Mark K wrote
How do I show that the male child changes his name by deed poll.
I have shown his children with his new name (as the birth certificates)
but not sure what to do about his surname. I currently show both in
the surname field with his birth name normal and new name in brackets.
I
Elizabeth Richardson wrote
I agree that reports should be showing the birth name. However, I don't
know that you should put married names in the AKA field. You could
do so if you wish.
I agree. Personally, I don't. Whenever I am entering information from a
document or other source, I enter
Elizabeth Richardson wrote
To answer the OP's question, I would enter what the source says as
guessing at anything would be just as inaccurate. At some future time,
you may learn a the actual location and you can enter it then, even
adding a note as to the earlier entry if you like.
As far
Thank you for your responses. It appears that, from these responses that
no-one is using the email template in the way it is designed. Although the
responses represent a relatively small sample of those using the programme,
the experience of people using the LUG leads me to believe that the
Not sure if this is your problem but I found that the lost formatting
reappeared when the file was opened in a different (more full-featured) word
processor.
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Keith:
Do you have a secret update or something?? When I
Elizabeth,
On the web it is below the vital Events and there is a line which says Also
known as xx. Not doing many written reports I think it comes after the
name, in brackets, in both cases I think one has to use a check box for it to
show.
Sure, one can work it out from the surnames
I don't know if this is correct or not, I have always used BNA for Britsh North
America and when the Colonies won their independence I then enter the location
as USA.
Shelly
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Cathy Vallevieni wrote:
I have an ancestor that a source states died in America in 1666/7.
I don't have a location or colony.
What would you enter in the Location (i.e. America or Colonial America
or ???)
Just to throw another spanner in the works :-) Doesn't it also matter
when the source
Shelly and others,
I think North American Colonies would be the best description.
Historically speaking, to refer to the area as British North America
especially in 1666 would not be correct as the French and Spanish also had a
large presence. King Philips war, also known as the French and
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Good morning all,
There is a listing of states and when they were admitted to the
union on Wikipedia.org
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_statehood).
I printed this off and have it next to my keyboard. Until the
state was admitted/ ratified I always use American
we're starting this again?
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Marcellyn,
These are two different wars and time periods.
King Philip's War, 1675-1676, was a conflict between the colonists and the
Native Americans due to encroachment by the colonists.
The French and Indian War, 1754-1763, was a war between the English and the
French, who had support from
No it is very easy in standard edition
FILE/Export/gedcom
Eliz
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend has the Legacy Standard Edition. She's having difficulty making a
gedcom. Is this feature only available with the Deluxe Version?
Marie
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Marie,
No, but what is the problem?
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For The Fergusons of N.W.
Colonial America sounds right.
For Virginia: In 1608, Captain John Smith wrote to a friend in England ... a
true relation of such occurrences and accidents of note as hath happened in
Virginia since the first planting of that colony...
Sharon Perdue
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British America (assuming that you know that it wasn't in Florida or
some other part of America not under the control of the British).
Drew Smith
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Cathy Vallevieni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an ancestor that a source states died in America in 1666/7.
I
I call it 'home of my Cherokee ancestors and other Native Americans' before it
was over run by illegal aliens!!! :-)
Bob
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British America (assuming that you know that it wasn't in Florida or
some other part of America not under the control of the
Randolph:
That's very interesting. I use MS Word for Legacy reports (or used to).
What software did you use that gave a better result with reports?
Kirsten
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I also never use the Legacy SourceWriter templates.
It is certainly an option to group a collection of emails between two
people of which each is both the writer and recipient.
I do this myself, and I have also seen this sort of thing done in books
where a collection of correspondence between
Don't know because we're email genealogy friends and relations. Just
introduced her to Legacy and I think she's still on the basic learning
curve. Thanks anyway. Just wanted to know if Exportgedcom worked on
Standard. We'll figure it out, I'm sure.
Marie
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British North America or Colonial America wouldn't differentiate between
areas controlled at different times by the English, French, Spanish, Dutch,
or even the Russians. Even the borders and names of the British Colonies
changed over time, e.g., East Jersey, West Jersey, New Jersey. Very
Perhaps I should say, it depends on where they were located. In the case of
mine, they were all located in Mass or NY
Shelly
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Keith and Kirsten,
I just tried a few reports myself and the problems still seem to be there for
me too. The fixes will certainly be most welcome.
Marie
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John: Animap is great for these situations but a little expensive.
Wikipedia is often a big help in sorting out the colonies and their proper
names at given times.
Shelly: British North America or BNA could work in a pinch, but that's more
of a geographical description; it never was a govening
But the problem here is that the only thing she knows is what the source
gave her: that is, America. To make any other entry would simply be 100%
inaccurate. She doesn't at this time know whether this was Plimouth Colony,
Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island, Virginia, New York, St.
