Re: [LegacyUG] FamilySearch ID pull-up list

2009-11-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:11:12 -0700, Mary E. V. Hill maryevh...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see how to make a list of all the FamilySearch ID numbers I have put into Legacy. Is it possible to make such a list? In MS Access or other front-end... SELECT tblIR.IDIR, tblIR.Prefix, tblIR.GivenName,

Re: [LegacyUG] Merging Files

2009-11-10 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:45:03 +1000, Colin Liddell cap...@optusnet.com.au wrote: QuestionDo I a: Click on Merge right into Left or do I b: Click Skip to next? If a: Does Legacy create a second marriage or does that happen if I click Skip to next? I have looked

Re: [LegacyUG] PURPOSE OF USER-FORUMS ?

2009-11-04 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:22:28 -0700, Julie Hite julie_h...@byu.edu wrote: How can I set this forum to a once a day list of posts rather than having each post be a separate email? You cannot do this with this mailing list. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools

Re: [LegacyUG] PURPOSE OF USER-FORUMS ?

2009-11-04 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:20:21 -0500, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: Probably one reason why they don't use it is because people who respond to a compilation of many messages will be reposting all those messages again and again. Their listserv does not support digest mode. --

Re: [LegacyUG] Changing directories for pictures

2009-11-04 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:52:21 -0500, Elsie Saar sa...@attglobal.net wrote: I have put my database and pictures on an external hard drive so that I can use my database at another location that has Legacy. I thought I could go to Options/Customize/Locations and change the path to read e:\Legacy\SS

Re: [LegacyUG] Default and Overide Sentences for Events - not working

2009-11-01 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:24:19 -0500, smegraw smeg...@hotmail.com wrote: I've started using Events and decided to use my own wording. In the Sentence Overide... I don't know which Descendant report you are using (there are several) or which version of Legacy you have, but you need to tell the

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:12:05 -, Ron Ferguson rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Sure you can Keith, but I don't have to as it's in the Burial Location field, so I do not need the clutter of Burial Events. Just out of interest, because I can think of two, or more, ways of getting your output from

Re: [LegacyUG] Right click on individual in family view tab

2009-10-26 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:19:10 +1100, Margaret Turner mgroga...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to have lost the functionality of right clicking on the family page. At the moment when I right click on husband or wife I'm taken to the individual screen rather that the options. If you truly have lost this

Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features

2009-10-23 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
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

Re: [LegacyUG] Phone numbers and / or addresses missing

2009-10-21 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
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

Re: [LegacyUG] Phone numbers and / or addresses missing

2009-10-21 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
First search: Look for Address-Line1 wildcard = ?* Tag what you find (after clearing Tag1). Second search: Tag1 = Untagged and Living = Yes. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Lost and needing help

2009-10-18 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:51:02 -0700, Mary Horner maryhor...@shaw.ca wrote: Am I the only one who is lost? What are your goals? To publish a book? To create a website? Or to just keep track of the data and where it came from? -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools

Re: [LegacyUG] relationship

2009-10-12 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Larry Rodgers lrodgers1...@gmail.com wrote: Back in January 2009 I entered a husband, wife and 2 children. The children come up as 3rd cousins. I have just entered 8 more children but they don't show any relationship. You probably upgraded to V7 between

Re: [LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)?

2009-10-08 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:30:48 -0400, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: For instance, when I imported a GEDCOM from Family Tree Maker into Legacy, all of the Detail Text was put into Detail Comments. Something like... UPDATE tblSX SET tblSX.SrcDetText=tblSX.SrcDetNote,tblSX.SrcDetNote=

Re: [LegacyUG] Master l Source is messing up

2009-10-08 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
Eileen: If you want to send me a copy of your database as well as screen shots (with explanations for each) that describe what you are doing, I would be happy to look at your problem. As you guessed, your explanation is confusing. Dennis -- On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:53:38 -0500, Eileen

Re: [LegacyUG] Master l Source is messing up

2009-10-08 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:53:38 -0500, Eileen reilee...@yahoo.com wrote: Pleae help as soon as possible If you decide to take me up on the offer to help, make sure you send the requested items OFF-LIST! -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools

Re: [LegacyUG] MRIN troubles

2009-10-08 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:21:17 -0400, Nancy nport...@twcny.rr.com wrote: Awhile ago I imported a gedcom from somewhere (I think FamilySearch). It wasn't until recently that I discovered that the MRIN's imported were 8 digit numbers and all subsequent MRINs generated by Legacy were 8 digits. I've

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom problem

2009-10-07 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:33:27 +0800, Stuart Gregory s.w.greg...@gmail.com wrote: Legacy does not open Gedcom files. Actually, you can open a GEDCOM file with legacy. But Legacy will immediately give you the import screen. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, other bugs in reports

2009-10-07 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:23:04 -0700, CE Wood wood...@msn.com wrote: I am trying to produce Individual, Family, Ancestor, Descendant, and Lineage Reports. When I choose Text file or HTML (there is no option for RTF), the file is produced without any indices, even though both Name and Location

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, other bugs in reports

2009-10-07 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:58:35 +0100, Ron Ferguson rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: It was only when I read your post, Dennis, that I realised I had a translation problem, and the OP was concerned indexes! Yeah, I thought you might have been thinking of superscripts. If true (I have no reason to

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy unable to lock file

2009-10-06 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:52:55 -0700, CE Wood wood...@msn.com wrote: Legacy cannot create long PDFs. If this is the case, maybe the OP can install a PDF printer driver to get around the problem. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOMs From Legacy: Brett

2009-10-05 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:04:16 -0700, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net wrote: I have version 7.0.0.90 and XP, but I wouldn't expect that to make any difference. I just tried it in 7.0.0.100 on XP and it worked as Brett says. So maybe an update is in order. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools)

Re: [LegacyUG] Changing surname

2009-10-04 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:16:09 -0700, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net wrote: But Laura, how do you account for pastors who couldn't spell or who latinized infants' names? Should a baptismal record for Fredrikus Merkel take precedence over a will signed in the man's own hand as Frederick Markle--along

Re: [LegacyUG] sorting children

2009-10-04 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:34:35 -0700, Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org wrote: Besides, doing this en masse could also unintentionally change the order of children where the order is known, but dates are not. It all depends on how it is implemented. It could certainly be coded to only

Re: [LegacyUG] REF file within zipped Legacy Backup

2009-10-03 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 18:27:28 -0400, Ken genfol...@rogers.com wrote: Does anyone on this list know what the REL file represents within Legacy?I recently noticed that the size of my total backup file had dropped from where it was a couple of weeks ago. When doing a comparison of the files

Re: [LegacyUG] Grave Photos--With Burial Event?

2009-10-02 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:25:03 -0400, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: Is this where I should put all tombstone photos or is this for actual photos of funerals? It's for whatever you want to do with it. Please heed Ron's advice about checking reports/web pages before proceeding. --

Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events

2009-10-01 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:07:46 +0100, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: You get that screen in V7, once you've made your initial selections and clicked Print Multimedia List. I don't get it in V7/100 standard. It's either a deluxe feature or something they fixed since build 100. --

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Citation Report

2009-09-30 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
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

Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events

2009-09-30 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
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

Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events

2009-09-30 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
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

Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events

2009-09-30 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
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

Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events

2009-09-29 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:18:39 -0400, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I wish someone would improve GEDCOM so it brings in your image locations. Relinking is a nightmare. Did the FTM export contain any picture info? You can email me a copy of the GEDCOM *privately* if you like. --

Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events

2009-09-29 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:02:38 -0400, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm only interested in the source images. All the other images have been relinked in Legacy. You can link source images, but it's a little confusing as to where to do it because there appears to be several places

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Citation Report

2009-09-28 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:20:01 -0500, Ruth Nerud baber...@worldnet.att.net wrote: I think I'm not going to get what I want. I think you are correct ... unless you create your own report. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Archives

2009-09-27 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:59:10 -0400, Larry lemccum...@comcast.net wrote: Does anyone know what has happened to the LUG archives? Until today I could see all the recent posts, but now the most recent is Mar 2009. The Archives were screwed up earlier on Saturday. I reported this problem to

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Citation Report

2009-09-27 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:05:11 -0500, Ruth Nerud baber...@worldnet.att.net wrote: I am trying to print a Source Citation Report that has the file ID and then the Master Source but I only get a list of the Master Sources, no file ID. How do I get the report I want? You haven't provided details as

