Does anyone use the To-Do list feature as a research/correspondence log? I
have always kept a seperate research log for every person I am working on. I
am just now starting to play with the to-do list. I see that you can keep
seperate ones for different people as well as a general one which
scratch
using a printout from Legacy as your notes).
I do want to say that I really do like Legacy. It has a lot of great features
that the other programs don't have but this is a shortcoming and I am hoping
this is an area where there will be some improvement.
Michele Lewis
Staff Geneal
I am going through the reports menu to see what all Legacy can do. The one
thing I can't find (or I am just not seeing it). Is a descendant report set
up in register (or modifed register). Is that possible?
michele
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Nevermind, I found the register/modified register on the descendant report.
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I want to make a new Legacy fill with certain individuals.
I want DIRECT LINE (from me) along with spouses and siblings. I see that option
in the tagging window. But, I also one 2 generation of children.
For example, I want my grandfather's siblings and their spouses, as well as
their childre
Ok, how about if Legacy were to add a field dedicated for the name of the
cemetery? Then it would be easy to search for persons buried in the same
cemetery. I think it would be helpful to have something like that. When your
file starts getting large, you can't remember who all is buried where
Ok, that is how I uses to do it but Legacy specifically says not to do that
so I removed the name of the cemetery out of that field. I used to do...
Grantham Cemetery, Purvis, Lamar Co, MS (I do understand how that messes up
Legacy's search feature because it has the locations in the wrong sp
Ron, where then do you put the NAME of the cemetery?
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Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 7:04 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Location Entry
Jennifer,
I fail to see why the "work arounds" are a failing in Legacy. T
I think the reason is because a person can die in one place but be buried in
another. It is pretty common actually. I too had to go through my file and
remove the the name of the cemetery in that field after watching the videos
(which I think should be mandatory viewing)
michele
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Ok, I looked up Chapman Codes in the Legacy help file and lo and behold, there
they were :) I did notice that the Chapman Codes includes that TWO LETTER
POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS for the US states so I guess I am ok after all :) :) :)
michele
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Chapman's Codes? Can you explain this? I have never heard of this!
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On that note, is it ok to just put USA or should we be writing out United
States of America?
michele
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Format Importance
Thomas Herson wrote:
Also, I w
I figured the problem out. What I wanted it to do is tag everyone that
showed up as POSSIBLE matches (there ate 368 of them). The program
apparently can't do that. What it will tag is everyone that you actually
merge. If you merge 2 individuals then the 1 individual left over after you
merg
I decided to tag all the records that are dups. I told it to tag on #9 but
after I do that the records are not tagged. What did I do wrong?
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I want to check my file for possible duplicates. In rural MS there was quite a
bit of marrying of relatives going on so I am sure I have quite a few dups.
The merge thing scares me (though I did hit the auto backup). When I get two
people that I think are a match I don't know if I am supposed
I never noticed the calendar feature! What a dufus I am! This is GREAT! I
need to go take everyone so that I can print out a reminder calendar for 2008
:) :) :) I don't remember seeing this on the videos...
michele
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I love Legacy! I had used FTM for a lng time before that but when
they changed their interface I decided it was time to change. I have never
looked back. Legacy has tons of USEFUL features that FTM has never even
thought of.
michele
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e fewer
notes/sources/locations to correct.
Am I way off base with my understanding of how it works?
Barbara
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Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 6:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Importing from FTM 2005
Barbara,
I switched from FTM to Legacy and have never regret
Barbara,
I switched from FTM to Legacy and have never regretted it for a moment.
However, I will warn you about a couple of things. When I transferred the
data I found that my notes had some spacing problems. For example, where
there was a line break in FTM there will be space in the text in
That new format FTM is why I changed over to Legacy.
michele
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Special Holiday Offer from Legacy Family Tree
Better it be good and working than like the F
forth. I do agree with you about the consistency.
michele
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To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations--(W)VA
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From: Michele Lewis <[E
It should be
John Doe born 01 Jan 1760, Berkeley Co, VA (WV did not exist at that time).
It isn't proper to put that W in there to imdicate that Berkeley ended up in
WV. You always document the location name that was correct AT THE TIME THE
EVENT TOOK PLACE.
Let's say he died in that same lo
You record the location as it was when the event took place. If the event
took place in 1861 then the location is VA. It doesn't matter that in 1863
it would have been in WV. You always record the correct location AT THE
TIME OF THE EVENT.
michele
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That is great to know, Sherry. The videos are absolutely wonderful. I am
glad to know that they will still be applicable to the new version. One
question though, I have really wanted to get the print manual. Should I
wait for the version 7 one? Or, will the version 6 one suffice?
michele
I have had no problems running Legacy 6 on my Vista laptop :)
michele
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That was it! I never messed with the Region thing before because I figured
the default was just fine. I added Germany and I got the IGI search.
