while we are on the subject of the short location name field:
During the 1800's in Sydney Australia, there was a strange little phenomena of
using a house name as an address, so the Smith family may have given their
address as Keiraville Jones Street, Glebe or Keiraville 6 Jones Street,
Glebe
On 07/07/2011 04:53, Dave Keeney wrote:
To print a Relationship Diagram, choose Blank Forms Forms Center
Relationship Diagram… from the Reports menu. The diagram is available
in several different languages.
Is the Relationshipo Diagram (and the Forms Center) still available?
My Forms
On 07/07/2011 08:42, Erica Portelli wrote:
During the 1800's in Sydney Australia, there was a strange little
phenomena of using a house name as an address,
To a Britisher, it seems odd that you call this a phenomenon as many
houses here have a name and number or no number at all and most people
George,
Check/Repair has always (at least as far back as I can remember) starts by
re-indexing the file. I do not know for certain, but I have always regarded
this as a an index verification rather than a re-indexing as such. In any
event it is nothing to worry about as it is just part of the
Apologies for an off-topic message, but will anyone who downloaded
FreeClip following my recent endorsement of this program please e-mail me.
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Same here. I changed mine when Geoff explained how on the Webinar. I have
had no problems with it.
michele
-Original Message-
From: Jan Roberts
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 11:03 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Source Writer
I just followed the same
I never put the street address in the location field anyway so this is a moot
point for me. My reasons for using the 4 locations fields is 1) consistency
2) so that the Legacy search features will work correctly, and so that I will
be able to integrate with FamilySearch.
If I had a location
On 7/7/2011 5:30 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote:
Apologies for an off-topic message, but will anyone who downloaded
FreeClip following my recent endorsement of this program please e-mail me.
Hi Jenny, I downloaded it the same day, but never had an opportunity to
use it for several days. When I went
When you are producing your report (Descendant) do you have the third husband
highlighted, if so then his wife's previous marriages will not show with their
biological children listed.
Try highlighting the wife, then run the report (Descendant), this should show
her first marriage and their
I am not sure the best way to organize scans of documents. Right now I only
have a few photos of people in my file. I have the file name simply as
“PEOPLE” and I do the individual files like this...
Perry, John Judson 01
Perry, John Judson 02
Simmons, Silas 01
Perry, Docia Leora 01
I have
Michele, can you remember in which Webinar Geoff explained how to change it
and were the instructions , Click on Options and then Customize, then
Colours, then Click here to change User Interface Colours then in the centre
of the window click on Text and then Contents and choose a colour?
This is
Michele,
To avoid future problems, especially if you ever create file names file and
folder names should *only* use alpha-numeric characters plus underscore and
hyphens. Punctuation marks should never be used and spaces are best avoided.
I believe that the choice of a system for folder and
On 07/07/2011 12:51, cranberryf...@cobridge.tv wrote:
I am not sure the best way to organize scans of documents. Right now I
only have a few photos of people in my file. I have the file name
simply as “PEOPLE†and I do the individual files like this...
Perry, John Judson 01
Perry, John
I have found that using punctuation in file names can lead to problems
translating to a webpage. It would be best to use an underscore in the file
name. ie. perry_john_judson_01.xxx the xxx is the file extension. I also have
mine set up by type, country, year, and then by location.
You only need to change the Contents box to change the color of the label
to change to if there is a source attached. The Text will change the color
of all the text.
Russ
-Original Message-
From: Colin Liddell
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:27 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
It wasn't the obituary one so it had to have been the entering a marriage
record or entering a death certificate. I just don't remember exactly how I
did it though. It is working just fine. The label is black until I add a
source and then it goes red.
michele
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From:
On 7/6/2011 6:07 PM, Louise wrote:
My husband's grandfather was a ship's carpenter out of England in the
early 1900s and we have his actual log book covering his trips from
1905 to 1912. It shows the details of the ships he sailed on, their
dates and places of departure and discharge, where
Now you tell me not to use punctuation in file names! It is too late. There
is no way I am going to go through every image attached in Legacy and change
the path. I wish Legacy would keep the correct path when all you do is change
the file name and not the location of the file.
michele
Hi Dave,
Can you open the Form Center at all ?
Tim
On 7/6/2011 9:53 PM, Dave Keeney wrote:
To print a Relationship Diagram, choose Blank Forms Forms Center
Relationship Diagram… from the Reports menu. The diagram is available
in several different languages.
Is the Relationshipo Diagram
While the Military template might work, especially if you know he was a ship's
carpenter for the Navy, not a commercial vessel, I would be more inclined to
try the Diary or Artifacts templates first, as they seem to me to be closer to
the type of privately held source material you have.
