RE: [LegacyUG] Report options to include source pictures

2015-09-13 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I’m in Central CA. J Actually I started used that designation a year or two ago when there were 3 or more Brians on this list and I wanted to make sure I distinguished myself from the Brian in Support. Brian in CA From: David Abernathy [mailto:da...@schmeckabernathy.com] Sent

RE: [LegacyUG] Report options to include source pictures

2015-09-13 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
to re-install Legacy along with all my saved settings. I’m not sure if this option is normally saved but it is in my brain now.) Brian in CA From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com] Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2015 11:21 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject

[LegacyUG] Report options to include source pictures

2015-09-12 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Did I miss something or what? I notice that the option to include either master source or detail source pictures on any type of report is now greyed out. Certainly makes for a dull report. Brian in CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp

RE: [LegacyUG] What is the current version?

2015-09-08 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
The latest release is always the highest number. Unless you are Microsoft. Brian in CA From: STEPHEN [mailto:stephen.gra...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 6:52 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the current version? To Brian in CA, not

RE: [LegacyUG] What is the current version?

2015-09-08 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I think the body of your message answered your question in the subject. Brian in CA From: STEPHEN [mailto:stephen.gra...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 4:12 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] What is the current version? The 09/07/15 Legacy News

RE: [LegacyUG] unsupported file format

2015-09-04 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
using any of those formats? I can remember using TARGA when I did digital image restoration on a Targa Machine but it was so long ago, I think it was when DOS was still king. HTH Brian in CA From: Barton Lewis [mailto:bartonle...@optonline.net] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 8:26 PM

RE: [LegacyUG] Help please Bookmark individual

2015-09-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Or you can just use the Help system for what its designed for. Click on the SEARCH tab, type in "bookmarks". Instant results; no waiting. Brian in CA -Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 5:20 PM To: legac

RE: [LegacyUG] unsupported file format

2015-09-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
abilities to use the PDF and possible future editing of the image itself. That’s where the “real image” makes life easier. Brian in CA After writing all that above, I noticed you mentioned “Neat Scanner”. I google it and then looked at the various models of Neat Scanners ranging from a

RE: [LegacyUG] unsupported file format

2015-09-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
, plain text, or even as HTML pages. If you'd like to add the diary to be plainly visible in your Legacy files, then find somebody with Acrobat who can get that done for you. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Robert57P_gmail [mailto:robert...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2

RE: [LegacyUG] unsupported file format

2015-09-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
and web page creations? Wouldn’t it be better to extract the JPEG image from the PDF and then attach the JPEG as a picture? Brian in CA From: David Abernathy [mailto:da...@schmeckabernathy.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 7:30 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE

RE: [LegacyUG] Possible Bug - Cancel does't cancel

2015-08-31 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
v7.5? Brian in CA I also just noticed that I can’t spell “doesn’t” correctly in the Subject line. J Apparently MS Outlook doesn’t do spell check on the Subject line. Another bug. From: Ana [mailto:anacyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 6:54 AM To: legacyusergroup

RE: [LegacyUG] Possible Bug - Cancel does't cancel

2015-08-29 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
eport gets priority attention and will be fixed in the next update. Brian in CA PS - I have no idea on how this bug effects SHARED EVENTS. I don't use SHARED EVENTS so maybe somebody might want to see if they can break the program using them. -Original Message----- From: Bri

RE: [LegacyUG] Possible Bug - Cancel does't cancel

2015-08-28 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
harm would be done. I was wrong. It's an all too easy way to destroy data. Of course, the safety here is that once the user realizes the wrong stuff was replaced, he could always to back and re-copy the correct event to the clipboard, return to the scene of the crime, and paste once again.

[LegacyUG] Possible Bug - Cancel does't cancel

2015-08-28 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
ncel and save means save. But apparently as the code is written right now, once you agree to replace the contents, even before you see it pasted in place, it's a done deal. Events are saved even before you click on save. There is no such thing as CANCEL. Am I missing something here or do

RE: [LegacyUG] Bug items List

2015-08-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
bugs is that many users will jump into that element in which the bug occurs just to see what happens. And then they think, “oh my God!” Maybe ignorance is bliss after all. J Brian in CA From: Stan Baker [mailto:s...@ihug.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:07 PM To: legacyusergroup

RE: [LegacyUG] Bug items List (used to be Same sex Marriages)

