I'm sorry but I have never heard anything from Legacy about a rewrite
of the program.
As it would be such a major operation I don't think the will be.
On 1 August 2010 15:30, Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us wrote:
On 7/31/2010 12:42 PM, Bob wrote:
I was simply noting that every time a new
Nope, sorry, IE has no idea what a PDF is. You MUST download a plug-in from
Adobe in order for IE (or Firefox) to display the PDF. As one previous Lugger
posted, if you give a Legacy family history report to relatives in PDF format,
they may be unable to view it if they have not downloaded a
A good time to mention this in the light of the message of impending Legacy
Update.
When I asked Support how I could sort all children en-block quite a while
back was advised that this could not be done.
Sherry recommended LTools to do it. Best thing I ever did. At that time
Sherry said that the
We've already had a response from Legacy support stating that the structure of
Legacy requires a marriage to be one male and one female. That ain't gonna
change. This thread has been brought up several times in the past with the same
dead-end result. Right now Legacy's programming impetus is to
On 31/07/2010 23:40, Bain Family wrote:
Sorry I wasn't clear on that. I hope I said it better this time. Ask again
if I'm still not making myself clear. I'm only clicking on the blank parent
when the parent is in the upper portion, not in the main (center) portion.
I've finally resolved
On 01/08/2010 00:31, John S. Adams wrote:
Ah ha! Just discovered the difference. Go to OptionsCustomizeGeneral
tab. In the box labeled To Move Names in Family View, select
Double-click and Save. Return to Family View and DOUBLE-CLICK on a blank
parent block. Legacy will respond just as
Jenny M Benson wrote:
On 01/08/2010 00:31, John S. Adams wrote:
Ah ha! Just discovered the difference. Go to
OptionsCustomizeGeneral tab. In the box labeled To Move Names in
Family View, select Double-click and Save. Return to Family View
and DOUBLE-CLICK on a blank parent block. Legacy
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:25:43 +1000, John Elizabeth Pethybridge
jandepe...@bigpond.com wrote:
where does/will it put
undated Births?
I wouldn't expect this to change after umpteen years of being the way it
is.
--
Dennis Kowallek (LTools)
http://zippersoftware.com/ltools
An interesting aside to all of this is that where only one parent is
entered, ie. the second parent is left blank, the children of the
person entered do not appear on the Individual Report of the parent. A
MRIN is created and the MRIN also appears against the child's record in
the table tbIR.
Morning,
I have many names in my database which were developed with another
program. These names either have a ? in the given name field or in the
surname name field. Is there an easy way to clean these up so they
conform with Legacy design? Thanks.
Dennis
Legacy User Group
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:10:55 -0400, Dennis Sutton
jersey...@bellsouth.net wrote:
I have many names in my database which were developed with another
program. These names either have a ? in the given name field or in the
surname name field. Is there an easy way to clean these up so they
Thanks.
On 8/1/2010 9:48 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:10:55 -0400, Dennis Sutton
jersey...@bellsouth.net wrote:
I have many names in my database which were developed with another
program. These names either have a ? in the given name field or in the
surname
There are also several other freebie PDF readers which you can
download besides Adobe Reader. They're much smaller and quicker to
use than Adobe. I use PDF-XChange. FoxIt is also an excellent one.
Which every one you select will work well with previewing PDF reports
through Legacy.
Sincerely,
I've always entered unknown simply because I didn't know this new
trick; however, as I've read this thread and considered it, I think I
will continue to use the unknown in the name field. I kind of like
that all of my unknown people are grouped together in the index so if
I am looking for
Kathy,
If one uses blank instead of unknown, they are also grouped together. As
always, the choice is yours.
Ron Ferguson
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I could sure use some advice on how to enter this. I have an ancestor that
got married, pregnant, her marriage was annulled, and then she gave birth.
Should I enter it like a straight divorce although an annulment is not a
divorce?
All suggestions welcomed.
