Use the Relationship Calculator and then print the chart that shows how the
two people are related.
Ron Taylor
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I've just received someone else's family who is related to me.
I have gone through and compared files (Tools/Compare Files) and updated
data on the same people by using split screen and drag and drop.
BUT how do I get a list of all those that are on the new file that aren't on
mine.
In other wo
I have 4 separate family files: one for my family, one
for my fiance's family, one for my half-sister's
father's family, and one for my ex-husband's family. I
also have them in separate GEDCOMs on Rootsweb. This
way, my soon-to-be inlaws don't have to slog through
family that isn't related to them.
Julie,
Not to my knowledge.
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Hi Loran,
Actually I do put the country at the end of the full address but omit it from
the shorter, this is to make it clear that the Manchester I live in is the one
with the soccer team rather than the one in the States :).
I use the longer address when publishing. What I really do not like
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Actually it could be any number of things - it could be a system problem, it
could be a corrupted program, most likely it's *not* a data program.
When a user gets that error message, I have them uninstall and reinstall
Legacy, making sure that all programs are shut down and especially their
anti-v
On the topic of saving family files, I have two main ones, as one line is
Jewish and one line is Catholic. Where they intersect, I include on each
line the other-religion spouse and his/her parents, and the couple's
children. Once there are grandchildren etc of this couple, I suppose it'll
ge
Cheryl wrote
I am new user & wondering about how people save family files.
Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting
couple)with families all in one file
or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband
parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side),
Bob,
Another possiblility for you not being able to read the CD is that the program
that you used to create the CD's are no longer on your computer. Some CD
burning software leave the CD open so you can add more data to it and the only
way to view the info is to have that program resident on the
I used to have four separate databases. Then I was finding to many families
that would merge together. I still wanted to see what "Family" each person
came from, so, I decided to use the "User ID" field to put a code for each
family line. Then I put my relationship to the person. H3GGM would s
I quickly searched the internet and found the following. I have not tried any
of them but you might wish to. Many have free trial versions:
A rescue utility at http://www.naltech.com/cddr.htm
or
http://www.911cd.net/
http://www.cdroller.com/
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/77
http://www.j
Hi Cheryl,
You've had some great responses already, and I just want to add my
two-cents' worth. :-)
I keep two separate files, one for my family and one for my partner's.
We don't have any kids, either together or separately. When I started
doing my research, and using Legacy, I was only
Hello Jeff,
Thanks for all your help.
BGP
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Wow, Ron. I sure did not mean to infer that my way is the only way nor that
anyone should try my way no matter how well tested successfully. I do not
add USA to my address lines merely to save space; when I have an address for
other nations I use a three-letter ending, such as KOR or GER, but
Hi BGP
That might mean simply that Legacy cannot read your file or is reading garbage
(see my previous message about possible reasons) or something is wrong with
your installation of Legacy. Since this is a fresh installation of Legacy, it
is likely that it is NOT Legacy that is at fault but y
Some ideas about this is found in the Legacy News article, "Your Legacy
Database - Should You Split It?" It is at
http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/03/your_legacy_dat.html
Thanks,
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Thank you, Leon and Heather.
Dave
Leon Chapman wrote:
Dave:
Position the oldest person in the family view (David Smith Shumway).
At the top, select the "Descendant" tab - this displays all the
descendants for David Smith Shumway - you have some options as to how
many generations.
You can also
Heather,
I have used Clooz a little, mostly the older version although I have dabbled
with 2.0 a bit. I bought it when I started amassing lots of paper and
documents and wasn't sure what to do with all of it. Since I have learned
more about all the great features of Legacy, I don't find the nee
Hi Cheryl,
Like the others that have replied to this thread, I maintain only one family
file. In addition to the backup suggested on the Legacy website, I would
suggest that you send to yourself on a web-based email, such as Gmail, your
Gedcom. That way, your data is protected from clamaties, su
Since your hard drive crashed, have you re-downloaded the Legacy Family Tree
program, so that your backup CD has something to associate with ?
Bob Dutcher
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Pop up: says..Legacy genealogy soft ware for windows has encountered
a problem and needs to close.We are sorryfor the inconvence...
Jeff.
Thanks for your help.