2015-08-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Requests". We could bring up the Knowledge Base at Microsoft and the list of known bugs there but its Microsoft. What else can I say? So much for the theory of people saying they've never heard of a software company having a list of known bugs. There are none so blind as t

RE: [LegacyUG] Bug items List (used to be Same sex Marriages)

2015-08-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
common task among many software products but I felt like I was being browbeaten and the discussion ended there. Brian in CA From: a...@wavp.co.uk [mailto:a...@wavp.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 1:50 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Bug items List

RE: [LegacyUG] Can't Launch Legacy 8

2015-08-25 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
file. That was my final straw with Win10 and even that was after doing a clean install. I reinstalled Win7 and haven’t looked back since. Brian in CA From: Jerry in Michigan [mailto:bearjerca...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 9:00 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject

RE: [LegacyUG] Customize wording?

2015-08-25 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
What They speak English in Canada!!! No way@!!! LOL Brian in CA (gee, that CA could mean Canada but it doesn't) -Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 5:44 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subjec

RE: [LegacyUG] Customize wording?

2015-08-25 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
consistent. Apparently people knew that both spellings were acceptable. Brian in CA On 25/08/2015 7:34 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Brian, > > With respect. the English version is the preferred, as with all words > ending in “sed”. LOL > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergy

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.5 and Windows 10

2015-08-24 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
when Win10 started to inexplicably change permissions on certain files, I pulled the plug, formatted C:, and went back to Win7 where I remain fat, dumb, and happy. Brian in CA From: Michele/Support [mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 10:09 AM To

RE: [LegacyUG] magazine vs journal vs periodical vs newsletter

2015-08-24 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
llowing synonyms for "periodical": journal, mag, magazine, monthly, quarterly, weekly, newspaper, number, paper, rag, review, serial, sheet, slick, throwaway. Strange that the word newsletter never comes up. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Kirstin [mailto:genealogylad

RE: [LegacyUG] Customize wording?

2015-08-21 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
But then I’d want an option to avoid the British spelling of “legalised” to the preferred American spelling as “legalized”. Maybe Brian in Support was correct: You cannot please everyone ! Brian in CA From: a...@wavp.co.uk [mailto:a...@wavp.co.uk] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 7:22 AM To

Re: [LegacyUG] Customize wording?

2015-08-21 Thread Brian/Support
You cannot please everyone. Users complained frequently when we used "never married" so we changed it to a more general term relationship and now others are complaining about that. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com

RE: [LegacyUG] Images attached to Legacy

2015-08-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
nation is in reports and web pages where the resolution will be lowered greatly. It's like giving an entire cow to a starving man when all he wants is a hamburger. Brian in CA (another retired Silicon Valley transplant) -Original Message- From: Denise Moss-Fritch [mailto:d.mossfri.

RE: [LegacyUG] Customize wording?

2015-08-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Version 10??? Wait a minute…did Millennia pull a Microsoft trick and jump from version 8 to version 10? Was I sleeping and missed this? Will Donald Trump really be the Republican nominee? Brian in CA From: Gene Wheeler [mailto:bridge...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 2:35 PM

RE: [LegacyUG] Images attached to Legacy

2015-08-18 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
tion. So it's now on my own list of things to do: resize all those images down for Legacy and keep the originals in a separate non-linked folder. (Yeah, it'll probably never get done.) Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Denise Moss-Fritch [mailto:d.mossfri...@comcast.net] Se

[LegacyUG] Unsupported File Format revisited

2015-08-16 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
e writers: there is such a thing as "File Not Found" and that would serve as a much better error message than "No Supported". Brian in CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mai

RE: [LegacyUG] Next problem - Unsupported format

2015-08-13 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
in length. Try to image it being about 2-1/2 times longer and you see the need for some house cleaning. Brian-in-CA -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 9:59 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re:

Re: [LegacyUG] Tag Numbers not shown on Opening Family Page

2015-08-08 Thread Brian/Support
With the clarification provided by other messages in this thread the problem is confirmed. It is the tag contents which are not shown in Family View when the program first starts. Any change to redraw the view fills in the tag contents. Problem report raised to have this fixed. Brian Customer

Re: [LegacyUG] Tag Numbers not shown on Opening Family Page

2015-08-08 Thread Brian/Support
What are your settings in option 1.5 Tagging options? I suspect the tagging may be turned off so tags do not show. They always appear on the individual edit screen but will only appear in other screens with option 1.5 set to enable tagging. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br

