Re: [LegacyUG] More With Sources

2008-06-12 Thread Laurel
I agree - I have also gone back to the Basic - this way my reports include everything I want them to contain. I also found with the Source Writer the choices given when entering a Source quite often were limited and I was unsure of what I should pick from the choices given. (I mean, I couldn't

RE: [LegacyUG] Email list for legacy solutions only? - An apology

2008-06-12 Thread music-line
Thank you for reminding me of that Ruth. And also, to add, many users may also use the free version. I was trying not to complain but to offer a suggestion for a way forward to meet those who prefer an email based list and those who prefer a forum based list, and to try and cool what was becoming

RE: [LegacyUG] Version 7 set relationships

2008-06-12 Thread ronald ferguson
Gee, Bob, That took some finding! it's now in Reports>Books/Others>Forms Center>Relationship Diagrams. Ron Ferguson _ New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use with Open Office http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family

Re: [LegacyUG] Email list for legacy solutions only?

2008-06-12 Thread Ruth Nerud
Millenia has made lots of cash? It's one of the cheapest software packages I've purchased and one of the most comprehensive. You know, they do have expenses for developing and maintaining the software, packaging, shipping, answering e-mails, answering phone calls so I don't know how they could h

Re: [LegacyUG] Date of last update

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Note that if you look at a person's information and exit by clicking the Save or Close button (which works as Save and Close) instead of Cancel, you'll mess up the dates. You can also search on these dates - eg for everyone added after a particular date or modified after a particular date (or

Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
I am amazed you even notice what the RINs are! It isn't something to be used for any particular purpose. A database needs for each record to be unique. The easiest way for the database to be certain this is a unique record is to assign it a number. Why Legacy tells you these numbers is a mystery

Re: [LegacyUG] Post Fix titles not having their case honoured

2008-06-12 Thread Phil Warn
Dear Cathy, Thank you for your thoughts. I repeated the import with that option unchecked and the Post fix titles came through unscaled. However, as with you, I do not think that option should apply here. I am looking for a way of submitting this as a BUG. [ I thought in Version 6, there wa

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping specific locations that are in the same town in Version 7

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
Robert57P via Gmail wrote I think Legacy should rethink their LOCATION field - I know some would not like it, and it would mean a big change to the database, but maybe EACH event should include a separate street address field, so the existing field could stay just city,county,state,country (or

Re: [LegacyUG] Ver 7 source detail on reports

2008-06-12 Thread Markie Flint Blackmon
Hi Jenny, That wasn't Dede who got a response from Geoff, that was me - different thread. Margaret Jenny M Benson wrote: Dede Holden wrote I first asked this question on Saturday and had no response. You got a response from Geoff Rasmussen, asking you to submit an example report to him

Re: [LegacyUG] Backup Problem with V7.0

2008-06-12 Thread Graham Porter
I am experiencing exactly the same problems that William described. I have followed all the recommened actions in the 'Solutions by Error Number' page, but the problem persists. It only seems to occur when creating a new back-up file rather than when over-writing an existing file and as far as I

Re: [LegacyUG] Date of last update

2008-06-12 Thread Melanie Armstrong
Click on the date in the bottom right corner of the family screen and the last modified date window pops up. Melanie Armstrong Gary Crull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does the capability exist in either version (6 or 7) of Legacy to show the d

Re: [LegacyUG] Converting sources

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Hi Michele, The Source Converter is not yet available. Some are trying to convert without it but I suggest you wait and do something else in the meantime. You'll end up with a much better result if you wait and may find you have to do all the details again if you just write a new Master Sourc

RE: [LegacyUG] zooming to pins in maps

2008-06-12 Thread david
On 11 Jun 2008 at 6:21, ronald ferguson wrote: > Why don't you complain to Microsoft? VE is their product. I have no plans to use VE in any product except that in which I am currently forced to use, when there was a choice of GIS products to connect to. However, as Cathy has mentioned, GE

Re: [LegacyUG] Email list for legacy solutions only?

