Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicates

Why not merge them? Sent from my iPad > On Feb 10, 2020, at 2:34 PM, Trevor Good wrote: > > Hi All > Occasionally you end up with a child or children entered twice under one set > of parents, obviously this is an error which needs correcting, so what is the > correct procedure - Delete the

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

This conversation has gotten absurd. If you don’t want to be a genealogist, then don’t follow the standards that have been cited, go ahead and do it whatever way you want, it is your family. Be aware that individuals that follow correct procedures will not be downloading your trees because we

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

This is very wise. Avoid confusion. Avoid abbreviations, USA could be United States or Union of South Africa. Use appropriate names, enter place as it is in the time period that the event takes place. Study up on genealogy standards and practices. Sent from my iPad > On Aug 3, 2019, at

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

Great answer! Sent from my iPad > On Aug 3, 2019, at 3:50 PM, Ian Macaulay wrote: > > I Live in CA, Not CaliforniaIMHO Acronyms are not proper English, and it > confuses your Neighbors. > > >> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 3:14 PM James G. Hermsen via LegacyUserGroup >> wrote: >> I never had

Re: [LegacyUG] Does Legacy export pictures in a gedcom?

GEDCOM only exports text. It will not do pictures. Donna Sent from my iPad > On Jan 20, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > >> On 20-Jan-19 07:52 PM, Gloria DeSousa wrote: >> I exported several gedcoms I made in Legacy to MyHeritage, choosing >> Myheritage in the drop down menu, and

Re: [LegacyUG] Programmers?

-- > Ronald Bernier > Woonsocket, RI > > > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018, at 11:03 PM, Donna Newell wrote: > > I agree with Linda everyone needs to stop gripping. Either use the > > program or don’t. > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyU

Re: [LegacyUG] Programmers?

I agree with Linda everyone needs to stop gripping. Either use the program or don’t. Sent from my iPad > On Sep 17, 2018, at 10:00 PM, Donna Newell wrote: > > I don’t think Ken, Dave and Geoff can do anything at this point. They now > owe their livelihood to MyHeritage, you

Re: [LegacyUG] Programmers?

I don’t think Ken, Dave and Geoff can do anything at this point. They now owe their livelihood to MyHeritage, you can’t expect them to turn on their employer. Users are just going to have to decide for themselves their best course of action. Stay or bail. Sent from my iPad > On Sep 17,

Re: [LegacyUG] Cemeteries

I use the event description field for the name of the cemetery. You can then do a search on that field. I use Search, individual, Event-Description, contains, then the name of the cemetery I am searching for. Up comes my search list which I can print using the option button at the bottom,

Re: [LegacyUG] (no subject)

Along with the other excellent suggestions, I would suggest that you consider joining the Legacy user group on Facebook. You can ask a question an have it answered in just a few minutes. Definitely look at the videos on the Legacy site, they are some of the best put out on using the program. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Upload Event Notes to Ancestry

Actually you can put notes in Ancestry. In Facts you can add a description to the fact. There is another place under Tools in the upper right corner that notes and comments can be entered. The notes in this area are added by the owner of the tree, but anyone can access the comments portion.

Re: [LegacyUG] AFN Numbers

I do not use the AFN field -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Michele/Support Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:21 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: [LegacyUG] AFN Numbers POLL TIME!

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping feature

gt; wrote: > > It is more complicated than that. > > ILT > Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia > > From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On > Behalf Of Donna Newell > Sent: Monday, 5 February 2018 11:57 PM > To: Legacy User Group <lega

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping feature

I was under the impression that the mapping problem was one created because Microsoft made some changes. How can we expect legacy to fix a Microsoft change. I would think the Microsoft people would have to be willing to work with the legacy people. They might have more important things to

Re: [LegacyUG] a Warning, and another problem with the FAG

section of events under cemetery. I can see where it would really mess up individuals that have used the FAG field in v9. Don’t know of a solution for it. The program should say which individual they are removing the number so you can go back and put in the new number. Donna Newell Ardmore

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Merger

I believe we should take a "wait and see" attitude. Not everything is all bad or all good. I feel they deserve a fair shake and time to make it work. Negativity only breeds more negativity. Are you a "glass half full or a glass half empty" person. Life is short, I choose to look at the

Re: [LegacyUG] Help With Citing Sources

It is a very pricey book, $76. There is a quick sheet offered by Legacy that covers a lot of the sources that are frequently cited, I think it is well under $10. I too have problems with how exactly to cite a source, it gets very confusing as to the source-detail etc. Sent from my iPad > On

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with V8.0.0.602 and V8.0.0.604

I agree with you. Some of us are happy with 8 and shouldn't have to change. And yes I agree they are adding to many dodads to the program, in my opinion it makes it more unstable. Yes I have issues with 8. Purchased 9 but delayed installing it for same reason. What is the rush! Sent from

