Re: [LegacyUG] OPTION FOR DAILY DIGEST IN FUTURE ??
Jerry wrote: I'm not sure why the Legacy website programmers do not allow for a DAILY DIGEST feature for those of us who want it. Possibly because they didn't develop it, and the 3rd party software doesn't offer such a thing. To me a Digest is a pure waste of time, and would cause much ire when inexperienced users try to respond to a specific message. Whole Digests quoted. Thread titles not changed. My simple advice. Learn how to filter and organise your emails. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Kens Messages
Ignore them, please! Ken is obviously trying to get to the bottom of why some unsubscribe attempts are not succeeding. So, to keep the people who can't cope with the volume of traffic, no messages asking Why Am I Getting This? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] FamilySearch ID pull-up list
Mary E. V. Hill 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? Since the Detailed Search doesn't possess an entry for the FamilySearch ID in the 'Where to look' drop-down list, I would guess that the short answer is: No. You'll probably have to wait for version 7.5 -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Impossible to unsubscribe?
Freddy Rodriguez wrote: I doubt very much that the majority of users are on dial up. You could provide both forum and mailing list but I believe the majority of users have broadband. And that bit of arrogant presumption is based on what? Your little corner of the world? Face it, broadband doesn't have 100% coverage across the world. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Mapping and IE8
Kay Fordham wrote: Mine doesn't even work from the Master Location List. Mine did... until I selected the top-most, blank entry :-) Now it doesn't do a thing. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Mapping and IE8
Ron Ferguson wrote: That is also true for me, Evert, which strongly suggests that this is a MS/Bing created problem since Legacy has not been changed. The API has probably been changed. Another example of the goalposts being moved by Microsoft. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Mapping and IE8
Evert van Dijken wrote: Yes, that's how it works for me, but once in the Master Location List you cannot change the pin to another location. It will only work once (for me). If the pin is placed to the correct position the first time is it really a Bing position problem? You can move the pin. You just have close the map and reopen to see where it's been put. Again, smacks of an API change. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] entering royal titles
jraymond...@aol.com wrote: So Edward VII (son of Queen Victoria) and his son, George V (until his 1917 proclamation), ruled as the House of SCG. In 1917, however, George V issued this proclamation: Now, therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authority, do hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor... An early example of a Deed Poll :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Double-dating in 1500s
Brian/Support wrote: Double dating only applies for dates after 1582. That was when the Gregorian Calendar was first introduced. But only in Europe! England Wales changed in 1752 (and thus USA/Canada). Scotland even later. Russia never has! -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How to avoid blank page
Jane Sarles wrote: Can anyone tell me how to avoid the blank page that I get on all reports after the title page? I have checked format, page layout and include, but do not find the option to do away with the blank page. There are some occasions on which you would want a blank page. Duplex printing for example - printing both sides of the page. Printing one side of a page (and using up twice the amount of forest in the process) is an example where blank pages should be eliminated. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Sources
Sherry wrote: As I was following the discussion about using Ancestry to facilitate attaching sources to your family file in Legacy, I had some questions. I choose the individuals I want to upload to Ancestry and allow Legacy to create the GEDCOM and upload. I do my research and attach sources (easily as I understand it--I've not done this before.) Then, I download the Ancestry file to Legacy. Questions. Are the sources turned into Master Sources or are they only citations? Are the sources in Basic format or Source Writer format? They import as Basic Sources. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] What is the _APID Gedcom Tag?
Like one or two others, I have been experimenting with downloading a GEDCOM file from Ancestry to see how the sources are imported. Well, the first thing to note is that they import in Basic Format! Having said that, I notice that the import procedure seems to have one or two problems with a particular, Ancestry-defined tag - _APID. Does anyone have any idea what this tag is trying to convey? It's not al all obvious from an examination of the downloaded GEDCOM text, what the tag is all about. In the LOG file generated from the import procedure, I see many messages of the following form:- Main Record: 0 @S1029350835@ SOUR * Unrecog. Line for a Source Record: 1 _APID 7572 Placed in Note : _APID 7572 These, together with one or two more explicit errors that I can't correct Main Record: 0 @P4193015077@ INDI Sub Section: 1 SEX M * Unrecog. Line for an Individual Record: 2 SOUR @S1029764659@ Placed in Note - James W P Wall: SEX: SOUR @S1029764659@ PAGE Class: RG10; Piece: 1800; Folio: 159; Page: 28; GSU roll: 838798. NOTE http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1871h=14518996ti=5538indiv=trygss=pt NOTE DATA TEXT Name: James W P WallBirth: abt 1865 in Cley, Norfolk, EnglandDeath: _APID 7619::14518996 -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PURPOSE OF USER-FORUMS ?