Kevin Walker
Wheaton, IL
Legacy
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:31:00 +0100, Tim t@tesco.net wrote:
But when I export as a 5.5 Gedcom and re-import it into Legacy or
another program, all my lower case have reverted to upper.
If you look at the GEDCOM in a text editor, how are things formatted?
The
Kevin-
It really is up to you. I would suggest that however you do it, be
consistent. If you ever print a book, the readers will appreciate
consistency.
That said, in my case, I have annulment in my Master Marriage Status
List. If you don't have it, you can add this. This will give you the
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:20:13 +0100, Tim t@tesco.net wrote:
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:31:00 +0100, Tim t@tesco.net wrote:
But when I export as a 5.5 Gedcom and re-import it into Legacy or
another program, all my lower case have reverted to upper.
If you look
What happens if you uncheck the option Format names and places
(Initial caps, UPPERCASE etc.) when you import the gedcom into legacy?
Evert
2010/8/1 Tim t@tesco.net:
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:31:00 +0100, Tim t@tesco.net wrote:
But when I export as a 5.5 Gedcom
On the Marriage Information window (jut double click anywhere in the long bar
that shows the marriage date and location), click the down arrow in the Status
window and then select Annulment.
Welcome to the modern world of law, religion, and genealogy. An annulment means
the marriage contract
The previous genealogy program I used had you put Co. after the
county name so you had place location of
Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA
However in the Legacy training and the Geo Database it does not use or
seam to like the Co. on the end.Thus output was: Little Rock,
Pulaski,
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:31:43 -0500, Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us
wrote:
So my questions are:
What is the reasoning Legacy does not put them on?
Are there reasons not to have the Co. on the end?
I would have left the Co. in the location. My reason being that,
should I want a report without
I was told at one time that you should always use the word county
following the actual county name anytime you did not have a city to
precede it; otherwise, as you stated, one would assume that it was the
city name, even if you had the leading commas to separate fields. It
was at some sort of
I accidently selected unmarried for an individual on the marriage screen
when I should have selected never married on the individual screen. Now I
can't get rid of it. Any suggestions?
Donna
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On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:54:39 -0500, Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us
wrote:
So do you put Co. on the end of your counties? :)
Yes.
the problem is the Legacy database does not like them so I have to go
back after the fact when checking city/county spellings and add county
and let Legacy complain.
On 01/08/2010 19:47, Kathy Meyer wrote:
I was told at one time that you should always use the word county
following the actual county name anytime you did not have a city to
precede it; otherwise, as you stated, one would assume that it was the
city name, even if you had the leading commas to
On 01/08/2010 19:58, Donna Newell wrote:
I accidently selected unmarried for an individual on the marriage screen
when I should have selected never married on the individual screen. Now I
can't get rid of it. Any suggestions?
Locate the individual in the Marriage List and you will see he/she
I accidently selected unmarried for an individual on the marriage screen
when I should have selected never married on the individual screen. Now I
can't get rid of it. Any suggestions?
Donna
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I'm glad to see that I'm in line with the general consensus here, namely to
include the work County after the name of the county. I've observed that this
practice has evolved somewhat over the past decade. Seems originally somebody
thought the nice, clean method of City, County, State,
I can see you having to add an awful lot of U.S.A.s should ever wish to
publish, Brian!! :-)
Ron Ferguson
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And the Fergusons
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:10:41 +0100, Ron Ferguson
ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
I can see you having to add an awful lot of U.S.A.s should ever wish to
publish, Brian!! :-)
Do like I did and just add a note at the beginning of the book saying
that All locations are USA unless otherwise noted.
I was taught many years (literally decades) ago, before personal genealogy
programs like Legacy existed, that one should not use Co. (or County), but I
think locations look silly, and confusing, without it, so I've used Co.
consistently in recent years.
I think, but am not certain, that the
The program does not actually create an Unknown person, but only a 'space
holding' places for use on the screens, instead of showing the screen as a
blank. In the Marr List it shows unknown instead of showing a blank field. This
is for screen purposes only.
