Margaret Turner wrote
I have added a 'marriage license' event to John Grogan.
Added a source eg. Grogan, John, marriage certificate, 1879.
This source has
Source info,
Text of Source
Picture (.jpg of the marriage certificate).
When I want to print out a report, eg. family group sheet or
Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you
wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column.
These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access
to manipulate the data any way you can imagine.
Ron Taylor
The original intent of this good post has been hijacked. I would like
to get back to what Kirsten Bowman wanted for this thread, so have
renamed it from Favorite Features to Favorite Features - #2.
As Kirsten asked, please share with new Legacy users the features and
shortcuts of Legacy you
Not everybody is as computer savy as others. Some have no idea what a
spreadsheet
is, and some do not have Access.
Of course I don't know the code behind Legacy, but as a programmer
sorting is normally a simple procedure.
I used it extensively when I used FTM, and It is one of the features
The archives should contains several recurring discussions about one point:
that pictures of documents are difficult to display in reports at a readable
scale.
May I suggest that a printed source citation be limited to a minimum of
information -- just enough for a cousin to consult the
It has to do with the grid controls the programmers use. Being able to sort
by any column is on the enhancement request list.
In the meantime, Ron's suggestion of GenViewer hit the nail on the head.
It's a great little program sold on the Legacy website (Look under Add-Ons)
Thanks for using
The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the
same.
All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a
John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John
Does.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia
Excel does not recognize dates 1900 and earlier and does a horrid job of
sorting by dates unless dates are formatted all the same.
I love GenViewer! It has some great sorts and searches!
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
supp...@legacyfamilytree.com
I hadn't played with Charting much, so my first reaction to this was why
can't you simply drag half the boxes down so that they are staggered (so
roughly six children across the page, two rows deep). However, when I went
to try it, I found that the lines connecting the boxes did not drag in a
Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB
column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with
the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it
was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do
Heather Stovold wrote:
Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the
DOB column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for
people with the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same
name. I know if it was a standard date field it would probably
Bob,
no humor to be added is absolutely right on the mark ! The unpardonable Sin
for this particular list.
[]
Tom Watkins
Eau Gallie, Florida
W_a_t_k_i_n_s, A_d_a_m_s, B_o_n_d, B_o_o_t_h, B_r_o_o_k_s, C_a_i_n,
C_l_e_m_e_n_t_s, G_i_b_s_o_n, H_o_w_e_l_l, J_o_n_e_s, L_a_s_s_i_t_e_r,
Thanks for your response, Ward. I discovered that, too. What I ended up
doing was scrapping it; using the digital photo software to put the pictures
on a page with text boxes...there probably is a better way.
Best regards,
Lorraine
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ward Walker
Ron Taylor wrote:
Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however
you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any
column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you
could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can
Thank you Jenny and Ward.
Jenny, it seems that if you do not have the options greyed out for a
Family Group sheet and a Descendant Book Report then there must be
something else I need to have checked.
Ward thanks for pointing out that I should have used Descendant Book Report .
:)
Margaret
On
I should think the unpardonable Sin for this particular list would be posting
with a 9 paragraph sig line.
Brian in CA
Humor added
-Original Message-
From: Tom Watkins [mailto:tomsgeneal...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:52 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also
like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be
legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen.
Dawn
Arnold Sprague wrote:
The original intent of this good post has been
When Charting was released, there was an indication that there would be
an update at some stage which amongst other things were to add the
option to not split boxes at page breaks, add the left to right
descendancy chart and an all-in-one chart.
There hasn't been an update for about a year
I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a
Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an
on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder,
too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste
You can cut and paste text but not pictures. Legacy does not store pictures.
It links to the location on your computer where you have saved the picture.
CE
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of
Sherry
Sent: Friday, October
Sherry/Support wrote:
snip The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are
exactly the same.
All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a
John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John
Doe's.snip
Yes Sherry, but it would be
Why have to pay for an add-on to do a simple sort?
Art Seddon
- Original Message -
From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 7:56 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Excel does not recognize dates
Yes. I frequently have Legacy visible on 1/2 screen, the Swedish online pages
on the other, and the program Paint, and the 'photos subdirectory' hiding on
the bottom, to check which pages I already have, then copy new pages using the
Swedish copy numbering system.
