Tables XI and XM are a list of unused/deleted RINs and MRINs for internal use within Legacy. Each table will only include 500 numbers at a time. They are rebuilt as required by searching for a new batch of unused numbers in the RIN table (IR) or the MRIN table (MR). Neither table is designed to include all the unused/deleted numbers. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 08/02/2011 11:48 PM, Laird wrote: I have questions about a topic in the archives, so I included previous messages below: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/msg04740.html === I like to keep certain families within a range of RIN's. So when I import a new family I set the new member RINs to begin after the highest RIN. To add family members to a previous family, I select the correct RINs in the range of that family. Before I import into my main database, I import a GEDCOM and tell Legacy to renumber RINs and MRINs starting at ___. I select a number where I want the family to be in my main database. Next I import that Legacy file into my main database and the RINs will mesh within the range I wanted. I have been doing this for the past year of so without any problems. The past few days I had been using tblXI to find the holes in the RIN list to place people, this was a very nice shortcut without manually looking for gaps in the RIN range. Something went wrong and the tblXI results no longer gave realistic numbers. I have tested 18 previous database versions with varying results using Ltools and Legacy. One of my files (97 individuals) has huge numbers of unused/skipped RINs. This number is calculated as follows: (highest RIN - number of individuals) (14,339 - 97) = 14,242 unused in the database, which tblXI reports as only 500. I think this file may be the one I exported a persons descendants from Legacy with about 50 people and added another 47 or so and used IntelliShare to import it back into my main database. There are about 500 unused RINs in the range of 9,000 to 10,000 in my main database. And 500 is the typical number [incorrectly?] reported in tblXI for most of the files. I do have one database in which the unused counts are much closer i.e. RIN count = 26,944 - 19,133 individuals, calculated = 7,811 vs tblXI = 7,303. I have used a WinXP laptop with Legacy version 7.4.0.45 and a desktop WinVista-64 with Legacy version 7.5.0.47 to enable and disableReuse abandoned RINs. I check tblXI before turning on Reuse abandoned RINs and then again after turning it off. I also did a File Maintenance Check/Repair on some of the files and didn't see any difference, but I don't remember which files I this did this. I didn't do a test on tblXM like tblXI, but the MRINs appear to be in the range I would expect. Has anyone had any experience similar to mine? Is there a difference between deleted vs missing/unused RINs? Maybe tblXI is for RINs that been used and then deleted? Maybe this is just an inconvenience for me and there isn't anything wrong with my database. And I should just bite the bullet and go back to determining the missing RINs manually. Thanks for any comments you may have about this. Laird Re: [LegacyUG] Missing RINs Dennis M . Kowallek Wed, 19 May 2010 07:16:55 -0700 On Wed, 19 May 2010 00:27:00 -0500, Robert Carneal USA carnea...@roadrunner.comwrote: Does anyone know of a way to get Legacy to generate a report listing the RINs that are empty? Then the report tells me 7 is not used? Robert (and others): If you have Reuse abandoned RINs turned on, then tblXI contains a list of the missing RINs. You can run the following query in Access, LTools, OOBase, etc.: SELECT tblXI.DeletedID FROM tblXI ORDER BY tblXI.DeletedID If you do not have Reuse abandoned RINs turned on, you can turn it on temporarily. This will cause tblXI to be rebuilt. Then you can run the above SELECT query. When you are done you can turn off Reuse abandoned RINs. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines
Re: [LegacyUG] Missing RINs
I suppose so long as one were to keep unused RINs below 500 tblXI could used like I wanted to use it. So I guess what I will have to do is export tblIR as a CSV and open it in a spreadsheet and calculate my own missing RINs. Laird On 2/9/2011 1:07 PM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:32:57 -0600, Lairdlftu...@bayleenet.net wrote: Seems to me that tblXI only contains deleted RINs and not unused RINS. I don't know how Legacy can determine the difference once reuse is turned off then turned back on. How do it know what was deleted and what was never used? ;-) P.S. The limit of 500 was news to me. But I understand how it will affect things. 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Missing RINs
