The Descendant Narrative also has the option to insert underlines for
missing names, dates and places. The Family Group Sheet has a variation
on this. It will insert a small name, date, place for missing
information. These are positioned in the top left of the box where the
information should
Yesterday I added a problem report to our tracking system since I could
duplicate this. Today the mapping seems to work as it should.
I think the problem was on the BING end of the mapping. Charles, is
mapping working for you now?
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Charles,
The problem you reported has been tested and is confirmed. A report has
been recorded in our problem tracking system so this can be fixed. Thank
you for helping us make Legacy a better program for everyone.
Brian
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It has been reported, as Boyd said. It has also been fixed and should be
available in the next update.
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Double dating only applies for dates after 1582. That was when the
Gregorian Calendar was first introduced.
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Thanks, Kay
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cal vs. Ber Issue - Legacy Programmers
Kay,
The .trn files which are used for translating chart reports
Just to answer your PS. The link to upload to Ancestry Online Family
Trees was added in Legacy 3.0. It did not exist in Legacy 2.0. I cannot
comment on why it is still there but Ancestry online family trees one of
the biggest, if not the biggest, place for users to upload their family
tree
Kay,
The .trn files which are used for translating chart reports were fixed
in August so they are included in the newest version. What you may be
seeing however is a problem with the report.usr files. If you have the
ber problem after changing languages use the reset button on the report
Open her individual edit screen. Is there a check mark in the birthday
reminders box?
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Ellen,
The marriage can have an Address. Click on the marriage information to
open the marriage edit screen. Use the house with telephone icon to
enter an address for the marriage. If you want to include those marriage
addresses in reports select, if allowed, the Addr for birth, chr, death,
Paul,
Legacy has a compare files for duplicates. Tools Compare files for
duplicates.
During the compare you can tag the individuals in both files that are
duplicates.
After going through that process you can open the second file and use
search to find all the individuals where that tag does
Only two reports in Legacy will include photos attached to the vital
events of birth, chr, death and burial. These are the Family Group sheet
and the Individual Report. If you want gravestone pictures included in
any of the other reports they should be linked to an Event for the person.
Brian
To see the applied married names for the wives you have to click on the
marriage info bar below the couple. The married names will be shown on
the marriage info screen. The family view will always show the birth
surname of the wife.
Brian
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This problem is recorded in our problem tracking system. It affects both
the Descendant and the Descendant Narrative reports if you remove the
sentences on the wording 1 tab.
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Stan,
I have added you as a reporter for this issue in the problem tracking
system.
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I am working with Walt, off the list, to determine the scope of this
problem and will submit a problem report if the problem is confirmed.
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Jan Roberts wrote:
Thanks. Please note - problem 2 was actually User Error!
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Mike,
There is a problem report in our system about the Index view and the
delayed update. It will work correctly if you turn off the options to
include AKAs and Married Names. Having AKAs and Married names in the
index is what causes the delayed update issue.
Brian
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Jan,
There is a problem report in our reporting system on this issue. I have
added you as a new reporter of this issue.
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Margaret,
In the FGS Report Options Sources Tab look in the left hand column. Is
there a check mark on the option to combine multiple sources into a
single paragraph?
Turn off that option and you should find that the options to print
source pictures will become available.
Brian
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Robin,
You have confused a product from Ancestry.com with Legacy Family Tree by
Millennia Corp. Millennia Corp and Legacy Family Tree has nothing to do
with the Legacy Surname web site in your link. We do have a product that
is part of Legacy Family Tree called Legacy Charting but that is a
You can always obtain a copy of the Legacy installation program from our
web site. Please Visit our Home page www.LegacyFamilyTree.com Use the
download update option on the download menu. That will give you the
latest version and does not require you to pay.
Brian
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Randolph Clark wrote:
Only the you get Error 6 which is not listed among Solutions by Error.
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Barrie,
If you have dates entered in a form that Legacy does not recognize as a
date there is a search that will list all the bad dates.
Go to Search Find Miscellaneous searches tab.
There is a selection there that will search all bad dates.
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Lloyd,
Is that report open in Preview or did you create a PDF file and have it
open in Adobe Reader?
If you have it open in Preview you should NOT be able to switch back to
the data file, only the preview should be active.
Give me more detailed step by step instructions on how you have both
Bill,
You can import any of the Master Lists from one file to another.
Go to View Master Lists Location
Click on the options button and select import
If you have difficulty or questions at any stage press F1 or use the
help button on the screen for more information.
Once you have your cleaned
We had a problem report on the issue of combining sources in our system.
It was marked as resolved in our latest update so I tested it today. I
have now passed it back to the programmers for more work. You should not
have to edit the source and cancel before the combine button works.
