[LegacyUG] Remove a group of family files

2015-05-15 Thread Marg Strong
I have discovered that I have a mess with one of my early families. Somehow I have duplicates but with different dates - duplicate individuals and marriages. It is so overwhelming that I would like to totally remove these families and start from scratch. What is the best way to handle

Re: [LegacyUG] Place to enter history of a location?

2015-05-09 Thread Marg Strong
  You can then choose to Edit thespecific location and there is an area that you can insert information of yourchoosing for location(s). Happy Hunting! Susan On 2015-05-09 10:22 AM, Marg Strong wrote: Does legacy have a place to enter the history of a location and, if not, can someone give me

[LegacyUG] Place to enter history of a location?

2015-05-09 Thread Marg Strong
Does legacy have a place to enter the history of a location and, if not, can someone give me an idea of the best place to enter it. When a lot of ancestors come from one place it doesn't seem to belong in the notes for one ancestor.Thanks for suggestions!Peggy Legacy User Group guidelines:

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

2013-01-29 Thread Marg Strong
This may have been mentioned but I've discovered the only way to satisfyingly sync Ancestry and Legacy is to use cut and paste. I'm beginning the long process of doing that with my tree. There's a lot of clean up to do since i don't like they way Ancestry sources/citations (usually none)

Re: [LegacyUG] Early American Colonies - Location questions

2013-01-28 Thread Marg Strong
Thank you everyone for your thoughts. It helps to know how others handle these things and then decide which seems to fit best for my purposes. I did follow the link to the Thirteen Colonies and will read it now. Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Early American Colonies - Location questions

2013-01-28 Thread Marg Strong
likely put: Plymouth Colony, British America FWIW On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: So just simply: Scituate, Plymouth Colony is enough? It may be nit picky but I've got enough things now to correct without adding more

[LegacyUG] Early American Colonies - Location questions

2013-01-27 Thread Marg Strong
Often the location given as Plymouth (County), Massachusetts, United States is not correct in Ancestry.com records. I've spent days trying to read the history and figure out what locations should be entered. The settlers were English primarily, but mostly self governing in those early days.

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event

2012-11-16 Thread Marg Strong
I'm glad I read about the different ways. I like the idea of using the obit as an event and hadn't thought of doing it before. Since events are sourced also, there will be a source in the Master Source list. I could enter that as a death source, leaving the detail brief and using the

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event

2012-11-16 Thread Marg Strong
of documentary evidence. Doug. On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:04:45 -0800 (PST) Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Speaking of obituary event (someone recently used it as an illustration) I didn't think of it as being an event, but as a source, with the transcription in the detail. Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event

2012-11-16 Thread Marg Strong
That would be a find! An inquest would give a lot of family info. From: Doug Laidlaw laidl...@hotkey.net.au To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event Comparing an obituary with an

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event

2012-11-16 Thread Marg Strong
, but an entirely separate piece of documentary evidence. Doug. On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:04:45 -0800 (PST) Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Speaking of obituary event (someone recently used it as an illustration) I didn't think of it as being an event, but as a source, with the transcription

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event

2012-11-16 Thread Marg Strong
Am I the only person who has inherited news clippings without any publication info? Not even a date or newspaper? Not much source there, I'm afraid. When I source the event with the clipping, it's really dry. Unknown newspaper, unknown date, unknown place. If  I pick facts from the obit to add

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event

2012-11-16 Thread Marg Strong
in the history of the individual in question, but an entirely separate piece of documentary evidence. Doug. On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:04:45 -0800 (PST) Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Speaking of obituary event (someone recently used it as an illustration) I didn't think of it as being

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event

2012-11-16 Thread Marg Strong
Same is true of sources, Brian. A neighbor gave the census info. Or the only one home was a young child who gave the information. People change names on the census because they are covering something up from their past. Women lie about their age when they get older; or on marriage records when

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event

2012-11-16 Thread Marg Strong
.  It is not something that happened in the history of the individual in question, but an entirely separate piece of documentary evidence. Doug. On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:04:45 -0800 (PST) Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Speaking of obituary event (someone recently used it as an illustration) I

Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event

2012-11-16 Thread Marg Strong
Thanks, Mary for the encouragement. You express my thoughts better than I seem to do! From: Mary Fowler Leek ml...@comcast.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 9:35 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event Marg,   You

Re: [LegacyUG] filing system for genealogy

2012-11-05 Thread Marg Strong
Just a couple of thoughts. There are software programs that tag images with keywords and these could be used to find documents. I have all my documents scanned, though I keep paper copies also. The scanned docs are filed in directories and sub-directories. For instance: the McLean family

[LegacyUG] Latest Webinar not working?