Julie Hite wrote: How can I set this forum to a once a day list of posts rather than having each post be a separate email? Julie Why? The actual volume of text would be about the same. You'd get one very long message instead of many short ones. Your solution should be to instruct your email reader to filter all the Legacy messages into a separate folder. Then they won't get in the way of your other mail. Also, you'd be able to organise them by thread rather than having them in the order that they arrived. This allows you to follow the threads that interest you and ignore those that don't. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.ca direct link to Legacy
Mary Horner wrote: Bill, thanks for the comments but can you translate into simple stupid for me. I would like to get the data off Ancestry as simply as possible for me. I am a two-finger typist, struggling with sourcing, clipboards etc. It literally can take me a day to enter a handful of Marriage registrations. I thought I could safely upload my tree into Ancestry, with a few clicks save this data on my tree and then export back into Legacy. Is this possible or is it too risky to bother with? I have a hard time understanding what you have written below Mary, it seems like the others have misread your message and think you are wanting to upload data to Ancestry. The way I read your first, html, message, you were asking how to download from Ancestry. Starting from the Home Page:- a) Select your family tree b) Click on 'Tree Settings'. This is alongside 'View Profile for' c) Click on the 'Export Tree' button The site will now generate your GEDCOM file and, when complete, give a button from which you can download the file. d) Click on the 'Download your GEDCOM file' button e) When prompted, save the file to your disk and remember where it is! Now you can use Legacy. Close any file you may have open. Now, select File-- Import From-- GEDCOM Follow the prompts :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging people question
Brian/Support wrote: 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. Thanks Brian. That was so long ago I'd almost forgotten about it :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] [Legacy] Emailing info
Carl Cox wrote: This may seem elementary to the more techie people, but how do I email a report, not the entire family file, to someone? If the recipient has a computer, it is easy to install Legacy free, and it is also easy to extract a GEDCOM of most any part of the file. A GEDCOM can be attached to an EMail, then just loaded into the other Legacy program. I find that the ease of moving around a program, and changing or adding information by computer, make that the preferred method by far. If you're going from Legacy to Legacy, why run the risk of possibly losing information by using a GEDCOM? Why not simply make a backup and send the backup? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Right click on individual in family view tab
Gene Young wrote: Margaret Turner wrote: Hello, When I click on individual (eg. in Died) display within the family view tab, I'm unable to right click to obtain the options eg. Edit marriage, Add, View, Notes. I thought it might be a hardware fault but I can use Windows Explorer and right click ona folder to look at its properties. Many thanks. :) Margaret Right clicking for displaying/changing properties is a Windows thing and does not function that way in Legacy. To edit the marriage you left click on the marriage events icon. To edit notes, you left click on the notes icon for that individual. I would suggest that you check the help file for Using Legacy and the free videos on the Legacy web site to get a feel for the features in Legacy. Not totally correct, Gene. If you are in the Family tab, then right clicking on the data area of either of the two individuals should bring up the context menu that Margaret seems to have lost. This is similar to right clicking on either of the parents or any of the children. Margaret, Can you right click on the parents or children? If not, then I'd suggest you shut Legacy down and try again. If that still doesn't work, then shut Windows down and re-boot. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
Alastair Lack wrote: You can actually divide a large screen into two smaller ones using the free Acer Gridvista http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Acer-Gridvista.shtml This allows you to run two applications 'maximised' without juggling the overlaps. But you do need to have a large screen to start with But only on XP or Vista! -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] AKA Married names in Legacy 7 name list
WALTER D. CONNER wrote: I purchased Legacy 7 Deluxe when it first came out but just downloaded and installed it today for reasons I won't go into. While I remember a box being checked on installation saying to include AKAs in Name List, they do not appear and when I go to Help and look for AKAs, it says to click Options but I do not find the options listed that are specified in the Help File, namely show AKAs and show Married Names?? Doesn't the Name List have an Options button? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
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 be trivial code - but I do recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. And dates taken from the GRO are definitely non-standard, being entered as month Q year, where month is Mar or Jun or Sep or Dec. A standard can not be used for this since the month Q combination is shorthand for 1 month - 2 to last day month. Definitely *not* a trivial exercise for the programmers :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source details
Angela Gabbard wrote: Individual 1 - I enter an event, click on the source icon and using the source writer create a source and the source detail. [That is all okay] Then, Individual 2 - I enter an event, click on the source icon and click on 'cite a master source'. Finding my source in the list I highlight it. I then can click select and it prompts me to enter the source detail. (it is here that I though Ron was suggesting that I click 'save' on the source detail screen which is just saving a blank detail screen.) I just want to re-use the same source detail that I have already recorded for individual #1. Simple solution - before moving on to Individual 2, copy the source detail to the Source Clipboard *and* copy the event to the Event clipboard. You can now add a duplicate event (including the same source details) to Individual 2 with a minimum of mouse clicks. Click the Add event button on the Individual's Information screen, then, on the Add Event screen, click on the blue '-' button to the left of the event details, under the blue triangle button. A different type of event can be added to individual 1 or 2 and the source detail associated with it. See the two buttons underneath the 'Help' button on the Add Event or Edit Event screens? The one on the left copies the current event + source information, to the Event Clipboard. The one on the right, copies the event data from the clipboard into the new event. When you 'Cite a Source', you are in fact creating a new set of source details from the same Master source. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] trying not to panic
Mary Horner wrote: My Volume 1 training videos have just arrived and I have completed disc 2. Problem: using the Master Location list I started correcting some of my inconsistent entries. I edited and saved. When I got back to the family screen I happened to be on my father's where I noticed on his birth/location line it had substituted someone else's birth date for the newly edited location. The date has been heisted from some other entry. I do not recognize it. Just immediately before this edit I had edited something on my mother's chart. When I got back to her family screen the program had picked my father's location and transferred it to her. Because it is my immediate family I was able to recognize the switch and correct it. However, this second error really has me spooked. Any suggestions as to why this happened? Also as to how I can locate who was born in April 1923? Have you been clicking on the field labels in the Individual Information screen? This is a means of repeating a previously entered piece of information. For example, if you click on the in label to the left of the Birth Place field, the last value will be automatically entered into the Location field. This applies to *all* the basic fields on the Individual Information screen, You can also right-click on the label and bring up a list of the last 10 values for dates and places and make a selection from there. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Locations in England