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Users Classes

Have you thought of viewing the video on the legacy site? Geoff did one on the new version 9 last week I think. Donna Sent from my iPad > On May 10, 2017, at 5:49 PM, Margaret Gagliardi wrote: > > Thanks Sherry, > I see there are no classes anywhere in my part of the

Re: [LegacyUG] Programme is slow when changing screens

That made it a little bit better, but still sluggish in switching to a different individual. Donna Newell Ardmore, Oklahoma -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 2:24 PM To: Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] miss labeling of individual

Legacy finally figured it out and changed the description to the correct >> term of Daughter. >> >> I'll let the programmer's figure out the logic or lack thereof. :-) >> >> >> Brian >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: LegacyUser

Re: [LegacyUG] miss labeling of individual

and look at the relationship label that comes up. I am running 8.0.0.559 I will make the update this evening to 8.0.0.566. Donna Newell Ardmore, OK -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Gene Young Sent: Friday, September 2

Re: [LegacyUG] miss labeling of individual

No I have her listed as a female, she is on the right side of the screen. If I knew how to get a screen shot I would send it. -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Brian Kelly Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 10:35 AM To:

[LegacyUG] miss labeling of individual

I have in my data base a female that is supposed to be identified as 2nd great-great aunt. Instead for some reason Legacy has chosen to label her as 2nd great-great uncle. Does anyone have any ideas why? I am using Legacy 8 Deluxe Donna Newell Ardmore, OK -- LegacyUserGroup mailing

Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage Place Search

Thanks, I was looking in the wrong place. Sent from my iPad > On Jul 18, 2016, at 3:52 AM, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: > >> On 17-Jul-16 11:51 PM, Donna Newell wrote: >> Does anyone know if there is a way to do a search on marriage place? I

[LegacyUG] Marriage Place Search

Does anyone know if there is a way to do a search on marriage place? I wasn't able to locate it. Donna Newell Sent from my iPad -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [LegacyUG] The USER Group purpose?

Linda, I think you must be my sister from another mother. Very well said. Legacy user since ver 2 Sent from my iPad > On Apr 11, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Linda Greethurst wrote: > > Ok, people. This is NOT supposed to be the Legacy Whiners Group! Pull up > your big person

RE: [LegacyUG] Soliciting an opinion

I also like Morgan's book Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques. It is on sale right now at Ancestry. Donna Newell Ardmore, Oklahoma -Original Message- From: Donna Newell [mailto:djnewel...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 2:46 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject

Re: [LegacyUG] Soliciting an opinion

I bought them and found them very informative. What books you choose depends on where you are in your learning curve. A couple of choices are: How To Do Everything Genealogy Karen Clifford's books, Genealogy for the Complete Beginner, Genealogy and Computers for the Advanced Researcher, and

RE: Re[2]: [LegacyUG] Error in new version

Who does deadlines for reports and conferences in Legacy? It is a genealogy program not excel or word. Donna Newell From: CE WOOD [mailto:wood...@msn.com] Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 4:15 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: Re[2]: [LegacyUG] Error in new version Many

Re: [LegacyUG] question

and then copy and paste the text into Legacy. > > Cathy > > Donna Newell wrote: >> >> I have just spent a half hour typing a large document into legacy only >> to find it has disappeared. This has happened a number of times to me. >> Anyone have any ideas what is

[LegacyUG] question

I have just spent a half hour typing a large document into legacy only to find it has disappeared. This has happened a number of times to me. Anyone have any ideas what is going on. And yes I run file maintenance. Donna Newell Legacy User Group guidelines: http

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 507

to interruptions and a Legacy Back Up is a zipped file which means that if a single bit or byte gets wrong then probably the whole file is destroyed. 2015-07-09 19:21 GMT+02:00 Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com: Thank you so much Mike. I reformatted the thumb drive with NTFS and it worked like

RE: [LegacyUG] Error 507

@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Error 507 On 2015/07/09 00:07 AM, Donna Newell wrote: I was trying to save to a 16gig empty thumb drive. Did you read the last paragraph? The error will also occur if attempting to save a backup file greater than 4gb on a disk formatted with the FAT32 file

[LegacyUG] Error 507

Could anyone please tell me what it means when you receive Backup Error: 507, Cannot write to Zip file. I was trying to make a copy of my data from 7 to put into 8, then backup the data. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 507

this article from our Knowledge Base. http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00267 Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com From: Donna Newell [mailto:djnewel...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 11:05 AM To: legacyusergroup

RE: [LegacyUG] pictures

On Friday, August 1, 2014 7:54 PM, Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com wrote: Ron, thanks for the informed answer. It makes a little more sense now. You are saying I can create a folder, I am assuming in Legacy, in which to place all of my media and Legacy will recognize and locate

RE: [LegacyUG] pictures

all the media to some other location regardless of the various collaborators who collected it and kept it separately. The Gather routine probably does work for a single researcher that does not collaborate. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:12 PM, Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com wrote

