Why oh why must Legacy designate events that
occurred after a death, eg. death announcement, obituary,
biography (most of the time), funeral announcements, etc.
as problems? It can be a stupid pain in the neck and I
don't see why I should click on Exclude from potential
problems every time I
Because there is no Feature Request tab under the Help tab in my
program. Why would I want to request it anyway when I already
have it and don't want it?
On 21-Jan-14 4:20 PM, Chris Seens wrote:
Instead of complaining about the way the program was designed, why
don't you consider submitting
Thank you Michele and Brian for being such a great help. Brian,
you've pointed out something I didn't know existed and now that
I've fine tuned the Events section, it should make my life much
easier.
And while we're on about Potential Problems, why does this
feature point out problems under a
In trying to back up a file in Legacy 7.5.0.278
Error reading Individual.
Error 91: Object variable or With block variable not set
(Note: The cause of this error is often fixed by doing a File File
Maintenance Check/Repair... on the family file.)
Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN?
Trying it again
Do these land records work as shown at http://tinyurl.com/lrzcvcr for
Canada? Seems to me there are far easier ways of obtaining records for
some provinces even if the LDS offers them.
I enter them as an event entitled Land Ownership and attach the original
copied documents in the Pictures area.
Can I assume that when you say The recording should be published
later, you mean that it will be linked to an audio file?
Any chance of a transcript for those of here who are hearing impaired?
Helen
Looking for James Adams, UEL
On 03-Jan-14 11:24 AM, Geoff Rasmussen wrote:
The recording should
I tried subscribing about a year ago. Waited for a week with no messages,
the Report a problem address wasn't visible, had no idea who to write to
so finally just gave up. Even this time I kept hitting the click on
this link to
confirm your subscription daily for at least a week and got nowhere
Sounds easy, doesn't it! Not quite. How is a new user to know to e-mail
Support, even if he can find the address, unless he reads your message
first?
I trusted Legacy, I trusted then to know what they were doing. That's why I
clicked on the link daily for a week, waiting for messages to appear,
I'm using Legacy 7.4.0.45 and an quite happy with it. I prefer to keep
my tree plain and simple and have found that this version, along with
LTools, provides just about everything I could ask for. I'm not an
upgrade for the bloatware bells and whistles person hence my
satisfaction with the older
Many of these bugs that were supposedly fixed in version 7.5.0.278 I've
never come across. There are many features in the program that apply to
the USA only and if the bug is there, I'd never find them and they
wouldn't bother me. And the improvements in 7.5 weren't improvements to
me, I just
Wendy, Thank you for such a well-reasoned reply. It stands to reason
that we should be made aware of the bugs first because where else can we
ask about them except on this list?
I think my main question is what do I have to gain from upgrading? I
don't want to upgrade and find that all the
Descendant Chart – L to R
How does this differ from what's available in Legacy Charting? I keep
an old version of a rival program on my hard drive for the rare occasion
I need a chart. I'm referring to the kind of chart where each name is in
a small box with the BMD info in it too.
I submitted a request to join over a week ago and have confirmed my
request daily through an e-mailed link, but have received nothing. Is
this group normally this quiet or is there some hitch with my joining?
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Your link does not work, it times out without connecting. What do I do n ow?
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A very large gedcom file I imported a few months ago entered the
author's name as an Unspecified source for everyone in the entire
file. Since then I have had the chance to borrow all the original
material used to compile this gedcom and would like to delete the
original compiler's name as I have
In my C:\Legacy\Data directory, my main family has nine different files
with the following extensions.
.fdb which of course I recognize
.FG
.fsd
.IGI
.PPL
.Rc3.Cal
.Rel.Cal
.RGD
.TC
Upper case letters are as they appear in the directory
What are all (but .fdb} these files for? Do I need them
Wikipedia, in part, defines webinar as
A webinar is a neologism, specifically a portmanteau of web
seminar..
I'm still none the wiser. So far I've deleted all messages about
webinars, being in a fog about exactly how they're conducted and
doubting that they would be worth my time, being
Gene - I've read the Legacy webinar page and am still no wiser. The word
verbally appears nowhere. Exactly how is all this information
explained? Does one sit at their computer with speakers turned on and
listen to a lecture, does one download material, exactly what goes on?
None of the
Thank you all so much for your detailed explanations, especially Sherry.
You've answered all my questions.