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Citation Report

2009-09-27 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:56:19 +0100, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: Bob Janice wrote Look on the Options tab for the report - check the appropriate box. Just tried it and the File ID is included just fine. That's only for Source Detail File ID. The OP referred to Master Sources

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Book Display Irritation

2009-09-27 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:45:34 -0400, Ken genfol...@rogers.com wrote: I am using the identical format you have laid out and am seeing the problem on the Preview screen but it also carries over when I save to PDF. Try a different printer driver ... even if you don't have a physical printer to

Re: [LegacyUG] Access and Burial Table

2009-09-26 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 6:58:06 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: Is there an Access table that would permit me to add this data enmass without having to go to each person to enter this information? tblIR (Individual Record) contains the column IDLRBuried. It contains the foreign key to tblLR for

Re: [LegacyUG] Count of People in Database

2009-09-26 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:10:38 -0700 (PDT), Marilyn Clark paddypeppe...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks, Ron. I haven't advanced to making Web Pages yet, but I will keep that in mind. I don't really need to re-use RINs; I was just wondering about using them as an absolute way to know how many individuals

Re: [LegacyUG] Christening Baptism

2009-09-25 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:22:00 -0500, Pat Jones kin-hunte...@cox.net wrote: I have the dates for both but haven't found a way to add both. Enter one as an Event. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Help! Marriage doubled!

2009-09-24 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:08:05 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I pulled up Jane in the Family View and added William (link existing) as father and Mary (link existing) as mother..  yes, there was a question to link again? but if I didn't say yes, Jane did not

Re: [LegacyUG] Step children in descendent chart--was: Chart question

2009-09-19 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:40:19 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: And the child from a previous marriage of that spouse is also a 1/2 child of the spouse in the descendent line, right? Wouldn't that child be a step child to the non-blood parent? You can always add the

Re: [LegacyUG] Step children in descendent chart--was: Chart question

2009-09-19 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:53:54 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: So, I have Ann whose first husband is unknown (I did not explicitly enter a husband named Unknown) with a daughter Deb.  I also have Ann married to Ken, and they have a son Wade.  What I would like to do is 

Re: [LegacyUG] Dash - in Picture Center picture list

2009-09-15 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:12:21 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: What does View Current List of Multimedia Locations show? -- C:\Legacy C:\Legacy\Data C:\Legacy\Pictures I've just checked and the 3 files in question only exist in the Pictures folder. Is this something

Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs - why they be 8-digits long?

2009-09-15 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:22:58 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I've just discovered that the MRIN's (which I haven't had displayed for a while) are 8 digits long on most (probably all) the marriages I've entered this year.  Well, they are AT LEAST 8 digits long.  I

Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs - why they be 8-digits long?

2009-09-15 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:02:10 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: it loaded the MRINs that were in the GEDCOM into my DB? If you let it. Then my Legacy just picked up with the next MRIN after THAT? Yes. am not sure it will do what I want (leave other MRINs unaffected

Re: [LegacyUG] Source tagging error?

2009-09-14 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:20:03 -0500, Eileen reilee...@yahoo.com wrote: After putting in the information at the top, I hit the (three line) button, which should put this source to all the top fields, but it also it applying this new source to any and all items in the event field, so now I have to

Re: [LegacyUG] Icons on individual screen disappeared!

2009-09-14 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:00:27 -0700, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: Which brings up a question. Why is Legacy the only software in the entire Milky Way Galaxy that *REQUIRES* a Vista installation folder of C:\Legacy instead of the usual default C:\Program Files\Legacy?

Re: [LegacyUG] Dash - in Picture Center picture list

2009-09-14 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:50:27 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I had just loaded several old photographs gathered from cousins while on vacation this summer, attaching them to all the people in the photos. I noticed that 3 of my images (these have been there a while;

Re: [LegacyUG] An apparent bug?

2009-09-13 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:39:09 EDT, jraymond...@aol.com wrote: Finally, the Standardization Tip is grammatically wrong. Neither given nor surname is a proper noun and neither word should be capitalized. When referring to fields on a window you will often see them capitalized. -- Dennis

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Center - Undo Set Preferred

2009-09-12 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:47:23 -0400, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I figured out how to move the images from Individual to my Grave position using the Pic Center. I don't think they will get printed from there in many reports, if that is a concern. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools)

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashed Three Times and Lost Everything I Just Inputted

2009-09-12 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:37:38 -0400, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think these genealogy programs can handle a large number of images. I use external images anyway and have for several years. I've never embedded images because they are useless outside of the software.

