I have been following the discussion with interest and suggest the following
potential use for User Ids and index lists
I have more than 150 men in my database named William Snell, most of whom
have either no firm dates, or just a baptism or just a burial. Its really
difficult trying to retriev
Chick,
Just curious. Have you made use of the "Suggest a new feature" on the home
tab? It would seem to me that if enough people suggested this then it would
be consider by Legacy.
Don
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Chick Lewis wrote:
> Ron,
>
> I agree the wildcard could be an additional
Ron,
I agree the wildcard could be an additional feature, but a wild card
search for the name Querido, which is the one I was looking for, would
never turn up either Kerido or Crudo. However, those two names with
similar birth dates stood out when the index was sorted on birth date
and immediately
Mary,
If you look carefully at the Calendar List, you will see that, within each
date, the names are sorted by birth year.
John S. Adams
Hermosa Beach, CA
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At 05:14 PM 8/3/2009, you wrote:
MJ Harper wrote:
The Legacy add-on, GenViewer, does all of these things, and more, and
in micro-second time. I'm just back to doing my genealogy after
several years. In the meantime I'd lost contact with my
GenViewer. So just last night I bought it again at $1
Chick,
I guess I did not express myself too well, the wildcard was suggested as an
additional feature.
Let us be realistic, one doesn't need any names at all to search by birth date,
if two or more people are born on 16 Jan 1725 the odds are they are the same
person or twins. This is not th
MJ Harper wrote:
The Legacy add-on, GenViewer, does all of these things, and more, and
in micro-second time. I'm just back to doing my genealogy after
several years. In the meantime I'd lost contact with my
GenViewer. So just last night I bought it again at $19.95, and will
testify that it is
John... That would be a complicated way to perform a simple task...
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, John S. Adams wrote:
> One way to do this would be to create a Calendar List Report for all
> individuals in you file. This will sort everyone by birth date. You can
> save a PDF of this report h
Why use an add-on to perform a simple task that could easily part of
the program?
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:43 PM, MJ Harper wrote:
>
> The Legacy add-on, GenViewer, does all of these things, and more, and in
> micro-second time. I'm just back to doing my genealogy after several years.
> In the m
Ron,
I raised this question again because I think it is important and is a
strong feature if understood and used properly. With all due respect,
(and I do respect your judgement, advice and excellent posts) your
suggestion of using wild cards in the name in conjunction with a birth
date search is
John,
I have 170,000 people in my database. A calendar including everyone is 626
pages. That's not handy.
Jay
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One way to do
2009/8/3 John S. Adams :
> One way to do this would be to create a Calendar List Report for all
> individuals in you file. This will sort everyone by birth date.
Unfortunately, there is no sort order within each birth date, so it's
near-impossible to spot matches in a large data set.
Mary Young
Jo,
I also use GenViewer and concur with your remarks. I was however, concentrating
my remarks on Legacy itself. At present with Genviewer I am doing a multiple
criteria search for duplicates in a file containing some 2000 Fergusons or
similar.
The trick, of course, lies in defining the spec
The Legacy add-on, GenViewer, does all of these things, and more, and
in micro-second time. I'm just back to doing my genealogy after
several years. In the meantime I'd lost contact with my
GenViewer. So just last night I bought it again at $19.95, and will
testify that it is WELL worth th
One way to do this would be to create a Calendar List Report for all
individuals in you file. This will sort everyone by birth date. You can
save a PDF of this report have it on hand to refer to at any time.
John S. Adams
Hermosa Beach, CA
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Chuck,
We have had this discussion before, and I wonder why you have raised it agin.
There is, as you know, a way of putting in an enhancement request on the Legacy
Home Screen.
For me, I would not wish to use this facility, and it would, therefore be
program bloat. BTW, you did not indicat
CE,
Secondary sorting in the index does not sort the DB by birth date. It
sorts on names (or RIN) first. I would like to see sorting on birth
date completely independent of the name. Take a look at Rebecca's
example. Sorting the index on another field should not pose a problem
for the programmers.