I
Michele,
Not using punctuation marks in file/folder names is a message which myself and
others have been putting out on this list for years. It is in fact basic
computing, and whilst it would be unreasonable to expect everyone to be
proficient it is always advisable to read up the basic usage
I don't know who you're referring to when you write now you tell me...
The path and file name is stored in the Family File. If you change the
file name in Windows Explorer, Legacy doesn't know that and will
continue to look for the file as it was originally linked,
In Picture Center, you can
There is a known problem with the Forms Center for some users and it's
in the tracking system for the programmers to work on.
We don't know why it affects only some users and we thought we saw a
pattern but it's not consistent.
Please be patient as the programmers work on this issue.
If you
So what you are saying, Sherry, is if I change the name of the file in the
Picture Center (instead of just going into Windows and doing it) it will
automatically update the link? This is good to know. I can change the file
names then and get them the way they are supposed to me without too much
Thanks Jenny, Everything was there, it was just pointing to the
Windows System directory instead of Forms. And I missed the
Browse button. But it's there now.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote:
On 07/07/2011 04:53, Dave Keeney wrote:
To print a
I have my Contents color changed but I remember Geoff saying that
the programmers had also changed this to include the Relationship to
Father/Mother fields.
When he sourced the relationships the colors changed to indicate this.
Mine still don't.
Is this a feature coming soon or maybe I missed the
Do you have 7.5.0.89?
I'm seeing those fields colored on the Children's Settings window when
there are sources for the Child Status, Relationship to Father and
Relationship to Mother.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Dave Keeney
Yes I do. Installed Version: 7.5.0.89
I just checked and I see it also if I go through the Edit-Children Settings.
Jeff went from the main family view, and then the Parents Icon which
takes you to a Relationships screen also. I'm pretty sure that's
where Jeff went because I normally would go
There's really not a right or wrong way, it's what works best for you. When I
started genealogy, I never thought I'd have 8,000+ people in my files, many
documents and photos, or having a family website was not in my thoughts either,
but I do have this now and there are certainly many things
I just do a right click on a child and select Children's Settings.
That takes you to the same window. I don't quite understand what
you're describing that Geoff did.
At first I thought I could duplicate this through the Edit menu
access, but I had the wrong child highlighted g When I went to
Here's how I get there.
Main Family View windows for someone. (Don't bring up the Indivudal's
Information screen)
From the icons below select the Parent(s) icon.
For me it's the 8th one from the left (Spouse, List of Brothers and
Sisters, Notes, Picture Gallery, Events, Assigned Sources, AKAs,
Oh - so you're *not* in the Children's Settings window (where I always
go to set the Status) but the Parents window. Big difference.
You might want to submit this on a problem report form so it can be
logged in our system and be very clear that you're on the Parents
of... window and not the
I just tested this in the latest GR version 7.5.0.89. It was announced
when that version was released that the label colours for child status
and relationship to parents were supposed to work when sources were
assigned. When I access the screen from the children list by right
clicking on a child
To anyone,
On thing to consider avoiding is to locate Legacy linked photos and documents in
a Windows standard folder. Microsoft may change it at a later date as they did
from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
Windows XP My Documents - My Pictures
In Windows Vista and Windows 7 the above folder names
I apologize if this has been discussed before, however, I have been unable
to find an answer in the Help Files, or the LUG Archives. On the marriage
screen I have entered the date and place of marriage for husband and wife.
Additionally, I have added two marriage events 1) for Marriage License;
Dave:
I have sent you separately, as an attachment, the chart I think that
you are looking for.
In the meantime, here is something from Reunion Magazine last year (I
have received permission for sending this)
Howland Davis
In the August/September/October issue of
You can, but it will bot be visually satisfying if your intent is
anything past your own desktop use.
Change Marriage Licenseto Marriage License[[1]] (or create new)
Change Marriage Ceremonyto Marriage Ceremony[[2]](or create new)
Sort events by date
Run Chronology and they should appear in the
bot = not
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Thanks Jan
Interesting web site
Cheers
Markus
-Original Message-
From: Jan Roberts [mailto:poo...@ozemail.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 6 July 2011 2:28 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] ADDING OBITUARIES...
Well, it appears our computers don't want to talk to
My solution is to install a new drive (E). On this drive I have a folder
called 'Genealogy' within which are folders 'FamilyDocuments',
FamilyPictures', 'FamilySounds' and 'FamilyVideos'. Any other files relating
to my research are also located on this drive.
Cheers
Lester
On 8 July 2011 09:13,
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