Re: Exporting Shared Events [WAS: Re: [LegacyUG] Shared vital Events]

2013-12-06 Thread James Cook
://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Location as a Cemetery Event

2013-11-25 Thread James Cook
). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 US Census

2013-11-25 Thread James Cook
/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James

Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Location as a Cemetery Event

2013-11-25 Thread James Cook
* sort correctly if right to left is set - at least for Western locations. -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestor book report - spouse events

2013-11-20 Thread James Cook
criticism. -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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

Re: [LegacyUG] Fwd: Ancestry Webinar

2013-11-12 Thread James Cook
on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Chromebook

2013-10-24 Thread James Cook
(http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Chromebook

2013-10-24 Thread James Cook
will work on the Chromebook. Legacy is not browser based so it will not work under Chrome OS. It is unlikely that Chromebooks will ever run a virtual machine in which Windows might operate. The answer is NO to Windows based programs. Ron Taylor -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http

Re: [LegacyUG] Combining Event Types

2013-02-28 Thread James Cook
://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Combining Event Types

2013-02-28 Thread James Cook
That should read... replace CENS with RESI On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:40 AM, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at the GEDCOM standard, it looks to me that the nested structure of CENS and RESI are compatible (both using EVENT_DETAIL structures) . So, you could also just do a find

Re: [LegacyUG] Synchronising between Legacy and an online tree

2013-01-28 Thread James Cook
wrote: I have a Legacy tree on my computer and have uploaded a gedcom to Ancestry. I now find the two are diverging - any tips on keeping them updated together, please? -- Elizabeth researching ALLAMBRIDGE (Dorset, Somerset and anywhere else they might turn up) -- James Cook GED Utils

Re: [LegacyUG] Synchronising between Legacy and an online tree

2013-01-28 Thread James Cook
I download the ged-utils.html I am able to read it in my Ultra Edit word editor but have no idea how to process the .clb file. Can you help me on this one? Thanks, David - Original Message - From: James Cook jc1...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Cc: Sent

Re: [LegacyUG] Exporting event sentence definitions to a .gedcom

2012-10-16 Thread James Cook
All true, but completely misses the point of the OP. Again, the OP was essentially asking why when I produce a PDF do I get a different sentence than when I produce a GEDCOM (and that the PDF format is correct and the GEDCOM wrong). A very fair question. If Legacy can produce readable sentences

Re: [LegacyUG] Exporting event sentence definitions to a .gedcom

2012-10-16 Thread James Cook
Oh sorry! I completely off on this one. Not sure why, but got stuck thinking this is all about NOTE but it's also PLAC and DATE. Forget I said anything. One of those days. On Oct 16, 2012, at 3:45 PM, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: All true, but completely misses the point of the OP

Re: [LegacyUG] Another problem -- sorry! -- with source list names in a new .gedcom

2012-10-05 Thread James Cook
something I have in my blog (my marco stuff) could be of use to you as well. -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Another problem -- sorry! -- with source list names in a new .gedcom

2012-10-05 Thread James Cook
at 8:50 AM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your reply, Jim. So what happens to the Source List Name when I actually export that file to a website -- does the title get repeated -- showing once in the title slot, once in the source list name spot?? Pat -- James Cook GED Utils

Re: [LegacyUG] FindMyPast Customised Search URL please

2012-10-05 Thread James Cook
nameVariants=YfromYear=[StartYear]toYear=[EndYea r]Region=Britain -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup

Re: [LegacyUG] gedcom error reports - what is an F number?

2012-10-05 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG] Another problem -- sorry! -- with source list names in a new .gedcom

2012-10-05 Thread James Cook
at 10:17 AM, bgsu1...@gmail.com wrote: James Cook jc1...@gmail.com proclaimed: I suspect that because the Source List Name is really not part of a source citation (that is to say its use is intended for internal displays in Legacy), that it doesn't get exported to GEDCOM at all. It exports as '1

Re: [LegacyUG] Webinar (research plans)

2012-07-22 Thread James Cook
I've not watched this webinar, but I can tell from this tread I need to do so soon. Regarding footnoting research (or any of the notes) I go ahead and attached multiple sources to the note. I then use the MLA style (I think) withing the note, which is a parenthetical or square brackets to note

