Re: [LegacyUG] Never married option in Legacy 8--adopted child

2013-06-19 Thread Pat Hickin
Malcolm wrote: It is a fact that Legacy creates a marriage whenever a child is added to a single person. I don't have the following problem but I do know this situation exists in real life: What happens when you add an adopted child to a single parent?? I just now tried, and Legacy Immediately

Re: [LegacyUG] marriages

2013-06-20 Thread Pat Hickin
Amen!! It seems ridiculous to me that Legacy almost forces us to state as fact something that we can not *possiby* know!! Pat On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Tony Rolfe geneal...@gillandtony.comwrote: Can we go back to the original request and forget about all the extraneous waffle which

Re: [LegacyUG] marriages

2013-06-20 Thread Pat Hickin
Perhaps a compromise is in order -- if Legacy can't bring itself to split the two statements, at least it could say, never married and had no known children. Pat On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Amen!! It seems ridiculous to me that Legacy almost

Re: [LegacyUG] marriages

2013-06-21 Thread Pat Hickin
All I want to do is to be able to say that an individual never married, without having to also say s/he had no children!! Really, that to me does not seem like an outlandish request!! And I do not understand why I need to switch genealogy programs, as one user has suggested!! It is common

Re: [LegacyUG] marriages

2013-06-22 Thread Pat Hickin
I do not see how any of this is relevant to my desire to say that an individual never married without having to *also* say what I have no way of knowing, i.e., that an individual had no children. That seems so simple and obvious to me. I am *not* talking about relationships and children. Pat

Re: [LegacyUG] marriages

2013-06-23 Thread Pat Hickin
Ron Taylor wrote: The point of the marriage record box is to state that no offspring resulted from the union. It seems to me that the point of the marriage record box (in the individual window) should be to say that the person was never married. The whole matter of whether there were children

Re: [LegacyUG] marriages

2013-06-24 Thread Pat Hickin
But if there is no *known* relationship that resulted in a marriage or in any *known* children, you don't *have* a marriage screen. *All* I am asking for is the ability to say (on the individual screen) that the individual never married *without* making any kind of statement in regard to

Re: [LegacyUG] marriages

2013-06-24 Thread Pat Hickin
Shingals wrote We none of us can ever *absolutely prove* any fact. What makes this one require special treatment? I realize that most facts are not absolutely 100% provable, but we all know that zillions of people have had children out of wedlock. That men may not necessarily even *know* whether

[LegacyUG] List of images/pictures and where/how each is used in Legacy??

2013-12-05 Thread Pat Hickin
I want to make a list of all my picture folders: the pictures within each folder where/how each picture is used (i.e., the individual, event, event date, etc.) if the picture is not used in Legacy I would like that to be noted, if possible. I haven't found that option. In Legacy Help Legacy

[LegacyUG] Picture problem with Legacy 8

2013-12-15 Thread Pat Hickin
I recently upgraded to Legacy 8 -- so far I'm using the standard version. Before importing my main database into Legacy 8, I ran a media check (Options Customize Locations etc. All of my pictures were in one folder (which is in Dropbox) and there were NO missing pictures. But after importing

[LegacyUG] Data files

2014-01-06 Thread Pat Hickin
I recently upgraded to Legacy 8. (I have not yet unlocked the Deluxe version) I have two separate databases for my paternal and maternal sides of my family. I have not done much with my maternal side in the last few years. Now I want to look at my maternal file, which I've used with Leg 7.5

Re: [LegacyUG] Data files

2014-01-06 Thread Pat Hickin
. Click on that to see the list of the most recently used files. And, as Sherry pointed out, the one at the top is the most recently used file. Joseph Leavitt On 1/6/2014 4:05 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: I recently upgraded to Legacy 8. (I have not yet unlocked the Deluxe version) I have two

Re: [LegacyUG] Data files

2014-01-06 Thread Pat Hickin
a System button or a round L button, depending on the style chosen under Design Styles (upper right corner) Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Well, but, I date my files and the first one listed

