Mary:
Welcome to the list! You'll probably find that you get at least three
different answers to just about any question you ask because everyone does
things differently and Legacy is so tremendously flexible.
In Legacy a census record can be a Source, an Event, or both. Search the
Help
Thanks Kirsten for the reminder.
Also, please be sure to send your posts in Plain Text.
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Mary,
In case you don't know, users tend to fall into two classes. lumpers and
splitters. The former have few Master Sources and use the Detail Citation
to include the specific details relating to a given situation, whereas
splitters break their Sources down either geographically or by some
Thank you very much, Ron! That's how we learn. I had never noticed the new
button on the bottom right that gives you the option to delete source and
citations.
Mary Beth Figgins
--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Ron Ferguson rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
From: Ron Ferguson rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk
Ron Ferguson wrote
I am not suggesting that you should follow my practice, but I am simply
giving an illustration of one different way of doing things. As others
have said, the choice is yours.
Below my signature on this message (as on all LUG messages) there are a
number of links, including
I did another import from FTM into TMG then an export to a GEDCOM that
includes the paths to all images. I had to correct a lot of the paths in
TMG to get it to work. Now when I bring in that GEDCOM it relinks most of
the images. I only want to use that file to figure out which images go with
I wouldn't split up the census information by line for each person. I did
that years ago and regretted it because I couldn't figure out who the head
of household was.
I'm new to Legacy too so someone else can give better information for doing
this.
Bill
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From:
I find the source clipboard amazing and has solved my issue with linking
source images making the job a lot easier and faster.
Bill
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of Kirsten Bowman
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:42 AM
Mary,
Do not post in HTML, especially with graphics. Please go to our Etiquette
Guidelines at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp and review
those before posting again.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
supp...@legacyfamilytree.com
Arnold,
Be nice your post is just as much of a breech in the Etiquette Guidelines
as Richs post was with the attachment, notably:
Please only send messages in plain text format...
Please keep the tone of messages friendly and helpful. Practice tolerance,
avoid sarcasm and remember that we
That does it. I'm outta here. Not only did *this* gem arrive last
night, but there's another thread where, every time I click on a new
message, some stupid HTML background wallpaper shows up in my image
viewer.
I have *no* clue why the folks at Legacy insist on using this joke of
a program to
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:29:03 -0500, Ruth Nerud
baber...@worldnet.att.net wrote:
Dennis, it took me about 4 hours to create my Source report in Word, but now
it's done and I can update any time I need to and make corrections to errors
made during typing. It's okay that Legacy can't do what I
I only create a main source for each items such as the census. It is only
by year and then cited for each family with their own information. That one
citation is used for each family member/event.
Other sources are just plain death certificate, birth certificate,
newspapers (for obits) by the
I actually was sending to one person and didn't notice he had sent under
the LUG until I pressed send. I apologize to anyone bothered by this.
Rich in LA CA
From: Arnold Sprague aspra...@chicagobooth.edu
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday,
Peter W. Wielhouwer, Ph.D. wrote:
I just clicked on the Today's Date button when adding a recorded
date on my source detail, and the date came up as October 30, 2009
instead of September 30, 2009. It was working correctly up until
yesterday, and I updated to the latest build (7.0.0.109) earlier
I just clicked on the Today's Date button when adding a recorded date on my
source detail, and the date came up as October 30, 2009 instead of September
30, 2009. It was working correctly up until yesterday, and I updated to the
latest build (7.0.0.109) earlier this morning.
Peter W.
I never use that date button but since I had just finished adding something,
gave it a hit and date was 330 Sep 2009
Virginia
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Just a side note here. I opened your PDF and saw nothing more than 2 pages
with a bunch of small images and said to myself No way this is 9 megs!.
So I loaded your file into Adobe Acrobat (full program, not just the Reader)
and examined the document. The properties indicate that the PDF generator
Probably a dumb answer, but what about the clock on your computer? Is it set
for the current month?
Bill
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of Peter W. Wielhouwer, Ph.D.
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:52 AM
To:
Now we're all wondering if you meant to type 30 or if Legacy actually
provided 330.
:-)
Bbrriiaann in CA
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From: Virginia Dunham [mailto:geistdn...@cfl.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:05 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re:
Picture me, right now, hitting myself on the head. Thanks, Ron.
Peter W. Wielhouwer, Ph.D.
Mattawan, Michigan, USA
pwielhou...@comcast.net
- Original Message -
From: Ron Ferguson rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 30,
Hmmm...interesting. I just tested it out myself and could not replicate the
anomaly. I was beginning to think that 9/30/2009 was some kind of magical date
that caused all sorts of programming problems. I should think that the Legacy
program is actually using a call to the Windows OS for current
This issue has been brought up innumerable times. For reasons known
only to them, Millenia refuse to use software that will block
attachments and HTML.When they switched to a new server back some
months ago, I had hopes that they would finally address this ongoing
issue. Instead, they just
OOPS that was 30 Sep 2009...been entering data since 2a.m
Virginia
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I am lucky to have found the keyboard...been working on this family tree
thing since 2a.m. Sorry about that!!!
Virginia
PS Recently retired from work and just have not set up any type of normal
schedule!!! Think it is called rebelling from time restraints!!
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Would someone tell me how to do this search? Thanks.
Rita in South Carolina
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of Michele Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:30 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re:
Bill:
I also have _Evidence Explained_ and have studied it pretty carefully but
have never seen a recommendation to break down census citations by film
roll. Rather, Mills recommends grouping sources by author and title (for
books), collections (for manuscripts), geographical area, repositories,
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:45:55 -0400, William H. Boswell
whbosw...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way print a report (PDF) that shows everyone in the file and at
least the path/file name of the images associated with each person?