Rich in LA CA
-
Art-
Let me reword what I think you said--
You want to be able to open a family file, any family file, and
select several people. Their names may, or may not, be
similar. Then, using the list of people you selected or tagged, and
just those people only, you want to sort by birthdate,
Why have to pay for an add-on to do a simple sort?
Because it's the only option for now? Duh...
--
Dennis Kowallek (LTools)
http://zippersoftware.com/ltools
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived
I have used Legacy for 3 years now ( switched from FTM) and cannot imagine
using any other type of software program (as of today anyways). I have been
extracting records from some parishes in Germany and would have been utterly
lost without the Search tools. There are all sorts of problems with
Yes, it is more dificult I recognized that.
However - if the programmers are already doing a secondary sort on dob (the
primary sort being on Name - and Sherry from Legacy said that Legacy does
the secondary automatically when you are sorting by name for all names that
are the same) - they
Sherry wrote
I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can
look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you
are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information
on a website?
Yes. It's possible to do that with pretty much any
Now, just sort the name list... (the name index) - then I don't need to know
who to select or tag beforehand.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Robert Carneal USA
carnea...@adelphia.netwrote:
Art-
Let me reword what I think you said--
You want to be able to open a family file, any family
You got it, Robert. Just like you can tag any group of names and then show
just the tagged names and sort by Given name or Surname or RIN.
Art
- Original Message -
From: Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009
... You enter a whole batch of sourced records and then realize you've
used the template for Database instead of the one for Digital Images?!
--
Jenny M Benson
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
Actually the Legacy database ALREADY contains the sorted birth dates in a field
called BIRTHSD in the Indivdual's record in the tblIR. There is also the sorted
Death date in DeathSD and BurialSD for sorted burials.
From: Heather Stovold
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:53 PM
To:
I do this for cemeteries. Several cemeteries are interred by date.
That is, they start in one corner or one spot, and from there
spiraled outwards. I know Sherry already said this, but what I do
here is enter everyone I have for that cemetery. Since I need it
sorted by BURIAL date, I open it
Thanks everyone for such a quick response to my questions. This group is great.
Sherry
- Original Message -
From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:57:59 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]
I have switched from TMG 7.0 to Legacy 7.0 Deluxe. Since I had to do an
import via GEDCOM I am in the process of cleaning up 7,000 plus records. All
of the Source's imported to the Basic Source System. Since the Source
Conversion Tool has not been released yet, has anyone figured out the
easiest
Hi Charles,
If you have MS Access I can give you instructions for that.
If not, the your best bet is with ltools. See:
http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm
You can download a free version with some basic tools or upgrade to
deluxe for a small fee and get lots of tools to do things with
Hi Richard,
Thank you, Yes I have Access and I would appreciate the instructions. In the
mean time I will check out ltools.
Charles
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of Richard Van Wasshnova
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009
A heartfelt apology and graciously changing mail patterns has been accepted by
most, and punishing yourself further may be overkill. Welcome back.
Rich in LA CA
- Original Message
From: Tom Watkins tomsgeneal...@yahoo.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, October
As an oldtimer, I am still waiting for the conversion system. I have 2000+
sources, and will wait for the tool. There have been some tweaks to the program
since that article, but I do not think there has been a major fix up (or it
would be in the archives), for the Source stuff.
Rich in LA CA
As I said in my previous sending, the fourth screen is the 'photo directory',
which I have subdivded as such:
E:photos/
pictures/
photos1 through photos9-locations-censusUS-censusSwedish-documents-graves
under each category I have further 'split' by location or year.
In some cases I have over 50
Wait a minute . . . Watkins?!? . . . as a possible distant relative, I
must accept this immediately and ask: Any connection to the Watkins in
Oneonata NY in the mid 1800's?
Dawn Crowley
Tom Watkins wrote:
Brian,
I should think the unpardonable Sin for this particular list would be posting
Naw. This is a forum. Go ahead and post. Besides I like good sig lines.
Brian in CA
Like I was in control or something...:-)
-Original Message-
From: Tom Watkins [mailto:tomsgeneal...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:52 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject:
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