Re: [LegacyUG] Data files

2014-01-06 Thread Pat Hickin
is the Design button. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: I have the round L button -- but now I don't see the DesignStyles -- I looked in Help for Design and there is nothing. Pat On Mon

Re: [LegacyUG] Data files

2014-01-07 Thread Pat Hickin
, instead of clicking on FILE/OPEN - instead click on SYSTEM (or the big blue logo in upper left) and look at the Recent Family Files. Bob On 01/06/2014 23:25, Pat Hickin wrote: Thanks, Sherry, I found the design button! And, Wendy, Â You're right, I don't know the name of the file

[LegacyUG] Multiple errors

2012-06-19 Thread Pat Hickin
I am getting multiple errors with my primary Legacy file. For example, I can't create a .pdf descendant report (Error code 380 -- error gathering descendnts). So I tried doing the same thing with a different family. Same error. Other errors: Backup error #527 (at least one Skipping File event

Re: [LegacyUG] Multiple errors

2012-06-19 Thread Pat Hickin
Thanks for your responses! Yes, I should have told you what I've tried. 1. I looked up the error numbers, 2. Error 527, said to press Ctrl, Alt, Del simultaneously to get to Task Manager. I did so but the Task Manager did not come up. I don't use any of the add-ons it spoke of anyway, and I also

Re: [LegacyUG] Documentation

2012-06-21 Thread Pat Hickin
Cite the secondary account, then In the detail add citing whatever primary source is. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.ukwrote: On 21/06/2012 12:00, Barbara wrote: When you receive information from a well-documented source for a whole family line, should

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy split screen view on 2 monitors

2012-06-23 Thread Pat Hickin
Could you temporarily name your good guy John A lastname, the other guy John B lastname and add John B into your good file. Then merge John A and B and edit the result?? Pat On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Alan Pereira alanpere...@tiscali.co.ukwrote: If you have windows 7 professional 64

[LegacyUG] Legacy window -- unwanted size change to full screen

2012-06-26 Thread Pat Hickin
I don't know whether the following is a Windows or a Legacy problem. I'll have the Legacy opened and the window as small as I can make it, because I want to be able to view it and do something else at the same time. Then I may change its position on the screen and as I do so it may suddenly jump

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy window -- unwanted size change to full screen

2012-06-26 Thread Pat Hickin
That seems to take care of the problem. Thanks, Jenny!! Pat On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.ukwrote: On 26/06/2012 13:24, Pat Hickin wrote: I don't know whether the following is a Windows or a Legacy problem. I'll have the Legacy opened and the window

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy window -- unwanted size change to full screen

2012-06-26 Thread Pat Hickin
Thanks, Jenny and Andrew for your helpful comments -- both work beautifully!! Pat On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: That seems to take care of the problem. Thanks, Jenny!! Pat On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.ukwrote

Re: [LegacyUG] scrapbook layout

2012-06-27 Thread Pat Hickin
I don't suppose you could use an earlier version of Legacy for the scrapbook. I know your latest .dbf won't work with an earlier version, but couldn't you use a backup? It seems to me Legacy could offer two formatting options for the scrapbook. Pat On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Sally

[LegacyUG] English pound symbol

2012-07-04 Thread Pat Hickin
Does anyone else have any problems with the character map in Events (or Notes) ? The directions tell us to double-click on a symbol to put it in the Return Symbols bar, but I can't get the English pound symbol to show. I have Leg v 201. I got the $ sign to go n the Return Symbols bar, but it

Re: [LegacyUG] English pound symbol

2012-07-04 Thread Pat Hickin
pargraphs including money phrases in notes, you might send a request to add that character into the available choices. *From:* Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Sent:* Wednesday, July 4, 2012 2:41 PM *Subject:* [LegacyUG] English pound symbol Does

