In my mini one-name study (2,000 or so individuals) I have many families who
intermarry regularly over several generations. I also have a number of wives
with an unproven surname “said to be . . .” which I usually stick away in
Research Notes where the rumored surname is not readily apparent.
Tom,
At least you KNOW where the info came from and if I emailed you, you could
tell me. I am talking about the gazillion people that will give the I
don't know answer or the I got it off of the internet somewhere answer.
I will say that in my experience you are the exception, not the rule.
Well, I do know that Legacy will put in approx dates when you are using the
research guidance feature.
michele
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From: Jerry
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 1:27 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Invisible Embedded Dates ??
Hello everyone.
WARNING! I bought the census tools CD back in May. It happened to be
defective but I wasn't worried about it, I would just get a replacement. I
don't know what has happened to Gary but he has not responded to multiple
emails sent to the two email addresses I have (the one from his web site and
Geoff - I'm getting and error when I try to add the census 'Given', 'Surname;,
or other entries as depicted in the video. The error is '...3163: The field is
too small to accept the amount pf data you attempted to add…..'. Can you advise
what I am doing wrong?
Legacy User Group guidelines:
I have attempted to edit the source detail in an event on census data for 1930
and get the error 3163 at the point where I enter the Enumeration district and
try to save - evidently the detail data data entered is to large to accept.
The information I am trying to enter is not as large as the
Paula,
Ancestor? The people that were born before said person in that person’s line.
Descendent? The people that were born after the said person, their offspring
People surprisingly often confuse these two terms with each other. Your
great-grandmother is your ancestor; you are her
My father adopted to males during his second marriage and changed
their surnames from Shafer to Ellis. The off springs from these two
males also have the Ellis surname. I'm not sure how I should have
listed these two adopted males. I have linked them to my father and
his second wife with the
My father adopted to males during his second marriage and changed
their surnames from Shafer to Ellis. The off springs from these two
males also have the Ellis surname. I'm not sure how I should have
listed these two adopted males. I have linked them to my father and
his second wife with the
Bill,
There is no totally satisfactory way of dealing with this, at least not one
that I know of. Firstly, I use the birth name as this is genetically correct
albeit legally incorrect after the adoption. Secondly I put the adopted name
in the AKAs and thirdly ensure that the adopted parents are
Starting with the uncle makes it a Descendant Chart
From: Rebecca Malmo rebeccama...@yahoo.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Chart Printing
Hi Paula,
Anything to get out of housework,
David,
I think what Paula was asking was which type of chart she wanted to print as
the OP didn’t specify which one she was trying to do.
Russ
From: David C Abernathy
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 10:42 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Chart Printing
Paula,
Thanks Alan! That's the most helpful tip so far! I'll give it a try!
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From: Alan Pereira alanpere...@tiscali.co.uk
Sender: Alan Pereira alanpere...@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:41:51
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
I'd record both names, one as an aka. (There's debate on how to use
the aka, and I use it for all name variations, not strictly aka's)
Choose the name you want as the primary name - I'd pick the name after
the adoption, as that's the legal name used for the majority of their
life (I'm assuming
Welcome, Jill :)
I did the same thing as you, I switched from FTM to Legacy (many years ago
now) and I spent a lot of time getting my data formatted in a more
professional way. Wait until you run the potential problems report!
OVERWHELMING is the word :) Also, do the county verifier. FTM does
Hello Jill, and welcome to the group. You have quite a project going on, and
Legacy can make it a good deal faster. When I switched from FTM to Legacy some
years ago I found features that made database cleanup much easier:
Checking the Surname Master List (View Master Lists Surname) is a
I do something similar, but I use the given name field for the possible
wife of Coats. In our system, I NEVER leave a surname or given name
field blank - I use the partner or spouse of the other as a reference
point, so it is much easier to navigate (I think) the index of names and
figure out
Just adding to what has already been stated and some of the pros on the
list probably know how to do this better than I, but if you use the TAG
system to indicate which records you have already tackled, that might be
a good thing. In other words, set up TAG # 4 (or whatever) to indicate
a record
Wondering if anyone has seen this problem before?
Using the current version of Legacy. Windows XP
This morning when trying to do a Descendant report, the Legacy software
locked up as soon as I clicked on the Descendent tab in the Select a Report
window.
Only way to get out of the locked up
Chuck:
My version, 7.5.0.112, works just fine.
I think you are refering to Chart Reports rather than narravtive descendant
report -- in either case, mine version works just fine.
I am running Windows 7, but I don't think that will make any difference.
___
Leon Chapman
chap...@gmail.com
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Thanks Ron and James. I have had them listed by their legally adopted
name, instead of their birth name. As James says, this is the name
under which most of my research will be done. They were very young
when my father adopted them. I don't know the date that they were
adopted, but I will make
Chuck,
I would try using the Reset button on the bottom right of the Descendants
Report screen first.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
From: ChuckH44 .
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 8:04 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report Selection locks Legacy
On 11/09/2011 15:46, Willard Ellis wrote:
My father adopted to males during his second marriage and changed
their surnames from Shafer to Ellis. The off springs from these two
males also have the Ellis surname. I'm not sure how I should have
listed these two adopted males. I have linked
Chuck,
Possibly for your information, but for the benefit of others who may not
know, the effect of using the Reset buttons should be the same as that of
deleting the appropriate USR file. In general, if a problem lies within a
process, such as a report, then using the Reset button, rather than
Hi Jill,
You've already had some good suggestions from others, and here's another
- take advantage of the online training information that is available,
especially that which is free.
There are videos and webinars (seminars on the web)...
The videos are listed at
This may be obvious, but I am just not seeing it. I already have Legacy, and
have had it for years. Now I would like to download whatever I have at
New.FamilySearch into a new Legacy file, but I can't seem to find a place to
do that. This is pretty urgent, since I'm supposed to show someone else
But if the OP wants “ALL” of uncle’s genealogy does she also want those who
came before him i.e. his ancestors? If she wants both she needs a different
chart and right now my chemo brain has completely forgotten what it is called
but as far as I know Legacy doesn’t provide for this type of
Hi there. Where would those dates show up, Michele? In my situation,
the dates in question are INVISIBLE - I can't see them anywhere, but I
can SEARCH for date contains 2010 (for example) and the records show up
in my search criteria. But going to the records does not show these
dates anywhere.
Thanks Jan :-)
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From: Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au
Sender: Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:28:02
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Reply-to: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE:
It's not the date modified - I already checked that out. The dates that
show up without events attached are marriage events (without any event
name or description), but I can't tell what the ones are that appear in
the search routines because when you go to the records that come up,
those dates
UPDATE: The dates that are VISIBLE, but without any accompanying event
information, are MARRIAGE EVENTS. When I searched for EVENT DATE by
itself, I also got nothing for year 2010, but when I searched for
MARRIAGE EVENT DATES, that's when I get the hits for the VISIBLE dates.
But I have to use
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