Out of interest, as I have no way of replicating your problem, why have you
limited the number of Blood Relationships to 50? It seems to me that with 29
generations you will exceed that number by far.
The default is, of course, 999.
Ron Ferguson
michael barberi wrote
Hence, I created an Event called Residence History. In the Event
notes section, I list by year, the person's residence addresses.
Sometimes I will include a key life-event in parenthesis (e.g., death,
birth, marriage) to add perspective.
I think this is an excellent
Paula,
I primarily use the Family Group Report. I've found that this helps
me to see how my Events and Sources will appear in other reports. The
other reports I use the most are the Ancestor Report and the
Descendant Report, depending on who's asking for information.
I'm still in Search and
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote
' the Picture Gallery is straightforward, easy to handle and hard to go
wrong with; the Picture Gallery, on' Did you mean Picture Center on
the second one. I am guessing.
Yes, sorry, the last part of my previous post should have read Picture
Centre, on the other
I treat each birth, marriage and death certificate as a master source
because information from each certificate relates to a number of different
people. A birth certificate can give father's and mothers full names, ages
(hence approximate birth date), occupations and birthplaces, parents
marriage
michael barberi wrote
However, my previous issue still stands. I have noticed that a
Specific Master Source (for an individual's event) and the attached
Picture of the source document, is showing up in someone else's Death
Event (as a source). It is also in its correct place for the correct
When I create a chart which includes a Divorce the ex-Partner (in my chart
the ex-wife) is shown next to her ex-spouse, and the current wife is to one
side.
While this is presumably correct in genealogy terms, I would prefer my chart
to show the current wife next to her husband. Is there a
Boyd,
I have just checked that template out, and in the Source Detail, the fourth
item down is ID of Child. I also tested it using a person in my files and the
name was reproduced in the output.
This, btw., would be the template I would use as well, although at present mine
are still in the
Tony,
Yes, that is genealogically and historically correct and to present it
otherwise would be misleading. If it was to be reversed and there were
children, then their order of birth would be incorrect, as would be all
descendants.
As far as I know there is no way to change this.
Ron
Boyd,
In the Source Detail entry screen there is a place for ID of person.
I guess I'm more of a lumper when it comes to birth certificates,
since most of mine are issued in the state of Miss. Legacy seems to
lean toward lumping birth certificates, since the ID for each person
is at the Detail
I have my birth certificates (as well as marriage and death) set up by
juridisdiction.
DEATH RECORDS - GA - Columbia Co - certificates
DEATH RECORDS - MS - Lamar Co - certificates
DEATH RECORDS - MS - Perry Co - certificates
MARRIAGE RECORDS - FL - Hillsborough Co - certificates
MARRIAGE
Thanks Kirsten and Rich for your advice. Will proceed with those cautions in
mind.
George
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:21 AM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES
fourpa...@verizon.netwrote:
I always gedcom into a new file, fix the locations and sources MY way,
then add it into my main DB, then do a merge. The
Boyd Miller wrote
I treat each birth, marriage and death certificate as a master source
because information from each certificate relates to a number of
different people. A birth certificate can give father's and mothers
full names, ages (hence approximate birth date), occupations and
Hi Sherry,
Could you elaborate on what Live Mapping is and how it is different from the
Geo Location Database?
How does one do Live Mapping from within the Legacy program?
Thanks,
Brian
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of
Still trying to grasp the implications, so forgive me. But, if you compress
these (residences or military) into one event, then on the chronology, it will
be one event spread out over time/ the life of the individual, losing all
detail. That matters only if you use the chronology, though.
Sage advice a great reason to subscribe to this list. Perhaps my 8-digit
MRIN issue may have been caught had I done that with the itsy-bitsy file
I imported on March 30th! ;) Live and learn!
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough
Thank you for your answers and some background. When I picture the way some of
you describe how you enter census events/data, I just see the same data lists
printed over over again in an Ancestor or Descendent BOOK report, which is
what I mainly use. I think my goal is to have something the
Can't you just set the current wife to preferred?
