Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-16 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 16/10/2011 02:06, James Cook wrote: For #2, the best I can come up with is to go to the Assigned Sources screen for each individual. From there, you can select the source in the list on the top half, and then in the Output tab on the bottom half, you can copy the entire citation. And if

Re: [LegacyUG] IBM turned down by Obama

2011-10-16 Thread Gene Young
On 10/16/2011 12:29 AM, Deborah Trounstine wrote: Abhorrent propaganda. Shame on you. And shame on you for re-posting the entire thing without trimming! -- Gene Young Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

[LegacyUG] Picture center

2011-10-16 Thread Kirstin
I'm struggling with the picture center. Let me try to explain. I have Census jpg files where the don't belong. Loads of them. I don't know how they got there, but they are always in 2s. They are attached to a census event, but not the right one. The correct picture is attached to the source, but

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture center

2011-10-16 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:05:49 -0400, Kirstin catlady1...@yahoo.com wrote: Then I tried to go back into the Picture Center and it crashes. Every time. I've already tried check/repair and rebooting my computer. I am using Windows 7 and Legacy 7.5.0.112. Is this a bug? Crashes are certainly a bug.

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture center

2011-10-16 Thread Ron Ferguson
Kirstin, Sorry, but I cannot really help as I do not like, nor use, the Picture Centre. I have the impression, rightly or wrongly, that it is too easy to mess things up with it. Having said that there is no excuse for a crash. I would report this as a bug, but please remember that you will need

[LegacyUG] Source Writer question

2011-10-16 Thread John Gregson
Using 7.5; under Win7-32. Source Writer screen Assigned Sources for: Text / Comments What is the difference between Master Text and Detail Text? John. -- *John. jfgreg...@shaw.ca* Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Writer question

2011-10-16 Thread James Cook
Sources are in two parts Master and Detail. When entering these parts, there is a tab in each instance called Text/Comments. On the Assigned Sources screen, this tells you from which part the info is coming from. On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:52 PM, John Gregson jfgreg...@shaw.ca wrote: Using

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-16 Thread Chick Lewis
Thanks Jennifer, Jenny and James. The Output tab is what I was looking for. Wonder why I didn't think of that? The M8 Free Clip was a great tip. I downloaded it and love it. I have not used Access, but I will try converting Sourcewriter to Basic using LTools. Thanks again to all who responded...

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture center

2011-10-16 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 16/10/2011 19:05, Kirstin wrote: I'm struggling with the picture center. You're not the only one! I hardly ever go in there at all because I find it so difficult. Sorry, that's not a lot of help to you, but perhaps a few others will feel they are not along if they are struggling too. --

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Writer question

2011-10-16 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 16/10/2011 19:52, John Gregson wrote: Using 7.5; under Win7-32. Source Writer screen Assigned Sources for: Text / Comments What is the difference between Master Text and Detail Text? Both Master Sources and Source Details have fields for Text and for Comments.

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-16 Thread Chick Lewis
James, I notice that several months ago you were contemplating dropping Source Writer and going with the Basic system. Did you? If not, what changed your mind? It's true that it exports something, and that something will be imported just fine. The problem with it, and the reason for my

[LegacyUG] Source-physical location

2011-10-16 Thread John Gregson
For Vital stats'- Birth, Marriage, Deaths. Would you enter the location (mail address, phone number, etc.) of the Agency that held the record at the time of the event, which may be many years in the past, or would you use the current address, etc. Also over the years, the names of these agencies

Re: [LegacyUG] Source-physical location

2011-10-16 Thread Ron Ferguson
John, As the objective, as you say, is to allow others to find the document, I consider today's details to be appropriate for this purpose. This is for *Source Repositories not Events* Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: John Gregson Sent: Sunday, October 16,

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-16 Thread James Cook
I have not stopped using Source Writer. I'm a computer guy, not a word smith, so I do like being prompted for the correct information and having that information formatted correctly for me - at least within Legacy and in reports produced by Legacy. The export to a 3rd party is still an issue

[LegacyUG] Number of pictures attached to an fdb file?

2011-10-16 Thread Bob Bashford
I've got several very similar Legacy files ... I'd like to find out how many pictures are attached to each one. Is there any way to get this number? I looked through the help files and archives and couldn't come up with an answer. Have I overlooked the obvious? Regards Bob Bashford Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-16 Thread Chick Lewis
Thanks, James. Yes, more than I asked for but very informative and I appreciate your taking the time to write it. Now I have to think again about whether to convert my sources to all basic or sourcewriter or just keep a mixture. I definitely will split many of my lumped sources. I don't do

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-16 Thread James Cook
I a hoping that if/when the day comes to move to another software that it will read native Legacy files. Also, a message was posted recently about Legacy sharing it's templates with a group working on making the transfer between systems manageable. Hopefully that will be in place by he time we

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-16 Thread Chick Lewis
Amen to that !!! On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:20 PM, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: I a hoping that if/when the day comes to move to another software that it will read native Legacy files.  Also, a message was posted recently about Legacy sharing it's templates with a group working on making

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture center

2011-10-16 Thread Paula Ryburn
I like the Picture Center, but only for pictures... that is, if I have a picture of several Irish cousins, the Picture Center makes it quick  easy to attach the picture to each individual.  Though I've never experienced a crash, I have found it extremely tedious to deal with image files that are

Re: [LegacyUG] Source-physical location

2011-10-16 Thread Paula Ryburn
John, I'm sure others here will gasp, but I haven't used the repository in forever.  It's probably because my main sources are US censuses and various state birth/marriage/death agencies.  As you stated, the names and locations of these state (county, too) agencies do change over time, so I just

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I cite this source?

2011-10-16 Thread Paula Ryburn
Ron, I have been mulling over your answer. I agreed with the idea of Joan using online database because the online database she was using contained a congomeration of data from many sources. However, if I'm reading your answer correctly (which I may not be!), you're saying because she found the

Re: [LegacyUG] IBM turned down by Obama

2011-10-16 Thread kramer101
I was surprised to see something so off topic here, but I had not heard about this yet. Thank you for sharing, but in an international and specific venue, not everyone will appreciate it. God bless, Ellen - Original Message - From: Deborah Trounstine dtrounst...@comcast.net To: