Ila East wrote:
Thinking ahead to the time when I might upload my database to
FamilySearch, and taking the advice to remove any undocumented people
and or poor documentation, I am in the process of doing so.
I made a copy of my database. I named the original wrenn -
researching, and the copy
I need some guidance or clarification on a couple of minor items. When
preparing a book descendant narrative and entering an event (such as the burial
cemetery or a ‘file’) and I add a picture of the church associated with the
cemetery, or a ‘file’ – this picture repeats in the book for all
I sent in the following enhancement request this morning. Note that I added
a second enhancement that I think will improve sourcing. Anything to
decrease the number of pop-up but still maintain the functionality
Add additional functions when add a source
Heeren wrote:
sort of implies??? LOL
If they wanted the button to apply just to the upper tier they would
have said so... they said, All Used Fields. They said what they meant
and it does what they meant.
I'm not brave enough to press the three bar button but I have hovered
over it to try
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:54:21 +, Lionel Carter
lionelcar...@freezone.co.uk wrote:
So presumably it adds something to all these fields - or are there many
meanings to Field?
Events can only be sourced as a whole, not individual fields. Same for
things like Birth Date and Place, etc.
The
Thanks for the response Ron - I sort of suspected that your suggestion was my
'out', but wanted to see if there might have been a 'workaround'. I agree,
that it is doing exactly what I told it to do.
What do the other three functions do that appear on the line where a picture is
added to an
+1 to what Ron said.
I'll continue to use this button, as it is helpful, especially when
adding a new person to the database. But, you can bet that I'll skip
it, or at least use it with extreme care, should I be tempted to use
it again on somebody with existing events.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at
The Help file topic for Source Clipboard states
Or, you can click graphic of 3-bar button to have Legacy automatically
assign the source to every field on the Information form that is not blank.
(This also includes all events in the event list.)
In the topic Citing the Sources of your
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:54:21 +, Lionel Carter
lionelcar...@freezone.co.uk wrote:
So presumably it adds something to all these fields - or are there many
meanings to Field?
Events can only be sourced as a whole, not individual fields. Same for
things like
Thxs. James. But it would have been, better if instead of writing the bue
arrow I had written the 3bar Icon!
Ron Ferguson
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RUNION ROBERT wrote:
I need some guidance or clarification on a couple of minor items.
When preparing a book descendant narrative and entering an event
(such as the burial cemetery or a ‘file’) and I add a picture of the
church associated with the cemetery, or a ‘file’ – this
Lionel Carter wrote
This is a case where rather than read round in circles one is tempted
to suck it and see but in this case the results could be rather
traumatic. I've decided to stay well away from those buttons until the
semantics is clear.
Suck it and see is the very best way to learn!
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:51:21 -0600, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote:
There is no query that can be run to get me
all the people that have had the wrong sources applied.
Perhaps a query that will find anyone with an event with more than one
citation?
--
Dennis Kowallek (LTools)
Unless they changed something in V7, you can get this behavior by
unchecking the Prompt for detail box on the citation in the clipboard.
Dennis - THANK YOU
I missed that check box on the source citation. That is going to make my
life much easier. This is why this User Group adds value!
Jens,
I also use PGV for all of my data entry the same as you and, yes,
Legacy has problems importing Gedcoms produced by PGV and others. I
have worked on several occasions with Brian at Support working through
the problems. The main problem appeared to be that Legacy was not
parsing the Gedcom
Even a 3 or 4 level place location option per county wouldn't work. In Canada,
Ontario and much of the rest of eastern Canada uses a 4 level place locations
(city/town/village/township, county/district/municipality, province, country),
while the prairie provinces and BC use a 3 level place
I have recently had problems with Legacy locking up, primarily when I am
working in the Index view, I think. Has anyone else had this problem? I
have to end task and restart, and that gets cumbersome.
Jane S.
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Lionel Carter wrote:
Heeren wrote:
sort of implies??? LOL
If they wanted the button to apply just to the upper tier they would
have said so... they said, All Used Fields. They said what they
meant and it does what they meant.
I'm not brave enough to press the three bar button but I
Jane,
When the program locks up, press the Alt key to see if an error bock pops up.
If it does on our website, go to the Help Center menu and select Technical
Support for solutions to the most common error numbers and messages.
If no message pops up, try uninstalling and reinstalling Legacy
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:49 +, Lionel Carter
lionelcar...@freezone.co.uk wrote:
However repeating the process (with different source clipboard data)
adds a blank event rather than overwriting the 'unspecified event'.
