Re: [LegacyUG] problem with my legacy database
Cindy,Navigate on the Family tab to where you have the person showing as the father and as one of the children (his own child). Right-click on him as a child. Click Unlink from parents. On Saturday, November 15, 2014 1:15 AM, Brett McL Robinson b...@vodafone.co.nz wrote: Hi Cindy I can' see a reply to your question so far, so here are my thoughts: 1 If you can, identify the next generation where names and relationship are correct, and work back from there. Decide which spot you want your existing confused individual to end up in. Check each parent/child relationship and change those to the wrong spot (unlink then link parents/children). 2 From what you describe you probably have an individual (or perhaps a couple) either missing, or one individual with the details collected from two individuals (parent and child). It may help to create a temporary individual named something useful (eg John the father) to get the linkages right before you then add in all the names/dated/places/facts/events etc, or perhaps delete the temporary individual if not needed. I find, when faced with a confusion in my database, it helps me to revert to paper and sketch the outline of what I want to end up with, in this case particularly noting the names and IDs for the surrounding next generations (that are correct) so then I have the extent of the problem defined. I then tick them off adding IDs as I work through the correction process. Cheers, Brett B McL Robinson, Hamilton, New Zealand On 11/11/2014 4:13 a.m., hofsea...@aol.com wrote: Please help. I just recently started using Legacy. I've been using PAF for years and understand the matching and margining process. From about 2009 I've been putting my data from my years or research on Ancestry trees that I've created but I realize now I don't like the way their connections say they're the source. Plus, I have not added nor do I plan to upload all the documents I've acquired through the years. Not to mention I hate the way Ancestry changed it's search. Anyway, Two of my lines are the same surname so I've always kept them separate that is until I combined the two in Legacy. while merging I must have accidently said a son was the father as in my Legacy program the son is now identified as the father and also as the son. Their RIN is the same so I can't merge the two. Is their an easy way to correct this? or do I just have to remove him from my file and the names associated with him? Thanks for any help anyone can give me. Cindy Hofmeister hofsea...@aol.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Master Event Role List
I have the same question. Thanks for writing it up.Ron Taylor On Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:36 AM, Goodwin Genealogy goodwingeneal...@gmail.com wrote: Does Legacy have a master list for ROLES under a EVENT or do we have to create a new role for each event? I have entered several different events and shared them and each time I have created a new role, such as Father, Mother, Pallbearer, Sister-in-Law, etc. However, when I enter different type of a new event and go to share it, I again have to add these same roles for that event too. Shouldn't Legacy have a MASTER LIST for different ROLES? If there is one, where do I find it? Thanks Ron Ottawa, Canada 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] Master Event Role List
It would be fairly straight forward. A table of roles with links to the Event
Definitions table such that each role would be related to the particular event
type. There could be duplicate roles in the table if a specific role was used
in multiple events. Or the roles could be un-connected from the event types
and allow the user to decide how and when a role is linked. A master table for
roles can not possibly be any more complex than trying to have a separate role
for every individual connected to a shared event. This is the same logic for
having master lists of locations, sources, surnames, etc. A relational
database is designed to minimize duplicate entries and standardize how
information is connected. The idea that other programs haven't developed a
Roles table does not mean that no one should do it. Or maybe we have to wait
for others to do it first so it is acceptable. Locations handled the way they
were in PAF was unweidly. A master list simplifies things.
On Saturday, November 15, 2014 10:18 AM, Denise Moss-Fritch
d.mossfri...@comcast.net wrote:
Ron,
While I am very new to Legacy, the software seems to be consistent with others
of which I am familiar (specifically Genbox and RootsMagic) where there is a
list of roles per event, but not roles across all events.
In Legacy, if you select View Master Lists Event Definitions and select
from the list an event to edit (for example, the 1921 Canadian Census) you will
see two tabs ('Event Sentences' and 'Roles for those Sharing this Event'). It
is on the second tab that you can 'Add Roles' for that specific event. The
roles you add will then be available for all uses of that event. Please note
that when adding a role, Legacy allows you to specific sentences for that role.
Best,
Denise Moss-Fritch
-Original Message-
From: Goodwin Genealogy [mailto:goodwingeneal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:36 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Master Event Role List
Does Legacy have a master list for ROLES under a EVENT or do we have to create
a new role for each event?
I have entered several different events and shared them and each time I have
created a new role, such as Father, Mother, Pallbearer, Sister-in-Law, etc.
However, when I enter different type of a new event and go to share it, I again
have to add these same roles for that event too.
Shouldn't Legacy have a MASTER LIST for different ROLES?
If there is one, where do I find it?
Thanks
Ron
Ottawa, Canada
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Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Pictures - free webinar by Geoff Rasmussen now online, PLUS 4 terrific guest hosts!
Many pictures are being posted to Family Search Family Tree. Please illustrate how to download a picture from FSFT to a Legacy gallery. Even better, can all pictures for a given individual be downloaded. Can Legacy gallery multimedia be uploaded to FSFT? How? On Friday, November 14, 2014 3:57 PM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: On 14/11/2014 22:38, Geoff Rasmussen wrote: The recording of today's webinar, Legacy and Pictures, is now available to view for free at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com http://familytreewebinars.com/download.php?webinar_id=235. The best tip of the whole webinar came right at the end: create web pages in Legacy and transfer them to your tablet so you can view all your information at any time. Brilliant! I wish I'd thought of that. I have, and use, Families but I think having the web pages will be a real bonus. -- Jenny M Benson 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] Date Last Edited in Legacy 8.0.0.454
Michele, I think I've submitted this before. 1) A Save when there are changes should function as it does currently including change to Modified date. 2) A Save when no changes have been made should be considered a cancel without changing the Modified date. 3) A Cancel when there are changes should have an optional question Click Yes to discard changes, click No to return to edit. If changes are discarded, the Modified date should not be changed. 4) A Cancel when no changes have been made should function as it does currently without a change to Modified date. Two tricky problems with the Modified date. 1) When exporting Legacy data to a new Legacy database, the Modified date is changed in the exported data file. Likewise when importing a Legacy database, the Modified dates in the imported data are changed. 2) When merging records, if information in the Notes is edited, replaced, or appended...those changes are immediate. There is no cancel to discard those changes even if the records are not merged. On Monday, November 10, 2014 5:20 AM, Michele/Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: It depends on whether you click CANCEL or you click SAVE. Click cancel and the date does not change. Click save and it does. Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com From:Steve Pick [mailto:st...@trycom.com] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 12:05 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Last Edited in Legacy 8.0.0.454 Thanks Michelle. Don't think I have ever looked at this. However, I am not sure I like it. I just clicked in the marriage event of one at random to look at the data. Never changed anything but it says the data was modified as of the time I looked. This doesn't seem very good idea. If I had modified any of the data fine,.. but I didn't. 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] Date Last Edited in Legacy 8.0.0.454
There may be a third tricky place for Modified date. 3) When importing data from Family Search using LegacyFS, is the Modified date set consistently. Likewise the Added date if it is a new record being added to the Legacy database. On Monday, November 10, 2014 6:52 AM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: Michele, I think I've submitted this before. 1) A Save when there are changes should function as it does currently including change to Modified date. 2) A Save when no changes have been made should be considered a cancel without changing the Modified date. 3) A Cancel when there are changes should have an optional question Click Yes to discard changes, click No to return to edit. If changes are discarded, the Modified date should not be changed. 4) A Cancel when no changes have been made should function as it does currently without a change to Modified date. Two tricky problems with the Modified date. 1) When exporting Legacy data to a new Legacy database, the Modified date is changed in the exported data file. Likewise when importing a Legacy database, the Modified dates in the imported data are changed. 2) When merging records, if information in the Notes is edited, replaced, or appended...those changes are immediate. There is no cancel to discard those changes even if the records are not merged. On Monday, November 10, 2014 5:20 AM, Michele/Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: It depends on whether you click CANCEL or you click SAVE. Click cancel and the date does not change. Click save and it does. Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com From:Steve Pick [mailto:st...@trycom.com] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 12:05 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Last Edited in Legacy 8.0.0.454 Thanks Michelle. Don't think I have ever looked at this. However, I am not sure I like it. I just clicked in the marriage event of one at random to look at the data. Never changed anything but it says the data was modified as of the time I looked. This doesn't seem very good idea. If I had modified any of the data fine,.. but I didn't. 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] Creating a mtDNA LIST of ancestors
Look at LtoolsDeluxeAdvanced TaggingMitoDNA It will set the tags on the carriers of a given mtDNA or Y-DNA. Then back to Legacy and produce whatever reports you want based on the tag. Be sure to uncheck Include husbands... and Include wives... to get just the blood line for mtDNA. For Y-DNA uncheck Include daughters and Include spouses. Both routines utilize the child status to try to rule out adopted lineages. I am not certain if the Relationship to Parent status fields are also utilized in the filter. I have been a coordinator for DNA projects for many years and I use these Ltools processes often to help determine who would be good candidates for DNA testing. On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 2:55 PM, ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Jessica, I'm afraid that I didn't work on ordering the female line, indeed I'm not at all sure that it can be done from within Legacy. Maybe a date or something could be added and sort done in Excel or equivalent, but quite frankly I have not thought this through. To be honest the technique was developed following a request to find Y-DNA lines and whilst doing this I realised that it could be adapted for direct mtDNA. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Jessica Morgan jrkmorg...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. This will give me at least a list of the right people, but I need an ordered Descendant report that shows the relationships to each other, birth, death, and marriage dates with spouse names. I suppose if I export the gedcom file of these tagged it will give me a file to work with and create the report. I prefer to not export a gedcom and do it that way though. This is a very complicated way to get a simple report. Jessica Jessica Morgan Sr Engineering Technologist, Black Stone Minerals Chair, SPE GCS Petro-Tech Study Group ** GedMatch kits: A064089 (SMK), A276959 (JRK), A608610 (TJ), A798429 (Jo), A817318 (JRKM), M399320 (JKM), M918651 (MM), several phasing kits as well FTDNA kits: B12555 (SMK), B12524 (JMM), B13031 (JKM), 368036 (CJ) Ancestry.com: jrkmorgan - all trees private Hometown Cotton Valley, Louisiana. Ratcliff/Lockey and Allen/Morgan decent. Researching Allen, Bandy, Basinger, Bethune, Beshea, Cruthirds, Kaylor, Lockey, Morgan, McGarity, Ratcliff, Striplin, Teague, Umphries, Urquhart, Wilkins - Current generations Louisiana, Arkansas areas; Migratory from Alabama, North Carolina On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Jessica, Please see http://www.fergys.co.uk/Blogs/Y-DNA_Search.php Although this was written and tested for Legacy V7.5, I see no reason why it will not work in V8.0. Select include siblings from the options. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Jessica Morgan Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 6:09 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Creating a mtDNA LIST of ancestors I need to create a list of people in my database ascending from my daughter, that would carry the same mtDNA as she does. So the maternal line from my daughter, to me, to my mother, to her mother, etc. as far back as I can go. I need to include siblings that would carry this mtDNA, as well as their spouses. I want a list, such as a descendant report, NOT a chart. So using Legacy Charting is out. I've looked at the various report options, and tagging mechanisms, and still can't get anything to output what I am looking for. Can anyone offer any help? Jessica Morgan Sr Engineering Technologist, Black Stone Minerals Chair, SPE GCS Petro-Tech Study Group ** GedMatch kits: A064089 (SMK), A276959 (JRK), A608610 (TJ), A798429 (Jo), A817318 (JRKM), M399320 (JKM), M918651 (MM), several phasing kits as well FTDNA kits: B12555 (SMK), B12524 (JMM), B13031 (JKM), 368036 (CJ) Ancestry.com: jrkmorgan - all trees private Hometown Cotton Valley, Louisiana. Ratcliff/Lockey and Allen/Morgan decent. Researching Allen, Bandy, Basinger, Bethune, Beshea, Cruthirds, Kaylor, Lockey, Morgan, McGarity, Ratcliff, Striplin, Teague, Umphries, Urquhart, Wilkins - Current generations Louisiana, Arkansas areas; Migratory from Alabama, North Carolina 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Document Genetic Matches
I track DNA participants in my Legacy database. What I have found useful is to create master sources for each testing company like: Ancestry DNA Participant; FTDNA Participant; SMGF Participant; etc. Then I cite the appropriate DNA master source for each individual that has been tested. Once all participants have the DNA master sources linked, then I use Show List for those master sources and set Tag1. Next I set Tag2 for all descendants of a given ancestor. Finally, I search for everyone that has Tag1 and Tag2. Those are the descendants that share DNA with the common ancestor. If I want to show a chart of how all the DNA participants are descended from the common ancestor, I use Tag1 to build a Focus Group consisting of every participant and his ancestry. Then use the SearchFindMiscellaneousFocus Group to find all the ancestors of all the participants. Tag3 the results. Now those with Tag2 and Tag3 are the lines you want for the chart of DNA descendants. On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 2:58 PM, Bobby Johnson b...@brmemc.net wrote: I am attempting to document a genetically proven ancestral lineage in Legacy. I have a match with a seventh cousin once removed through a most recent common ancestor(MRCA), a sixth great-grandfather. I think that I would like to set up a customized event/fact to document this and then share this event/fact with each of the ancestors in the line. Has anyone set up a customized event/fact to do this? The role for the two individuals who provided the samples would be donor and the sixth great-grandfather would be MRCA. The people in between these two also needs a role and of course there needs to be some sentence structure work. Any good ideas would be appreciated. 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 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] Where did my printer go?
I'm guessing that your printer may be USB connected. There are known problems with USB printers and Windows. You might try disconnecting the printer, delete it from the list of printers that Windows has configured, then plug it in again and allow it to re-connect. Report back if that fixes it for you. On Monday, October 20, 2014 3:38 PM, MikeFry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 Oct 2014 20:38, Jae wrote: When I try to print, I get a pop-up that says I have not defined a printer. (Been using the same one for a few years). When I click on Print Preview it shows it will print to my correct printer. Looked for a place to set up the printer, can't find one. Went to tech support. It tells me to click on File and select Set up printer. I don't find that choice when I click on file, just choices related to my file. I just downloaded the newest update if that makes a difference.. But, is it defined in Windows as THE Default Printer? -- Regards, Mike Fry (Jhb) 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] Use Of Periods In Abbreviations
There are people with a letter only as a middle name where the letter is not an abbreviation. When an initial is an abbreviation, it should be followed by a period. At this time, none of the genealogy systems have a standardized convention to indicate a letter only name which is not an abbreviation. Such a convention should be developed to distinguish these single letter names from the abbreviated initials. Just turning off the alert is not the fix but instead complicates the issue further because without the period, it is unknown whether the letter is a single letter name or an abbreviation for something else. On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:55 PM, Jerry bearjerca...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you David and Cathy. Since Legacy has the long and short place name fields, I do actually use the postal codes for the short fields, but for the long fields, I always use the complete name (for example) Detroit, Wayne Co, Michigan, United States. I always use the Co for county, simply for my users' benefit on our website. I realize that all genealogists know the second field would be for the county when used in a four-division standard place name. Thanks for the suggestions and the place to turn off that particular item about the use of the periods. Jerry Boor, MerriamFamilyTree.org On 10/17/2014 10:37 PM, Cathy Pinner wrote: Hi Jerry, Where and whether periods are used is determined by which convention you follow. Choose one and stick to it. To change the criteria for the Potential Problem alerts there are 3 ways to get to the same place. From an alert Shift + right click From the Tools Ribbon - Potential Problems From the Reports Ribbon - Other Reports - Potential Problems Tick or untick the checkboxes etc to suit yourself. Cathy Jerry wrote: Can some of you professional genealogists tell me why or if it is recommended to continue to use periods after abbreviations, especially with middle names where only the initial is known? It seems that in this computer age, we could safely omit those periods. It won't cause any concerns for search engines, right? Is there a way to turn off the suggestion in Legacy 8 so as not to be reminded if periods are not used in abbreviations?  I'm not speaking of place names - I realize those names should be completely spelled out for accuracy (ie, don't use USA, MI, Mich, etc). Thanks, Jerry Boor, 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 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] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox
It is not advisable to have your live file in Dropbox or Google Drive or any of the other cloud based storage systems. What you can do reliably is to place the zipped backup files in the cloud drive and then restore the file as needed on another computer from the cloud storage. Using the live file on a cloud device requires a method to insure that the file has been sync'ed completely before accessing it. With a zip file, it will not open unless it is intact so a partial zip file should not open. Side benefit is that the zipped files will be smaller than the live database and the other associated files that Legacy uses. I agree with other comments that the problem is not with differences between Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8. I regularly use my Legacy data on all those Windows versions without any problems and move the database by placing the zip backup files in Google Drive. On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:53 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Lavern, Your problem may be that you are not giving it enough time to sync. I hope you have your XP computer well protected since you are using it online. However, I'm not clear about your process. Bob thinks you have your working file only in the Dropbox and that may be so. But you said: I make entries on my laptop (win 8.1) by selecting the icon on my desktop, entering Legacy, then making updates. Then I save the file to Dropbox. Since Legacy saves changes automatically, saving the file is not usually a step unless you are saving it in some new place. Where is your family file on your Win 8.1 computer? Is it in a Dropbox folder or not?I read you as saying you saved a copy to the Dropbox - or maybe the backup file. If it's the backup file in Dropbox, on the other computer you have to restore the backup. If it's the actual file you either have to make sure you are opening the copy that is in the Dropbox OR copy it to your Legacy Data folder on the other computer. Either way you have to make sure you are opening the copy of your file that you want on the XP computer and not just one of the same name saved in a different folder. Cathy Bob Austen mailto:rgaus...@telus.net Thursday, 16 October 2014 1:36 AM Hi Lavern, It sounds like your problem could be with Dropbox - that is, there is no issue with Legacy, Win XP, or Win8.1. I use Dropbox. It can take some time for the files to sync from Dropbox to the laptop - depending on the size of your file, connections speed, it could be a few minutes to many minutes. My computer setup is the reverse, my laptop is on XP and is very slow. My file can take well over 30 minutes to sync. So make sure the icon says that the folders are up to date. It the file has been updated and they still don't match, then check to see that you have only the one file on Dropbox and that the laptop is working with the same file. It sounds like you have your working file on Dropbox. Remember that Dropbox is not a multiuser system. If you have Legacy open on both computers they will each save their own copy of the file and they will not be in sync. So, again, check your Dropbox folder, if there is only one file, make sure that it has been updated on the laptop before opening Legacy. Have Legacy open on only one computer at a time. Hope this helps. Bob *From:*Lavern Hall [mailto:lavernh...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:02 AM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox Hello all, I hope you will be able to help me with this problem. I have a new laptop with window 8.1 and I have my old computer operating on windows XP. I have the latest version if Legacy 7.5 installed on both, but I cannot get them to sync. Here's what happens: I make entries on my laptop (win 8.1) by selecting the icon on my desktop, entering Legacy, then making updates. Then I save the file to Dropbox. When I go to check if the updates have been made on my computer (win XP), the Dropbox icon shows that everything is in sync; however when I enter the Legacy file itself, there are no updates recorded! It doesn't matter if I enter Legacy by clicking on the Dropbox icon and going to the file in the directory, or if I click on the Legacy icon and the program opens; I still receive an error message, Error opening database. Would you like to Try It Again? I select Yesand then (fortunately) the program opens. What am I doing wrong? Is it possible that 8.1 and XP are not compatible? Any help would be appreciated. Lavern Hall 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox
Mike will probably answer this also. The last message from Lavern said Now it has C:DocumentsandSettings\user\ MyDocuments\Dropbox\lavernhallfamily\ 2014-10-16 3:26 33PM\lavernhallfamily.fdb This means that the fdb file is being accessed from inside the zip backup file which is in the Dropbox. You will have problems with that. Like Mike said, you should use Restore Family File inside of Legacy to unzip the backup data files and place them into the correct location. Later when you backup again, you can point the backup zip files at the Dropbox. It is just the restore that you are missing. As Mike said, don't use the Windows unzip program but use the restore function inside of Legacy. On Thursday, October 16, 2014 5:39 PM, Lavern Hall lavernh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mike, I tried Legacy Restore on XP computer and that also worked also. :-) One other question please: on the toolbar, I clicked on File to see what family file name appeared as my last accessed family file. Usually it is C:\Legacy\Data\lavernhallfamily.fdb Now it has C:DocumentsandSettings\user\ MyDocuments\Dropbox\lavernhallfamily\ 2014-10-16 3:26 33PM\lavernhallfamily.fdb Is this ok? Thanks. Lavern Hall On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:13 PM, MikeFry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 Oct 2014 23:56, Elizabeth Cunningham wrote: I wish you would use a larger type. On my machine it comes out almost too small to read - I can with a magnifying glass. What are you using to read the messages with. Try typing Ctrl-+ -- Regards, Mike Fry (Jhb) 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] Direct Line Male Descendants list
The Advanced Tagging option in Ltools will find and tag both the Y-DNA carriers and mtDNA carriers without tagging the spouses or non-blood lineages like adopted. On Thursday, October 9, 2014 9:45 AM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: DNA - carrier's only Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Jessica Morgan jrkmorg...@gmail.com wrote: Sherry, which chart(s) would I select in Legacy Charting for carriers only options? Jessica Jessica Morgan On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Legacy Charting has several DNA charts for Male or Female, with carriers only option. Would that work? Tagging the descendants includes females and spouses. The Miscellaneous tab in the Search window has an option for the direct line ancestors with no parents based on a specific individual or an option for all linked individuals with no parents for the entire file. Then you'd have to decide which line you want the descendants of. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Jessica Morgan jrkmorg...@gmail.com wrote: So for my reunion I would like to have a report that goes from my first person, Henry Lockey, down to the most direct line male descendant. I'm working on DNA testing, and I need a Y chromosome tester. I want to make sure I get the right person, that will go the furthest back. So how do I accomplish this? I tried tagging all descendants of Henry Lockey, then searching by tag 6 and male, but I'm not certain that gave me what I wanted. I'd like same for maternal line. Thoughts on how to accomplish this? Jessica Morgan 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] Can FG, TC, and FG files be safely deleted?