Re: [LegacyUG] Description on photo for webpages

2012-06-21 Thread James Cook
: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jc1779/ross/215.htm -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Description on photo for webpages

2012-06-21 Thread James Cook
javascript rather than html. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Description on photo for webpages

2012-06-16 Thread James Cook
on what can be done.  If I remember right - and its been a bit - PHP/SQL was a particular problem. Jackie On 6/15/2012 6:30 PM, James Cook wrote: I am leaving for a long weekend, but will take a look next week.  I'll get my own space there so I can play.  This will be unfortunate if this is in fact

Re: [LegacyUG] Description on photo for webpages

2012-06-15 Thread James Cook
and see if you agree. Ron Ferguson www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: James Cook Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:27 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Description on photo for webpages You are close.  Anything 'inside' that folder has

Re: [LegacyUG] Description on photo for webpages

2012-06-12 Thread James Cook
-- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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 - before

Re: [LegacyUG] Description on photo for webpages

2012-06-12 Thread James Cook
are: C:Legacywebclinewebpages (which includes the clinepictures folder)  and this is what I recreate and  upload to update my website pages.  So am I on the right track: Inside this clinewebpages, there would be a folder for legacy pages that I would not want updated? Syble -- James Cook GED Utils

Re: [LegacyUG] Description on photo for webpages

2012-06-11 Thread James Cook
foundation to accomplish that from as well, and I plan to add that customization here too. Hope that helps, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Syble Glasscock syble_...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there a way to include in the Web Page Creation, the Description that I've added to photos. Thanks, Syble -- James

Re: [LegacyUG] Photo Naming Tip

2012-06-09 Thread James Cook
, Legacy is more detailed, and I can always followup with more later. Anyway, works for me. On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:07 AM, M. Brenzel brenze...@roadrunner.com wrote: What do you do when the photo has more than 1 person in it? Mary -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http

Re: [LegacyUG] Photo Naming Tip

2012-06-08 Thread James Cook
of the screen in Windows 7. Other than that, it's pretty obvious looking at the thumbnails what the content is. For instance, a census record, marriage certificate, whatever. -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http

Re: [LegacyUG] Citation issue

2012-05-29 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG] Noted event: She has conflicting birth information of [date] in descendant's report

2012-05-21 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG] Compiling Family History

2012-05-02 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG] selecting a few new people to upload to ancestry

2012-04-14 Thread James Cook
Your welcome. Glad to have helped. On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Thank you James, yes it has helped a lot. Your para. 1) is also my understanding. 2) is new to me, as I never used Ancestry in that way, and simply upload a basic GEDCOM from

Re: [LegacyUG] Burial plot number

2012-04-13 Thread James Cook
Many, including myself, put this type of information in location fields. The benefits of using location are: - Work in the most amount of reports (or at least it seems so to me, haven't actually done a complete study of where notes show up) - Can geocode and map specific locations in the same

Re: [LegacyUG] Dropbox and Legacy

2012-03-19 Thread James Cook
You could work out of the Dropbox folder, but I don't - no particular reason. I just copy the files to dropbox occasionally. I wrote a little script to automate the process. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Locking up after Update

2012-03-14 Thread James Cook
Thanks for checking. I've rebooted several times, turned off McAfee, downloaded the update vs install from web. Nothing fixed it for me. Have sent an emal to support. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] Location defaults changed

2012-03-12 Thread James Cook
Ah, you are right, that's what I was thinking of. Frustrating for sure! On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Gene Young n2...@cfl.rr.com wrote: I believe you are referring to the selection to expand/contract location names.  This apparently only acts on existing entries that Legacy has already

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Locking up after Update

2012-03-12 Thread James Cook
I was afraid that was going to be the answer. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Alan Pereira alanpere...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Just tried the Potential problems and all works fine for me. Version 7.5.0.166 Windows 7 64 bit Alan Pereira -Original Message- From: James Cook [mailto:jc1

Re: [LegacyUG] Location defaults changed

2012-03-12 Thread James Cook
That was my thought initially, but after a follow-up from the OPer, it seems that when entering new locations (and I guess when geolocating), Legacy now returns United States ALWAYS. So, if you are one who prefers USA, you must manually change it every time. Not friendly at all. On Mon, Mar