Brian Beddor wrote: I have a copy of a 1901 England census from Ancestry.com and the location is: Administrative County: Lancaster Civil Parish of Chatburn Ecclesiastical Parish of Christ Church Chatburn. How would I list this in the Location field of Legacy in keeping with the recommendation for 4 fields (city; county; state or province; country)? Also, would the country be England or United Kingdom? I tried a couple of options but when I clicked on the Geo Location List button, it didn't seem to find it. This is where Ron Ferguson and I would denigrate the use of the Geo Location Database to assist in forming the Location. If you used it, you would be presented with 3 options a) Chatburn,, Lancashire, England b) Chatburn, Lancashire, England, Great Britain c) Chatburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom There are many semantic reasons why options b) and c) are meaningless, some of which have been mentioned here at various times. Mainly, the United Kingdom and Great Britain are *not* countries per se. They are political units. You could almost say they were akin to NAFTA! Option a) is the least offensive - but still wrong, since England doesn't, and never has had, States or Provinces, and a County in England is something totally different to a County in a State in America. I suppose the nearest unit of English local government to an American County, would be an District or Local Council. So, you're really left with this (always supposing that you're aware that Lancaster is an old name for Lancashire as well as being the name of a town in its' own right) Chatburn, Lancashire, England This system then allows for large towns that have several parishes in them and small towns and villages that perhaps only have one. You just put the parish name in front of the town E.g. Christ Church, Chatburn, Lancaster, England The confusion comes from trying to impose a standard for naming places that can not fit with the conventions used in England, Scotland and Wales. Ireland too! But that's a separate matter. Oh for the day when we English can pick which labels *we* want to assign to each of the 9 possible elements of a Location! And do away with these futile attempts at the Americanisation of the home country. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Forms Need to know where to set location
Ron Ferguson wrote: Mike Fry wrote: John Magyari wrote: Ver 7.0.0.109 Deluxe 1) Current when I go to Reports-All Reports-Forms Center NOTHING APPEARS in the forms section 2) When I check Options Customize I do not see where I can set a location for forms Is it somewhere else? Go back to your Forms Centre and click the Browse... button. From there, navigate to where the forms are stored - normally the Forms subdirectory within the Legacy folder - you should see two further subdirectories: Census Forms and Relationship Diagrams. You're there! Click the OK button and everything should be visible. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. 10/11/09 06:39:00 Mike, For some users nothing appears at all so one can't navigate - it was that situation which I thought John meant. Ron Ferguson I know! We see the query often enough. But some people may inadvertently have lost or corrupted their settings and hadn't realised that the way to get their forms back was through the Browse... button. As a more permanent solution, Millennia could create a ZIP file containing the current form files, and allow people to download them if they want them. Then, the forms can be removed from the main Legacy installation file. A small reduction of bloat, but a move towards a more structured and compartmentalised program. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Death Location
Ruth Nerud wrote: Lighten up, Marilyn. She is stating facts, not her religious views. One day, you'll say something that someone else doesn't like. Where is your tolerance. This is America. Ruth I agree with what you're trying to say, Ruth, but, this is not America. It's the Internet and it covers more of the world than just the USA. In response to what Marilyn said - There are varying degrees of tolerance around the world. What is acceptable in the US may not be acceptable elsewhere and vice versa. As a result, Marilyn, you must be very careful when you start to attack or deride someone's religious beliefs. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Forms Need to know where to set location
John Magyari wrote: Ver 7.0.0.109 Deluxe 1) Current when I go to Reports-All Reports-Forms Center NOTHING APPEARS in the forms section 2) When I check Options Customize I do not see where I can set a location for forms Is it somewhere else? Go back to your Forms Centre and click the Browse... button. From there, navigate to where the forms are stored - normally the Forms subdirectory within the Legacy folder - you should see two further subdirectories: Census Forms and Relationship Diagrams. You're there! Click the OK button and everything should be visible. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Death location
William H. Boswell wrote: I was wondering the same thing and am glad somebody asked it. I have a twist on one person: the person donated his body to a medical school, then was cremated. No idea where the cremains were buried. In that case, enter the death details as normal. Leave the burial/cremation details blank. Create an event for the disposal of the body. I noticed you can't select both cremated and burial. It's either one or the other. I think I have a separate event for cremations. A body is normally either buried or cremated. So, death details apply as usual. Change the Burial/Cremation details to read Cremation and enter the date and details. Then, either enter the interment details in the Notes for the Cremation or, create an event as in former case. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging people question
Michele Lewis wrote: I already have the back and forward buttons on my top icon row. It isn't working for me to use them to scroll back and forth between tagged people. It only goes forward and backward through people I have had on my screen... Or am I understanding you wrong? No, that's the way the forward and back arrows on the main toolbar under the menubar, have always worked. To move through a set of tagged individuals (or tagged marriages), you use the left and right arrows (one pair for each of individuals and marriages) at the bottom of the screen. Note: whilst not being able to replicate your tagged/untagged problem, I can report something of a similar, unexpected nature in the operation of the Index tab. If you add individuals and marriages to the database using the Family tab, then the Index tab doesn't update with the new entries until you choose a different sort sequence. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, other bugs in reports
Ron Ferguson wrote: Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: You people drive on the wrong side of the street anyhow. :-) Brian in CA Please see my comment in response to Dennis - an INDICES over here is used as a superscripted number referencing another place, or a power to which a number may be raised. x squared would have an indices of 2. The superscripted number referencing a source is an indices. Ron Ferguson Now Brian, English is *our* language - that's why it is called English :-) Need any help Ron? Always willing to re-fight the so-called War of Independence. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Some report problems
Jan Roberts wrote: In trying to test some report behaviour in order to respond to the index problems experienced by CE I discovered a couple of other problems in .rtf reports. After the lines giving instructions about creating your own index I get a short second set of source citations, numbered from 1. again. There is plenty or room for these citations to fit on the last page of the long list of citations. The second problem is that if a direct descendant is married their picture doesn't appear - only that of their spouse. If the direct descendant is unmarried their picture appears. I have options set for show pictures of husband and wife, show all preferred. They have always shown in other reports, specifically the Descendant Narrative. Can anyone reproduce? I'm afraid that RTF is yet another example of Microsoft coming up with a standard that they hoped would be adopted world-wide and then moving the goal posts. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, other bugs in reports
D MG wrote: Just don't rely on the Irish this time around! ;-) I think the Ulstermen might help, and what about the native peoples? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Hotmail Strikes Again! [Was :how to print Event Address Coordinates]
leo macdonald wrote: 72497bc90910080238m432a0982m2e6190c5db2c7...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Dede=2C =20 In my example I used the word Cemetery for my searches because I have use= d this word in all my cemetery locations=2C it also shows up in nearly all = funeral notices=2C obituaries=2C death notices=2C etc.=2C which I add as ev= ents. =20 When you do your search try another word=2C one that you may have used cons= istently when entering your cemetery addresses. I see Hotmail is playing up again! Avoid using 'quoted-printable' for encoding your messages. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Census information
Jim Walton wrote: When I look at a list of sources, I would much rather see three or four sources that are easy to locate and then add the state, county, and city information in the detail record. I see the census as a single source with a series of volumes, one for each state. Each volume would have a number of chapters, one for each county. Guess I'm a lumper, but that seems much more practical to me. Just one man's opinion... I know that I'm a lumper too! Perhaps it's less a matter of personal choice, than one of where one's census sources are kept. In the UK, there is generally a single repository - The National Archives at Kew. In the US, the Federal equivalent is in Washington DC, but actual source documents seem to be kept at a local, county level. Perhaps this is why I see so many Americans opting to 'split' and Europeans opting to 'lump'! If so, then aren't the lumpers confusing Source and Repository? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing census errors?