A part of your question seems to indicate that you are not saving the zip backup files that Legacy makes but instead you are trying to copy all the pieces of a Legacy database for your backups. The Legacy backup process will automatically gather all the pieces into one zip file for data and one for multimedia. There is no need to decide which ones to save or delete. Just save as many of the zipped backup files as you wish. Typically, I save the last 3. Some put their zip backup files directly on a cloud storage or an external drive. Whatever you do, remember that a backup is not a backup unless you can restore from it. Learn how to restore so that skill will be useful if it is ever needed. On Friday, October 10, 2014 1:21 PM, Jim Terry/Support jimte...@legacyusers.com wrote: Jerry, There are several ancillary files that may show in the data folder where the family file (.FDB) is saved. They do not contain any family tree information. If you delete the ancillary files, Legacy will simply recreate them. These files include but are not resistricted to: .CB= Clipboard information settings file (older versions of Legacy) .CBH = Clipboard header file (older versions of Legacy) .FSD = Legacy FamilySearch Database .FG= Focus Group file .IGI = IGI Search results file .LDB = Record-Locking Info. (temp. file made when .FDB opens deleted when it closes properly) .NC = Source clipboard .PPL = Potential Problems List .Rc3 = Calculated Relationships .REL.CAL = Relationship Calculator file .RGD = Research Guidance file .TC = Clipboard files (To-do, source, etc.) .TC0-9 = Clipboard files (older versions) .TCH = Clipboard files (older versions) The ancillary files cannot be opened by the user. If you try, you will get a message that you need go to the Internet for a program to open it or look on your computer for a program to open it. If you could see inside them you would not find any genealogical information. Jim Legacy Family Tree Technical Supoort Original Message From: Jerry bearjerca...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 11:22 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Can FG, TC, and FG files be safely deleted? Can someone in the user group please tell me if I can safely delete FG, NC, and TC files? I'm trying to get rid of all not needed backups, etc., but I am not sure what role these files played in relation to the regular .fdb database files. In other words, is the FG, NC TC file needed for the CURRENT .fdb file? Thanks, Jerry in Michigan USA 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] Independent Cities issue
The problem is that the County Verifier and GeoDatabase were developed by two different programmers/companies and they were never coordinated to produce equal results as is evident in the independent cities. Also, GeoDatabase is based on the current location whereas County Verifier is trying to define the location for the date involved. I look forward to the day when a specified longitude and latitude can display the location name based on date and language. On Saturday, September 27, 2014 2:54 PM, Bob Austen rgaus...@telus.net wrote: Hi Margaret, If I enter the name just as you show (missing comma?) it does not present a problem. Danville, (Independent City) Virginiano issue Danville, (Independent City) Virginia, USA no issue Danville (Independent City), Virginia, USA no issue Legacy's Geo Location Database shows the name as follows: Danville, Danville (city), Virginia, USA Danville, Danville (city), Virginia, United States but neither are recognized by the county checker. Entering it as you presented is not an issue however 'Virginia' is not recognized as a State - may still be a work around. Bob From:Margaret Gagliardi [mailto:megsge...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 11:59 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Independent Cities issue Danville, (Independent City) Virginia is one of my locations for a group of families I am working on. It keeps giving me an error that it is not a county in Virginia, but other than having to turn off the checking tool, is there a way to have it accept Danville as an independent city? Virginia has several towns like Danville and I would like to know the proper way to enter them, so the program will accept them. Thanks 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] Repair issues 8.0
I have seen these messages for many databases upgraded to version 8. I suspect that they indicate errors in the file which earlier versions were not detecting. Similar to the fix for nulls that shows just before the steps in the Check/Repair routine. As the program matures, so also do the checks for problems. On Monday, September 15, 2014 5:10 PM, Steve Pick st...@trycom.com wrote: No marriages of any of them. From memory now, I think at least two died in childhood. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Wendy Howard wendy.how...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steve, Do any of these people actually have ANY marriages? In either copy of your database? There is not enough information here for us to tell. Wendy Steve Pick said the following on 16/09/2014 03:59: I have 7.5 and 8.0. Because of issues some months ago with 8 I decided my working copy would be 7.5. I monitor news on 8 and because of family search connection I use 8 to look there. I just decided to run the repair tool on my data base on 8 and find 5 errors. All of them give a RIN number and error message The preferred Marriage has been removed. I looked at 7.5 data with 7.5 and none of the people had a preferred marriage. I wonder where the error data entered my 8.0 data base? Any ideas? 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] Last Update to 7.5
Mike, I know you're not serious but for those who continue to ask about 7.5 it is peculiar that they don't understand the issue. Version 7.5 would still function with Family Search if Family Search still responded to their old APIs. It's like a person with a transistor radio claiming the radio does not work anymore when their favorite radio station stopped broadcasting. The radio is still working but there's no signal to receive. Should a refund be given to the transistor radio owner because the radio station shut down? Who should provide the refund, the radio station or the maker of the hand-held radio? Personally, I think that the user group conversations need to be separated into those still on version 7 and those who have chosen to stay up-to-date. Sometimes I get requests to help someone still running Windows 95 or 98. I ask them why are they still running such an old operating system that is no longer supported. When I tell them it is not worth my time to even try to work on the old OS, they seem puzzled. I can't even begin to express how hard it is to respond to those still using Legacy version 6 or earlier. I just say, Please update then I might be able to assist you. On Monday, September 15, 2014 3:51 AM, MikeFry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: Being a little cheeky here. There has been a 'last' update to 7.5 (build 286). Only item in it disables the non-working integration with FamilySearch. Since 7.5 no longer does what it originally said it would do on the tin, can I have a refund please? :-) :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry (Jhb) 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] GEDcom indv. selection using just location
If you have your locations in a standard order in the Master Locations table, you can select the locations that contain Denmark, show list and tag them on an un-used tag. If you just want those born in Denmark, do detailed search for birth place containing Denmark, options, advanced tagging, and tag them. Using your tag, export to a gedcom or export to a new Legacy file then use it as desired. On Monday, September 8, 2014 3:19 PM, Liz Denis nehalemm...@gmail.com wrote: I've decided I want to upload my Danish ancestors to ancestry.com. Problem is that some of these Danish folk are not connected, merely witnesses, and or just possibly related i.e. unlinked to the main line. Some are from my barking up the wrong treehowever, I collected quite some info on some lines. My question: how do I choose just the Danish people to put on the gedcom. My complete tree is quite large and might take me some time to pick and choose the people. Kindergarten instructions please! Thx 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] Do you Have a Favorite Detailed Search that you would like to share?
This one's pretty simple but I use it quite often when I don't have the married names included in Name List. Another that is more involved is a saved Focus Group of collaborators with 12 generations of ancending pedigree for each. I use SearchMiscellaneousFocus GroupCreate List and set Tag1 for those ascending lines. Then I set Tag2 for descendants of an ancestor common to the collaborators (within 12 generations). Finally those with Tag1 and Tag2 are exported to a new database and then a nice descendant chart of related collaborators is easy to produce. On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 11:18 AM, Jim Terry/Support jimte...@legacyusers.com wrote: I am putting together a how-to support page on Detailed Searches. See http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00950 (it's not finished). Do you Have a favorite detailed search that you would like to share? In particular I am looking for Detailed Searches that use three Conditions. Please save your search and send me the .SC0 file (use the Save button at the bottom of the Detailed Search screen). Thanks, Jim Terry Legacy Family Tree Technical Support 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 Lookup Married Name.sc0 Description: Binary data
Re: [LegacyUG] Focus Group
Focus Groups are very powerful. Paula basically pointed out that a new individual added to the database will automatically be included. The reason is that a Focus Group is not a collection of individuals or a tagged set of records. It is a list of criteria that can be used to find records. The criteria can be edited. If descendants of a specific individual are in the Focus Group criteria and last month there were 3000 of them then you added a new child for one of them, today the Focus Group would find 3001 descendants. Same would be true for any other combination of criteria used in a Focus Group. One way that I use Focus Group is to SearchFindMiscellaneousEdit Focus GroupLoad then select one of the Focus Groups that I have saved and click OK to retrieve individuals that meet the criteria. An example would be a Focus Group that has several people and their ancestors to 10 generations. I execute the Find, then set Tag1 for them. Next, I set Tag2 for the descendants of a common ancestor. Finally, I find everyone with Tag1 and Tag2 which means they are a descendant of the common ancestor and on the ascending line of those in the Focus Group. I export those to a new Legacy database and use it to produce a descendant chart showing how those people are related without all the other connections they have in the main database. Another idea is to have a Focus Group that is customized to find those individuals that a particular collaborator is working on and name the Focus Group accordingly so it is easy to use. I'm sure there are lots of other ways to productively utilize Focus Groups. Ron Taylor On Sunday, August 31, 2014 8:52 AM, Ward Walker wnkwal...@rogers.com wrote: It sounds like your focus group worked, but you forgot to Import (not Open) the newly created .ged file into a Legacy family file. Yet you already had an empty family file on your system, with the same name as the Gedcom file. You can import into an existing family file or a new one. (One normally tests a Gedcom in a new, empty family file.) Ward From: Pat Hickin Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 10:12 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Focus Group Cathy, I missed it because I was looking for what I was told to look for, namely View/Set Focus Group. However, now I have another problem. Per your instructions, at step 3, I chose Edit Focus Group. The Focus Group window can be reached from several locations. 1. From the Export window, I chose GEDCOM File Produce file for GEDCOM 5.5.1 Only Character Set: UTF-8 Then I clicked [Step 1] Record Selection, [Step 2] I chose Selected Records Contained in the Focus Group option, and then clicked [Step 3, per Cathys's instructions] Edit Focus Group which took me to the Focus Group window which had the words Ancestors (Direct Line, 999 Gen., Mult. Parents) for Pauline Elizabeth Layman [i.e., ,my, mother's ancestors] highlighted in blue. I clicked OK [which took me to a window entitled GEDCOM Record Selection I clicked Close, which took me to a window entitled GEDCOM Export I clicked on a button entitled Select File Name and Start EXPORT which took me to a window called Export GEDCOM file. In the Fie Name box I typed in LAYMAN-Pauline Elizabeth Ancestors 20140830.ged and clicked Save. This took me back to the GEDCOM Export Window plus a smaller window which said Export Complete[:] Export of GEDCOM file is complete[:] Indiviuals: 758[;] Families: 344. I clicked OK. This took me back to the family screen of my startup family in my main Legacy database file (PRICKETT-LAYMAN.fdb). I clicked Open File. and chose LAYMAN-Pauline Elizabeth Ancestors 20140830.fdb the type of which to my surprise was labeled Legacy Genealogy Software and was only 1468kb in size. However, when the file was opened, there was NO information on the Family View. I clicked on View Name List. But there were NO names in the name list!! So NOW what have I done wrong??? Thanks (again)! Pat On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Well, this a great little thread, because it made me read all of the Help on Focus Groups. We can have up to 9 Focus Groups (or Focus Group Lists). I hadn't noticed the Save and Load before--perfect! (I will say there is sometimes a disconnect between View / List Focus Group and Edit Focus Group in the Help file vs. in the windows.) I still have one question, though, because I think it's true but I didn't see it in the Help description. If I have a Focus Group defined with the Add an Individual and Ancestors, when I add a new Individual to my database that is a new ancestor for the person at the root of my Focus Group, will that new Individual (ancestor) automatically be part of the Focus Group when I use it to report or export? I think the answer is yes, because I remember now thinking this is so much better than tagging all my daughter's direct line
Re: [LegacyUG] List of individuals with Ohio connections
Rebecca, It is pretty easy. 1) Clear tag1 2) Master Locations List, sort as needed, highlight all desired locations (hold Control key while clicking) 3) Click OptionsShow List then wait until the list of All Individuals who use this location is displayed 4) Click Tag Everyone in List with Individual Tag set to 1 then Close and Close Master Locations 5) SearchFindDetailed Search for Individual Tag1 Equal to Tagged then click Create List 6) Click Print and change List Report Options as desired 7) Click CSV file then click Create to export the data for Excel import 8) Exit Legacy, invoke Excel, import the CSV file or instead of steps 7 and 8 you can Preview the report and Print it from Legacy Ron Taylor On Friday, August 29, 2014 4:32 PM, Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@live.com wrote: I go to the Ohio Archives nearly every month. I would like to make a list of the people in my database who connected with Ohio at any time. Is there any way to do that? I’ve been hunting around in the reports and tried an advanced search, but to no avail. Help? Rebecca Sent from Windows Mail 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] Picture Centre
The only thing I'm aware of in Picture Center is that a PDF file with a picture in it can't be linked. Any PDF file is considered a document and has to be linked as such even if it only contains a picture. This should be fixed but is a limitation in current version. On Saturday, August 9, 2014 3:50 PM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A while back, I asked about those indicators, and I seem to remember support saying they don't operate correctly for images linked to source citations. I don't remember if they said it was a bug or if they told me I shouldn't try to draw any conclusions. ;) --Paula From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:11 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Picture Centre Although it doesn't seem to be documented in the Help files, looking in the Picture Centre at a list of images in a Source Images folder, one sees a - in the U column against each one which is attached to a Source and a blank if an image is not attached. Going through each of my Census Image folders today in order to remove some images that were unattached when the people concerned were deleted I noticed 1 image in each of 2 folders which had a + next them! It turned out to be the Census entries in 1901 and 1911 for the same family, but I cannot see anything out of the ordinary in the way I have used these images or the Sources to which they are attached I've never seen this before and over the years I've used the Picture Census scores of times to look at images in 35 Census Image folders - hundreds of images! Can anyone explain? -- Jenny M Benson 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] Index View Back up Prompt
This topic apparently has hit a sensitive nerve. As a help desk person (not for Millennia), I must answer questions often. The first thing is always, Have you searched the help files?. If they have not searched or don't know how to search, we urge that as the first action and when needed we instruct on how to use the help file. Second, if they have searched help and not found what they needed, we try to show them where the help file is that they need. Third, failing to find help even with assistance, we strive to provide a solution and then subsequently put that new solution into the help files. There is nothing wrong with asking for help and it is usually forthcoming on this user group. But the old saying, Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. seems appropriate here. The more users that learn how to use help, the fewer times the same question will need to be answered. There actually is a good reason why the help files were compiled and posted. We could properly point many of the inquiries to a help file that shows methods for using the help file and encourage frequent reviews of it as necessary. The typical response from a newbie is There's a help file?. Ron Taylor On Saturday, August 23, 2014 11:58 AM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: The printed manual isn't as comprehensive as the Help file in Legacy. We also have a lot of into in our Knowledge Base at Support.LegacyFamilyTree.com (you link to that when you go to the Help Center on our main website www.LegacyFamilyTree.com) The printed manual is pretty much limited to a size that's not going to cost everyone an arm and a leg! If you've noticed many times it refers you to the Help file in Legacy. The Help file is frequently updated as needed. It's always my first go-to. An engineering computer-geek friend of mine said that the Legacy Help file is the best he's ever seen. He appreciates the detail and ease of use. If you have any suggestions to make on how a Help topic could be better written or the file could be better indexed, *please* send in a Suggestion Form from our website using your browser or through the Make a Suggestion link in the Support section of the Legacy Home tab (same form, just different ways of accessing the website0 Please keep it to one suggestion per form though As for newbies we have a Training Video on our website under Training View Training Videos (or by clicking on Watch Training Videos in the Support section of the Legacy Home tab), plus a tutorial in the Help file (click on Help and you'll find the tutorial in the right pane), not to mention several excellent training CDs and many Legacy focused Webinars And you might look for a Legacy User Group in your area - the list in on the website under Help Center User Groups. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Dan danh...@comcast.net wrote: I feel compelled to respond to this thread. I find suggestions that one use help – the manual, etc. before posting a question to this site, not, helpful, especially when they are couched in terms suggesting the individual is somehow “plugging up” the list. I am new to Legacy ( a former TMG user) and personally find the help index as well as the on line manual pretty unsatisfactory, as was the manuals for TMG. Personally I think the manual should be rewritten so that even a novice genalogist (for instance, one who doesn’t know what a source is) can navigate the program. 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] Maintaining Sequence of Twins/Triplets
If all the children connected to a marriage have birthdates, then the children sort could easily be done by birthdate, sibling order, given name. If the children have been manually ordered, the children should stay in the set order. If the order has not been set, then child sort would be like it is in the current version (as if order = 0 for all siblings). This SQL illustrates this sort for children of a specific MRIN where all children have a birthdate. The WHERE clause specifies the MRIN of the parents to use. SELECT tblCR.IDIR, tblIR.BirthSD, tblCR.Order, tblCS.ChildStatus, tblIR.GivenName, tblIR.Surname, tblCR.IDMR, tblMR.HusbGivenName, tblMR.HusbMarrSurname, tblMR.WifeGivenName, tblMR.WifeSurname FROM ((tblCR INNER JOIN tblIR ON tblCR.IDIR = tblIR.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblMR ON tblCR.IDMR = tblMR.IDMR) INNER JOIN tblCS ON tblCR.IDCS = tblCS.IDCS WHERE (((tblCR.IDMR)=1)) ORDER BY tblIR.BirthSD, tblCR.Order, tblIR.GivenName; If any child does not have a birthdate in the database, then the children should be sorted by order, given name or the children with birthdates could be displayed in date order followed by the children without birthdates. They would need to be manually ordered or the birthdates could be set to Abt dates so that a later sort will order them. When the sort children by birthdate, order, given name or just by order, given name is complete, the order numbers can be re-assigned. The same logic would apply in the new tool for sorting all children in the database or a single family in Children Settings. On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 7:25 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sherry, I suspect that you're not a twin nor a sister to a twin. I think your usually relates to people who are not closely connected to twins. I have older twin sisters born only half an hour apart. I've always known who the eldest one is - and the order is not the alpha order. There are also a number of sets of twins amongst my cousins - and again I know which one is the eldest in most cases. Fortunately I don't global sort very often - probably never again as I don't import files these days. I don't know a way to stop them reverting to alpha order on a global sort. Cathy Sherry/Support wrote: Is it that critical that the first-born twin be listed first? Usually people only consider the date, not the time. You could make an Event showing which twin was born first and include the time of birth or put it in their Birth Notes. It looks like the twins sort in alpha order as a sub-sort. I have several sets in my line and when I sort, they're always i n that order. We do have a suggestion listed to be able to include time with the date but I don't know if this is something the programmers will be able to implement or not. Honestly, this is such a rare request You're the second person on the suggestion list. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:18 AM, MikeFry ​​ emjay...@gmail.com mailto:emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 Aug 2014 15:30, Sherry/Support wrote: You can manually sort the children in the Edit Children window (right click on a child and select Children's Settings. Yes! But if the file ever gets sorted again, the sequence gets messed up. -- Regards, Mike Fry (Jhb) --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestral File Number on reports
Look at customize 8.2 On Friday, August 8, 2014 1:20 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: I have created a descendant narrative report. With some individuals, immediately after giving the name, birth and death info and before the General notes, an ancestral file number appears: e.g. Ancestral File Number: 39RD-LT. I know that some years ago, perhaps when I was using PAF, I had such a term. But the term is now meaningless to me and I want to remove all of them. But for the life of me, I cannot find that information in my file! It's not with alternate names or bdi info or events or notes or marriage info. So where is it so that I can get rid of it!!?? As always, help is greatly appreciated! Thanks! Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Family Search losing links
Paul, I reported this problem at version 427. It was supposed to be fixed in 439. Upgrade and try it again. Anyone else have experience with this sequence? On Thursday, August 7, 2014 9:39 AM, Paul Gray graypa...@outlook.com wrote: Thanks, Sherry. Updated to 439 and things seem to be working again. I did have to relink the individuals whose links were erased. Paul Gray From:Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: August-07-14 9:16 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Family Search losing links You must update to the latest build 8.0.0.439. FamilySearch changed their site (again!) and previous versions won't work with it now. 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] 7.5 files corrupted in 8.0
Best advice given by Bob Austen. Run check/repair on your 7.5 file and be sure all errors are repaired before moving forward. Then check a few of the key families that you thought were corrupted at version 8. If they are corrupted in 7.5, upgrading to version 8 won't fix that kind of problem. Last, if the 7.5 file is clean, open it in version 8 and have it copied and converted to version 8 leaving the 7.5 file where it is. Check out the newly converted file, especially the key families that you checked in 7.5. Run a check/repair in version 8. Should be good-to-go now. I have not had any 7.5 databases corrupted by the upgrade. My main file is 253,000 individuals and is working great. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 12:33 PM, Don Hendershot donald.henders...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like you most likely opened the wrong file. Double check your file names and dates. ~DonH On Aug 5, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Evert van Dijken evert...@gmail.com wrote: I opened my 7.5 family file (fdb) in version 8 (37000 + individuals) and didn't see any problems. I also restored a backup of this 7.5 family in version 8 and again I didn't see any problems. Of course I couldn't look at all individuals but I did check some direct family lines. Could your 7.5 family file be corrupt before you opened this file in version 8? Evert 2014-08-05 18:12 GMT+02:00 familyhistoryl...@comcast.net: I have been busy completing a 1970-page book using Legacy 7.5 and only yesterday was able to begin working in 8.0 I opened one of my well-reviewed family lines in 8.0 only to find that it is corrupted. Is this a known problem or has it been fixed? It appears that I have the latest build of 8.0.0.439. So far I found that someone born in the 1900s was moved to be a child of the original immigrant in the 1700s. After doing a check/repair, it says that I have marriages messed up with husbands and wives swapping places with each other in some cases. Sometimes brothers and sisters are listed as married persons. In at least one of those cases, the child died in infancy and never married. Does anyone know what is going on and how I can fix this without great upheaval of 1000s of names? I don't know how I am to trust any of the information in that file at all now. I have begun making some changes until I realized what was happening. I'm trying to get updates in the computer and don't want to work with corrupted files. Also we have the reunion this weekend where I want to promote Legacy. I cannot in good conscience promote something with so many problems. God bless, Ellen 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] Access Database in Legacy