Re: [LegacyUG] QUESTION

2015-08-08 Thread Brian/Support
s will not be the same. In Canada and the USA they are defined by our written constitutions. I have no idea what powers the British top court has, nor even how many there are (England, Scotland, Wales may each have their own as far as I know) nor what they may be named. Brian Customer Support

RE: [LegacyUG] QUESTION

2015-08-06 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
But the "Supreme Being" applies to all countries. Brian -Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 1:02 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] QUESTION No, The Supreme court only appl

RE: [LegacyUG] HisHer confusion

2015-07-31 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
"Females are always on the right and Males are always on the left." Let me see if I got that..Females are always right and males are always left out. :-) Brian in CA -Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Friday, July

RE: [LegacyUG] How to Delete a Master Event Definition

2015-07-30 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
use) in just a few mouse clicks. That tells me one has to be very careful about importing any GEDCOM files from other programs which may have events names that you don’t want to appear as an event name. Brian in CA From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30

[LegacyUG] How to Delete a Master Event Definition

2015-07-30 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
ll cause by combining one definition with a blank one, but if it'll make the definition go away, then I'd like to try it. The big question is how does one combine one definition with a blank one? I tried editing the definition to a blank but of course Legacy says I can't do that. Any id

RE: [LegacyUG] Source List Name

2015-07-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Pat, your response to all those that pointed out the error should be “Oh”. J Brian in CA From: Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 4:48 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Source List Name Can someone explain to me why these Source

RE: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Send Event to Top or Bottom Quickly

2015-07-25 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I’m seeing just the opposite. Any of my events without a date are at the top of the stack. Brian in CA From: GeoPappas [mailto:papp...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2015 12:54 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Send Event to Top or Bottom Quickly

RE: [LegacyUG] Include information on generated Web

2015-07-21 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
enough and we might get some changes without having to resort to work-arounds. Brian in CA Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink. From: Gene C. Harris [mailto:genechar...@outlook.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 9:09 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE

RE: [LegacyUG] Include information on generated Web

2015-07-21 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
igned and they'll appear on your web pages looking something like "Noted events in his life were:". From there you'll see a chronological listing of events you've added for a person such as census, residence, military, probate, obituary, and cemetery. Brian in CA We&#

RE: [LegacyUG] Search Function Anomaly #2

2015-07-20 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
field with no problems. Brian in CA From: Adrian Purkiss [mailto:a...@wavp.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 3:12 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Cc: remotes...@wavp.co.uk Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Search Function Anomaly #2 Just a thought, as I haven't tried it, try "

RE: [LegacyUG] Search Function Anomaly #2

2015-07-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
event on two different people, one with a null date and the other with a text date such as "After Jan 1, 1900". Now do your 2 step search looking for a null date. The result will show both records instead of just one. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: MikeFry [mailto:e

[LegacyUG] Search Function Anomaly #2

2015-07-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
ate entry. To make matters worse, the same search list will also include some, but not all such events, that have a valid Date entry such as "21 Aug 1900" when they shouldn't be included. That one I can't figure out at all. Is this a bug with User Created Events or is

[LegacyUG] Search Function Anomalies

2015-07-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
will get you all the way back to name number 51. So the big question is if this is how it is supposed to work? I've removed v7.5 from my current computer so I can't check to see if the function has changed. Brian in CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFam

RE: [LegacyUG] C/R ending in General Notes

2015-07-07 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
certain that it all worked just 6 months ago. Brian in CA From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 11:54 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] C/R ending in General Notes On 07/07/2015 19:16, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: Maybe this

[LegacyUG] C/R ending in General Notes

2015-07-07 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
notes with such a blank line because of formatting reasons in various Reports but now Legacy won't allow that. Anyone else seeing this? Brian in CA (v8 - 501) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 20

RE: [LegacyUG] People Using Specific Location

2015-06-29 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
The work-around would be to not use the Shared Event feature. ;-) Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Jim Terry/Support [mailto:jimte...@legacyusers.com] Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 8:48 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] People Using Specific Location

RE: [LegacyUG] Next problem - Unsupported format

2015-06-25 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
gotta find time to test this out but I'm stuck painting a house for the next 3 days. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:57 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Next problem - Unsupported

RE: [LegacyUG] Next problem - Unsupported format

2015-06-24 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
and the OP’s namespace for files is in need of some cleanup. Brian in CA PS – I know you said it’s your husbands tree but did anyone every point out that you have a “Percy Mott” folder inside of another folder which is inside of another “Percy Mott” folder. Good grief. To each their own