I have questions about a topic in the archives, so I included previous messages below: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/msg04740.html === I like to keep certain families within a range of RIN's. So when I import a new family I set the new member RINs to begin after the highest RIN. To add family members to a previous family, I select the correct RINs in the range of that family. Before I import into my main database, I import a GEDCOM and tell Legacy to renumber RINs and MRINs starting at ___. I select a number where I want the family to be in my main database. Next I import that Legacy file into my main database and the RINs will mesh within the range I wanted. I have been doing this for the past year of so without any problems. The past few days I had been using tblXI to find the holes in the RIN list to place people, this was a very nice shortcut without manually looking for gaps in the RIN range. Something went wrong and the tblXI results no longer gave realistic numbers. I have tested 18 previous database versions with varying results using Ltools and Legacy. One of my files (97 individuals) has huge numbers of unused/skipped RINs. This number is calculated as follows: (highest RIN - number of individuals) (14,339 - 97) = 14,242 unused in the database, which tblXI reports as only 500. I think this file may be the one I exported a persons descendants from Legacy with about 50 people and added another 47 or so and used IntelliShare to import it back into my main database. There are about 500 unused RINs in the range of 9,000 to 10,000 in my main database. And 500 is the typical number [incorrectly?] reported in tblXI for most of the files. I do have one database in which the unused counts are much closer i.e. RIN count = 26,944 - 19,133 individuals, calculated = 7,811 vs tblXI = 7,303. I have used a WinXP laptop with Legacy version 7.4.0.45 and a desktop WinVista-64 with Legacy version 7.5.0.47 to enable and disableReuse abandoned RINs. I check tblXI before turning on Reuse abandoned RINs and then again after turning it off. I also did a File Maintenance Check/Repair on some of the files and didn't see any difference, but I don't remember which files I this did this. I didn't do a test on tblXM like tblXI, but the MRINs appear to be in the range I would expect. Has anyone had any experience similar to mine? Is there a difference between deleted vs missing/unused RINs? Maybe tblXI is for RINs that been used and then deleted? Maybe this is just an inconvenience for me and there isn't anything wrong with my database. And I should just bite the bullet and go back to determining the missing RINs manually. Thanks for any comments you may have about this. Laird Re: [LegacyUG] Missing RINs Dennis M . Kowallek Wed, 19 May 2010 07:16:55 -0700 On Wed, 19 May 2010 00:27:00 -0500, Robert Carneal USA carnea...@roadrunner.com wrote: Does anyone know of a way to get Legacy to generate a report listing the RINs that are empty? Then the report tells me 7 is not used? Robert (and others): If you have Reuse abandoned RINs turned on, then tblXI contains a list of the missing RINs. You can run the following query in Access, LTools, OOBase, etc.: SELECT tblXI.DeletedID FROM tblXI ORDER BY tblXI.DeletedID If you do not have Reuse abandoned RINs turned on, you can turn it on temporarily. This will cause tblXI to be rebuilt. Then you can run the above SELECT query. When you are done you can turn off Reuse abandoned RINs. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Sources, Show List
Bill, What about this: Click on SearchIndividualSource-Master Sourcecontains enter the (partial) name of the source you want to edit Select the Second ConditionAnd IndividualSurnameStarts With enter a letter of the alphabet, start with A then B etc. This will create a much smaller List of people and the starting position will be at the top of the list. Laird On 1/26/2011 3:50 PM, William Boswell wrote: That's what I meant. I wish there were just a few names, but some sources have several hundred people for each source. That's a lot of scrolling. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: Randy Clark [mailto:ceddaco...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 3:48 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources, Show List (was: What's Changed?) Wendy, he means when in the Master Source List and you bring up the people with that source if there are multiple then it opens to the bottom one On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Wendy Howardwendy.how...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bill, under Sources, Show List, it always shows the names starting at the bottom of the list. �I prefer it to go to the top of the list where I would expect it to go. I don't understand what you're talking about. �There is no Sources as a first option in the menu, so where are you when you have this option? I don't think you're talking about the Master Source List. �Whenever I open that the first Source List Name is highlighted. Kind Regards, Wendy 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Sources, Show List (was: What's Changed?)