2008-06-12 Thread Pauline B. Cramer
I looked at what was on rootsweb about Legacy software. There were a few post about how great Legacy 7 is. There was nothing that would be of use to anyone having difficulty using Legacy 7. Pauline Robert57P via Gmail wrote: I did a search for LEGACY on their board site and came up w 2 hits

Re: [LegacyUG] V7 Relationship Calculator

2008-06-12 Thread Robert57P via Gmail
FYI Mine too comes up with the "preferred" person set on the left and the highlighted person on the right. I hadn't even realized this. I consider it a plus, since I probably will want one of those two in my calculation whenever I open it. No difference to me if it is blank or has a name tha

[LegacyUG] legacy charting 7 v7.0.101.764

2008-06-12 Thread Harold Watson
just happened to be using charting when i noticed the update alert. after downloading the update, legacy charting restarted but when i selected the file i was working on i got an error popup. there is no message number, just "Cannot create file "C:\Program Files\Millenia\LegacyCharting7\data\DES

[LegacyUG] Version 7 SourceWriter - Which template to use for published books transcribed online?

2008-06-12 Thread Christine Pearce
Which template should be used when a published book has been transcribed on a website? I've fiddled with all the available templates and none allow you to enter all the details. Example: Main website: State Library of Kansas - http://www.kslib.info/index.html At the bottom of the page is a link

RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-12 Thread Mark K
Thanks for your response, and Cathy's. When I looked at the option in tools, renumber RIN's something didnt click and it looked like I had to renumber each one individually. Anyway worked a treat Thank you both Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture File

2008-06-12 Thread Susan Perrett
Keith, yes, just drag and drop each picture into the order/place you want them to be. At 01:21 PM 12/06/2008, you wrote: Has anyone figured a way to rearrange the pictures in an individual's picture file? As I discover more images - I would like to have them arranged in some sort of age order

Re: [LegacyUG] a few problems in Legacy 7

2008-06-12 Thread Karen Hughes
Well it always worked in 6 for me, and I have seen several other postings about it to this list - not sure why it wouldn't have worked in 6 for you? If you are adding a new child in 6 and you have the relationships for the parents set, even if it is the first child, 6 will work out a relati

RE: [LegacyUG] [Legacy UG] Legacy 7 Gedcom-now or later

2008-06-12 Thread Nancy Bender
John, You can watch the "Legacy for Beginners" video on-line from the website. I suggest you start with that while you are waiting for the others to arrive. I started using Legacy several years ago and did not know about the training videos at the time. Now that I have watched them, I wish I ha

RE: [LegacyUG] V7 - Master Location List, VE, Auto Search Reset Problem

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
OK It's flaky. You don't have to go to Edit to remove a wrong pin. You just have to go to the Geo-code and choose the Do not auto geo-code option. This removes the co-ords. Then you should be able to place the pin wherever you like. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Same with the o

Re: [LegacyUG] Should "Publish" work in V7 Charting?

2008-06-12 Thread Wendy Howard
Hi Tom, I am replying directly to you as well as the list, so you see a timely answer - if you haven't already. :-) Geoff posted to this list on 05 Mar 2008 about this feature, and said "you'll notice on the Publish tab that the Order Chart button does not yet allow you to order a wall char

Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 SourceWriter question

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
Christine Pearce wrote So, if I then select Type-->Death Record, it asks you to select the Type of death record, so I then select Death register. It then asks to select the level of jurisdiction, which I guess would be "Held at state/provincial level. However, when you then must select the med

Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 set relationships

2008-06-12 Thread Mike Fry
Robert57P via Gmail wrote: Nope - that's not what I was looking for. Yes, it prints a good chart of the relationship between those 2 people. But I recall a "generic" chart that showed no names, just a diagram that showed what a "second cousin once removed" was - i.e.: it had a whole series of

Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 set relationships

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
Robert57P via Gmail wrote Nope - that's not what I was looking for. Yes, it prints a good chart of the relationship between those 2 people. But I recall a "generic" chart that showed no names, just a diagram that showed what a "second cousin once removed" was - i.e.: it had a whole series of

Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate messages

2008-06-12 Thread Pauline B. Cramer
I think the duplicate messages are a remnant of the problem that was causing us to get 25 or 50 copies of the same message a while back. Pauline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been getting dupe messages too, but not for that long! That, along with the delays (up to 3 days in some instances)

Re: [LegacyUG] v7 Relationships

2008-06-12 Thread Art Seddon
Hi I let "Set Relations" run overnight and this morning it was still running, showed over 1,000,000 calculations but still NO results. That was with the non-blood set to zero. In V6 it took about 2 minutes. What happened? Art Seddon Hi The old relationship calculator didn't always automatica

Re: [LegacyUG] Converting sources

2008-06-12 Thread Mike Fry
Michele Lewis wrote: In the master source list I hit EDIT then a box pops up and it asks me if I want to use the Source Writer and I said yes. Then the old box pops up (the old edit box). I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I want to start converting my sources over to the standardized Mil

RE: [LegacyUG] Question regarding existing sources and source writer

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Yes you are doing something wrong. You are not understanding that combining one source with another wipes out the first Master Source and replaces it with the second. If you want the Master source text from the first source to be included in the second new source, you must copy and paste it -

RE: [LegacyUG] Help needed please?