RE: [LegacyUG] Next problem - Unsupported format

2015-06-24 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
file path, how does that compare to Legacy’s claim of 255? Hopefully it’s not a misunderstanding of Windows so-called library folders such as “My Documents” or “My Pictures” because those names are just shortcuts and the true path is usually something like “C:\Users\\My Documents\”. Brian

RE: [LegacyUG] search tools location rerouted

2015-06-20 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
long as it is merely a link to the real folder, then Legacy continues to function as it has and with no change to any of your settings. Brian in CA From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 7:13 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG

RE: [LegacyUG] Possible glitch in programming

2015-06-16 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
uplicate the problem easily and then figure out what alleviates it. Don't just wish the programmer's would incorporate wrapping text around pictures then you wouldn't see all you typed data pushed apart just to make room for a picture on the side? Brian in CA -Origina

RE: [LegacyUG] How to add a source citation to a photograph?

2015-06-16 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
because the default if for it to be off. If you want to keep that checked, then you have to SAVE your report settings once you have everything checked the way you want it, and then LOAD those settings whenever you want to create a FGS in the future. HTH Brian in CA From: Gene C

RE: [LegacyUG] How to add a source citation to a photograph?

2015-06-16 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
ng at. Brian in CA From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 1:54 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to add a source citation to a photograph? On 16/06/2015 01:42, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: If you are unsure of h

RE: [LegacyUG] How to add a source citation to a photograph?

2015-06-15 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
photo you want to that particular event and then date the event appropriately. Then create more Photo events and attach a different photo of the person...and so on. It's nothing more than a workaround of the single preferred picture limitation in Legacy. It doesn't even have to be called &q

RE: [LegacyUG] How to add a source citation to a photograph?

2015-06-13 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
There's always the creation of an Event called "Photo". What's nice about this is that your reports can then show several different photos of the same person but at various ages. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree

[LegacyUG] Private vs. private

2015-06-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
t;private". Is this something that the latest update did? If it did, I'm wondering just what was the reasoning. And if it did, then why wasn't "Unknown" changed to "unknown"? (Yeah, OK, it's no big deal but I just want to know if it's something th

RE: [LegacyUG] Problems with Surnames

2015-05-31 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Help File – Search for “Letter Case of Names” Brian in CA From: Diana Bakel [mailto:dibake...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 2:05 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Problems with Surnames I am a new user of Legacy. With other software that I have used

RE: [LegacyUG] Run-time error 3021. No current record.

2015-05-30 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
. The problem is that the error is not easily reproducible, therefore the programmers are not going to waste any time for an error that happens to only a very few users and only under special conditions. That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it. Brian in CA From: Forefathers Research

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy won't remember last position and size

2015-05-28 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
That did it. Thanks. Also interesting to note that the Legacy2.usr file overrides these parameters of the Windows Properties setting of the executable or shortcut icon on the desktop. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent

RE: [LegacyUG] Help File Icon

2015-05-28 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
other windows remains as it was. Which means that the Help file is probably being updated as we speak. Maybe in the next update release. Thanks. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:44 AM To

[LegacyUG] Legacy won't remember last position and size

2015-05-28 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
t's just one click of the mouse otherwise it's a move operation with several re-size movements to get everything aligned with the other applications for me. My only other option is to go back to let Legacy run 24/7 in the size and location that I like. How is this working with everybody e

[LegacyUG] Help File Icon

2015-05-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
uot;Ribbon" for the Beginner's Video but that is a link to a web video. Am I missing something obvious? Brian in CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyuserg

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Detail Comments - not keeping formatting

2015-05-22 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
reate the error. I'm not sure Windows can be blamed or even different system configs. Brian in CA (I am NOT Brian in Support; I am better looking.) -Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 11:56 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyU

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Detail Comments - not keeping formatting

2015-05-22 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
473 on Win 7. Brian in CA (Note – I am not Brian in Support) From: lio . [mailto:likeitouts...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 4:19 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Source Detail Comments - not keeping formatting Hi Brian: are you able to duplicate

RE: [LegacyUG] Backup files from Legacy Family Tree

2015-05-21 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
elsewhere at this time as they should be. Brian in CA -----Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:03 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backup files from Legacy Family Tree I do not feel that Leg

RE: [LegacyUG] Backup files from Legacy Family Tree

2015-05-21 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
mention the fact that these extra backups can be deleted by using Windows Explorer. (Help 8-1257 : 31115) Brian in CA From: P. Rickert [mailto:irishcoppe...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:56 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Backup files from Legacy

