Re: [LegacyUG] Timelines

2008-07-05 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Yes. It was available on the Legacy Home page. Rich in LA CA --- Jane Sarles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So is Animap a separate program that one must purchase? Jane Sarles RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: I reccomend AniMap for USA county changes. Rich in LA CA --- Jane Sarles [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] Making a gedcom

2008-07-05 Thread ronald ferguson
Jane, Normally, I would say click Print, select what you wish to appear on the screen and click Preview. Unfortunately, this isn't working at present. But you say you want to create a Fedcom, so you don't actually need to see it - you can just go to the Gedcom Creation and elect to use only

RE: [LegacyUG] Living or not

2008-07-05 Thread ronald ferguson
Jane, Just reset it to what age you want OptionsCustomiseData Entry. Ron Ferguson _ Update your British Prime Ministers Timeline - Blogs http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at:

Re: [LegacyUG] Timelines

2008-07-05 Thread Wynthner
Jane, At one time I stumbled across a website that had county creation dates and details for each state so I know one is out there- unfortunately I didn't save it [sigh] - Original Message From: Jane Sarles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, July

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Bruce McArthur
Hi Just to clarify what I meant by unstructured address. In TMG each part of the address has a name e.g. village, city or county and you can have different names for different parts of the address depending on the country you are dealing with. In Legacy you can put anything anywhere and you

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Wynthner
In actuality the US census creates a minimum of two witnesses, one of which is recorded on the census. Witness #1 is the person giving the information to the enumerator. That person witnesses the recording of the information he/she is giving by the enumerator. Witness #2 is the enumerator, who

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread music-line
Hi Ron, Sorry if I have caused confusion about quoting 'The Lowe' I do know what and where The Lowe is, I was just quoting it as an example. The real question was if someone asked me where it was, how would I search my Legacy database? I don't think I can search sources for 'The Lowe' in

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread music-line
Hi Jenny, Personally, I would not split a publication like a journal or book but (at the moment) I would split a census - the information in a census is huge and (to me) is a primary. Best wishes David * David S Brookes Musical Director, The

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mary Young wrote it's no more difficult to access 500 or 5,000 Sources than 220 - if they're sensibly named. Of course it's not - perhaps a fraction more time-consuming - but what a waste of resources! The program needs more memory to handle the bulk, the hard disk needs more space to

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread music-line
Hi Mary, I really want to be able to search legacy for a census (exact location) and to get a census (exact location) as a result and not a person. Best wishes and thanks for your reply. David * David S Brookes Musical Director, The Brewood

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
Bruce McArthur wrote In TMG each part of the address has a name e.g. village, city or county and you can have different names for different parts of the address depending on the country you are dealing with. In Legacy you can put anything anywhere and you could end up with a place being at

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread music-line
On 5th July 2008, Mary Young wrote: I might lump new stuff using the Templates in v.7. Oh no, Mary. Does this mean you are deserting the 'extreme splitters club'. Only me and Ward Walker left!! :-) Best wishes David * David S Brookes Musical

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread music-line
Hi Jenny, Now I'm no expert (as by now you've gathered) but surely if the information is there whether it is in the Master Source or Detail Source it is the same information, being recorded the same number of times and therefore using (approximately) the same memory resources. Surely when you

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread music-line
I agree entirely Mary Best wishes David * David S Brookes Musical Director, The Brewood Singers www.brewoodsingers.co.uk Organist Choirmaster, Polesworth Abbey www.polesworthabbey.co.uk

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Mary Young
David wrote: Oh no, Mary. Does this mean you are deserting the 'extreme splitters club'. Only me and Ward Walker left!! :-) I only said might ! (offered as a sop to the extreme lumpers). Mary Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Mary Young
Jenny I don't worry about resources that is what modern computers are for. Reports are saved to pdf and emailed. Chacun a son gout. I guess we have to agree to differ. Mary Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages:

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Mary Young
David wrote: The real question was if someone asked me where it was, how would I search my Legacy database? I don't think I can search sources for 'The Lowe' in Legacy. Yes, you can! But there are 10 fields in Sources, so it can be tedious. Don't use the Magnifying Glass icon search. In the

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Elizabeth Cunningham
How in the world do you tell who gave the info to the census enumerator? In just one case, I can tell -- my grandmother gave her daughters' relationships as daughter while the relationship of the children by her husband's first marriage as step-son. Other than that, you don't even know if it

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread music-line
I found it Mary, so thanks for that, but as you say, it is a bit tedious. To find something in a Detail Source, I eventually found it by searching Citation-Text. Best wishes David * David S Brookes Musical Director, The Brewood Singers