AMY
Tony Gain wrote:
When I create a chart which includes a Divorce the ex-Partner (in my
chart the ex-wife) is shown next to her ex-spouse, and the current
wife is to one side.
While this is presumably correct in genealogy terms, I
Boyd,
Do not lose heart. I am mid-way in a process of moving my birth, death
marriage sources from one per to something more lumped. But I have chosen
to use state / county / year... or just state / year. As I said, I'm mid-way
in the change process. Still, the template should work no
Paula,
You have nicely identified a basic question which arises when attempting to
create a one size fits all database.
As is quite well known, my main output is for Pedigree Webpages in which each
individual has their own page. I want, therefore, for, say, all the residences
in which the
When you have several pictures in an individual's gallery, and they have been
added in the order you found/scanned or took them, there is no way (that I
could see) in the gallery to reorder the pictures. But in the Picture Center,
you CAN, and oh so easily. Maybe you all already knew that,
Legacy v7 introduced mapping locations. I miswrote when I said Live
Mapping - I meant Virtural Earth, now known as Bing. You have to be
connected to the internet to use it and I suppose it is live in the sense
that Legacy goes to the VE/Bing website and shows their map and
geo-coordinates.
It's
I've struggled to find a balance between dry facts and bringing the
information to life and have come up with this labor intensive compromise.
I enter all census data under one event; census. The description is the
years I have for the individual. I add a copy to the picture gallery of
the
When using any computer software, you need to ask yourself as to what is the
end result that you wish to see? Once you know what that is you can then
enter your data to achieve that.
My end result is usually the Descendant Book or Modified Register Report.
Since this is easy to read, my data
Here is the actual request (my paraphrase)? Can we add a source button to
include in the Relationship Calculator, to have a print choice. It might be a
bit cumbersome, but you could have it print only the tagged sources. This could
be done better (IMO) in Publishing Center. Then you can print
Hi Everyone,
My name is Sherry and I've just joined the group and have been watching it for
about a week now. I haven't started on my family genealogy yet, so I have only
purchased Legacy 7 with all the updates. Ron brought up a good point when he
wrote:
Herein lies a problem which
I'm new to this list. So what is the LUG list?
From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:34:32 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] OT: Legacy and GV
Robert,
Just to put your mind (and
Because every time I have tried to increase from 50, Legacy, hours later,
returns the message that it cannot do it because it's too many people (or
numbers, or something). I forget the actual wording, because I am unwilling
to tie up my computer for that long just to have it return the message.
Ron, You are so right! And it does make me feel better to know we don't
really know where we're going when we start, so it's okay to now be changing
direction! haha
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough
Coppernoll Costine Daulton
I will take a look at that. Thx!
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough
Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd
Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald
Misner
Thank you, Mary, for sharing your approach. I have a sort of combination
going. I have previously hesitated in posting it, not wanting to be shot
down. I enter census Events, and include in the Event Notes a description of
the person within the household. If there's other nifty information,
You say:
Only Relationship Calculator/Set Relationships that has this problem.
Ancestry Colors quickly finds he is my ancestor, as does Direct Line
Bolding.
Therefore, one would think that limiting the Blood Relationships to 1 would
work. It does not. That is why I think it is a
This list
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Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Lori Merritt cnm...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm new to this list. So what is the LUG list?
From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday,
Just add 5-10 family members, open a few reports using preview. Then start
collecting the documents that prove you exist, and enter that.Then re-do what
you want to change. It is a never ending process. As someone said decades ago,
when you think you are done with someone, that relative had 2
I use Vista 64 bit. Thanks for asking.
Mike Barberi
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas.
In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love.
St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430)
From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES
So you are saying that, when using the four colors for grandparents' lines,
ancestors of yours which are showing (apparently) different colors than you
expect, meaning they come through a different grandparent.
Question 1. Is this person in both gp lines?
Question 2. When running the program,
Thanks Jenny.
Mike Barberi
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas.
In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love.