[LegacyUG] pictures

I am trying to save a picture of a census record to Legacy 8. In Legacy 7 my folder on the drive I used looked like this: 1 Legacy12/29/2012 3:57 PM File folder 1 Irwin 2014-07-08 1,48.48 PM 7/8/2014 1:48 PM Compressed (zipped) Folder

RE: [LegacyUG] pictures

, Have you searched the archives? There were a lot of threads about relinking media and such right about the time v8 came out. The link is at the bottom of this email. --Paula in Texas From: Donna Newell djnewel...@gmail.com To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 11

[LegacyUG] pictures

So far nothing is working on linking up the pictures. I printed a list of missing, 1188, and I can link them individually. Now that will take a long time. It finds the pictures on the other flash drive where they were associated with Legacy 7.5, it is still using that drive as the designation

Re: [LegacyUG] pictures

of that dialogue to any other folder - which is the way to make sure it's in the appropriate sub-folder. I'm not sure I've covered all your queries but hope that helps. Cathy Donna Newell mailto:djnewel...@gmail.com Thursday, 17 July 2014 8:12 AM I have just loaded one of the family files

RE: [LegacyUG] pictures

that helps. Cathy Donna Newell mailto:djnewel...@gmail.com Thursday, 17 July 2014 8:12 AM I have just loaded one of the family files to Legacy 8. The pictures did not all make the switch. I just attempted to add a picture using the picture center and I had to go through a number of steps

[LegacyUG] pictures

I have just loaded one of the family files to Legacy 8. The pictures did not all make the switch. I just attempted to add a picture using the picture center and I had to go through a number of steps, much different than Legacy 7.5, which was really easy. Downloaded a picture, filed it in Legacy

RE: [LegacyUG] Not happy with v8

Everything comes with some issues at first. We just have to be patient and look for the positive and stop only dwelling on the negative. We should all be really thankful that the programmers are not the ones that put up the Obumer care web site. See there is a really big positive. Nothing is

RE: [LegacyUG] Not interested in political social insults

I just thought that everyone should look on the positive side. Sorry I hit you hot button. -Original Message- From: Suzanne [mailto:sjs...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 1, 2013 5:42 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Not interested in political social insults

RE: [LegacyUG] Customer Number for Legacy 8 Upgrades

Isn’t the customer number found under help, general information? I thought it would be there when you opened the file? Donna Newell From: William Boswell [mailto:whb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:59 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Customer

[LegacyUG] Legacy Slowing Down

I have noticed lately that my Legacy program has slowed down considerably. Is there a point in which I should consider splitting my file? I have 4912 Individuals, but a lot of data and multimedia. Using version 7.5.0.219 Deluxe Edition Build Date 15 Feb 2013. Donna Ardmore, Oklahoma

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Slowing Down

with it some more. At least I am not experiencing the great delay I was. I was attributing a lot of it to Win 8, which I could do without Thank you. Hope their update cleans it up a lot. Again Thank you all for your help and advise. Donna Newell Ardmore, Oklahoma -Original Message- From

RE: [LegacyUG] Salt Lake FHL Visit

you don’t find so you don’t go back to the same material again. That is always a waste of time and energy. It takes time at the moment but saves time in the long run. Well that was wordy and you probably knew it all anyway. Donna Newell Ardmore, Oklahoma From: Duane Baker [mailto:dbake

RE: [LegacyUG] Geoff

Omygosh this sounds like Obama care bill passage! -Original Message- From: Bruce Uttley [mailto:b...@uwaterloo.ca] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:51 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geoff On April 24 in the thread V8, Sherry in Technical support replied

RE: [LegacyUG] Panic!

The problem is if you contact Dell you will get someone from India that you can't understand, and they will be very short with you and rather impatient with you also for your not understanding them. Been through the process 3 times in the last couple of months with a brand new W8 computer, I

RE: [LegacyUG] Adopted child

In children's settings there is a drop down screen that you can make note of this. Relationship to Father and Relationship to Mother. The down arrow gives different suggestions, one is adopted. Donna Ardmore, Oklahoma -Original Message- From: Roland Rhoades

[LegacyUG] deleting an MRIN

I accidently selected unmarried for an individual on the marriage screen when I should have selected never married on the individual screen. Now I can't get rid of it. Any suggestions? Donna Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

[LegacyUG] deleting an MRIN

I accidently selected unmarried for an individual on the marriage screen when I should have selected never married on the individual screen. Now I can't get rid of it. Any suggestions? Donna Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

[LegacyUG] deleting

I accidently selected unmarried for an individual on the marriage screen when I should have selected never married on the individual screen. Now I can't get rid of it. Any suggestions? Donna Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages

[LegacyUG] Mail

I can not receive any mail, not even mine back. What is wrong? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server -