I actually use British North America, which includes all of the other parts
(Belize, Upper and Lower Canada). It is not 'accurate' but everyone I show
gets the idea. Also French North America, Dutch and Swedish North America.
These places were not really given an exact name until later.Rich in
I actually use British North America, which includes all of the other parts
(Belize, Upper and Lower Canada). It is not 'accurate' but everyone I show
gets the idea. Also French North America, Dutch and Swedish North America.
These places were not really given an exact name until later.Rich in
Tony,
As person born in Queensland, Australia, I would say to just use Clermont,
Queensland, Australia. Much simpler than having two names for the same place.
Yes, Queensland was a colony before Federation in 1901, but only became one
after separation from New South Wales in 1859.
Regards,
Jennifer said
As person born in Queensland, Australia, I would say to just use
Clermont, Queensland, Australia.
Oh, good. That's exactly what I have done. I only just realised that
Australia didn't exist as a country at the time my 3rd great grand
uncles came out. Not having to fix
You know I was quite content before I joined this group, now look at all the
extra things I have to think about LOL
I've been doing a lot of searching through early Australian newspapers and
find generally the 'colonies' of Australia (up to 1900) all referred to
themselves simply as
Using Windows 7 64 bit and raid0 disks, Legacy version 7.5.0.112 Build Date
2 Aug 2011
If I open up this interface, do nothing but just close it again, then shut
down my laptop. On startup it crashes with a memory dump (repeatable).
After 2 restarts the system returns to normal. That is, until I
In my opinion, it is important to remember the history.
I have events in my database that took place in what is now Detroit, Michigan,
USA when it was a French fort. Research provided me with the time frames of
Detroit's evolution through various jurisdictions until Michigan became a state.
I wholeheartedly agree. Detroit was known by about five different names in its
300 year plus history. Seems extremely silly to use those five different names
for the exact same spot on the map. Instead, I use the adjacent NOTE fields to
explain needed historical names. Jerry
Jennifer
Oh that's really funny! I sent my post about DETROIT before I saw your post.
Difference of opinion... Jerry
M. Brenzel brenze...@roadrunner.com wrote:
In my opinion, it is important to remember the history.
I have events in my database that took place in what is now Detroit, Michigan,
USA
Why not just use the note with the one most current location? Just saying if
we did that for every possible historical difference for every location, you
would add tremendously to your database locations. One man's meat is another
man's poison. But thanks for that note. May I use it? Jerry
On 2011/10/29 13:55, M. Brenzel wrote:
In my opinion, it is important to remember the history.
I have events in my database that took place in what is now Detroit,
Michigan, USA when it was a French fort. Research provided me with the time
frames of Detroit's evolution through various
Similar situations have occurred in the United States, i.e. Washington County,
Tennessee was at an earlier time Washington County, North Carolina. All
tutorials that I have read or viewed indicate that a location should be
recorded as it existed at the time of the event, and not as it is now.
I do a mixture of both. I keep as close to the original location name for the
dated event but I also place a comment in the master location list (notes) on
how it changed. I mindful of how the data will look if posted to websites via
gedcom, when all the Legacy extras get dropped.
By adding
I always use the original name and note the current location.
Sally Miller Hindley
In a message dated 10/29/2011 10:22:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
apple1...@centurylink.net writes:
Similar situations have occurred in the United States, i.e. Washington
County, Tennessee was at an earlier time
All suggestions that I have read from the experts say that you should record
the location as it was at the time of the event. That is a practice that I
have adopted and as a result, I have adjusted my locations to be that way. I
feel that we shouldn't forget the history and it should be
I've used Legacy for many years now and have no complaints. That
being said, for the past couple of weeks, I can't seem to get the
family tree file to open that I have set up in options. I have
several files that I work with and right now, no matter which file I
have chosen as the always open
Just tested my Win 7 for the same and found it worked OK for me.
2 possibilities spring to mind.
a) Did you install to c:\legacy and not to Program Files (Legacy can't write to
Program Files)
b) You may have a corrupt USR file. Not sure which one it is for this change.
Alan
-Original
Gail,
I to, discovered that the option to choose the start-up file does not stick
when you select a file via the start menu in windows 7. This is just to
confirm what you are seeing happens to others. Like you, this is not a problem
for me since I know the option does not stick.
bgj
Yes, it is installed into c:\legacy and my data file is in the data
file of legacy. Like I said, not a big deal, just weird.
will wait to see if someone knows which usr might be the problem and
go from there. Thanks.