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Mary Young
Maybe it's easier in v.7 (or do you have that already?) Mary On 7/5/08, music-line [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found it Mary, so thanks for that, but as you say, it is a bit tedious. To find something in a Detail Source, I eventually found it by searching Citation-Text. Legacy User Group

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread music-line
Hi Mary, No, it looks like it's the same - I'm using V7, so I suppose that's it. Thank you so much for your help. Best wishes David * David S Brookes Musical Director, The Brewood Singers www.brewoodsingers.co.uk Organist

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread John Clare
Another reason for not splitting is to avoid errors. If you consider each one as separate, there is a chance that mistakes can enter into the data. Also, if you wish to change the description of a source, you only have to change it in one place rather than in each record. In the UK, the Public

Re: [LegacyUG] 7.0.0.53 Source: Artifacts Privately held

2008-07-05 Thread Dede Holden
Kristen, I've just tried this and I can confirm this condition. I have a source created with the Artifact template. The Source text does not appear at all in the Descendant Book Report, nor does the Source Detail. It also does not print in the Individual Report, nor the Family Group Report. The

Re: [LegacyUG] Living or not

2008-07-05 Thread Jane Sarles
The problem arose because of all those in my data for whom I do not have a birth or a death date. In many cases, all I have is the name of a spouse, and no further information on them. I went through the list of tagged people manually and changed those I knew to be living to indicate so.

Re: [LegacyUG] Timelines

2008-07-05 Thread Don Varner
Try this one. http://www.familyhistory101.com/map_county.html On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Wynthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jane, At one time I stumbled across a website that had county creation dates and details for each state so I know one is out there- unfortunately I didn't save it

RE: [LegacyUG] latest update

2008-07-05 Thread BOB CUNNINGHAM
Don I agree Don, but my mail was about why only incude the Census and BMD templates for part of a country. But going to the other reply re the alphabet that was posted, A for Australia and C for Canada and a few more countries would come before England and Wales. Bob --- Don Brown [EMAIL

Re: [LegacyUG] Living or not

2008-07-05 Thread Paul Croteau
For what it's worth Jane, when I add people, I have a pretty good idea when they were born so I have used Circa or About in the date of birth field.  Makes it a lot easier to differentiate between Joseph Croteau born Circa 1800 and Joseph Croteau born Circa 1900.   Paul Croteau

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Janis Gilmore
I am a splitter, although I split less with the new Source Writer. I am truly curious as to why anyone cares how many Master Sources they have? I frequently see postings to this list from people who say they are lumpers because they don't want a heavily populated Master Source list. But you have

Re: [LegacyUG] Making a gedcom

2008-07-05 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: The information can be found by selecting the search item on the top tool bar. Select the Detailed Search tab. Choose individual living equal to yes create list. If you then select print you may direct the output to the screen, a printer, a CSV file or a PDF file.

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
So if that person asking you if you have any people recorded in The Lowe you're looking for the location, not the people? What is the point of that? Why aren't you looking for the people who are recorded on the census in The Lowe? If you want to find the people who are recorded on The Lowe

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
I have one 1900 census source. It's easy. Everyone uses it. I find a new family, I know what source to use. I don't have to go looking to see if I already have a source in that location, I don't have to spend a lot of time setting up a new one if I don't already have one, I can have all 8

Re: [LegacyUG] Witnesses

2008-07-05 Thread Lill Ann Parry
I have chosen to create a marriage event called Marriage witnesses. I enter the names of the witnesses in the description with date and place in the appropriate fields. It reads Marriage witnesses were XX and XX on date in/at place. I rarely enter marriage witness as an event/fact for an

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Gary Templeman
- Original Message - From: Janis Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 8:29 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! I am a splitter, although I split less with the new Source

RE: [LegacyUG] 7.0.0.53 Source: Artifacts Privately held

2008-07-05 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Dede: Many thanks for checking and confirming. Kirsten -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dede Holden Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 5:47 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 7.0.0.53 Source: Artifacts Privately

RE: [LegacyUG] 7.0.0.53 Sourcing

2008-07-05 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Barb: I can't check this because I had no saved templates. Sorry. Kirsten -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barb Weed Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:00 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 7.0.0.53 Sourcing

RE: [LegacyUG] Witnesses

2008-07-05 Thread ronald ferguson
Lill Ann. I do not know about other countries but in Britain many of the witnesses to 19c marriages were in fact church lay officials rather then family. This is easy to spot by going through the parish registers. Additionally they were usually literate, or at least could sign their name.