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Locking up after Update

2012-03-12 Thread James Cook
Still doing it today, after Check Repair (3 images have been renamed) and a reboot. I did do a backup before updating Legacy, but when after the update it told me my file was not in the correct format and had to be updated too. It warned me that doing so would make it incompatible with prior

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Locking up after Update

2012-03-12 Thread James Cook
Just as a test, I opened the Sample.fdb file, and the Potential Problems locks up on that one too. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:34 PM, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: Still doing it today, after Check Repair (3 images have been renamed) and a reboot.  I did do a backup before updating Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Locking up after Update

2012-03-12 Thread James Cook
Further Experimentation... If I click either the Create Problems List or the View Existing Problems List the dang things locks up every time. However, if I click the Preview button, I get a report back. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Print maternal lineage

2012-02-26 Thread James Cook
Didn't see any replies, but I think LTools has a lineage worksheet that will print between any two people - male or female. Dennis said he's out for a month, but maybe somebody could confirm if this true. Or go find Dennis in the other mail group. Having said that, that will not answer the

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

2012-02-14 Thread James Cook
[[Father of John]] Smith On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: When I have an ancestor, whose given name I do not know, but for whom I have information to create and event,  I should like to know what other people use for a given name. Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

2012-02-14 Thread James Cook
I use double brackets [[Father of John]] - these are called privacy brackets (I think) in the help file. This gives you flexibility in that you have options in reports settings to either include or exclude private data, and I am pretty sure remove the brackets as well. I usually do not include

Re: [LegacyUG] Location List clean-up

2012-01-31 Thread James Cook
Re: Where to put address, cemetery name, church name, etc. I put them both in the Location and in the Address forms (behind the + buttons as previous mentioned). Why? That's the real question, right? In the Location fields because of the flexibility it provides for searches, reports, mapping

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a Census Record per Geoff Rasmussen Webinar

2012-01-29 Thread James Cook
/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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

Re: [LegacyUG] Find My Past Search

2011-11-06 Thread James Cook
://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual Events vs Marriage Events

2011-11-06 Thread James Cook
I use Census events in marriage area for couples to limit the info I need to past around. I like to look at the chronology and/or reports and be able to tell if I've found them on all available census during there lifetime. If you do not use a Census event, is it not an important part of your

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual Events vs Marriage Events

2011-11-06 Thread James Cook
I source notes, but because they apply to the entire notes I use an MLA notation on paragraphs to indicate which sources goes with what. So a note I got from a book on Smiths might have a notation like [Smith95]. Maybe a census would be [C1880]. I am not too formal with my notations, just enough

Re: [LegacyUG] Workflow for Updating from Multiple Sites

2011-11-01 Thread James Cook
Only one way to manage this (IMO): - Do all work in Legacy. - Replace online trees via Legacy upload periodically. (At ancestry it's a delete, new upload) If you must go from online to Legacy, then possibley... - Find a GEDCOM diff tool (gotta be one of those right?) - Download GEDCOM from your

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Writer question

2011-10-16 Thread James Cook
on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-16 Thread James Cook
) the conversion from Source Writer to GEDCOM is horrible.  The more I share with 3rd parties, the more I consider dropping Source Writer and going with the Basic system. Thanks for your input... Chick On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:06 PM, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: For #2, the best I can

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-16 Thread James Cook
:38 PM, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: I have not stopped using Source Writer.  I'm a computer guy, not a word smith, so I do like being prompted for the correct information and having that information formatted correctly for me - at least within Legacy and in reports produced by Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcewriter to Basic

2011-10-15 Thread James Cook
For #2, the best I can come up with is to go to the Assigned Sources screen for each individual. From there, you can select the source in the list on the top half, and then in the Output tab on the bottom half, you can copy the entire citation. Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Caption under image-URL

2011-10-04 Thread James Cook
DOH! The strings wrapped They, should not be. In both cases one space between the two sections. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:59 AM, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: It does seem that Legacy includes the information you want in the file already - as part of the TITLE attribute of the IMG

Re: [LegacyUG] Missing multimedia files

2011-09-28 Thread James Cook
@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils

Re: [LegacyUG] Missing multimedia files

2011-09-28 Thread James Cook
indicating that it is missing, it will renew the link for them all. Ron Ferguson http://www.ferguson.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: James Cook Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:14 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Missing multimedia files Event