Rich in LA CA
--- On Sun, 8/1/10,
I can see you having to add an awful lot of U.S.A.s should ever wish to
publish, Brian!! :-)
I've done the same thing as Brian, except for Canada. Any other country
has the country name after the town, township, county, etc. and when/if
I publish, I intend to add a note to the Preface
Oh, Rich, if only that was true.
For sometime now, Legacy has had a bug which insists on printing Unknown
even when one sets Please use Blank. I must have used over 100MegaWatts of
power informing Legacy of this ongoing problem, but alas, to no avail.
Every time I update my website I add to the
I would *never* say that the next version will or will not do
anything. I'm not privy to what plans the programmers have for the
next *version* of Legacy (which would be v8) let alone what's in the
next update for the current version!
I might respond that something is on the enhancement request
That is the answer! I must have inadvertently checked that option on import.
Thank you Evert and also you Dennis for your input.
Tim
Evert van Dijken wrote:
What happens if you uncheck the option Format names and places
(Initial caps, UPPERCASE etc.) when you import the gedcom into legacy?
The option that Evert referred to formats the names and locations as
per the settings in Options Customize Data Format.
Because I have so many names and locations with mixed case, I have all
the options set to Don't change what I enter.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
I accidently selected unmarried for an individual on the marriage screen
when I should have selected never married on the individual screen. Now I
can't get rid of it. Any suggestions?
Donna
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V.7 also doesn't complain about Co. for me either.
One other thing, for anyone who might be considering hiring an editor to
take a look at a manuscript before publishing - they are going to have
fits with the extra commas (leading commas) and its going to cost you.
I understand the logic for the
And Sherry is working on a Sunday??? What next...Chelsea Clinton will get
married?
Brian in CA
-Original Message-
From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 2:36 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Upper and
Click on the Spouse list icon for the individual and unlink the
Unknown marriage.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com wrote:
I accidently selected unmarried for an individual on the marriage screen
when I
I like to have Co., on the county name. It is really nice when you
have a city and county of the same name. So I enter it that way and am
done with it G
Eliz
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us wrote:
The previous genealogy program I used had you put Co. after the
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:45:03 -0500, Jackie King jkin...@gmail.com
wrote:
One other thing, for anyone who might be considering hiring an editor to
take a look at a manuscript before publishing - they are going to have
fits with the extra commas (leading commas) and its going to cost you.
There is
And just to take this thread on a little side trip.to my knowledge all
states in the US have townships except for California and Louisiana. In
California you either live in a city or in the county; there are no townships.
In Louisiana, the word county is replaced by Parish which basically
Not sure any of the western states have administrative townships.
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot
br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote:
And just to take this thread on a little side trip.to my knowledge all
states in the US have townships except for California and Louisiana.
Missouri also has the independent City of ST. LOUIS. It doesn't reside
in any county
Brian L. Lightfoot wrote:
And just to take this thread on a little side trip.to my knowledge all
states in the US have townships except for California and Louisiana. In
California you either live in a
Brian, speaking of locations, is your CA an abbreviation for California OR
Canada?
I live in Clinton Township, Michigan. And it is not country, it is suburban
(just north of Detroit). We just don't want the type of government that
being a city would entail. We are legally the Charter Township of
Brian~
Mississippi has subdivisions (within Counties) called beats, and not
townships, and for the life of me I can't figure them out. They aren't
cities nor do they appear to be townships. Using County has kept my
volunteer project sane, but frustrating because I can't map the beats.
Judy
LOL Oh all of my Virginia cites get Charlottesville (independant City) Virginia.
Eliz
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot
br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote:
And just to take this thread on a little side trip.to my knowledge all
states in the US have townships except for
How does one input pre Oklahoma, i.e; Indian Territory or the area
that was once called Northwest Territory (before it was broken down into
States)?