In the thread on America, one poster proferred that he was going to get
some genealogy history or timelines to add to his genealogy materials. For
those of you who have used/made timelines, how does one go about creating
customized timelines? How do you import them into Legacy?
I think others
Hi,
I'm new to Legacy and find it to be an excellent tool. One of the functions
I like is the ability to directly go to an internet search. The question I
have is, when I use the internet search for a current person is there anyway
I can search not only on the main name, but also on the AKAs
HelpTimelines
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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:36 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Timelines
In the thread on America, one poster proferred that he was going to get
some genealogy
Elizabeth,
Help Search tab Timelines.
Sorry.
Tim
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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:36 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Timelines
In the thread on America, one poster proferred that he
You can create a gedcom import/export with basic.
The original question passed me by. What was it again.
Tim
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Elizabeth,
I see that someone has suggested the Help Files, always a good starting point.
I also opened one of the Timeline files in C:/Legacy ( or wherever you put it)
to have a look at the contstruction. They are only text files and hence will
open in Notepad but also Wordpad, Word,
I see we are getting these again, Is there anything I need to do to help
stop them.
Thanks,
Bill Runolfson
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It's OK, Tim. I'm usually pretty good at checking the Help files first, but
must have had a blonde moment (and I apologize in advance to blondes
everywhere for this seemingly disparaging term). I'm quite busy searching
for and entering individuals and their information, but customized timelines
mail server hiccup, check the times.
Tim
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From: Elizabeth
Ron,
I am using the split screen and I do believe that is when the problems
occur. However, I am also having a problem that has nothing to do with
the split screen.
Occasionally, when only one database is open, I enter a family and,
unbeknown to me, one member of the family is entered
As an example, I use 'Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British
NA', or 'Richmond, le Val Saint Francois, Canada East, British NA'. For the
Spanish stuff I use 'Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, Nueva México, Nueva
España'. (I have no South America.) In my location notes I have
Thank you, Chap, for your informative reply.
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Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Printing a Bibliography Report and Footnotes Report
You need to select Reports All
Claire,
As I am sure you realise, the obvious answer is that you inadvertently entered
them twice!
Having disposed of that, I cannot answer without knowing how you were putting
the names in in the first place. If it was a straight forward typing in of new
names then I am afraid I have no
Help!
I have used Legacy for years, and Legacy 7 for months. All of a
sudden, all photos which I store in c:\Legacy\Pictures are not loading
quickly and neatly on individuals. Instead, when I click on the Show
Picture Gallary for an individual, the picutures come up but the hour
glass runs and
Mary,
The first thing I would do is run check/repair on the database. See if that
takes care of the problem.
Mary
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Mary
I have done a check/repair and that did not stop the problem. Then I
reloaded the Legacy 7 program from the internet. It is still not
working correctly. I have 2,413 pictures in the c:\Legacy\Pictures
file. Is there a limit to size of picture file for the program to
handle it correctly?
What format are the pictures in? jpeg, tiff, bmp??? The large the file the
longer to load
John Valencic
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Mary,
The first thing I would do is run check/repair on the database. See if
that
takes care of the problem.
Mary
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I'm using version 7 with all updates on vista64.
Everything has been working fine but I have just noticed that when I enter or
change a location I get an error.
If I use an existing location there is no problem.
However, if I enter a new location in the born or died I get an error on the
And the second thing(s) I would do is to ensure that the PC is nice and clean
ie. run Spybot, AdAware, CClean, empty the browser cache, defrag, etc. etc.
Ron Ferguson
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John,
I just checked and have .jpg and .bmp and 4 .pdf files but no .tiff. I
checked the folders of other persons in the database and mostly they
are not flickering and are loading ok. Samuel Richmond and 21 pictures
attached. I went into Picture Center and removed several so there are
12 for him
Mark,
Is there and error message and number? have you checked with on-line technical
support - details at the end of every email?
Ron Ferguson
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Ron,
I am doing as you suggested... very good idea. We shall see if that helps.
Mary
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John,
I just checked and have .jpg and .bmp and 4 .pdf files but no .tiff. I
checked the folders of other persons in the database
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I've found that if you have a lot of pictures with large files sizes linked
to a picture gallery, then it will be very slow and flicker. I have one
person with quite a few pictures of 2-3 MB attached in his Picture Gallery
and it's a lot slower loading than in the other Picture Galleries with
Hi everyone,
For some reason my wife has become unlinked from her parents. When I click
on the parents field to link back it asks me if I want to link to an
existing person, I click yes, and it links back to her father. It does not
automatically link to her mother, but when I try the same
By the way, if I right click on my wife's name and go to AddParents, when I
find the parents in the list and click on, it tells me they are already her
parents, but there is no link or names in the box where the parents should
go.
Best wishes
David
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