Hi,
No I can achieve that just by making the last field date at death. I'm
wanting to display their current age if still alive.
Cheers
Ian GARDENER
-Original Message-
From: Jennifer Crockett [mailto:jcrock...@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Monday, 9 July 2012 12:06 PM
To:
Ian GARDENER wrote:
I seem to recall reading (some time ago) that there is a way to show a
person's current age in family view and I think age at death if not
living.
I've searched the help file without success. Am I correct or has this old
brain let me down again?
The only place a
Hi Rich
I too would be interested to know how you have done it, just tried it myself
and was curious how you bypassed the restrictions on the automatic male/female
when you add the “husband/wife” to the person.
Ian, I wholeheartedly support you in that Legacy needs to be forward thinking
in
Judith,
Glad to hear that everything is now back to normal. Your experiences
emphasise far more than an instruction book could, the importance of
regularly doing PC housekeeping.
Often we see comments, or recommendations to switch the PC off, leave it for
a short while, and switch on again in
I seem to recollect that when a file is imported from a same sex
relationship, the sexes are retained. I cannot be certain, but I would think
that if the two people are exported to a GEDCOM, the sex of one changed in
Notepad, then use the GEDCOM to replace the Legacy records, then this may
work.
ArdenholmeGenealogy wrote:
Ian, I wholeheartedly support you in that Legacy needs to be
forward thinking in including today’s society and not
yesterday’s. I have many friends who are gay and have been living
with their partners for many years that we no longer bat an eyelid
to these
On 07/07/2012 14:54, Ron Ferguson wrote:
It is not uncommon for family reunions, which serves not only to show how
someone may fit into the family, but also allows them to fill in the gaps. I
am seriously thinking of having one done for my next birthday with a zero in
it (I'm ever optimistic
On 09/07/2012 02:57, Ian GARDENER wrote:
I can’t help with a solution but this may point someone in the right
direction.
Error 506 is a runtime error. The 506 error code is used in both widows
7 access database.
Got that from a programmer friend but he didn’t recall much else.
Ian G
On 09/07/2012 00:55, Marianne Szabo wrote:
For the last two days when I back up my family file, it starts with the
designation of .fdb at the end, but by the time it’s finished it says
“~rc3rc3†or something like that. It disappears so fast, I can’t write
it down.
When I open the
From Family View,
Ctrl + a
--
Tim Rosenlof
On 7/9/2012 5:29 AM, Michele Lewis wrote:
Did anyone give the directions to display the age on the family view? I
read the emails but I might have missed it. All you do is…
With the Family View on your screen, RIGHT click the labels on the
Ctrl + A
--
Tim Rosenlof
On 7/8/2012 7:46 PM, Ian GARDENER wrote:
Hi,
I seem to recall reading (some time ago) that there is a way to show a
person’s current age in family view and I “think†age at death if not
living.
I’ve searched the help file without success. Am I correct or
How are going to print now if you deleted the printer ?
--
Tim Rosenlof
On 7/8/2012 10:29 PM, Judith wrote:
Ron, thanks so much for the information, no Firefox, Windows 7, but after
many repairs etc., I deleted the printer and everything went back to normal,
opening instantly and closing
Here is what I do for same sex relationships.It's not perfect but it
helps.
I enter the same sex partner as the spouse, which of course makes that partner
the wrong sex, and then click on marriage information and then click on the
Wording Options tab. From there you can at least
What a great tip! I have not seen this beforeI love it!
Thanks,
Rita in South Carolina
-Original Message-
From: Tim Rosenlof [mailto:spa...@xmission.com]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 8:31 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Age on the family view?
From
-Original Message-
From: Jenny M Benson
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 11:59 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ref: Wall Charts
On 07/07/2012 14:54, Ron Ferguson wrote:
It is not uncommon for family reunions, which serves not only to show how
someone may fit
'Elizabeth Shown Mills' Web Page:
Lots of good stuff on Source and Citing. May help the way you enter data
in Legacy.
http://www.historicpathways.com/
http://www.historicpathways.com/articles.html
I found of interest the writing on the home page, then I went onto
articles. I have EE and have
For those of you who aren't familiar with Elizabeth Shown Mills, EE
is her book Evidence Explained, which is the basis for the Source
Templates in Legacy.
We sell her book as well as the QuickSheet in our online store.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012
Do you have Legacy installed to the default c:\Legacy folder?
Windows7 won't let the program write ot the temp folder if you have
Legacy installed to the Program Files folder.
If you have Legacy installed correctly, go to Options Customize
Locations and make sure the Location of temporary files
Sherry,
Did I see the pdf for sale awhile back ?