2008-06-12 Thread ronald ferguson
Cheryl, Paper recording is not one of my fortes, I'm probably more disorganised than an absolute beginner! I suggest that you visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/filing.asp Ron Ferguson _ New Blog: Free Contacts Database

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping specific locations that are in the same town in Version 7

2008-06-12 Thread Wynthner
I'd even go so far as to split the Street address into at least three fields: House Number Street Name Street Type [Street, Avenue, Parkway, Lane, Blvd., etc] Thus, 1234 Apple Pie Lane would be entered: [House Number] 1234 [Street Name] Apple Pie [Street Type] Lane - Original Message Fro

RE: [LegacyUG] Version 7 set relationships

2008-06-12 Thread Nancy Bender
Is this what you are looking for: Reports->Books/other->Forms Center->Relationship diagrams > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 set relationships > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:07:53 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Nope - that's not what I was looking

Re: [LegacyUG] Should "Publish" work in V7 Charting?

2008-06-12 Thread GeoSci
"SOON" On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:18 PM, The Johnson Family (FL) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried the "Publish->Order Chart" button on Legacy Charting and > received this error: > > "This feature is not working. It will be available in a future." > > Is there something wrong with my insta

Re: [LegacyUG] V7 Relationship Calculator

2008-06-12 Thread Lill Ann Parry
Just some additional information on the relationship calculator. It takes about 2-3 minutes to open the relationship calculator. It does not work as described in the help file. The help file leads one to believe that the calculator opens with a blank field in the right hand position. This is no

Re: Fw: [LegacyUG] Evidence explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills

2008-06-12 Thread Pauline B. Cramer
To John from Manchester England: I don't know if John from Manchester England ever got his original question answered. His basic question was: "Has any UK lister read the book and is it worth getting." I am not from the UK, but, I'm going to put in my 2 cents worth on the subject. I think th

Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 set relationships

2008-06-12 Thread Robert57P via Gmail
Nope - that's not what I was looking for. Yes, it prints a good chart of the relationship between those 2 people. But I recall a "generic" chart that showed no names, just a diagram that showed what a "second cousin once removed" was - i.e.: it had a whole series of relationships on one chart

[LegacyUG] Legacy 7: Few general questions on sourcing online sources

2008-06-12 Thread Melanie Tucker
Hello, I have a few questions about sourcing online documents. From earlier posts, it appears that "Evidence Explained" doesn't really address all the online implications for sourcing. Perhaps Mills was just as confused as the rest of us!! When you cite an online source it always asks for the M

RE: [LegacyUG] Should "Publish" work in V7 Charting?

2008-06-12 Thread Sherry/Support
Tom, The programmers are still working on this. Hopefully it'll be available "soon" Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include a

[LegacyUG] [Legacy UG] Legacy 7 Gedcom-now or later

2008-06-12 Thread John Gregson
I am just starting with Legacy. Ordered deluxe version on June 4, with lots of CD's; not yet received. Downloaded deluxe file and installed without problems. Question: I want to import a GedCom from TMG; but I know nothing about legacy. I know that I am going to have a big clean up after the impo

RE: [LegacyUG] Help needed please?

2008-06-12 Thread Cheryl
Thanks for the suggestion Jenny. It would work except that I use my tags for step-families. Some of the west pioneering families in my research intermarried often and tagging allows me to follow these lines as well as direct ones. I may have to change the way I do a lot of things now. Cheryl

Re: [LegacyUG] Unknowns.

