But that is - as you say - the age at death, and only works for those who
you have a death date for.
I'd like to see how long since the birth.
On 16 December 2013 05:42, Brian blr...@optonline.net wrote:
I have the Age of an individual who I have a death date for,
displayed in Family view by
Could one of you explain to me how the statistics are calculated?
In my family file the average lifespan by century never exceeds 17 years
whereas the average male and female lifespans are around 53 and 48
respectively. These figures seem to be inconsistent with each other but
in the absence of
Hi Folks,
Is there a setting I'm missing or is this how it's meant to be or is it a
bug?
Version 8.0.0.364
Sources are only appearing for MALES in the Pedigree Chart - no sources for
FEMALES unless they are the No 1 person on the chart - and then for no other
females on the chart.
Continuation
Given that we are able to apply 8 Ancestor colours to follow the
Great-grandparents lines, do you suppose it might be possible to have the 8
colour system able to be applied in Charting as well?
Secondly, how can I save my Ancestor colours from Legacy to then load in
Charting so that I have the
Legacy Charting doesn't use the Ancestor Colors as set in Legacy. You
set them in Legacy Charting by clicking on Appearance Color.
Charting still has only 4 colors. I don't know if the programmer will
be able to add the same capability that Legacy itself has. Right now
his main focus is on
1. I have added your suggestion that Legacy Charting also allow the
eight colour Ancestor colour system to our enhancements project.
2. There is no way to copy your colour choices from Legacy to Charting.
You will have to use the Colour tools in Charting to set your Ancestor
colours to the same
I am getting all my sources for females when I create a pedigree chart.
I did not do an audit to make sure every citation number on the chart
matched in the sources list but I did not see any number gaps in the
list at the end of the report which indicated citations on the chart
were not in the
That number is calculated and displayed when you edit the individual. It
is not a choice however for the data displayed on the Family View. We
are happy to consider suggestions for new features.
In Legacy 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 you can suggest a new feature by clicking on
the link on the Legacy Home
Other commenters have provided some good information about other cloud
programs and their individual strategies fir syncing and sharing. I use
Carbonite, but purely as a backup program for the entire hard drive on my
single computer, so I have no need to sync with other computers or
collaborate
I can't figure this out. Same issue with marriages by century.
Graham
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From: David Newton [mailto:davidnew...@drdavid.plus.com]
Sent: 16 December 2013 12:05
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Lifespan, and other, statistics
Could one of you explain
I downloaded and used Goodsync last night. I must warn you though to read
instructions carefully. I Syncronized with my family file and let it run. When
I came back to check how it was working, I found everything deleted off my
external hard drive. Things that cannot be replaced. Now I must
Brian,
I successfully downloaded and installed Build 364 as you recommended.
However, I still get the same run-time error described above when I check
for updates or try to retrieve news items. And when I click on OK in the
error message box, Legacy crashes. Any other suggestions?
Glenn
LOL Sorry but I just tried the toolbar/ribbon I didn't know what it is
called but I hover to read what the button is and really only use the
toolbar below!
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
On Tue, Dec
Received w/o a problem.
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From: Brian [mailto:blr...@optonline.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 8:46 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Test
Just a test message to see if I'm getting through.
Brian
John,
All I can say is 'Wow!' You have a very complex operation going with all
your family files. Thank you very much for the time you have taken to
share with me your strategy for Legacy folders. In my case, I have a SSD
(labeled C:) where by default the Win7 OS and all program files are
A yes PITA's my top one is in V8 Deluxe I now have all tabs showing
[tab]which they never did in 7.5 free but I do love V8 G
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:56 PM,
I wondered if you have a lot of people with no known birth date but who do
have a date of death. Legacy thinks that = 0 which will lower your age
stats a lot.
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
On Mon,
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and grasping critical data elements from complex collections of
That may well be true. I have a tendency with pre-1837 records to only
put in a christening date and not estimate a birth date. However, having
said that I would expect that to affect both the by-century averages and
the by-gender averages and it is the major discrepancy between these
numbers that
The Longest Living Individual had me puzzled. I regularly saw my Aunt
Annie until she died at 105 - always had to read the current issue of Time
magazine because she would quiz you on it, especially if you disagreed with
her view! :-) She died in 1979. The statistic Individual who lived the
Am I right in thinking that media linking is, for want of a better word,
not transitive. An image linked to a source citation then the source
cited for an event does not result in the image being linked to the event.
A typical situation: I have a census image sheet which I transcribe and
cite as
It is possible to check who the individual in question is by selecting
Edit individual. I started checking back and found that your suggestion
could be correct until I checked my longest living between 1700 and 1799
and came up with an individual born in 1787 and dying in 1878. On this
basis your
David -
Thank you for opening my eyes to the box on the right - Edit Individual
:-)
You are correct that they do appear to be based upon birth year. I have
another (different line) that lived 3 months and 1 day longer than Aunt
Annie; he was born 1855 and died in 1961; thus she was not the
I am using 7.5.0.278; on Win 7-32
Question:
Is the .fdb file the only file one needs to have a complete backup
of the Family file; how about all the many options?