Jenny M Benson wrote: Mary Horner wrote When the enumerator has made errors, most commonly in spelling the surname, or when you are getting the info online where the transcriber has made errors in interpreting the handwriting, do you copy into Legacy what is actually there or what should have been there - the correct spelling? My family has a unique name wherein anyone in Canada with the same spelling is related and the spelling has always been consistent within the family going back over 200 years, but the errors in census are amazing. I would never have found the family had they not lived on the same homestead for 5 generations. When I finally found a census where the name was correct, the enumerator was my great-grandfather! The rule is that you always enter exactly what you see, not what you think it ought to be. I know in this case it is 99.999% certain that what you are seeing is wrong (don't forget that until quite recently spelling was very fluid and people weren't too bothered about it) but even so you should enter it in Legacy as it is written. You can always add a note about the variation in spelling and why you believe this Joe Blogs to be the same person as the Joe Bloggs of your records if you think it is necessary. I would add a little clarification to your first statement. The so-called rule that you quote, is what transcribers are told to do. This accounts for a lot of what people term as errors in various indexes and transcriptions. Simply, they're not errors. Just the best interpretation of what was written. Your personal knowledge is what turns these interpretations into errors. I think common sense (an oxymoron if ever there was one) should be the main guide. If you're copying a transcription, then copy it exactly as you find it. Add your own interpretive notes and, if at all possible, get hold of a copy of the original and make your own transcription from it. Remember, in Legacy you've always got that poorly-designed Surety value to rate the level of personal confidence you have in any piece of data. One transcription can always be rated higher than another. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] a different question about the web pages
Michele Lewis wrote: After I generate the web pages and upload them, and then I go back and add some people and make changes, will the people I already had in the file keep their same web page number (1074.htm for example). The FTP client I have is able to upload any new pages along with any pages that have changed. If Jane Doe is on age 1074.htm and I am no changes on her, will her page number remain the same, or, if I add new people is it possible that when Legacy generated the pages the next time she might end up as page 1156.htm? If you look at these page numbers, aren't they the same as the RIN for each person? So long as you don't renumber RINs then you'll have no problems. Time for Ron to chime in :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] uploading woes part II
Michele Lewis wrote: I am uploading my files via FileZilla instead of Ipswitch and it is just as slow. My internet connection registers as fast (using the free utility that someone posted). I can't for the life of me figure out why it takes so long. I have approx 7500 pages (pedigree style) with no photos. Remind me, what type of connection do you use? If DSL over cable, then the speed quoted to you would be for the area cable itself. That gets shared amongst everyone using that cable. Think of cable as like a LAN. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events
Dave Naylor wrote: On 30 Sep 2009 Mike Fry wrote: Ahem! What's the difference between reading a single digest message that's very long and multiple, shorter messages? *Every* message has to be read when it's a digest. When they're separate messages we can decide, based on the Subject or other data, which ones to read. Furthermore, some messages can be automatically routed directly to the bit bucket based on their content, size, format or writer ;-)) Another disadvantage with Digest messages. People don't know how to reply to them. So they quote the whole message in their reply and forget to change the Subject. Also, a lot of email software doesn't 'know' how to properly handle a Message Digest i.e. how to navigate through it, message by message. Good software would keep track of which 'bit' of the digest you were replying to and set up the reply accordingly (Subject and quoted matter). -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events
William H. Boswell wrote: I do wish they have Digest Mode because this list gets a lot of mail. Ahem! What's the difference between reading a single digest message that's very long and multiple, shorter messages? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching Source Citation Images to Events
William H. Boswell wrote: Unfortunately, it gave me one blank page even though the progress bar was counting many images. View-- Scrapbook-- (select which types of Multimedia to list)-- Print Multimedia List (select options)-- Preview Gives more than a blank page on my version 7/109 system! 382 pages in fact. Suspect you didn't get things right when selecting which types of multimedia to list. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source Citation Report
Ruth Nerud wrote: If all of your FID's are printed in the report, are they in numerical ID number? or alphabetical by source name. Ruth, The File ID fields are by their very nature, alphabetic. Thus, unless you've used a very strict and consistent numbering format, you're unlikely to get them sorted the way you want. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Missing wife in Descendant 's book
Mary Hane wrote: George had 2 wives. When I print a descendant book for George, the second wife Meg (our ancestor) does not print. The first wife does print. The children of George and Meg also print. On the Family tab George and Meg and Children are there correctly. With George highlighted going to the descendant’s tab- he is listed with both wives and children. With Meg highlighted going to the descendant’s tab- she is the only one listed. I have tried 1) file maintenance- check/ repair 2) unlinking Meg and linking her again 3) unlinking child and linking again Any suggestions what I should try next? Have you inadvertently set her as Private? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Children Sort Order
Doris wrote: Does anyone know if there is blanket way to perform a “sort order of children” for a family file as a whole? So far, I am doing it with each married couple with children but this way is taking too long and I keep missing some so this becomes a common occurrence on my potential problem report. As others have said, there isn't any global function such as you describe. Why would you want this? Think about it! Have you got birth and/or baptism dates for everyone in your file? If not, then a global sort will place those without dates before those that do have dates. Probably not what you're looking to do :-) You'd still have to go back to each family to make sure that the children are in the right sequence. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] half siblings do not show in all family views or charts
ronald ferguson wrote: d73efbeb54d94df19f48f7747122f...@branko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Hopefully (again) I have sorted out my posting problem!! Here is what I wro= te before: Nope! Something is still screwed up. For some reason, you appear to be sending your messages as 'quoted-printable'. I can send you the full message source if you want. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How to retain wife's married name as entered
Bill Rhodes wrote: Re. your note to Ila, this sounds like what I also am looking for but I am unable to locate either the Marriage information name or Married Names. It is probably right there in plain sight, but could you clarify for me? Thanks for your help. First. Make sure you're using version 7! Now, on the Family pane, select a couple and click on the Marriage details between the couple and their children. This opens up the Marriage Information window. See the panel labelled Married names at the bottom? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] An apparent bug?