2008-06-12 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Since I have Chronology, and had that problem, then found what it uses, which is 'Present'. When using this, I know immediately if the potential probems report 'complains' and check the ignore same. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LegacyUser

Re: [LegacyUG] [Legacy UG] Legacy 7 Gedcom-now or later

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
John Gregson wrote I am just starting with Legacy. Ordered deluxe version on June 4, with lots of CD's; not yet received. Downloaded deluxe file and installed without problems. Question: I want to import a GedCom from TMG; but I know nothing about legacy. I know that I am going to have a big cl

Re: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Legacy Deluxe has a Tool to Renumber RINs. (Tools > Renumber RINs) Note it won't use a logical sequence from a starting person to do this - that's not the purpose of RINs - but it will get rid of holes if that's what you mean by "out of sequence." The RINs assigned to an imported Gedcom are co

RE: [LegacyUG] Non-US Censuses in v7

2008-06-12 Thread Janis Gilmore
Elizabeth and Ron, I have adopted the Mills sourcing because I aspire to publish - and, yes, in the U.S. The good news is, we each have the opportunity to craft our database as we wish. We don't have to agree. :-) Janis Walker Gilmore -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [LegacyUG] Version 7 SourceWriter question

2008-06-12 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Christine: The rule is that you always cite the source you actually viewed. This wouldn't be the death record because you looked at an index online rather than the actual death record itself. The source name would be the title of the database, which would hopefully indicate whether it was an ind

RE: [LegacyUG] Duplicate messages

2008-06-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been getting dupe messages too, but not for that long! That, along with the delays (up to 3 days in some instances); the sheer volume that if I don't check my mail 3-4 times a day I have 100 or more posts is making me seriously consider unsubscribing from the list for awhile. Know I'm lik

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Template Conversion Tool

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
The point is that for the Master Source, this is not a merge process but a replacement process. It's only the source details that are brought over. Note these aren't merged either if for the same person, same event you had both sources cited, you'll have two citations of the one Master source pe

Re: [LegacyUG] Geocoding Locations

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Hi Brenda, Yes there has been an improvement after discussion on the Test List. X meant that a location had Long/Lat coordinates added but didn't tell you where they came from. Now: L means that you've entered them manually or via the Geo Location list in Legacy 6 (not sure if you get them

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7 --- PLEASE!

2008-06-12 Thread Dave
Anne, But what good does it do here? Misery loves company?The same 2 or 3 solutions (check your junk mail, be patient, etc) have been posted about a hundred times here and they're still being asked. If Sales hasn't responded, what are a bunch of other users around the world going to do abo

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting with short locations?

2008-06-12 Thread Luc Comeau
It's on my todo list. Luc On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 00:22, Anna Bayerl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Luc, > > thanks for your quick response! > If im alowed to ask - are you working on it or is it just on the todo-list? > > Thanks > > Anna > > > >> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >> Von: "Lu

RE: [LegacyUG] V7 - Master Location List, VE, Auto Search Reset Problem

2008-06-12 Thread ronald ferguson
Fred, Without entering new latitude and longitude try using the geo location bar at the top. For me, it doesn't put the pin the correct place (it puts it where VE thinks it should be), but it least it can be moved to where one wants. I would be interested to learn your result. Ron Ferguson

Re: [LegacyUG] Blocked or Filtered Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Thomas Herson
It's actually a 3rd party company that filters the mail for a lot of ISPs. In those cases, to use Legacy as an example, Legacy would have to contact the 3rd party company directly and work things out. The ISPs can tell you what the name of the 3rd party company is that they are using. I had this

Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 set relationships

2008-06-12 Thread Brian/Support
Bob, Go to Reports > All Reports. The Diagram you are looking for is under the Forms Centre. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous corres

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping specific locations that are in the same town in Version 7

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Hi Bob, All that has to be done to keep everyone happy - those locked into only having 4 fields and those who include the address, is to number the fields the other way. This is harder to implement than say and has been talked about by programmers off and on for years. Legacy provides 9 fields

[LegacyUG] Picture File

2008-06-12 Thread GeoSci
Has anyone figured a way to rearrange the pictures in an individual's picture file? As I discover more images - I would like to have them arranged in some sort of age order but see no way to rearrange them. Thanks Keith -- Surnames: McKain, Horn, Riale, Ulrich, Erisman, Leiphart, Reed and Henry

Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 - Small problem in editing locations for people from...