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashed Three Times and Lost Everything I Just Inputted

2009-09-12 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:10:14 -0400, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I deleted all the data files (except the backups) and removed it from my hard drive. If they are still in your recycle bin, you could restore the bad file and send it to me. I'm going to import a GEDCOM and hope

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashed Three Times and Lost Everything I Just Inputted

2009-09-12 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:11:18 -0400, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I do have one backup from this morning that is after the first crash, but before the major one that deleted an image file and then wouldn't stay open without crashing. No thanks, I wanted to look at the one that

Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location

2009-09-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:37:06 -0400, Kramer kramer...@comcast.net wrote: Easton, Lehigh Co, PA, USA Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA, USA St. Luke's Cemetery/867 Mervin Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, USA You will have the Cemetery or Street address in the place of the city and everything else moved

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Ancestor Report Book

2009-09-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
I wonder if there might not be a child marked invisible? -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools *** On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:09:50 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: Eric, I cannot replicate this. I would suggest that

Re: [LegacyUG] Pass on mother's name, not father's

2009-09-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:55:12 -0500, Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.net wrote: Legacy want to give the kids the fathers name, which it should 99.99 percent of the time. This is the exception. How would you handle it? By default, Legacy will fill in the surname with the father's.

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Ancestor Report Book

2009-09-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:32:16 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: I hadn't tried that Dennis, so I have just done so using two different people, one the child of the start person and the other an aunty. In both cases the invisibles did not appear and the numbers were adjusted

Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location

2009-09-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:57:10 -0400, Kramer kramer...@comcast.net wrote: I agree, Dennis, but isn't city/county/state/country the accepted way of doing the location? I'm not sure it's accepted everywhere. Anyway, I was just pointing out one option. If one wanted to, I don't think having

Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location

2009-09-09 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:45:14 +0100, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: However, if I were you I'd have second thoughts about whether you really want to do that! I second Jenny's comments. I put cemetery names in the burial location field because I like the way it reads in reports. Try

Re: [LegacyUG] Renumbering RINs and MRINs

2009-08-31 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:00:45 -0400, Kramer kramer...@comcast.net wrote: Oops! My 6.0 version is gone in my Mac. I guess that's how my hubby go it accidentally transferred. Now how do I proceed? You mean version 6 of the program? Or your version 6 family file (*.fdb)? I don't know why your

Re: [LegacyUG] Another web page question

2009-08-31 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
Okay, now I have a new Rootsweb web site and I want to upload my web page files. However, I have 4429 files! (It is 20.5MB). When I use WS_FTP looks like the upload will take many hours. Am I missing something here? Is there a quicker way to upload? If dial-up, this could take

Re: [LegacyUG] Compacting Family File Question

2009-08-30 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:57:00 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: but it will delete unused locations, sources, picture links etc. I may be wrong, but I don't think Compact does that. I think it just reclaims dead space in the database. i.e. When you tell Jet (MS Access) to delete a

Re: [LegacyUG] Compacting Family File Question

2009-08-30 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:10:01 -0400, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: I may be wrong, but I don't think Compact does that. I think it just reclaims dead space in the database. i.e. When you tell Jet (MS Access) to delete a row in the database, Jet simply flags the row as deleted

Re: [LegacyUG] Compacting Family File Question

2009-08-30 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:32:29 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: I am not now clear whether deleting in the Master Records actually deletes the records from the disc, or whther it leaves them for Compacting to clean them. Well, I just tried deleting a Master Location from a test

Re: [LegacyUG] as web site question

2009-08-29 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:36:49 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: Genealogy sites are by their nature big beasts! Especially if you include pictures. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Find people connected to a picture

2009-08-29 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:12:04 -0400, Kirstin catlady1...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a specific problem that I haven't been able to find an answer to. First of all I have 2 pictures that are identical. I want to somehow combine these pictures. I need to find all the people who are connected to the

Re: [LegacyUG] Find people connected to a picture

2009-08-29 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:47:21 -0400, Kirstin catlady1...@yahoo.com wrote: A nice addition would be if it could find all people/instances of the picture being used. For some reason I always forget about this because it's not someplace I would intuitively look for it... View Scrapbook Print

Re: [LegacyUG] adding Military even bug?