There is no way to do this within Legacy that I know of. There may be
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:45:55 -0400, William H. Boswell
whbosw...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way print a report (PDF) that shows everyone in the file and at
least the path/file name of the images associated with each person?
I just went back and looked at V6. They used to have, under
I didn't realize that we had to use Plain Text only. Now that means I
have to keep changing back and forth with other non-list emails that I use
HTML for. I feel like I'm moving back to DOS days.
I do wish they have Digest Mode because this list gets a lot of mail.
Bill
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Has this Legacy negligence any chance of being solved?
One of Legacy's selling points is the PDF! If it is so outdated and doesn't
function correctly, that is false advertising.
Have you made a suggestion to Legacy?
CE
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com
Maybe I misread it, but they do have jurisdictions which are just as bad.
Some of the Special Populations Schedules (Pg. 288) show NARA microfilm
numbers in the Source List Entry.
I skipped the entire census part when I saw how confusing it was and more
work. I figured one day when I get all my
Unfortunately, it gave me one blank page even though the progress bar was
counting many images.
-Original Message-
From: William H. Boswell [mailto:whbosw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:48 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Attaching
Everyone on this list is aware of a number of things in Legacy that
don't function correctly (or at all).
No one from Millennia ever mentions whether (much less when) they will
be solved.
Even though I fell for the all the hype about how Legacy 7 would be
thoroughly tested before being
Thanks. It's in Legacy7 Deluxe version which I'm using. The button is
called Print Multimedia List... I was looking under Reports and didn't
find it because I thought it would be there.
Bill
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf
Rita,
SearchFindDetailed search.
then:
1st Row: Individual, Birth Date, Equal to, leave the last field blank.
AND
2nd Row: Individual, Living, Equal to, Yes.
BTW. the advanced set living does work as I stated in my post.
Ron Ferguson
_
New
Whoa! It is not negligence nor is it false advertising. Legacy can and does
create PDFs. Since the capability already exists in Legacy, I suspect the
concept of updating to a newer/better generator is greatly overshadowed by
many other requests for added features and bug-swatting existing ones.
William H. Boswell wrote:
I do wish they have Digest Mode because this list gets a lot of mail.
Ahem! What's the difference between reading a single digest message
that's very long and multiple, shorter messages?
--
Best regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg.
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I don't understand. If y'all have so many complaints about Legacy why don't
you stop using it and get off this list?
michele
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:58:28 -0400, William H. Boswell
whbosw...@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately, it gave me one blank page even though the progress bar was
counting many images.
-Original Message-
From: William H. Boswell [mailto:whbosw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Because when there many, you have to sift through them to find non-genealogy
related emails. I'm glad I don't subscribe to the TMG list anymore. They get
over 100 emails a day sometimes.
Bill
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
William H. Boswell wrote:
Unfortunately, it gave me one blank page even though the progress bar was
counting many images.
View-- Scrapbook-- (select which types of Multimedia to list)-- Print
Multimedia List (select options)-- Preview
Gives more than a blank page on my version 7/109
On 30 Sep 2009 Mike Fry wrote:
Ahem! What's the difference between reading a single digest message
that's very long and multiple, shorter messages?
*Every* message has to be read when it's a digest. When they're
separate messages we can decide, based on the Subject or other data,
which
William H. Boswell wrote
I didn't realize that we had to use Plain Text only. Now that means
I have to keep changing back and forth with other non-list emails that
I use HTML for.
I don't use Outlook myself, but I'm sure you'll find there's a setting
for making all mails to a particular
On the Etiquette Guidelines website (linked to at the bottom of every email
on the list - http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp) is a link to
Rootsweb showing how to set numerous email programs to plain text.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
Most email applications have the ability to create subfolders and have emails
from a specific address sent directly to that subfolder. That way they don't
clutter up your main folder. Someone on this list kindly imparted the steps to
do this on MSN, which I use. I forget now how I did it,
Which would probably explain why you do not know that, with the exception of
the old style source to source writer converter, everything which they said
would be there is, and why you will never know the advantages of V7.
Naturally you are, of course, quite welcome to go your own way.
Ron
The last thing Millennia Corp. would want is to NOT hear any complaints,
unless they thought they were successful in creating a perfect piece of
software. If they don't hear complaints, then that would mean the product
isn't selling. They have always invited suggestions for improvements and
have
If you are using Legacy 7 there is an entry under CustomizeData Entry where
you can set the age at which a person is Presumed Dead. It defaults to ask
if over 90 and set as dead if over 120. You can change these years then hit
the Apply button and it will update your database accordingly. It only
Mary, you might want to check out the training CDs for Legacy. I
didn't get to view the one that might have that info yet. It's been
too long since I reviewed the Legacy 6.0 CDs, but I recall something
might be on there. I find that the CDs have tons of information to
cover questions on
Bill:
You'll be doubly-glad you didn't do it earlier when you start citing census
sources with Legacy and see how fast and easy it is.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of William H. Boswell
Sent: Wednesday, September
Is Version 6 still available?
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:24 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images
I'm using an old version of Outlook (2000) and never upgraded because the
current Microsoft offering stinks. I was wondering if I could do that, but
probably not in this old version.
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of Jenny M
William:
In Outlook Express, select a name in your address book, then right click on
the name, next right click on Properties, in the properties window,select
the Name tab. In the lower left hand corner, place a check in Send E-mail
using plain text only box. Now select OK and you are good to
Thanks. It works in Outlook 2000 as well. I never even paid any attention
to the checkbox below the email field.
Bill
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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of Dale Warehime
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:57 AM
To:
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