Gail
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Alan Pereira
Gail,
I don't believe it is a corrupt .usr file. It has been this way through the
last several versions of Legacy. I first noticed this about a year ago and
tried many times to find a way to make it stick. It's just that when you force
Legacy to open a specific family file at startup, it
Tony:
Forego history? For shame! Isn’t genealogy all about history? How much extra
effort or computer memory does it take to have two or three correct names for
the same geographical location?
I can’t speak for Australia or Queensland, but in the US it looks ignorant to
see it written that
Tony,
I would use Norfolk,,Virginia Colony and put a check mark in the verified
box so I know that it is not to be merged. And I would also copy the geo
locations from the current Norfolk location. It is standard genealogical
practice to use the locations as they were at the time of the event. I
Richard,
Are you aware that you have duplicate messages coming to the group? I also use
those names for the countries also and a note with the date range in the note
section, and the verified box checked.
Russ
From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 2:28 AM
To:
Gail. Like you, I also work with several family files and I haven't
had the problem you describe. If you the option Open last used file
automatically ticked. The last used family will be the one that
opens. If you tick the option Always open this file and select a
certain file, that file will
I never used version 6. I started with version 7. Perhaps I should have said
builds instead of versions. Sorry.
bgj
-Original Message-
From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:kowal...@iglou.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 2:40 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re:
Mary,
I do this also. I have a lot of Canadian ancestors so for me I have:
,,,New France
-1791
,,,Quebec
1791-1841
,,,Upper Canada
,,,Lower Canada
1841-1867
,,Canada West,Province of Canada
,,Canada East,Province of Canada
1867-present
,,Ontario,Canada
,,Quebec,Canada
and in the notes section I
Bill,
I may have misunderstood Gail, but I believe she was talking about using
Windows 7 with the legacy icon on the Start or Task menu. In windows 7,
you may right click on the icon and get a list of family files last opened. By
choosing one of them to open will reset the option to open a
I did that, went through all the at the time designations. They
didn't work well with any program. Since Legacy busily tells me county
X wasn't in existence at the time in question I have to assume it
would balk at Massachusetts Bay Colony too. I was using another
program then. There would be
This is the problem with ALL of these third party mapping programs. They are
written for Today's World and in a lot of cases are useless.
I for one will use them for a Guide only not to be fact, when it comes to
older locations. I use more than one Family Research program and they all think
I
You can turn off the Legacy function that mentions that county X was not in
existence.
CE
-Original Message-
From: Cheryl Rothwell [mailto:historysle...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 1:38 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Showing historical
Which is why I always find out the coordinates (latitude and longitude) using
another means. That is the way to do it is you want the exact coordinates of a
cemetery, church, house, etc., whether for Locations or for Addresses.
CE
-Original Message-
From: David C Abernathy
Amen, Kirsten! I have many ancestors who lived in Normandy, Anjou, Wessex, et
alia, when there was not a France or England. Those are entered without the
erroneous national moniker.
Yes, I have more locations.
Yes, it makes Location sorting from right to left more difficult, but not left
to
This discussion could be endless because it is not likely that most
people will change their minds on this issue.
I value the historical accuracy just as much as the rest of you, but
that accuracy can be handled by the adjacent NOTE fields. With this
method, you can pull up every instance of all
I usually open the program using the icon on the task bar on the
bottom of the screen. I have set the options multiple times to always
use the family file, but when I go to use the program again, using
the task bar icon, it opens whatever file I might have opened last...
even though I have not
Sorry Gail. I appear to be off base. Since I'm using window XP and
not Windows 7, I wasn't aware that you could open the Legacy program
from the task bar, as BG Johnson pointed out to me. I'm still
clicking on the Legacy icon from my desktop. I guess I'm not up to
speed.
Bill
On Sat, Oct 29,
You have always been able to open Legacy from the taskbar in Windows XP. You
just need to move a Legacy shortcut to the taskbar.
CE
-Original Message-
From: Willard Ellis [mailto:willardell...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 5:44 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Based on other replies in this thread I have tested. If you right click
on the Legacy icon in the Windows 7 task bar to choose a file to open
the Options Customize setting will revert to Open the last used
family file. I will be submitting a problem report to our tracking
system to have the
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