Richard,
As far as I know Legacy has not made any announcement regarding the conversion
tool and I am sure they would not now ever use the word soon let alone very
soon and where on earth ...a week or so came from I haven't a clue.
I fear that you are unjustifiably raising expectations.
I'd go along with this - it's easy to see from the individual screen
just what you do know about a person. As nearly everyone I add is long
dead, their 'pattern of migration' be it from one village to another or
one country to another is plain to see.
Elizabeth
John Roose wrote:
I put census
Hello.
I just purchased 7.0 Deluxe edition and have the most recent upgrade.
Does anyone have trouble using the Ibid feature?
I have a check mark in the box labled Use Ibid for Repeating Master Sources
under Customize--- Sources --- Citation Formatting. It does not work. The
Source citations
Hello again!
Is anyone else having trouble with sibling relationships.
I have three siblings in my file who were born to the same mother. The mother
gave birth to a son and daughter to her first husband; and a son to her second
husband. The Relationships Report incorrectly classifies the two
Since the introduction of the Source Writer the use of ibid appears to have
become redundant - which is a polite way of saying it no longer seems to be
availanle.
I also do not like the use of unknown, so what I do is create the marriage to
an unknown and in Family View right click on the
jaemtp wrote
It seems that I cannot leave the name field blank, and if I enter
Unknown into the Given name, it shows up on Potential Problems report
along with the instructions that descriptive words that are not names
should not be entered into name fields. I love it when machines do my
I have a child who was adopted so I used the adoption event for him. I
would like to see his name shown as the NEW surname from his adopted
father but with something to show his birth name. What is the best way
to handle that? Also, should I just make up my own event for the
adoption for
Hello Dede,
I am posting this to the list as this pertains to backing up Legacy.
Your message has been a great help to me regarding backups. I looked at the
Mozy website to see the cost in the event that one needed to retrieve their
backup from Mozy. I could not find any mention of retrieval
Lew,
When I tested this and reported the problem with merging basic sources
into sourcewriter sources I found that the detail entries from the old
style source were lost.
The Basic source details were not copied to the sourcewriter template
fields. Initially when you look at the source in
Thank you, Brian. That's all I was asking for. Sorry if I caused any
problem. Have a nice day...
Lew
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Brian/Support
br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote:
Lew,
When I tested this and reported the problem with merging basic sources into
sourcewriter sources I
Thank you for your replies about the Source Writer and Ibid features and
also about entering unknown in name fields. I just purchased the 7.0
Deluxe edition Dec 19. So this is somewhat new to me.
Your comment about the ibid feature no longer being available since the
introduction of Source
I cannor help re the marketing policy of Legacy, but I didn't quite say it
wasn't available - it still may be for old style sources. As I see it, though,
the New Source Writer has a citation for the first time a specific source is
used and another for when it is used again, which is when would
Hi
I had trouble with my printer and had to reinstall the printer, now when I
click on view or print it tells me to define a windows printer, I click on
Printer set up, up comes the name of my printer, I click Ok and goes back to
the preview of print page, but it still does not work, I can
Laurie,
Have you restarted you PC and then reopened Legacy?
Ron Ferguson
_
Now completely revised
http://www.fergys.co.uk
View the Grimshaw Family Tree at:
http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/
For The Fergusons of N.W.
Hi
I should have known better, thanks for your help.
Regards
Laurie
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of ronald ferguson
Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 7:51 AM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE:
This is from a recent thread...OK, so I'm a little slow picking up on it!
ha ha
Is there any indication that a photo is available using this method? The
Photo Icon on the main Family screen shows when there are photos
associated with the individual. This is also where I've been parking my
Just wondering what the most usual form is for old surnames. I have a
number of people using either 'of ' or 'de' attached to their surname.
I have been accustomed to linking this to the end of the given name
rather than at the beginning of the surname. This results in mixed
lists of
GC:
When you enter a burial photo using the + sign in Burial section of
the main screen or you add it from the picture icon as a Burial
photo, it is saved in the same place, shows in both locations and
changes the photo icon to half color. It just seems to be two ways
to accomplish the same
Hi
It would be nice if people who, for some obsure reason, require read
receipts would turn it off when posting to a group such as this, as it is
intensely annoying to be asked for an acknowledgement when you are trying to
quickly scan a set of emails and may not even be interested in the
Cathy,
What you say is true, but. When you click on the half shaded Picture
Icon on the Family page said tombstone photo does NOT appear. In my test
only photos of Individuals show up when the Picture Icon is full colored.
