Hi Marcellyn,
There have been some excellent posts on this subject in response to
yours already. What I wanted to add is in relation to your question
"what data do I put in which of the four parts of the location". I'd
say don't sweat over the "four parts", and enter the location as it was.
"If you decide to follow George G. Morgan's
advice, it might be a good idea to record somewhere within Legacy the
approximate location according to today's maps. -- Alice"
I use Google maps to find the location as accurately as possible, even
down to he street name if it still exists.
I th
What's interesting is that it was sent from Outlook, according to Outlook,
in plain text.
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston, ON
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Fry
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 07:22
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
S
I use British NA, it is shorter.
--- Kirsten Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Linda:
>
> I was using "British North America" in the country
> position for these
> situations but it created a very long location name
> and became tedious
> reading in reports. Then someone pointed out to me
> th
Alice,
Thanks so much for your response. I hadn't read George's article. I, too,
agree with this position. Not understanding the historical jurisdiction of
the event causes so many researchers to look in the wrong place.
Fortunately, for the U.S., there are two great tools to assist in locating
t
Marcellyn,
George G. Morgan, an internationally recognized author, speaker and
authority on genealogy, recently had this to say about recording locations:
Record Precise Information: For each of your ancestors' vital dates (birth,
marriage, and death), always record the precise location as it exi
Linda:
I was using "British North America" in the country position for these
situations but it created a very long location name and became tedious
reading in reports. Then someone pointed out to me that British North
America wasn't used as a designation until much later. Now I use the
official
I have the same problem with Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Canada East and
Canada West prior to the modern use. I would be interested to know how
people give the information for early Canada and also for the colonies, ie
Massachusetts Bay etc.
Thanks!
Linda B.
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From: [EMAIL
For those that can't see past the word God. This sig line is not a religious
statement. Both sides of my family are southern people and I am a 30 year
member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. This sig line is about what war
does to a land. ANY land, especially what it does to destroy a way of
Mike
My apologies.
Paul Abell
"What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and
ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee,
CSA
Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features
not found in the Standard Editio
Mike:
The IGI is a source not a repository. The repository for IGI is either the
website http://www.familysearch.org or Family History Library, Salt Lake
City, Utah. A source is the record or set of records that you view and
obtain data from. A repository is the place or facility where those record
In a message dated 7/9/2007 12:11:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Shirley,
Please reinstall Legacy. Make sure you have all other program shut down
and your anti-virus and spyware scanning software disabled when you install
Legacy
Thanks for using Legacy.
Jenny,
I totally agree with you. There are two categories of individuals who
send messages to
the list in HTML. In the first group (the minority) are those who are
new to the list
and are unaware that HTML messages are not allowed. In the second
group are the repeat
offenders who know that HTM
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote:
Everything I get from any LDS website I use a Source
named 'IGI', which tells me that I NEED to reverify
it, but gives me clues where to look.
I do much the same. But surely there is a distinct difference between
'patron submissions' and 'extracts'. Here, the Surety
Paul Abell wrote:
Mike,
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I will do a virus scan
immediately.
Paul Abell
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil
Hawkins
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:30 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.co
The guidelines are very clear about this (see the link at the bottom
of every mail):
5. Please keep to the topic of Legacy and its add-on programs. Please
don't send jokes, advertisements, political messages, religious
opinion, etc.
Evert
2007/7/11, Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Jack Ear
C.G. Ouimet wrote:
The email from "CQ Quimet" aka CG Ouimet did not include an attachment.
Ahem! Yes it did! A file called winmail.dat. That is the way certain MS
mailing programs wrap emails. The file itself is *not* inherently
dangerous - just annoying.
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg.
Thanks for this Ron. I will set to it.
Cheers Valerie
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald
ferguson
Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2007 11:02 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] ERROR: 339
Valerie,
Please see
Jenny,
If you remember at the time of the change many people (myself included) were
unable to post via the previous server. It was absolutely necessary for that
situation to be corrected.
Ron Ferguson
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For Genealogy, So
I for one welcome that you require that LUG posters use HTML and deplore
the fact that so many people either ignore your requests or don't bother
to check out your requirements in the first place. There are far too
many HTML posts coming in all the time.
I appreciate that you have many demand
Jack Earnshaw wrote
Do we have to have such texts at the end of emails? Not all of us have
your beliefs, or any beliefs
It is very common for people to include a "sig line" with their posts
and e-mails. I do it myself in most e-mails and messages (but not
within this particular list) and I s
Phil Hawkins wrote
When CQ Quimet sent his message on the above topic it came with an
attachement WINMAIL.DAT
So did Paul Abel's response.
No attachments here. I suggest it might be something Thunderbird
attached when the posts reached you.
--
Jenny M Benson
Have you unlocked the real po
Paul
Do we have to have such texts at the end of emails? Not all of us have your
beliefs, or any beliefs
Jack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul
Abell
Sent: 11 July 2007 07:35
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG
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