First of all, I don't have computer speakers - don't need them, can't
hear them. Haven't used a phone in 10 years - can't find one loud
enough, heard of VOIP but no idea nor inclination of
Thanks John but I also have a severe word recognition problem. Ever hear
of the silly seniors' joke It's windy today, isn't it? No, it's
Thursday. That's me.
Even when head phones are turned up loud enough for me, it's only just
noise, for me and the rest of the room, but I can't understand
Is there a way of limiting the number of generations appearing in a
Descendant book or narrative? Problem is that the family sheet is too
terse; I'd like to include all my notes and sources but can't find a
tab/entry to limit the number of generations in the book format.
Yes, I know I could use
It's right there on the first screen (Options tab).
Thanks, Dennis, much appreciated. I'd scoured the Descendants Book
options with no luck so assumed Narrative would be the same. Either one
will do in this case so I won't concern myself with the other for now.
Helen
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Hi Dennis,
After a lot of gnashing of teeth, I found it. Options, Report Options,
geesh, why couldn't they be combined? Makes me wonder if I'm missing any
more options. Sorry, I'm not well and today isn't my brightest day,
obviously.
Helen
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So would I. All it shows is updates for last year.
Add me to the list too. There was such hype last fall about how
wonderful v7.5 would be, even to the point of demanding that it be
released immediately to maintain Legacy's competitive edge. So what was
all the hype about? For various
Ditto what Robert said.
Sometimes Legacy spell check stops at every other word including simple
one syllable ones that any basic spell check knows. Other times it's
almost reliable but that doesn't happen very often.
I use my e-mail program spell checker, it's far more reliable. I don't
like
Connie,
How do you print the entire database in one report?
I'm not using it for a formal One Name Study, but yes, I use Legacy to enter
multiple
unrelated lines of the same surname. I put them all in the same database; I
do NOT create
a separate database for each line.
Legacy User
I recently discovered that USB flash drives have a limited lifespan.
Last April I bought a 32 Gb Sandisk Cruzer specifically for backing up
my genealogy data. Now Win7 won't recognize it, nor will another
computer running Linux and Sandisk has yet to reply to my query about a
warranty after
Regarding archival DVDs and digital preserving in general, a must-read is:
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/White_Paper:_Preserving_Your_Family_History_Records_Digitally
Print it, staple it together, sit down in an armchair and relax or take
it to bed with you and read it through. It's very well
And the other way around - from Source Writer to Basic?
Helen
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Connie, Two ideas for generating more $$ for Legacy.
How about a Legacy UK, or Legacy Canada, or Legacy Australia New
Zealand (if the two can be lumped together), Legacy Latin America
flavour? There could be differences in the methods of entering addresses
and in the way of entering
Legacy produces an excellent manual on the use of the program, and there is
a book The Legacy Family written by Mike Lang and available from Legacy at
http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=5
I checked it out, Ron. Here's what it says in part..
The Legacy Family -
No the problem is with users, who
insist on using and advocating the 4 field format,
Seems to me the users are the ones who keep Legacy in business.
and, if you like, the Geo-location databases, which wrongly assume that all
the world uses it.
No problem for me, I have no
Problem with Legacy terminology, from what I can see, is that it's
aimed at a USA market and to heck with the rest of the world, unless
it's convenient or lucrative to accommodate anywhere else.
I've been working on my family history since the mid 1970s in the days
when archives were the only
In the Individual's Information window, when I check the box for This
individual never married and had no children, then going back to the
family view for this person, sometimes I'll still see Marriage
Information for this person instead. In other words, clicking this
never married box works
Thanks Jenny, I have it figured out now.
What happened was that I found a daughter for this person and entered
her. Then on looking at this person (James T.), I noticed that he'd died
at the age of 14 so I unlinked the daughter from him. Turned out that
the so-called daughter belonged to James P.
I've been watching for replies to Elizabeth's query as I've never used
the clipboard either. Forget videos, I get lost in them - can't keep up
with each screen and being deaf, can't hear the instructions.
So I welcomed Bob's explanation and tried it out. He said Just before
the last save on a
The two boxes are just pictures (unless you hover).
Now I get it, you mean icons.
I've never bothered with a lot of the frills in Legacy because I've
found most of them tailored primarily to USA data whereas only about 10%
of my data originates there.
Thanks for the explanation.
