RE: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]

2015-04-09 Thread Paul Gray
John, Everything you say is spot on. I must admit that my main concern is that Legacy is (and I assume they are) spending effort updating the ‘technical platform’ that Legacy runs on. We have heard numerous times (including from Legacy) that the platform is old technology. For example, that

Re: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]

2015-04-09 Thread gerald
It may appear, John, that what you would like to see in a program is very logical to you, but the number of other users that feel the same can be counted on one hand. It is just not worth the time and effort to make those changes for only a few. I know from personal experience in writiing a

[LegacyUG] American Revolution Genealogy - free webinar by Beth Foulk now online for limited time

2015-04-09 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
I am completely jealous of Marian Pierre-Louis and the entire live audience of last night's webinar. I've never received so many BEST WEBINAR EVER! comments before. And with it being a Wednesday evening webinar, which Marian guest hosts, I wasn't there. I won't ever miss a live performance of Beth

[LegacyUG] Any Way to Create Ancestor / Pedigree Chart with Coloring for Ancestors Related by X-Chromosome?

2015-04-09 Thread GeoPappas
Only certain ancestors can carry and pass along the X-chromosome. You can see a sample fan chart for a male here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bzSdU-ZJpB8/UsW_9X6TavI/Ayc/e-kIByVb-1o/s1600/X-Chromosome+fan+chart+male+-+from+Blaine+300dpi.tif You can see a sample fan chart for a female

Re: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]

2015-04-09 Thread Nancy
Right John. Sent from my iPad On Apr 9, 2015, at 1:20 AM, John Lisle leg...@johnlisle.com wrote: Jay, Your (and my?) idea of what the market requires may be different from what Legacy's management feels is necessary. Several years ago, an aggressive effort was made to create

RE: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]

2015-04-09 Thread Jack Earnshaw
In many ways what you say is correct. It is almost pointless making a costly change that will only benefit a small number of existing users. But the issues raised are not, in the long term, in that category. - “not married and had no children” will become a growing issue with today’s

Re: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]

2015-04-09 Thread John Lisle
Gerald, First, I question your comment that only a handful of users might use the changes I am suggesting. Legacy has a large number of Power users, most of whom will never participate on this list. These are users who use more than 10% of the functionality in Legacy. :-) (Unlike Microsoft

RE: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]

2015-04-09 Thread CE WOOD
I have emphasized and isolated the sentences in your post to which I am responding. Traditionally? Baloney! If the programmers knew anything about history, they would NEVER assume that the biological parents were usually married! Since history began, children have been born out-of-wedlock! In

Re: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]

2015-04-09 Thread John Lisle
Jay, Your (and my?) idea of what the market requires may be different from what Legacy's management feels is necessary. Several years ago, an aggressive effort was made to create international versions. That added greatly to its market. L7 added mapping, improved privacy, source writer, and