Here's a couple more SQL that you may find useful. I don't like to have Biological as a Relationship-to-Parent-Status so I change them to blank. Both of these scripts should work in Ltools or remove the script title and run them in Access. Tweak them for other combinations. They illustrate how the tables are connected. Change Father Relationship to Blank,UPDATE tblCR INNER JOIN tblCP ON tblCR.IDCPDad = tblCP.IDCP SET tblCR.IDCPDad = 1 WHERE tblCP.CPRelation='Biological' Change Mother Relationship to Blank,UPDATE tblCR INNER JOIN tblCP ON tblCR.IDCPMom = tblCP.IDCP SET tblCR.IDCPMom = 1 WHERE tblCP.CPRelation='Biological' Ron Taylor On Sunday, August 3, 2014 8:56 PM, Ken Neundorf kwn...@gmail.com wrote: The highlighted is what I need to do. Thanks for all the help From:Jay 1FamilyTree [mailto:1familytree@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 10:44 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Access Database in Legacy ok, well its a bit confusing here. You first mention that you want to change the Private to Biological or Blank But then you say its the Father Relationship and Mother Relationship that are marked as Private. These are not the same things. When you look at the childrens settings (right click in the area where the children are listed under the parents in a Family View screen) That opens the childrens settings screen Each Child can have a different Child Status This field is what you could change to Blank or Biological if they are all set to Private. You dont need access to do that First as always make a backup (and even better make a copy to test on first) Go to VIEWMaster Lists Child Status. Than COMBINE your Private with a one of the other available (or blank) This will GLOBALLY change all persons. If when looking at the childrens settings the boxes next to Relationship to Father or Relationship to mother are checked (flagged) as Private, then you would need to use a SQL query to change them UPDATE tblCR SET tblCR.CPDadPrivate = 0 WHERE tblCR.CPDadPrivate = 1 Then the same for the mother UPDATE tblCR SET tblCR.CPMomPrivate = 0 WHERE tblCR.CPMomPrivate = 1 But again, this will change ALL persons. If when Looking at the childrens settings and the drop down list contains Private then you can change those the same way as Child Status VIEW Master Lists Child Parent Relationship then combine or edit your available types. Hope that helps Jay On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Ken Neundorf kwn...@gmail.com wrote: There are 68,000 records that need changed. That I am not sure. From:Jay 1FamilyTree [mailto:1familytree@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 8:01 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Access Database in Legacy And are you able to segregate the records you want to change somehow? Like maybe Tagging them with a specific tag? (So that when you go to update, you only change those specific records) On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Ken Neundorf kwn...@gmail.com wrote: It is the Father and Mother relationship From:Jay 1FamilyTree [mailto:1familytree@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014 7:44 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Access Database in Legacy Ken, Also forgot to ask Is it just the 'main' Parent Child' relationship is Private ? or does each of Father Relationship and Mother Relationship marked as Private (You can have the main relationship show as anything, and then each parent relationship different like Mother Relationship = Biological and Father Relationship = Step and have that flagged as private) On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ken Neundorf kwn...@gmail.com wrote: HI, The legacy tech people told me to write to the email list and see if anyone can help me. I am in the process of cleaning up and matching two very large files so I can combine. The file that I am cleaning up has 68,000 parent child relationships marked as private. I would like to change to either biological or blank to match the file I will be importing into. Is there a way through the access database for doing this as a global change. I have a little knowledge of access but need help finding the right tables to use and what changes need made. Thanks for any help. Ken Neundorf Washington, PA kwn...@gmail.com This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. 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
Re: [LegacyUG] How to compare existing place location Long/Lat with external data
I think the spreadsheet comparison would be a great idea. Some variance in the latitude/longitude could be allowed and then see what shakes out as locations not matched followed by some fine tuning as needed. If you decide to do this, let me know. I may be able to help. Perhaps we might end up with a first draft of the known-to-be-correct locations table and then formulate methods for proving each entry based on the number of users that claim a location is correctly geo-coded. Ron Taylor On Saturday, August 2, 2014 6:53 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: OK, here is another question on how to handle the Lat/Long of Locations stored in Legacy. I regularly export my Legacy data in a gedcom to be imported into another software program, TNG , which is used to display my information online. I have a large number of locations that I have fine tuned their Geo-coded Long/Lat online in TNG. I can export the place name and the long/lat data from the online TNG into a spreadsheet. What would be the best way to compare that with what is stored in Legacy? I could probably use LTools and create a csv export (of the Legacy data) which then could be converted into a spreadsheet. Just wondering if anyone out there has gone down this road. Thanks in advance for any help with this. Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] pictures
You could put all the pictures in one folder or put them in any structure of folders and sub-folders you wish. Then run the Relinker. If the actual file names have not changed, the Relinker should be able to find them and fix the link to them. Once you have all media relinked, then you can backup the data and media. Delete the media folders if you don't need the pictures for anything else. Then unzip the backup media file to the C:\ and it will lay down the folders and files as they were at the time of the backup. Only the linked files will be in the backup. So, if you had 10,000 picture files that you copied from the Mac to the PC and only 5,000 of them were linked to the Reunions file, you should only have 5,000 on the PC when you finish with the Relinker, Backup, Delete, and restore. Ron Taylor On Friday, August 1, 2014 7:54 PM, Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com wrote: Ron, thanks for the informed answer. It makes a little more sense now. You are saying I can create a folder, I am assuming in Legacy, in which to place all of my media and Legacy will recognize and locate it at the appropriate time. Should I place all of the media I have previously linked in there, transferring from their location to the new one? Will I have to relink again after doing so? Thanks again for your response. Donna From:Ron Taylor [mailto:doit4...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 7:37 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pictures Donna, You may have been linking to media files that were inside a zipped file which is a special kind of folder. That method was addressed recently by some users on this group and it helped to resolve several problems. The conclusion was to not do that. Always link to media that is not in a compressed folder. Other than that, you can place your media files just about anywhere you wish, link to them, and be happy. I like to put my media files in a root level folder because I collaborate with several other researchers. Some of those researchers still use Windows XP while others use Vista, Windows7, and Windows8. With a root level folder like C:\Collaborator1 it is easy for collaborator 1 to put whatever media they want in that folder and not be concerned with other collaborators messing with their collection. Collaborator2 likewise has their own collection folder and so forth. The collaborators can make any sub-folders they need under their root level folder. The Legacy backup of media only puts the media files into the backup for the database being backed up. The only precaution with this method is to not use the Gather Media routine as it will move all the media to some other location regardless of the various collaborators who collected it and kept it separately. The Gather routine probably does work for a single researcher that does not collaborate. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:12 PM, Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to save a picture of a census record to Legacy 8. In Legacy 7 my folder on the drive I used looked like this: 1 Legacy 12/29/2012 3:57 PM File folder 1 Irwin 2014-07-08 1,48.48 PM 7/8/2014 1:48 PM Compressed (zipped) Folder I could click on Legacy and it would open to: 1 Pictures 12/29/2012 3:55 PM File folder Which I then could click and it would open to smaller folders and pictures that I had stored for my data base. In Legacy 8 I am unable to do that. There is no Legacy folder, only the name folders and media folders. There is one labeled with a circle and an L in the middle with 11,448 KB in it, plus an Microsoft Assess Record-Locking Information icon with 0 KB in it. I would before save the picture to my computer, then copy it to the folder with Pictures and from there go to the Picture Center and find the picture in the Browse slot. Now I cannot find where to put the picture to load it into Legacy. I would like someone to help me out. Donna in Ardmore 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
Re: [LegacyUG] SQL Queries Library
Simple place to start would be a Google shared folder. Each file in the folder should be descriptively named and there should be one Index file in the folder also that could list all the files and include a short summary of how the routine is used and maybe a little about why it was developed. I have quite a few scripts that I am willing to share also. They can all be loaded into Ltools and run from it. Handy if someone does not have their own copy of Microsoft Access or is unfamiliar with some of the other free database tools like LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Ron Taylor On Friday, August 1, 2014 7:18 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Larry and all, I would be willing to help start the files, but the actual local master and primary admin rights should probably be somewhere more centrally located, like an Legacy Wiki page, If they have such a thing. Millenia isn' t very current on things like that. If anyone has a good suggestion as to where to place the content, let me know. In the meantime I will gather my own little list of often useful SQL Queries. Thanks Jay . On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Larry LTools has a wide selection of SQL routines. Ron Ferguson Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Larry Lee ldlee...@gmail.com wrote: I renamed this to SQL Queries Library. I know what SQL Queries are but I do not know how they are used with Legacy and if they would have much demand. Is this something that is appropriate for only advanced users? Jay, if you feel this would be useful maybe you could maintain an online library for these as I doubt Millennia would officially sanction support them. Larry On Jul 16, 2014 2:24 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Ron, Not sure why your emails keep ending up in my spam folder.. Anyway, there is a reason, Many years ago I had Dennis at LTools create a process to automatically add spouses and parents to my database. (see the Create spouses option in LTools) That worked fine, but as the years have gone by, I realized that the process was a bit too much. I should have limited it to specific descendant lines and not the entire database. So, I have these parents out there, most all are UnknownM (Surname) + UnknownF Unknown that are not really needed, as maybe they are the parents of an aunt or cousin. I want to 'trim' those from the database. But, some of the parents have a second child married into the database, in which case I want to keep them (in order to preserve the relationships) Hence, the search for parents with only one child. Your code worked well and provides a list from which I can use to review and delete the couple if appropriate. Which just helps to keep my database relevant and compact. I really wish Legacy would have a central page where the various SQL queries could be posted for all to share and use. Thanks for your help!! Jay On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: Jay, I'm wondering what prompted you to search for this combination. What are you trying to solve? Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 8:33 AM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: This one could be fun. 1) Clear tag1 2) use LegacySearchFindMiscellaneousLinked individuals with no parents then click Clear List before this search and click Create List. When then search results list is displayed, click OptionsAdvanced TaggingTag and make changes to tag1. Click Everyone in Search List. Now all individuals without parents have tag1. 3) Create and save the following query which will be used in step4. Name it qtblMR_parents_eol SELECT DISTINCT tblCR.IDMR FROM ((tblCR INNER JOIN tblMR ON tblCR.IDMR=tblMR.IDMR) INNER JOIN tblIR ON tblMR.IDIRHusb=tblIR.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblIR AS tblIR_1 ON tblMR.IDIRWife=tblIR_1.IDIR WHERE (((tblCR.IDMR)0) AND ((tblIR.Tag1)0) AND ((tblIR_1.Tag1)0) AND ((tblMR.IDIRHusb)0) AND ((tblMR.IDIRWife)0)); 4) Run this query to find the marriage records to answer your question. SELECT tblCR.IDMR, Count(tblCR.IDIR) AS Children FROM qtblMR_parents_eol INNER JOIN tblCR ON qtblMR_parents_eol.IDMR = tblCR.IDMR GROUP BY tblCR.IDMR HAVING (((Count(tblCR.IDIR))=1)) ORDER BY tblCR.IDMR; Let me know if this is what you needed. Note you could tweak the Having number of children as desired. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 8:33 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: I would like to create a report of all parents that only have one child AND the parents have no father or mother in my database. If any great sql coders could help me out, that would be great. Thanks Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail
Re: [LegacyUG] Children
Submitted...hope it gets implemented. On Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:40 PM, Larry Lee ldlee...@gmail.com wrote: Ron, I like the idea and think you should submit it. The only addition I would like to see is to have a related field for Surety since the number is only as reliable as the source as is all data in the file. Larry On Jul 30, 2014 6:46 AM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: This is an area that has not been programmed into Legacy (yet). It would be nice if the marriage record had a numberic field to record how many children were from the union. It could default to -1 to indicate that the value was never set. If the number of children is not -1, then the computer could tally the actual number in the database and compare it with the expected count to produce a Potential Problem alert. A zero should coincide with This couple had no children being checked. A census shows that there were 7 children with 4 living but the database only has 3...alert, 4 children are probably missing. An obituary shows 5 children but 6 are in the database...alert, more children recorded than source indicates. Many other combinations could be detected but the obvious one is the situation described by Brett in this thread. If the Legacy user does not want to use the feature, it would just be left at the default and bypassed by reports and exports. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 6:31 AM, Jess jrkmorg...@gmail.com wrote: I list them as Morgan Child 1 of 6, 2 of 6, etc. If there are multiple marriages or parent groups (ie divorce, etc) I put Morgan Xx Child 1 of 6. Where XX is the parent that would be most uncertain to someone else. Example: Ambrose Morgan had 6 children. 2 by Mary 3 by Jane 1 by Sarah I list them under Ambrose and proper mother group, and they show up as: Mary's Child 1 of 2 of 6 Mary's Child 2 of 2 of 6 Jane's Child 1 of 3 of 6 If I know sex or any other identifiers I put that too. I have one family that has two sets of stillborn infants. They are listed as Twin Set 1 of 2 Child 1 Twin Set 1 of 2 Child 2 Jessica Morgan On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:40 AM, blrrcn blr...@optonline.net wrote: I have several families where I know there were other children but don't have a name as they died young or I just don't know the name. Depending on the circumstances: If i know the sex, I list them as Son, daughter (last name) or just Child (last name) if I don't know the sex. If there's several children I would name them 3 children. I would also include estimated B D dates. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Brett McL Robinson Date:07/30/2014 5:07 AM (GMT-05:00) To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Children I have been adding family details and have several families where my source (a descendant of one of the families) has merely noted the number of children, with no names. I am tempted to ignore the number, but realise that it would be useful to note it with the family to help as a check in the future. Is there any way to add a number to the family records that will show up in the children display? I tried adding an unknown gender child named Given: 4 children (Colin+Karen) (for example), and wonder if anyone has tried this or something like it and can report on its success or limitations. This child would be over-written when the last child was added. -- Cheers, Brett B McL Robinson Tel +64 7 856 6582, 0277 500 714, fax +64 7 856 6582, Skype AB1252 PO Box 1252, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Geo_code places How to review large numbers for correct placement
Jay, It looks like you're on the same highway that I've been down. When you report the location from the Master Locations List, include the L column letter so we can tell where the geo-code may have originated. An L means it came from the Geo-Database. A V means it came from the Virtual Earth maps (now called Bing maps). The ? means that Bing maps could not resolve it when it was queried. The blank is supposed to mean that the location has not been looked up in any geo-code table yet. The minus sign means the user told Legacy not to geo-code the location. Then the adventure begins. You would assume that if a location were resolved by a geo-code lookup that it would be the actual location. As you pointed out, that is not always the case. I too have found locations with Bing maps that were in the middle of a lake or out in the ocean. Some locations that were resolved were on another continent. One bug that persists in Legacy is the over-ride that happens when a location that has already been geo-coded by the geo-database is looked up in Bing maps. The L is simply replaced by the V without any interaction with the user. And if a location with V is looked up in the geo-database, the V is not changed to L. If more geo-code tables are introduced, this behavior must be corrected. The second thing that really needs to be done is a way to get the geo-code tables corrected when they are known to be wrong. The geo-database appears to have this capability but I can't remember when it has ever been used and the current version has removed reference to the update possibility. Bing maps are accessed through the internet and I don't know if any protocol exists for updating them. A final bug that probably will never be fixed is the display of the stick pin on a location. If you were to use your own map and stick pins, you would logically push the pin into the map with the point of the pin to indicate the location. Look at where the point of the stick pin is compared to where the location is on the Legacy maps. It does not matter how much you zoom. The point is not pointing to the location. With all of that, there is only one tag field in the Master Locations table. It can be used for some advantage but tools are lacking. When combining files, it is a good idea to set all the location tags for the master file, clear the tags for the import file, then after finishing your merge, you can check out the remaining un-tagged locations to see if any of them could be geo-coded or otherwise corrected. Then with some editing, they might merge with some of the tagged locations. It would be nice if Legacy could highlight the un-tagged locations so they would stand out when viewing the list. As far as geo-coding in bulk, that would be a dream. But it would be interesting if a Master Locations table could be verified against a known to be accurate geo-code table and set the tags or verified flags based on exact matches. Then again have some highlighting tools to show those that did not match at all or were close but not exact. Read elsewhere what I've described about time sensitive location names. It can be done but not in the current version. And that leaves the location modifiers that need attention too. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 31, 2014 5:23 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone found a way to review large numbers of Place Location Geo-Coded placement without having to do one location at a time? I have almost 10,000 places and I am constantly finding Geo -Code errors. For example I have two locations in my list Alban, South Dakota 44.436138167 -100.23049167 Alban, Grant, South Dakota 44.618770556 -89.284523056 Yes, these should be merged, but they make a great example here Legacy Geo-coded the them as listed above. The first one, Alban, South Dakota points to center of the state and has the same coordinates that is used by the state generic South Dakota 44.436141667 -100.23045111 In other words the geo coding did not find the correct place except to place the pin at the center of the state, which would be OK IF there was some disclaimer or notation somewhere. The second one is geo-coded to Alban, Portage County, WISCONSIN Why, is Geo coding setting wrong places?? (According to Google the coordinates for Alban, South Dakota are 45.1952395,-96.546404) With no tool to at least review the places in some sort of batch (like maybe 25 places on a page each with a small map of the geo-coded place. At least then I might have picked up that one of these was pointing to wisconsin and not South Dakota. One at a time review is just not a viable option. Anyone have any workable solutions? Thanks in advance for any help. Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after
Re: [LegacyUG] Geo_code places How to review large numbers for correct placement
Sorry...I forgot one point. There should be a date in the location record to indicate when the geo-code was set for that location. That way, a current location set today can easily be re-evaluated in 10 years as an old location that needs to be re-verified. On , Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: Jay, It looks like you're on the same highway that I've been down. When you report the location from the Master Locations List, include the L column letter so we can tell where the geo-code may have originated. An L means it came from the Geo-Database. A V means it came from the Virtual Earth maps (now called Bing maps). The ? means that Bing maps could not resolve it when it was queried. The blank is supposed to mean that the location has not been looked up in any geo-code table yet. The minus sign means the user told Legacy not to geo-code the location. Then the adventure begins. You would assume that if a location were resolved by a geo-code lookup that it would be the actual location. As you pointed out, that is not always the case. I too have found locations with Bing maps that were in the middle of a lake or out in the ocean. Some locations that were resolved were on another continent. One bug that persists in Legacy is the over-ride that happens when a location that has already been geo-coded by the geo-database is looked up in Bing maps. The L is simply replaced by the V without any interaction with the user. And if a location with V is looked up in the geo-database, the V is not changed to L. If more geo-code tables are introduced, this behavior must be corrected. The second thing that really needs to be done is a way to get the geo-code tables corrected when they are known to be wrong. The geo-database appears to have this capability but I can't remember when it has ever been used and the current version has removed reference to the update possibility. Bing maps are accessed through the internet and I don't know if any protocol exists for updating them. A final bug that probably will never be fixed is the display of the stick pin on a location. If you were to use your own map and stick pins, you would logically push the pin into the map with the point of the pin to indicate the location. Look at where the point of the stick pin is compared to where the location is on the Legacy maps. It does not matter how much you zoom. The point is not pointing to the location. With all of that, there is only one tag field in the Master Locations table. It can be used for some advantage but tools are lacking. When combining files, it is a good idea to set all the location tags for the master file, clear the tags for the import file, then after finishing your merge, you can check out the remaining un-tagged locations to see if any of them could be geo-coded or otherwise corrected. Then with some editing, they might merge with some of the tagged locations. It would be nice if Legacy could highlight the un-tagged locations so they would stand out when viewing the list. As far as geo-coding in bulk, that would be a dream. But it would be interesting if a Master Locations table could be verified against a known to be accurate geo-code table and set the tags or verified flags based on exact matches. Then again have some highlighting tools to show those that did not match at all or were close but not exact. Read elsewhere what I've described about time sensitive location names. It can be done but not in the current version. And that leaves the location modifiers that need attention too. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 31, 2014 5:23 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone found a way to review large numbers of Place Location Geo-Coded placement without having to do one location at a time? I have almost 10,000 places and I am constantly finding Geo -Code errors. For example I have two locations in my list Alban, South Dakota 44.436138167 -100.23049167 Alban, Grant, South Dakota 44.618770556 -89.284523056 Yes, these should be merged, but they make a great example here Legacy Geo-coded the them as listed above. The first one, Alban, South Dakota points to center of the state and has the same coordinates that is used by the state generic South Dakota 44.436141667 -100.23045111 In other words the geo coding did not find the correct place except to place the pin at the center of the state, which would be OK IF there was some disclaimer or notation somewhere. The second one is geo-coded to Alban, Portage County, WISCONSIN Why, is Geo coding setting wrong places?? (According to Google the coordinates for Alban, South Dakota are 45.1952395,-96.546404) With no tool to at least review the places in some sort of batch (like maybe 25 places on a page each with a small map of the geo-coded place. At least then I might have
