Re: [LegacyUG] Magically Appearing Unknown Spouses and Parents

2009-08-06 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
I have found that UNKNOWN sets of parents are created (actually left over) after merging. Let's say your cousin makes some changes in a copy of youf file. When you Intellimerge his file back into your's a set of parents are identical so the RINs from cousin are deleted but some MRINs are left

Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Address

2009-08-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
GeoSci wrote Anyone found a way to search for those with a particular burial address? (Recorded within the + following Burial Location which a city-county-state-country type record) I would like a list of all buried in three cemeteries relatively close to each other so that I might visit

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing all children from different women

2009-08-06 Thread Barbara
- Original Message - From: CE Wood wood...@msn.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:34 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Printing all children from different women Lineage is one particular person's lineage, so 1/2 siblings will not show, whether

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing all children from different women

2009-08-06 Thread Barbara
Thanks so much for this info. It really helps, I'm attempting to give accurate info for a family reunion and so this will do it. Barb - Original Message - Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Printing all children from different women Lineage is one particular person's lineage, so 1/2

Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread Mike Fry
Chick Lewis wrote: 2. The ability to sort/search the index by birth date as well as alphabetically or by RIN. This is one feature of FTM I really miss. I often found people who were the same, but had their names spelled slightly different. Comparing individuals by birth date rather than name

Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread Ruth Nerud
I see where I can sort by RIN/ID, Given Name or Surname, but I don't see where I can sort by birth date. Ruth - Original Message - From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would

Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Address

2009-08-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
For those not using Access, the way I do it, is create a word (like) document with the address, city, state, phone number, e-mail address on different lines. Then have two (half) windows, Legacy on left, 'word' on right. Next copy and paste full words into fields. Not as easy nor quick, but

Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread 1familytree
Mike, Can you explain how you do that, because my Legacy deluxe Ver 7 doesn't do that? Thanks Jay -- From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:36 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread Mike Fry
Ruth Nerud wrote: I see where I can sort by RIN/ID, Given Name or Surname, but I don't see where I can sort by birth date. Above the main data grid, there's an Options button. Click it and get a list of things you can do. Choose Customize columns and you'll see a dialog in which you can

Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread Ruth Nerud
Mike, when I click on the Colum heading for birth date, or any of the columns, I get the drop down window that says Customize Index View Columns, Index View Columns, where I can again change which columns I want. It doesn't allow me to sort on birth date, death date, etc. Ruth - Original

RE: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread CE Wood
Unfortunately, although you can display other columns, according to Legacy and experience, sorting is available for Surname, Given, or RIN/User ID. From HELP: Sorting the List The Index View can be displayed in either surname, given name order, or RIN number. Click the Surname, Given or RIN

Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread Ila East
When you say main grid are you referring to the name list? Ila Mike Fry wrote: Ruth Nerud wrote: I see where I can sort by RIN/ID, Given Name or Surname, but I don't see where I can sort by birth date. Above the main data grid, there's an Options button. Click it and get a list of things

Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread Bert van Kootwijk
Yes, you can choose other items to see in that view, however it is not possible to sort on other columns than ID, Surname and Givenname. Bert - Original Message - From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday 6 August 2009 20:42 Subject:

Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread Ruth Nerud
Thanks - I thought I was missing something, but I guess not. Ruth - Original Message - From: Bert van Kootwijk vank...@hetnet.nl To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See Yes, you can choose

[LegacyUG] Legacy and Open Office

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Carneal USA
Could some kind soul write me *OFF* list please, and tell me how to print a book in Rich Text Format (RTF), and open it in Open Office Writer, and actually make an index from it? Does it have that capability? Thanks. Robert Legacy User Group guidelines:

[LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread William Sinclair
Hi All This is my first post. I have been using Legacy for a bout a year and have had no problems uploading a gedcom to Ancestry. However For the past couple of months I have been unable to upload to Ancestry. I have my own website were I also upload the same gedcom and it uploads okay. I have

Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See

2009-08-06 Thread Mike Fry
Ruth Nerud wrote: Mike, when I click on the Colum heading for birth date, or any of the columns, I get the drop down window that says Customize Index View Columns, Index View Columns, where I can again change which columns I want. It doesn't allow me to sort on birth date, death date, etc.