2009-08-23 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
Ron: Pardon me for replying to you, but the OP did not post in plain text. The OP should check the Event definition to see if she has Show Description, Show Date, and Show Place unchecked. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools ***

Re: [LegacyUG] adding Military even bug?

2009-08-23 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:17:09 -0500, Dede Holden deanbuc...@gmail.com wrote: From Family View, click on the Individual. In the Individual screen, Events/Facts section, click Add. For Event, enter Military. Once I select Military, then click Tab to move to the Description, all the fields except

Re: [LegacyUG] A Minor Glitch ? ?

2009-08-22 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:51:19 -0400, Cathy chorn0...@verizon.net wrote: And what's stranger is that there is no way to add a source citation to a To Do task. Yes there is. This feature is at least as old as V6. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools

Re: Fwd: Re: [LegacyUG] A Minor Glitch ? ?

2009-08-22 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:13:55 -0400, Cathy chorn0...@verizon.net wrote: But since I have never added a source citation to my tasks before, why would the program generate an empty listing of source citations? I suspect you actually have a source assigned to a To Do somewhere. Check for a row in

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Access to Change Data

2009-08-21 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 5:12:35 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: Dennis - I have not been able to use your suggestion - mostly because I couldn't figure out where to start. I am certainly not comfortable with Access, except to view and some items and then export to an Excel spreadsheet for

Re: [LegacyUG] Table Usage Access

2009-08-21 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 5:27:28 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: A couple of suggestions I received indicated that I was on the right tract that might permit me to change them in tblSX using Access - unfortunately, I have discovered that even if I change the 'Filing REF' data, the change

Re: [LegacyUG] Table Usage Access

2009-08-21 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:34:09 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: Dennis et al - I don't know how to make it any plainer - I want to change the File Detail ID number from 1234-1 to 9876-01. I would like to use Access to enter 9876-01 in lieu of 12340-1 in the 'File Ref' field or whichever table

Re: [LegacyUG] Table Usage Access

2009-08-21 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:34:09 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: Dennis et al - I don't know how to make it any plainer - I want to change the File Detail ID number from 1234-1 to 9876-01. I would like to use Access to enter 9876-01 in lieu of 12340-1 in the 'File Ref' field or whichever table

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding DOCUMENTS to an individuals record

2009-08-19 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:58:52 -0400, gcrull gcr...@juno.com wrote: For TEST purposes I attached a file of each of the file types (e.g. PDF, DOC, JPG, multi-page TIF, TIF. Just for clarification... Did you attach them as Picture, Sound, Video, or Document (I think the latter was introduced in

Re: [LegacyUG] Location

2009-08-19 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:37:34 -0500, Ruth Nerud baber...@worldnet.att.net wrote: What's happened to the Location Master List? It's not in alpha order and if I try to add or change a location I get an Error Msg 3019 (not found in Online Troubleshooting Help) and Legacy closes down. If I click on

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding DOCUMENTS to an individuals record

2009-08-19 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:51:14 GMT, gcr...@juno.com gcr...@juno.com wrote: I used FILE, the right-most of the 4 ICONs of PICTURE, SOUND VIDEO, FILE. For JPG, TIFF, etc. I think you are supposed to use PICTURE. Try that. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding DOCUMENTS to an individuals record

2009-08-19 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:12:40 GMT, gcr...@juno.com gcr...@juno.com wrote: Besides, this advice is contrary to the Legacy HELP documentation on the subject of ADD - Documents. The way I read it is other means anything that is not picture, sound, or video. Even if you were correct, that would

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding DOCUMENTS to an individuals record

2009-08-18 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:04:01 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: GC, Let us first ask if what you have entered is what you have :-) In directory d you have a folder named genealogy - Main, containing another folder Legacy - Crull only within which there is a folder called My

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding DOCUMENTS to an individuals record

2009-08-18 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:05:07 -0400, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: The setup for these might be (and probably is) different. What I meant was that the setup for the types of documents in the one folder (ex. .jpg) might be different than that of the types of documents in the problem

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding DOCUMENTS to an individuals record