BGP
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Cheryl,
I use Legacy to record the lineages of my One Name Study of the surname
BAGE. This means there will be many unconnected family lines. However, I
like to have all of this in just one file. This way it's easy to navigate
and see the full picture. I can always export if I need a particular fa
When doing genealogy, one is never "finished". So, even though not finished
yet, I would sugest making at least one backup (in addition to the regular
backups) onto a CD which is kept NOT in your home but, somewhere else: with
a family member living elsewhere or even your safe deposit box in a b
Sounds like it is the CD that got corrupted. That sometimes happens,
especially if one tries to overwrite a file on a CD that is just "writeable"
(one time), but NOT erasable and re-writeable: "RW".
CDs are not like hard drives or floppy disks on which you can overwrite or
rewrite data. On a
Heather
I experimented with Clooz, older version and 2.0. I would not have
gotten 2.0 if it weren't for getting it free (because of when I
purchased the older version).
Although I applaud Elizabeth Kerstens' filing methodology, using the
program along with Legacy results in double-entry recordkee
What does the popup say?
Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] big problem
Hello Ruth Ann,
Thanks for the inquiry. My cd will run but I get a windows p
I have used CLOOZ v. 1.23, I do not use it too much anymore, I find that it
is difficult to locate the records I am looking for. I cannot use version 2
because I do not run Windows XP.
Linda Altman
http://www.southerngenealogy.com
Southern Genealogy uses Legacy Family Tree! This highly acclaime
Oh, I did forget one time when I think having 2 seperate files for 2 lines
is worthwhile
When the husband and the wife both do genealogy, and can't agree on
standards of entry...
(ie, one person always uses state abreviations, the other always uses the
full state name stuff like that...)
Hi Cheryl,
I forgot to say - If your Legacy file gets so large it is unmanageable, it
is possible to split the file up. I personally would only consider this at
a much later stage. If you want to read about it, go to the drop down Help
menu at the top, when you are in the Legacy programme. Clic
Bob,
Did you try copying the contents of the CDs to your computer? A PC
usually needs to write to the folder where it finds the data, and it
won't be able to do that from a CD, since you can't write to it like
you can to a hard drive. I don't know what you have on the CD, though.
Is it the Legacy
Bob,
Legacy databases WON'T open from a CD. The files MUST be on a hard disk or
flash drive and they must have the "Read Only" attribute turned off.
Open Windows Explorer, navigate to your CD drive, navigate to where your files
reside on the CD. Select the files then right click them and sele
I use one file for all my lines as well as independent lines that may later
prove to actually be connected to one of my lines. This eliminates the
possibility of duplicate individuals that may exist in various lines and the
need to maintain these duplicates in various files.
Should the need arise
Cheryl,
I keep all the family in one file. As you start out, you might think
that the families will all be distinct lines. But occasionally, you
may find siblings that appear in more than one line! So rather than
duplicate all the data entry after that point in two trees, you will
be able to keep
Dave:
Position the oldest person in the family view (David Smith Shumway).
At the top, select the "Descendant" tab - this displays all the
descendants for David Smith Shumway - you have some options as to how
many generations.
You can also use the Relationship Calculator, under Tools menu, and
I think there is an article about this on the Legacy website from a while
back however, since you asked so nicely... :)
I have one file basically, my file would be the ancestors and relatives
of my children. My son is the person from which I do the set
relationships and the colour codi
Thanks Glen,
I was wondering if I was over doing it by wanting to break the families
apart in seperate files I will take your advise & save on various
medium. I have lost all my files from years ago, but as always have kept my
hard copies, you can never go wrong with that!
Thanks Cheryl
Hello Ruth Ann,
Thanks for the inquiry. My cd will run but I get a windows pop up and I send
a report to Microsoft and they have not came back to me as yet. I know I had
data on them for after I burnt them I ran them back and they had all data.
Thanks,
Bob P
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Goto Tools, Calculate Relationships
Select the two people... it will show the decendant lines (with a direct
descendant, there will just be the one line...)
Click on the Print button. (you can preview after that if you want)
You will get the nice little chart you want.
Hope this helps!
H
Hello Sherry,
I spoke to your tech. on the telephone. We tried a couple of things. I
did transfer all data from my old version to the new version 6.0. Every thing
[all data] went to the new version and I had entered new people on the
version 6.0. I made CD`s as back up and every thing was
Linda,
To make sure this enhancement request is logged by the Legacy
Programmers, you should go to the Legacy Home tab in your Legacy
program, and over on the right hand side under Support, click on
"Suggest a new feature." I recommend that you also save a Note file
(text file) in your Legacy fold
Hello Legacy group,
I have never figured out (I even found some Legacy archival records) how
to produce a chart showing one of my ancestors as First and a specified
descendant as hiser Last descendant.NO ancelary relations . . . .
just DIRECT to me (or any specified descendant of First.)