You are mis-understanding what
AGAIN:
You can enter what you want for EACH location.
It doesn't matter if some locations have one (England) or many (Ancient Rawson
Farm, near Neponset village, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts). I think how
many is limited only by how many characters, fit in the space (which extends a
Or you can copy and paste it into the event, Will.
CE
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Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:50 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location Pictures
RUNION ROBERT wrote
What do the other three
So then what are Ridings?
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Bill Bienia bill_bie...@sympatico.ca wrote:
Even a 3 or 4 level place location option per county wouldn't work. In
Canada, Ontario and much of the rest of eastern Canada uses a 4 level place
locations (city/town/village/township,
Until 1974 Yorkshire was divided into three sections calleed Ridings. I
believe the word itself comes from the Viking language and means a 1/3 part.
The three were the North Riding, West and East.
Ron Ferguson
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At 01:40 PM 3/9/2010, you wrote:
So then what are Ridings?
Ridings are a political designation that may or may not have any
relevancy for genealogy purposes.. A riding is allocated according to
the number of people living in an area and can change at the whim of
the federal or provincial
Kathy Shiell-Stokes wrote:
At 01:40 PM 3/9/2010, you wrote:
So then what are Ridings?
Ridings are a political designation that may or may not have any
relevancy for genealogy purposes.. A riding is allocated according to
the number of people living in an area and can change at the whim of
(Hope I got the HTML turned off properly)
This is a rewrite of my reply several years ago to a poster who asked
how to combine old names and new names for the same area ... here's how
I handle that and other similar problems ...
Brigham (old bridge by the river), CountyName, NJ, US
Can I revert to the original query regarding locations please? I have
deleted the GeoLocation database as I was finding it annoying (the
vast marjority of my locations are in Europe). However, when I try to
tidy the list, I still see references to the short location list and
I'd like to edit
On 2010/03/09 23:53, Elizabeth wrote:
Can I revert to the original query regarding locations please? I have
deleted the GeoLocation database as I was finding it annoying (the
vast marjority of my locations are in Europe). However, when I try to
tidy the list, I still see references to the
Elizabeth wrote
Can I revert to the original query regarding locations please? I have
deleted the GeoLocation database as I was finding it annoying (the vast
marjority of my locations are in Europe). However, when I try to tidy
the list, I still see references to the short location list and I'd
On 2010/03/10 00:49, Elizabeth wrote:
Yes, thanks, I did find that way of reading them, but surely there's a
way to see the whole list at once? I have, in the past, used the
Chapman codes for county abbreviations (England) and I wanted to
change them.
The Master Location List is no good? I
Bob:
You are correct here.
Sorry.
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chap...@gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:48 AM, RUNION ROBERT s...@cox.net wrote:
Leon - I have the picture added to the source, but when I add the source to
multiple people (i.e., all those buried in cemetery A), the source shows at
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
Rita in South Carolina
-Original Message-
From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES [mailto:fourpa...@verizon.net]
After thinking some more, I looked and found in 'Search and replace' a category
'List-Child status'. Switching from Natural to ' ' should work. If not, I have
Perhaps they should be more specific about the meaning of Unspecified .
Pauline
Lionel Carter wrote:
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:49 +, Lionel Carter
lionelcar...@freezone.co.uk wrote:
However repeating the process (with different source clipboard data)
adds a
Elizabeth,
I think that you are correct, and I did suggest that Chapman codes can be
misleading as you suggest. However, I would always recommend using the full
address in reports, web pages etc. so to use them in the short location
would be fine.
Mike, my point was/is that genealogists
Elizabeth wrote
Someone (possibly Ron Ferguson?) once suggested the Chapman codes were
misleading, especially to those not living in the UK.
Depends how and where they are used, I think.
I use Chapman Codes in my Short Locations but the Short Locs are really
only for my benefit. If I'm
Hi. I am a new user of Legacy, and have come across a challenge I can't
figure out. If one doesn't know an ancestor's parents, Legacy will use a
blank record, thus enabling me to enter siblings even though no parent
appears. But, I can't figure out how to do that in other situations. The
one
On 9 Mar 2010 Elizabeth wrote:
I have, in the past, used the Chapman codes for county abbreviations
(England) and I wanted to change them.
Legacy already has a feature to change Long and Short UK locations to and from
Chapman codes.
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