2012-11-02 Thread Marg Strong
Is it just me? The webinar page (to watch the latest) only shows black squares. 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 -

Re: [LegacyUG] Latest Webinar not working?

2012-11-02 Thread Marg Strong
the webinare playback. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- On 02/11/2012 05:53, Marg Strong wrote: Is it just me? The webinar page (to watch the latest) only shows black squares. Legacy User Group guidelines: http

Re: [LegacyUG] Latest Webinar not working?

2012-11-02 Thread Marg Strong
Thanks, Sherry. I just installed it a few days ago and don't like it either. Will uninstall immediately and hope that works. Peggy From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 12:53 PM

Re: [LegacyUG] Latest Webinar not working?

2012-11-02 Thread Marg Strong
what programs I updated or installed. Peggy From: Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Latest Webinar not working? Thanks, Sherry. I just installed it a few days ago

Re: [LegacyUG] syncing files

2012-10-27 Thread Marg Strong
From: JLB j...@jgen.ws To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] syncing files There has to be an easier way than what you're doing. If it's only one file that's being changed you can remember it, but

Re: [LegacyUG] syncing files

2012-10-27 Thread Marg Strong
From: Alan Pereira alanpere...@tiscali.co.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 3:49 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] syncing files I use microsoft syncToy (Free) to synchronise to a backup drive from my Laptop and my wife also

Re: [LegacyUG] syncing files

2012-10-27 Thread Marg Strong
 I am entirely happy with the way I use Dropbox but your last post does prompt a warning: if you have the same *fdb file open on two machines, do not amend either, otherwise Dropbox will get confused - this is not a Dropbox problem, simply the way that Access works. Actually it is best never to

[LegacyUG] Transcribing

2012-10-26 Thread Marg Strong
    I don't know if transcribe is the correct term. I gathered many photocopies of documents on a recent trip and would like to transcribe them into text files. I've tried Windows Voice Recognition but it takes longer than typing (though I'm concrned about carpal tunnel ?)). My question: When

[LegacyUG] syncing files

2012-10-26 Thread Marg Strong
I have been using a sync program to sync all files from my working drive to my backup drives. Since I use one drive and copy to only backup drives it's worked well. But now I have a laptop and will be working on legacy while traveling and it doesn't seems as though my chronosync program will

Re: [LegacyUG] syncing files

2012-10-26 Thread Marg Strong
://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 10/26/2012 2:42 PM, Marg Strong wrote: I have been using a sync program to sync all files from my working drive to my backup drives. Since I use one drive and copy to only backup drives it's worked well. But now I have a laptop and will be working on legacy while

Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing

2012-10-26 Thread Marg Strong
I have a couple of docs with difficult script, but there are, so far, a few that were transcribed and I haven't found access to the newspaper or original document (yet). So I'm not sure if the news article or the transcriber mispelled and used incorrect punctuation. It just feels sloppy to me

Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing

2012-10-26 Thread Marg Strong
From: Eliz Hanebury elizhg...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing Copy what you see always, you can always note what the usual name spelling is in brackets. I love a

Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing

2012-10-26 Thread Marg Strong
From: JLB j...@jgen.ws To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transcribing Transcript http://www.jacobboerema.nl/en/Freeware.htm JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists

Re: [LegacyUG] syncing files

2012-10-26 Thread Marg Strong
with the appropriate. *.fdb file name, overwriting the old version. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: I have been using a sync program to sync all files from my working drive to my backup drives. Since I use one drive and copy to only backup drives it's

Re: [LegacyUG] syncing files

2012-10-26 Thread Marg Strong
From: Nut wasbornconfu...@gmail.com You may want to use IntelliShare. http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Tips.asp You may also find some other suggestions. IntelliShare is also in the help file. -- //Nut Thank you. That's new to me. I'll look it up.

Re: [LegacyUG] Trying to correct a dozen unwanted capitalized names after Legacy problem check - help?