Brian
Michele,
Fifteen minutes to generate your web pages does seem like a long time.
What is the speed and type of computer processor in your machine. I just
generated web pages for about 5,000 people in less than 5 minutes.
The time it takes to upload depends more on the speed of your connection
Eric,
This is a known problem and a report is entered in our problem tracking
system.
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Jenny,
There is a setting that will have Legacy always start up using the same
file.
Go to Options Customize General
In the starting family file select option 3, use the down arrow beside
the box to find and select the file you want Legacy to start with.
Then when you start a new session
Mary Jo,
It is very easy to reset the columns in the Index view to the defaults.
In index view click on options and select customize columns
To reset the list to the defaults click on the defaults button.
If you want the ability to switch back to your custom list of columns
click on the save
From the MRIN List select MRIN 780 which is, I presume, the extra
marriage you want to remove. Right Click in the marriage info box under
the husband and wife and select remove the marriage link. That will
delete MRIN 780 and leave only MRIN 2 as their marriage.
Brian
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Jenny,
It is a bug and is recorded in our tracking system. The same problem
occurs with the en dash Alt 0150.
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Jim,
I was entering a problem report on this since I think Legacy should have
given you some warning that selecting a new location from the GEO Data
Base would change all the locations that used that place.
As I was going through your steps I found that there is an intermediate
screen
You must first have a program installed on your computer that will open
those kinds of files. For PDF files for example you need to have Adobe
Reader or another program that will open a PDF file installed.
I tested Legacy for PDF files, Text files, jpg, tif and gif image files,
mp3 sound
Connie,
Both the problem with the List Style Source Citation Report and the
GEDCOM Export containing Italic codes are registered in our problem
tracking system.
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Pam,
The problem you reported below is now fixed and is included in the
latest update to Legacy 7.0.
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Wayne,
If you mark the first spouse you want to suppress as either private or
invisible and have the charting option to suppress private turned on
then the first spouse will not be included.
Brian
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Pat,
1. The file is still a proper GEDCOM file and has the .ged extension so
you do not need to worry that your computer says it is a FTW GEDCOM file.
2. As others have said FTM associates the .ged file extension with
itself when it is first installed and every time you run the program it
Pam,
The problem you reported has been tested and is confirmed. A report has
been recorded in our problem tracking system so this can be fixed. Thank
you for helping us make Legacy a better program for everyone. All the
Narrative reports have the same error.
Brian
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Legacy has always added an unknown spouse to a single parent whenever
you link that person to a child. This goes back as far as Legacy 2.0
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Kim,
I just checked our enhancement list. The suggestion to add the option to
include or exclude event notes in reports is recorded there.
Enhancements are however, suggestions for changes that someone feels
would make Legacy better. There is no guarantee that any suggestion will
be
,
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources Not Printing On To-Do List/Research Log
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 10:50 AM
Connie,
This problem
Joyce,
In addition to the tagged individuals suggested by Jenny the Record
Selection screen also has an option to use a focus group. Select that
then click on the view/select focus group button. On the focus group
screen you can add an individual and all descendants.
One word of warning. If
Anne,
It is possible that you are related more than once to the people who are
number 1 on pages 10 and 11. Check the pages where pages 10 and 11 say
No. 1 on this chart is the same as no. x on page y. If those people are
the same person but they are linked to different people in the
Connie,
This problem was reported earlier and a report has been submitted to the
programmers but thank you for taking the time to report it as well. I
added the issue based on Jennifer's report but I must apologize to the
list since I guess I forgot to advise the LUG that the issue was
Paula,
The new mapping function uses the Microsoft Virtual Earth Web-based
mapping application. It is not related to the Geo Location Database.
There are two ways to use mapping.
a. For your Master location List you can view a map of the location (and
a list of the people who use each
Don,
Were those two misplaced endnotes for sources to an individual's notes?
We have a problem report recorded in our tracking system for an error
like that.
If they were not for an individual's notes please send a private Email
to b...@legacyfamilytree.com describing:
The report(s) which
Marie,
Go to Search Find detailed Search
The Alt given Names and Alt Surnames are fields you can search on.
To find everyone you may need to run the search twice.
The first time look for Alt Given Name, Not Equal to leave the what to
look for empty
Set the Clear list before this search option
Marilyn,
Did you use Single or Double Quotes for those names. Double Quotes
around a given name should not trigger a potential problem error, single
quotes will however since that is really an apostrophe not a true
quotation mark.
Brian
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Paula,
This problem is recorded in our problem tracking system.