jraymond...@aol.com wrote: I entered the following new individual: Edward Grantham and in the suffix field entered I (capital i for the first rather than senior). I then got the following Standardization Tip The Given name or Surname for this individual is only on character. You should verify or correct this. First, both the given name and surname definitely have more than one character. Second, why should entering a capital i, rather than senior generate this message? Finally, the Standardization Tip is grammatically wrong. Neither given nor surname is a proper noun and neither word should be capitalized. I can't replicate this problem. Edward GRANTHAM I is accepted by build 109. I have nothing ticked in any of the Standardisation options. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy8
bramapu...@web.de wrote: http://www.LegacyDownload.com/Download/Legacy8/sng2/Legacy8Setup.exe CYA Cindy Neu: WEB.DE Doppel-FLAT mit Internet-Flatrate + Telefon-Flatrate für nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ Sniff, sniff! Smells like spam to me. Anyway, why would Millennia issue a message like this via a German site? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Re: [LegacyUserGroup] Unsubscribe
Bob Lacroix wrote: unsubscribe It doesn't work that way! See the bottom of every message! -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] No events in file imported from GEDCOM
Paul Ramshaw wrote: I imported several GEDCOM files, and it looks like all the information imported appropriately, but when I go to an Individual Information screen, it shows no events (even though the birth, death, and marriage data are in the appropriate places). Did I miss an important step while importing the GEDCOM, something I could fix by importing again properly? Or is there some way within Legacy to have Legacy create events for each person's birth, death, and marriage (when the file contains that information)? Or do I have to go through each individual and manually add each of those events? What do mean by 'no events'? Are there dates and/or locations against the Birth/Bap/Died/Bur fields on the Individual's Information screen? If so, then those *are* events in and of themselves. You don't get extra events created for these items. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Can't Recover Functionality from Crash
MJ Harper wrote: If you should decide to try the Revo Uninstaller (if is free) and you want to take all the little lingering traces of Legacy away, be sure to click on the last box/button on the screen where you select the thoroughness of your uninstall. It says it will search the Registry and the hard drive. If I've copied my Legacy Data to My Documents, will it be safe? Will Revo Uninstaller find it on the hard drive and delete my data? Thanks for any help on this. No! Generally un-installers do not remove anything that the installer put there originally. All user-created files will be retained - no matter where you try and hide them :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Can't Recover Functionality from Crash
MJ Harper wrote: INSTALL.LOG.file Is that really what you're searching for? If so, then drop the '.file' -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Column widths in Assigned Sources screen
Paul Ramshaw wrote: Is there a way to change the default column widths in the Assigned Sources screen? By pointing the mouse over the vertical bars between the column headings, the cursor changes. You can than drag the bar left or right to change the width of the two adjacent columns. However, what you're really asking, I suspect, is whether the widths as set when the window closes, will 'stick'. Answer: no. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Birth/Born Sentence Structure
Ronald E Howell wrote: Is it possible to change the sentence structure for the 'Birth/Born' event to include an address? For example: ' was born at (Hospital Address) in (City, County, State, USA)'. I known the structure can be changed on other events, but would like to do this with birth, death, and marriage. The report I'm trying to do this on is a 'Descendant Report'. I am running the current update to Legacy (7.0.0.107). I have looked through the Legacy Archives and could not fine anything to help. Problem: Birth, Baptism/Christening, Death and Burial 'events' are not Events in the sense that they normally have definitions in the Master List of Event Definitions. Nothing to stop you adding these as Events along with your own definition of how they print. Of course, you'd have to stop the 'events' from printing as well. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Column widths in Assigned Sources screen
Paul Ramshaw wrote: Yes, I know I can move the columns by dragging them, but to see much of the detail column, which is what I want to do, it seems to take three separate drags (move col. 2 left, move col. 3 left, move last col. right), certainly not something I want to do each time I open that screen. It's certainly possible using VB.NET 3.5 to programmatically adjust column widths according to the data in those columns. Millennia did whisper that they had plans at one time, of converting to using the .NET framework. It would be nice if that screen were programmed so that it would remember the column widths one chose. Is making that suggestion here the appropriate place to do it, or is there some other way I should submit this suggestion to LFT? No. From the Legacy Home tab, click on 'Suggest a new feature' in the 'Support' panel in the bottom right-hand corner. That will take you to a page on the Legacy web site where you can enter your request. best of luck with getting it adopted :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Can't Recover Functionality from Crash
ronald ferguson wrote: I have mine in My Documents, but wish I had put them in C:\Legacy\Pictures\ when I started out. It is now too late and I have too many images to make the change without a lot of hassle. Instead I have the hassle if I wish to install on another machine. If you're not doing web pages, can't you just move the pictures to a similar structure of folders within your desired target folder. Then, use Legacy to access one of the now missing pictures and, when it moans about not being able to find it, locate the picture in its' new location. So far as I understand, all pictures should now have been successfully relocated. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Can't Recover Functionality from Crash
ronald ferguson wrote: Sure could Mike, *but* in my ignorance at the time I started, I created multiple folders, all in My Documents so it's not quite that easy. And to make it worse not all the docs are in the folder where they should be. In other words (politely) a mess. As I am still using my original machine for most of the work which I do, this mess continues. In reality, of course, it gets worse. If Legacy didn't know where to find my stuff I would be really at a loss. So, whilst I know the options available to me to correct the effects of the naivety of an innocent blundering into the ways of the Legacy program for the first time, I think I will continue with the muddle until Legacy's memory expires. With a bit of luck it will be after mine does :-) Sure helps to keep the old grey matter ticking over :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Compacting Family File Question - In plain text for Dennis' sake
Carolyn Smith wrote: In an effort to do some housekeeping I noticed the option to Compact Family File wherein Legacy goes through the file and deletes all records that are not referenced... p.312 LUG My question, before I attempt this, is what does Legacy mean by unused records? Are they any names, locations, events, etc. that have no references, or just the names of deleted individuals? Thanks for any help! I do get so many good tips from this list that have improved my recordkeeping and increased my understanding of the Legacy program! Carolyn -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic - Life After Posting to Ancestry.com
Jim Winfrey wrote: I recently uploaded my database to ancestry.com mainly so I could get other folks involved in finding links in my Winfrey studies. Instantly, ancestry starting showing me they had hints for practically everybody in my database. I don't particularly like their hints unless it is census data or public records I can verify. My question is once you put your data on ancestry, do you do your research there or do you continue with Legacy? I'm more comfortable with Legacy but it means when I find something, I have to enter it in Legacy and again in ancestry. How do other do this? It's just a 'Come On' to try and get other people to subscribe. Do you really want Ancestry to make money from your research? Because, that's what it amounts to. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Imported sources question
Judy wrote: I imported a gedcom with about 3,000 names in it. When I click on an individual's sources (click the books) quite a few just say source as the source list name and also on the output tab on the bottom of the screen. When I look at the text of source or comments, I see what I want the source to say. I want to add the detail (text) to the main source line, as it were, but when I do that, it says I will be changing ALL references to that master source. What exactly does that mean? I was using Generations where all sources were numbered, and I am a little confused. This is an exercise that is best done through trial and error. When importing a GEDCOM file, Legacy will always allow you to customise the import process. This allows you to handle, in a way that makes sense to you, items of data that has been tagged in the GEDCOM in a non-Legacy fashion. As I say, do it through trial and error. Repeating the process as often as necessary, using different customisation choices and options, until it looks as good as it'll get. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Importing Obituaries into Legacy from GED
Heidi J. Schmelzer wrote: My problem is that they are not being imported into Legacy. OBIT does not show up in the import list and it doesn't show up in the unrecognized list either. As far as I can tell, the data is not being imported anywhere. What can I do to bring this data into Legacy? From what I can determine from the GEDCOM 5.5 Standard, OBIT is *not* a valid tag. Legacy won't recognise it. As you say, it doesn't even show up in the 'Unrecognised items' list when importing. However, changing the tag to _OBIT_ *does* get Legacy to see the tag as 'Unrecognised'. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] adding Military even bug?