Re: [LegacyUG] pictures
Donna, You may have been linking to media files that were inside a zipped file which is a special kind of folder. That method was addressed recently by some users on this group and it helped to resolve several problems. The conclusion was to not do that. Always link to media that is not in a compressed folder. Other than that, you can place your media files just about anywhere you wish, link to them, and be happy. I like to put my media files in a root level folder because I collaborate with several other researchers. Some of those researchers still use Windows XP while others use Vista, Windows7, and Windows8. With a root level folder like C:\Collaborator1 it is easy for collaborator 1 to put whatever media they want in that folder and not be concerned with other collaborators messing with their collection. Collaborator2 likewise has their own collection folder and so forth. The collaborators can make any sub-folders they need under their root level folder. The Legacy backup of media only puts the media files into the backup for the database being backed up. The only precaution with this method is to not use the Gather Media routine as it will move all the media to some other location regardless of the various collaborators who collected it and kept it separately. The Gather routine probably does work for a single researcher that does not collaborate. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:12 PM, Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to save a picture of a census record to Legacy 8. In Legacy 7 my folder on the drive I used looked like this: 1 Legacy 12/29/2012 3:57 PM File folder 1 Irwin 2014-07-08 1,48.48 PM 7/8/2014 1:48 PM Compressed (zipped) Folder I could click on Legacy and it would open to: 1 Pictures 12/29/2012 3:55 PM File folder Which I then could click and it would open to smaller folders and pictures that I had stored for my data base. In Legacy 8 I am unable to do that. There is no Legacy folder, only the name folders and media folders. There is one labeled with a circle and an L in the middle with 11,448 KB in it, plus an Microsoft Assess Record-Locking Information icon with 0 KB in it. I would before save the picture to my computer, then copy it to the folder with Pictures and from there go to the Picture Center and find the picture in the Browse slot. Now I cannot find where to put the picture to load it into Legacy. I would like someone to help me out. Donna in Ardmore 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] Update Problem
Tom, I just re-read your message about how you back up using a separate programme. You should use the built-in backup of Legacy which will produce 2 zip files...one for the data structures and one for linked media files. Then you can use your separate program to store those backups elsewhere if you wish. The important thing that you will miss is the ability to Restore a Legacy backup data zip file. The zip file contains more than the fdb file. The Legacy backup gathers all the various pieces of a given database into the data zip file and the zip technology compresses that to make it smaller. A zipped file will not open unless it is intact so a corrupted zip file won't work. That gives some degree of integrity to the zip file. The media zip backup is un-zipped by regular Windows utilities. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:39 AM, Tom Hampton hampton2...@dodo.com.au wrote: Thanks very much Ron, I’ll give it a go. From:Ron Taylor [mailto:doit4...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2014 11:49 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Update Problem Tom, Several people have reported a possible problem with their file after an update. The common recommendation is to download the full standard free version and install it over the previous program. If you have deluxe, the installer will find your license and authorize it again. Then Restore your most recent backup. Hope that works for you. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:14 AM, Tom Hampton hampton2...@dodo.com.au wrote: Hi Ron, Not really sure, but I only bought it about a month ago so it should be the latest version. I back up using a separate programme and onto a separate drive completely. Thanks From:Ron Taylor [mailto:doit4...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2014 9:03 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Update Problem What version was used to make your most recent backup of your Legacy database? On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:11 PM, Tom Hampton hampton2...@dodo.com.au wrote: Hello, I have Legacy 8 Deluxe and have just downloaded the latest update. It caused my computer to crash and now I cannot open Legacy at all. It says it is an “unrecognised database format”. Any ideas on how to fix this please? Thanks. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4716 / Virus Database: 3986/7941 - Release Date: 07/29/14 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 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4716 / Virus Database: 3986/7946 - Release Date: 07/30/14 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4716 / Virus Database: 3986/7946 - Release Date: 07/30/14 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Geo_code places How to review large numbers for correct placement
This entry is in v7.5 and v8 Winchester, Winchester (City), Virginia, United States On Thursday, July 31, 2014 7:33 PM, BobsTree2-Gmail bobstr...@gmail.com wrote: A few questions as I ponder the options ... 1. If a tool could flag a certain variance from Google, would that help? 2. Why should Google be the standard, assumed correct? 3. How about a tool that got the Google value and over writes the Legacy value, or gives a choice to choose between them? Bob Hansen On Jul 31, 2014, at 19:22, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have any workable solutions? 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] Geo_code places How to review large numbers for correct placement
So, instead of every one of us trying to verify every location in our master location list...wouldn't it be a good idea if we had a known-to-be-correct locations table that might verify a majority of the entries in our individual files? Users like CE Wood could indicate that a location is good or bad and over time those locations with the most good votes should rise to the top and the ones with the most bad votes should drop. The ones left in the middle will need some serious arbitration. Zero votes means nobody is working on that location. Later, add the castles, churches, hospitals, cemeteries, etc. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:53 PM, CE WOOD wood...@msn.com wrote: I never use just one mapping source. With Google, one has the ability to move the arrow if it, for instance, is not precisely on the right spot, and give you the coordinates of the spot to which you moved the cursor. Bing, in Legacy, will do that too, but gives the coordinates in degrees, minutes, seconds. Unfortunately, the Legacy converter is not always accurate. Bing maps itself will not allow you to move the cursor and get the coordinates for the new pinpoint. Microsoft has told me they don't know why the difference between Legacy Bing maps and internet Bing maps. Check, check, recheck. Many sites, such as Find A Grave, require decimal coordinates, and the Legacy converter does not always convert correctly. I have double checked the Legacy converted decimal coordinates, and often found they did not put the cursor correctly. You can always overwrite whatever coordinates you already have found (the Legacy converter seems to be precise going from decimal to degrees, just not the other way, but be sure to save the original Legacy coordinates somewhere until you like how the map looks. Bottom line: if you really want the exact coordinates, you must double, triple, and sometimes quadruple check. When I view the map of a church, castle, etc., I want to see the church, castle, etc. or its ruins. For a town, I am more sanguine. CE From: bobstr...@gmail.com To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geo_code places How to review large numbers for correct placement Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:32:43 -0400 A few questions as I ponder the options ... 1. If a tool could flag a certain variance from Google, would that help? 2. Why should Google be the standard, assumed correct? 3. How about a tool that got the Google value and over writes the Legacy value, or gives a choice to choose between them? Bob Hansen On Jul 31, 2014, at 19:22, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have any workable solutions? 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] Prepositions for locations- Family View and Family Group Records ?
John, If you add the modifiers to the Master Location List and link your individual records to those modified locations, they should show in the reports and elsewhere. Look at the examples I gave of Salt Lake City. Those are actual entries in my Master Locations List. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:30 AM, johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: It seems that adding prepositions or modifiers at the end of locations and adding them as new entries to the Master Location List is the best I can do for my database purposes, at least for now. I eventually want to include a number of Family Group Records as ‘Family Story’ chapters in a book. I will have to convert them to a word document, and then add the prepositions or modifiers before publishing it. From: Ron Taylor Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:22 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Prepositions for locations- Family View and Family Group Records ? There is a field in the tblLR (Master Locations Table) called Preposition which can be set and used in reports as you described. There is also a file C:\...Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\Misc\Preposition_English.lst which is used by the Master Locations List to sort locations. It does it by removing the words in that file from the location, putting it on the end of the location name, then sorting the list so that all locations that are the same will display next to each other and the preposition tacked onto the end. That is helpful. Some of the entries in that list are not actually prepositions. In fact, some of the entries are multiple words. I think a better term for them would be location modifiers instead of prepositions. What would be great but would require some extensive re-writing would be to have an actual database table of location modifiers. That table could come into play as a pull down list (similar to Child Status, Event Type, Surname List, etc.) where you can select the location modifier to be applied to a specific location field. That would mean that a location modifier key field be inserted into every table where a link to the tblLR is used. The preposition field that is in tblLR would only be used for reports when the location modifier is blank. The main effect that a location modifier table would have is eliminating multiple instances of the same location name as the current method allows. Here is an example of a location in the current Master Location List that has multiple entries because of prepositions: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, from Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, near Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, probably Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah The above display is achieved by checking the two boxes at the bottom of Sort Location List called Remove common prepositions from locations and Remove leading bracket from bracketed locations and then executing the sort. Notice that the words found in the text file Preposition_English.lst were re-positioned to the end of the location before the sort. Likewise, the bracketed locations had the leading bracket removed before the sort but the trailing bracket was retained so it would display. In either case, you can click Edit to see the actual long or short location with the preposition words where they really are stored in the field. Also, note that I added probably to the Preposition_English.lst file (as well as a few other words) so that it would treated like other prepositions. If there was only one instance of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah in the Master Locations Table, as well as all other locations, then it would be much easier to manage and maintain. The only thing that would be needed then is a time sensitive lookup for location. Or even better, a conversion of any current location to its time sensitive name. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:32 AM, johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: Sometimes I know where ancestors lived but uncertain if they were born in that place. There is an option which allows you to change the location preposition from ‘in’ to something else but it only works for the book reports from the publishing centre. I could mention in the narrative that a person’s place of birth is not certain, but I would like to request suggestions from other Legacy users for a way use a preposition or some other way to easily show that a person was from or lived in a location, which was not necessarily their place of birth. I would like this for the Family View and Family Group Records. Do others find this a problem or am I too neurotic about accuracy or details? 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Children
This is an area that has not been programmed into Legacy (yet). It would be nice if the marriage record had a numberic field to record how many children were from the union. It could default to -1 to indicate that the value was never set. If the number of children is not -1, then the computer could tally the actual number in the database and compare it with the expected count to produce a Potential Problem alert. A zero should coincide with This couple had no children being checked. A census shows that there were 7 children with 4 living but the database only has 3...alert, 4 children are probably missing. An obituary shows 5 children but 6 are in the database...alert, more children recorded than source indicates. Many other combinations could be detected but the obvious one is the situation described by Brett in this thread. If the Legacy user does not want to use the feature, it would just be left at the default and bypassed by reports and exports. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 6:31 AM, Jess jrkmorg...@gmail.com wrote: I list them as Morgan Child 1 of 6, 2 of 6, etc. If there are multiple marriages or parent groups (ie divorce, etc) I put Morgan Xx Child 1 of 6. Where XX is the parent that would be most uncertain to someone else. Example: Ambrose Morgan had 6 children. 2 by Mary 3 by Jane 1 by Sarah I list them under Ambrose and proper mother group, and they show up as: Mary's Child 1 of 2 of 6 Mary's Child 2 of 2 of 6 Jane's Child 1 of 3 of 6 If I know sex or any other identifiers I put that too. I have one family that has two sets of stillborn infants. They are listed as Twin Set 1 of 2 Child 1 Twin Set 1 of 2 Child 2 Jessica Morgan On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:40 AM, blrrcn blr...@optonline.net wrote: I have several families where I know there were other children but don't have a name as they died young or I just don't know the name. Depending on the circumstances: If i know the sex, I list them as Son, daughter (last name) or just Child (last name) if I don't know the sex. If there's several children I would name them 3 children. I would also include estimated B D dates. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Brett McL Robinson Date:07/30/2014 5:07 AM (GMT-05:00) To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Children I have been adding family details and have several families where my source (a descendant of one of the families) has merely noted the number of children, with no names. I am tempted to ignore the number, but realise that it would be useful to note it with the family to help as a check in the future. Is there any way to add a number to the family records that will show up in the children display? I tried adding an unknown gender child named Given: 4 children (Colin+Karen) (for example), and wonder if anyone has tried this or something like it and can report on its success or limitations. This child would be over-written when the last child was added. -- Cheers, Brett B McL Robinson Tel +64 7 856 6582, 0277 500 714, fax +64 7 856 6582, Skype AB1252 PO Box 1252, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Update Problem
Tom, Several people have reported a possible problem with their file after an update. The common recommendation is to download the full standard free version and install it over the previous program. If you have deluxe, the installer will find your license and authorize it again. Then Restore your most recent backup. Hope that works for you. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:14 AM, Tom Hampton hampton2...@dodo.com.au wrote: Hi Ron, Not really sure, but I only bought it about a month ago so it should be the latest version. I back up using a separate programme and onto a separate drive completely. Thanks From:Ron Taylor [mailto:doit4...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2014 9:03 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Update Problem What version was used to make your most recent backup of your Legacy database? On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:11 PM, Tom Hampton hampton2...@dodo.com.au wrote: Hello, I have Legacy 8 Deluxe and have just downloaded the latest update. It caused my computer to crash and now I cannot open Legacy at all. It says it is an “unrecognised database format”. Any ideas on how to fix this please? Thanks. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4716 / Virus Database: 3986/7941 - Release Date: 07/29/14 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] Reunion to Mac
Marion, You can go back to Reunion if you wish. That would be like having a Ferrari in the garage and opt to drive the Yugo. Both might be fun but with different outcomes. If your media files are not excessively scattered on the Mac, then copy all of them to an external drive or USB stick and then put them on your Windows hard drive. Import the GEDCOM file, then run Relinker. I think you'll be surprised. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:12 AM, marion wimsett 2wi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Ron - sorry your email slipped into the spam box (despite the fact I have all LUG replies marked to be accepted!!!). It looks as though this could be a long and tiring exercise - I will study the link in detail next week. At this stage I have no idea where his photos and other attachments are so even if I can transfer over with a gedcom I shall have to find the various media files as well. I am beginning to wonder whether I may have to learn how to use the mac and Reunion! Thank you for your help. Marion On 28 July 2014 22:22, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: I have converted Reunion files before. This article gives a lot of information from an actual Reunions user. The conversion involves using a GEDCOM which is the only way to move the information to another program like Legacy. With that knowledge, you only need to realize that a GEDCOM does not contain pictures but may contain the path name to pictures if any are linked to the data. Likewise, the GEDCOM can contain types of data that need to be mapped to things in the target system. Same is true for any GEDCOM conversion. Easiest way to find out is to try it. Here's the URL for the article. http://www.leisterpro.com/doc/olderversions/Articles/gedcom-101.php Ron Taylor On Sunday, July 27, 2014 11:29 PM, marion wimsett 2wi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Bob - I had a feeling that was the case - have no experience with Reunion (or Macs for that matter!) so this will be interesting!!! Marion On 28 July 2014 13:04, Bob Austen rgaus...@telus.net wrote: Hi Marion, A gedcom is a text only file, so photos, as such, do not 'come with the gedcom'. There could be a pointer to the photo, if that is how Reunion handles the files. I have no experience with Reunion. Bob marion wimsett said the following on 27/07/2014 23:45: Thanks you Wendy, Do the photos come with the gedcom as well?? I have to transfer the whole of the file over not just the details. Marion On 27 July 2014 10:00, Wendy Howard wendy.how...@gmail.com mailto:wendy.how...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marion, I expect you will need to export a GEDCOM file from the Reunion database, and then import that file into Legacy (File Import). How you physically get the file from the Mac to the PC depends on what resources you have there. If you share a Dropbox folder with your husband, pop it into that and let it synchronise. Or copy it onto a stick (USB drive) and then copy it to the PC. Whatever method, don't delete the file from the Mac until you're sure you've got it on the PC, just to be safe. There may be more considerations in data formatting (there are various options to select from along the way, but I have no experience with Reunion to comment), that others can discuss with you from their experiences, so I will leave that for them to cover. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy marion wimsett said the following on 27/07/2014 13:29: We have two different trees - mine on Legacy and husband on his Mac on Reunion. I am now going to have to transfer his tree over to Legacy. It doesn't have to be linked to mine at the moment - I can do that later. My problem is how can I transfer everything from Reunion over to my computer (PC) to install on Legacy (especially considering I know nothing about Reunion). If anyone has any ideas or has gone through this I would appreciate any help whatsoever. Thanks, Marion 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Reunion to Mac
Marion, If you have room on your Windows computer to store all the Mac photos, do that. Once the photos that are linked to the database have been relinked, then backup the clean Legacy database and the linked media. Copy the zip backup files somewhere. Delete all the photos that you brought over from the Mac. Restore the Legacy database. Unzip the Legacy media backup. You should be done with only the pictures that are linked to Legacy. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:46 AM, marion wimsett 2wi...@gmail.com wrote: Ron at this stage I don't have a clue where he filed the media - there are literally tens of thousands of different photos on his drives! On Jul 30, 2014 10:23 PM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: Marion, You can go back to Reunion if you wish. That would be like having a Ferrari in the garage and opt to drive the Yugo. Both might be fun but with different outcomes. If your media files are not excessively scattered on the Mac, then copy all of them to an external drive or USB stick and then put them on your Windows hard drive. Import the GEDCOM file, then run Relinker. I think you'll be surprised. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:12 AM, marion wimsett 2wi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Ron - sorry your email slipped into the spam box (despite the fact I have all LUG replies marked to be accepted!!!). It looks as though this could be a long and tiring exercise - I will study the link in detail next week. At this stage I have no idea where his photos and other attachments are so even if I can transfer over with a gedcom I shall have to find the various media files as well. I am beginning to wonder whether I may have to learn how to use the mac and Reunion! Thank you for your help. Marion On 28 July 2014 22:22, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: I have converted Reunion files before. This article gives a lot of information from an actual Reunions user. The conversion involves using a GEDCOM which is the only way to move the information to another program like Legacy. With that knowledge, you only need to realize that a GEDCOM does not contain pictures but may contain the path name to pictures if any are linked to the data. Likewise, the GEDCOM can contain types of data that need to be mapped to things in the target system. Same is true for any GEDCOM conversion. Easiest way to find out is to try it. Here's the URL for the article. http://www.leisterpro.com/doc/olderversions/Articles/gedcom-101.php Ron Taylor On Sunday, July 27, 2014 11:29 PM, marion wimsett 2wi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Bob - I had a feeling that was the case - have no experience with Reunion (or Macs for that matter!) so this will be interesting!!! Marion On 28 July 2014 13:04, Bob Austen rgaus...@telus.net wrote: Hi Marion, A gedcom is a text only file, so photos, as such, do not 'come with the gedcom'. There could be a pointer to the photo, if that is how Reunion handles the files. I have no experience with Reunion. Bob marion wimsett said the following on 27/07/2014 23:45: Thanks you Wendy, Do the photos come with the gedcom as well?? I have to transfer the whole of the file over not just the details. Marion On 27 July 2014 10:00, Wendy Howard wendy.how...@gmail.com mailto:wendy.how...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marion, I expect you will need to export a GEDCOM file from the Reunion database, and then import that file into Legacy (File Import). How you physically get the file from the Mac to the PC depends on what resources you have there. If you share a Dropbox folder with your husband, pop it into that and let it synchronise. Or copy it onto a stick (USB drive) and then copy it to the PC. Whatever method, don't delete the file from the Mac until you're sure you've got it on the PC, just to be safe. There may be more considerations in data formatting (there are various options to select from along the way, but I have no experience with Reunion to comment), that others can discuss with you from their experiences, so I will leave that for them to cover. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy marion wimsett said the following on 27/07/2014 13:29: We have two different trees - mine on Legacy and husband on his Mac on Reunion. I am now going to have to transfer his tree over to Legacy. It doesn't have to be linked to mine at the moment - I can do that later. My problem is how can I transfer everything from Reunion over to my computer (PC) to install on Legacy (especially considering I know nothing about Reunion). If anyone has any ideas or has gone through this I would appreciate any help whatsoever. Thanks, Marion Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21
Re: [LegacyUG] Prepositions for locations- Family View and Family Group Records ?
There is a field in the tblLR (Master Locations Table) called Preposition which can be set and used in reports as you described. There is also a file C:\...Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\Misc\Preposition_English.lst which is used by the Master Locations List to sort locations. It does it by removing the words in that file from the location, putting it on the end of the location name, then sorting the list so that all locations that are the same will display next to each other and the preposition tacked onto the end. That is helpful. Some of the entries in that list are not actually prepositions. In fact, some of the entries are multiple words. I think a better term for them would be location modifiers instead of prepositions. What would be great but would require some extensive re-writing would be to have an actual database table of location modifiers. That table could come into play as a pull down list (similar to Child Status, Event Type, Surname List, etc.) where you can select the location modifier to be applied to a specific location field. That would mean that a location modifier key field be inserted into every table where a link to the tblLR is used. The preposition field that is in tblLR would only be used for reports when the location modifier is blank. The main effect that a location modifier table would have is eliminating multiple instances of the same location name as the current method allows. Here is an example of a location in the current Master Location List that has multiple entries because of prepositions: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, from Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, near Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, probably Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah The above display is achieved by checking the two boxes at the bottom of Sort Location List called Remove common prepositions from locations and Remove leading bracket from bracketed locations and then executing the sort. Notice that the words found in the text file Preposition_English.lst were re-positioned to the end of the location before the sort. Likewise, the bracketed locations had the leading bracket removed before the sort but the trailing bracket was retained so it would display. In either case, you can click Edit to see the actual long or short location with the preposition words where they really are stored in the field. Also, note that I added probably to the Preposition_English.lst file (as well as a few other words) so that it would treated like other prepositions. If there was only one instance of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah in the Master Locations Table, as well as all other locations, then it would be much easier to manage and maintain. The only thing that would be needed then is a time sensitive lookup for location. Or even better, a conversion of any current location to its time sensitive name. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:32 AM, johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: Sometimes I know where ancestors lived but uncertain if they were born in that place. There is an option which allows you to change the location preposition from ‘in’ to something else but it only works for the book reports from the publishing centre. I could mention in the narrative that a person’s place of birth is not certain, but I would like to request suggestions from other Legacy users for a way use a preposition or some other way to easily show that a person was from or lived in a location, which was not necessarily their place of birth. I would like this for the Family View and Family Group Records. Do others find this a problem or am I too neurotic about accuracy or details? 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 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] Update Problem
What version was used to make your most recent backup of your Legacy database? On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:11 PM, Tom Hampton hampton2...@dodo.com.au wrote: Hello, I have Legacy 8 Deluxe and have just downloaded the latest update. It caused my computer to crash and now I cannot open Legacy at all. It says it is an “unrecognised database format”. Any ideas on how to fix this please? Thanks. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Reunion to Mac
I have converted Reunion files before. This article gives a lot of information from an actual Reunions user. The conversion involves using a GEDCOM which is the only way to move the information to another program like Legacy. With that knowledge, you only need to realize that a GEDCOM does not contain pictures but may contain the path name to pictures if any are linked to the data. Likewise, the GEDCOM can contain types of data that need to be mapped to things in the target system. Same is true for any GEDCOM conversion. Easiest way to find out is to try it. Here's the URL for the article. http://www.leisterpro.com/doc/olderversions/Articles/gedcom-101.php Ron Taylor On Sunday, July 27, 2014 11:29 PM, marion wimsett 2wi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Bob - I had a feeling that was the case - have no experience with Reunion (or Macs for that matter!) so this will be interesting!!! Marion On 28 July 2014 13:04, Bob Austen rgaus...@telus.net wrote: Hi Marion, A gedcom is a text only file, so photos, as such, do not 'come with the gedcom'. There could be a pointer to the photo, if that is how Reunion handles the files. I have no experience with Reunion. Bob marion wimsett said the following on 27/07/2014 23:45: Thanks you Wendy, Do the photos come with the gedcom as well?? I have to transfer the whole of the file over not just the details. Marion On 27 July 2014 10:00, Wendy Howard wendy.how...@gmail.com mailto:wendy.how...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marion, I expect you will need to export a GEDCOM file from the Reunion database, and then import that file into Legacy (File Import). How you physically get the file from the Mac to the PC depends on what resources you have there. If you share a Dropbox folder with your husband, pop it into that and let it synchronise. Or copy it onto a stick (USB drive) and then copy it to the PC. Whatever method, don't delete the file from the Mac until you're sure you've got it on the PC, just to be safe. There may be more considerations in data formatting (there are various options to select from along the way, but I have no experience with Reunion to comment), that others can discuss with you from their experiences, so I will leave that for them to cover. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy marion wimsett said the following on 27/07/2014 13:29: We have two different trees - mine on Legacy and husband on his Mac on Reunion. I am now going to have to transfer his tree over to Legacy. It doesn't have to be linked to mine at the moment - I can do that later. My problem is how can I transfer everything from Reunion over to my computer (PC) to install on Legacy (especially considering I know nothing about Reunion). If anyone has any ideas or has gone through this I would appreciate any help whatsoever. Thanks, Marion 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] One Place Studies Legacy
First, you need to understand tagging. Then, use the Master Locations List to find the location you want. Use Show List to find all individuals who have that location in their record. Use Tag Everyone in List to set a tag for those that have the location. Use SearchDetailed SearchTag = Tagged Use PrintList Report OptionsCustomize as needed and Print On Monday, July 28, 2014 5:14 PM, Dave Keeney dave.kee...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried using Legacy for a One Place Study? I'm beginning a OPS and would like very much to use Legacy but can't get over some hurdles. All of the reports seem to be Name based and I can't see how to get reports for an entire place. I'm beginning with the 1940 census for my place. Once input I'd like to have assistance from the local history society for that place. I'm having trouble see how to get an entire listing of everyone in the database. The descendant tab would give an good report. But it too is for a particular name. I started putting everyone as a descendant of The Place and that works well but since Legacy limits children to 60 it won't scale well, even for this relatively small place. I'm just starting this so would like to see if anyone out there has attempted this (successfully or unsuccessfully). 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] One Place Studies Legacy
Glad you got it. The Search Results uses the same format as the Name List. Once you have your results (you could tag a descendants list or whatever you wish) then as Tessa pointed out, you can export the data to CSV and play with it in Excel. On Monday, July 28, 2014 8:23 PM, Dave Keeney dave.kee...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, Ron I found it. Thanks, I'll give that a try and see if I can get what I need/want. Thanks again. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: First, you need to understand tagging. Then, use the Master Locations List to find the location you want. Use Show List to find all individuals who have that location in their record. Use Tag Everyone in List to set a tag for those that have the location. Use SearchDetailed SearchTag = Tagged Use PrintList Report OptionsCustomize as needed and Print On Monday, July 28, 2014 5:14 PM, Dave Keeney dave.kee...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried using Legacy for a One Place Study? I'm beginning a OPS and would like very much to use Legacy but can't get over some hurdles. All of the reports seem to be Name based and I can't see how to get reports for an entire place. I'm beginning with the 1940 census for my place. Once input I'd like to have assistance from the local history society for that place. I'm having trouble see how to get an entire listing of everyone in the database. The descendant tab would give an good report. But it too is for a particular name. I started putting everyone as a descendant of The Place and that works well but since Legacy limits children to 60 it won't scale well, even for this relatively small place. I'm just starting this so would like to see if anyone out there has attempted this (successfully or unsuccessfully). 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] Comparing two different files of the same family in Legacy 8.0
There are lots of possibilities for database comparison. Try this for starters http://lmgtfy.com/?q=comparing+two+microsoft+access+databases+for+differences Ron Taylor On Sunday, July 27, 2014 10:56 AM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: If you had not apologized no one would have known you were not a native English speaker. I do not know of any automated way to compare two files for differences. The Legacy tool does look for people in two different files with similar data and will present those in a side by side comparison. If the files are truly The same family you can use Split Screen mode with one file on the left and one on the right to do a side by side manual examination. By switching from one file to another you can examine the data for each side to see any differences. You then have the option of dragging and dropping an individual with changes into the other file and using merge to combine the data from both people into one. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 26/07/2014 11:57 AM, Prof. Dr. Alvaro Hernandez wrote: Hi there, I have two different files of the same family and I´d like to know the best way to go about comparing them and “highlighting” the existing differences (individuals, dates, notes, events, etc.) preferably in an automated way. snip Thanks in advance and best regards from Brazil. Al (I apologize for my English but it´s kind of rusty.) 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] Legacy 8.0.0.439
Jenny, Maybe I've been lucky, but I have not had any trouble with 439. Installed fine and works well. There are still some issues that I'm sure are being worked but it seems stable. The need to re-install from a full download has been around for some time. It is due to several possible reasons. The best thing is that a full install overwrites the older install without loss of data. Those using the standard version are required to update with this method. Please report back if you continue to experience trouble with the latest and specify which OS and computer you are using. Ron Taylor On Saturday, July 26, 2014 7:32 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: On 25/07/2014 18:14, Jenny M Benson wrote: I just updated to the latest release and at what appeared to be the end of the process a dialog box appeared which said that setup had not completed successfully and I needed to download the full program from the website. There were three option buttons - Yes, No and Cancel. I clicked yes and the Legacy site download page opened but as it was doing so, another dialog box popped up which said that the installation had completed successfully! Further to the above, the update to 439 has been a complete disaster. I keep getting Error 9. Having exhausted all the options of the Online Troubleshooting information for this error (including uninstalling, running CCleaner, reinstalling, opening my oldest (of 3) backups, running Check/Repair 3 times and exporting it to a new file) the error persists. I have informed Support. Is anyone else having trouble with this update? -- Jenny M Benson 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] pictures
Now I think I understand your situation. When you backup a Legacy database, it produces 2 zip files. One for data and another for media. You have already converted your Legacy 7 data to version 8. Now unzip the media to your new locaiton for media and then run the relinker. On Monday, July 21, 2014 4:02 PM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Donna, Have you searched the archives? There were a lot of threads about relinking media and such right about the time v8 came out. The link is at the bottom of this email. --Paula in Texas From: Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 11:51 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] pictures So far nothing is working on linking up the pictures. I printed a list of missing, 1188, and I can link them individually. Now that will take a long time. It finds the pictures on the other flash drive where they were associated with Legacy 7.5, it is still using that drive as the designation for where they are. I wanted them to transfer over to the Legacy 8 flash drive. Media Linker won’t link them up. Am I reduced to doing each one and having the media stored on the other flash drive. This does not seem logical. I am sure there has to be a very easy way to do this. Suggestions welcome. Donna in Ardmore 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] Geo-Locator Not Always Correct
The GEO database is a list of current locations...not time sensitive. The county verifier can do some time sensitive lookup but it is not coordinated with the GEO database. The Virtual Earth maps (now called the Bing Maps) are not coordinated with the GEO database either. Those are 3 different ways that locations can be checked in Legacy. What is really needed is a location table based on longitude and latitude. Then given a date and the coordinates, you could query the location for any language and any time frame. On Sunday, July 20, 2014 6:32 PM, FLR roseda...@myfairpoint.net wrote: From 1778 to 1820 it was called the District of Maine. FLR Sent from my Netbook - Original Message - From: fers...@verizon.net To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 6:55 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Geo-Locator Not Always Correct I recently tried to insert a birthplace as Dixfield, Cumberland County, Massachusetts only to be informed that there never was a Cumberland County in Massachusetts. While it is is true that Cumberland County and Dixfield are in Maine, the state of Maine did not come into existence until 1820. Since Cumberland County was founded in 1760 out of York County, Massachusetts, I entered the data against the advice of the geo-database. This is much like saying a county like Brooke County, West Virginia existed in 1845 when the entire state of West Virginia had not yet exist. Anyone else find errors in the geo-database or can point me to where I have made an error? 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] pictures
The media that was linked to Legacy 7.5 database should still be linked when the file is converted to Legacy 8. If you are moving the media files to another location, then the Relinker should be able to find those media files and fix the links. It sounds like you have copied the media files to a new location. If that is true, be sure to disconnect the former drive or delete the former folders. Otherwise, they will be found by the Relinker and those pictures will be linked instead of the new ones you created. If you changed any of the media file names, then you have a problem. Relinker is only searching for the exact same file name and then it will fix the path to that file if it is found. Ron Taylor On Saturday, July 19, 2014 10:51 AM, Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com wrote: So far nothing is working on linking up the pictures. I printed a list of missing, 1188, and I can link them individually. Now that will take a long time. It finds the pictures on the other flash drive where they were associated with Legacy 7.5, it is still using that drive as the designation for where they are. I wanted them to transfer over to the Legacy 8 flash drive. Media Linker won’t link them up. Am I reduced to doing each one and having the media stored on the other flash drive. This does not seem logical. I am sure there has to be a very easy way to do this. Suggestions welcome. Donna in Ardmore 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] Descendant chart -- 3 generations with spouses
The Charting Companion has a good descendant fan chart that should fit on one page for 3 generations. On Thursday, July 17, 2014 2:49 PM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Bob has a good suggestion to use Legacy Charting to make the Descendant Chart. It will show the spouses of the third generation without including their children. My earlier email referred to the Descendant Chart which Legacy creates since Pat asked how to get Legacy to do what she wanted. Legacy Charting also has the ability to move people around to help condense the chart but there is still no fit to one page option. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 17/07/2014 4:32 PM, Bob Austen wrote: Pat, You should be able to achieve this by the '# Gens' selected. The great grandchildren in your example would be the fourth generation, so selecting '# Gens 3' prevents the great grandchildren from appearing. There are some things you can do to try to get your chart on one page. I tried the Descendant chart with a simple four generation family and it was shown in the middle of two pages. I could select all of the chart and drag it over to the left most page and it is now shown on one page. Or, use the 'Center Chart' button on the left side of the screen. You can also use the 'Sizing options' to change the box size and the spacing to try to get it to fit on one page. It may be a better fit if the page is in Landscape mode. To change to Landscape mode go to 'File Button' (the round icon with the chart in the upper left corner), select 'Print', 'Properties', and change the page orientation to 'Landscape'. Of course your chart may just be too big to fit on one page! Bob A From: Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:40 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Descendant chart -- 3 generations with spouses How do I get Legacy to create a 3-generation descendant chart with spouses for everyone, but no great-grandchildren? In other words I want 1) the ancestor, 2) his children, their spouses and 3) children and those children's spouses -- but no great-grandchildren. Also, is there an option somewhere that says fit this into one page? Thanks, Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] List of marriages
Tag the individuals wanted, then use the Name List print options. You could output to a spreadsheet (CSV format) and then use the spreadsheet to show what you want. Alternate surname spellings is another problem. Unless you have been compiling the alternate spellings somewhere, you are limited to the Soundex approach. At this point, the surnames table is not tracking the variant spellings but with a little work it might be done. Future wish. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 17, 2014 2:29 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to get Legacy to print name of bride, groom, date place of marriage for a particular surname and date range? What I would like is one line per marriage: Groom's LN, FN, dob-dod, Bride's MN, FN, dob-dod Date Place of marriage. I would like to limit this by surname of groom (or perhaps a range of surnames so as to include spelling variations, e.g. Prichet-Prickitt. I might also like to do the same for brides, limiting the report by surname of bride. Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] pictures
The most important key to media files is to be certain that each media file has a unique file name. I like to name the files with this pattern Surname, Given name - short description Two media files should never have the same name even if they are in different folders...thus fulfilling the unique rule. The files can reside in any folder structure but it is best to keep the structure simple. The filename can be 255 characters and the path to the file can be 255 characters. Simple folder and sub-folder structures can be used as long as the total length of the path is less than 255. The default location for media files in Legacy 8.0.0.427 using Windows Vista/7/8 is C:\Users\Username\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media and the default for Windows XP is C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media where Username is the Login account name. That works well for someone that does not plan to collaborate with anyone and wants media to be stored in the default location. For a Legacy user that is collaborating with other Legacy users, a better method is to have a root level folder assigned to each collaborator. Then each collaborator collects media files into the folder assigned to them. All collaborators are instructed to only alter files in their assigned folder. In their folder, they can change filenames, sub-folder structures, etc. without affecting files collected by other collaborators. An example of these root level folders might be C:\DonnaMM C:\GladeMM C:\GordonMM C:\RonMM where MM stands for Multimedia. But any other root level folder name would suffice. The one new function in v8 Legacy that can cause problems with the above collaborator scenario is the new Gather Media routine. It will pull copies of the media files from where they currently reside and place the copies into the default media folder regardless of who collected them or how they were structured. Therefore, Gather Media is not a good idea for collaborators. Once all media files have been successfully linked to Legacy, they can be moved (not renamed) to other folder structures as desired. Then the Media Relinker can relocate them and fix the links. The Relinker cannot find file names that have been changed. If a media file needs to be renamed, it is best done in Legacy with the Picture CenterRename because after the file name is changed, the link will be retained. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:05 AM, Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to combine all of the media locations in customize 6.2 and ended up with more media files missing, I am now up to 1899. What am I doing wrong now? Can you give me a detailed step by step to accomplish my task. I am beginning to feel very stupid on this. Legacy has always been very user friendly and I have recommended it to lots of people because of that feature. Now I am stumped, read the chapter in the book and looked at the help section, still at a loss. I also think I now screwed up by combining all of the media files. Donna -Original Message- From: Donna Newell [mailto:djnewel...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:01 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pictures Thank you Cathy, I will try what you have suggested in the morning. My drive with the media in it is attached, but it doesn't seem to have found it. Could it be because it was associated only with Legacy 7.5 and I used sub folders. Donna Sent from my iPad On Jul 16, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Donna, Once set up, adding media in Legacy 8 is much easier than in earlier versions. You say your attached media is on a separate drive. I assume that drive is always connected to your computer when using Legacy. If not, that is your first problem. Legacy links to media - that media must be available. Have you run the Tool Media Relinker to fix those 1128 missing photos? Have you set Option 6.2 to your default media folder? This is the parent folder of your sub-folder system. If your media isn't in a set of sub-folders to a parent folder but in a number of unconnected folders, you may want to rearrange before running the Media Relinker. Then, when adding a new picture, if it isn't already in the Default Media Folder you've designated at Option 6.2 you have the choice of moving or copying it to that folder OR on another tab of that dialogue to any other folder - which is the way to make sure it's in the appropriate sub-folder. I'm not sure I've covered all your queries but hope that helps. Cathy Donna Newell mailto:djnewel...@gmail.com Thursday, 17 July 2014 8:12 AM I have just loaded one of the family files to Legacy 8. The pictures did not all make the switch. I just attempted to add a picture using the picture center and I had to go through a number of steps, much different than Legacy 7.5, which was really easy
Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant chart -- 3 generations with spouses
Good one Mike. Thus the popularity of lmgtfy.com On Thursday, July 17, 2014 3:43 PM, Mike Fry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 Jul 2014 23:13, Pat Hickin wrote: If I have Legacy Charting I don't know where to find it. That's what the Help is intended for. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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] geo database
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22not+a+valid+win32+application%22+geo+database+Legacy This has been answered. See second search result from above link. On Thursday, July 17, 2014 4:33 PM, Gail in MN bgv...@gmail.com wrote: yep, I know I'm a bit behind the time, but have not loaded the new geo database into my version 8 program. I wouldn't remember to download it when I was at a high speed wifi spot... but did today. went to Legacyfamilytree.com, clicked download and found the geodb file and downloaded it without any difficulty. Now, when I go to install it, I get a this is not a valid win32 application. Help??? Thanks ahead of time. Gail 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] Report for parents only one child
Jay, I'm wondering what prompted you to search for this combination. What are you trying to solve? Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 8:33 AM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: This one could be fun. 1) Clear tag1 2) use LegacySearchFindMiscellaneousLinked individuals with no parents then click Clear List before this search and click Create List. When then search results list is displayed, click OptionsAdvanced TaggingTag and make changes to tag1. Click Everyone in Search List. Now all individuals without parents have tag1. 3) Create and save the following query which will be used in step4. Name it qtblMR_parents_eol SELECT DISTINCT tblCR.IDMR FROM ((tblCR INNER JOIN tblMR ON tblCR.IDMR=tblMR.IDMR) INNER JOIN tblIR ON tblMR.IDIRHusb=tblIR.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblIR AS tblIR_1 ON tblMR.IDIRWife=tblIR_1.IDIR WHERE (((tblCR.IDMR)0) AND ((tblIR.Tag1)0) AND ((tblIR_1.Tag1)0) AND ((tblMR.IDIRHusb)0) AND ((tblMR.IDIRWife)0)); 4) Run this query to find the marriage records to answer your question. SELECT tblCR.IDMR, Count(tblCR.IDIR) AS Children FROM qtblMR_parents_eol INNER JOIN tblCR ON qtblMR_parents_eol.IDMR = tblCR.IDMR GROUP BY tblCR.IDMR HAVING (((Count(tblCR.IDIR))=1)) ORDER BY tblCR.IDMR; Let me know if this is what you needed. Note you could tweak the Having number of children as desired. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 8:33 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: I would like to create a report of all parents that only have one child AND the parents have no father or mother in my database. If any great sql coders could help me out, that would be great. Thanks Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Report for parents only one child