2008-06-12 Thread Bruce Jones
Yes, Mike, that is correct; however, after you select a location (as you describe) you are given a list of people who use that location (if you check the Show People box). If you then want to edit a DIFFERENT person that is using that location, you can't do it if you started from the Individual Scr

Re: [LegacyUG] a few problems in Legacy 7

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
See responses interspersed below: At 02:02 AM 11/06/2008, you wrote: Some problems have been mentioned. Sorry if these are repeated. 1) Relationship calculator still not working very well. a) One set of relationships can differ after swapping left and right with the same two individuals.

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Output Bug (was "Sources")

2008-06-12 Thread Claire Spinelli
In the grand scheme of things I guess it doesn't really matter, but I also get a "ghost" image on the multimedia tab of the source detail. The image that should show the attached document actually shows one I had entered several citations ago. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

Re: [LegacyUG] zooming to pins in maps

2008-06-12 Thread david
On 11 Jun 2008 at 9:16, Gene Young wrote: > When the point gets near the edge again, stop zooming and double click the > point again. Zoom again > until the point is again near the edge and repeat. Not achieving much - still requires an enormous amount of clicking & dragging when a simple

Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 SourceWriter question

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Hi Christine, Currently only the Birth Records type has the index option though the others will have. If you want to go ahead now, use the Birth Record type. The only difference will be the names - with Death instead of Birth. Cathy At 08:42 PM 11/06/2008, you wrote: I find many vital recor

Re: [LegacyUG] Maps

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
C.G. Ouimet wrote In Master Locations, what is the checkbox between the Combine and Sort buttons? It sorts the list automatically, according to the selections made through the the screen behind the Sort button. When unchecked, the list is in alphabetical order according to how the Locations

Re: [LegacyUG] Email list for legacy solutions only?

2008-06-12 Thread Robert57P via Gmail
I did a search for LEGACY on their board site and came up w 2 hits: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.legacy/mb.ashx http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.software.legacy/mb.ashx Haven't looked at either yet, so I have no idea how helpful they may or may not be. Personnally I'm pretty happy w usin

[LegacyUG] Relationship Chart [was Version 7 set relationships]

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Hi Bob, Reports > Books and Other - Forms Centre - Relationship Diagrams - choose the language you want and you'll find the chart explaining relationships. Cathy At 01:07 AM 12/06/2008, you wrote: Nope - that's not what I was looking for. Yes, it prints a good chart of the relationship bet

Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 set relationships

2008-06-12 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
It moved? I found it. Go to Forms Center, Relationship Diagrams, choose language, print or preview. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:01:32 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Version

RE: [LegacyUG] Unknowns

2008-06-12 Thread ronald ferguson
Penny, Options>Customise>Data Entry uncheck "Check for problems when saving the individual". It will, of course, stop other potential problems being shown as well. Ron Ferguson _ New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use wit

Re: [LegacyUG] Should "Publish" work in V7 Charting?

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
The Johnson Family (FL) wrote I just tried the "Publish->Order Chart" button on Legacy Charting and received this error: "This feature is not working. It will be available in a future." Is there something wrong with my installation or is this truly not available? I should be very surprised

Re: SV: [LegacyUG] Descendant Narrative Report

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
legacy wrote Not sure why mine does not have what yours does. I have the latest "build" You are obviously using the Standard version of Legacy, not the Deluxe version. According to Help: Event Format-If you are using the Deluxe Edition of Legacy you can have the events printed in a sente

Re: [LegacyUG] Email list for legacy solutions only?

2008-06-12 Thread Thomas Herson
Mark, Can't you sort your In Box by Subject? Tom Ill-Informed and Unedjucated But Able to Delete Unwanted Subjects in a Second - Original Message - From: Mark K To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Email list fo

RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping specific locations that are in the same town in Version 7

2008-06-12 Thread ronald ferguson
Bob, There really is no problem when the street is added to the location (unless one uses the 4 field geo-location feature). Admittedly the list is long but so what? Standardisation is easy - sort from right to left ie. England, Lancashire, Eccles, Winton, 2 Park Street. Ron Ferguson ___

RE: [LegacyUG] REnumbering RINS's

2008-06-12 Thread Mark K
Ron in response to why - because it annoys the hell out of me for some reason being so out of sequence. My family file has a total of about 7,000 people and the imported on was about 500 people. Legacy did not create the gedcom.Thanks for your reply Mark > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7 set relationships