2012-09-03 Thread Marg Strong
Thanks Ron. It wasn't hard to correct the few I had in the master list, but I will keep this in mind. I thought I'd seen it somewhere and couldn't remember where! From: Ron Taylor doit4...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sunday,

Re: [LegacyUG] Trying to correct a dozen unwanted capitalized names after Legacy problem check - help?

2012-09-02 Thread Marg Strong
- From: bgsu1...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 9:04 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Trying to correct a dozen unwanted capitalized names after Legacy problem check - help? Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com proclaimed: Can anyone tell me how to turn

Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again

2012-09-01 Thread Marg Strong
that works for me. Thanks for the response! From: bgsu1...@gmail.com bgsu1...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com proclaimed: I don't have much

Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again

2012-09-01 Thread Marg Strong
...@gmail.com wrote: Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com proclaimed: I don't have much success searching the archives. Can someone tell me if there is a report available that will list the MRIN numbers for all the marriages in my database? How about View/Marriage List/Options/Print ? -- bgsu Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again

2012-09-01 Thread Marg Strong
...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again On 01/09/2012 10:44, Marg Strong wrote: That lets me see the numbers and I could print them. I finally found it in help where I should have looked from the first. I wanted

[LegacyUG] Trying to correct a dozen unwanted capitalized names after Legacy problem check - help?

2012-09-01 Thread Marg Strong
I know there must be a way to turn off Legacy from automatically entering what I'm trying to type but I can't think of a help search term to find it. I try and correct the name to lower case and Legacy insists on prefilling it with capitals (probably because that's what I had there. If I type a

Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again

2012-09-01 Thread Marg Strong
at a time in Legacy. Not sure what you mean by 'chronological order'. Considering this is genealogy. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 9/1/2012 2:44 AM, Marg Strong wrote: That lets me see the numbers and I could print them. I finally found

Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again

2012-09-01 Thread Marg Strong
in this system. http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/video/mrin-filing-system/ You can easily earn the purchase price ($2) back by referring it to others. But, only if you like it. ;) --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 9/1/2012 12:34 PM, Marg Strong

[LegacyUG] MRINs again

2012-08-31 Thread Marg Strong
I don't have much success searching the archives. Can someone tell me if there is a report available that will list the MRIN numbers for all the marriages in my database? Thank you. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21

Re: [LegacyUG] Best practices for scanning photocopies

2012-07-31 Thread Marg Strong
For newspaper articles I scan the article without descreening. In Photoshop, or an image editor, I select the photo in the article and work on it separately, improving it as much as I can, especially if it's important. From: Shack sh...@ws4v.net To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Location for LEGACY Multimedia folders

2012-06-13 Thread Marg Strong
I not only have a backup drive in my safety deposit box, but one at my daughters house, rotated less frerquently, and I take an extra drive in the car with me when ever I go somewhere. I have two extra external drives at home that I keep updated (not counting the one I take in the car when I

Re: [LegacyUG] A picture question

2012-06-05 Thread Marg Strong
This is my favorite way, though I mostly use the metadata fields since adding the info to the photo makes it a larger size. The bonus is that you can see it at a glance whenever you view the photo on your computer. If you are resaving the file into a jpg smaller size for Legacy, It's easy to

Re: Legacy Pictures/multimedia Storage: was Re: [LegacyUG] What is the best way to do this?

2012-05-30 Thread Marg Strong
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:23 PM Subject: Legacy Pictures/multimedia Storage: was Re: [LegacyUG] What is the best way to do this? On Tue, 29 May 2012 09:16:48 -0700 Marg Strong wrote Tony, snip Since MRIN refers to marriages, do you handle the RIN of unmarried

Re: Legacy Pictures/multimedia Storage: was Re: [LegacyUG] What is the best way to do this?

2012-05-30 Thread Marg Strong
Sorry. I didn't realize when I hit reply that it would go to the group. Was meant for Tony. Will try be more careful! From: Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:28 PM Subject: Re: Legacy Pictures

Re: Legacy Pictures/multimedia Storage: was Re: [LegacyUG] What is the best way to do this?

2012-05-29 Thread Marg Strong
Tony, thanks for the rundown on how you handle this. Coincidentally (due to the MRIN topic) I have been thinking more about how to use it and this is helpful. I also have a Genealogy Directory. My Legacy directory is a subdirectory of that. Organizing the media files by MRIN seems a good

Re: Legacy Pictures/multimedia Storage: was Re: [LegacyUG] What is the best way to do this?

