I have done something similar in error, and found I
had three almost identical DB with enough variances to
drive me nuts. What I did, was add the three DBs to
the same file in this way. They were about 2 each.
First, I went to Customize Other in each DB.
Under Custom USER ID Numbers, choose Fil
I have never used Genbox, so don't know what the
Legacy Pedigree report doesn't have. I just ran the P.
report and it did exactly that. You may want to pick
4,5, or 6 generations to a page, but that doesn't seem
to be your need. Are you asking how to create a more
than 6 generations to a page, or m
William:
The first problem is that I enter the information between TWO
brackets or braces...I use the lower case ones to the right of the
"p"...so data entry is [[...then the info I want followed by ]] when
Legacy sees the [[it treats everything until]]as being private
information and...unless
Sorry - the "solution" only specified single square brackets. If double
were meant, it should
have been written that way.
I tested double square brackets - and that solves the "Possible illegal
characters" message
in the Potential Problems report - but when I make an Ancestry report, it
leave
Oh - I just find a killer problem with this. For the Potential Problems
List, it considers
each use of [--?--] to have "Possible illegal character in the Name field"
AND it gives
me "Too many dashes in the Name field." Apparently what is standard for
RootsWeb
is considered a Problem in Legac
The solution has already been given in this thread.
Put the actual relationship in double square brackets.
If you like the [--?--]
enter it as
[--?--] [[wife of Joe Blow]]
etc
I don't like the [--?--] so just put the relevant information in the
double square brackets like the original poster.
C
Thanks to those who answered my plea for help with pictures. I am working
on it - not perfected yet - but hopefully it will work soon.
I am very grateful for the quick help the members of this list always seem
to do. Thanks again,
Tish
Tish, whilst the technique used is not uncommon, if
Considering the many helpful suggestions on this topic and this
recommendation,
I decided to use this format.I have just changed my 129 individuals. I
prefer
to see a question mark to reading what looks like a "real" name. The Index
View
does put all the [--?--] at the top of the alphabet
I just went and took a look at my WorldConnect tree on Rootsweb.com
and was disturbed that all of my event sentence override constructions
are appearing, for example:
"Event: National Army Military Service 27 May 1918 Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, USA
_OVER: [HeShe] enlisted in the [Desc] [onDate] [inPlac
Okay, I messed up and changed different items in two saved files. It only
involves 90
people. I have so many people in the two files I would rather not merge the
files. I
used to open a laptop and my desktop PC so I could view and change/add
information,
but laptop is not available to use. Wo
Hi Roxanne,
It sounds to me as if you've picked up a second set of unknown
parents - and they are marked as preferred parents.
Cathy
At 08:27 AM 14/12/2006, you wrote:
Jim;
That's just it, I haven't deleted any individuals
from any of my files. Last night was the first time I
had opened my o
Hi Janis,
It's the non-existent third wife you need to get rid of.
There are various ways to do this.
Go to the husband in family view and click the Spouse icon.
Highlight the unknown third wife and delete.
Another way,
Right click on the husband when the unknown wife is showing and
choose to u
Ruth Ann,
Thank you for illustrating this long-standing issue.
Jon Raymond
St Paul Park, MN
Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/
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I need a little help in how to set up a Legacy Pedigree report. I
would like it to follow straight through much like Genbox does,
whereas it does not go >>> 'number 1 is the same as number 5 on page
1 and so on. I noticed that Genbox can do that and silly me I de
I fully concur with the utility of permitting additional kinds of
"relationships" linkages. Mike suggested good examples. In my case, I
really started my file when I was asked to determine all the people buried in a
family plot - older cousins were trying to "reserve" their place and we foun
I just purchased Map My Family Tree. I have a number of entries in
Canada that appear as incomplete because there is no county in my Legacy
database. When I use Geocode, I don't find a county for Canadian
locations.
Is there an update to Geocode that gives the Canadian counties?
Mary
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I have an individual male with several children, born of two wives.
Three of the children are by the first wife, but one of those three somehow was
showing up as the son of a third (nonexistent) wife - apparently something that
happened during the import from TMG several weeks ago.
So I went in
I have 5.0.0.256 (Version 5). I have a great-great-grandfather who had
a son by an unknown (so far, at least) woman. I have not entered any
information for the mother. The "relationship calculator" correctly
finds this son to be my 1/2 great-granduncle. The "set relationships"
does not see
Ron:
Not usually but please understand that what's between the brackets is
just for MY information..When printing a report the choices you make
for printing kick in so if you want to
see --?-- that would be the choice you make Conceivably you might
make different choices for different reports.
Also check that Legacy has not somehow added an extra set of "Unknown"
parents when you see someone who appears to be unlinked. If Legacy
thinks there is n\more than one set of parents there will be a number on
the Parent Icon under their name in family view.
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia C
MessageDonna,
Sometimes a refresh of "TOOLS / SET RELATIONSHIPS" is needed. I don't really
expect it to work for you since when you gave the unknown a fake name it fixed
the relationship until you changed it back to unknown, right?
Richard
- Original Message -
From: Donna Alden-Bug
Hi Listers
When I don't know the maiden name of women who are married I put in
what I've found for main entry's Given Name such as initial etc, and
list variations of the married name in AKAs SMITH, Ada Mrs and SMITH,
John Mrs.
