Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Location as a Cemetery Event

2013-11-23 Thread Bob Bashford
Agreed ... I use locations with a sense of what works ... Naples (Rose Ridge Cemetery, C-248), Ontario, New York, USA ... works very nicely and separates it from other locations in Naples such as Naples (Semans Road), Ontario, New York, USA ... Bob On 11/23/2013 2:30 PM, Ron Ferguson

Re: [LegacyUG] Days of week (website recommended) ...

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Bashford
I'm lazy ... no need for tedious scrolling ... I use a website that calculates both Old New dates. http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/calendar/Day_of_the_Week.html Or google the month/year ... Feb 1938 calendar brings up a monthly calendar ... useful for those obituaries which say ... died

Re: [LegacyUG] marriages (misspellings)

2013-06-23 Thread Bob Bashford
My favorite is an amazed Viola! On 6/23/2013 1:43 PM, Ron Walter wrote: Seeing ad nauseam mizspelt may make some people want to throw up. Why does this thread continue ad mausium? Please exchange E-Mails and take it off-line! It was already old last week. Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] Persons with only assumed/acquired surnames

2012-03-14 Thread Bob Bashford
'Unknown' as a given name tells it like it is ... as does 'Pratt-Wife' if the maiden name is unknown. Bob On 3/14/2012 11:19 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: I would put Richord Pratt and Richard Pratt in as aAKAs. In her main name field I would put Mrs. Pratt [Pratt surname, Mrs. in the prefix

Re: [LegacyUG] Genviewer

2012-02-18 Thread Bob Bashford
You could buy it for $1.00 and if you think it's worthwhile, send more $$$ later ... I do recommend his products ... wish he'd write more of them. Good stuff! On 2/18/2012 11:23 AM, Tim Rosenlof wrote: On 2/18/2012 9:08 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: Thanks, Ron. They are letting you buy

[LegacyUG] Number of pictures attached to an fdb file?

2011-10-16 Thread Bob Bashford
I've got several very similar Legacy files ... I'd like to find out how many pictures are attached to each one. Is there any way to get this number? I looked through the help files and archives and couldn't come up with an answer. Have I overlooked the obvious? Regards Bob Bashford Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Orphaned Families

2011-09-02 Thread Bob Bashford
I've gotten unconnected people together on a chart by showing George and Martha Washington as their parents. You could also use Adam Eve ... then make them the parents of the farthest-back person/couple in each line. It's something that people can understand ... and adds a bit of whimsy. Easy

Re: [LegacyUG] Techie DOS question

2011-08-31 Thread Bob Bashford
I use ScreenClipper and Irfanview ... both free(and easy). On 8/31/2011 4:00 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: Hopefully, this is not too far off list and will be answered quickly anyway. I'm trying to determine what all I have linked vs. stored in Legacy folders. And I really like hard-copy to

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Bob Bashford
Maybe download OpenOffice (or one of the other free ones) and see if that 'plays better' with the .rtf files? On 8/30/2011 1:54 PM, Gociao wrote: Thanks for that suggestion, Jerry. Unfortunately, the results are the same. There seems to be some hard formatting in the RTF file that doesn't

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports in RTF

2011-08-30 Thread Bob Bashford
, Bob Bashford wrote: Maybe download OpenOffice (or one of the other free ones) and see if that 'plays better' with the .rtf files? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup

[LegacyUG] List of people without pictures?

2011-08-21 Thread Bob Bashford
to the family asking for photos. I can't find any way to do this in Legacy or LTools. Am I missing something obvious? Bob Bashford Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup

Re: [LegacyUG] List of people without pictures?

2011-08-21 Thread Bob Bashford
On 8/21/2011 11:33 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:57:22 -0400, Bob Bashford older...@rochester.rr.com wrote: This is what I want ... 1) I tag all individuals born after 1900. 2) Within the tagged list, I want to find everyone who does not have a picture attached

Re: [LegacyUG] List of people without pictures?

2011-08-21 Thread Bob Bashford
On 8/21/2011 10:57 AM, Bob Bashford wrote: I've tried looking in the archives help files for this, but maybe I'm using the wrong search terms. This is what I want ... 1) I tag all individuals born after 1900. 2) Within the tagged list, I want to find everyone who does not have

[LegacyUG] Tagging glitch workaround ...

2011-07-05 Thread Bob Bashford
Sure sounds annoying to me ... How about setting another tag for the record when you complete each update? Then continue on through the list. When you've completed the whole list, untag the first tag if the second one is set. Then untag the second tag. Now you're left with a tagged list of

[LegacyUG] Adding a password to Legacy generated web pages?

2011-07-05 Thread Bob Bashford
Dick Eastman has published an article in his online newsletter detailing a way to use the Dropbox service as a place to publish web pages like those generated by LFT ... Is there any (simple, please) way to add a password structure to the index.html file? Seems like this should be a program

Re: [LegacyUG] Unknown Names in Legacy

2011-03-21 Thread Bob Bashford
You can try using FirstName or LastName ... makes them searchable, too ... Or UFN and ULN ... Bob On 3/21/2011 11:20 AM, Joshua Crump wrote: I currently have people in my family tree with unknown first names and other people with unknown surnames. When I print a report I can't tell if some

Re: [LegacyUG] Help!!! ... FRAUDSTERS AT WORK !!!

2011-02-21 Thread Bob Bashford
Text similar to that supposedly sent by Hugh Busey back at the end of October ... I hope that no one fell for this scam then or now ... On 2/21/2011 6:09 AM, Barb Weed wrote: Hello dear, I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and i came down here to London,United Kingdom for a

Re: [LegacyUG] My Plight!!! [SOUNDS LIKE A SCAM] MY REASON FOR POSTING ...

2010-10-23 Thread Bob Bashford
Thanks for your helpful reply, Dave. It's a weekend ... a Legacy response might be delayed ... and unwitting LUG members might fall prey to this scam ... I'm not sure it's a hacked account ... I believe it's not Hugh's regular posting email address ... it may be a new gmail account set up for

[LegacyUG] Locations ... my way works for me ...

2010-03-09 Thread Bob Bashford
(Hope I got the HTML turned off properly) This is a rewrite of my reply several years ago to a poster who asked how to combine old names and new names for the same area ... here's how I handle that and other similar problems ... Brigham (old bridge by the river), CountyName, NJ, US