Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file

2020-06-30 Thread Jack Reynolds
Thanks Brian, that is exactly what I needed to know in order to accomplish this. Now I can get started. Jack Reynolds -Original Message- From: Brian Kelly Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:24 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file

2020-06-30 Thread Brian Kelly
- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 5:19 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file On 30/06/2020 06:58, Wally Lee wrote: I also wish to add stories and additional pictures to Legacy so that I would be able

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file

2020-06-30 Thread Wally Lee
Thank you, I definitely will be upgrading to Legacy9 Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 30, 2020, at 3:19 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > >> On 30/06/2020 06:58, Wally Lee wrote: >> I also wish to add stories and additional pictures to Legacy so that I would >> be able to include them in reports. >> I

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file

2020-06-30 Thread Jack Reynolds
@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file On 30/06/2020 06:58, Wally Lee wrote: I also wish to add stories and additional pictures to Legacy so that I would be able to include them in reports. I am running Legacy8 but I cannot find the 'Stories

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file

2020-06-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 30/06/2020 06:58, Wally Lee wrote: I also wish to add stories and additional pictures to Legacy so that I would be able to include them in reports. I am running Legacy8 but I cannot find the 'Stories section' that you refer to. In which dropdown menu in Legacy will I find the 'Stories

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file

2020-06-29 Thread Wally Lee
I also wish to add stories and additional pictures to Legacy so that I would be able to include them in reports. I am running Legacy8 but I cannot find the 'Stories section' that you refer to. In which dropdown menu in Legacy will I find the 'Stories section' that you refer to, or do I need to

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file

2020-06-29 Thread Cathy Pinner
Jack, You can copy and paste your Word document text into Legacy into the Stories section. You need a separate "story" for each picture you want to include as you can only include one picture per story in output. You can use the Title of the second "story" for a sub-header or put it in

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file

2020-06-29 Thread D.E.Allen
Hi am new to this forum. I recently asked similar questions of my PC User group who have helped so much over the years... I edited the Legacy-created index.htm file using Arachnophilia editor which 'helps as you go' with embedding pics etc -i.e. with the web 'language', got it done but it was

[LegacyUG] adding stories and pictures to an individuals file

2020-06-29 Thread Jack Reynolds
Over the years of retirement I have recalled and recorded stories in my PC of my parents and their families. I have about 40 stories covering 25 typed Word pages. When finished I would have some pictures included also. I would like to get this into Legacy under the stories section of each

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-14 Thread atlantajm
You make a good point, Jack. Raw data and narrative are two separate things. But in my mind, the source citation is a third component, telling me where I got the information. It is not the data itself. Connie, you are absolutely right. Computers, digital photography, scanning have almost

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-13 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 13/11/2010 02:13, Laird wrote: So you don't have the electronic emails I had a family manuscript legal size paper copy I wanted in a text format, this is what I did. There is a online service you can use to convert a scanned image to a text.pdf file. Paste this into you web

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-13 Thread Kathy Meyer
...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:47 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories On 12/11/2010 18:07, Kathy Meyer wrote: So I'm hearing that if I create an event for each email (email from JohnDoe 1 Jan 2003) and then put the text of the email

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-13 Thread Bruce Jones
: [LegacyUG] adding stories On 12/11/2010 18:07, Kathy Meyer wrote: So I'm hearing that if I create an event for each email (email from JohnDoe 1 Jan 2003) and then put the text of the email into the details of that event. I'm not seeing a source reference I would attach to that because

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 12/11/2010 02:02, Kathy Meyer wrote: I've come across some emails that I received from a gentleman describing the life of my kids' gr gr gr grandmothers. Their families were neighbors and he was recalling all sorts of things; very very interesting. The information is about both women; if

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-12 Thread Connie Sheets
I would create an event called Note (or whatever you want to call it) and transcrihe or summarize the relevant portion(s) of the e-mail into the Note field of the event. I would definitely NOT transcribe it into the details field of the source citation because (1) I would have scans (I presume

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 12/11/2010 15:03, Connie Sheets wrote: I would create an event called Note (or whatever you want to call it) and transcrihe or summarize the relevant portion(s) of the e-mail into the Note field of the event. I would definitely NOT transcribe it into the details field of the source

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-12 Thread Connie Sheets
Hi, Jenny, I assumed Kathy did not have the electronic e-mails, only hard-copy print-outs of them. If she has actual e-mails, I agree I would copy and paste. My reason for posting, however, was to point out that if she puts the transcriptions (or copy/paste) only in the Source, not in the

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-12 Thread Kathy Meyer
Thanks everyone; I do not have the electronic emails in this case; I printed them out 7 years ago (ok, I admitted it; I print things out and stuff them in a file to work on later and it's much, much later!) Otherwise, I would definitely copy/paste; these are fairly long emails so will take some

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 12/11/2010 18:07, Kathy Meyer wrote: So I'm hearing that if I create an event for each email (email from JohnDoe 1 Jan 2003) and then put the text of the email into the details of that event. I'm not seeing a source reference I would attach to that because everything would be right there

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-12 Thread atlantajm
that the raw data and my narrative are two different things. -Jack -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:47 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories On 12/11/2010 18:07, Kathy Meyer wrote: So I'm hearing

RE: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-12 Thread Jennifer Crockett
/ Regards, Jennifer http://colston-wenck.com -Original Message- From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES [mailto:fourpa...@verizon.net] Sent: Saturday, 13 November 2010 7:51 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories Hind sight is golden, but what I do with lenghty e

[LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-11 Thread Kathy Meyer
I'm going through a major clean up and trying to digitize a huge amount of information that has previously been only in file folders; for instance, I'm adding census images and details where I previously only recorded the source information. I've come across some emails that I received from a

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-11 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: From: Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com Subject: [LegacyUG] adding stories To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 6:02 PM I'm going through a major clean up and trying to digitize a huge amount of information that has

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-11 Thread Kathy Meyer
to the above source. That way each phrase about a person can be pulled out of the document. Just a suggestion. Rich in LA CA --- On Thu, 11/11/10, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: From: Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com Subject: [LegacyUG] adding stories To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com

Re: [LegacyUG] adding stories

2010-11-11 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
: From: Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com Subject: [LegacyUG] adding stories To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 6:02 PM I'm going through a major clean up and trying to digitize a huge amount of information that has previously been only in file folders