This one could be fun. 1) Clear tag1 2) use LegacySearchFindMiscellaneousLinked individuals with no parents then click Clear List before this search and click Create List. When then search results list is displayed, click OptionsAdvanced TaggingTag and make changes to tag1. Click Everyone in Search List. Now all individuals without parents have tag1. 3) Create and save the following query which will be used in step4. Name it qtblMR_parents_eol SELECT DISTINCT tblCR.IDMR FROM ((tblCR INNER JOIN tblMR ON tblCR.IDMR=tblMR.IDMR) INNER JOIN tblIR ON tblMR.IDIRHusb=tblIR.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblIR AS tblIR_1 ON tblMR.IDIRWife=tblIR_1.IDIR WHERE (((tblCR.IDMR)0) AND ((tblIR.Tag1)0) AND ((tblIR_1.Tag1)0) AND ((tblMR.IDIRHusb)0) AND ((tblMR.IDIRWife)0)); 4) Run this query to find the marriage records to answer your question. SELECT tblCR.IDMR, Count(tblCR.IDIR) AS Children FROM qtblMR_parents_eol INNER JOIN tblCR ON qtblMR_parents_eol.IDMR = tblCR.IDMR GROUP BY tblCR.IDMR HAVING (((Count(tblCR.IDIR))=1)) ORDER BY tblCR.IDMR; Let me know if this is what you needed. Note you could tweak the Having number of children as desired. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 8:33 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: I would like to create a report of all parents that only have one child AND the parents have no father or mother in my database. If any great sql coders could help me out, that would be great. Thanks Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters
I assume you already tried changing the 8 characters that can show in the ribbon from the selection of special characters. If the characters you need are not in the table, then Millennia support should get involved. It may require a different code set. Be sure to check HelpSearchCharacter Map. The character sets that Legacy claims to handle for import of GEDCOM files are ANSI, ANSEL, and UTF-8. Try to determine what character set you may require for your Czech data and provide that to support. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 7:23 PM, BobsTree2-Gmail bobstr...@gmail.com wrote: Re the Windows Czech keyboard Czech (Sorry, I could not resist it) out this article: http://superuser.com/questions/653404/how-to-type-czech-characters-on-windows-7-using-cs-language-with-us-internationa Bob Hansen 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] Special characters
Legacy 8.0.0.427HelpHelp IndexSearchUTF-8 finds it under both import and export GEDCOM. I haven't tested it lately to see if it actually works but it is documented in these help files. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:46 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: John, It is not the practice for Legacy to disclose their future developments much before the time of release. We have only just had V8, so some years off yet! Ron Ferguson John Magyari jmagy...@gmail.com wrote: UTF-8,UTF-16, Unicode characters have been possible for 5-6 years via 3rdparty Libraries used with Visual Basic 6. Legacy 7 and Legacy 8 both could have supported UTF-8 with these libraries. Some 3rdproduct libraries and there are others: http://www.cyberactivex.com/unicodetutorialvb.htm http://www.hexagora.com/en_dw_unictrl.asp Unicode would allow you to documet ancestors with Cyrillic, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew and many other letters currently not supported. Whether Legacy 9 departs from VB6 or not it should support Unicode, UTF-8 and UTF-16. Do we know if this is part of the spec for Version 9? On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Ron, Legacy does not support utf-8 as the program is based on VB6 technology and .NET is needed for utf-8. Ron Ferguson 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] Child Status - TWIN
Jay's original question was about which field in the database contained the child status. That is why I provided a few SQL scripts that make use of those fields in the database tables. I was aware of the methods available in Legacy. If you try the scripts that I posted, you will find functionality not available in Legacy such as finding siblings with the same name, listing individuals with multiple parents including their relationship to each parent. The third script can be modified to achieve several other possibilities that are not in Legacy. I also have another script that can find possible multiple births that have the child status blank and help to get those child status fields set to Twin, Triplet, etc. On Monday, July 7, 2014 10:58 PM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: That wasn't your original question! Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Sherry, But That doesnt answer my question, as I intend on using a SQL search to update all the ones that are not flagged as twins. I need to look thru the fields in the CP, CR and CS tables, It must be set there. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Isn't it easier to just do a Search on the Detailed Search tab Look for whom? Individual Where to look Child Status How to look Equal to What to look for Twin Of course, this is assuming you have twins flagged with child status And of course, you can find individuals with Multiple Parents on the Miscellaneous tab. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Child Status - TWIN
AS tblCR_A ON tblIR_A.IDIR = tblCR_A.IDIR) ON tblCS_A.IDCS = tblCR_A.IDCS, (tblIR AS tblIR_B INNER JOIN tblCR AS tblCR_B ON tblIR_B.IDIR = tblCR_B.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblCS AS tblCS_B ON tblCR_B.IDCS = tblCS_B.IDCS WHERE (((tblIR_A.Surname)=[tblIR_B].[Surname]) AND ((tblIR_A.IDIR)[tblIR_B].[IDIR]) AND ((tblIR_A.BirthSD)=[tblIR_B].[BirthSD] And (tblIR_A.BirthSD)0) AND ((tblCR_A.IDMR)=[tblCR_B].[IDMR])); If you come up with some useful SQL please share. Maybe someday, Legacy will automatically suggest child status when siblings with the same birthdate are entered. At this point in time, we have to manually set those flags. Once they are set, then Legacy does have tools for finding them. But no tools for determining if the settings are missing like these scripts. Ron Taylor 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] Special characters
Have you tried the ribbon for special characters as you enter data? On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 5:18 PM, Steve Pick st...@trycom.com wrote: Copy it into wordpad and then just change the font size to want you want. Then copy into Legacy. I haven't tried it but I assume that works. On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Gene Wheeler bridge...@gmail.com wrote: I have a lot of Czech names and locations that require the use of special characters, many of which are not available to choose for use within Legacy v.8. When I try to use these characters from the Windows Character Map, they display in a larger font than used in the various name, location, and notes fields in v.8. Is that a way to get around this? Thanks! Gene 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] Child Status - TWIN
Jay, This first script is one that I developed to locate duplicate siblings in the database. These are situations where a child is given a name that the parents want but then dies early so they give the same name to another child. Sometimes more than twice. It illustrates the connection of the child status to the child record which is linked to the individual record. SELECT tblCR_A.IDMR, tblCR_A.IDIR, tblCR_B.IDIR, tblIR_A.Surname, tblIR_A.GivenName, tblIR_B.GivenName, tblIR_A.Gender, tblIR_B.Gender, tblCS_A.ChildStatus, tblCS_B.ChildStatus FROM (tblCR AS tblCR_A INNER JOIN tblIR AS tblIR_A ON tblCR_A.IDIR = tblIR_A.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblCS AS tblCS_A ON tblCR_A.IDCS = tblCS_A.IDCS, (tblCR AS tblCR_B INNER JOIN tblIR AS tblIR_B ON tblCR_B.IDIR = tblIR_B.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblCS AS tblCS_B ON tblCR_B.IDCS = tblCS_B.IDCS WHERE (((tblCR_A.IDMR)=[tblCR_B].[IDMR]) AND ((tblCR_A.IDIR)[tblCR_B].[IDIR]) AND ((tblIR_A.GivenName)=[tblIR_B].[GivenName])) ORDER BY tblCR_A.IDIR; This next script will find individuals that are linked to multiple parents and how the relationship to each parent is linked. SELECT tblCR.IDIR, tblIR.Surname, tblIR.GivenName, tblCR.IDMR, tblMR.HusbSurname, tblMR.HusbGivenName, tblMR.WifeSurname, tblMR.WifeGivenName, tblIR.IDMRParents, tblCP.CPRelation, tblCP_1.CPRelation, tblCR.IDCPDad, tblCR.IDCPMom FROM (((tblCR INNER JOIN tblMR ON tblCR.IDMR = tblMR.IDMR) INNER JOIN tblIR ON tblCR.IDIR = tblIR.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblCP ON tblCR.IDCPDad = tblCP.IDCP) INNER JOIN tblCP AS tblCP_1 ON tblCR.IDCPMom = tblCP_1.IDCP WHERE (((tblCR.IDCPDad)1)) OR (((tblCR.IDCPMom)1)) ORDER BY tblCR.IDIR, tblCR.IDMR; Finally, this script will find all individuals with child status Twin and illustrates how the status is linked to the individual. SELECT tblCR.IDIR, tblIR.Surname, tblIR.GivenName, tblCS.ChildStatus FROM (tblCR INNER JOIN tblCS ON tblCR.IDCS = tblCS.IDCS) INNER JOIN tblIR ON tblCR.IDIR = tblIR.IDIR WHERE (((tblCS.ChildStatus) Like Twin)); Hope that helps you with your quest. Ron Taylor On Monday, July 7, 2014 7:59 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: When I change a child status from the default of '_' to 'TWIN', What field changes in the database? I cannot see any changes in the IR table for Individuals Or is there somewhere else I should be looking? Thanks for any help Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Find and Replace
I remember a response from Millennia that they intend to implement search replace withing a tagged subset. That will be a future release. Hope it might be in version 8 as an update and not pushed off to version 9 or later. Meanwhile, the process I explained is the only way using Legacy. It could be done with a SQL script but that's another story. On Saturday, July 5, 2014 3:52 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: On 04/07/2014 23:37, Ron Taylor wrote: It was posted July 2 8:54am. Here it is again. A search and replace in a tagged subset is needed and would be a great feature. The only way to do it with the current program would be to export the tagged subset to another Legacy file, do the search and replace there, then use Intellishare merge to combine the subset back into the main file. Ron Taylor Oh yes, I did see that and you are quite correct, of course, but I was meaning that one could not Find Replace within a subset *within the existing file. Albeit the new file is a subset of the old, I don't think working with a new file is what one *generally* thinks of when referring to a subset. -- Jenny M Benson 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] Find and Replace
It was posted July 2 8:54am. Here it is again. A search and replace in a tagged subset is needed and would be a great feature. The only way to do it with the current program would be to export the tagged subset to another Legacy file, do the search and replace there, then use Intellishare merge to combine the subset back into the main file. Ron Taylor On Friday, July 4, 2014 7:42 AM, Kurt Kneeland kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Please provide more detail on how you are able to use the tag to limit a Search and Replace operation. I don't see anything on the Search and Replace screen that allows for a compound search. There's only the Field to Search, the Text to Search for, and the Replacement Text, and some basic options. Thanks -Original Message- From: Alan Pereira [mailto:alanpere...@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 12:20 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Find and Replace Leon, use tagging. At the bottom of the original search list there is an options, advanced tagging where you can give everyone in the search list a tag (one that you have not used before or clear an existing one). You can then use the tag number as part of your next search where individual tag# equals tagged. Alan Pereira -Original Message- From: Leon Moya [mailto:l...@mymail-box.com] Sent: 02 July 2014 00:20 To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Find and Replace Hello, Is it possible to run a Find and Replace process against the results of a previously prepared Search List. If so, could someone please point me to the relevant section in the help files. So Many Thanks, Leon 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] Find and Replace
Unless you do it the way I described. Re-read my post on this topic. I use that method frequently when I need to search and replace on a subset. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 3, 2014 1:35 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: On 03/07/2014 06:19, Alan Pereira wrote: Leon, use tagging. At the bottom of the original search list there is an options, advanced tagging where you can give everyone in the search list a tag (one that you have not used before or clear an existing one). You can then use the tag number as part of your next search where individual tag# equals tagged. That creates a sub-set, but as has already been pointed out, one cannot confine a Search Replace operation to a sub-set. -- Jenny M Benson 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] Find and Replace
A search and replace in a tagged subset is needed and would be a great feature. The only way to do it with the current program would be to export the tagged subset to another Legacy file, do the search and replace there, then use Intellishare merge to combine the subset back into the main file. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 8:08 PM, Bob Austen rgaus...@telus.net wrote: Hi Leon, I am sure that is not possible. The Search and Replace only works with the designated fields and searches the entire file. Perhaps there is another way around your situation - can you elaborate on what your are trying to achieve? I'm trying to envision a use for that - it could be a worthwhile suggestion. Bob A -Original Message- From: Leon Moya [mailto:l...@mymail-box.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 4:20 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Find and Replace Hello, Is it possible to run a Find and Replace process against the results of a previously prepared Search List. If so, could someone please point me to the relevant section in the help files. So Many Thanks, Leon 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] Media Folder List
There are 2 ways to look at Multimedia and Legacy. 1) Multimedia file names that Legacy has stored in the database. 2) Multimedia files that may or may not be linked to a Legacy database. For type 1, use OptionsCustomizeLocations6.2Test All Media Folders to see which linked file names can be located by Legacy For type 2, use LtoolsDeluxeFind Unattached Multimedia to see which files are linked to Legacy or not and whether they are located where Legacy thinks they should be. Type 1 is looking for the files from inside of Legacy Type 2 is looking at the files outside of Legacy to see if they are linked in Legacy Ron Taylor On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Mike Fry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 Jun 2014 11:16, Pat Hickin wrote: Somehow (I imagine thru my own carelessness), I've got several folders in my Master Media Folder List that should not be there. They are perfectly good folders but I do not want them in this list. But there is no option to remove them and I don't want to delete or combine them with another folder. I tried the Close option but that didn't seem to change things. I had a similar problem with Leg7 but could always figure out how to resolve it. Now, for some reason I can't. Also how do I get a list of the images/files (in these folders) that are being used by Legacy so that I can move them to the right folder? What's wrong with using the Delete option in Options? -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- Ron Taylor 183 West 1600 South Orem, Utah 84058 home cell phone 801-224-5711 work cell phone 801-830-8663 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] d'Aboville numbers
You can use LTools to set various numbers into the UserID field including d'Aboville numbers. Then the UserID field can be displayed in reports as needed. One advantage of the Set Special User IDs is the option Exclude Non-Biological Relationships which will bypass links that are not on the blood line like spouses or adopted children. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 4:24 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: On 24/06/2014 11:01, Cathy Pinner wrote: And if you look at the Descendant Narrative Report, you'll discover that the option is missing, though the order of the report is right. Whoops! -- Jenny M Benson 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] need help switching files/fdb
Deb, When a file is converted to version 8, it is also copied to a new disk folder location. It sounds like you may have done that but then when you decide to open your file again you are opening the original file. See if that is the case. If so you can verify that the new converted version 8 file is where it should be (C:\Users\Username\My Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Data) and be sure you can open it. You should find all your changes in that one. Then delete the old Legacy 7 file or rename it to avoid confusion. It will be in C:\Legacy\Data. The reason that the old file is left in place is in case you want to open it again in Legacy 7. But if you're sure the conversion is right it is recommended that you delete the old file because you can't move a version 8 database back into version 7. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:09 AM, Deb Gilligan dasgilli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been using Legacy 7 for years and now have version 8. I have two separate files on Legacy, let's say FamilyA.fdb and FamilyB.fdb. They are completely separate. The problem I'm having is this. When I am working on one family and want to switch over to work on the other family, I have to re-load the fdb all over again, losing any data I had entered into the first file! When I used version 7, all I had to do was click on the link in the upper left-hand corner that said File and there would be a list of the databases I had in the program. I would click on the name of whichever fdb I wanted to go to and it would take me there. Now, if I do that, as stated above, I have to reload the one I want to use, losing any information previously entered. I hope this is clear enough so someone can help me with this! Thanks, Deb 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] Highlighting ancestors
HelpIndexBold Direct Line Not colored but at least bolded. On Sunday, June 22, 2014 12:50 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: How do I highlight my ancestors? I can find no assistance from the toolbar or legacy help. Thanks, Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Special Large Merge
My only suggestion at this point is never export to GEDCOM. Just extract those tagged records to a new Legacy file and send it. Then everything that has not changed will automerge with the Intellishare values. I frequently slice a piece of my main database (over 250,000) and send it to collaborators for their piece of the pie to update. When their copy is combined back into the main file, I get a few records to review but the majority automerge. I always export with the 3 boxes checked under the All records with an individual tag of so that essentially complete family groups are exported. That does help when the data comes back. You might try combining the new updated file with the slice of your main file that was used to create the GEDCOM and then evaluate whether it is going to be a problem. If that works, then combine the updated slice back into the main file...otherwise back to more planning. Ron Taylor On Thursday, June 19, 2014 12:14 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Ron, Thanks for the explanation. I agreed completely with what you say, but comparing and clicking thru 600 pictures is more like an hour and half rather than a few minutes. The problem is that the data used was a gedcom of approx 8500 persons tagged and created from my database of 220,000. I tagged everyone who had that particular cemetery as their burial place, then also included the parents, spouses and children in the gedcom, since they would also likely be buried at the same place. I did not want the 'volunteer' to have to add any persons. The gedcom was sent and they also used Legacy 7.5 to enter the links and pic captions Then they send the file back to me as a gedcom. But because Legacy doesnt export a COMPLETE (parental) Family group , I have all these 'not matching' families Now, if the question to include spouses, parents and children of tagged individuals ALSO asked about siblings of tagged persons, then there would be complete FAMC groups and exact matches when importing the data back into the original file, Thanks for taking the time to help out and think thru on this. Jay On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: Jay, First, it is necessary to understand how the GEDCOM was used to insert the new picture attachments. If it was done with a text editor, that could be interesting. If the GEDCOM was loaded into some other genealogy program or even another Legacy database and then the pictures were attached, the updated file could again be exported to another GEDCOM and that GEDCOM imported into a new Legacy database. If the only difference between the GEDCOM file and the Legacy file that created it are the new picture attachments, you should be able to then combine the data from the GEDCOM imported back into Legacy with the original Legacy file and execute an Intellishare Merge. Every record that has a new picture attached will bring up the original and the imported file for review before merging but the only difference should be the picture attached to the imported GEDCOM record. If that is the case you could quickly click through the 600 records allowing them to merge. If there are other fields that someone changed, those would obviously require more evaluation before merging. It may be possible to merge that in a few minutes if it meets the description I've given above. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 5:40 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: I have someone who graciously helped me out in linking over 600 image tombstones to the correct persons and added a Pic Caption and Pic Desc to over 800 persons They entered this info into a gedcom I created from my Legacy7.5 database. (I am still using ver 7.5 also) All I want to do is take the 800 or so persons that are linked to the 600 or so images and merge them back into my original file. Updating only the link, pic caption and pic descr. Anyone have any creative ideas to make that happen?? The standard merge process is so time consuming. (because of diff family sizes, some with , some without spouses, etc. ) I even have a txt file listing of the new filenames that are now linked up (there were already several hundred pic links to this same cemetery, so they have the identical IDBPPic in the BR table.) Otherwise, I guess my next weekend will be spent merging Thanks in advance for any help Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree
Re: [LegacyUG] Special Large Merge
Jay, First, it is necessary to understand how the GEDCOM was used to insert the new picture attachments. If it was done with a text editor, that could be interesting. If the GEDCOM was loaded into some other genealogy program or even another Legacy database and then the pictures were attached, the updated file could again be exported to another GEDCOM and that GEDCOM imported into a new Legacy database. If the only difference between the GEDCOM file and the Legacy file that created it are the new picture attachments, you should be able to then combine the data from the GEDCOM imported back into Legacy with the original Legacy file and execute an Intellishare Merge. Every record that has a new picture attached will bring up the original and the imported file for review before merging but the only difference should be the picture attached to the imported GEDCOM record. If that is the case you could quickly click through the 600 records allowing them to merge. If there are other fields that someone changed, those would obviously require more evaluation before merging. It may be possible to merge that in a few minutes if it meets the description I've given above. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 5:40 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: I have someone who graciously helped me out in linking over 600 image tombstones to the correct persons and added a Pic Caption and Pic Desc to over 800 persons They entered this info into a gedcom I created from my Legacy7.5 database. (I am still using ver 7.5 also) All I want to do is take the 800 or so persons that are linked to the 600 or so images and merge them back into my original file. Updating only the link, pic caption and pic descr. Anyone have any creative ideas to make that happen?? The standard merge process is so time consuming. (because of diff family sizes, some with , some without spouses, etc. ) I even have a txt file listing of the new filenames that are now linked up (there were already several hundred pic links to this same cemetery, so they have the identical IDBPPic in the BR table.) Otherwise, I guess my next weekend will be spent merging Thanks in advance for any help Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Question re: Syncing people in two family files
David is right. One file. Then it is simple to split when necessary. You will avoid making entries multiple times, correcting locations, standardizing spellings, etc. Ron Taylor On Monday, June 16, 2014 6:20 PM, David Abernathy da...@schmeckabernathy.com wrote: The plain answer is NO. Why not just use one combined file? Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From:Dan Farbman [mailto:dfarb...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 4:04 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Question re: Syncing people in two family files Hi All; I'm new to Legacy and have a question. I'm compiling two family files using Legacy8, one for my family and one for my wife's family. My question is how to sync the entries for myself, my wife and our children in both files. Is there a way to avoid entering the data twice? Thanks for your help. Dan Farbman dfarb...@yahoo.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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] Can't get a list of people using a media path