Re: [LegacyUG] English pound symbol

2012-07-05 Thread Pat Hickin
Yes, I am using default fonts. Pat On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Wm Voss bellafort...@earthlink.net wrote: Are you using default fonts? Wm Voss On 04-Jul-12 7:08 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: The only other symbol I have is the copyright symbol -- there used to be more -- I don't know what

Re: [LegacyUG] Keeping records of online research

2012-07-08 Thread Pat Hickin
. I don’t usually record negatives for indexes (MS marriages for example) because they are updated and I might find something if I search again. ** ** Michele ** ** ** ** *From:* Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, July 08, 2012 4:46 PM *To:* LegacyUserGroup

Re: [LegacyUG] Keeping records of online research

2012-07-09 Thread Pat Hickin
...@gmail.com wrote: Pat Hickin wrote: I no longer visit libraries, courthouses, etc. Almost all of my research is done online. I've never developed a satisfactory method of keeping track of my searches, results,etc., and am wondering what other people do. I use the history to keep track

[LegacyUG] Editing Notes - minor problems

2012-07-10 Thread Pat Hickin
Let's say I m proofreading a note, make a minor correction, want to save it and continue proofing. But Legacy always closes the Note when I click save. This does not happen in my word processor. Could not Legacy have a separate Close option-- or Save and Close option -- and keep the Note open

Re: [LegacyUG] Bottom posting

2012-07-10 Thread Pat Hickin
I agree about preferring a top post. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Ward Walker wnkwal...@rogers.com wrote: I think many of us skim through the messages quickly, especially when the list is quite busy, like now. I find that bottom-posted replies are frustrating to find and read quickly.

Re: [LegacyUG] Character map, ribbon, pound sign has disappeared

2012-07-20 Thread Pat Hickin
with the blue icon at the top of it. The 'change' button is probably that blue icon. I don't see anything else that would fit that description. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 7/20/2012 6:40 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: Well, Duh -- yes I

[LegacyUG] displaying descendants from Family View screen -- any way to include one or more spouses?

2012-07-21 Thread Pat Hickin
If I am on the Family View screen and click the Descendants tab, I can get a quick list of descendants certain kinds of data about each, depending on my choices. I would like to also display the name of at least one spouse, but I gather there's no way to do this--right?? Pat Legacy User

Re: [LegacyUG] displaying descendants from Family View screen -- any way to include one or more spouses?

2012-07-21 Thread Pat Hickin
I'm able to see spouses. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: If I am on the Family View screen and click the Descendants tab, I can get a quick list of descendants certain kinds of data about each, depending on my choices. ** ** I would like

[LegacyUG] Sources for pictures

2012-07-23 Thread Pat Hickin
Can someone explain to me why Legacy does not offer a way to designate sources for pictures? And also tell me how you indicate the picture source? I don't want the source to appear within a report itself, but I surely would like to have a list of picture sources at the end. I can put the source

Re: [LegacyUG] Organizing pictures

2012-07-23 Thread Pat Hickin
I have a system that in some ways is simple; in some ways complicated. Personally I LOVE it! For ALL the pics in my Legacy family database I have them in a folder in My Pictures called LEGACY-P (for paternal side). (I have my paternal maternal lines in separate databases--works for me) For

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying a master source to make a new master source

2012-07-25 Thread Pat Hickin
Well, I didn't know THAT!! I'd wondered why that happened on occasion!! Pat On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:15 PM, R G Strong-genes rgstrongge...@gmail.comwrote: The key to be able to copy it as a new source is to make sure the original is being used by someone in the database, otherwise it will

[LegacyUG] Wiki Relinks -- helpful for Legacy????