I
So what happened to the CDs. They should still have the data on them.
Ruth Ann
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They were on CD`s.Ron
Ron ,
My files were on CD. I made the
Hi Cheryl,
Welcome to the group and to using Legacy. I'm sure you will find folk on
this user group very helpful. I think most people would probably save
everything in one file, but it would be really safe if you kept backup
copies. When you exit Legacy it should offer you the option of backup
These numbers are Ahnentafel numbers. Run the Books and Others, Book
Reports, Ancestors. Each person will be numbered with their Ahnentafel
number, n. Their father will be 2n, their mother 2n+1.
Lloyd
At 04:33 PM 01/13/2007 +, you wrote:
The LostCousins site uses a numbering system, where
Hi all,
I am new user & wondering about how people save family files.
Do you have one file & have everyone - husband & wife (starting couple)with
families all in one file
or... do you break the files & save by surname. Example my Husband parents
surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh &
I was wondering who had used Clooz? I know I read a few people here that
said that they had used it for a bit, but stopped
Had those people used the newer version 2, or an older version?
What problems did you have that made you decide not to use it?
Is there anyone here that is still using
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I am still not clear as to whether you have the family files on your CD
(they have a .fdb exstention or .zip if the backup file.
They were on CD`s.Ron
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Benson
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:38 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Locations Database
Paul C. Abell wrote
Jenny,
Not only for other researchers, but
Thanks ,I will try your suggestion/ BGP
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The LostCousins site uses a numbering system, where the starting
person is No.1, parents are Nos.2 and 3, grandparents are Nos.4-7,
etc.
After I have "set relationships" to the starter person in Legacy, is
there any way of finding/showing these numbers?
Thanks,
Mary Young
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It's true that version 3 won't open a version 6 file but it is my
understanding that Legacy will always open an older version file.
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To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytre
If this appears to be the case, then try exporting your data to a gedcom and
then importing the gedcom back into Version 6. You may lose some source info
and your pictures but at least you won't have to re-enter all 880
individuals.
Linda Altman
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Southern Genealo
Isn't that overdoing it? I would think that all you have to do is show
Danny's first marriage with his children. Then they will show on the Family
View as 1/2 children with his current wife.
Paul
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Sent
I like that there is the ability to change the burial information to
cremated. This is really easy to do and very convenient. Would it be
possible to add a similar feature to the Baptism/Christening filed? It would
be great if Legacy could change this to reflect naming/bris to reflect those
of the
Have you tried downloading Version 3 and running it on that program?
I ask because I had an old version of the program on my daughter's computer in
Texas. When I went to see them I tried to copy my data to her computer. WOULD
NOT WORK!
The data from a newer version does not work with an older
you can always say no. JA
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Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:32 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Fw: Widows
Turn off receipt request please
Thanks
Henry
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Paul C. Abell wrote
I always use the country. For the example you give, I would use Terr
Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. My reason for this is to keep everything
consistent. Also, I use the full name of the state.
I too always use the country name and full state and county names.
My reason is th
Turn off receipt request please
Thanks
Henry
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Austen
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 3:12 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Widows
Thanks Wendy. Joe
- Origina
Bob,
I am still not clear as to whether you have the family files on your CD (they
have a .fdb exstention or .zip if the backup file.
As Laurence says, if you have either of these you need to copy to
C:\Legacy\Data.
In the case of a .fdb file just open as normal (File>Open) if a .zip then use
Rich,
I would add that in the Book Reports by going to Report Options>Format one can
tick the box "Don't repeat duplicate lines".
This will minimise the double entry effect.
Ron Ferguson
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Thanks Wendy. Joe
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From: "Wendy Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Legacy User Group"
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Widows
Hi Joe,
Enter your Mary Ann BACON. Enter her first husband James MILLYARD and the
marriage details.
Hi Joe,
Enter your Mary Ann BACON. Enter her first husband James MILLYARD and
the marriage details. Enter her second marriage to Thomas AUSTIN -
click on the husband icon under her name in the Family View and then on
"Add New Husb...". The lady herself is entered only the once, but on
the
Hi Joe,
The convention is to enter women with their maiden name - in your example
Mary Ann BACON
You then enter each of her marriages.
If you have already entered a second or third marriage, they don't
have to be entered in order but for reports to read correctly you
need to look at the Spouse
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