On 09/01/2014 23:41, lio . wrote:
*I* transcribe the complete document and copy to the Master Text. I then
copy pertinent parts of the Master Text to the Detail Text depending on
what I want to prove. (VERY time consuming, but I liked that if forced
me to analyze the document).
*You*
Jim
Highlight your grandfather..right-click, choose unlink from wife….children will
stay with her
To link correct relationship edit her marriage.
Please backup before you attempt this..
I have done it many times,,it will work
But until YOU are satisfied you need to backup!
All the Best
On 10/01/2014 03:38, Kathy Thompson wrote:
Isn't it prompting you to double check that any notes or comments that
need to be added have been added?
Yes, that's the idea.
But the question appears after the Source Detail screen has opened, so
if you need to add/change anything you are already
On 10/01/2014 06:35, Robert57P_gmail wrote:
How do I control where Legacy looks for timelines? I don't see it under
CUSTOMIZATION.
Can't answer that, but ...
I just discovered that Legacy version 8 on my desktop is looking for the
timelines in the old version 7 folder. Not a major problem
I've looked under Addresses, and under Exporting a Legacy File, but no luck.
Am I able to export only Addresses (Mailing, Event, Repository) from a Legacy
file, and then import them into a new Legacy file?
Thanks,
leo
Legacy User Group guidelines:
I found it!
Always 10 seconds after I hit Send on my questions. Doh!
For other newbies, you don't Export the data first, you simply Import it into
the new database from the old database.
Thanks!
L
From: likeitouts...@hotmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG]
Bob,
See if this works, select the Chronology Tab Options from the menu select
Display Options under Other Options (bottom right corner) click the button
labeled Select Remove any selected timelines showing in the Currently
Selected Timelines window click the button labeled Add A Timeline
Thanks Brian, but it just seems confusing to see the same person on a chart
in two different families without any explanation. Is there some way to
indicate adoption on the chart?
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Brian/Support
br...@legacyfamilytree.comwrote:
If they are correctly connected
On 10/01/2014 17:29, lio . wrote:
Re-doing my database, has shown me many areas that I may have done
improperly the first time.
If if a birth occurred December 1, but was registered December 3,
which date do you use when recording occupations, residences, and
other side information found on
Yes I think that’s the way it is. There’s a note in the share data window after
you click an arrow saying shared events will not be included or something
similar.
Bryan
Chch, NZ
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From: Graham Love
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 6:01 AM
To: Legacy
I haven't gone back to check, but I don't think this has changed from v7.
The prompt is for when you APPLY the Source Clipboard, not for when you
set it up in the first place. The context-sensitive Help says If you
want to be prompted for the Source Detail each time you use the
clipboard, check
The main reason for me to use many AKAs is the same as an earlier poster - so I
can find information about someone when that person is referred to by one of
his sometimes many AKAs. When searching the index of a book, say, knowing all
the names a person has been called (not being funny here),
Submit a suggestion. It's a great idea, and should not be a hard thing for the
programmers to do -- surely they have the ability to look at all the settings
when they are researching bugs, testing new code, etc.
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave
Yes, sometimes it feels like the tag field was added to a marriage, but any
functionality beyond tag/untag and go to next tagged was never developed.
Hmm...
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman
Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton
Paula and C.G.,
Yes please do!
I have been suggesting this for quite a while but my pleas have fallen on
deaf ears.
I have suggested just adding it as another report which would allow
previewing, printing or saving as a PDF file.
Larry Lee
ldlee...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:22
You could be right, of course.
Cheryl
CE WOOD wrote:
The main reason for me to use many AKAs is the same as an
earlier poster - so I can find information about someone
when that person is referred to by one of his sometimes many
AKAs. When searching the index of a book, say, knowing all
It's very much like the date of a wedding. Many times the actual wedding was
performed on one day but the minister did not return the license for recording
by the clerk until some days later. I can't think of anyone that would want to
use the date of recording because that is purely an
I agree with Sherry. I do the same thing with obituaries. I add residence
events for the listed surviving family members but I use the date of death, not
the day the obituary came out.
Michele
Technical Support
mich...@legacyfamilytree.com
www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
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Thanks Mike and Henry for the help.