2012-07-26 Thread Pat Hickin
Wikipedia has something called Relinks that converts bare urls in Wikipedia (and possibly elsewhere???) into full citations. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:REFLINKS I don't quite understand how it works, but if it could somehow be used with Legacy source citations, it seems to me it

Re: [LegacyUG] HELP Restoring backup

2012-07-29 Thread Pat Hickin
Ian, Is the button you ticked a toggle switch? If so, have you tried ticking it a second time?? Pat On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Tim Rosenlof spa...@xmission.com wrote: On 7/29/2012 12:12 PM, Tim Rosenlof wrote: On 7/27/2012 9:31 AM, bgsu1...@gmail.com wrote: Use MS Access or LTools

[LegacyUG] Individual report - Family group sheet

2012-08-02 Thread Pat Hickin
Is there any way to include all spouses and children on a family group sheet? Or do I have to do two (or more) separate reports (and therefore duplicate a lot of info and sources). As it is, I only get whichever spouse is selected. Pat Legacy User Group guidelines:

[LegacyUG] To-Do Lists

2012-08-14 Thread Pat Hickin
When I am viewing my To-do List I want to sort by category -- but Category is not one of the columns displayed and I don't see a way to add it. And for that matter, I don't see a way to sort the list by any of the fields. Help was no help. Pat Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] To-Do Lists

2012-08-14 Thread Pat Hickin
Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: When I am viewing my To-do List I want to sort by category -- but Category is not one of the columns displayed and I don't see a way to add it. And for that matter, I don't see

Re: [LegacyUG] To-Do Lists

2012-08-16 Thread Pat Hickin
category. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Sherry, How do I get the Category field displayed as one of the columns?- is that possible? Pat On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Sherry

[LegacyUG] Picture list

2012-08-16 Thread Pat Hickin
For several reasons, I'd like to generate a list of the pictures I'm using for each of my two family databases. Each database has a picture file, but I can't see a way to generate the list. (Each of the picture files has many unused images and I want to move the unused ones out.) If it's not

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture list

2012-08-16 Thread Pat Hickin
. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 8/16/2012 6:49 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: For several reasons, I'd like to generate a list of the pictures I'm using for each of my two family databases. Each database has a picture file, but I can't

[LegacyUG] Census List options

2012-08-20 Thread Pat Hickin
Whatever does this sentence in Census List Report Options mean? Exclude individuals from the Report with location percentages less than (50--or whatever) % I never ever heard of a location percentage. Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Census List options

2012-08-22 Thread Pat Hickin
When they give a percentage for a location, which location are they talking about? -- country, state, county/independent city -- I doubt township. Pat On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Gavin Nicholson gavn...@hotmail.comwrote: I think the intent is clear. There is a 50% chance that the person

Re: [LegacyUG] How to handle duplicate entries--Repeat button.

2012-08-22 Thread Pat Hickin
Jenny wrote If you mean you are entering the same information in BMD fields, etc then you can use the Repeat button Where IS the Repeat button? You used to be able to click (right click?) in a field, info entered in a previous field would be repeated -- but that no longer works for me. I

[LegacyUG] Source List Name

2012-08-25 Thread Pat Hickin
I am wondering how people enter the Source List Names. I have tried to find a formula (without much success), one easy to remember. Now I'm thinking I'd like to have the categories together -- e.g., books, articles, census records. Needless to say, the Internet really complicates things,

Re: [LegacyUG] Research Guidance

2012-08-28 Thread Pat Hickin
Where do you look to get the date?? Pat On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.comwrote: Curiosity got the best of me and I had to check. Mine is dated 11 Aug 2006. Michele -Original Message- From: Mike Fry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

[LegacyUG] Focus Group

2012-08-29 Thread Pat Hickin
I have 2 separate databases for my paternal maternal families. For my paternal line(s) I want to create a gedcom of my paternal gr'father's family. (there is at least one intermarriage between my paternal gr'father's paternal gr'mother's lines). In that paternal side dbf I have a total of

Re: [LegacyUG] Focus Group

2012-08-29 Thread Pat Hickin
. How to view the contents it the last item on the help page. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Pat Hickin Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Focus Group I have 2 separate databases for my paternal maternal families