2009-08-18 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:36:40 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: I'm afraid. Dennis, I have tried using folders and files with spaces (E:\My Documents\My Web Grapics\New Fergys.pdf as a matter of fact) Then I would be looking at the Windows settings (i.e. Registry) to see why these

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendent Report bug

2009-08-14 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:02:01 -0500, Ruth Nerud baber...@worldnet.att.net wrote: I'm creating a Descendent Book using Publishing Center. I have the box checked Show line back to starting person but the surname of the ancestors of the main entry are incorrect; i.e., Rosaria Testini's father is

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendent Report bug

2009-08-14 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:19:15 -0400, Cathy chorn0...@verizon.net wrote: Is the following what you want to happen and isn't for you? If so, it is working for me. 194. Bert Allen Atwell (Margaret Towers 151, William Towers 132, Elizabeth A. Hoyt 67, Sanford 30, Joseph 12, Abram 3, Daniel 2,

Re: [LegacyUG] Default Browser Selection

2009-08-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:02:00 -0700, Pat patton.geneal...@gmail.com wrote: In answer to your question you might want to follow these example/steps and you will see what I mean. I) Choose Legacy Home tab 2) Choose Bring your Legacy family file with you on a USB drive, cell phone, or PalmOS

Re: [LegacyUG] Access Table

2009-08-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:21:16 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: I have looked at my 'tblSX' and observe that there are a number of items that look like my MRIN+number data under the column entitled 'Filing Ref' . This appears to be a possible opportunity to correct my errors. Is it possible

Re: [LegacyUG] Access Table

2009-08-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:58:01 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: Dennis - When I set up my paper source filing system to support my digital files, I numbered master sources with 9000 series. i.e., 9212 might be 'Marriage License in Dead Center, Kansas'. Then I might assign 9030 as the Master

[LegacyUG] Re: [Bulk]

2009-08-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:02:04 -0400, Kirstin catlady1...@yahoo.com wrote: FYI, This discussion went to my spam folder (I'm guessing it was the s-word that triggered it). Also maybe a good idea NOT to use the word spam in a legitimate subject. Many ISPs add that word to the subject line when an

Re: [LegacyUG] Access Table

2009-08-11 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:28:21 +0100, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: I think you might be! As I understand it, SgtBob uses the MRIN *with an appended hyphen and digit(s)* in the Filing Reference field.MRIN 1234, filing ref 1234-1 or 1234-2 etc. I think he confused the issue a

Re: [Bulk] RE: [LegacyUG] Same Sex Relationship Entries

2009-08-10 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:26:15 -0500, Ruth Nerud baber...@worldnet.att.net wrote: Do you know if allowing Alternate Names to be included in the Name Index is still on the wish list for Descendent Book Reports in Word? Ruth: It probably would have been a good idea to start a new thread (subject

Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database - Updates

2009-08-09 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:42:08 -0400, Ron Bernier ronaldbern...@bernfrin.net wrote: Both the subject matter and the argument are totally off topic. Actually, with Jay's clarification I think it is on topic. Speaking as a neutral bystander (I don't use Legacy's Geo database), if all Jay was doing

Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database - Updates

2009-08-09 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 19:26:14 -0700, 1familytree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: I am sure that there is a way to update the actual Geo-Code file in Legacy, but I am not a coder or programmer and don't want to do anything that might effect proper operation of my Legacy software. FYI. Legacy's

Re: [LegacyUG] Alternate Names

2009-08-09 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:32:42 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: For alternative first names, or nicknames, I include them in the Given Name Field in quotes. These can then be used by Legacy in reports eg. Poly resided in . but excluded from the name field in the same reports.

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] 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] GEDCOM in wrong extension

2009-08-05 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:38:04 -0400, Dale Warehime dale3...@qis.net wrote: The problem is not with your file. It is with your setup on your computer. My guess is the you have installed FTM after you installed Legacy. Open Windows Explorer Click on ToolsFolder Options On the File Types Tab

Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Address

2009-08-05 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:12:37 -0400, GeoSci geosc...@gmail.com 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

Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Address

2009-08-05 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:56:28 -0700, 1familytree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: CE, I use Legacy Deluxe, I do not see any tab called Master. No, but you can place an icon for the Master Lists on the toolbar, This is probably what CE meant. CE probably just forgot that this icon is not there by

  1   2   3   4   5   >