Thanks so much, Ron!
michele
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I have been using the IGI search feature through Legacy with no problems until
I started working on my German ancestors. I get this error message...
No regions could be found to perform a search. You may want to set a default
region to be used in cases like this.
Does this mean I have the loc
WOW! There are several things on there that are making me drool :)
michele
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7
michele,
Try these:
http://rzamor1.blogspot.com/2007/07/sneak-
Is there a list of what will be different in Version 7?
michele
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problems. I'm sure that I've got DOZENS --
maybe HUNDREDS of incorrect citations for this very reason.
I trust that these citation problems will not be carried over into Legacy
7.
I hope these comments make sense!
Pat
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I use [?] without the ellipses. Anything comments that I add go into
brackets.
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n, I temporarily copied another source (Source B)
into memory, forgetting about it right after using it once.
So there I go, merrily thinking I'm using the right source (source A),
and I'm not. Could this have happened in your case?
Susan
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I was going through my files and I am finding a lot of errors on the sources
(sources attached to wrong events). Things like someone's birth in my
family file but the source is a marriage license out of my husband's family
file. There are a LOT of these. I know I am dumb but there is no way I
Consumption = Tuberculosis
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To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:54 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Newbie ? on consumption as cause of death.
I am just getting started in genealogy, so please excuse my lack of
knowl
I have the training videos and I think they are great. I have learned so
much from them. I am wondering if I should get the User Handbook as well or
is the information redundant.
michele
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the process of getting acrediated or certified?
michele
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sh to renumber? Have you looked at all the options on the
renumber rins menu?
Russ
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From: Michele Lewis
To: Legacy Mailing List
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 4:59 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Deleting RINs and starting over
Is there a way to wip
Is there a way to wipe out all the RIn numbers and renumber? I found the
renumber screen but I am already listed as #1 so it won't let me renumber
starting with #1.
michele
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I too like as few sources as possible. I have a similar system as was
already posted
Certificate/Record - Baptism
Certificate/Record - Birth
Certificate/Record - Confirmation
Certificate/Record - Death
Certificate/Record - Divorce
Certificate/Record - Marriage
I have major web sites as their
I have never used RIN numbers before. Is it possible for the program to use
the Afentafel numbers instead? I am not overly interested in my 8th cousin
thrice removed having a number.
michele
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Another glitch I had when converting my FTM generated GEDCOM into Legacy is
many of my sources got mixed up.
I was going through my file and found many instances where the wrong source
was attached to a event. This one is a tad more frustrating. Though I have
a relatively small file (3000 in
When I imported my GEDCOM that had been generated by FTM into Legacy every
person in my file that only had a first name was imported with their first
name now their surname. And yes, I did have the first names entered in the
correct place in FTM :)
It wasn't that big of a deal but I did have
Thank so much, Bert.
michele
View > Masterlist > Source > Options > Import Lists.
or in Help choose chapter Import Lists
Good luck
Bert
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Is there anyway to import sources from one file into another? I started a
new file and I am going to be using some of the same sources that are in
another file. I really don't want to have to hand enter all that info
again.
michele
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Alternate locations?
Someone suggested that I u
Someone suggested that I use the alternate locations to record conflicting
info. I can't find a place to put alternate locations other than in free
text in the notes
michele
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Heather,
That sounds like the best solution of all :)
michele
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Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] a question
Another thing you can do - if you have 2 different places whe
If you haven't ordered and watched the traning videos that Legacy offers I
encourage you to do so.
I used FTM since the very first version and recently switched over to
Legacy. I am an experienced genealogist (15 years) and run my own research
business. I thought that I would be able to figu
Is it possible to do a global find/replace? If so I can't find how to do it.
I want to search my entire file for the phrase "Entrekin Cemetery" and to
replace it with "Entrekin Family Cemetery" (it's official name with the
courthouse)
michele
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When I say questionable, I mean that I don't know where something happened.
For example, I think a person was born in either MS or AL but I don't know
which one (conflicting census records)
I am not sure the correct way to write MS or AL without messing up the
search feature.
michele
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I have one more questions about location...
I have had no problems with the county verifier when I enter locations as
Purvis, Lamar Co, MS
instead of
Purvis, Lamar, Mississippi, USA
So obviously the program is recognizing what I am putting in there.
I prefer to put Co in there so that people w
I just got finished watching all of the training videos and I am trying to
go through my file and correct formatting errors (locations for example).
Here is my question...