ronald ferguson wrote: Actually, Mike, it's a hospital cateract job free on the NHS, and I'm 70, and it will be done within a month (none urgent). That's for the benefit of some of our American cousins :-). Had the first one done last year! I'm quite the young whipper-snapper then at 57! -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures
Amy wrote: Using Vista and Legacy 7.0.0.107 I am fairly new to Legacy and do not use all the features I see on this list Wow, it is mind boggling! Well anyway, please clarify something for me When attaching pictures, I attached some that were saved on CD's...now they do not show up. Is it only pics that are stored on your computer? Does Legacy store only path names and not the actual picture? That's exactly right! The pictures on CD will show up if the right CD is present whilst the program is running. Legacy only store pathnames, not copies of picture files. You would be best advised to copy the CD-based pictures onto your hard disk. Then, remove the CD and try to access a picture that is on the CD. When Legacy complains that it can't find the picture, avail yourself of the option to find the picture for yourself. Locate and select the missing picture from your hard disk. As a result, all other picture that were formerly on CD should now be 'found' by Legacy. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures
michael barberi wrote: I have no problem attaching photographs (scanned copies) of birth, baptism, death, or notary records to the files of individuals. Please get the terminology right :-) There is a database. There are records for Individuals (actually rows in a table) in that database. There are NO files per se for individuals - except, perhaps, for your paper copies. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.0.0.103 crashing
Jan Roberts wrote: I can confirm same problem as Ruth - however I am using Vista. Legacy crashes when I try to add a location, do not have a Sort button, and Select button is greyed out. I also use Vista and do not experience any problems with the Master Location list. My conclusion? Something awry on individual systems. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] a new way to wreck your database
Poor Jim, As Gene says, Legacy does try and stop you from doing this. Perhaps you've disabled the warning that is normally given. See Options-- Customise-- Other and press the button for turning the optional warning messages on or off. That should tell you. As for recovery. Well I'd reverse what I did. I'd edit the Acorn Hill location to just specify Missouri again and make sure I applied it to all the records again. I'd then create the new Master Location record for Acorn Hill and apply this to that subset of Missouri records that it applies to. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] a new way to wreck your database
Jimquist wrote: Thanks Gene and Mike, But.. On the Individuals Information screen, if I click the inverted triangle at the end of the location field, the master location list opens. Then, if I click Edit... and enter additional information and try to Save - I get the warning that this will change ALL records using this location. HOWEVER, if, as I said in the original post, I click the globe icon at the end of the location field on the persons Individual Information screen, for the Geo Location Database and make my edit from the Geo Location Database, the Warning does not appear, and allows the change to be made - affecting everyone using that location. Sorry, I tried to be clear about it in my description of the event but must have murkied up the waters. I evidently discovered a way to make a change that the programmers didn't think to put a stop warning on. Another thing - when you make a change like this, it does not change the Last Modified dates for those affected. And of course (Mike) this means that I did not turn off any of the warnings available in Options Customize Other. I had thought of reversing the goof as you describe, but I had made too many other changes to locations to feel comfortable that I would get it right. Ah! Murkiness clears! Suggest that you put in a request for a new feature. If we submit enough requests, you never know your luck, some of them may get actioned :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] New Update... I'm Stuck!
Roxanne wrote: I installed the new update with no problem. Wanted to check the new option to expand long location names and contract short ones. Clicked on Preview a List of Codes/Names, as I expected an option to just preview it on screen. A window popped up, stating that Before you can perform printer-related tasks such as page setup or printing a document, you need to install a printer. Do you want to install a printer now? I have never had a printer, in all the years I've had PCs. When I click No, the same window pops up, over and over. I can't close it. When I click Yes, a printer install wizard opens up. How do I get out of this cycle? I'm surprised! Not that this is happening, but because you've managed to use the program for so long (?) without hitting the problem before :-) Legacy requires a printer driver to be installed and selected as the default printer. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THE PHYSICAL PRINTER. Just a driver for a notional one. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Default Browser Selection
Pat wrote: Well, Legacy says that I can use any browser I want to use; as long as I let the Legacy program know where it is located on my disk. I let Legacy know (see the details below) and the program verified that I had given it the correct hard disk address. Legacy did in fact start Google Chrome (as it should). I must admit, I was under the impression that the browser specified inside the Legacy options, was the one that would be used when previewing any generated web pages. I also know, that the Legacy program uses a WebBrowser control as part of the Legacy Home Page tab. Further, this control (which makes the programming of a simple browser so easy) *has* to be based on IE. MS still haven't removed this dependency from any Windows version even though this was, I thought, what all the law suits were about. When referring to IE, you must make a clear distinction between the visible part of IE and the engine that runs under the hood. The engine is *always* used whenever a program makes use of th MS-developed WebBrowser control. No getting around this, unless and until the likes of Mozilla and Google split their browsers into the same two parts. To satisfy (get around?) the legal issues, all MS have done is allow you to choose a default browser that will be used whenever you double-click on an html file on your disk. Don't expect this to be used automatically by what is really a very simple piece of code where everything happens under the hood. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Events in reports not showing
1familytree wrote: I am reposting this as I sent it at 2 this afternoon, and as of yet have not seen it appear on the list. My apologies if you receive duplicates. I suggest you become familiar with one of the less-desirable idiosyncrasies of GMail before leaping to false conclusions :-) When you post a message to the list through GMail, the copy sent out from the list won't show up in your GMail Inbox until someone replies to it. This doesn't mean that the list hasn't received it. Checking your GMail inbox is futile. To see whether a particular message has reached the list, check the List Archives. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Re the alternate name problem in Descendant Report
Robert Carneal USA wrote: But, when I do an RTF, the worm character is moved. It looks like this: CARNEAL Nancy15 Nannie~..18 Joseph...43 Joey~22 Thanks for the chuckle, Robert. For future reference, your 'worm' character - never heard of that one before :-) - is known as the 'tilde' -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database - Updates
1familytree wrote: Geo Data can be updated MONTHLY from some snipped url Please don't SPAM the list :-( -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database - Updates
ronald ferguson wrote: Just in case others are in doubt. That URL has nothing to do with Legacy. I know! That's why I deigned not to repeat it. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See
