Re: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country

2013-09-04 Thread Kathy Thompson
Thanks everyone. I think I'll have to reassess the location aspect once L8 is out, to see if my locations work or not with it as I really am interested in see where my family has gone and come from over time. On 4 September 2013 15:12, Susan Perrett sus...@st.net.au wrote: Kathy, At 12:56

Re: [LegacyUG] Sentence Structure for Multiple events of the same type at the same time

2013-09-04 Thread Kathy Thompson
I have done and will be putting multiple death notices together in one event, even when they are spread over the space of a week or more (they all relate to one single event and nothing more) it's when I have ongoing reports of an ongoing event in a person's life that is no doubt impacting their

[LegacyUG] Conditional Sentence Definitions

2013-09-04 Thread Kathy Thompson
Sorry to ask yet another question about Sentences, but this one is more about Conditional Formatting within a definition. I have an event Death Notice - everyone is likely to have one (no-one is immortal afterall) Because females typically change their surname at the time of their marriage, death

RE: [LegacyUG] Conditional Sentence Definitions

2013-09-04 Thread CE WOOD
Since the event is listed under an individual, you don't need to use the actual name. You could use [his/her]. On 2 Jan 1900, her death notice appeared in The Newspaper. CE Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:50:48 +1000 Subject: [LegacyUG] Conditional Sentence Definitions From: kmthoms...@gmail.com To:

[LegacyUG] Report preview: default to whole page?

2013-09-04 Thread Paula Ryburn
Is there a way I could have the default zoom level on my preview of all reports to be whole page?  (rather than page width) Thanks,   --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis

Re: [LegacyUG] Where are census events recorded.

2013-09-04 Thread Paula Ryburn
I do the same thing as Brian, basically, except I forgot I could use the events/facts clipboard to make it go faster--!  (I probably started entering Census events before there was an event clipboard...?)  For a family, I enter one census event for the couple, then a census event for the other

Re: [LegacyUG] Cemetery name in Burial Location, Burial Address, or separate Cemetery event?

2013-09-04 Thread Paula Ryburn
Thanks, Emily.  I like the cemetery, hospital and church names in the Location fields, because I don't like how things print when you have them in the Address fields/table (Legacy needs to improve the output side of the Addresses, imo, before I will consider using them again).  Not that I don't

Re: [LegacyUG] Photo album or scrapbook sort order

2013-09-04 Thread Paula Ryburn
Further testing on an individual shows that their pictures are printed in the order of the tick boxes... individ, individ event, marriage, marr event.   Though for one individual with 4 individual pictures, those 4 pictures sometimes print in one order sometimes in another...?!  (depending on

Re: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country

2013-09-04 Thread Paula Ryburn
Hopefully, Legacy did not ADD any new features that also DEPEND on this 4-part location convention.  You would think they would NOT, because there are so many reasons why so many of us don't use it--even within the US.  ?   --Paula  From: CE WOOD

Re: [LegacyUG] Cemetery name in Burial Location, Burial Address, or separate Cemetery event?

2013-09-04 Thread Paula Ryburn
I've only tried that expand/contract thing once, and either it didn't work or I didn't like the results, and I had to backtrack, so that is not a benefit to me. And I'm not sure why having a separate Cemetery EVENT would be so much more beneficial in searches.  Off the top of my head I don't

Re: [LegacyUG] Conditional Sentence Definitions

2013-09-04 Thread Paula Ryburn
Or the FirstName field?  And that would work for everyone.   --Paula  From: CE WOOD wood...@msn.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:20 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Conditional Sentence Definitions Since the event is

[LegacyUG] Getting the Most from Your Records: Putting Them Through the Wringer! Free webinar by Linda Geiger now online for limited time

2013-09-04 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
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RE: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country

2013-09-04 Thread Angela Gabbard
Not sure why so many people are hung up on the 4 part location convention. Legacy isn’t! Legacy offers a 9 part location. You can include anything you’d like from 0-9 parts. Legacy doesn’t care. If you want to be able to sort, then you do need to have some sort of consistency with your

Re: [LegacyUG] Conditional Sentence Definitions

2013-09-04 Thread Kathy Thompson
Bit I don't want to use His or Her or just the first name. This is going to to typically be be the last sentence or paragraph in the person's story, I want to use their name, in full, as it was at the time of their death, without having to write a new sentence for each and every person. Kathy

Re: [LegacyUG] Report preview: default to whole page?

2013-09-04 Thread Sherry/Support
At the top of the page where it shows Zoom, the drop-downs set the default. I see that's not documented in the v7.5 Help file - I'll ask the programmer to add it to the documentation. It is documented in v8's Help file. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Sep 4,

Re: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country

2013-09-04 Thread Mike Fry
On 2013/09/04 23:16, Angela Gabbard wrote: Not sure why so many people are hung up on the 4 part location convention.Legacy isn’t!Legacy offers a 9 part location.You can include anything you’d like from 0-9 parts.Legacy doesn’t care.If you want to be able to sort, then you do need to have

Re: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country

2013-09-04 Thread Kathy Thompson
I'm not actually hung up about it, I merely wanted to know if my locations, being a mix of 3 part UK 3 part Aus, with a smattering of 4 part US, were going to produce the right results in L8's Origins and Migration reports, and if not, what did I need to do to ensure that they would. I am very

Re: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country

2013-09-04 Thread Leon Chapman
Kathy: I don't think you need to worry about the location fields. Legacy 8 should be able to read any of your combination of location fields for the migration report. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Kathy Thompson kmthoms...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not

Re: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country

2013-09-04 Thread Kathy Thompson
I hope so Leon - thanks On 5 September 2013 09:22, Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com wrote: Kathy: I don't think you need to worry about the location fields. Legacy 8 should be able to read any of your combination of location fields for the migration report. ___ Leon Chapman

Re: [LegacyUG] Two questions

2013-09-04 Thread singhals
Wow! It works. The left margin went from 3 inches to 1, just by changing that number in page-setup from 1.25 to 1. Irrational, but NICE. Thanks, Ron! Cheryl Ron Taylor wrote: 2) ReportsBooks and OtherDescendant NarrativeReport OptionsPage Setup...that's where you can define margins, page

Re: [LegacyUG] Find A Grave template

2013-09-04 Thread Jackie King
Question - you have the image or have seen the gravestone. You have the cemetery records. They don't always match. What do you do and how do you source it? On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Great blog comments!! But I see they left Michael Hait's

Re: [LegacyUG] Find A Grave template

2013-09-04 Thread Kathy Thompson
I have one of these situations - I have personally physically stood in front of the grave of someone whose death certificate states he's buried in another town entirely. The cemetery where he is has him in their records, but the cemetery where his death certs says he is, does not. In my case, both

RE: [LegacyUG] Find A Grave template

2013-09-04 Thread Jennifer Crockett
My own mother's death certificate has the wrong crematorium. My sister picked it up after the death certificate was issued and we don't know who was responsible for the error. In this case, of course, we knew which was the correct crematorium. Regards, Jennifer http://colston-wenck.com From:

[LegacyUG] Intellimerge

2013-09-04 Thread Jay 1FamilyTree
I ran an intellishare merge search for dups and got an error message stating xxx number individuals with a modified date that is before the start of this IntelliShare merge process. What do I need to do to correct this? Thanks in advance for any help. Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: