On 2011/11/07 03:54, Al M wrote:
1)As I’ve said, I’m not new to genealogy. Many other researchers that I know
that use genealogy packages other than Legacy recommend that info be separated
into some type of logical family trees, usually of differing surnames. I
never
could understand why
Geoff,
great job.
Was very supprised to see that you document very
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Haven't found it uptoday.
Every now and then I hit it.
Geoff,
great job.
Was very supprised to see that you document very simular like I doe.
My present problem is the sources.
Must get very, very, very much
Michele,
I have the same problem as you and have connections to the USA for about 9
generations.
You say that you like/non't like the way Legacy uses the four colour sytem and
say you use a diffent system.
Perhaps you could describe the way you do it.
Bernhard
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From:
Jennifer,
have you talked to friends as like in Germany many companies are thowing these
away as most companies don't use them anymore.
A cheap possiblity to get the. I got about 60 of these that way.
Bernhard
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From: Jennifer Crockett
You SHOULD start with yourself when entering information into a new
genealogy database program even if you are a long time researcher because
that is the best way to catch errors that you didn't notice before and as
you go through your file in a logical manner, you might see some connections
you
On 05/11/2011 00:31, Al M wrote:
2) Page 277 of the Legacy User Guide says that documents and other
types of files that are attached in this manner will not be included on
report or web sites. They are simply for documentation purposes. I have
no intentions of putting my files on a
On 05/11/2011 20:40, Bruce Jones wrote:
I am puzzling on where to put Census (or Residence) Events for a couple.
It is clear that a single person in a Census would have the Census as an
Individual Event. But where you others put a Census Event for a couple?
Individual? Marriage? Both?
Hi all,
The Legacy FDB file I'm using for charting has the word About in some birth
dates, not an abbreviation, but the full word. In the Legacy Charting
program (v. 7.5.129), in Appearance, Box Items, I have selected Full for
the labels. However, the label for birth date shows as Abt instead of
Good morning,
I have been adding gravestones to FindAGrave for a while and wished
there was a way to search it for multiple individuals in my Legacy
family tree. Thus I have written a program that reads the Legacy
database, then searches FindAGrave for potential matches. I am making
it
I am a big time Find A Grave contributor and I am excited about this! Will
the program exclude people that already have burial information entered into
Legacy?
michele
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From: Paul R.
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 8:34 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject:
Return Receipt
Your [LegacyUG] Find My Past Search
document:
wasjwerthm...@cng-inc.com
received
by:
at:11/07/2011 09:01:49 AM
Confidentiality Note: This transmission contains information intended for the
exclusive use of the individual or entity
Paul has made several great utility programs available. Detailed
information is on his website and also in the help file - did you
check them out?
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, cranberryf...@cobridge.tv wrote:
I am a big time Find A Grave contributor and I am excited about this! Will
the
It does have an option but this is one of the places where Legacy
flexibility comes in. I use the gravestones in sources as Geoff showed
us a few weeks ago but I also add them to the individual as 'burial'
pictures. Thus I have coded into the program an option to 'skip' the
person if they have a
Here is what I do (and I do deviate from Geoff on this). For the burial
location I put the place [Purvis, Lamar, Mississippi, USA] All of the
cemetery info goes in as an event [Cemetery]. If I have a photo of the
tombstone I attach it to the event.
michele
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From:
Mark, I hope you shared this information with the programmers!
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Mark Lang markl...@adam.com.au wrote:
Hello All,
I have taken a respite for the past couple of months from writing my
follow-up book to The
Sherry,
Some of the problems which Mark has identified have been reported to Legacy
for many years, I remember about 10 years ago reporting the incorrect
nesting of the tables which Mark mentions, and it has been on the
programmers' list since then - I think Wm Voss managed to get it to that
Marli
I put my notes in the Research Notes section in chronological order in order to
find them easily, and I separate each note by a line. I put the source at the
top of the note and any analysis of the source. Then I also copy paste them
separately into an Event/Fact. It's double work but
I would like to see legacy have the ability to generate a HTML code that you
can paste into a web site such as Tripod?
Will this ever be possible???
Rich
From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Monday,
What do you mean by your statement? Is Tripod just a method for building Sites?
Or is their main thing hosting?
Since I am not familiar with Tripod I am having trouble figuring out why you
couldn’t take the ready-made [but plain] current pages that Legacy creates and
drop them into Tripod.
Yes Ron, I know.
I was at the Tripod site but didn’t poke around. When I saw that it was for
website building, it raised the question I asked. I don’t know why you would
pay for website building when Legacy will give you a plain one for nothing!
I bought a cheap .info name from Godaddy and
Yeah, I realize that there have been a lot of requests for changes to
the web pages. They appear to be lower priority for the programmers -
or maybe they have something up their sleeve for v8? I don't know.
I do see that some of the reported coding errors have been resolved
(but not tested and
Jenny, I asked a question about this, but so far no one responded. I
understand better now why some of you use the census as an event (or
better stated as a fact), but how does that affect getting a list of
residences, occupations, etc.?If everything is lumped in together
with events, would
Marli,
Can you copy/paste an example of one of your person's Research Notes for us to
see what you're putting in there? (unless you've already received the answers
you were seeking)
I've seen people suggest you put facts into Events.