If I have no name at all for the female then I don't put anything in,
Hi Ron, Sherry,
If you a Google Search for that error, it would appear that it is a Windows
error related to network drive access, or some other (presumable temporary
problem) hard drive access issue.
Greg
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From: "Sherry/Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Th
Jim;
That's just it, I haven't deleted any individuals
from any of my files. Last night was the first time I
had opened my own file in a month, and found I had no
parents!
Will check out the link you sent; this is the first
time I have had a problem like this since downloading
my first Legacy p
Is there a recommended way of tracking various individuals who have either a
long-term or momentary relationship? Examples would be servants, clergymen,
slaves, etc.
For now, I can only see recording various notes and (in some cases) keeping
track of separate families which I can "publish"
Ron,
Who knows? It's one of those errors that is usually self-correcting. Our
recommendation for fixing it is to restart the computer
Thanks for using Legacy.
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Roxanne,
When you delete someone from a family file, you run the risk of breaking
several family relationships. For example, if you delete a married man as a
child, then you also delete him as a husband and a father (if he has
children). Most of the time unlinking is best.
Please see our tip
A little while ago, I mentioned about how in my
half-sister's file, her gg-grandpa became unlinked to
his parents. When looking at his parents in the family
view, Milo was listed right along with his siblings,
but when I clicked on him, he popped up and his
parents disappeared. When I tried to reli
Kathy:
I use seven underscores (___) for unknown names, but they print in
reports.
I think I am going to change to your method. Do you include anything with
the [[]]'s?
Ron Carter
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 1
Donna,
Since it works in other cases in your tree, but not specifically for
her, why don't you try exporting this little branch to another file
and see if the relationships work? Or you could delete your
grandmother and her first child and create them all over again,
linking them in, and see if th
Hi,
I updated to Version 6.0.0.118 and everything seem to be OK until I went to
close the file. I got the following error:
Error saving database profile.
Error 3043: Disk or network error.
I reopened the program and file and then closed it. This time I didn't get
the error message.
Any idea w
For those who still use Legacy 5.0 there is a new update available. If
you have Legacy 5.0 Deluxe you can update from withing Legacy by going
to Internet > Check for Update.
For those using the Standard Version you will have to download the
installation program from our Web site here:
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Jon:
Maybe you are trying to help him in two separate ways
-- show him what data you have gathered on his
paternal grandfather's side of his family, and then
helping him minimize the subsequent data entry.
I'm not an expert on all of the Legacy reports and
their comparative pluses and minuses. I
Kathy,
I think you solution is not only unique, but it avoids the pitfalls of using
Unknown, UNK and so forth, which can create problems in online indexes, etc.
Very truthfully, I have seen one instance where an amateur genealogist did
not realize that UNK was an abbreviation and actually beli
I wrote to her off-list.
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Dora,
This is, IMHO, off topic. See guideline No. 5 from the Legacy User
Group Etiquette (http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp):
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Lighten up. I think she has a problem and it doesn't hurt her Legacy
"family" to help. However, those replies should be made off list.
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Benson
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 5:17 PM
To: LegacyUserG
This is really a topic for another group. For advice from professional
genealogist try the APG list (Association of Professional Genealogists)
their website is http://www.apgen.org
Linda Altman
http://www.southerngenealogy.com
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Walt,
You might want to check through the archive for advice on how to send
text only messages to the list. Sending attachments and HTML messages
(both of which are included in your e-mail) is in breach of the Legacy
User Group guidelines, and can annoy many users here, especially those
on dial-u
For a woman who is married and I only know the first name I enter it as Mrs
Ann, Smith. The rest I have just left as unknown, but may change to conform
to your suggestion
Charlotte Jack
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From: "Dave Naylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1
Well, it isn't as off topic as you might think; the use of genealogy
software opens the problem of what information should be shared how.
Notice that the entire can of worms in this case appears to have been opened
by teh creation of a Legacy database for a local historical society; see
below.
Unknown, SURNAME - doesn't matter.
Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
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From: "WILLIAM HATHAWAY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:25 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Standard Usage?
As with almost everyone, I have entries of individuals
I wouldn't use punctuation or nonletter characters for the unknown name
because when you import it into a different genealogy program it might not
take it - regardless of whether a specific person has encountered that
problem or not.
Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
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RootsWeb re
Sorry, Jenny, but I cannot agree here. If the relationship is through the
mother of, say, an illigitimate child then clearly that relationship exists
irrespective of the father. I previously gave an example from my own tree where
such a relationship exists and *is* displayed.
Ron Ferguson
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Donna Alden-Bugden wrote
No...I tried to set it about 5 or 6 times...and even disconnected and
reconnected the family and reset the relationship...won't work. For now
I have attached an unknown father for the illeg child so that it will
create relationships for me
To me, it seems to make sens
WILLIAM HATHAWAY wrote:
As with almost everyone, I have entries of individuals where I know a
GGG-grandfather for
example and have a first name and perhaps even marriage and death
dates for his wife, but
(at least for now, but perhaps it will never be found) no known surname.
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