Jim
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How can you tell which copy of the timelines directory is being used? Other
than the help file reference, I don't see any place where it tells me where the
timeline info is being accessed from?
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From: Robert57P_gmail [mailto:robert...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January
I would use the date of the birth, as that is what the event is, not the
registration of the birth. Some registrations may not be done for days, weeks
or even months.
Even in modern times, when there is no birth certificate and one applies for a
Delayed one, it may be 30-70 years later. Think
On 10/01/2014 23:47, David Abernathy wrote:
I would use the date of the birth, as that is what the event is, not
the registration of the birth. Some registrations may not be done for
days, weeks or even months.
But the OP was asking about Sourcing information such as the Occupation
of someone
Currently not automatically but you can add a
textbox from the Insert Ribbon and put it in that.
Cathy
At 01:51 AM 11/01/2014, you wrote:
Thanks Brian, but it just seems confusing to see
the same person on a chart in two different
families without any explanation. Is there
some way to
It may not be as simple as you think Paula.
Have you ever looked inside one of the .usr files (they are plain text).
All the report .usr files are just a list of cryptic numbers with an
occasional path name, file name or people readable value. The program
opens those files to write the options
All the .usr files are cryptic, which is why just being able to view them with
a text editor is insufficient.
Colors would be represented as a small block of the applicable color or the
word text in the applicable color on a block of the applicable background
color.
Obviously, the report
Brian, Kurt, Paula,
It may not be simple Brian but it isn't complex and the usefulness
certainly makes it worth doing. I totally agree with Kurt and Paula. In
addition only options 3.9, 6.3, 9.1 9.2 would require color settings
blocks everything else is text.
Larry Lee
On Jan 10, 2014 6:30
I actually use the marriage tags quite a bit. Here is a help file that I sent
out recently to some of the local Legacy users. It sets the marriage record
Anniversary Reminder but logic to set any of the marriage tags is similar.
The process makes it easy to set all the Birthday Reminders and
That's Easy??
Aside from that - not everyone uses (or wants to use) LTools - and I'd
rather not clear my UserID's just to set reminders or tag more than one
marriage at a time.
On 11 January 2014 13:00, Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com wrote:
I actually use the marriage tags quite a bit.
Not everyone can use SQL. I was only showing that there are ways to do things
that may not exist in the Legacy software but the database structure can
accomplish. Another approach is to use GenViewer with its Highlighting panel
and record selection logic. And yes, SQL is easy if you know how
Cathy:
You're right. Although crazy extreme splitter is more like it.
I've just started lumping and OMG what a difference. Lumping is SO MUCH
FASTER. And using the Shared Event feature is making things fly even faster.
A nice extra is Evidence Explained (and other sourcing books) are really
Jenny:
Thanks very much for your example. I've printed it off, and have filed it in my
how to Legacy folder.
L
From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Lumping vs. Splitting
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:29:10 +
On 09/01/2014 23:41, lio .
Does anybody else think it strange to want genealogy software to also remind
you of birthdays and anniversaries? Isn’t that why drug stores give out those
free calendars where you just take out a pencil, open to all the appropriate
months and days, and then write in things like “Uncle Joe’s
That worked - no error msgs anymore. Thanks.
And, yes, I know there is a risk to not using the defaults. That's why
I was upfront with the info on where I installed it (so support could
simply reply with no defaults, not our job to help you). As I think
about it now, however, not using
Sort of the Swiss Army knife or Leatherman Tool of genealogy software.
Larry Lee
ldlee...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot
br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote:
Does anybody else think it strange to want genealogy software to also
remind you of birthdays and
That was part of my problem - I could not find a way to change the
location. I could not even find a way to CHECK on what location was in
use. The only way I realized I had a problem was when I copied my data
file to my wife's laptop (that never had Legacy 7) and tried to look at
the CHRONOLOGY
I have that same situation. We raised our nieces via guardianship, so
they show up under us and under their birth/natural parents.
I submitted an enhancement request asking that Legacy offer an OPTION of
different colored connection lines (both for inside the program and for
the various
On 2014/01/11 03:02, Brian/Support wrote:
Have you ever looked inside one of the .usr files (they are plain text). All
the report .usr files are just a list of cryptic numbers with an occasional
path name, file name or people readable value. The program opens those files
to write the options
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