How do you tag people that need Temple work?
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Many thanks to Jenny Benson, Cathy Vallevieni for solving this problem.
I contacted Dennis K, as suggested by Cathy, and managed to do the job
in less than five minutes, so particular thanks to Dennis!
Elizabeth
Is it then possible to put the letter H into all their ID numbers,
followed by
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 16:56:03 +1100, Tracy Skegg tracysk...@gmail.com
wrote:
Can anyone tell me which table has MRINs? I'd like to change the
MRINs through Access, rather than changing 5,000 MRINs one at a time
through Legacy. Unless anyone has an easier way of changing the
MRINs.
You do not
I used to use a gene program called reunion (windows version) which would
let you keep a list of people that you used for reference / research.
I was hoping legacy had something similar but can not find it.
Simply someone that I can record the people and their contact details etc so
that I can
I would like someone to share with me how they would create a master source
(using the new source writer), for a marriage found in the index at this
website below. I am finding it very difficult to use this tool. I think if
you put Mid Kent Marriages Index in Google it will come up.
I was hoping legacy had something similar but can not find it.
Simply someone that I can record the people and their contact details etc so
that I can remember every now and then to get in touch with them to see if
they have any new info.
It sounds like a general to-do list would work.
Carl
Kirsten,
I was able to duplicate this but only when I did the following:
1. I created an ancestor X
2. I added a marriage date and place but no spouse.
3. The Marriage wording tab of the marriage screen then used the default
setting X married someone for an unknown spouse.
4. I ran an ancestor
Ron,
Not all date fields in the SourceWriter templates use the date
validation and formatting routines used to convert dates to the Date
Options Format. Some will accept whatever you enter. You can tell, when
you leave the field if the date options are implemented, If the date
You could have an event for each individual for whom you have contacts with
whom you wish to be in touch regularly. Name the event Contacts and in the
notes window add each person, and their email address. When you are working
on that individual you just open that event and run down the list.
Anne,
I checked this site and found it well done, interesting and helpful. If you
found information on a family that is helpful that is good. However, I
don't think you should use an index as a source. There are several reasons
an index shouldn't be used. First of all: is what you are
There's a Master Repository list, i.e. any repository addresses you add
to Sources. That would include things other than what you're wanting
that you may be able to skim past. I just looked and I don't know what
happened to mine. It used to have a few hundred addresses in there, now
there's
Have you looked at the subcategories of the Address List?
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:50 AM, JLB j...@telus.net wrote:
There's a Master Repository list, i.e. any repository addresses you add to
Sources. That would include things other than what you're wanting that you
may be able to skim past.
My bad. In the wrong family file...
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Randolph Clark wrote:
Have you looked at the subcategories of the Address List?
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:50 AM, JLB j...@telus.net
mailto:j...@telus.net wrote:
Thanks for the time you took to reply to my question Phil. I understand what
you are saying about an index not being an original source. You have helped
me debate this issue and I think in time, I will master the source writer.
Your ideas have been most helpful. Thanks very much,
Anne
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Anne and Phil,
I agree with Phil about obtaining the original, but I would still enter it
and source it as you have it presently, until the original is in your
possession.
If the resulting source requires additional clarification, you can add a
phrase in the Source DetailText/CommentsComments
Brian
My 2p worth
I'd suggest that because of your action at 7 below that the effect is a
bug. You had the info correct already and so were OK in doing a cancel from
the marriage screen. The wording options should sort themselves out (unless
you had overridden them). I don't think it should
Brian:
Seems like a bug to me. If only one member of a couple is entered along
with marriage information, then the inclusion of someone in the report
wording would be appropriate. When the second person's name is added later,
it seems that name should then simply override or cancel out the
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:39:22 -0800, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net
wrote:
Seems like a bug to me. If only one member of a couple is entered along
with marriage information, then the inclusion of someone in the report
wording would be appropriate. When the second person's name is added later,
it
Anne wrote:
I would like someone to share with me how they would create a master source
(using the new source writer), for a marriage found in the index at this
website below.
Anne,
As Phil said, the Mid Kent database seems well well done. Thus, my next two
sentences are not meant to reflect
Ron:
True, it isn't straightforward. I think you're saying something very
similar to Dennis, so I'll combine a response to both of you there.
Kirsten
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of ronald ferguson
Sent: Saturday,
Dennis and Ron:
You both brought up excellent points and, not knowing how the program
operates, I'm unable to answer except to say that if the word someone is
coded into the program to be automatically added to reports when a name
field is left blank, then it should be fairly simple to eliminate
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:40:06 -0800, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net
wrote:
I'm unable to answer except to say that if the word someone is
coded into the program to be automatically added to reports when a name
field is left blank, then it should be fairly simple to eliminate that code
when a name is
Many thanks again to all of you who have contributed to my question. I think
this has been a great exercise and I have learned a lot. Thank you,
Anne
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From: esh...@comcast.net
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Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 4:03 PM
Subject:
My personal opinion is that the someone shouldn't be added at all. It should
simply read married. The mere fact of a marriage indicates that there
was another someone involved.
When/if other information is found then it should be entered a another marriage
with full details and the
I'm trying to tag names that need LDS Temple work.
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:00:09 +, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com
wrote:
I don't think that in v7 this works in a way which is very different to that
of v6. In certain circumstances in reports the word someone is inserted
I am seem to be getting different results in V6. But it is probably not
Under an Individual's Information window, I have listed a person's occupation
when available in the EVENTS/FACTS area. Is it possible to search or create
a list of all individuals that were, for example, 'grocers'?