RE: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread ronald ferguson
William, I suggest that you search the LUG Archives (Link below). This has been raised before, but I cannot remember the details. Ron Ferguson _ Tutorials: Programme of adding videos commenced http://www.fergys.co.uk/

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Open Office

2009-08-06 Thread ronald ferguson
Robert, Yes it does, and full instructions are given/on my website using the Ancestry Report http://www.fergys.co.uk/Blogs/AncBk.php . If you have any problems please use the contact email on that page Ron Ferguson _

[LegacyUG] Relationships not working - AGAIN

2009-08-06 Thread CE Wood
I am again having relationship problems with the database. Bad enough that the relationship that shows in Family View and o Pedigree View are not the direct relationship but the closest relationship. Many agree with me that THAT should be the default or, at the VERY least, an option! However, I

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread William Sinclair
Hi Ron I went through the pages and could not see anything related to my problem. William 2009/8/6 ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com: William, I suggest that you search the LUG Archives (Link below). This has been raised before, but I cannot remember the details. Ron Ferguson

Re: [LegacyUG] Hiding people in Legacy charting

2009-08-06 Thread Brian/Support
Wayne, If you mark the first spouse you want to suppress as either private or invisible and have the charting option to suppress private turned on then the first spouse will not be included. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:41:42 +0100, William Sinclair sensiblegran...@googlemail.com wrote: I have been using Legacy for a bout a year and have had no problems uploading a gedcom to Ancestry. However For the past couple of months I have been unable to upload to Ancestry. I have my own website were

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationships not working - AGAIN

2009-08-06 Thread CE Wood
So, I set closest relationships to 1 and have the same problem. Seems that even though I am a direct descendant of both the brother and sister, Relationship Calculator won't allow that. The brother is a 28th GGU, the sister a 28th GGM. Granted, depending on the intervening generations, they

RE: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread ronald ferguson
William, Enter Gedcom Ancestry (no quotes) in the Search Box and you will find 116 references. Ron Ferguson _ Tutorials: Programme of adding videos commenced http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at:

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread William Sinclair
Hi Dennis. All I am doing is creating a 5.5 gedcom and when I try to upload it onto Ancestry, all I get is a simple error message indicating tht there was an error uploading the file. I previously had a programme called clooz, which tried to automatically load when I tried opened Legacy. I used

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM in wrong extension

2009-08-06 Thread Brian/Support
Pat, 1. The file is still a proper GEDCOM file and has the .ged extension so you do not need to worry that your computer says it is a FTW GEDCOM file. 2. As others have said FTM associates the .ged file extension with itself when it is first installed and every time you run the program it

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
William Sinclair wrote I went through the pages and could not see anything related to my problem. It would help if you told us exactly what your problem is! Just saying you can't upload is a bit vague. At what point does the process fail? What error message do you get? Just in case it's

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationships not working - AGAIN

2009-08-06 Thread CE Wood
Another quirk. When I set the blood relationships to closest 1 and non-blood to any number, the ancestors specified in the first case are no longer related. What? That parameter was not changed! CE -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread William Sinclair
The error message is all I get while uploading to Ancestry. I can upload the same gedcom file to my website without any problem. Ancestry indicates it is uploading the gedcom then after a short period I get the following message: Error: There was a problem uploading your family tree file, please

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Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread William Sinclair
Problem solved I would appear to have been firefox that was the problem, I suspected you wanted me to try another browser, so I tried IE and it appears to have uploaded fine. Thanks to all respondents. William 2009/8/6 William Sinclair sensiblegran...@googlemail.com: The error message is all I

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:14:46 +0100, William Sinclair sensiblegran...@googlemail.com wrote: All I am doing is creating a 5.5 gedcom and when I try to upload it onto Ancestry, all I get is a simple error message indicating tht there was an error uploading the file. Without more specifics it will

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationships not working - AGAIN

2009-08-06 Thread CE Wood
Well, I did just as you suggested. Legacy has finally finished setting relationships (5 hours later!), but it STILL does NOT find that this relative is my direct ancestor!!! I just want to be able to identify what relationship to me such direct ancestors are, for goodness sake! They are! Even

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationships not working - AGAIN

2009-08-06 Thread John S. Adams
Welcome to the club. I first reported problems with the Relationship Calculator 6 or 8 years ago. I even sent a copy of my family file to Legacy at their request so they could attempt to resolve the problem. I never heard back from them. There have been many reports of RC problems on this

RE: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread Kirsten Bowman
William: I've had all sorts of problems with Firefox and Ancestry in the past. I believe Ancestry says the Firefox compatibility issue has been resolved, but I'm dubious. I really don't think it has anything to do with Legacy. Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem uploading to Ancestry

2009-08-06 Thread Gary Templeman
And I hope you were just misspeaking and that you actually *uninstalled* Clooz and not *deleted* it. There is a difference, and deleting Windows programs can lead to all kinds of problems. Gary Templeman - Original Message - From: William Sinclair sensiblegran...@googlemail.com To: