Brian L. Lightfoot wrote
But I've often wondered if we dared to start a new thread called The
least liked features of Legacy. I've come close to that in the past
and a few jumped all over me with nasty words to the effect that if I
didn't like it here, I should go elsewhere. Well, those people
One more time!!! I have tried to post this message three times over
the past week, so if a duplicate materializes, I apologize in
advance. I'm beginning to wonder if I've been blacklisted! inline: Beer Glass Smiley.jpg
Anyway - I am trying to use the spell checker to correct a lot of
RUNION ROBERT wrote
I'm beginning to wonder if I've been blacklisted!
Obviously not, as this message got through, but you might be if you
continue to post in HTML with attachments or pictures!
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Suzanne,
I switched from TMG two or three years ago, and with a database of only
around 4000, I had a lot of trouble with clean-up, too.
However, the switch coincided with jumping on a genealogy education track
(IGHR, NIGR, the NGS course, and so on), and as a result, the clean-up time
was also
I agree with you on TMG. I've used it since Version 4 and at first liked
the layout compared to what was available at the time, but the outdated
FoxPro-based interface has to go. I thought Version 7 was supposed to be
improved, but no difference. TMG has a very high learning curve and you
I was recently pasting a couple of EMails into the text of a source. Each time
I got
Run time error 32011
The operation cannot be preformed (sic) on protected text.
I then pasted a sections of the Emails into the only part that crashed it was
the From line but it was from one of my closest
I didn't know about the event clipboard. That could be very useful instead
of having to re-enter the same event for several individuals.
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of S. Fry
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 5:45 PM
To:
I didn't know about either of these features. Thanks - I'll be using them
from now on.
Ruth A. (Sconza Testa) Nerud
baber...@worldnet.att.net
- Original Message -
From: Arnold Sprague aspra...@chicagobooth.edu
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I agree with the new perspective. While cleaning up my data file I'm
finding errors and people I haven't visited in several years, or those
that I need more information for. It helps to do an audit of your data once
in a while to make sure people are connected the way they should be. I
found
Suzanne:
I had the same problem with TMG v7. I did a direct import into TMG v7 from
FTM2009 because it reads the file directly. When exported to a GEDCOM and
imported into Legacy all the images transferred over, but there were
zillions of duplicates and the locations list was a mess. I ended
I always copy email text to Windows Notepad to get rid of any code that might
be embedded especially from HTML emails then copy it into the notes for that
source. I don't know if that is part of the problem, but I find this very
useful for getting rid of any formatting codes.
Bill Boswell
Do *NOT* Send attachments of any kind to the list, please. That is a major
no-no.
Do *not* use HTML in your emails. Please restrict your emails to plain
text.
We have listers who are on dial-up or metered (limited) downloads and this
is not good for them.
Please review the Legacy User Group
Thank you,
I have learned something. I didn't know about #2 Family View: If the
highlighted individual has more than one spouse...
Janet
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Arnold Sprague
aspra...@chicagobooth.eduwrote:
Two Legacy features that I especially like are:
#1. Family View: If
First point. Spell check is a Microsoft thing. I have had problems with it too.
Second, I have forgotten how I did it, but I did go in and remove a few
spelling errors added by mistake, so it can be done. I will try to remember the
actual way I did it. maybe someone out there KNOWS how.
Rich in
In response to the question 'what I don't like about Legacy', I used to have a
long list, but most have been fixed (submitted by me and others), some are
still pending, and I tried for a while to come up with a new list and couldn't.
My favorite part is the flexibility of Events.
Rich in LA CA
Some advice please. I know how to search for people in my family
file that are alive so to speak. Can anyone tell me how to do this:
1. Find those who are alive
To do this, I set
Look for whom = Individual
Where to look = Living
How to look = Equal to
What to look for = YES
2. Next, find
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote
Second, I have forgotten how I did it, but I did go in and remove a
few spelling errors added by mistake, so it can be done. I will try to
remember the actual way I did it. maybe someone out there KNOWS how.
If you mean that you removed words that you had added to
I open a new message in Outlook and set to Text format then paste and copy from
there to get rid of HTML. Never found the Strip HTML (I think that is the
name of the button) in Legacy very effective.
I am sure that I had done this.
