Re: [LegacyUG] Misprints

If the transcription error is in medieval or earlier century documents, I would enter it as an alternate name. It may well have been copied and appear in other sources. Having it as am alternate name would enable to to check your index. When I find transcription errors on ancestry.com, I do

[LegacyUG] Misprints

I have a person whose name is Emily. However she has been transcribed as 'Eily' and 'Emil'. What is standard practice with names that have been transcribed wrongly? AKA does not sound right as she was not also known by these names. Or do I just put in her real name and allow the reader to

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding "Global" Events

Leon & Brian, I tried your “global” source approach and it did transmit the desired website link to my Ancestry pages via a gedcom. However, as I suspected, it placed the information at the bottom of the Sources List on the person page. While that may be the best I can do for now, it

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding "Global" Events

Thanks for your reply, Brian. A "global" source won't work for me because it won't be easy to position it uniformly on the person page in Ancestry. I'm not trying to suppress sources that are uploaded to Ancestry, in fact I upload them all. But they often to not display correctly or fully.

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding "Global" Events

Sorry, Don, my instructions are for adding a source to everyone. Chap ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ⛳ > On Sep 22, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Leon Chapman wrote: > > Don > Shared events is for a few people like a family in a census record, so that >

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding "Global" Events

Don Shared events is for a few people like a family in a census record, so that will not do what u want to do. Try this. 1. Go to Tools, Advanced Tagging, Use an unused Tag and Tag everyone in your database with say Tag 1. 2. Go to Tools, Advanced Sourcing A. Put a source on the source

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding "Global" Events

I do not know a way to add an event to everyone but if you would be satisfied with a source attached to everyone with your disclaimer then you can add a source when exporting to the GEDCOM for use by TNG. When exporting click on the Autosource button to tell legacy to add the source to

[LegacyUG] Adding "Global" Events

No luck in getting help on the Legacy FB page, so I thought I would try here. --- I'm trying to add a "global" event to everyone in my family tree file so that I can tell people looking at my