RE: [LegacyUG] Linux/Wine

2015-05-20 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
will benefit a few others. Brian in CA From: Frank Laperriere [mailto:frankl6...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 8:54 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Linux/Wine I'm new to the group, and want to share some information. I'm currently running Li

RE: [LegacyUG] citing land entry files

2015-05-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
cycle through all widows being displayed. The ALT-SPACEBAR I believe is used only to resize or move windows and I don't think that will help you if there is a concealed window behind a maximized window. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: BARTON LEWIS [mailto:bartonle...@optonline

RE: [LegacyUG] citing land entry files

2015-05-18 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
function. If there is a date in the christening field, but no death date, then you’d be seeing the cursor in the death field. Brian in CA From: Barton Lewis [mailto:bartonle...@optonline.net] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 8:36 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] citing

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

2015-05-09 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
notes would be included. And this is why I say that there is no easy way to obtain a clean looking Location Report without lots of effort to tag those locations. Just because one can include the notes in a Location Index doesn’t make that a good method. Brian in CA From: Cathy Pinner

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

2015-05-09 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
. It sure would be nice if we could SORT the Master Location List based on any one of these 4 columns on the right side, thus getting all those with Notes grouped together at the top, but apparently Legacy allows sorting based only on City, County, State, or Country. Brian in CA From

RE: [LegacyUG] error log report

2015-05-02 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
No backup? For shame! J Brian in CA From: Marilyn Clark [mailto:ukulelemari...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 10:31 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] error log report I had some problems with my version 8 deluxe database (Version 8.0.0.459 build date

RE: [LegacyUG] GMQX file

2015-05-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
http://www.file-extensions.org/gmax-file-extension Sounds like Autodesk’s GMAX modeling tool for game developers. Brian in CA From: Dave Keeney [mailto:dave.kee...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 11:55 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] GMQX file

RE: [LegacyUG] Add Event/Fact

2015-04-30 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Hmmm...that might be a very nice idea. I think I'll try that to see how it looks and how it works. Thanks Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Robert57P_gmail [mailto:robert...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 12:48 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [Leg

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Citations - Part Deux

2015-04-20 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
assumes that it must be part of the information and therefore keeps it there in the final output. That’s as far as I care to go with this. I think it’s in the hands of the programmers…either at Millennium or Ancestry or both. Brian in CA From: Ward Walker [mailto:wnkwal...@rogers.com] Sent

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Citations - Part Deux

2015-04-20 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
end or the interpretation of the GEDCOM on Ancestry’s end. I need to re-install another GED VIEWER program to see what it thinks. I may also re-install Legacy v7.5 to verify that it properly handles both types of citations. Brian in CA From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:br...@the

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Citations - Part Deux

2015-04-20 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
first came out but I never was looking for it until several updates later. And the strange thing is that I believe that v7.5 did properly handle SourceWriter citations. If that is true, then what the heck happened in v8 to scramble this info? Brian in CA From: Ward Walker [mailto:wnkwal

[LegacyUG] Source Citations - Part Deux

2015-04-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
at right, so I suspect problems within the GEDCOM created by Legacy. Anyone? Brian in CA 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] Source citations contain extraneous characters

2015-04-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
ates from within Legacy. Why the census events come out OK on WEB PAGES and not on GEDCOM output is beyond me but I know that Legacy has some special routines for recognizing census events and manipulating the data. Anyone care to take the effort to duplicate the problem? Anyone from support care

RE: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: internet > database

2015-04-18 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
specific record search. So adding these specific URLs to your Legacy file does not mean you are doing it the wrong way. Hey, its Legacy. Do it whatever way you want. That’s the beauty of Legacy. Brian in CA PS – For what it’s worth, I recently came across a reference in FamilySeach that had

RE: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: internet > database

2015-04-17 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
within that repository then use whatever search mechanisms are available to them at that future date. I suppose this can all be summed in in Murphy’s 7th Law of the Universe: two things will change in the future, your looks and Internet URLs. Brian in CA From: Barton Lewis [mailto:bartonle

RE: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Mark a PERSON as Never Married?

2015-04-08 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
ys thought that Millennia used job-shop or contract programmers. Wonder when that changed?) Brian in CA -Original Message- From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 11:36 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Mark a

RE: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Mark a PERSON as Never Married?