Chick Lewis wrote: 2. The ability to sort/search the index by birth date as well as alphabetically or by RIN. This is one feature of FTM I really miss. I often found people who were the same, but had their names spelled slightly different. Comparing individuals by birth date rather than name will sometimes reveal the existence of an un-connected individual with a different name or name change. I have had several instances where I have been able to connect individuals to families by comparing birth dates. Have you not looked at the ability to Customize the columns that are displayed in the Index View? Once you get dates to be displayed, you can sort on those columns. Only disadvantage: you can only sort on one column at a time. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See
Ruth Nerud wrote: I see where I can sort by RIN/ID, Given Name or Surname, but I don't see where I can sort by birth date. Above the main data grid, there's an Options button. Click it and get a list of things you can do. Choose Customize columns and you'll see a dialog in which you can choose which columns you can have displayed in *your* version of the Index Tab. Once you've organised the display the way you want it, clicking on a column header allows you to sort the display by the data in that column. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See
Ruth Nerud wrote: Mike, when I click on the Colum heading for birth date, or any of the columns, I get the drop down window that says Customize Index View Columns, Index View Columns, where I can again change which columns I want. It doesn't allow me to sort on birth date, death date, etc. Apologies, Ruth. You are of course perfectly correct. As are a few others. It's not presently possible to sort by clicking on a column heading. I'm getting confused with what I've developed and am developing for the FreeREG project. There, you can already sort in the way I stated. There again, I am using the .NET framework, which is something that the Legacy people have previously expressed a willingness to move towards. Eventually :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Add SW template?---was: Sourcing question
I think Paula is under the impression that you'd discovered a way to create a new Source Writer template - one that didn't arrive in the last update of Legacy. :-) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:36:37 -0700 From: paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Add SW template?---was: Sourcing question To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Okay, Ron, now I am intrigued. How do you do this? Thanks, --Paula --- On Fri, 7/10/09, ronald ferguson wrote: For the template Add a new Source Writer template by entering in the Search box marriage England. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Magically Appearing Unknown Spouses and Parents
Syble Glasscock wrote: I too have Unknown added, that I didn't add and Unknown married to Unknown, I've not been able to delete them and yes, it's very annoying. Why not look at the Data Format tab in Options-Customise? There's a pair of radio buttons there, towards the bottom of the right hand column, grouped as 'Word for Blank Records'. That's your source of the various 'Unknown' people. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Version 7.0.0.97 - Ambiguous Release Notes
I've just received notification that 7.0.0.97 is available! Strange, because it's been installed since Monday! I note the following === What's New FamilySearch - Added new field to handle the new FamilySearch individual number. This is now imported and exported and displayed in the Individual's Information screen. === This, to me, is ambiguous. The field is there alright, but I suspect it will only be used if a) you have an LDS logon and b) you enable the various LDS options on the General tab. By the way, won't this only work when used in conjunction with the New FamilySearch site? -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7.0.0.97 - Ambiguous Release Notes
Johnny V wrote: You should be happy you receive notification at all, I have used Legacy for a few years and have yet to get any notifications whatsoever of updates - not evn one.. I do subscribe to the periodic Legacy NewsLetter :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Version 7.0.0.97 - Ambiguous Release Notes
ronald ferguson wrote: I think it is there for future development, as you say, when Legacy is linked to the new family Search site. It doesn't do anything at the moment as far as I can see. That's what I was thinking, too! So, why make the change now, when a further change will be necessary in order to implement the linkage. I can see at least one minor change (the search url) and one massive change (the search itself) being required. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] ID numbers
Pat wrote: Is there a URL that I can use that lists the new features/changes between the last build and this new build? Legacy Home tab. Click on the Updates 'title bar' above the installed version number. Then click on See What's New. That'll take you into the web site and show you what's been added, changed and fixed. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Spurious Spaces in General Notes (Legacy 7 De Luxe)
Don Montague wrote: SNIP How do I report this bug, please? Got to the 'Legacy Home' tab. In the bottom right hand corner is a panel labelled 'Support'. There are options for a) Report a bug and b) Suggest a new feature. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] menu bar - number of files listed under File
ronald ferguson wrote: I am unsure if this is what you are looking for but have you tried the History List? It is the single little blue downwards pointing triangle icon on the Toolbar. If you don't see it then right click and move it to the Main Toolbar Senior moment, Ron? :-) This has got nothing to do with an MRU - a list of the Most Recently Used files. The limit seems to be set at 4. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Need help: duplicated parents!
Paula Ryburn wrote: I have got myself into a pickle. I was adding two generations onto my husband's paternal line, when really I needed to be adding three. Because the name James is used so many times, I messed up. Okay, I cannot tell you exactly what I did, but I discovered I had left out a generation. So, I unlinked the (previously) oldest ancestor from the newly-entered parents siblings. Then I entered in the missing father, except that he needed to be part of that list of siblings, so when I added HIS father mother I clickec on link to existing to get him inserted. Well, NOW I have two sets of identically named parents for those siblings. One set are the parents of the James I forgot to enter, and the other set are the parents of the rest of his siblings. They show up as (1/2) with their mother's name and everything! Is there some combine duplicates thing I could run? Or should I just delete and start entering again? Another word for combine duplicates is Merge. Look it up in the on-line help. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Location Issues
Ross Chapman wrote: I completely understand the formatting for locations within Legacy. However I have some locations in Northern Ontario that are 5 sections not the standard 4. An example is Rosseau Village, Foley Township, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. I have gone through about 20 pages of archives and haven’t seen too much about that type of formatting. Any suggestions on this without screwing up the current system presets? Simple answer is: Forget everything you've read! It's too-oriented towards US users anyway. Whatever suits you and your data is right :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Run-time error
lhit...@aol.com wrote: Hello List, Starting a couple of days ago, I keep getting the error message, Run-time error '5' Invalid procedure or argument, When I click OK the Legacy program will close down. What is causing this problem? Try looking at the bottom of this and every message. Millennia helpfully attaches a link to an on-line technical support page. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Run-time error
Gene Young wrote: Mike Fry wrote: lhit...@aol.com wrote: Hello List, Starting a couple of days ago, I keep getting the error message, Run-time error '5' Invalid procedure or argument, When I click OK the Legacy program will close down. What is causing this problem? Try looking at the bottom of this and every message. Millennia helpfully attaches a link to an on-line technical support page. And in this case is of no help whatsoever as that error is not listed. Yes it is! Look closer! See Errors By Number and select number 5! 'Run-time error 5: Invalid procedure call or argument' is most likely to be the result of the program trying to process some invalid number Run File File Maintenance Check/Repair first. If that doesn't help contact Support at supp...@legacyfamilytree.com . -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Run-time error