St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430)
From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
To:
I have looked at the Chronology Report and like it. Nevertheless, this report
is not the best way to view Residence History. I don't see how this report
offers the same advantageous compared to my current approach.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
Mike Barberi
In necessariis
Paula:
1. I agree that I record the date of death and the source twice. Nevertheless,
I do use the Master Source since it follows the Evidence Rules and I can attach
pictures of documents. If I use the notes section of the Died icon, I
duplicate what I am already doing in Event notes. Like
I have not decided what specific reports I will eventually use or need. I like
the Chronology Report for various reasons. However, my point was that such a
report is not a good way to view Residence History. I believe a Chronology
Report is good for plotting larger life events on a chart.
Thanks Jenny for your comments. I thought I was the only one who thought this
was a good idea.
Mike Barberi
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas.
In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love.
St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430)
Does Legacy have a Lineage Report in a chart format? If so, this would solve a
big problem for me.
Mike Barberi
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas.
In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love.
St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430)
Thanks Ron.
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas.
In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love.
St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430)
From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com
To:
Hi Sherry,
Thanks for explaining.
I have a question on using the Geo Location feature. I understand when
entering in the Place/location we should always allow for 4 spots and
separate each with a comma -- so in the USA it would be: city, county,
state, country. I also understand that if we
The other point to consider is that it is better grammatically to use the
word the before Rev.: e.g., the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (So
say 59% of the Amer. Heritage Dictionary's usage panel.)
On 9/14/09, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Yes. Am married to a pastor.
I have a different appraoch; If I have death certificates for ancestors
who died in Utah. I have one master source for Utah death certifcates. I
have 20 individuals linked to that master source for which I have death
certificates. I have a image of each certifcate in the source detail. The
Hi Mike,
A couple of points that might help clarify things for you.
When using a master for more than one document and for more than one
individual, i.e. two separate death certificates, each applying to different
persons:
The master source might be for Death Certificates of such-n-such
Mary Trogg wrote
Finally, as I find facts, I add to a short biography to notes. It's
more interesting to read that a family moved from one state to another
because the wife was hopelessly homesick, than to read the family lived
in Minnesota, moved to Illinois and then back to Minnesota.
I
wrote
My name is Sherry and I've just joined the group
Oh good! We already have a not that Brian, the other one, now we have
the matching pair with a not that Sherry, the other one.
My advice to you, Sherry, would be to take it S-l-o-w and read up
everything you can on genealogy in
Paula Ryburn wrote
When you have several pictures in an individual's gallery, and they
have been added in the order you found/scanned or took them, there is
no way (that I could see) in the gallery to reorder the pictures.
All you do is drag the picture across to the position you want it to
Has anyone any suggestions, with specifics, for using a SourceWriter
template for documenting an online chat (IRC) more or less in accordance
with _EE_ standards?
Thanks,
Dan Bateham
Legacy User Group guidelines:
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Archived messages:
I have no problem with Ancestry Colors. The 28th GGU is a direct ancestor,
as is his brother. Ancestry Colors are correct; Direct Line Bold is color.
It is the Calculator which shows one (full) brother as a GGF and the other
as a GGU. Because of generations marrying at different times,
Several of us have asked that there be a way to generate a direct line
connection - ascent or descent - without calculating any relationships other
than the one between those two people. Start with me and go in a direct
line to an ancestor (or vice-versa). I care not at all for all the
First off, I am not talking about the child's relationship-to-father and
relathionship-to-mother fields.
How do you cite the source for knowing these are the parents of this child?
I mean, there is not a field to attach a source citation TO. Maybe this is a
silly question, but I have often
Aha. Guess I need to try to drag on every screen to see if functionality is
there? haha
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough
Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd
Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh
I think Sherry has gone home, so I will help tonight. What we must do is use
the current name for the location, capture the L/L, then in a persons input
screen, change the location name to what it was at a given time. Then the L/L
will be attached to two same/different places (sic). If you
Sherry,
Besides going slow per Jenny's suggestion, I like someone else's earlier
suggestion: enter a few individuals, maybe just one family. Look at how their
data displays and how it reports in various reports. See what you like and
what you don't like. Tweak their data, test again. Once
You may have a better system already, but for all newbies and us lazy oldies,
it simplifies things I created as needed in the past.