I want to start using 'Dropbox' but I'm unsure if any other files are
needed for a complete backup.
John.
--
John. jfgreg...@shaw.ca
I always turn on all the options for files to be included in the Backup.
You may not have used a feature but if not there will be nothing to
backup so having the option on will not make the backup file larger.
Research Guidance work you have done and Relationships you have set will
not be restored
Have you looked at View-Ages?
It brings up a window showing the age of both spouses shown in the family view
with their ages at each of the vital information dates. Also shows length of
marriage. Dates shown with Day of Week. Ages and Length of Marriage shown in
Years, Months, and Days.
Can't tell you specifically, but it sounds like you have a relatively high
proportion of infant deaths with no sex specified. So you get a bunch of zeros
included in the overall average that are not included in the male/female
averages.
I don't think an individual is included in the averages
On the Pedigree Chart report, I'm not seeing any difference in sources for male
vs female, regardless of female position on chart, regardless of sex of
starting person.
Only thing I noticed is that sources attached to custom events are not shown,
and this is because the custom events are not
Hi, I have not yet upgraded to v8 and have just been lurking on the list,
reading some threads on the upgrade... but am I reading this correctly? All my
media will be unlinked during the upgrade process?? I mean, I see you say
there are two new tools to help me relink my media, but surely I
Glenn,
1/ I call the folder Program Files generically knowing that in Win XP,
that is what it is called.
2/ The key is to do a separation of program and data. The dozens of
settings-type files in My Documents are really an extension of the
program. However, inter-mixed with those files are
Some good points here. As it happens I have no individuals of
indeterminate sex but I do have a significant number with missing birth
or death dates which makes the population available for the lifespan
statistics small. However, I still cannot see any reason why there
should be such a big
After I went from 7.5 to 8 all of my links were intact. I didn't have to
relink anything.
Michele
Technical Support
mich...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net
wrote:
Hi, I have not yet upgraded to
I think I have a possible explanation. I have been working with a recent
family file where I still have lots of missing data. On a quick estimate
only about 20% of my individuals have both birth and death data and the
numbers for century-lifespans are about 20% of the gender-lifespans
which
If you want to use the Media Gather tool and you have sub folders in your media
folder, you will lose all your sub folders. It will gather all your files into
one big folder.
If you have files with the same name it will put numbers at the end of the
title to distinguish them from one another.
I, like Sherry, had no (as in zero) problems with the media. A check of media
files using OptionsCustomizelocations indicated all media files were found.
Browsing through the data afterwards has revealed that all appear to be in
place in V8. I used the copy file and convert method to import
David,
I note that there has not been a single response to your
question from the Legacy staff. I would have thought it a
simple thing for them to have supplied the answer to your
question, yet they have not done so. Additionally I believe
there should be an appendix to the Legacy manual that
In V 8 I entered a known spouse to Mary Smith and the fact that they
divorced - but the status (Divorced) does not show up in the Marriage
record in Family View. I then added a date, but still there was no
recognition in the Marriage pane. Is this a bug or have I missed something
(I read the
Did you select the option 8.10 in Options Customize to Show Status
on Family View?
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:55 PM, John Roose jbro...@gmail.com wrote:
In V 8 I entered a known spouse to Mary Smith and the fact that they
divorced - but
I would first check option 8.10 and see whether ‘On Marriage Info” is selected.
Paul Gray
From: John Roose [mailto:jbro...@gmail.com]
Sent: December-16-13 1:56 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Marriage Status
In V 8 I entered a known spouse to Mary Smith and the
Hello Brian,
I'm haven't focussed on what appears in the list of sources [endnotes] but the
fact that there are no source reference numbers beside birth or death
information for any females except if they are the starting person and then
only on the starting person.
All males have source
Thanx Sherry and Paul -
I missed that one in Options and didn't think to recheck there. My goof.
John
Genealogy - - - - - it's in my blood!
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I too have been curious about this. The folder structure of Legacy 7
and earlier was different from what I've seen/heard for Legacy 8. For
Legacy 7 and earlier I believe the default was:
Data
...docs
...pictures
...sounds
...videos
(Or was Data folder, by default, at the same level as the others
The media is linked to the event - indirectly. Unfortunately, Media Center is
not programmed to find those links, though it certainly could, and in my
opinion should show them when *All pictures or an Event that links to them is
selected. Perhaps should have an additional selection of *Source
If you are doing something wrong, then I am too. I see the same thing.
Joseph Leavitt
On 12/16/2013 1:04 PM, Susie Zada wrote:
Hello Brian,
I'm haven't focussed on what appears in the list of sources [endnotes] but
the fact that there are no source reference numbers beside birth or death
That's the difference - Basic vs Sourcewriter sources.
= Pedigree Chart report, females not in first position, Basic sources aren't
being recognized/included.
-Original Message-
From: Susie Zada [mailto:sz...@zades.com.au]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 3:49 PM
To:
Thanks Kurt and Joseph - have reported the problem.
Regards Susie Z
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Kneeland [mailto:kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 December 2013 9:10 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Pedigree Chart sources
That's the
Eliz,
What we are all wondering is what records are selected to be used for the
averaging?