Bill, What about this: Click on SearchDetailed Search TabIndividualSource-Master Sourcecontains enter the (partial) name of the source you want to edit Select the Second ConditionAnd IndividualSurnameStarts With enter a letter of the alphabet, start with A then B etc. This will create a much smaller List of people and the starting position will be at the top of the list. Laird On 1/26/2011 3:50 PM, William Boswell wrote: That's what I meant. I wish there were just a few names, but some sources have several hundred people for each source. That's a lot of scrolling. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: Randy Clark [mailto:ceddaco...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 3:48 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources, Show List (was: What's Changed?) Wendy, he means when in the Master Source List and you bring up the people with that source if there are multiple then it opens to the bottom one On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Wendy Howardwendy.how...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bill, under Sources, Show List, it always shows the names starting at the bottom of the list. �I prefer it to go to the top of the list where I would expect it to go. I don't understand what you're talking about. �There is no Sources as a first option in the menu, so where are you when you have this option? I don't think you're talking about the Master Source List. �Whenever I open that the first Source List Name is highlighted. Kind Regards, Wendy 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Sources, Show List (was: What's Changed?)
Bill, for what it's worth: If you leave out the second step And in my suggestion it will list all the people that use that source, AND the scroll point goes to the person that you have selected in Family View; if this person uses the Source. This might sort of bookmark the last person you edited if you don't do any other operations and leave Family View on that person. Laird On 1/26/2011 4:59 PM, William Boswell wrote: Laird: Thanks for the suggestion, but entering letters is too much extra work. If I have to keep entering different letters it will take me longer to go through the list. This is already a very tedious project. I've even fallen asleep at the computer doing this and added the wrong sources to some individuals, then had to go back and fix them. It isn't that the list of individuals is too long. It's that I have to keep scrolling to the top. I think I'm going to start at the bottom from now on. It'll make me think that I'm almost done with this source even though I'm not. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: Laird [mailto:lftu...@bayleenet.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:10 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources, Show List Bill, What about this: Click on SearchIndividualSource-Master Sourcecontainsenter the (partial) name of the source you want to edit Select the Second ConditionAnd IndividualSurnameStarts With enter a letter of the alphabet, start with A then B etc. This will create a much smaller List of people and the starting position will be at the top of the list. Laird 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Export All to new Lecagy file RINs
Dave, During the Legacy Export process a window titled Legacy Export opens, on the Options Tab you have the option to Keep original RINs, Renumber or Fill abandoned RINs. Which option did you select? Laird On 1/10/2011 9:37 PM, Dave Keeney wrote: Should Exporting Everyone to a new Legacy File (File - Export to - Legacy File) alter the RINs? I've been testing the Families program for Droid Phones. There were some unexpected results that indicated a problem with my fdb file. So I created a new fdb file as above and that seemed to correct the file for Families. But, lo and behold, now when I export the file to my TNG system the individual pictures are off. In checking between the Old Legacy file and the New Legacy file the RINs are different (at least for some, I haven't check all) and all I did was the export. So should this change RINs or maybe it's something that was internally wrong with the original Legacy file. In debugging this for Families I did perform the File Maintenance and Compress prior to any of the above. 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] error in marriage
I have created a book in the Publishing Center: The first 5 chapters areAncestor Book Reports The next chapter is a Multiple Lines of Descendant Book Report. The Descendants are from MRIN 371 and 3347. My grandmother [RIN 153] from the 3347 line has a text(Duplicate Line. See Person 10) under her name. My Grandfather [RIN 600] from the 371 line, her husband, is Person 10 referenced above. I assume this is all OK and nothing to be concerned about and has nothing to do with endless loops. Thanks, Laird === On 1/2/2011 10:45 AM, Sherry/Support wrote: Not necessarily. It just depends on who's included in the report. It's not necessarily a duplicate. It can occur with intermarriages, cousins marrying cousins, mis-linked individuals, etc. You're going to have to do a lot of scouting around to try to figure out what the problem is or just change the encounters. You could back up the Family File (File Backup Family File) and run File File Maintenance Check/Repair to see if anything shows up. Also, try exporting to a new Family FIle (File Export to... Legacy File) and see if the error occurs in the new file. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Cheryl Rothwell historysle...@gmail.com mailto:historysle...@gmail.com wrote: I did that before I posted. And there is interesting fact that it occurs in one report but not any other report or chart of the same people. If there really was a duplicate wouldn't it affect the other reports, charts, etc.? On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: If you click on the Help button in the message about the Endless Loop or just go directly to the Help file and look up Endless Loop, you'll find instructions on resolving this message. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Cheryl Rothwell historysle...@gmail.com mailto:historysle...@gmail.com wrote: When attempting to produce a descendant chart it goes into an endless loop relating to one marriage. The marriage is in the database once. Both parties are in there once. Both have only one spouse, one child and one set of parents. What other issues should I check to resolve this problem? 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and iPad?