Re: [LegacyUG] GPS for street addresses

2011-09-26 Thread James Cook
Is it just me that sees humor in comments basing advancements since roughly 1995 in a thread about GPS? 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

[LegacyUG] Advanced Tagging Help Needed

2011-09-23 Thread James Cook
to me, and then everyone in my file has a connection to me (as I am the hub person, so to speak) so people in my moms line get tagged as part of my dads line. Somehow the 4 color coding figures this out ok. How can I do it myself for my tags? -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http

Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced Tagging Help Needed

2011-09-23 Thread James Cook
It works! Very detailed, I appreciate that. I think the trick was to start with the oldest in the branch, and I was stuck on grandparents. Thanks a bunch. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] loss of data

2011-09-22 Thread James Cook
Alan said he does not want to share private information due to legal and personal reasons, but would be willing to create a stripped down database that can recreate the problem that only contains information he'd be willing to share. Legacy has stated twice in this thread that would not be good

Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage To Cousins

2011-09-19 Thread James Cook
/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages

Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage To Cousins

2011-09-19 Thread James Cook
I only added how they related to each other, but I'm going to go back and add the common ancestor(s) as well. Though I have a hard time stopping myself from looking for additional work, in this case I asked because the couple in question were only obvious to me because I encountered the husband

Re: [LegacyUG] Surname changes.

2011-09-11 Thread James Cook
://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail

Re: Re[LegacyUG] How to enter census data

2011-09-10 Thread James Cook
  for anyone that wants to know my history interests -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Tree

2011-08-22 Thread James Cook
Helpful? What? On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: the few *very* helpful listers who have their email programs set to reject HTML emails Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Name Filing System #2

2011-08-12 Thread James Cook
I use an electronic filing system roughly based on the 4-color system by Mary Hill. As such, my folders are people based (not place or document type based). I do not keep my files in My Documents or under Legacy. I prefer to keep them in a completely separate structure on my C: drive. I share

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Source Clipboard

2011-07-27 Thread James Cook
I can't find the posts that asked to remove or change this functionality. I think there are some changes that can enhance the functionality, changes that might prevent one from corrupting their database. - Moving buttons a bit (as has been mentioned) - When events exist in the list, present a

Re: [LegacyUG] Single Source Citation link to multiple People and Events

2011-07-27 Thread James Cook
@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Source Clipboard

2011-07-26 Thread James Cook
I feel your pain and frustration, as I brought this up at least once in the past. I had to open the source list for all the folks I though I might have done this to. I may still have some hanging around, but I think I got most of them cleaned up. I don't know about you, but being told 'Tsk,

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Name Filing System

2011-07-22 Thread James Cook
Pretty much any system you had for paper copies can be done electronically. I use a system based on the four color paper filling system (by Mary Hill I think). As such, my folders center around people not document or source types, and are of the form FirstMLast_DOB. My people folders contain

[LegacyUG] Compound Sources

2011-06-22 Thread James Cook
Wondering about how to dealing with compound sources in Source Writer? I'm working with several newspapers currently, and they are falling into this compound area for me. Of course there is the newspaper's information itself - place, title, page and column stuff. But then there is the place

Re: [LegacyUG] Compound Sources

2011-06-22 Thread James Cook
information so that you only have to enter it once.  They way it is set up, I have to put that information in the detail section every single time which is a bit tedious. michele -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http

Re: [LegacyUG] 49/up0

2011-06-12 Thread James Cook
on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http

Re: Re: [LegacyUG] 49/up0

2011-06-12 Thread James Cook
in the replace filed. Do that for each code I needed to remove. Hope that helps. On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:45 PM, sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you,. May I inquire what you do about it? Go through the 200-odd pages and remove them? Live with them? Jane On , James Cook jc1

Re: [LegacyUG] Events residence address

2011-06-02 Thread James Cook
they and their family moved over the years, etc. Sort of a chronology in map format for a person or group of people. -Chris -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after

Re: [LegacyUG] Events residence address

2011-06-02 Thread James Cook
, Boone County, Missouri, USA Anne On 2/06/2011 11:20 PM, James Cook wrote: Columbia - Columbia Cemetery, Boone County, Missouri, USA Columbia - Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Boone County, Missouri, USA Columbia - 1492 Easy St, Boone County, Missouri, USA -- James Cook GED Utils

[LegacyUG] ISO ideas for recording history not specifically related to an individual?