Dennis
On 8/1/2010 7:06 PM, ci...@treadles.ca wrote:
Thanks for the clear explanation of American townships and counties,
Brian. you make me
Geo Locations lists such cities in the following manner which makes sense to
me:
Richmond, Richmond (City), Virginia, USA
Alexandria, Alexandria (City), Virginia, USA
Lynchburg, Lynchburg (City), Virginia, USA
Norfolk, Norfolk (City), Virginia, USA
Baltimore, Baltimore (City), Maryland, USA
Saint
I can not receive any mail, not even mine back. What is wrong?
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Thanks for that info...guess I overlooked that little caveat all this time
while pondering just how to enter an independent city. At first glance, that
method looks a little awkward but it certainly satisfies all the requirements
for form and location specificity.
Brian in CA
Someone wanted
Is there a way to save the width settings on the columns once you resize
them in the assigned source window? I have to continuously widen them
every time I open the source window so that I can see the source detail
or I have to click edit to see it. I couldn't find anything in Help
about it. I
Emphasis:
How does one input pre Oklahoma, i.e; Indian Territory or the area
that was once called Northwest Territory (before it was broken down into
States)?
Well, I use the original name whenever I can. It tells me right off the
bat it is pre-United States. I still follow the four-part
I've had some records from Indian Territory and other similar ones. I believe
that most usually indicated a city or township, a county, and of course the
name Indian Territory or Oklahoma Territory. Sometimes I've even seen a
location only as Voting Precinct or maybe it was Voting District. For
Since I never set Please use Blank (knowingly) that may be the defining
situation/problem that may define the bug.
Rich in LA CA
--- On Sun, 8/1/10, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
From: Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Phantom Parents
To:
What I do, is use AniMap, which shows the various Nation which disappear before
1905, and the counties in the Nations until statehood. I have also added into
Chronology, the counties in Northwest Territory, and other similar situations.
Rich in LA CA
--- On Sun, 8/1/10, Robert Carneal USA
My Apology to Sherry.
I went back found it it was not you but from Support on 5/1/2010 Ticket
[14A-12D2E6FB-9A47]
The ability to globally sort children is a feature that will be included in
the next version of Legacy. (Person withheld)
John
- Original Message -
From: Sherry/Support
Someone's got to keep an eye on you guys g
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot
br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote:
And Sherry is working on a Sunday??? What next...Chelsea Clinton will get
married?
Brian in CA
Legacy
On 01 Aug 2010 06:17 PM, Dennis Sutton wrote:
How does one input pre Oklahoma, i.e; Indian Territory or the area
that was once called Northwest Territory (before it was broken down into
States)?
Dennis
Here's a short Oklahoma history lesson:
First, France owned the territory. Then
After much searching I found the ticket - from last January. I don't
know if that tech knows something the rest of us doesn't, but it's
nothing I've heard about!
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, John Elizabeth Pethybridge
I have been moving a fair sized (over 2 individuals) genealogical
file from Family Tree Maker to Master Genealogist to Legacy via GEDCOMs.
One of the first steps to getting the file in order is to clean-up the
Master Location List. I want to locate places by latitude and longitude and
Ooops! I corrected the history for the Greer County land; the
correction is underlined.
On 01 Aug 2010 06:17 PM, Dennis Sutton wrote:
How does one input pre Oklahoma, i.e; Indian Territory or the area
that was once called Northwest Territory (before it was broken down into
States)?
Neither program integrates directly with Legacy, but both are quality
programs that fill gaps in areas that Legacy doesn't and are a great
compliment to Legacy. Both have very different uses. I think that
they are the best for the areas that they address. I have and use
both and would recommend
I try to adhere to the Legacy City, County, State, Country format. I add
County (not Co.) or Parish to avoid confusion by others. Although I may
never publish, someone, several generations from now, may inherit my
database and today's conventions may not apply. I spell out the state name
rather
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