[LegacyUG] Legacy Help problems

2012-08-30 Thread Pat Hickin
I have such a problem with Legacy Help! I wish that some of you who are apparently able to understand their instructions will read the following and tell me what I am doing wrong!! For example, I want to tag the ancestors of a particular individual (Susan Berry McChesney). So I go to her screen

Re: [LegacyUG] Focus Group

2012-08-30 Thread Pat Hickin
Yes! That does, Jenny! Thanks so much!! Pat On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.ukwrote: Not sure if you have this sorted yet. I started to reply but had to go out and was gone most of the day. Jenny, I don't have a Miscellaneous Searches tab. If I click

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Help problems

2012-08-30 Thread Pat Hickin
that is discussed in this topic. Once you are on the correct screen for the help topic the topic should make more sense. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 30/08/2012 13:54, Pat Hickin wrote: I have such a problem

Re: [LegacyUG] Saving report options

2012-08-31 Thread Pat Hickin
I save mine at C:\Legacy\Docs . Whether that folder was there originally or I created it I don't know. Pat On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Brian Lehman blr...@optonline.net wrote: Hello, When printing a report or book, I want to save the customized report options by clicking Report Settings

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Help problems - repost with (hopefully) more easily readable lists

2012-09-01 Thread Pat Hickin
Hi, Larry, I'm not sure what you mean by Help search function? It seems to me what we're complaining about is the way instructions in Legacy Help are written, not about the Search function? Pat On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Larry ldlee...@gmail.com wrote: John, Your point is well made.

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Legacy tags

2012-09-01 Thread Pat Hickin
Michele, First, be sure you have Tagging turned on. (To be able to see the tag boxes through Legacy, you must have the tagging option turned on. This is done from the *General* tab of the *Options Customize* [lower left of screen.]) From the Family screen, click the Edit menu, then Tags to

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Legacy tags -- is tagging a tool?

2012-09-01 Thread Pat Hickin
I am wondering, why is Clear Imported Tags a tool, but Tagging itself is not, apparently, a tool? Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Help problems

2012-09-01 Thread Pat Hickin
? .”what to click on” – to do what, every option that is available in Family View? Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ *From:* Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com *Sent:* Saturday, September 01, 2012 1:33 PM *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Help problems

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Help problems - repost with (hopefully) more easily readable lists

2012-09-01 Thread Pat Hickin
Yep, sure does.Thanks, Larry. Pat On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Larry Lee ldlee...@gmail.com wrote: Pat, By Help search function I meant: When you select Help on the Menu Bar or press F1 the Help Index is displayed. My comment was addressing the two different result lists that John

[LegacyUG] How do you search sources?

2012-09-02 Thread Pat Hickin
Two questions: 1. I'm unable to find a way to search sources in Legacy. I can create a report (Source Citation Listing -- I usually do a .pdf) and search the report, but I have been unable to find a way to search Legacy itself. In particular I want to find Besse, *Collection of the sufferings .

Re: [LegacyUG] unwanted capitalization in Event notes after .gedcom import??

2012-09-03 Thread Pat Hickin
Speaking of too many caps, some years ago I imported my main family database from FamilyTree and/or PAF into Legacy via .gedcoms. In the process -- in the Events sections -- all the descriptions were placed in the Notes field with Initial caps for EVERY word!! If they're long enough I simply

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I add a photo to an existing Source Detail?

2012-09-05 Thread Pat Hickin
Just goes to show the advantage of being a splitter! :-) Pat On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Bain Family rlcb...@gotsky.com wrote: Rick, I have already corrected this issue with Ron's suggestion, but I experimented with what you suggest and I'm glad to learn this. This will be good for

[LegacyUG] No Death notes sources

2012-09-07 Thread Pat Hickin
Although there is a Death Notes box available and one can enter sources for the information you put there, when you click on the book icon (to get to the Assigned Sources window, there is no Death Notes entry. The source you entered for Death Notes instead shows up under the Death sources. When