--
Tim Rosenlof
On 7/9/2012 9:10 AM, Sherry/Support wrote:
For those of you who aren't familiar with Elizabeth Shown Mills, EE
is her book Evidence Explained, which is the basis for the Source
Templates in Legacy.
We sell her book as well
Yes and I just checked with Pegi. The PDF version is no longer available.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Tim Rosenlof spa...@xmission.com wrote:
Sherry,
Did I see the pdf for sale awhile back ?
--
Tim Rosenlof
On 7/9/2012 9:10
I will reinstall it and that should do a reset. I think there was a problem
with the driver and it also ran out of ink, so the reset should work, guess
we'll see.
Judith
-Original Message-
From: Tim Rosenlof [mailto:spa...@xmission.com]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 5:55 AM
To:
Is this one in addition to the one at 2 p.m. or a change?
-- Myrna J
--- On Mon, 7/9/12, Geoff Rasmussen ge...@legacyusers.com wrote:
From: Geoff Rasmussen ge...@legacyusers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Webinar Wednesday - The Quest for your English Ancestors
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Four weeks ago, I converted from V 6.0 Deluxe to 7.5 Deluxe. My main
database contains over 270 000 individuals. The relationship SET and
CALCULTE never complete in V7.5 (even after 30 minutes). In the last 4
weeks, I have made over 780 modifications to my database. I need to know if
Legacy 7.5
Pat Hickin wrote:
I no longer visit libraries, courthouses, etc. Almost all of my research
is done online. I've never developed a satisfactory method of keeping
track of my searches, results,etc., and am wondering what other people do.
I use the history to keep track of where I've got to,
Michele ...
Your directions are fine, but how do you input information into your preferred
settings? The 4 default settings on the Individual's Information page (Born,
Bapt, Died, Buried) cannot be changed, thus there is no way to input anything
different except Age (which is calculated by
Just a clarificaiton - this is on the Individual's Information window,
not the Family view.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Judith judithsfamilyt...@gmail.com wrote:
“I seem to recall reading (some time ago) that there is a way to show a
You might check to see how many relationships you have selected to calcuate
10 is generally more than sufficient for blood and 5 for non-blood
unless you have a lot of royals or other intermingled marriages.
Too many relationships in the selection can slow the process down.
Also, back up the
I think this question has been answered ad nauseam but I'll try too.
Right-click in the Family View box for any individual, over to the left
of where it says Born/Chr/Died/Buried or whatever you've got there. This
will bring up a window called Customize Display. Choose which factors
you want
You can change the default settings when you are in Family View. Right click
on one of the settings, like Born. A Customize Display page pops up on which
you can change any or all of them. Be careful changing though; your change
change what is displayed for everyone in your file.
CEFrom:
Thanks, Charani,
There are several things I don't understand -- How do you use the History
list?? I see no way to enter info in it.
Also when I looked up History List in the Help Index, I was told:
To reach the *History* list, click the *small down arrow* between the *Back
* and *Frwd* buttons
I have over 230,000 in my main Legacy database and I set relationships
regularly for different people in the file. Works fine. Perhaps you have a
few people with circular relationships (they are their own descendant). I
usually set the non-blood relationships to zero and the blood
Somehow my concern is being bypassed. I fully understand what you are all
talking about, and I have tried it and it works. Here is what I would like to
know. There are a great many entries (called Field Names) in the Customize
Display list. All of these Field Names require input. Where
I'll check that out, thanks.
-Original Message-
From: Rita Lynn McKale [mailto:cagr...@comporium.net]
Sent: Monday, 9 July 2012 11:17 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Same sex marriage and other non standard
relationships.
Here is what I do for same sex
Actually just had a play with it and that will do it for me. Thanks.
I don't want to lose too much sleep over this one off item in my file.
Cheers
-Original Message-
From: Rita Lynn McKale [mailto:cagr...@comporium.net]
Sent: Monday, 9 July 2012 11:17 PM
To:
Based on the workaround web page it looks like running maint will just reverse
it.
-Original Message-
From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, 9 July 2012 7:34 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Same sex marriage.
I seem to
Hi,
I'm personally not a big fan of gay marriage but that's just me. As you point
out, it is the world we live in and many of us are also recording today's
information for future generations and sadly, Legacy is indeed failing to keep
up in that regard.
-Original Message-
From:
I think it needs to default to normal lines as is, ie male husband female
wife, that is what will be recorded in nearly every instance.
The default is fine as is but an option to change gender would be nice.