Rich in LA CA
From: michael barberi michaelbarb...@yahoo.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, September
This is how I enter my CENSUS events
CENSUS, year, place City County state country
then in the notes I put this:
1) Sophie O, age 50, female, born in Poland,
2) Michael O, age 20, male, chauffer for taxi cab company, born in Poland
3) Tony O, age 22, male, laborer, born in Poland
In a
I agree. If the state maintains a database, then that simplifies things. In
some cases, I use all in the county or city as the unit if quantity makes it
simpler.
Rich in LA CA
From: Don Jaggi donj...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent:
One quirk. When you first add a new photo, it won't move it sometimes until you
have left the gallery, and reopened. I have determined the rules of the quirk,
but it is just easier to do after inputtting is done.
Rich in LA CA
- Original Message
From: Jenny M Benson
Using the Descendant - Descendant chart. It doesn't show any brothers at all.
What chart are you creating? It sounds like you are using Relationship
Calculator, but the name in your message has something I couldn't identify. (I
guessed it). are you basing your right and wrong on your ideas (I
As you have seen, you could call yourself, 'not that Sherrry', but it might be
nicer as Sherry from ' '. At one point there were (and still are probably)
about 6 helpers named variations of Rich, so I chose.
Rich in LA CA
- Original Message
From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
I have seen this happen in my file too - and I am 95% sure I reported it,
but I might not have. (And when I say reported it - I mean to support.)
I have a woman who had some kids illigit - and I don't know the father.
Then she married and had a few more. (just to make it more complicated, he
In the same way, for US census, in the notes I put where I have looked for
missing children (not the dead or known living elsewhere).
ich in LA CA
- Original Message
From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Richard et al.,
I do not believe that any of us ought to be in the business
of telling other *Legacy users* what to call themselves. Especially
when the person, in this case, is Just Starting Out.
Besides, Sherry and Brian, of Legacy, identify themselves as
Support in their
Thanks folks for pointing out that the name is in the detail. I hadn't gone
that far down. I can now happily use this template, however I am not a
lumper and will continue to keep each certificate as a master source. So far
I have only 300 master sources for 5000 names in the larger of my two
Heather,
Please see my response to the OP. When there are more than one unknown fathers
it is necessary to specifically use the name Unknown (or anything else) for
*both* unknowns.
Ron Ferguson
_
New Tutorial: Embed a
Sherry,
Welcome aboard!
My first piece of advice would be to have a play; someone suggested entering a
small number of relatives. Whilst this is good practice for entering and
sourcing data etc., you may not wish to change this once entered, in which case
play with the Sample file - that's
The chart wanted is a DIRECT descent from one person to another - something
Legacy does not provide. A suggestion was made to the OP to use
Relationship Calculator instead.
My responses have been to the danger with doing that because Relationship
Calculator has a serious problem that Legacy has
When I first started to source my data, I used the rule of thumb that a
Master Source was any single document whether it was a single page, as a
Birth Certificate, or millions of pages, as the 1900 U.S. Census. Of
course, as time passed I encountered many sources for which this format
wasn't
As somebody else suggested - are you certain that you PC is big enough, ie.
enough memory, to handle your request? Have you tried increasing the virtual
memory - if your hard drive is big enough?
I still maintain that your setting of 50 is probably too low for all the blood
relationships to
Actually I believe we have Brian the Programmer and two Brians the User.
Brian
(User #1 or am I User #2?)
-Original Message-
From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:36 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]
Only if the bug bothers you. I was just letting the original poster know
that it was not just an anomaly of their database, but that it exists
elsewhere. I see no reason why I can't have 2 unknown fathers (auto
created) associated with the mother and kids as that was the situation. I
have seen
Sherry,
You asked:
When I find online information on my family and perhaps family trees that
have been submitted how do I handle that? Do I download all the information
and then go about trying to verify it?
I would be careful with what information you enter into your database that
you pick up
Ignore this post!! It was actually posted by my wife who apparently has not
yet learned to use the HELP file that comes with Legacy and every other
software program made since the invention of the wheel.
Brian
(the one sleeping on the couch tonight)
-Original Message-
From: Brian L.
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