Re: [LegacyUG] proper format for Washington, DC

2012-09-07 Thread Pat Hickin
There's a somewhat similar problem in Virginia, where for 90 or so years we've had independent cities that are not in counties. I've never quite decided what to do with them! Pat On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Terri Brown ridge...@yahoo.com wrote: That's what I do just to get Washington DC to

Re: [LegacyUG] No Death notes sources

2012-09-07 Thread Pat Hickin
/jlog/ On 9/7/2012 5:30 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: Although there is a Death Notes box available and one can enter sources for the information you put there, when you click on the book icon (to get to the Assigned Sources window, there is no Death Notes entry. The source you entered

Re: [LegacyUG] proper format for Washington, DC

2012-09-07 Thread Pat Hickin
locations have a London address even though they're outside the corporate limits of London. Pat On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Eliz Hanebury elizhg...@gmail.com wrote: Richmond (Independent city) Virginia G Eliz On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: There's

Re: [LegacyUG] proper format for Washington, DC

2012-09-07 Thread Pat Hickin
Sorry for failing to trim my last message -- thought about it too late. Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server -

[LegacyUG] Quotation marks for nicknames and other punctuation matters in reports

2012-09-08 Thread Pat Hickin
When I enter nicknames, I put quotation marks around them. When I print a report it looks like this: Sarah Sallie SHARPE,44 daughter of Ensign John SHARP, Jr. and Elizabeth LAUGHLIN, was born on 12 Apr 1780,46 died on 25 Feb 1816 in , WASHINGTON, VA45 at age 35, and was buried in Green Spring

[LegacyUG] Glitch in the Relationship Calculator

2012-09-10 Thread Pat Hickin
Hi, Listers, I probably shouldn’t be spending my time or yours telling you about this -- it’s just a minor warning! But you may want to know that tho’ the Relationship Calculator is a great tool, it’s not perfect! I recently used the Relationship Calculator (RC) to see how I was related to

Re: [LegacyUG] Glitch in the Relationship Calculator

2012-09-11 Thread Pat Hickin
, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Michele Lewis ancestor...@gmail.com wrote: My dad and my stepmother are blood related (distantly but blood related). They relationship calculator will only say that they are husband and wife. Michele From: Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] Sent

Re: [LegacyUG] How to lump census records

2012-09-11 Thread Pat Hickin
I don't use SourceWriter for censuses. I'm very much a splitter. My Source List Name reads, e.g.: Year US State County - township/PO - repository (HeritageQuest, Anc or whatever) 1860 US Census-IL-Jackson Co.-Carbondale PO-HerQu For the Title, I simply copy and paste the Source List Name.

[LegacyUG] Reports that don't follow my instructions!

2012-09-12 Thread Pat Hickin
Why is it that (in an ancestor report) I get an entry like this: Property: Real estate: $2500, 1870, oodson Twp., WASHINGTON, VA when, if I edit the event, the sentence that appears under the Notes box reads, as I want it to, like this: .Property: 1870, Goodson Twp., WASHINGTON, VA. Real estate:

Re: [LegacyUG] Reports that don't follow my instructions!

2012-09-12 Thread Pat Hickin
Jenny wrote: Can't answer most of your questions but just check that you haven't accidentally got an override in force. Jenny, I've looked everywhere I can think of and the only override options I've found have to do with source citations. So I don't think that's the problem. What is

[LegacyUG] Downloading Legacy update -- is this how it's supposed to go??

2012-09-15 Thread Pat Hickin
At lest 90 minutes go I began downloading the latest Legacy update -- first it told me I'd have to enter a password -- but it never asked for one. After I started the download I closed the family file I'd started to work on but hadn't entered anything. After a while it told me had 16 minutes to

Re: [LegacyUG] Downloading Legacy update -- is this how it's supposed to go??