MB
From: William H.
I don't like the spellchecker because you have to spellcheck every part of
your file individually. There is no global checker.
michele
- Original Message -
From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:00
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:39:36 -0500, Robert Carneal USA
carnea...@adelphia.net wrote:
Some advice please. I know how to search for people in my family
file that are alive so to speak. Can anyone tell me how to do this:
1. Find those who are alive
To do this, I set
Look for whom = Individual
Congratulations, Bob, you've found one of my least liked things about
Legacy. Almost all genealogy programs have some sort of spell-check utility,
some better than others. Legacy's implementation of the spell-check is not
one of its most shining stars but quite frankly I'm glad the programmers put
In general, looking for empty fields use 'Search' 'the field' 'starts with' '
', meaning in the first character in the field is a 'space'. You can also use
'wqual'.
Rich in LA CA
- Original Message
From: Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.net
To:
This is a little more work on the User's part, but I come to realize
it is faster for me to just copy the text, paste into a word
processor (or text processor that has a spell check), and spell check
there. Make all the corrections, and copy that. Go back to Legacy and
paste that. More work,
Dennis-
Ok- Suppose I do this- (Following your suggestion):
Look for whom = Individual
Where to look = Address-Phone 1
How to look = Equal to
What to look for = blank
Then Second condition is:
Look for whom = Individual
Where to look = Living
How to look = Equal to
What to look for = YES
Not
I too am a convertee from FTM16, although I did try FTM 2008 and 2009.
Needless to say I was disappointed with both. I am very happy with
Legacy 7 and learning new things every day. This is a great thread,
and although I love all the features already mentioned, my favorite
has to be the
First search:
Look for Address-Line1 wildcard = ?*
Tag what you find (after clearing Tag1).
Second search:
Tag1 = Untagged and Living = Yes.
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I've been reading the pros/cons of Notes versus Events in the LUG archives.
I've been using Notes, but see the merits of using Events. I like that Legacy
has the flexibility to change the wording and to add Notes to an individual's
Events.
In the Chronology tab, Legacy automatically lists
I've just switched from RootsMagic 3. Has anyone on the list done this? If
so, how much cleanup did it take? One of my concerns is that I lost 23 of
300 notes in the GEDCOM from RM3. I haven't tried to figure out yet which
ones I lost, since it looks like a daunting task.
I'm still not sure
Is there a way to get General Notes for individuals in Legacy to show
up in a GEDCOM exported to Ancestry.com? It did not work for me.
Thanks
W. Raymond Cummins
Mississauga ON Canada
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I think you will like Legacy. It is quite customizable and intuitive. I
have found the tutorials and the Legacy book really helpful (I use the
computer version). What was so bad about RM4 if I may ask.
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com
smegraw wrote
In the Chronology tab, Legacy automatically lists (among other things)
the death of a spouse as an individul's events. I would like to have a
Note included with this event (A transcript of a memorial written by a
husband to his wife). Is this possible?
I may be wrong, but I
Chick,
One way is to go to the children, if this is what you are writing
about, right-click on them, left-click on Children's Settings...,
and move the kids up/down with the up/down arrows found in the lower
right-hand corner.
All features are there in Legacy.
Arnold Sprague
At 02:21 PM
Chick:
I'm with you on sorting names by dob; it's one of the two relatively small
FTM features that I miss. For now I send a GEDCOM from Legacy to an old
copy of FTM and sort there, but it would certainly be handy to be able to do
it within Legacy. Seems it would be easy enough to add. I don't
No, that is not what I meant. I know the children can by sorted by
birth date. I am talking about the ability to sort the index by birth
date as well as by name or RIN. This has been discussed before on the
list but there does not seem to be enough interest for Legacy to add
this feature.
Chick
Arnold:
I don't know about Chick, but I'm missing the ability to sort the entire
Name List by dob. That's an option within FTM and you can choose to have
oldest first or youngest first. Either way, those with no dob sort
alphabetically at the top of the list followed by the others in date
Ray:
My General Notes do transfer into a GEDCOM (5.5) although I haven't tried
uploading it to Ancestry. You might try creating a GEDCOM with just one
individual who does have content under General Notes, then open the GEDCOM
with Notepad and search for a unique word in the text of the note to
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