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Cary
One of the reasons I'm a splitter as to census records is that I file paper copies of sources by File ID number and I find it easier to keep each census page as a master source where the ID number can be seen directly from a person's record without opening every source detail. I print pages of

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Wynthner
The point is that it doesn't matter who gave the information. Whoever gave it would be Witness #1. As I said.. there will ALWAYS be a minimum of two witnesses although only one (the enumerator) is named on the census. - Original Message From: Elizabeth Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[LegacyUG] creating web pages

2008-07-05 Thread Syble Glasscock
I'm trying to create web pages with the V 7 and it is not picking up any of the Events that I have listed as census, but it is picking up the other events.  Any suggestions?  I've just downloaded V 7, did receive my manual and videos yesterday, so I've just been playing around with it.  From

Re: [LegacyUG] Making a gedcom

2008-07-05 Thread Art Seddon
A enhancement could be if we could tag ancestors of anyone born before an appropriate date (example - 1910) and have everyone tagged set to non-living. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: Dennis M. Kowallek To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:35

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
Witness to what? The census is an enumeration (listing) of persons. Did you think the individual who provided the information is a witness of the written enumeration? Extremely unlikely, at least in the US. The information provided was copied onto the forms later. The original information

Re: [LegacyUG] Witnesses

2008-07-05 Thread Lill Ann Parry
Ron, In Norway the marriage witnesses were father's or relatives as long as the couple were from the area. Lill Ann ronald ferguson wrote: Lill Ann. I do not know about other countries but in Britain many of the witnesses to 19c marriages were in fact church lay officials rather then

Re: [LegacyUG] latest update

2008-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
BOB CUNNINGHAM wrote But going to the other reply re the alphabet that was posted, A for Australia and C for Canada and a few more countries would come before England and Wales. But a) I had my tongue firmly in my cheek and b) I was only referring to the UK, nothing to do with the rest of

Re: [LegacyUG] latest update

2008-07-05 Thread BOB CUNNINGHAM
Jenny My tongue was also in my cheek when I mentioned the rest of the world and said A and C and others would come before E and W and of course I and S as well. Bob --- Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BOB CUNNINGHAM wrote But going to the other reply re the alphabet that was

[LegacyUG] two versions on one computer

2008-07-05 Thread myrna20
Hello listers, OK, so even though we are leaving Mexico for Texas again and I do not have time yet to use it I finally purchased the new V7 deluxe package. Can someone please tell me the proper way to download the new version and still keep V6? I want to use a small DB with the new version

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mary Young wrote I don't worry about resources that is what modern computers Nice if you can afford to upgrade to bigger and better memory and hard drive whenever you need to! Chacun a son gout. I guess we have to agree to differ. Fortunately, we are all free to differ and most of us

Re: [LegacyUG] Living or not

2008-07-05 Thread Wynthner
Jane, I've found it best to always enter a birth and death date for anyone I don't personally know is alive. Even if I don't know the actual dates one can come up with valid estimates. A real life example: My cousin's mother and father were divorced when she was very young and she had no contact

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy v7 Deluxe and Clooz 2.1

2008-07-05 Thread Heather Stovold
You need to have a seperate Legacy database and a seperate Clooz database if you are using Legacy v7. Clooz was setup to use a Legacy v6 database - and the makers of Legacy changed the database for version 7. On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Donna Felina Roach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have

Re: [LegacyUG] Timelines

2008-07-05 Thread Jane Sarles
Yes, this is reeeally good. From it I can construct a timeline for each of my counties. Thanks so much. Jane Don Varner wrote: Try this one. http://www.familyhistory101.com/map_county.html On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Wynthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jane, At one time I

Re: [LegacyUG] Living or not

2008-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mary Young wrote If anyone on this List is actually Not Living, I'd advise putting Unknown in their Death Date. I wasn't really concentrating when I read your message and when I got to that sentence I was thinking List meant LUG Mailing List! -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group

[LegacyUG] Error 9 Tagging problems

2008-07-05 Thread Christina
Help!! I am attempting to run a name list report and once I got an Runtime Error 9 Script out of Range and then each time after that when I click on preview or print to pdf or print it freezes the program and shuts down. I checked the error number one the site and followed directions and deleted

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Fonts?