Thank you for your help,
Scott B
Canada
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Ron said:
As is known, should an individual have a child and there is no existing
'marriage' then Legacy creates one, and unless told otherwise will enter
Joe Bloggs married Unknown/someone in reports. However there now seems to
be a change in the way that this is treated if a partner is
Use Search. Under 'Where to Look' choose whichever Events field you've
put the word 'grocer' into. Under 'How to Look' choose contains.
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mime wrote:
Under an Individual's Information window, I have listed a
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 14:46:53 -0800 (PST), seaic2008-...@yahoo.com wrote:
There is another problem having Legacy automatically insert Someone into
reports. I have many old German records in which the female had one or more
illegitimate children. When the child is entered for the woman, Legacy
Nope. The report still says Mary Jones married someone.
--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote:
From: Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Someone
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 6:22 PM
On Sat, 3 Jan
Elizabeth,
The procedure which you adopt should not, in my experience, lead to any
problems. In fact it is pretty much the order in which I also enter data.
I cannot see how the wife is always after the father - I have examples of
having a father and not knowing the mother. However, that is
Ok, I've seen what they did!?? Before you print you can change the printer
and its preferences, i.e., paper size. I would think the should have had a
print-set-up button??
Also, will try to print later and see what happens???
Carol
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com
I *always* enter a 'name' for a marriage partner- even if I don't know it!
A spouse with an unknown name would be entered as:
Given Name:_
Surname:~
Then I chnage it when I get the real name.
--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Elizabeth Richardson erich...@worldnet.att.net wrote:
From: Elizabeth
There is a print setup button. There are many Office standard functions
under the icon in the uppermost left corner. Office 2007 changed a few
things and it takes some getting used to.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
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Have you tried tried going to the individual's marriage screen, and for the
'marriage' to the unknown person change it to 'partnered' (or whatever suits).
Also check the 'this couple did not marry' box. The report output will then
read Jane partnered.
Like you, I think, I would prefer it to
Correction please see below:
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Ron, my response was in my own work. Because I'm working a descendancy, I
nearly always have a marriage before I have children (I cannot recall a time
when this wasn't true, but surely I have an unmarried parents somewhere!).
My primary exception is in adding the parents of a newly acquired
One works backwards only to a point-say your great grandfather and then you
want to add his descendants( your cousins)- then you start working forward so
sooner or later everyone might well encounter this bug.
--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Elizabeth Richardson erich...@worldnet.att.net wrote:
From:
I believe you are more likely to encounter this bug working backwards. One
can more easily learn the name of one parent without learning the names of
both parents, especially when getting back several generations, which is
when I suspect this problem crops up. When you come forward in time, you
Thanks Dennis, could I still change the numbers if I export to another
legacy file and rather than keep MRINs, start them at a particular
number set?
Cheers
Tracy
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Elizabeth:
It's actually not a problem of entering parents and children in a particular
sequence. It comes from adding a person and a marriage date without knowing
the spouse's name--which can happen occasionally whether you're working
backward or forward. Once the person and marriage date are
But Kirsten, I don't see how this can be. I don't understand how you can
know when a person married without knowing to whom, nor, if by some fluke
you should have this information, why you would make an actual entry without
getting that to whom. That's the sort of stuff I would put in research
I had a few event questions that I could not find the answers to in
searching the Legacy email list.
1. What do others do in Legacy for events over a date range? I am not
referring to an event when you don't know exactly when it happened but
you know it happened between x and y.
I am
Is there anything wrong with putting the date range in the Date field?
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Alan Jones wrote:
I had a few event questions that I could not find the answers to in
searching the Legacy email list.
1. What do others
I want to add that after I designated my family lines by modifying
the MRIN's to reflect the appropriate family line I, too, was able to
quickly fill in all the User IDs with the modified MRINs including
unmarried children thanks to Dennis K's help (see below). A great
time saver and I am now
God evening,
I do research in India, and on many occasions the mother's name isn't given
on a birth/baptism record, e.g.
snip
Birth Date 7 - Mar
Birth Year 1831
Baptised Surname Dennison
Source Event Birth
** Entry At Vizagapatam, the lady of Capt. Dennison, country sea service,
of a
Good question, based on my reading and going though some of the Legacy
training Videos it looked doing a Between and entering two dates for the
type of information I was referring to was not a good practice. Even
looking at the sample database the Residence entries have a single
date. Did
If the training videos say a date range is a bad practice, surely they
suggested a good practice? Or maybe you're supposed to put the end dates
in the Notes section? I was doing some passenger lists the other day,
and putting the landing date in the date field and then putting into
Notes the
Ok I found the address button.
Unless I don't understand something here I have never liked this much as it
is only for the current address and has no history.
I prefer to use events to keep track of where people have lived.
Anyway, the only way I can find to access the address lists is to
I'd like to create a list of individuals that share the Military Service
event. Is there a way to do this?
Many thanks,
Richard
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Despite your saying you don't want to use the To Do List, have you taken
a good look at it?
You can choose to look at the TDL for just one person, or for everyone.
You can filter by:
- one Category or all, and/or
- one Locality or all, and/or
- whether a task is Open or Closed, and/or
- by
Tracy,
I think in your original post you asked how to change the MRIN in Access and
Dennis, rightly, pointed out that you should not do this.
It is perfectly OK to change the MRIN from within Legacy as the program will
make the change in all the columns in which they are used, and as you
I am very new to Legacy and have a question .
On the Family view where the children are listed at the bottom of the
window, is there a way to indicate which child is the one that is the
direct ancestor? Other programs I've used in the past let you color
accent that person or make their
Richard,
SearchFindDetailed Search
Look for whom: Individual
Where to look: Event Description
How to Look: Equal To
What to look for: Military Service
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Alan,
Using Between is a perfectly valid date. Rather than using the Help Files, in
this case see OptionsCustomiseDates to set as you wish.
Ron Ferguson
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