-Original Message-
From: Charani [mailto:charan...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 9
Click the dotdotdot box next to each field name. Choose one from the
list that comes up and that is what will show in that position in Family
View. You don't have to use Born, Bapt, Died, Buried. Choose what you
want in each of the five fields.
JL Beeken
JLog - simple computer technology for
Pat Hickin wrote:
Thanks, Charani,
There are several things I don't understand -- How do you use the History
list?? I see no way to enter info in it.
As you click on each person in the family, so their name is added to
the history list, add a marriage partner and the pair are entered.
The
I think this may be a religious issue for Legacy. The LDS church is very
much against gay-anything so they're hanging onto that view. Just a guess.
JL Beeken
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/
On 7/9/2012 2:08 PM, Ian GARDENER wrote:
Hi,
I'm personally
I know my point of view will not be popular but I don't record any gay
relationships in my Legacy file. I would be one of those religious freaks :)
My husband does have a cousin that is openly gay. In my file he is listed as
never married. I think Legacy doesn't allow same sex marriages
Hi Ron,
Thank you very much for the feedback.
I use the same input on my old computer running V6.0 and (identical
converted fdb) on the new computer running V7.5. Operations complete in a
few seconds on V6.0 and hundreds of relationship are identified. So there
are no loops in the file. And
Michelle,
That is you perrogative if you choose not to list gay marriages.
However, I strongly feel that it should be an option for those who
choose otherwise. I am gay. My partner and I have been together for
39 years. I would love to be able to combine our genealogy into one
file.
On a side
On 09/07/2012 22:02, RHS Consulting wrote:
Somehow my concern is being bypassed. I fully understand what you are
all talking about, and I have tried it and it works. Here is what I
would like to know. There are a great many entries (called Field Names)
in the Customize Display list. All of
For what it's worth, referring to genealogical standard's it matters not what
I think. For accuracy, all genealogists should record information as it was,
or is, in reality and *not* what we wish it to be. Therefore, we enter
information into Legacy Family Tree accordingly, even it that
Hi Jacques,
Don' retype all those 780 modifications. Export them to a GEDCOM and then import
them into V6.
Laird
On 7/9/2012 1:26 PM, Jacques E Decarie wrote:
Four weeks ago, I converted from V 6.0 Deluxe to 7.5 Deluxe. My main database
contains over 270 000 individuals. The relationship SET
I agree - have never known about this little trick. What a clever way to see
at a glance.
Cheers
Jan
-Original Message-
From: Rita Lynn McKale [mailto:cagr...@comporium.net]
Sent: Monday, 9 July 2012 23:24
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Age on the family
Sorry Jenny, I did a quick scan before I sent my reply to RHS and couldn't see
that anyone had really addressed his problem - missed yours which seems to do a
better job at saying what I was trying to say!
Cheers
Jan
-Original Message-
From: Jenny M Benson
Richard,
There is *no* way to show current age on the Family View. You can
only show Age at Death.
Age at Death is calculated by Legacy based on the birth or christening
and death or burial dates you have entered on the Individual's
Information window.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Thank you all. I guess I will have to do some different inputting now,
because I put all my events/facts and everything else into Personal Display
Notes using ordinary text format. From there it can unfortunately not be
transferred in its present form into Family View.
Richard
- Original
Aah!
P.S. What is Personal Display Notes?
JL Beeken
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/
On 7/9/2012 5:47 PM, RHS Consulting wrote:
Thank you all. I guess I will have to do some different inputting now,
because I put all my events/facts and
Interesting. In looking for the display age option (which I'm sure now must
have been a different program as it displayed always), I tried the relationship
field and it simply remained blank so it's not automatically filled by default.
For there to be a relationship there has to be a core
Ian:
Tools Set Relationships.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Ian GARDENER
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 6:18 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Age on the family view?
Interesting. In looking for the display age option (which I'm sure now must
have been a
Actually if not specifically asked by this person, I wouldn't be either I'm
totally non religious:)
In this case there are no children I have now found out so really to me, I
could leave this partner out except for being asked. Having said that though,
wether you I approve or not, the fact is
Personal Display Notes is where one puts personal notes (and where I put ALL
my notes). It's the third icon from the left (in Family View beneath
husband or wife) labeled *Display Notes for This Person*.
Richard
- Original Message -
From: JLB j...@jgen.ws
To:
Thats wghy I love this forum. Something handy learned nearly every day.
Thanks, I wish I had done this before.
-Original Message-
From: Kirsten Bowman [mailto:vik...@rvi.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:41 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Age on the
It is Legacy's prerogative and I respect that. I will point out that in
some areas of the county - and I live in one - it is now a legal
standard. Here its not even a civil union. It is recognized by the state
as a marriage. As someone doing the family history, I believe I must
remain true to the
I'm sorry but I don't understand your way of thinking. Are you telling us
that if you don't like a FACT, then you are going to ignore it and not
include it in your database? Your personal beliefs have nothing to do with
recording genealogy FACTS!