2012-05-29 Thread Marg Strong
Just for the record, Sherry (I know you were advising someone else on this) I have my Legacy installation in the default location. What I don't have under (what I think were default locations) are the media files, the database files, and the backup files. Many primary drives are not large,

[LegacyUG] Legacy installations - laptop desktop allowed?

2012-05-29 Thread Marg Strong
Sherry brought this to mind under another topic, but it seemed I should ask under a new subject. I think it's been addressed before, but maybe someone won't mind giving me a quick answer. I am in the process of looking for a laptop so I can take my genealogy work with me when traveling or

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy installations - laptop desktop allowed?

2012-05-29 Thread Marg Strong
the archives for that information. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Sherry brought this to mind under another topic, but it seemed I should ask under a new subject. I think it's been addressed before

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy installations - laptop desktop allowed?

2012-05-29 Thread Marg Strong
I think you are talking about the cloud? I've looked at a couple of unlimited amounts with a reasonable annual fee, but don't know how much longer they will stay unlimited. With about 700 GB of photos and Genealogy files it would take a long time to upload, with no guarantee the price will stay

Legacy Pictures/multimedia Storage: was Re: [LegacyUG] What is the best way to do this?

2012-05-28 Thread Marg Strong
I'm not sure I'm following this topic correctly. I have my legacy program on my primary drive, but all the rest including the database, the media files, the backups, tips, resources, etc., go into subdirectories under my Legacy folder on my larger working hard drive in my computer. The

Re: [LegacyUG] 1851 1861 Census of Canada East, Etc. Locations? Colonies?

2012-05-04 Thread Marg Strong
to add the placeholder commas. During the period when France controlled part of Canada I use New France for the country, so I have Port-Royal, Acadia Colony, New France. Kirsten From: Marg Strong Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:42 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] 1851 1861

Re: [LegacyUG] 1851 1861 Census of Canada East, Etc. Locations? Colonies?

2012-05-04 Thread Marg Strong
of Canada I use New France for the country, so I have Port-Royal, Acadia Colony, New France. Kirsten From: Marg Strong Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:42 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] 1851 1861 Census of Canada East, Etc. Locations? Colonies? Since Canada was still

Re: [LegacyUG] Danish Question

2012-05-04 Thread Marg Strong
John, I want to thank you for the information, though this was mostly for Larry. One of my lines came from Denmark. They brought their four children with them to Canada, one my great grandmother. I have been in touch with a researcher who had help translating some records and she gave me her

[LegacyUG] 1851 1861 Census of Canada East, Etc. Locations? Colonies?

2012-05-02 Thread Marg Strong
Since Canada was still a British colony during these years, how do you record the location? In the image I'm looking at now (1861) the township and county are given and at the bottom  of the census (Either plate added originally, or added later to the image) is Canada West. Canada West is what

Re: [LegacyUG] Compiling Family History

2012-05-01 Thread Marg Strong
If at all possible to enter them, it would be a shame to leave out the sources, Larry. If it were me, I'd rather have a shorter Legacy file with sources, than a long one without; and I would much rather wait a longer time for the results with sources. I guess it depends on whether she just

Re: [LegacyUG] Compiling Family History

2012-05-01 Thread Marg Strong
format. The records would take more man/woman hours to prove than she or I have remaining g.  If the children or grand-children want to purse this they will have the originals available for their use. Larry On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: If at all possible

[LegacyUG] Locations again: Location at the time of the record?

2012-04-30 Thread Marg Strong
Please refresh my memory. I know it's important to record the location as it was during the time the record was taken. For example I have some that were listed (by ancestry.com) as being in Carleton, Ontario; and Carleton, Ottawa Ontario. This is what a search showed me: Carleton County was

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations again: Location at the time of the record?

2012-04-30 Thread Marg Strong
Scratch that last question. I just found the place for notes in the master location list. Should have known Legacy would have it covered! From: Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:25 PM Subject

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations again: Location at the time of the record?

2012-04-30 Thread Marg Strong
Thanks for the example, Michele. I'm working with a census record right now that has a district listed and no county. From: Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:02 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations again: Location at the time of the record?

2012-04-30 Thread Marg Strong
Thanks Richard. I've seen the option to use the double brackets noted before, but with my memory, the more I see it mentioned the more likely I'll remember when I need it! From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com

Re: [LegacyUG] WorldVitalRecords (search)

2012-04-30 Thread Marg Strong
I don't want to mislead anyone. It wasn't the World Vital Records site. I think it was Archives.com. From: Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] WorldVitalRecords I

[LegacyUG] Option to include one space between fields?