2008-06-12 Thread Randolph Clark
Still there. Forms Center|Relationship diagrams On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Robert57P via Gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope - that's not what I was looking for. Yes, it prints a good chart of > the relationship between those 2 people. But I recall a "generic" chart > that showed no na

Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate messages

2008-06-12 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Must be the FIOS? I have not got that yet. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Art Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:38:02 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate messages Rich, I'm getting many duplicates and I am also

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting

2008-06-12 Thread Luc Comeau
Hi, If you have XP or Vista then, Please download this Windows script file and run on your computer. "FixLegacyChartingInstall.bat" Then try re-installing Legacy again. http://www.legacycharting.com/Download/FixLegacyChartingInstall.bat Thanks, Luc Comeau Legacy Family Tree On Sun, Jun 8, 20

Re: [LegacyUG] Maps

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
The checkbox is a quick way to turn on or off the sort you've used. Re your second query, Not that I know. The quickest way is to sort them so that they are next to each other on the list and then click the Geocode button and the option don't auto code the location you are wanting to add coord

RE: [LegacyUG] Non-US Censuses in v7

2008-06-12 Thread ronald ferguson
Kirsten, credit where credit is due (isn't that what sourcing is about :-) ) - "Goddess of Sourcing" was Jenny's phrase. Ron Ferguson _ New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use with Open Office http://www.fergys.co.uk View th

Re: [LegacyUG] More With Sources

2008-06-12 Thread Kris
Hi, Laurel -- I'm beginning to suspect that the SourceWriter was the source of the great delay in releasing version 7 -- or at least a significant part of it. I'm going back to basic for now. I've decided that, considering how buggy SourceWriter seems to be, evolution is highly over rated at

RE: [LegacyUG] Maps

2008-06-12 Thread ronald ferguson
Unless it's checked the sort is non-operative. Ron Ferguson _ New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use with Open Office http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergus

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: [LegacyUserGroup] (No Subject)

2008-06-12 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Then the 'Author' is either Ancestry or the Missouri Government Unit, or the local society. It is for each of us to decide which makes more sense to ourselves. I am just stating that there is always a person/group that expects acknowledgment of their work. Rich in LA CA - Original Message

Re: [LegacyUG] Unknowns

2008-06-12 Thread Penny
JL, I guess the difference is that I don't consider that an instance of the program complaining! If you uncheck _Descriptive words in name field (Infant, Baby, etc.)_ on the Potential Problems page, it won't include (complain about) them in the report. I do like it when I can tell comp pro

RE: [LegacyUG] Non-US Censuses in v7

2008-06-12 Thread ronald ferguson
Janis, I don't disagree with what you say, particularly with respect to flexibility. I think, at least almost without exception, that what I have had to say has been in response to people quoting Mill's as though worldwide sourcing *had* to be done in a way specified by her. It does not. And,

Re: [LegacyUG] Evidence explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills

2008-06-12 Thread Bob Withers
The PDF is 3MB and sure beats lugging around a tomb the size of the dictionary. Bob On Jun 11, 2008, at 3:49 AM, MICHELLE CROSBY wrote: How much space does the PDF take? - Original Message - From: Cathy To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:56 PM Sub

Re: SV: [LegacyUG] Descendant Narrative Report

2008-06-12 Thread Susan Perrett
If you go to Help and in the Index, put Event, you will see the listing for Narrative Formatting, this will then tell you what and how to do it. OR go to Reports - Books and Others - Descendant Narrative - Options - Event Narrative Format - then make one of the selections there. At 03:26 A

Re: [LegacyUG] V7 - Master Location List, VE, Auto Search Reset Problem

2008-06-12 Thread Bruce Jones
I'm not sure if I am following, but if I display a pin, then navigate to a different location, right click and answer "Yes", it seems to move for me. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:31 AM, ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fred, > > I also have not been able to find a way to remove the pin

RE: [LegacyUG] Manual version 7

2008-06-12 Thread Clancy
Hi Sherry; I was checking on it for time to time... It got fixed at 2035 tonight...(8:35PM).. Got it ordered... It was strange as it was the only one that did not work Thanks again God Bless, Clancy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sherry/

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: [LegacyUserGroup] (No Subject)

2008-06-12 Thread MICHELLE CROSBY
Bob, Good Point and well explained- I really thought that I was documenting everything correctly- I now know that I have a lot of work ahead of me. Oh well, perhaps now I won't complain when its raining outside and I can't work out in my yard- good reason to spend days off on the putter. Shell

RE: [LegacyUG] Date of last update

2008-06-12 Thread Margaret Couch
The date modified for individual data is already there, Gary Try clicking the box at the lower right in the information screen, to the right of the wife's RIN. I change the Death Cause default on the information screen to Date modified. For even clearer instructions, check the Help files under

RE: [LegacyUG] Help needed please?