Sally
In a message dated 7/9/2012 7:54:31 PM
During one of the discussions on this topic several years ago the
programmers said that they just never considered same sex relationships.
Their LDS beliefs had no bearing at the time. As they wrote Legacy many
decisions on optimizing searches and other features in the code are
based on
I have to agree. Facts are facts and opinions are opinions and most
religious views are opinions. They don't belong in determining the
construct of a database of facts.
JL Beeken
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/
On 7/9/2012 7:23 PM, salude...@aol.com
Yes but we have paid for supported Legacy for a long time, they are also
offering a commercial product, not a religious one.
Saying go elsewhere is just a little trite.
-Original Message-
From: Michele Lewis [mailto:ancestor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2012 12:19 PM
To:
Allowing an option to change a field label requires very little programming.
Report options as I've just discovered can be handled on an ad hoc basis for
each individual case by using the rewording override. My mate just did it in
access (albeit without any nice user front end), in less than 15
Hi Laird,
This is what I like, true help.
That is what I did. Works fine except for some individual tag descriptions
that I will be able to re-enter (only 5 entries lost, that's all).
Thanks again.
Jacques
-Original Message-
From: Laird [mailto:lftu...@bayleenet.net]
Sent: 9 juillet
If someone wants to record these things, they can work it out on their own. As
for me and my house, we won't be recording this either. I don't use the LDS
options that are provided but I don't complain that they are there either.
This doesn't seem like something that needs to be discussed
My genealogy is about blood lines. I haven't found any gays in my family, but
if I did, I would not list them as partners. Unmarried is my term for those
who did not marry a spouse of the oppocite sex.
I can surely see why Legacy doesn't want to add gays to their family tree.
There are many
Genealogy works with bloodlines. There are no bloodlines in same-sex
relationships. If there are any children, then the sperm and egg donors should
be noted if they are in your family, not the one giving birth if different from
sperm and egg donor because that is where the bloodline comes
Marriage is not about blood lines. Unless you marry a cousin.
JL Beeken
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/
On 7/9/2012 7:49 PM, Darlene Don Hicks wrote:
My genealogy is about blood lines. I haven't found any gays in my
family, but if I did, I would not
...and now I think I.'ll go build my bombshelterMy experience with this
topic is that the issue needs to be how to RECORD the information...not
whether you agree with the circumstancesSeems like it has been
THOROUGHLY discussed ...yet againNEXT TOPIC PULEASE.
---Original
This discussion just proves that you can't trust anyone elses database.
You must find and verify the facts yourself.
If my grandpa were hanged as a horse thief should I omit that fact because
I don't like it?
Sally
In a message dated 7/9/2012 11:41:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
EXCACTLY I'm with you and Legacy is a Family Tree program active marketed as
being the tool for genealogy and family history, not a thoroughbred bloodline
database. Can't see how you accurately do family history if the program will
not accept the facts. I decry the gay lifestyle but it IS A
It is about blood lines as when two people marry the child of this marriage has
the blood of both and therefore a blood line. The person of the couple that is
your aunt or uncle is a direct bloodline being siblings to your parent.
Darlene
A DAY HEMMED WITH PRAYER IS LESS LIKELY TO UNRAVEL!
Richard, a misinterpretation of the label - Display is used as a verb in this
instance, saying that this icon will display the Notes.
Cheers
Jan
-Original Message-
From: RHS Consulting [mailto:rhsconsult...@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:51
To:
Using THAT criteria, I assume that you exclude any adopted children since
they have neither parent's bloodline...and using THAT criteria then Legacy
IS a genealogy program. Many others use it as a family history program. It
just depends how much flesh you want to put on the bones. I STILL say that
I was just thinking along the same lines. How do you record the
child(ren) of a heterosexual couple who used a sperm donor? No different
than how you would record the child(ren) of gay couples. One of the
parents is not biological.
Certainly I have adopted children in my database. Probably within
I KNOW I am committing one of the lists unpardonable sins by hijacking a
thread but really DO feel the previous topic had surpassed its useful life..
I still think that's a decision you make at the outsetare you doing
family history or genealogy...although I admit that I have changed my mind
I disagree that it's your purview to decide when a thread should end. I
don't mind that you changed the title of it though. It's possible the
Legacy staff would find this discussion quite useful in making their own
determinations. I've found it quite interesting although nauseating at
times as I'm
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