2015-04-07 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
am. Programmers usually don't make this decisions as they are just told what to accomplish and are left in the dark with the mushroom fertilizer. Brian in CA No anxiety here. No rain either. -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Tuesday, Ap

RE: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report Issue

2015-04-03 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Easy solution is to resave the new PDF report with a different name than the first report. Brian in CA Happy Easter, Everyone From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 11:09 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG

Re: [LegacyUG] Quick Viewing of some Reports

2015-04-02 Thread Brian/Support
deluxe version, allow you to update from within Legacy. Standard version users will have to obtain the update from our web site. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 12/01/2014 12:45 PM, Mary Young wrote: > In 7.5, the buttons

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources

2015-04-01 Thread Brian/Support
See Tools > Advanced sourcing. Check the Help for that since there are many options on who you can assign the sources to and where they can be applied. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 01/04/2015 7:31 PM, Amy wr

Re: [LegacyUG] Master Sources

2015-04-01 Thread Brian/Support
It applies to Basic Style Sources only where the Title of published sources are in Italics, Unpublished are enclosed in quotation marks. The option is covered in the Help for Basic Sources "Define or Edit a Master Source" which covers Basic style sources. Brian Customer Support

[LegacyUG] Master Sources

2015-04-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Here is a question that has been bothering me for some time. And with the current lull on the LUG, I thought I'd seek an answer now. What is the difference between "Master Sources default to Published or Unpublished"? (RE: Customize 7.2) The Help file was of no help. Brian in C

RE: [LegacyUG] Probable Bug - Bolding Notes in Event Screen

2015-04-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
issue but everything still looked good. Maybe I’m not following his steps correctly or this is a strange error that is only occurring on a limited number of users. Brian in CA V8.0.0.473 From: Ana [mailto:anacyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 12:14 PM To: legacyusergroup

Re: [LegacyUG] one source entry - many entries

2015-03-30 Thread Brian/Support
amily relationships etc. Geoff records the census itself as an event. Brian Customer Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com On 30/03/2015 10:26 AM, BARTON LEWIS wrote: > Thanks, Michele. I try to get copies of original deeds for all direct > ancestors; if I am documenting their siblings, and we're

Re: [LegacyUG] Details text showing up in Footnote citation.

2015-03-30 Thread Brian/Support
For me it lets me see everything recorded without having to select different tabs. Details, text and comments are all visible in the preview at a glance. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 30/03/2015 1:56 AM, Brian L

RE: [LegacyUG] Details text showing up in Footnote citation.

2015-03-29 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
rasp the intended use of the Show Entire Source option especially when it can over-ride customization settings. I'm not so sure that's what the programmers intended. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 6

RE: [LegacyUG] Details text showing up in Footnote citation.

2015-03-29 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
is always included on a GEDCOM submission which kind of negates my idea of keeping it private. Brian in CA From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 2:28 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Details text showing up in

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual's Information Screen

2015-03-29 Thread Brian/Support
sacrament. Do you know of any religions which have both a christening and a baptism? Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 29/03/2015 11:48 AM, Ana wrote: > Well - I disagree that baptism vs christening are not important. N

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual's Information Screen

2015-03-28 Thread Brian/Support
tening but you could create that for your file if you want to use Bap for the main event and Chr for those where that applied. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 28/03/2015 2:55 PM, Ila East wrote: > I know there is a wa

Re: [LegacyUG] Where Does It Say That? Learning to Love Indirect Evidence - free webinar by Chris Staats now online for limited time

2015-03-27 Thread Brian/Support
Were you trying to view the webinar from your iPad? If I remember correctly Apple iPads do not support Flash video and that is what the webinar site uses. You will need to use a device with Adobe Flash player installed to view the video. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Search Complex Surnames?

2015-03-27 Thread Brian/Support
Not in the Name list. The "search" as you type a name is a built-in feature of MS Access and only works for beginning characters. You can use search to find people with a surname containing Santiago. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytre

Re: [LegacyUG] How can I undo a deleted person?

2015-03-26 Thread Brian/Support
ile. You will have to recreate the link to his/her spouse/children after the person has been copied. When you deleted the person the spouse kept a link to the children but that family now has an unknown spouse. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com h

RE: [LegacyUG] Putting Webpages on the Internet

2015-03-24 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
/absolute-vs-relative-pathslinks/. (Warning: Geek stuff ahead.) HTH Brian in CA From: Jerry in Michigan [mailto:bearjerca...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 12:23 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Putting Webpages on the Internet Question for you

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