Helen
So when would you use the Clipboard? All of my event data is unique to
that particular person.
Helen
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But that's what I said previously. An event like a census for example,
starts off with that individual's name and personal information below.
All have different birth dates, husband and wife might have different
religions, father and son might have different occupations, etc. I
prefer to have
The Source may, and for a given census year usually is, the same for
all individuals in a family.
Yes and no, line numbers are different of course, and I do like to
enter them in case someone wants to check the original image themselves.
Saves squinting through fifty lines of horrible
I converted one Legacy PDF report to RTF, think it was a Descendant
Report, and have never seen such a dog's dinner in my life. It was a
huge mess, completely scrambled and far too much work to edit.
Helen
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What exactly does Animap do? I Googled it and got a tiny picture of the
USA in the top corner of my screen with some eastern states coloured in
but with no explanation. Didn't see a FAQ, just a link to buy it.
How many countries does it map? Which ones?
Helen
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I can see you having to add an awful lot of U.S.A.s should ever wish to
publish, Brian!! :-)
I've done the same thing as Brian, except for Canada. Any other country
has the country name after the town, township, county, etc. and when/if
I publish, I intend to add a note to the Preface
I DO NOT WANT THIS TO BECOME A BASH LEGACY THREAD. I LOVE LEGACY AND
KEEP WANTING TO GET MORE OUT OF IT.
Have a look at
http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
Even if I hadn't used Legacy before and were choosing a genealogy
program, the differences between Legacy and
My apologies to the group, FTM will not create an index in the Register
format I tried. It may in other formats but I haven't experimented with it.
In the meantime I'm having a hunt around for a pain-free report program.
If/when I find one, am I permitted to post the name to the list?
If not,
I've tried the word processor route and it's sheer torture. I've tried
changing Legacy's .pdf file to text and ends up looking like a dog's dinner.
Part of the problem is that I've entered all the censuses for everyone
in the Events section with the name and date of the census in the blanks
then
I do not understand why you are saving to a PDF before you convert to text
and put it in a wordprocessor. Simply save as an RTF.
I tried it first as a PDF and didn't like the look of the report. Then I
tried it as an RTF file and it didn't look any better. I'd hoped that my
converting a .pdf
Using OpenOffice Writer the Contents and Indexes are preserved, in fact
after corrections, additions etc. they print the new page numbers -
providing one sets up the OOo parametrs correctly.
Not when I did it using v3.2 but what are the OOo parameters?
Helen
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Ron,
Following as best I could the directions in the link you kindly
provided, here's what my report looked like:
Unfortunately it wasn't too much help because you must have written that
page using an older version of OO. Mine (v3.2.0) doesn't have check
boxes beside each View item so it was
It's a major reason why I rarely upload my Legacy data to Ancestry.Com any
more and only really go from Ancestry.Com to Legacy.
I enjoy genealogy, the quest for more data and the satisfaction of
seeing a tree extending several generations. IMHO, genealogy is for
sharing; my relatives are
For what it's worth, and not worth file notes, I load each photograph
into Photoshop, use the Canvas Size command to add a white strip along
the bottom then using the Text command, type in names left to right, or
a full name including married names with birth and death years. That
way, a
Aren't you operating under a misconception here? Unless your photograph
comes from high-definition film stock or a large plate, scanning at high
resolutions will do nothing to show detail that isn't already there.
Quite possibly, but the copied print will look much better than one
scanned at
I found a newspaper clipping for an ancestor who didn't live long enough
to be named and would like to show them in the list of brothers and
sisters. How is this done?
Helen
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I have been keeping my relevant pictures in the Legacy\Pictures
directory but under separate sub-directories for each family file, eg.
c:\Legacy\Pictures\ (for the main family)
c:\Legacy\Pictures\Smith
c:\Legacy\Pictures\Jones
etc. but have found that Legacy reverts to c:\Legacy\Pictures\ for
Thanks Dennis and Peter. Despite not making myself clear enough, you've
answered my question. Although I suspected I was correct about picture
locations, I didn't want to move any until further confirmation. Looks
like I must be learning something about Legacy after all. (-:
Helen
Legacy User
I changed the pictures locations to D drive, moved all the picture files
and everything went smoothly.
Opened the first family file (.fdb) named Sage, reset the pictures
location to D:\genprogpics\Sage and saved the change.. Accessed a
person's file and the relevant pictures showed up fine.