Richard, I can get the Scrapbook Media List to work with all options except when Source citation detail is checked. That gives an error 6. I have Legacy support looking into it but so far they have not been able to figure out what is causing the problem. Do you get any errors when using the Media List? On Sunday, June 15, 2014 9:52 AM, Richard Van Wasshnova rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, Thank you for reply. Please see my reply to Ron. I verified that method of finding Individuals using a directory does work for pictures of Burial Event pictures. I will re-look into specific problem directories. Some found no Individuals using. I will also try your suggestion of using the scrapbook media listing report. Actually the Internet address media paths are the worst but not only problem Media paths. -- Richard Van Wasshnova On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: But media can be applied to things which are not directly related to people such as Locations, Sources, Addresses and Temples. Those paths without a person in the list using your method may be used by those media. I cannot comment on why you say some lists are short or include the wrong people. Have you used the scrapbook media listing report? Reports Other Reports Scrapbook That report can include media listings for Locations, Sources (Master and Source Details), Addresses and Temples as well as individuals and marriages. You can also choose the type of media files to be included in the listing. The print media file list button will let you generate a report. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 13/06/2014 2:09 AM, Richard Van Wasshnova wrote: When you: View Master Lists Source you can select any source and Show List to see all who use it. Same for most other lists. For Locations you see list of people as soon as you select a location. However for the Media Folder List the only way I can find to show users is Options Delete View List which seems a bit risky. Ignoring the risks though I'm not pleased with the results I'm getting. Some paths show nobody using them, others come up short and wrong people. I have 400 paths, (5 samples below) [Default Media Folder]\Docs\Books\Bay_Settlement_of_Monroe_County\ [Default Media Folder]\Docs\Cemetery\Our_Lady_of_Hope\ [Default Media Folder]\Pictures\vanwasshnova\ https:\\familysearch.org\pal:\MM9.1.1\\ http:\\www.wikitree.com\wiki\\ Does anyone else get good results? Is there another way to find who is using any media path? I know I could move or rename a directory and see who comes up in missing.txt 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] Can't get a list of people using a media path
Oh...and the other thing that really needs to be included in the Media List (and lots of other Legacy reports) is output to CSV. On , Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: Richard, I can get the Scrapbook Media List to work with all options except when Source citation detail is checked. That gives an error 6. I have Legacy support looking into it but so far they have not been able to figure out what is causing the problem. Do you get any errors when using the Media List? On Sunday, June 15, 2014 9:52 AM, Richard Van Wasshnova rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, Thank you for reply. Please see my reply to Ron. I verified that method of finding Individuals using a directory does work for pictures of Burial Event pictures. I will re-look into specific problem directories. Some found no Individuals using. I will also try your suggestion of using the scrapbook media listing report. Actually the Internet address media paths are the worst but not only problem Media paths. -- Richard Van Wasshnova On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: But media can be applied to things which are not directly related to people such as Locations, Sources, Addresses and Temples. Those paths without a person in the list using your method may be used by those media. I cannot comment on why you say some lists are short or include the wrong people. Have you used the scrapbook media listing report? Reports Other Reports Scrapbook That report can include media listings for Locations, Sources (Master and Source Details), Addresses and Temples as well as individuals and marriages. You can also choose the type of media files to be included in the listing. The print media file list button will let you generate a report. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 13/06/2014 2:09 AM, Richard Van Wasshnova wrote: When you: View Master Lists Source you can select any source and Show List to see all who use it. Same for most other lists. For Locations you see list of people as soon as you select a location. However for the Media Folder List the only way I can find to show users is Options Delete View List which seems a bit risky. Ignoring the risks though I'm not pleased with the results I'm getting. Some paths show nobody using them, others come up short and wrong people. I have 400 paths, (5 samples below) [Default Media Folder]\Docs\Books\Bay_Settlement_of_Monroe_County\ [Default Media Folder]\Docs\Cemetery\Our_Lady_of_Hope\ [Default Media Folder]\Pictures\vanwasshnova\ https:\\familysearch.org\pal:\MM9.1.1\\ http:\\www.wikitree.com\wiki\\ Does anyone else get good results? Is there another way to find who is using any media path? I know I could move or rename a directory and see who comes up in missing.txt 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] Find Duplicates does not handle middle initials
Ward, Note that in Normal Duplicate Search that the Surnames are compared as either Exact Spelling or Sounds Like. It is the Given Names that are compared for the number of beginning characters and those have to match exactly...there is no Sounds Like for the given names match. Set the Check birth dates, Day range to 0 for an exact match or some other number of days that might find differences. The more criteria you specify, the fewer results will be found. Un-check blank birth dates, birth locations, and all the other date fields so that only birth is being considered. Take into account Compatible Gender, Ancestral File Number, FamilySearch ID if you wish but almost always un-check User ID. Set the Compatible Parents and the same parameters you used for the individual. Click Continue Resolve any possible duplicates that are found. Adjust the parameters to use the death date and blank the birth date. Resolve any more possible duplicates. Adjust the parameters to use the burial date and blank the death date. Resolve any more possible duplicates. You should have a fairly clean file now. Additionally you may want to look at the Name List sorted by Surname and resolve any possible duplicates you see there. Lastly, look at the Marriage List sorted by Husband, resolve duplicates and then sort by Wife and resolve duplicates. Now only those really hard ones will still remain. Others may have some tricks they've developed for finding additional duplicates. Then you might want to tackle duplicate marriages, duplicate events, duplicate sources, duplicate pictures, etc. It's all fun. Ron Taylor On Saturday, June 14, 2014 11:31 AM, Ward Walker wnkwal...@rogers.com wrote: Well, with some digging, it turns out that my example was not valid, but I think I have some other examples that are. In my example, the actual missing match was with Ruth Emma Cook and Ruth E. Cooke. So the surname did not match within 5 characters. I now spot the following duplicates in my file, which were brought in via the drag drop merge of the mothers line: - Isaac J. Walker and spouse Angelina Carmon; and Isaac John Walker and spouse Angeline Carmon. - Hannah Ann Walker and spouse Joseph Farquhar; and Hannah Anna H. Walker and spouse Joseph Farwuhar. The two Isaacs have births one year apart. The two Hannahs have the same birth year. They all have the same parents.` I see no reason why the Isaac/Angelin* couples were not presented as potential duplicates. For the Hannah/Joseph couples, the spouse's surname does not match within 5 characters. Certainly the parents could have had two different Hannahs, although it would be unlikely that both lived to marriage in that case, and they do have the same birth year. (One has a month and day as well.) Is it a requirement that the spouse must also be a potential match, for this to be presented as a potential duplicate? I've had way more far-fetched potential duplicates presented to me, including twins with different given names. Ward -Original Message- From: Brian/Support Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 1:41 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Find Duplicates does not handle middle initials If that is the case do your Ruth E. and Ruth Emma have the same husband in both files so they can be considered due to family relationships? Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Can't get a list of people using a media path
Richard, I know that you are an experienced Legacy user. Have you tried LtoolsDeluxeFind Unattached Multimedia? If you un-check Only display multimedia files that are unattached then it will produce a list of all the multimedia that have links to the database. The script probably needs to be changed to accomodate version 8 sourcing structures. Ron Taylor On Friday, June 13, 2014 12:10 AM, Richard Van Wasshnova rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com wrote: When you: View Master Lists Source you can select any source and Show List to see all who use it. Same for most other lists. For Locations you see list of people as soon as you select a location. However for the Media Folder List the only way I can find to show users is Options Delete View List which seems a bit risky. Ignoring the risks though I'm not pleased with the results I'm getting. Some paths show nobody using them, others come up short and wrong people. I have 400 paths, (5 samples below) [Default Media Folder]\Docs\Books\Bay_Settlement_of_Monroe_County\ [Default Media Folder]\Docs\Cemetery\Our_Lady_of_Hope\ [Default Media Folder]\Pictures\vanwasshnova\ https:\\familysearch.org\pal:\MM9.1.1\\ http:\\www.wikitree.com\wiki\\ Does anyone else get good results? Is there another way to find who is using any media path? I know I could move or rename a directory and see who comes up in missing.txt -- Richard Van Wasshnova 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] Search for
Jay, Check out LtoolsDeluxeMiscCreate Unknown Spouses. It may be just what you've been looking for to fix the phantom spouses. It was commissioned by Jay Wilpolt. That's not you is it? On Friday, June 6, 2014 12:04 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Ron, Sorry for not responding sooner, but this email ended up in my spam folder, glad I found it. The query worked great and found just what I was looking for, those elusive spouses who somehow have remained LIVING, when they certainly are no longer with us. So thanks for some great code!! Now, what about the spouses who dont actually have a spouse with an RIN but they have a MRIN? As you know, every parenting situation in Legacy is connected to a MRIN, even if no persons are connected to that MRIN So, I have in most cases created a Unknown, Unknown spouse when needed, and sure I missed a few, Guess I answered my own question here, probably best to go catch the empty spouses and create the 'placeholders' then rerun your query And Glad that I found FEWER than you did, but still have almost 600 to review. Again, thanks for the great code. Jay On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: This query (run in MS Access or Ltools) will find the spouses you want. If you want both spouses living, change OR in the last line to AND. If you want birthdate before some other date, change 1920 to what you want. The query could be changed to an UPDATE and perhaps SET one of the marriage tags for use in Legacy. SELECT tblMR.IDMR, tblMR.IDIRHusb, tblIR.Surname, tblIR.GivenName, tblIR.BirthSD, tblIR.Living, tblMR.IDIRWife, tblIR_1.Surname, tblIR_1.GivenName, tblIR_1.BirthSD, tblIR_1.Living FROM (tblMR INNER JOIN tblIR ON tblMR.IDIRHusb = tblIR.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblIR AS tblIR_1 ON tblMR.IDIRWife = tblIR_1.IDIR WHERE tblMR.IDIRHusb0 AND tblMR.IDIRWife0 AND tblIR.BirthSD0 And tblIR.BirthSD1920 AND tblIR_1.BirthSD0 And tblIR_1.BirthSD1920 AND (tblIR.Living=0 OR tblIR_1.Living=0); On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 4:17 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Hoping someone might be able to figure out how I can search for 'living' persons whose Spouse is born before 1920. I dont see any way to use dates against spouses in a selection parameter. Thanks in advance for any help Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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 8 uninstall fails
This has been covered before. There is a backup of Install.log. Copy that back to the Legacy Family Tree folder and then run Wise Uninstall. It has worked for me. On Friday, June 6, 2014 8:42 PM, Stanley Mitchell llehctim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, A few days ago I reported the problems I was having with the update to 8.0.0.427 on this machine (Win7-x64). Today I tried uninstalling Legacy8 using control panel. Again I see a Windows error from the Program Compatibility Assistant, and I selected the option to use recommended settings. But the program did not uninstall - it remains listed in Programs and Features. When I try to uninstall it again, there is a message box which says Could not open INSTALL.LOG file from Wise Uninstall. I've done brute force removals of applications before, so I will be able to clean up my system. I had high hopes for version 8, but my experience leaves me dismayed and disappointed. -Stan 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] Search for
Kurt, did you try the SQL script that I provided? It works great. I found about 750 marriages in my database that fit the criteria. It gave me a good pool to check against Find a Grave. Quite a few of them are now proven to be deceased. One hint that I forgot to mention. Ltools wants the entire script as one line (without CRLF between the lines). MS Access ignores the line spacing and other white space. On Thursday, June 5, 2014 2:07 PM, Kurt Kneeland kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net wrote: That’s a tough one. Even with Ltools of MS Access or some other way to do a direct SQL Query, I’m having difficulty envisioning the structure of that query. It would involve a complex join of the living selected from the individuals table with the marriage table to get the spouses and then back to the individuals table to get the spousal birth dates. Within Legacy, you can create a search list of ‘living” persons who have spouse (spouse surname not equal [blank]). You could then scroll through the search list, with the family tab showing, which will show spouses and their dates of birth, and manually tag the applicable records. It could be a tedious task if you have a lot of living individuals in your database. From:Jay 1FamilyTree [mailto:1familytree@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 5:00 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Search for Hoping someone might be able to figure out how I can search for 'living' persons whose Spouse is born before 1920. I dont see any way to use dates against spouses in a selection parameter. Thanks in advance for any help Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Search for
This query (run in MS Access or Ltools) will find the spouses you want. If you want both spouses living, change OR in the last line to AND. If you want birthdate before some other date, change 1920 to what you want. The query could be changed to an UPDATE and perhaps SET one of the marriage tags for use in Legacy. SELECT tblMR.IDMR, tblMR.IDIRHusb, tblIR.Surname, tblIR.GivenName, tblIR.BirthSD, tblIR.Living, tblMR.IDIRWife, tblIR_1.Surname, tblIR_1.GivenName, tblIR_1.BirthSD, tblIR_1.Living FROM (tblMR INNER JOIN tblIR ON tblMR.IDIRHusb = tblIR.IDIR) INNER JOIN tblIR AS tblIR_1 ON tblMR.IDIRWife = tblIR_1.IDIR WHERE tblMR.IDIRHusb0 AND tblMR.IDIRWife0 AND tblIR.BirthSD0 And tblIR.BirthSD1920 AND tblIR_1.BirthSD0 And tblIR_1.BirthSD1920 AND (tblIR.Living=0 OR tblIR_1.Living=0); On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 4:17 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Hoping someone might be able to figure out how I can search for 'living' persons whose Spouse is born before 1920. I dont see any way to use dates against spouses in a selection parameter. Thanks in advance for any help Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Showing relationship on Family Screen
Could you give an example of someone with non-blood relationship more than 10? It is hard to imagine what that must be like. Typically, you may be interested in a brother-in-law's father but beyond that what value would it have and why are you tracking such distant relationships? On Saturday, May 31, 2014 5:52 PM, June Chan mai_l...@aapt.net.au wrote: Is it possible to adjust how many levels of relationships show on the family screen. I would like to see the relationships of people who are not related by blood but are related by marriage, even tenusously. I note that when setting relationships it allows for 999 blood relationships to show it only allows for 10 non blood - is there a way to change this at all? Thank you 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 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] Combining family files
One caution. Don't use the / character in your filename. That can cause problems with the operating system. There are a few other characters that should not be used. See this Microsoft article. Error Message: Filename is Invalid or Cannot Contain Any of the Following Characters Error Message: Filename is Invalid or Cannot Contain... You can rename the system desktop icons (such as My Computer, My Documents, Internet Explorer, and Network Neighborhood) using the invalid charac... View on support.microsoft.com Preview by Yahoo Ron Taylor On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 6:03 AM, Mike Fry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 May 2014 13:11, cdmill...@frontier.com wrote: I have separate family files that I wish to combine, but still keep the original files. These pertain to grandparents who were both Millers. The new file would be called Miller/Miller, but I would still have the originals named Daniel Miller and Mary Miller. Can someone advise me how to begin? Sure appreciate your help. Open one of the files. Note that the titlebar reflects the name of the open file. Now, save it using the combined file name, using the File-- Save File As command. the titlebar now gives the new combined file name. Next, you can import the second Legacy file into your new combined file. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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] two instances of Legacy
Thanks Brian. I usually only use split screen on 2 files and didn't realize it had that limitation. So the 6 screens are for viewing 1 or 2 files in 6 windows? Still is a great feature. Too bad that ViewMaster Lists and other commands cannot leave those windows open for both files at the same time for comparisons/updates. On Saturday, May 24, 2014 9:32 AM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Ron, Legacy has NEVER allowed more than two databases to be open at the same time. Split screen does allow six views but only two databases can be open so those 6 views will be different sections of the two open databases. I was not able to find any version of Legacy that advertised 9 views. The most I could find was 7 in Legacy 4 and 5. Version 6 and above reduced that to 6 views. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 23/05/2014 3:53 PM, Ron Taylor wrote: You don't need 2 menus with split screen. The active database will have the title bar colored so it is obvious and the other open database window title bars will be dimmed. Prior versions of Legacy allowed for up to 9 databases to be open simultaneously even though it was pretty crowded on screen. The current help file for version 8 states that up to 6 databases can be open at the same time. The active database is the one that the menu will affect. You can't execute more than 1 menu at the same time anyway so just click the title bar of the window you want to use and then whatever menu commands you want for that window. Ron Taylor On Friday, May 23, 2014 12:59 PM, Cheryl Rothwell historysle...@gmail.com wrote: With the split screen view you don't get two menus. Legacy will not allow you to open two menus in the same instance of the program to compare anything. I hate that about Legacy actually. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Wendy Howard wendy.how...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, Sherry has posted here within the last 24 or 48 hours to the contrary. You can have Legacy installed on two computers with the one license. Have you looked at the split screen view? You can have two copies of the same file *displayed* on the screen, or two different files open side-by-side with that. If you have two monitors, you can stretch the window across both so that one file is on one screen and the other on the other screen (or so I recall - never had that luxury here, just recall hearing it discussed on this list). Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Cheryl Rothwell said the following on 24/05/2014 06:28: I didn't realize having Legacy installed on more than one computer was a no-no. It was always ok in TMG, just don't use at the same time. (And that could be different since I moved to Legacy several years ago.) On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Mike Fry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 May 2014 20:06, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: As a possible aid to my conversion of sources, can I open the same Legacy file on two monitors (same computer) so I can see what I have and what I am doing? Tests I've run show that Legacy is a single-instance program, so the answer to your question is, I believe, a resounding NO. However, if you have two machines, whilst technically violating the licence, you could run Legacy on both machines at the same time: just for this specific purpose. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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
Re: [LegacyUG] two instances of Legacy
One feature that I would like in Split View would be an option to have all the screens synchronize on the current individual of the active screen. That way if Family tab were opened on screen1 and Pedigree tab on screen2 and Descendant tab on screen3 with Asa Clark Brown as the current individual in the husband position of Family tab...then screen2 would be the pedigree for Asa Clark Brown and screen3 would show his descendants. A click on Eleanor Huffman to make her the current individual would automatically sync the other windows with her as the focus. This would make simultaneous views of the current individual very convenient. If 2 databases were involved, the synchronization could be driven by the Intellishare value if both files have the same origin (or some other common identifier). If there is not a match between the files, then Legacy would treat it as it does now without any attempt at synchronization. On , Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Brian. I usually only use split screen on 2 files and didn't realize it had that limitation. So the 6 screens are for viewing 1 or 2 files in 6 windows? Still is a great feature. Too bad that ViewMaster Lists and other commands cannot leave those windows open for both files at the same time for comparisons/updates. On Saturday, May 24, 2014 9:32 AM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Ron, Legacy has NEVER allowed more than two databases to be open at the same time. Split screen does allow six views but only two databases can be open so those 6 views will be different sections of the two open databases. I was not able to find any version of Legacy that advertised 9 views. The most I could find was 7 in Legacy 4 and 5. Version 6 and above reduced that to 6 views. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 23/05/2014 3:53 PM, Ron Taylor wrote: You don't need 2 menus with split screen. The active database will have the title bar colored so it is obvious and the other open database window title bars will be dimmed. Prior versions of Legacy allowed for up to 9 databases to be open simultaneously even though it was pretty crowded on screen. The current help file for version 8 states that up to 6 databases can be open at the same time. The active database is the one that the menu will affect. You can't execute more than 1 menu at the same time anyway so just click the title bar of the window you want to use and then whatever menu commands you want for that window. Ron Taylor On Friday, May 23, 2014 12:59 PM, Cheryl Rothwell historysle...@gmail.com wrote: With the split screen view you don't get two menus. Legacy will not allow you to open two menus in the same instance of the program to compare anything. I hate that about Legacy actually. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Wendy Howard wendy.how...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, Sherry has posted here within the last 24 or 48 hours to the contrary. You can have Legacy installed on two computers with the one license. Have you looked at the split screen view? You can have two copies of the same file *displayed* on the screen, or two different files open side-by-side with that. If you have two monitors, you can stretch the window across both so that one file is on one screen and the other on the other screen (or so I recall - never had that luxury here, just recall hearing it discussed on this list). Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Cheryl Rothwell said the following on 24/05/2014 06:28: I didn't realize having Legacy installed on more than one computer was a no-no. It was always ok in TMG, just don't use at the same time. (And that could be different since I moved to Legacy several years ago.) On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Mike Fry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 May 2014 20:06, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: As a possible aid to my conversion of sources, can I open the same Legacy file on two monitors (same computer) so I can see what I have and what I am doing? Tests I've run show that Legacy is a single-instance program, so the answer to your question is, I believe, a resounding NO. However, if you have two machines, whilst technically violating the licence, you could run Legacy on both machines at the same time: just for this specific purpose. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook
Re: [LegacyUG] two instances of Legacy
You don't need 2 menus with split screen. The active database will have the title bar colored so it is obvious and the other open database window title bars will be dimmed. Prior versions of Legacy allowed for up to 9 databases to be open simultaneously even though it was pretty crowded on screen. The current help file for version 8 states that up to 6 databases can be open at the same time. The active database is the one that the menu will affect. You can't execute more than 1 menu at the same time anyway so just click the title bar of the window you want to use and then whatever menu commands you want for that window. Ron Taylor On Friday, May 23, 2014 12:59 PM, Cheryl Rothwell historysle...@gmail.com wrote: With the split screen view you don't get two menus. Legacy will not allow you to open two menus in the same instance of the program to compare anything. I hate that about Legacy actually. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Wendy Howard wendy.how...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, Sherry has posted here within the last 24 or 48 hours to the contrary. You can have Legacy installed on two computers with the one license. Have you looked at the split screen view? You can have two copies of the same file *displayed* on the screen, or two different files open side-by-side with that. If you have two monitors, you can stretch the window across both so that one file is on one screen and the other on the other screen (or so I recall - never had that luxury here, just recall hearing it discussed on this list). Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Cheryl Rothwell said the following on 24/05/2014 06:28: I didn't realize having Legacy installed on more than one computer was a no-no. It was always ok in TMG, just don't use at the same time. (And that could be different since I moved to Legacy several years ago.) On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Mike Fry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 May 2014 20:06, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: As a possible aid to my conversion of sources, can I open the same Legacy file on two monitors (same computer) so I can see what I have and what I am doing? Tests I've run show that Legacy is a single-instance program, so the answer to your question is, I believe, a resounding NO. However, if you have two machines, whilst technically violating the licence, you could run Legacy on both machines at the same time: just for this specific purpose. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Re: [LegacyUG] How to mass edit Source Detail.