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Ruth,
The problems with the Indexing of AKA's as well as the missing Children
of ... sentences are documented in our problem reporting system. Note:
The Wording 1 tab also includes the preamble for Events for the person
and the marriage. Those are also missing in RTF reports and might
This will happen if the Master Source is marked to be excluded from
reports. A problem report has been submitted on this issue.
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Sharon,
Download a copy of the Legacy installation file from our website. That
will get you the latest version 7.0.0.90 dated 13 Mar 2009
Use that setup program to install Legacy
To transfer your data files:
1. Make a backup of your family file and multimedia files by going to
File Backup
The All Caps surnames is really an obsolete standard if you are using a
computer to record your genealogy. It dates from the days of typewriters
and hand written records. The current practise is to enter your surnames
in mixed case. It is easy for the computer to display those mixed case
When you merge two records in Legacy the sources from both records are
included with the resulting person. From what you say you may need to
review all the sources attached to your records after you have imported
and merged to eliminate the sources you entered and leave only the
Ancestry
Tom,
We've had several users report that the Forms Center and Interviews do
not work. We haven't figured out why yet nor have we found a way to
restore that when it stops working. It is not exclusive to using Legacy
on a Mac.
Brian
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I assume you mean the Custom Event Sentences. That is a feature of
Legacy 7 Deluxe just as it was in Version 6.0. In the Standard Version
you can still add custom events but you cannot design sentences for them.
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Go to Tools Merge Find Duplicates.
You can have Legacy search for and Identify possible duplicates in your
file.
We have an enhancement recorded to add the ability to suggest that a new
record is a possible duplicate but it is not implemented yet.
Brian
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Ila,
Look in the bottom of the Individual's Data screen. There is a setting
there. This person never married and had no children.
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Alastair,
Each section of the report (ie. head of the line) is organized
internally by generation. I do not think there is a way to turn off
those generation numbers in the table of contents. It automatically
creates a second level entry for the generations within each of the
lines. If I
Kay,
Problem confirmed. There is an error in the .trn files which control the
chart type reports wording. I have submitted a problem report on the
issue. You will only see the error if you change the report language. So
long as you were using the default language you used to install Legacy
Larry,
There are a series of text files in the program folder. They all start
with Geo
One is for country codes, one for states and one for counties.
The preamble to each file explains how the entries work.
These are the files that are used when you
Go to View Master Lists Location
Click on
You can use the place holder in the Publishing Center to reserve pages
for the Fan chart produced by Legacy Charting. After you print the book
you replace the blank pages in the Legacy report with the Legacy
Charting pages of the Fan Chart.
Simply use the Place Holder each time you want to
Laura
There is no automatic merge for the duplicate marriages but you can
search for people in your file with multiple spouses.
Go to Search Find . Miscellaneous Searches
Select the Individuals with multiple spouses
Make sure the clear list before this search is selected then click on
the
Marilyn,
You did not do anything wrong. The list when you open the assigned
sources for a person lists all the places you can add a source. It is up
to you to decide as with did not marry and had no children, if they
apply.
Brian
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Assigned Sources List with incorrect data
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 3:12 PM
Marilyn,
You did not do anything wrong. The list when you
Gayle,
You cannot put the program on a flash drive, it needs files that have to
be in the Windows system folders to work correctly.
You could put your data file on a flash drive but you would have to find
a computer with Legacy already installed to be able to access the file.
If there is an
There is an enhancement suggestion recorded to add a new option Add
Child (unknown gender) to the Menu for adding children.
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June,
The Legacy news article here has a tip on finding your end of line
ancestors that will help you identify those beginning points for your
Multiple Lines of Descent report.
http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2009/02/how-to-identify-your-endofline-ancestors.html
Brian
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Carolyn
Are you using 7.0.0.90 dated 13 Mar 2009? The problem with the
Descendant View showing only one spouse was reported in Jan 2009 and
Dave indicated he had fixed it to always show all spouses, that fix
should have been included in the 13 Mar update.
If that is not working then I will
Larry,
You will have to do it in two stages and it will NOT be sorted by birth
date. You can however export the list to a csv (comma separated values)
text file and import that into a spreadsheet program to sort it.
1. Create a focus group for the descendants of the person. Select
him/her
I have checked Evidence Explained and agree the Author should be included.
I have submitted a problem report on this issue.
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There is a known problem recorded in our system with swapping an event
with the vital events of birth, death etc.
The Vital events do not have a Description field. The Date, place and
event notes should be swapping correctly.
The description of the original event stays in the event but the
Jerri,
The source clipboard is a tool that will let you add that same detail to
all the family members listed on that census. If you set up the
clipboard first with the census details and text you can then use the
paste from clipboard icon to add that source for other members of the
family
Margaret,
A new update was issued 13 Mar 2009 to fix this problem.