Ron,
Why wouldn't you want the program to detect a possible duplicate when
the name is entered? It could be a great time-saver and its use
optional. As to the Search>Find option, I think we had this
discussion once before. It does work in a round-about sort of way but
is not the same thing and n
Excellent example, Rebecca. Anyone who has ever used FTM can
appreciate these tools and see the value of them. If you never used
them in FTM, then you don't know what you are missing.
Chick
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Rebecca Williams wrote:
> I see what Chuck would like to do, as would I.
So you want to be able to sort everyone in your whole DB by birth date?
Take advantage of Legacy's secondary sorting in the Index. Those with the
same name are sorted by - no birth date, "abt, bef," date, exact date.
Legacy stands apart in its capacity and facility with alternate names, which
i
If he is listed as full child in both families, which is normal when a child
has been adopted, then in the Children List of each Family View, he will
appear twice, once as Full child, once as 1/2 child.
On your Individual Report, he will be listed twice, once as the child of you
and your 1st wife,
Randolph,
The fact that FTM does it without you having to take the time to click on
existing and look. Again, for those of us with large files, these features
are efficient and worthwhile.
Jay
From: Randolph Clark
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 12:43 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilyt
I see what Chuck would like to do, as would I. In index view, you can list
everyone by RIN, First name or surname. There are five other fields that
could be sorted as simply as the RIN, First name and Surname sorts. I can't
think, at the moment, why I would want to sort locations or sex on this
Ron,
I have to agree with Chick. If you had ever used FTM you would realize how
great time saving features those are.
The duplicate feature was really great and with a family who reuses the same
names over and over again, I have to always check carefully.
The birth date sort in FTM is a simple
Let me see if I can help.
When you select to show 1/2 children, the Family View will show all
children who are *linked* to at least one of the two main persons
(usually husband & wife).
The 1/2 indicator means that child is only linked to one of the two
main persons, not both. It doesn't mean anyt
When you enter him as a child of you and your 1st wife, he will be a full,
but when you also enter him as a child of you and your 2nd wife, he will be
listed both as 1/2 and regular under each family because that's what he is.
He is a biological child of both you and your first wife, so you enter
The first is easily avoidable by selecting "Link to existing person" to see
if they're already there.
The second is next to the person's name if you've so customized the Index
View.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Chick Lewis wrote:
> I have been using Legacy for almost a year now (since V7 came
Chick,
I wouldn't want the first and the second you can already do by using the
Search>Find>Detailed Search option.
Ron Ferguson
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I have been using Legacy for almost a year now (since V7 came out.)
My previous program was Family Tree Maker. Following are two features
that I would like to see incorporated into Legacy:
1. The ability for Legacy to recognize a possible duplicate person
when he/she is being entered. I search fo
Thanks very much. It worked. I am using Legacy 6.
Elizabeth C
Connie Sheets wrote:
Report Options (bottom center of report pop-up screen) > Include Tab > click on
Event Information
--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Elizabeth Cunningham wrote:
From: Elizabeth Cunningham
Subject: [LegacyUG]
Elizabeth,
On just about every screen there is a Help button, often on the bottom right.
These give a context help for the screen which you are on, and describe the
options available and how to use them.
Ron Ferguson
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In Report Options, did you check Event Information?
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston, ON
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Report Options (bottom center of report pop-up screen) > Include Tab > click on
Event Information
--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Elizabeth Cunningham wrote:
> From: Elizabeth Cunningham
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Report problem
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Date: Monday, August 3, 2009, 5:08 P
I am going to visit a place where a couple of cousins used to live. I
printed out individual reports for them, but got none of the residences
or any thing else listed in events. How do I get these things to print?
Elizabeth C
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Cathy, Thank You! That must be it. Even when I ask the Calendar List to show me
everyone, I just get 5 people. The item that the ones selected have in common,
that none of the others have, is a *precise* date of birth. Ex: Sep 1935, or 11
Dec 1932.
The others either have no dob, or the year is
LeRoy,
I recently converted from PAF to Legacy.
I did not have a problem transferring my sources and notes or transcriptions
(assuming you mean the "Actual Text"), or images attached to sources.
However, I think the sources only transfer as the 'old' Legacy style, not
the Master Source style. Ther
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