Cathy gave excellent instructions for finding any text in the database using Search and Replace. I use it quite often in exactly the way she described and yes it does work. The search and replace works just about the same way a word processor might perform the same function. Here are the fields that I just tried with version 8.0.0.427 (lots of fields are available in the Find where pull-down menu). Find where: Source-Title Find what: Utah, Utah, Replacement text: Utah, Utah, Find whole word only - unchecked Match case - checked Anywhere in field - radio button set Replace only found text with replacement text - radio button set Click Start Because the replacement text is the same as the find what text, I can click on Replace or Skip and nothing is changed. Or I can make the changes I want in the Replacement box. It definitely would be nice to limit a search and replace to a tagged sub-set. We can continue to wish for that. One more option is to use the Ltools Global Text Search function. Ron Taylor On Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:57 PM, magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:51 PM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: There is no master. That's the problem. Wait, who said there is no master? I'm not following, I guess. I never said that. There is definitely a master source. In fact, I don't even know how to add a Source Detail without a Master Source. Cindy Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1]....????
Are you sure you are not using the Save As versus the Backup Family File? Save as can append a bracketed number to a filename if the name already exists. The backup will ask if it is alright to overwrite a filename that already exists. The only mystery is that you say the file has .zip extension which should indicate a backup. If you're not doing backup to a file with date and time appended, then the same filename will be attempted. Windows has the ability to prevent files from being overwritten and perhaps that is what is causing the bracketed number to be appended. Google bracketed numbers being appended to filenames where several articles describe this situation. On Sunday, May 18, 2014 1:28 PM, ChasH howell...@gmail.com wrote: If you save some other type file, like a word file do you get the same [1] being added to those files? On 5/18/2014 2:10 PM, elizabeth wrote: I looked, and those options are already checked. The date and time appear after the [1]s in each file name. Elizabeth On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, C.G. Ouimet c.g.oui...@outlook.com wrote: The Zip file is the backup. It might be because Legacy doesn’t want to overwrite the previous backup. In Legacy, go to File, then Backup. Click the Options button at the bottom and ensure to check the Append Date and Append Time to the filename. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON From:elizabeth [mailto:newi...@gmail.com] Sent: May 18, 2014 01:50 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] [1][1][1] Why does a '[1]' keep getting added to the file name every time I close and save my file? EXAMPLE; john.zip becomes john[1].zip, then john[1][1].zip the next time I close and save it...and on and on and on. john.zip john[1].zip john[1][1].zip john[1][1][1].zip john[1][1][1][1].zip etc. elizabeth Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] loading Gedcom file on Mac using Fusion
VMWare Fusion is not the same program as Apple Parallels and Parallels is not Parallels Fusion. Like Leon, I am running Parallels version 9.0.24229 but I am still running Windows XP SP3. It works fine. I plan to upgrade to Windows 7 or 8 because Microsoft is not providing support for XP any longer but the old XP is not the issue. VMWare Fusion current version is 6 so you may want to upgrade that virtual machine software to the latest. Ron Taylor On Friday, May 16, 2014 3:45 PM, Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com wrote: Rod: You are 4 generations back in Windows operating system. You are 5 generations back in Parallels Fusion. My guess is Legacy 8 has problems with those old systems. I would recommend you upgrade to at least Windows 7 or 8 and Fusion 9. The other option is to downgrade Legacy to about Version 4 or 5 to be more like your other computer software vintage. If your Mac computer is similar vintage as your software, you probably lack enough memory to be running a virtual machine. I recommend at least 8GB and prefer 16 GB when running VMs on a Mac. I would not run the new Windows 7 or 8 with less than 6 or 8 GB in a VM. Most Windows 8 systems come with 8-12 GB of memory today. The older versions of Fusion does not have current drivers to support a lot of the newer software. I think your basic problem is incompatible / outdated software. Chap Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ⛳ On May 15, 2014, at 10:26 PM, Rodney Louis Goff rodneyg...@comcast.net wrote: Leon, I am running VMware Fusion Version 4.1.4 [900582] I am running Windows XP Professional as a virtual machine I am running Legacy Version 8.0.0.425 I have these on a Macbook Air I was able to create a full GEDCOM file one time but have not been able to do it again and cannot create a partial GEDCOM file as Legacy shows I should be able to. Any help is appreciated. Rod Rodney L Goff 4832 NW Promenade Ter, Suite 421 Portland, OR 97229-0983 503-709-6168 rodneyg...@comcast.net https://www.facebook.com/rodney.goff.9 On May 15, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com wrote: Rodney: 1st of all, I don't like all the garbage at the end of your email. Please delete that on all future emails before sending. Thanks. I am running Parallels Fusion 9, v.9.0.24229, dated April 1, 2014 on an iMac. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate as a Virtual Machine in Parallels. I am running the most current version of Legacy, L8.0.0.425. I have no problem exporting a GEDCOM file or a Legacy GEDCOM file using the Sample database. What system and versions are you running? Parallels? Windows? Legacy? ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Rodney Louis Goff rodneyg...@comcast.net wrote: I just got off the phone with Legacy and they could not make it work. Gedcom file will not load to export. Legacy Deluxe 8 on Macbook Air using Fusion has worked seamless until now. I ran export Gedcom but all I see is the hourglass and nothing loads. Any ideas. Thanks, Rod Rodney L Goff 4832 NW Promenade Ter, Suite 421 Portland, OR 97229-0983 503-709-6168 rodneyg...@comcast.net 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Child Status
Cheryl, I haven't seen that combination but if true you could add a new Relationship to Parent status of Biological and Adopted. Now I'll have to watch for that one in my research. Thanks. On Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:31 PM, singhals singh...@erols.com wrote: Be it known and REMEMBERED that it is not usually /clear/ whether the adoptive status is applicable to both parents or to one, and if only to one, which? Some states required the biological parent to co-adopt the child, thus making the child both biological and adopted. Cheryl Ron Taylor wrote: Sherry, I will send you a detailed example of the step children issue. I hope you will take the time to examine and understand the scenario so it might get fixed. The request to show relationship to parent on family tab has been asked before and may already be in the list of enhancements wanted. If not, please do push it along. As for changing the name of Child Status to Birth Status, that is not to urgent but how it is used is important. I see lots of users that have added Adopted and other designations to the Child Status list just so it will display in the Family tab but that can be wrong when it is not both parents that have adopted the child. Most of the time, it is one biological parent that has re-married and the new spouse adopts the children. That is why having the Relationship to Parent fields should always be used even if the adoption is by both parents so it is consistent. The Child Status that I mentioned called Sibling same name is great for those families where a name has been used more than once for different children. Looking at one of those families, it is obvious that the same name was already detected and documented versus a mistake in recording. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 4:13 PM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: If you want to submit suggestion forms on these ideas, Ron, I'll pass them on to the programmers (one per form please) Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com mailto:doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: The Child Status should really be labelled Birth Status which would have settings like Twin, Triplet, Stillborn, Stillborn Twin, Stillborn Triplet, and blank (single live birth). In my databases, I have added 2 new child status: Sibling same name and Sibling same name opposite gender. These allow me to flag those children in families where they had more than one child and re-used the name. They should not be merged. And there are some group sheets where children of different genders have the same name probably because the compiler did not know which gender was correct or there may have actually been multiple children with the same name and different genders. The Relationship to Father and Relationship to Mother status will have settings like Adopted, Foster, and blank (Biological). One other relationship status that needs some work by Millennia is Step. It can be used to properly indicate children in a household that are from a prior marriage of one of the parents. The 1/2 kids function of Legacy does not distinguish between children of a prior marriage versus children of a later marriage. Children of a later marriage are not considered step children to any of the prior marriages. The relationship status is not displayed (wish it were) on the Family tab. It can be displayed on reports and the Chronology tab. Ron Taylor 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] Child Status
The Child Status should really be labelled Birth Status which would have settings like Twin, Triplet, Stillborn, Stillborn Twin, Stillborn Triplet, and blank (single live birth). In my databases, I have added 2 new child status: Sibling same name and Sibling same name opposite gender. These allow me to flag those children in families where they had more than one child and re-used the name. They should not be merged. And there are some group sheets where children of different genders have the same name probably because the compiler did not know which gender was correct or there may have actually been multiple children with the same name and different genders. The Relationship to Father and Relationship to Mother status will have settings like Adopted, Foster, and blank (Biological). One other relationship status that needs some work by Millennia is Step. It can be used to properly indicate children in a household that are from a prior marriage of one of the parents. The 1/2 kids function of Legacy does not distinguish between children of a prior marriage versus children of a later marriage. Children of a later marriage are not considered step children to any of the prior marriages. The relationship status is not displayed (wish it were) on the Family tab. It can be displayed on reports and the Chronology tab. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:17 PM, Heeren hee...@usit.net wrote: I use this a bit differently. I open the Sources from the person's Family page by clicking on the little books icon. Then I scroll down the events list to Father Rel.: Mother Rel.: I add the source I used to prove the child/parent relationship. It's for my own use, I found out years ago I would be looking at a list of children wonder where I found that one or this one. On some I have a bunch of sources listed...as census...which may show the person as son or daughter of the head of the family...usually the father. The more sources, the better. This is quicker for me than looking through all the events. On 5/14/2014 7:06 AM, Merrelyn Bates wrote: I have been slowly working through Geoff's book and just discovered the relationship of child to father and mother. Above that is 'Child Status', which when opened has two categories: 'Stillborn', 'Twin'. I understand that the list can be added to with other terms, e.g. 'triplet', 'Death shortly after birth', etc. My question is: Would one normally use this attribute? If so, how? Thank you. Merrelyn Bates 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] Child Status
Sherry, I will send you a detailed example of the step children issue. I hope you will take the time to examine and understand the scenario so it might get fixed. The request to show relationship to parent on family tab has been asked before and may already be in the list of enhancements wanted. If not, please do push it along. As for changing the name of Child Status to Birth Status, that is not to urgent but how it is used is important. I see lots of users that have added Adopted and other designations to the Child Status list just so it will display in the Family tab but that can be wrong when it is not both parents that have adopted the child. Most of the time, it is one biological parent that has re-married and the new spouse adopts the children. That is why having the Relationship to Parent fields should always be used even if the adoption is by both parents so it is consistent. The Child Status that I mentioned called Sibling same name is great for those families where a name has been used more than once for different children. Looking at one of those families, it is obvious that the same name was already detected and documented versus a mistake in recording. Ron Taylor On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 4:13 PM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: If you want to submit suggestion forms on these ideas, Ron, I'll pass them on to the programmers (one per form please) Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote: The Child Status should really be labelled Birth Status which would have settings like Twin, Triplet, Stillborn, Stillborn Twin, Stillborn Triplet, and blank (single live birth). In my databases, I have added 2 new child status: Sibling same name and Sibling same name opposite gender. These allow me to flag those children in families where they had more than one child and re-used the name. They should not be merged. And there are some group sheets where children of different genders have the same name probably because the compiler did not know which gender was correct or there may have actually been multiple children with the same name and different genders. The Relationship to Father and Relationship to Mother status will have settings like Adopted, Foster, and blank (Biological). One other relationship status that needs some work by Millennia is Step. It can be used to properly indicate children in a household that are from a prior marriage of one of the parents. The 1/2 kids function of Legacy does not distinguish between children of a prior marriage versus children of a later marriage. Children of a later marriage are not considered step children to any of the prior marriages. The relationship status is not displayed (wish it were) on the Family tab. It can be displayed on reports and the Chronology tab. Ron Taylor 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] Net access blocked from Legacy
Windows Update may require Microsoft Internet Explorer. Not a good idea to remove IE from a Windows machine. This Wikipedia article gives a good description of why. Windows Update - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Windows Update - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Windows Update (WU[1]), a service offered by Microsoft, provides updates for the Microsoft Windows operating system and its installed components, including ... View on en.wikipedia.org Preview by Yahoo On Monday, May 5, 2014 12:23 AM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: The internal Legacy browser does use a form of IE. Internet stuff from Legacy that opens in the actual browser uses your default browser or whatever you specify in the Options 11.1 However Legacy Home Tab and the mapping use a form of IE - not sure which. I suspect on one computer you removed a file or registry entry of IE that you didn't remove on the other computer. I find it better to leave the installation of IE alone though I rarely use it. I note that it has been patched already for the latest security problem. Cathy Boyd Miller wrote: Until yesterday my Legacy 8 has run as expected. However I ran File maintenance and as it finished a notepad file popped named Legacy8Update[1].txt up to say 8.0.0.414,4 March 2014,http://legacy-setup.s3.amazonaws.com/v8/,Legacy8Setup.exe,675 05968,64.4 If I run this file I get a number of adverts relating to Setup.exe errors. This message appears whenever I open Legacy. When I try to access the help file I get the index of the help on the left with the right side blank, and a text box saying Unable to open this internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later. This is a bit curious because the Help file does not come from the net - it is installed. So I cannot access the Help files. Email (Thunderbird) and internet access (Chrome) to all my usual sites and a few other sites appear to be working properly on this computer. However I cannot get the Legacy map feature with Master Locations. When I try Legacy Home from within the program the headers are there but the bulk of the screen is blank with a small dialog box Do you want to open this file. LegacyHome.htm. A few days ago I removed Internet Explorer (I hope) from this computer and from my netbook, but but on this netbook the Legacy Home and the map function operate normally. I hope removing IE was not what has mucked things up. More File Maintenance does not resolve the problem. I have tried: 1. Shutting down and restarted the computer. 2. Deleting all the USR files. 3. Uninstalling Legacy but it can't find the install.log, 4 . Reinstalling Legacy 8 from a new download hoping to create a new install.log file but this has not happened. In Program files (x86)/Legacy8/Backup there are Install.log dated 28 Nov 13, and Install.001 to Install.023. This last is dated 9 Apr 14 so it was not created by today's install. 5. Clearing all browsing data for the last week from Google Chrome just in case this problem was something I had imported and held in the cache. The initial problems are not resolved. Any suggesti ons as to what has happened or where to go next? Boyd http://www.avast.com/ This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active. 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
[LegacyUG] Preposition_English.lst
I posted this last Sunday but it did not show up so here it is again. Hope it goes out this time. The Preposition_English.lst file is not being copied from Legacy version 7.5 when updating to version 8.x. If you have made changes to it in version 7, you will want to copy that modified file into the new place where it is stored for Legacy 8 which is C:\Users\username\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\Misc\Preposition_English.lst where username is the name of your Windows login account. If you are still on Windows XP then instead of Users it will have Documents and Settings. HelpHelp IndexSearchPrepositionPrepositions on Locations provides some documentation on this feature. I added Prob and Probably to the list of prepositions because they work similar to the other entries in the file when viewing the Master Locations List. (Note the trailing space) Each preposition in the file should have a space after it. The line for Under actually contains 2 spaces after it in the file installed by Legacy and therefore that preposition will not work as expected unless an entry in the Master Locations List actually has 2 spaces after it. Each preposition including trailing spaces must be an exact match to be detected by the Remove common prepositions from locations function in the Sort Location List. The Help button on that tool also describes how prepositions affect the display of locations. A couple of other prepositions that I added to the list are Of , and Of, (Note the included comma and the trailing space). There are likely other prepositions that you may wish to customize. The sort routine takes into account any exact match of these prepositions and sorts the locations as though the preposition was not present but then appends the preposition to the end of the sorted location when it is displayed. This results in all locations with the same spelling being displayed together. Similar logic for the sort can be used if the Remove leading bracket from bracketed locations so that they too will be sorted as if the brackets were not present. Ron Taylor 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] Urgent; need help transferring data to laptop
If you want to transfer all of your Legacy information to another computer, always use the backup to zip files on the original computer and then restore family file on the target computer. The media files will backup to another zip file. To restore media to the target computer, you simply unzip all to the C:\ directory and the unzip will lay down the media files in the same structure they had when the backup was made. Ron Taylor On Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:26 AM, Pam Gosling pg...@comcast.net wrote: Thanks Cathy and Mike so much, I just opened the computer to see your input and want to clarify both instructions so I'm understanding this right; Yes, I do have Legacy 8 installed, nothing in it yet. I did not make a zip file, in my original computer, I only clicked on the fdb file (with the blue dot icon) and selected send to flash drive. Would it be better to make a zip or go about this a different way? Secondly, then, with the data on the stick, I go to File-Open (in the new Legacy on the laptop right?), what should I see from there? Any other possible issues at that point? Just want to make sure I pick the right options. Thank you SO MUCH! Pam -Original Message- From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 12:46 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Urgent; need help transferring data to laptop On 27 Apr 2014 09:06, Pam Gosling wrote: I have the data on a flash drive, trying to install on a Windows-Mac Maverick w/ VM Fusion, Windows 7. The correct file is listed on a Cruzer Blade USB flash Drive, shows up in the folders on the laptop. You don't state it specifically, but can we assume that the laptop has Legacy 8 installed on it? If not and you've got Legacy 7, then you're out of luck. You can go from 7 to 8 but not backwards in the opposite direction. You say you've got the data on the USB drive - but in which format? Legacy Backup (ie ZIP file) or Legacy Family File (FDB file). There is a very distinct difference. Assuming the first stumbling block isn't, then if the USB is showing up in the Windows part of the laptop, your problems come down to terminology. Import is generally for getting non-Legacy data into an existing Legacy file. If you're trying to read a GED file, then you should first create a new, empty family file, then import the foreign data. If the USB stick contains a Legacy Family File, then you need to use the File/Open command and bring up a Windows dialog box so that you can navigate to the USB stick and find the file. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (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 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] Vanishing Spouses?
Please take the time (even if it is tedious on dial-up and even if it requires a slow download) to update to the latest release. Perhaps access the internet at your local library or a neighbor with a fast internet and get the update on a USB drive. Many problems have been fixed. It is un-productive to try to help with a version that is out-of-date and the issues may have already been resolved by the newest release. Once you have 8.0.0.414 or later installed, ask your question again so that everyone already on that version can test and respond. Not many will be able to test your scenario with an out-dated version nor provide solutions that may already have been achieved. Ron Taylor On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 3:22 PM, magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.com wrote: There are some weird glitches. I have a problem where I exclude certain individuals from potential problems and it stubbornly refuses to go away. I exit the program, then relaunch and then it's gone. Now that I think about it, that may have been the problem with my twins issue. Cindy 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