2008-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
Susan Perrett wrote Is it possible to add further fonts to Legacy Charting and if so, where would one install them to? I would like to add Black Chancery. It appears that the present fonts are not the same as the fonts I use in MS Word 2007. I have all the same fonts available in Charting

Re: [LegacyUG] two versions on one computer

2008-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
wrote Can someone please tell me the proper way to download the new version and still keep V6? I want to use a small DB with the new version until I learn how to use it correctly. I remember that several of you use more than one version on the same computer and it is now time for me to

Re: [LegacyUG] two versions on one computer

2008-07-05 Thread John Magyari
Install to a different directory than your previous version and everything should be fine. Default directory is c:\Legacy choose something unique. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello listers, OK, so even though we are leaving Mexico for Texas again and I do not have time yet to use it I

Re: [LegacyUG] two versions on one computer

2008-07-05 Thread Leon Chapman
Just download version 7 and install it in a different Directory than Legacy 6. They both want to install in: C:\Legacy\. That is probably where you have your version 6 installed. For version 7, I installed it in: C:\Legacy7\ You probably will need to copy your data files over to the

RE: [LegacyUG] Timelines

2008-07-05 Thread Tim Rosenlof
Sorry to be so late. Animap thier is a charge, yet very well worth it Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jane Sarles Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 8:56 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Timelines

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Bruce McArthur
Hi again I'm sorry I seem to have opened a can of worms with my description of TMG's ability to record witnesses. Witnesses is just a TMG generic term for other people involved in an event - in fact they can take on any role - so in a census they can be wife, son, daughter etc, for a will

[LegacyUG] Update chart

2008-07-05 Thread Gary Elder
I've successfully made an hour glass chart, but recently made some changes to the related family file. I would like the changes be reflected in the chart but I can't find the UPDATE FILE LIST button mentioned in the help document. Where is it located? Gary No virus found in this outgoing

[LegacyUG] Editing surname list

2008-07-05 Thread Donna Felina Roach
When editing my surname list, there are items that are showing up that are not linked to the person that shows as linked. I have J (typo) showing as linked to Mary J. surname but it doesn't show up when I pull up her name. Also I have Jr. showing as a last name but is the right place in

[LegacyUG] v7 update 1 July

2008-07-05 Thread Tracy Skegg
Hi Listers I wasn't aware there had been an update, my Legacy Home page in v7 and the 'Update' link both display that build 7.0.0.45 2 June 2008 is still the latest build. Thanks for raising awareness of the new build through the list. Cheers Tracy Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] two versions on one computer

2008-07-05 Thread myrna20
Thanks everyone for the reminder of how to load more than one version. As I said, it has been a while since I was subscribed to the list or had even used the program. Hopefully that will change soon. Thanks again, Myrna Legacy User Group guidelines:

[LegacyUG] Re: Error 9 Tagging problems

2008-07-05 Thread Christina
To all those who read this I found my tagging problem and is corrected. But the error with the name list report still exists. -- - Christina Hruška --And the Dragon Grins... On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Christina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I now cannot set my tags to show. I check

Re: [LegacyUG] Update chart

2008-07-05 Thread Wendy Howard
Hi Gary, I've successfully made an hour glass chart, but recently made some changes to the related family file. I would like the changes be reflected in the chart but I can't find the UPDATE FILE LIST button mentioned in the help document. Where is it located? I resorted to looking up the

[LegacyUG] Census BMD Name changes

2008-07-05 Thread Colin Liddell
I am a new user of Legacy and still finding my way. I have come across a small problem and wondered how others would handle it. I have just found my ggg grandfather Joseph THOMAS and his wife Grace in the English 1891 Census living in Hackney, London with their daughter Emily and husband

Re: [LegacyUG] Census BMD Name changes

2008-07-05 Thread Rachel Alliston
- Original Message - From: Colin Liddell SNIP : My question is; how do I handle the different spellings of his surname? : : Do I make the assumption that the birth spelling is correct and just use : that in all instances or should I put in the Marriage notes the spelling : used there

Re: [LegacyUG] Update chart

2008-07-05 Thread John Magyari
Far left Icons that sit on Left margin, last Icon that has 2 Arrows Top arrow point to left, bottom arrow pointing to right. If you place cursor over it it says Refresh Chart Gary Elder wrote: I've successfully made an hour glass chart, but recently made some changes to the related family

RE: [LegacyUG] Census BMD Name changes

2008-07-05 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Welcome Colin! You should be safe in using the spelling on the birth record as the preferred version--at least until/unless you find more evidence.You may also want to record the other spellings as aka's, although there could be some argument about whether George was really *also known as*

[LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Dave Keeney
Don't worry David there are probably lots of 'extreme splitter' lurkers out here. Count me in. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of music-line Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:10 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE:

Re: [LegacyUG] Update chart

2008-07-05 Thread Gary Elder
Thanks John, I see where that updated my spelling corrections within each chart box, but it didn't update the chart to include a child I had added to an existing family group. Suggestions? John Magyari wrote: Far left Icons that sit on Left margin, last Icon that has 2 Arrows Top arrow