2008-06-12 Thread Cheryl
Thank you for the reply Cathy! I wondered if the RIN numbers were used for something else, I know you can search by them in the lists. Would you suggest following the filing system for my paper records using the RIN numbers? By entering each family together they would then be grouped together in th

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7 - Little Capitalisation bug

2008-06-12 Thread Claire Spinelli
I show all caps on the individual's information screen and I, too, enter them lowercase with leading capital. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 10:41 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [

RE: [LegacyUG] Post Fix titles not having their case honoured

2008-06-12 Thread ronald ferguson
Phil, I'm sorry (if that's the word) but I cannot reproduce that effect, my old ones haven't changed and I have just tried putting some new ones in without problem. I also had a look at the Family Group Report and in Preview it was also OK. You might like like to have a look at your settings i

Re: [LegacyUG] v7 Relationships

2008-06-12 Thread Cathy
Hi The old relationship calculator didn't always automatically add relationships for people added. However it now doesn't happen for anyone and if it did, given the slowness of the calculation, there'd be a flood of requests to turn it off. Unless they solve the slowness problem, we'll all ju

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Template Conversion Tool

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
JLB wrote If you have the new Source Writer system turned on, and you open a Master Source from either the Master Source List or an Assigned Sources window you can then click the Add a new source button and it will bring up the Source Writer window. I don't think you mean *open* a Master Sou

Re: [LegacyUG] Finding those with sound files

2008-06-12 Thread MJMethod
I had submitted this as a bug. They have verified it and said it will be included in an update (timing tbd). Mike Michael J Method family research of: Method, Feehily, Fredrick, Herzog, tenEyck, Belsley In a message dated 6/11/2008 6:09:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Narrative Report

2008-06-12 Thread Kris
Reports > Books/Other > Descendant Narrative > Report Options > Format > Event Narrative Format > Combine all events into one paragraph HTH! legacy wrote: Can you please tell me where you find "Event options"? I've looked everywhere and can't find the sequence you mention: "Try Event Optio

RE: [LegacyUG] How do people record addresses in an 'Event'?

2008-06-12 Thread music-line
Hi Ron, I have been 'out of action' from the family tree thing for some time now, but Legacy 7 has sparked some interest off again. I started re-doing a couple of people, converting to geo-database and have soon decided to go back to the old way of doing it - the method you use, and the one I use

Re: [LegacyUG] a few problems in Legacy 7

2008-06-12 Thread Dave Naylor
On 10 Jun 2008 Ron Taylor wrote: > 3) Right click on "open source clipboard" triangle no longer allows > selection from 10 most used choices. It works OK for me. However you do need to have at least one *saved* clipboard for it to display any. And the upgrade to Legacy 7 deleted all the save

Re: [LegacyUG] Backup Problem with V7.0

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
William Robinette wrote I have been to the support page and read about error 91 but see nothing in the description that refers to error 91 and backup. I don't think it matters that you don't see anything specifically about backup. They appear to be general instructions for all instances of

Re: [LegacyUG] Date of last update

2008-06-12 Thread Gary Crull
Does the capability exist in either version (6 or 7) of Legacy to show the date of the last change, update, modification to an individuals record? Seems this would be helpful in determining how current the information was to help in checking for new info on the individual. Older the last update was

Re: [LegacyUG] Converting sources

2008-06-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
Michele Lewis wrote In the master source list I hit EDIT then a box pops up and it asks me if I want to use the Source Writer and I said yes. Then the old box pops up (the old edit box). I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I want to start converting my sources over to the standardized Mil

Re: [LegacyUG] V7 Invalid event date [was Unknowns]

2008-06-12 Thread Susan Daily
Steve, I know what you mean. I like to use "from 13 Apr 2007 to present" in my events that are current and ongoing, like jobs or residences. I think we should submit an enhancement request on the Legacy Home Tab to allow the date format to recognize "[date] -" [blank] or "[date] to present" as a va

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