I did. It works, as per your instructions.
So, in actual fact, Default location of picture, sound, video and
document files on Options - Locations could read
Default MASTER location of picture, sound, video and document files,
the word master being my addition.
That's what caused my confusion.
Thanks, Rick, for the tip. I've had some problems in sending relatives
pictures from Legacy Pictures for only their side of the family and have
found that I have far too many remotely related families in the main
original family file which could go in separate files.
This is what has caused the
Thanks, Richard. That's partly what's caused my problems.
I started off naming, for example, the birth registration file for Mary
Jane Brown as MJBrown birth.jpg and 1860 census-MJBrown.jpg.
Then came a great reorganization of pictures. There were Margaret Jean
Browns in my family, a couple of
I've been using Picture Centre and find it an excellent tool. Sure saves
a lot of time and bother checking the picture then searching for the
person in Legacy. Many thanks to the programmer who wrote that tool.
The Zoom feature unfortunately isn't quite large enough for my eyes.
I've named
I've finished attaching all the unattached pictures I recognize offhand
but there are still a few hundred not attached which I have to view
first under large magnification. This means loading Picture Centre,
scrolling down to the first unattached picture shown, closing Picture
Centre, finding the
Cathy-0, one way of looking at things is by asking yourself What did we
do for censuses before computers? or If I print a book of descendants
for old Aunt Ida who doesn't have a computer, what would she want to see?
If I wanted to go to a lot of trouble, I could list Events like Religion
and
I want to set the record straight and restore Legacy's reputation with
Windows 7. (-: For those of you who have deleted the start message in
this thread, I wrote saying that nothing happened when I clicked on the
Legacy icon after installing it on Windows 7 OS.
Legacy was being installed on a new
I made a New Year's resolution to study every command in Legacy to avoid
asking obvious questions on the list, and in consequence feeling stupid.
So far all I've accomplished is to turn on the Welcome to Legacy 7.0
window with the Did you know tips. Only problem is that I've read
and studied
Options, Customize, Show Popup ToolTips (right side of window near the top)
Helen
How did you turn that on? I seem to recall that I had it turned on once
upon a time, but not at the moment.
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Legacy standard edition is installed in its own separate directory
c:\legacy on my new computer running Windows 7 after being the install
program was downloaded from the Legacy site yesterday.
When I click on either the desktop icon or the .exe program in the files
list, nothing happens. They
There is no start menu on my version of Windows 7. I can only start it
by clicking on the desktop icon or by clicking on Legacy.exe in the
files list in Windows Explorer.
I did try the Compatibility Mode thing but it hung and I had to reboot.
It's all moot at the moment because the computer
I keep a separate directory called genealogy with sub-directories named
after each main family surname.
Whenever I find gedcoms, names that might be related, names that keep
cropping up, etc., any of the situations you described, I put the
information into the sub-directory bearing the main
Bob,
The Warning tab for Burial after Death is set for 30 days and the
longest anyone had to wait for burial was about a week. However I did
uncheck the box under Problems that says Event/Fact date after burial
date and that solves the problem. I hesitate to do it in case I do
actually mistakenly
Thanks for your help, Brian, I see what you mean. However, the reason I
chose the Events/Facts area instead is so that when the Individual's
Information screen appears, there will be a bare-bones biography
immediately visible in that field.
Brian/Support wrote:
Helen
If you click on the + sign
Many thanks to everyone who wrote showing me where to enter burial
information. It's great to belong to a group where everyone wants to
help with someone else's problems, regardless of whether or not it
affects them.
The graphic too was really helpful.
Helen
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Having the name of the cemetery as an actual location makes it easier to
find everyone buried there when searching MIs for that particular
cemetery. That way I don't miss anyone.
It's also easier to prepare a list of names of people buried there
before viewing microfilms.
Helen
Legacy User
I created a GEDCOM file to upload to Rootsweb and it's appearance is not
attractive.
When copying or entering information in either the Notes or Events Notes
field, I try to align all the data using Control+Tab to make the
appearance more attractive especially when printing books.
But in a
Thank you Dennis and Brian, for your input regarding embedded formatting
codes. Yes, I do have Keep embedded formatting codes within text
checked but had no idea that they would appear as actual text in the
GEDCOM file. I thought that by keeping them, they would perform their
purpose but stay
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