Gene Young wrote: Mike Fry wrote: Gene Young wrote: Mike Fry wrote: lhit...@aol.com wrote: Hello List, Starting a couple of days ago, I keep getting the error message, Run-time error '5' Invalid procedure or argument, When I click OK the Legacy program will close down. What is causing this problem? Try looking at the bottom of this and every message. Millennia helpfully attaches a link to an on-line technical support page. And in this case is of no help whatsoever as that error is not listed. Yes it is! Look closer! See Errors By Number and select number 5! 'Run-time error 5: Invalid procedure call or argument' is most likely to be the result of the program trying to process some invalid number Run File File Maintenance Check/Repair first. If that doesn't help contact Support at supp...@legacyfamilytree.com . And here I was searching for run-time error 5. Yup! Millennia have never devoted a lot of time to their web site, unless it was to market something. For the number of users, permanent and temporary or discouraged, the web site really is quite deficient. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Alias question
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:35:25 -0700 (PDT), Marilyn Clark paddypeppe...@yahoo.com wrote: I am a new Legacy user, and have just begun to input some aliases. Should I be using the Surname field when it is not different? Ex: Joseph Wiley Embry is the main name, alias is J Wiley. Should I include Embry again? I don't enter the surname if it is the same because I don't like the way it reads in reports. If I had my druthers I'd enter it and add an option in reports to suppress the redundant surname. I think Legacy's AKA handling needs lots of work. I totally agree with you Dennis. In fact, I think there's a desperate need to make a distinction between 'real' AKAs and what should really be classed as transcription errors that give rise to a multitude of alternate spellings. Since the program comes with the series of 'Alt. ...' Event Types, what's wrong with creating an Event Type of 'Alt. Spelling' or something similar? This would alleviate reams of the 'Another name for...' notes and also allow you to source the alternative/wrong spelling. Aliases should really be left for alternate, official surnames. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How to unsubscribe
ci...@treadles.ca wrote: What does it take to unsubscribe? I've tried four times, unsuccessfully, in the past three days, using the link below. To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Is there a valid link anywhere? The link is correct. a) Did you enter the required details correctly? You need :- 1) email address that you subscribed with 2) select the Legacy User Group c) make sure you unsubscribe and don't subscribe again b) Have you read the notes? In particular, this one? Unsubscribing Please allow 48 hours for changes to take effect. Unsubscribing usually works the first time for most people. Click here if you have problems unsubscribing. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How to unsubscribe
lhit...@aol.com wrote: Look on the very last line in this e-mail Normally good advice. However the OP quoted the link What does it take to unsubscribe? I've tried four times, unsuccessfully, in the past three days, using the link below. To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Merging Charts
Edward wrote: I have asked the same question (how to combine two *.fdb family trees into one) on 6-5-09 but had no answer. I have a friend in Poland who combined-merged two family trees into one but I think he is using a Polish version of family tree program. Have to ask him. I don't think so. There are only two other messages from you in the archives (east European characters) , and nothing related to this subject. That's always assuming that you used your name and not an anonymous nom de plume. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Home FIXED !
Jean Jones wrote: Well, I found the problem. Just in case anyone else runs into this. Looking at the Legacy window, below the line of icons (home, back, name list, etc) There is a line with the Legacy icon and name of the open database and at the other side the window control buttons (reduce, size, close) If I click on the middle button to resize, this whole line jumps/disappears and The buttons are at the far right of the first line (File, Edit, Add, Reports, etc). In this position, the Legacy Home page is blank (I can't see the data). Clicking the middle button again, fixes everything. I can now see the info on the page. What you are referring to is commonly known as the Titlebar! Double-clicking on the title (your 'middle button') will make the whole window occupy the full screen. Repeating the action restores the window to its' original size and position. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Home
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: Don't send the butterflies. A case of Do as I say, not as I do :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Event Builder
Ross Chapman wrote: The previos version of Legacy (v6) had an event builder that you could custom design your wording for various events such as for God Parents. Is that feature available in the Deluxe version of v7, as I am only using the standard version currently. Generally, as software evolves, features get added but not removed. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Duplcate Pictures Continued
Nina K. Johnson wrote: And could someone tell me again how to “Compose to Simple Text” in Outlook? I’ve been told but cannot remember!!! Age, I guess! It comes to use all (hopefully) :-) Outlook use the properties of each email address (contact) to determine how you send mail (plain text or html). So, go to your address book. Locate the email address for the LUG and open its' properties. Somewhere in there should be an option that tells how you are sending mail. Set it so that you send plain text. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Duplcate Pictures Continued
Nina K. Johnson wrote: And could someone tell me again how to “Compose to Simple Text” in Outlook? I’ve been told but cannot remember!!! Age, I guess! It comes to us all (hopefully) :-) Outlook use the properties of each email address (contact) to determine how you send mail (plain text or html). So, go to your address book. Locate the email address for the LUG and open its' properties. Somewhere in there should be an option that tells how you are sending mail. Set it so that you send plain text. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems Report Problem
Jenny M Benson wrote: Evert van Dijken wrote Don't forget to click the Apply button after you selected the Initial capitals option. If Legacy follows standard Windows conventions - which I am fairly sure it does - there is not *necessarily* any need to click the Apply button. The purpose of an Apply button is to apply some change/option/whatever that you have selected *without exiting that screen*. Pressing the Save button will also apply the change/option.whatever but will close the screen. In this case, doesn't the Apply button 'apply' to already entered surnames? -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PICTURES IN A BOOK
Nina K. Johnson wrote: I am trying to switch to using OUTLOOK, but don’t know how to Compose as plain text. I did make it in 10 point, hope it doesn’t hurt anyone. I'll answer this one! Go to your Address Book. Select the address for the LUG and open the properties. Somewhere in there you'll find something that means 'send messages in plain text'. At least, that's what it says in an old version of Outlook Express! -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Error 3260?
Susan Perrett wrote: Well it ended up rectifying itself this morning, So thank you both Dennis and Mike. I doubt that it has gone away! It will come back and bite you again. If it's your AV software getting in the way, it's just a question of when, not if. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Error 3260?
ronald ferguson wrote: True, Mike, but then Susan now knows that rebooting will get round it :-) That's one way. The other could be to wait until the AV has finished its' scan. Better still how about configuring the AV to leave some files alone. Even better still (because this has hit me whilst programming) Millennia can re-write some bits of code to prevent AV software interrupting a process. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