I haven't seen people suggest you use the to do list, though.
When I do a census, first of all I add a fact -
-- Census, Federal 1900 (or whatever census is being done)
And I add the details -
Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, USA and the full date that the census was done. NOT
ENUMERATION DAY...
Then in my notes I transcribe what I see in the census listing. I
On 07/11/2011 18:38, Jerry wrote:
Jenny, I asked a question about this, but so far no one responded. I
understand better now why some of you use the census as an event (or
better stated as a fact), but how does that affect getting a list of
residences, occupations, etc.?If everything is
Jenny,
I matters to me as I regularly search for individuals with the same name and
same occupations, or residence, in which case having Events makes life much
easier. Not so much for my Family file but for my One-Name Study. Where
there are a large number of people with same names one is
As of a few minutes ago, you can now join us on our brand new Google+ page
for Legacy Family Tree. I don't really know what all we can do there yet,
but add us to your Google+ circle at
http://plus.google.com/114210182400185613909. Oh, we also added our new
Legacy commercial, let us know what you
First a little terminology: The label is the word that describes the
information (Birth:, Death: etc.). the information entered for that is
the data (the dates with or without an approximation qualifier such as
18 Dec 1879, About Dec 1856 or Cir. 1234). When you select the full
option for the
Thanks Jenny and Ron for your viewpoints...--Jerry
On 11/07/2011 04:35 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote:
Jenny,
I matters to me as I regularly search for individuals with the same name and
same occupations, or residence, in which case having Events makes life much
easier. Not so much for my Family
Hi Marli,
I do the same as Mary. I notice you said in one of your letters that you are
a visual person, I am too, and I like to see at a glance what I have on each
person - and what I DON'T have, the Don't have items also go into my TO DO
list.
All my findings (and their source) goes first
Adding to what Karen said below. If you happen to have Ancestry.com, when you
get the the detailed record of the individual
that you are looking for within the specific Census Year, you can copy and
paste from ancestry into Legacy.
The information below is my father, in the 1930 Census. I did
I have no interest in web pages. I just would like my Legacy pages to have a
more modern and pretty look. I couldn't find any examples of that on this link.
I looked all over but nothing, just computer jargon.
God bless,
Ellen
- Original Message -
From: Bob Rowe
Can you please define modern and pretty?
KF
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From: kramer...@comcast.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Web CONCEPT pages
I have no interest in web pages. I just would like my Legacy pages
Modern and pretty would mean 1) rounded edges, 2) colors that fade across the
space, 3) not so boxy, etc
God bless,
Ellen
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From: Kay Fordham kayhawo...@earthlink.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 7:32:49 PM
Subject: Re:
Excuse me for inserting into this discussion. I also have no interest in web
pages but have looked through many, many of them for family trees as each of
you surely have.
Some of the very best that I've seen use the following package. I have no
connection whatsoever to this lythgoes site.
Thank you so much for your message. This is a lucid response as to why to
start with oneself and I appreciate it. I know I have errors in my data and,
in most cases, I have legal documentation to back up each and still have issues
in which of two legal documents are correct.
I bought Legacy
Unfortunately I've wasted a lot of time over the years going back and looking at
the same sources that didn't contain any relevant information on one of my
ancestors because I didn't have a good way of recording and tracking it. I'd
like to create a list, by individual, of all the empty sources
thanks. That will do the trick.
On 11/7/2011 8:29 PM, Robert Austen wrote:
Hi Laura,
If you select a person with no ancestors and then 'Set Direct Line As
Preferred' no one will show up. The setting highlights only ancestors of the
person selected.
Bob Austen
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It appears that the Notes for an Event/Fact are printing with an extra line
feed on the Individual Report. In other words, it looks like every CR is
now recognized as a CR/LF. I don't recall seeing anyone else report this.
I'm using Deluxe Version 7.5.0.112.
Can someone reproduce this? If
Go to the specific event note and make sure you don't have a return at
the end of the notes.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:52 PM, M. Brenzel brenze...@roadrunner.com wrote:
It appears that the Notes for an Event/Fact are printing with an
And many of us find the program perfectly useless for our particular
projects. But this is not the place to discuss its attributes or
shortcomings. Instead, we need to speak to Legacy and its html
generation capabilities, which have remained unimproved beyond the
cosmetic for a decade.
Wm Voss
Jan:
I believe the most common method is to list searching the particular resource
as a To Do item, marking it as done, but not deleting it from the list.
Kirsten
From: Jan Wilson
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 5:31 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] How to record
I have created General ToDo items for some of my sources and indicate on
this General ToDo what I did or didn't find.
Would this work?
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Jan Wilson jan_wil...@att.net wrote:
Yes, I do that. I also put it in the Master Source List. But either way,
I can't readily
Jan,
Perhaps you could list those sources in the research section of notes? With
a comment that you had searched that source already...???
Virginia
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Jan Wilson jan_wil...@att.net wrote:
Unfortunately I've wasted a lot of time over the years going back and
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