If I have a questionable location I was putting things like
MS?
MS or AL
MS vs AL
Lamar Co, MS or Marion Co, MS
New Augusta
Do ya'll use the AFN number? I see that some people have been assigned AFN
numbers at Family Search but to tell you the truth, I don't know exactly
what that means. Is there any chance that a person is mistakenly assigned
two numbers? The AFN shows up in the Ancestral File and there are many
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Nevermind, that didn't work. I am now doing it as an event and it will show
up in the event list/timeline. I am not happy about it being
Nevermind, that didn't work. I am now doing it as an event and it will show up
in the event list/timeline. I am not happy about it being there but what can
you do? I am just used to being able to see the cemetery name on the FGS view.
michele
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I am trying to customize the Family View page and I see how to do it (which
items you want displayed under the person's name such as their birth date,
death date, burial date etc)
I want to be able to display the name of the cemetery but there is no option
for it. When I was using FTM, I was a
This may be a dumb question but...
I am FINALLY getting a laptop! I am excited about being able to do research in
the field with my entire file available.
Here is my question... Is there an easier way to keep my laptop Legacy file
and my desktop Legacy file current to each other than burnin
I have been around a long time so microfilm is the word that pops out of my
mouth :) I would want the papers to be treated in the best manner possible.
I just want an agreement from the people that I turn the papers over to that
they will make the entire collection available to repositories fre
Believe it or not, there are no descendants! That
was my first question to the current owner of the house. He researched the
house and the original owners. The publisher of the newspaper was married
and had three children. All three married but only one had a child.
That couple had one
We are buying a genealogist's dream of a house in
Maine! It was built in 1830 and is in PERFECT condition. Here is the
best part... The current owner is giving me ALL of the treasures he found
in the attic when he pulled up the boards to put in insulation.
He found TINTYPE photos of the
I am unsubscribing today and then I will
resubscribe on Nov 9th or 10th. We are going to Maine on vacation :)
Unfortunately, I don't have a laptop (it is on my list!). I am
thoroughly enjoying the list and it has been very helpful since I have only
recently started using Legacy after usi
Ok, I did as instructed and pulled up the marriage
list and lo and behold I see all of those "unknown" marriages. When I pull
them up I cant seem to simply delete the unknowns. It wants me to "add a
parent" or edit the unknown one. I could unlink but then I would have to
find that unlinke
I just added an unrelated individual to my database
(I haven't proved how he fits into my family yet so I have him detached).
However, above his name he shows as my 3rd great grand uncle and he isn't
attached to me in anyway! He is floating around in my database all by
himself (he is the o
ere are several features that FTM doesn't have that I consider
very helpful.
michele lewis simmons
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What exactly causes the "ghost" parents? I
found this on one of my families yesterday. There were 10 children
altogether but 4 of them were assigned to the dad and an unknown spouse and the
other 6 were assigned to the dad and the correct spouse. This man was only
married once and I certa
en using
Legacy several years and thought I was fairly proficient with it before I
bought them and as I watched, I found myself thinking, "I didn't know
that!" quite often. I am hoping to get the newest ones soon.
Nancy
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I use the 4 color system recommended by the FHL. It has worked very well
for me. I disagree with the RIN method's claim that you will have to xerox
a lot of documents using the FHL system. I haven't found this to be true.
(I just thought I would throw that in for fun :)
michele
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I am anew Legacy user (I have used FTM since it
forst came out). I am debating on whether to get the printed manual or the
CDs or both. Is one or the other sufficient or does the book and CDs cover
different ground?
I am a long time genealogist so I don't need any
help with research but
I found the answer to my own question (renumbering
the RINs). I renumbered the RINs showing me as #1.
However, this brings up another question. In
the renumbering RINs screen it says you can renumber so that you get rid of gaps
(from deleted persons).
If you use the paper filing sys
After I imported my file from FTM to Legacy is has
my husband as RIN #1 instead of me. So, when I run the view tree it shows
my husband as the anchor. This file only have MY famiyl in it not my
husband's. He is in a different file. I manually switched my husband
and I (Now I am #1 and he
Thank you, Diane! I did the pop up box thing and that is a good compromise.
Thank you for telling me about it!
michele
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I am a new Legacy user after using FTM since their
first version (I wasn't too happy with their latest upgrade so I thought I would
try out Legacy after reading about it)
I will say one thing that I don't like is the list
of children under the marriage only lists their YEARS of birth and de
I switched from FTM to Legacy after reading the list of features on their
web site and because a couple of CGs I respect use it. I haven't been happy
with FTM since their latest upgrade.
Do you have any suggestions on making the switch less traumatic? I noticed
that there were some errors in
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