If you have 2 photos of the individual and 1 photo of the tombstone
My computer died in May. I had my backup on Mozy using the free program. It
didn't cost me anything to retreive my files. Just took about a day to get
them after I told them I wanted it.
Joyce Drinkwater Herzog
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Ann Parsons aparsons2...@msn.com wrote:
Hello
Sorry about that Bruce, that was my first message and I was using newsgroup
settings. Receipts should be turned off now.
- Original Message -
From: Bruce McArthur bruce.mcart...@dsl.pipex.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 6:33 PM
Subject: Re:
But the tombstone picture does show up! You have to select Burial from the
drop-down list on the right side under the Scan a Picture button. The
list contains anything for the Individual that can have a picture attached
to it. By default, Individual pictures are displayed. The first item in
Your email program should give you an option to deal with those
automatically. It would probably be easier to change the way you do
things than to try to change the way a number of other people do things.
Bruce McArthur wrote:
Hi
It would be nice if people who, for some obsure reason,
GC:
I just tried attaching a picture to an occupation and it did show up
under the occupation in the pictures and next to the occupation on
the report.
Cathy Vallevieni
Orange County
At 04:24 PM 1/6/2009, you wrote:
Cathy,
What you say is true, but. When you click on the half shaded
Is ibid not for the case where the new footnote is the same as the one
immediately above it? I would think that it could co-exist with the
'subsequent citation' usage, which would cover scattered citations.
However, I think both suffer from the same issue as I have discussed
previously (in
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:54:33 -0600, Kris gen.mailing.li...@gmail.com
wrote:
Your email program should give you an option to deal with those
automatically. It would probably be easier to change the way you do
things than to try to change the way a number of other people do things.
Please read
GC:
You have to scan down the scroll on the right side that starts with
individual until you get to burial. Any item with an * in front
of it has a photo. They are grouped by category and, although I've
only added Individual and Burial photos, I assume you can add photos
under the other
I strongly disagree. While I think asking for a read acknowledgement is
rather rude, I still want the option of acknowledging receipt of e-mails
from certain social or business contacts, and ignoring the request for
accidental ones like in mail lists. Thus, there is no automatic solution on
GC, personally I would not place a cemetery photo in the photo gallery of the
individual. I reserve this gallery for photos of the individual that are taken
over a period of time from the birth of the person right up to the present day
or the end of their life. But each person has a different
Actually, I answer yes to those from the list. I figure if they get 40 or
so receipts from people they've never heard of, turning the request off will
happen sooner.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
- Original Message -
From: Ward Walker
Where do I find information to help me do this . . . preview, etc. I've
looked at all the tapes in Legacy 7 Deluxe.
**New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making
headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom0026)
Legacy User Group guidelines:
Hi Reg and others annoyed by requests for read receipts,
Does your email program have an option that allows you to ignore (or never
return) read receipts. If you switch this option on you will never agian be
annoyed
by requests for read receipts.
Jennie Matheson
- Original Message -
Why is the solution always something other than simply following the list
rules? Every time someone raises the issue of list rules being broken, the
discussion quickly turns to something everyone else on the list can do to
cope with it. And usually the person raising the issue becomes the
Ibid should ONLY used if the source IMMEDIATELY preceding it is exactly the
same in ALL respects.
If there is an intervening source other standards apply.
--- On Tue, 1/6/09, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote:
From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Ibid feature
Because it is much, much, much easier to modify your e-mail environment than
to control the behavior of hundreds of strangers.
--
From: Famhobby famho...@comcast.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:38 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
And perhaps the person raising the issue becomes the villian because they do
not follow etiquette by raising the issue privately with the person
breaking the rules, but rather make a big issue by raising it via the
list.
Jennie
- Original Message -
From: Famhobby famho...@comcast.net
And every time somebody breaks a rule I have to delete 99 message belly-aching
about it.
Art Seddon
- Original Message -
From: Famhobby
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:38 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sibling relationships
Why
Except that some of us correspond with other people (not this list) such as
employers, or co-workers working on a project, where we WANT to respond
positively to certain read receipt requests. Turning it off globally at our
end means we do not recieve them at all. The sender on the other hand,
Huh?
--
From: momalo...@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:54 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] BOOK
Where do I find information to help me do this . . . preview, etc. I've
looked at all the tapes in Legacy
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