For the 1900-1999 grouping does that mean a person had to be born aft 1900
or died after 1900?
How much does abt., aft., bet, bef, cal, cir, records are used if any?
A simple explanation on the Help page
I use Legacy v8 Deluxe
Windows 8
I have always put surnames in Uppercase. I thought that was the proper
thing to do.
Legacy allows you to specify that this will always happen.
But then it will flag a potential problem. This happens regardless of
whether you have Uppercase surnames on or off.
You
I have updated from Legacy 7.5 deluxe to Legacy 8 deluxe.
In the process I have lost all the items on the clipboard. Is there a
way to retrieve them?
Terry Montgomery
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Terry Montgomery wrote:
I use Legacy v8 Deluxe
Windows 8
I have always put surnames in Uppercase. I thought that was the proper
thing to do.
Legacy allows you to specify that this will always happen.
But then it will flag a potential problem. This happens regardless of
whether you have
I don't think there is any way to bring over the clipboard from 7.5 to 8.
Shouldn't be too hard to re-build by going a record where you had previously
used the clipboard and copy it back into the clipboard.
-Original Message-
From: Terry Montgomery [mailto:trmgeneal...@gmail.com]
Sent:
Hi Folks,
Another problem which has been reported ...
If you use the List Style formatting for your events, the first person
appearing after the first page will have events that have retained the
Description, Date and Place of the last event for the previous person and
keep repeating those
Hi Susie and Joseph,
I have the same issue - I think. I have sources against the Name appearing for
both males and females. However, only the males have sources for birth,
marriage and death.
Regards
Patsy Daly
-Original Message-
From: JV Leavitt [mailto:jleavi...@att.net]
Sent:
And it is easy to change globally. Options-Customize 3.3 select Initial Caps
- Apply. The Apply will change all your current to the new setting. Then
option 3.4 set to Display Uppercase. You can have it the way you like it and
no Potential Problem flags.
-Original Message-
From:
I, also, cannot get my surnames in uppercase to stick. Have done the
options for Global change multiple times and still get the dreaded red
Potential problems button. LOL
JS
AZ
On 12/16/2013 4:33 PM, Kurt Kneeland wrote:
And it is easy to change globally. Options-Customize 3.3 select
This was a minor problem with earlier versions, but now the problem alert
is in my face and I want get rid of it.
When I entered most of my people, I used All Caps. How do I get rid of the
error.
I really don't want to go to each and every person and check the box that
it is not a problem.
How do
Have you tried shift + right click on the problem alert icon.
Click Standardization (tab), uncheck Surname entered as all uppercase,
then click Close.
I'm sorry if this has already been suggested or if you have done this and
it is not solving your problem.
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:23 PM,
Go to SearchReplace Surname
Find SURNAME check box Match Case
Replace Surname
Start
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.comwrote:
This was a minor problem with earlier versions, but now the problem alert
is in my face and I want get rid of it.
When I
Options - Customize - 3.3 set to Initial Caps - Apply
This will change all your surnames to the initial caps standard.
From: Rebecca Williams [mailto:rebecca.w...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:24 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] potential problem
Use detailed search to find and set tag1 for all possible husbands.
Use detailed search to find and set tag2 for all possible wives.
Use this SQL query to display marriages that have Husband on tag1 and Wife on
tag2.
SELECT tblMR.IDMR, tblIR.IDIR, tblIR.GivenName, tblIR.Surname, tblIR.BirthSD,
You don't get rid of the PP alerts for all capital surnames by
changing the option at 3.3.
You get rid of it by changing the PP conditions you check for.
There are various ways to get to these. One way - Tools Ribbon -
Potential Problems.
Standardisation Tab - last option: untick Surname
Once you have your list of relevant John Smiths
Search in that list for
Individual - given names contains Mary
AND
Individual - spouses surname equals Smith
AND
Individual - birth place contains Ireland.
There are missing search criteria but many things can be found by
thinking about it.
The
Cathy,
Non-genealogists don't get what?
Regards,
Jennifer
http://colston-wenck.com
-Original Message-
From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 December 2013 2:26 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems: Surname all
Hi Bob,
The change with Legacy 8 is that the program itself is installed to
Program Files.
A folder is created in My Documents called Legacy Family Tree.
In that folder is a folder called _AppData. This folder contains all
your settings. You cannot place this folder anywhere else. If you
move
Surnames in all capitals look strange to them and they wonder at our
bad grammar rather than thinking about why we may have done that. ;-)
Cathy
At 12:36 PM 17/12/2013, you wrote:
Cathy,
Non-genealogists don't get what?
Regards,
Jennifer
http://colston-wenck.com
-Original Message-
Oh - I see.
Well I have always used all capitals for surnames. Occasionally it is not clear
otherwise which is the surname.
Regards,
Jennifer
-Original Message-
From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 December 2013 4:02 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Hi Cathy Pinner,
I beg to differ - I do not have a folder called Legacy Family Tree in
My Documents - in fact I don't have a folder anywhere on my computer
called that.
I wonder why!
At 03:59 PM 17/12/2013, you wrote:
Hi Bob,
The change with Legacy 8 is that the program itself is installed to
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