Hi Kirsten, I feel like you can use Legacy with your i-pad as a VNC viewer, Virtual Network Computing. Legacy would actually be running on your Windows desktop computer which communicates with the ipad. I have used this setup (free version) with my laptop and desktop remotely over the internet using WinXP. Your can also do the same on a local wi-fi network in your home or internet. RealVNC $30 + iPad app $10 = $40 http://vnc.com/vnc/index.html http://vnc.com/products/iphone/index.html == They have a free version you could play with if you have a laptop (pretend it's the ipad). http://vnc.com/products/download.html With this kind of setup you need not be concerned about trusting your data to a $15 Families application on the ipad. Your data is actually on your PC using Legacy, you are just operating it remotely. Sort of like setting in a comfy chair using a remote keyboard, mouse and display. Laird On 12/30/2010 12:16 PM, Kirsten Bowman wrote: My totally tech sons and daughter-in-law visited for a week at Christmas and of course there were iPads everywhere. I'm s jealous I can't stand it, but I'm not about to give up Legacy. Most of my research is online rather than at libraries or archives, but I'd love to be able to sit on the patio or at the local coffee shop and clean up my location list, sources, notes, and do some searching. Does anyone use a Windows desktop as their main computer (with Legacy) and sync it somehow with an iPad? If so, how is it done and what is required? Is it a satisfactory arrangement for a non-technical person? Kirsten 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 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Does Legacy care if I resize my scans?
Brian, There isn't a yes or no answer to your question. You will have to experiment and each document may have to be reduced a different amount. There are two basic characteristics to be concerned about, resolution (dpi) and compression, make a tradeoff between them. These might be helpful: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsPictures.asp http://www.loc.gov/preserv/guide/guid_a.html Laird On 12/7/2010 5:46 AM, Brian Lehman wrote: Thanks for the replies, Some of my documents,census records downloaded from Acom are almost 2MB in size, don't know why they are saved that large. I do backup to an external drive already,in my I drive. So my mastercopies are there. My documents linked to Legacy are on my C drive. If I resize all the linked scans,will it be difficult to read upon opening the document in Legacy? Brian 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Does Legacy care if I resize my scans?
Brian, You don't state what large means, what size is a typical 8.5 x 11 document? I personally use 300 dpi (dots per inch) for documents and color photos and 600 dpi for black and white photos. BW photos really have a lot of resolution and can be scanned even higher with some additional benefit. I have a clean copy of a 8.5x11 death certificate scanned at 300 dpi. The file size will depend on the complexity of the image, but the following will show the relative sizes of 3 different formats. gray scale image: BMP size = 8,774KB GIF size = 2,273KB JPG medium quality, size = 793KB Bitmap image BMP size = 1,097KB GIF size = 240KB JPG doesn't support bitmap images You can get a portable 500GB USB external drive for about $60 ordered online to store your scanned images. Laid = On 12/6/2010 3:59 PM, William Boswell wrote: That's what I've been doing. All original scans, which are very large, are placed on an external drive while all scans for Legacy are resized to a lower size and stored in folders on the same drive with my Legacy data. Both are backed up frequently when something new is added. -Original Message- From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:kowal...@iglou.com] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 4:02 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Does Legacy care if I resize my scans? On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:44:16 -0500, Brian Lehmanblr...@optonline.net wrote: Does anybody think there might be a problem if I resize everything or would it be better to leave them large. External hard drives are cheap. Buy one and copy the original (large) images there as an archive. Then feel free to resize the images in the Legacy folder. Resizing will affect quality, so keeping a copy of the original on an external HD will protect you if it turns out that resizing creates a problem for a particular image. 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Family DATABASE modified date bug # two?
Sherry, Is this also in your bug tracking system? I looked on the Legacy web site under Help CenterSitemap for a bug list. Is there a place we can check for bugs in your tracking system so as to not waste people time and download bandwidth with problem verification? (Such as this one). -- Legacy version 7.4.0.45, Windows Vista 64 bit. Do this: 1. Open/run a file browser i.e. Windows Explorer. 2. Browse to the location of your Legacy family database and note the date/time it was modified, NOT the created date. 3. Open your Legacy family database, DON'T MAKE ANY CHANGES. Click the X in the extreme upper right corner of the window to exit Legacy. Also FileExit produces the same result. 4. Exit Legacy and the modified date will now show the current date/time! 5. Does your version of Legacy exhibit this problem? This problem is extremely annoying to me! Edit dates are very important to me. I just want to browse my database to look at something. Later on at some point I want to see when I last edited my database and it erroneously gives me a wrong date. This also causes my automatic backup software to make unnecessary backups and wastes storage space as I like to save several versions of the last version saved. I wonder if LockBox also wastes time and bandwidth uploading an unchanged revised date file? I have tried using copies for viewing but that is so difficult to know if it is up to date or not. Laird 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Modified date bug?
On 11/15/2010 1:05 PM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:54:13 -, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I am open to correction, but I do not think it possible for Legacy to differentiate between Close and Cancel in the context of this operation. You don't need to differentiate (although I know in VB.Net you can). You want them to treat Close (pressing the 'X' in the upper right corner) and Cancel (pressing the 'Cancel' button) the same ... dismiss the dialog window without updating anything. As a matter of fact, pressing the ESC key should to the same thing. *** This is one of the reasons why I don't trust the modified_date. I tried the escape key and it doesn't change the date. I have a habit of clicking the X in the upper right, I am going to try to remember to use the ESC key. Laird 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Modified date bug?
On 11/15/2010 2:33 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: -Original Message- From: Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 7:58 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Modified date bug? On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:31:04 -, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Most users would expect that using the X to close would save and not cancel any changes. I have no survey to prove what most users expect. I personally do not expect clicking the 'X' to save any changes. But remember, I still use V6 so I have no pony in this race. I was just pointing out what Microsoft says about the subject. Of course, what MS says is only a guideline, so developers are free to ignore it if they choose. Where no changes have been made I do not think that VB6 can tell, so it plays safe when the X is selected to close. I am not a VB6 programmer so I don't know for sure ... but I would think that this is a problem that can be fixed. *** Maybe an Are you sure? dialog should pop up when a user Cancels or Closes(X) the window when there are pending changes. I did a test using the following applications: MS Notepad, MS WordPad, MS Word, MS Excel, OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 . 1. I opened a new file and didn't make any edits. Click the X and all the windows are promptly dismissed. 2. I made changes to a file and they all offer to save, discard or CANCEL when you click the X to close. Just my two cents worth: I would suggest this is what most users would expect when clicking X. Legacy should follow their lead and not do a automatic save. AND should also offer similar options after an edit when CANCEL is clicked. Laird 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Invalid Parents Marriage RINs
On 11/15/2010 6:28 PM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:18:16 -0600, Lairdlftu...@bayleenet.net wrote: I hope I can explain this in a logical manner [snip] The first thing you should do is run a Check/Repair on your file. If it finds errors, save the log and then keep running Check/Repair until it runs clean. Let us know what, if anything, it finds. It found: .. [first and second run] .. == There are 1 Marriage record(s) where the Wife's Gender is not Female: You will need to find each of these to see what's happened and make any corrections that may be needed. == See MRIN 629, RIN 603. Verify/correct the Gender of the Wife. RIN 603 is also linked as a husband, see MRIN 374 == . [second run only] There are 1 Male Individual(s) with preferred marriages where that marriage record shows a different Husband: **Note: This step removes the Preferred marriage References. Another step below this one will reset the Preferred marriage pointer if he is part of a marriage. Look for these below. == Individual: RIN 603. Preferred Marriage MRIN: 629. The Preferred Marriage reference has been removed. == There are individual(s) with a blank preferred marriage MRIN, but they are actually a husband in a marriage record: == Individual: RIN 603. Preferred Marriage MRIN is blank, now setting it to 374. . END error log ... Laird: I did find RIN 603 is a husband of RIN 596 (MRIN374) AND a wife of RIN 1864 (MRIN 629). 603 had a alternate name of Sabina. I suspect Sabina should be a new person married to 1864. But I don't know the facts here. ... I don't think this is relative to my other problem. Laird 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Archives down?
At 11:36 Central time USA, the archives work OK. Laird On 11/10/2010 10:53 PM, roy_delos_re...@comcast.net wrote: When trying to access the archives I get the following message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T-RETURN in/data1/archive/msg.php on line 336 Is anyone else seeing this? Roy Delos Reyes 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