2012-04-26 Thread Marg Strong
I have Brian's email open and have found how to use the search replace for locations. I want to get rid of Co. But before I do that I need to know where to find the option to include one space between field (one after the comma) Many of my records came in with no space. I'm sure I saw this

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-26 Thread Marg Strong
It's probably just me. At this point, I don't know if I'll ever want or need the townsnip names. I've got a large group of Ontario locations that use the name; such as Ferrisand sometimes Ferris township for the first field. I'm never sure if the record coming in from ancestry just was

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-26 Thread Marg Strong
No problem. Not your fault. One name in the header and another in the signature is confusing. I am used to both names so it doesn't bother me. From: Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-26 Thread Marg Strong
I'm afraid you are right and spending all this time trying to get it right could be spent on clean up. I've got my videos working by converting from avi to mp4 so will watch them and take it from there, really forging ahead. (I might have told you that.) Thanks, Paula

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-26 Thread Marg Strong
Right on both counts. I have an email open from Brian on search and replace and it will work, but am waiting an answer to another question before I use it. From: Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Thursday, April

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-26 Thread Marg Strong
That is the way I'm doing it, thanks to the advice of the group. From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census That's

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-26 Thread Marg Strong
Brian, thank you so much for this help. It has gone a long ways towards making cleaning up my locations faster. From: Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:52 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] Option to include one space between fields?

2012-04-26 Thread Marg Strong
.   I like no spaces so I have the second one ticked.   Russ  From: Marg Strong Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:28 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Option to include one space between fields?   I have Brian's email open and have found how to use the search replace

Re: [LegacyUG] Patronym with no surname

2012-04-26 Thread Marg Strong
. NOTHING is cast in stone, make your program work for you. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: I've got that problem with a Danish line. Very confusing. Haven't tried to address it as yet. Hope you get an answer! From: d

Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from Ancestry.com!

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Since I had only a small family file started, I downloaded an ancestry.com gedcom of the family tree I have on their site. I merged that with what I had (into a third family file so my original is still intact). Wondering if ancestry

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries?

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
Thanks for the tip, Don. I have a lot of Canadian family. From: Don Brown donbr...@sympatico.ca To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:14 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries? AniMap is

[LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
Do others want to enter the township into the location? There isn't a problem if the location doesn't have a town and a township, but when that happens, how do you list the township if you want to keep to the standard location form for countries where it works. I've been adding it after the

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
Thanks, Mike. I had no idea there would be a difference. To Write a topic directly from my email program do I compose a new message and put the group address in my sending to bar?  I find myself forgetting to trim, though I know better. Maybe I need to tack a note to the top of my monitor with

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
If you don't want to lose the name of the town/city, would you use it in the Residence Event? Or in the place to put addresses? Thanks for the reply! From: Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, April 25,

Re: [LegacyUG] Question on how to START a thread.

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
Mike will probably expand on this for us, Paula. I think the problem is in the archives. When we do it the way we've been doing it, it messes up the thread somehow. I'm going to try find a way to easily enter the group in the To: address, so I can enter a new subject and start fresh. I'm

Re: [LegacyUG] Question on how to START a thread.

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
Then I don't understand it yet. Whatever the problem, I hope someone lets us know if the way to handle it is to Compose a Message and address it to the group under our new topic. From: Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
I like the idea of having a standard approach, Paula. I may not need it now, but if later I do need it I won't have to go through and change everything. For the United States (I like spelling the Countries out) there are four fields, so I have to figure out the best way to keep the township. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Question on how to START a thread.

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
I think with most email programs you can copy the contact easily and add it to your contact list. Having just a few makes it a lot easier to pull one up by typing in the first letter. If I right click on the address it brings up the option to copy it, but I still have to go into contacts add:

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
An example would be:United States Michigan Chippewa County Soo Township Sault Ste Marie Unless I enter it like this: Sault Ste Marie (Sault Twp), Chippewa, Michigan, United States, I lose the information that SSM is in Soo Twp. I think Barbeau, Chippewa County, Michigan, USA would be in Bruce

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
your questions (or at least most of them!). Note that the Help Files on all pages are context helps, and specifically relate to the page which you are looking at. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Marg Strong Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:39 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
I think I missed a lot of past discussion on this. I hear all the discussion and, being new, don't want to make mistakes that might cause clean up work in the future.It's unlikely I will ever get to the place where I could put a Tree on the web, let alone publish other than a book for my close

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations - Townships; census

2012-04-25 Thread Marg Strong
and makes absolutely no difference to how it reads in reports, web sites, GEDCOMs, nor does it affect the Geo-locator. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Marg Strong Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Locations

Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from Ancestry.com!