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The latest update to Legacy dated 13 Mar 2009 contains a fix for the
Error 5 using the SourceWriter templates.
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Legacy does not make a backup before merging in the way it does when
you make a backup. It makes a temporary copy of the family file not a
zip backup.
That temporary copy is only kept until you stop Legacy.
If you decide to undo the merge you can go to Edit Undo merge and
Legacy will
Frank,
Between Paragraph 1 and 2 of your description of what you did there is a
missing step. you should have mentioned that after reviewing the files
in your browser you uploaded those files to your web pages using an FTP
program. Legacy does not automatically send the web page files from
Frank,
When I visited your site and looked at the pages the date those pages
were created say they are from August 2004. It does not look like you
have replaced the web pages there now with pages you recently created
after you created the web pages in Legacy.
Brian
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Michele,
I tested the latest version of Legacy 7.0 and was not able to confirm
this. I added a new person with birth and death dates. When I clicked
save the never married and had no children box was not automatically
checked. Legacy DID automatically check the Living No box.
Brian
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Marianne,
The Sentence override allows you to define a sentence but it is limited
to 255 characters.
Your sentence definition in that override should use the replaceable
text fields to select the information you have entered for the event
instead of trying to write out everything in the
I have entered a Problem report on this. With the Title and Subtitle
entries removed the word Report is being added by the program.
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Barbara,
He does not say they were numbered automatically. He simply said notice
that each household member was given their own number He did that
numbering manually.
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I have contacted Ruth privately about this problem with alternate names
in the Index.
Brian
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Ron,
I did test that and using advanced tagging, from the search list, will
apply the tags 4-9 for any of the buttons. If the tags are not showing
in the Name List, search list and on the Family View you cannot tag them
there. On the Individual's edit screen all 9 tags show and can be tagged
I set up a test file to check this. Here is what I found. Rose has the +
sign because her relationships are calculated as:
1. 1st cousin 3 times removed
2. wife of 1st cousin 3 times removed (this is a relationship by
marriage not blood)
John only has the relationship
1. 1st cousin 3 times
Jim,
Yes it is that simple. The + sign beside a relationship in that area
above a person's name means there is more than one. If you right click
on someone with a + sign you will see the option to view additional
relationships for THAT person. The reason you did not see that choice
with John
Angela,
Go to Options Customize General
In the Tagging options click on the tags to show button and change those
to include at least one of the custom tags you want in the report. On
the Report Row 1 screen ensure that that number is also selected. If
tags to show are the default 1, 2, and
I have submitted a problem report on this issue. The private event
setting does work for the Individual Report and the Family Group Sheet
reports to suppress an event marked private for an individual it should
work in the narrative reports as well.
Brian
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There is a list of user files and their uses in the Legacy Help.
Got to Help Show Help Index and type user files in the search box.
Click Display to see the list.
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Isobelle,
Yes there is a way to print out a list of all your multimedia files.
Go to View Scrapbook
Select the type of multimedia files you want to include and click on
Print Multimedia List
A second options screen will open where you can elect to include such
things as where the file is
Once you installed Legacy on the D: Drive the updates should know that
it is installed there and will update your D Drive version.
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Lew,
When I tested this and reported the problem with merging basic sources
into sourcewriter sources I found that the detail entries from the old
style source were lost.
The Basic source details were not copied to the sourcewriter template
fields. Initially when you look at the source in
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Kirsten,
I was able to duplicate this but only when I did the following:
1. I created an ancestor X
2. I added a marriage date
Kirsten,
I was able to duplicate this but only when I did the following:
1. I created an ancestor X
2. I added a marriage date and place but no spouse.
3. The Marriage wording tab of the marriage screen then used the default
setting X married someone for an unknown spouse.
4. I ran an ancestor
Ron,
Not all date fields in the SourceWriter templates use the date
validation and formatting routines used to convert dates to the Date
Options Format. Some will accept whatever you enter. You can tell, when
you leave the field if the date options are implemented, If the date
LouAnn,
Legacy has some searches that will help you with this problem. What you
are seeing are multiple links between some people either as children of
the same couple or as multiple marriages between the same people.
Go To Search Find Miscellaneous Searches
There you can search for people
Elizabeth,
I have tested this and have added it as a problem in our problem
reporting system. You should not be getting that message box.
Until it is fixed in an update to Legacy here are a couple of ways to
avoid the message (Thanks Carl! for pointing out that using the title
bar avoids
Bernard,
Do you get a screen that opens when you click on each of those buttons?
On the Form Centre screen click the browse button
You need to change the path to read C:\Legacy\Forms if you have Legacy
installed in the default location.
When the Forms Folder is selected click OK
On the
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