2011-06-01 Thread James Cook
book(s) can be found electronically via Google, but I can't read/decode them. If anyone could kindly point me to any how-tos or other guides for how to use these books it would be most appreciated. Off-list of course. -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com

Re: [LegacyUG] ISO ideas for recording history not specifically related to an individual?

2011-06-01 Thread James Cook
: James Cook jc1...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:00 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] ISO ideas for recording history not specifically related to an individual? In one of my lines recently (Willis), I've been working with several sources that each

Re: [LegacyUG] ISO ideas for recording history not specifically related to an individual?

2011-06-01 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG] Events residence address

2011-05-31 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG]

2011-05-31 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures

2011-05-28 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG]

2011-05-28 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG] scanning photographs

2011-05-13 Thread James Cook
-in-one scanner.  Do you have any suggestions? Thanks so much, Reba -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup

Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: Determining and Defining Types of Sources

2011-05-11 Thread James Cook
Proceed with caution. Source Writer can potentially cause you problems depending on how you would like to use your data in the future. Namely, it does not export to GEDCOM format at all well. If you have plans to share your data with 3rd party products, you will probably be frustrated by this.

Re: [LegacyUG] webinar/changing colors once sourced

2011-05-11 Thread James Cook
I don't know if I'm a splitter or lumper, maybe I'm a hybrid. I'm not at the extreme where I only have a single Master Source for Census, but I do get reuse out of the Master Sources I do have. I'd say my master sources answer What, Where and When. For example - US Census, Cleavland County,

Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: Determining and Defining Types of Sources

2011-05-11 Thread James Cook
was directly related to sharing the data via GEDCOM, I still think it is a fair warning to proceed with caution with Source Writer. -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages

Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: Determining and Defining Types of Sources

2011-05-11 Thread James Cook
Have you never encountered a 3rd party product where you were forced to upload your data via GEDCOM? -- Ancestry.com, some phone apps - that's the only choice you get If you make use of GEDCOM then, are you happy with the Source Writer conversion? -- A manually entered Basic source can produce

Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: Determining and Defining Types of Sources

2011-05-11 Thread James Cook
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: James, Quite simply because when we wish to publish our data we want to do so in the most accurate and professional way available to us... ... the GEDCOM format is the only way of transferring data between some

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Chart?

2011-05-02 Thread James Cook
I don't think this is something Legacy can do. After playing with various charts, I cannot find a way to include all of His, Hers and our children. I can get two - either his and ours or hers and ours - depending on the starting person, but not all three. What I need is a multi-line descent

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Chart?

2011-05-02 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Chart?

2011-04-29 Thread James Cook
, to two. Increase / decrease the # Des Gens, descendant generations as needed. Bill - Original Message - From: James Cook jc1...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:58 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationship Chart? I need a chart to help

[LegacyUG] Relationship Chart?

2011-04-28 Thread James Cook
? -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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 - before

Re: [LegacyUG] Screen Moves Back and Forth

2011-04-16 Thread James Cook
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Re: [LegacyUG] Civil War Military Records

2011-04-16 Thread James Cook
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[LegacyUG] Want a report of individual Service, Wounded, and KIA

2011-04-13 Thread James Cook
on how you would go about this - from the data entry side to producing the final output. This seems to me a job for custom tagging, but as Legacy only offers nine, I'm looking for a solution that I can reproduce as needed. TIA, -- James Cook GED Utils,  Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Want a report of individual Service, Wounded, and KIA

2011-04-13 Thread James Cook
Sorry, need to add I'm looking for a query style of report, something that might be moved into Excel, not just a PDF. On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:58 AM, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: I've used a Military Service event, and would like to run a report of my military people. I'd like

Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Placement of file

2011-03-30 Thread James Cook
I'll vote for this. As has been said many times before, I think a more useful way to 'fix' this is to allow Event Details to be either shared or duplicated when assigning to multiple individuals/marriages. Legacy already offers this in some areas, such as the the Event Master List. If you edit

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