2012-04-24 Thread Marg Strong
:49 PM, Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Since I had only a small family file started, I downloaded an ancestry.com gedcom of the family tree I have on their site. I merged that with what I had (into a third family file so my original is still intact). Wondering if ancestry had caused part

Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from Ancestry.com!

2012-04-24 Thread Marg Strong
It is frustrating when you are misread isn't it Sally. I think maybe it's an email problem. Harder to communicate. So many people seem to think you are saying what you didn't say at all.  :( From: salude...@aol.com salude...@aol.com To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from Ancestry.com!

2012-04-24 Thread Marg Strong
, Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Since I had only a small family file started, I downloaded an ancestry.com gedcom of the family tree I have on their site. I merged that with what I had (into a third family file so my original is still intact). Wondering if ancestry had caused part

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries?

2012-04-24 Thread Marg Strong
Locations - Changing boundaries? I have done it, using Animap for dates and data. Makes good reports. From: Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries? Thank

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries?

2012-04-23 Thread Marg Strong
Thank you for the responses. Someone mentined a timeline and that would make it so much easier to find the location information rather than have to look it up for each instance (reinventing the wheel). I know there is a timeline feature on Legacy, but that is likely for the people and dates

[LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from Ancestry.com!

2012-04-23 Thread Marg Strong
Since I had only a small family file started, I downloaded an ancestry.com gedcom of the family tree I have on their site. I merged that with what I had (into a third family file so my original is still intact). Wondering if ancestry had caused part of the location problems, I downloaded

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries?

2012-04-23 Thread Marg Strong
Timeline: Creating or by clicking on the Help button in the Timelines window. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you for the responses. Someone mentined a timeline and that would make it so much

Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from Ancestry.com!

2012-04-23 Thread Marg Strong
Thanks for warning me about that, Sally. From: salude...@aol.com salude...@aol.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from Ancestry.com! I also noticed a

Re: [LegacyUG] Location mess in Legacy Master List comes from Ancestry.com!

2012-04-23 Thread Marg Strong
Actually, Tessa, it was my own work so the research was mine. I merged, saving my original file, because the original was small. I was just happy to find out the sloppy Location and source work, was ancestry's and not my own! After I clean up the ancestry file, I'll merge it with my original.

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries?

2012-04-23 Thread Marg Strong
.  As with so many things - play around with it, see how it reads, tweak it, and then use it! On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Marg Strong tiny...@yahoo.com wrote: Sherry, thank you so much. I should have known Legacy would have something to help with this! From

Re: [LegacyUG] Re:Virtual LUG was:--------Sourse vs. event

2012-04-22 Thread Marg Strong
I hope this isn't off topic since it's a Legacy group we are discussing. I just got something in my Google email account that I don't understand. Someone added me on Google+. From google: Don't know this person? You don't have to add them back Then there is a button to add the person (whom I

Re: [LegacyUG] Download a tree from Ancestry or add a gedcom to legacy

2012-04-22 Thread Marg Strong
I'm sure others who know more will respond. Do you have a subscription to ancestry? If you have her information on your ancestry tree, you can download your tree to a gedcome and create a new legacy tree to compare the files with. I don't know if there is any kind of auto compare button to

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries?

2012-04-22 Thread Marg Strong
Thanks, Don. I found that on a webpage today and understand it better. I just don't know if I enter my source locations as Canada West, etc. Or just Canada. From: Don Brown donbr...@sympatico.ca To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries?

2012-04-22 Thread Marg Strong
From: Tessa murke...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries? Most important point, be sure to take a look at articles about naming locations

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries?

2012-04-22 Thread Marg Strong
That makes sense. I knew that the census places were often districts but sometimes counties. It helps to know Grey North was the district. When I'm entering the source, I make likely use district, since that is how it is recorded? Then under location, I would just use Grey or Grey county. That

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