2012-09-16 Thread Pat Hickin
: On 9/15/2012 12:13 PM, Tim Rosenlof wrote: On 9/15/2012 11:54 AM, Tim Rosenlof wrote: On 9/15/2012 11:33 AM, Pat Hickin wrote: At lest 90 minutes go I began downloading the latest Legacy update -- first it told me I'd have to enter a password -- but it never asked for one. I jumped

Re: [LegacyUG] descendant report

2012-09-18 Thread Pat Hickin
bgsu1...@gmail.com wrote, With a little work, the OP could accomplish this. What is OP, please? Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages

Re: [LegacyUG] descendant report

2012-09-19 Thread Pat Hickin
Thanks, Jan! Pat On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Original Poster (of the original message). Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2012 11:34 To: LegacyUserGroup

[LegacyUG] Lining things up in Event Notes

2012-09-24 Thread Pat Hickin
Hi, I have copied an estate inventory into an Events Note and carefully lined up all the prices. However -- in the Report I printed out, they are not lined up at all! How do I rectify this?? Thanks! Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Lining things up in Event Notes

2012-09-24 Thread Pat Hickin
Brian, I don't understand what the line width has to do with things -- aren't the notes left-justified?? I did use spaces and not tabs. The font I'm using is Calibri, if that makes a difference. I also don't understand how choosing a report form helps things -- is there a way of transferring

[LegacyUG] Multiple lines of descent

2012-09-24 Thread Pat Hickin
I am doing a Multiple lines of descent report. I begin with family B Next do family M then fam S. GgrDaughter B m husband M and Legacy gives me all the details about him in the Fam B section. I don't want details about him until we get to the M family. Is there any way to make this happen???

Re: [LegacyUG] Multiple lines of descent

2012-09-25 Thread Pat Hickin
Thanks, Jenny, Guess that's what I'll have to do. Actually, it's amazing how flexible Legacy can be. Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived

[LegacyUG] problem with unmarried

2012-09-25 Thread Pat Hickin
How can I get Legacy not to do this in reports? In Jane's marriage info, I have her marriage status marked as unmarried. Here is what Legacy has to say about her in a report: Jane married someone. Marriage status: unmarried in 1824. Thanks, Pat Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] problem with unmarried

2012-09-26 Thread Pat Hickin
ge...@cedarbank.me.ukwrote: On 25/09/2012 19:55, Pat Hickin wrote: How can I get Legacy not to do this in reports? In Jane's marriage info, I have her marriage status marked as unmarried. Here is what Legacy has to say about her in a report: Jane married someone. Marriage status

Re: [LegacyUG] problem with unmarried

2012-09-26 Thread Pat Hickin
...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- On 26/09/2012 16:25, Pat Hickin wrote: Yes, I hadn't even noticed the date, Jenny, which is when she wrote her will -- she was never married. I just don't want Legacy telling us that she was unmarried AND that she married someone! It does

[LegacyUG] new.familysearch.org

2012-09-28 Thread Pat Hickin
I clicked on one of those little pale arrows that has suddenly begun to appear beside every name in the children's lists on my Legacy family screens. That took me to a Family Search screen, which wanted me to log in. The login screen didn't like my familysearchindexing username and password so I

Re: [LegacyUG] problem with unmarried

2012-09-28 Thread Pat Hickin
Brian wrote, there must have been a relationship between a man and a woman to have a child. But with *in vitro* fertilization I don't think there has to be a relationship. Not what I would call a relationship anyway. Pat Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] new.familysearch.org

2012-09-28 Thread Pat Hickin
Thanks, Jenny and Brian, Done! Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009:

[LegacyUG] In reports, list of noted events wording:

2012-09-28 Thread Pat Hickin
In reports, the list of noted events wording doesn't appear to me to give an option to substitute the individual's name for his or her. Am I right? Thanks, Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] In reports, list of noted events wording:

2012-09-28 Thread Pat Hickin
but since that is based on the Descendant Report I presume it will also accept replaceable text entries. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 28/09/2012 14:34, Pat Hickin wrote: In reports, the list of noted events

[LegacyUG] Indenting birth, marriage, death notes

2012-09-28 Thread Pat Hickin
On reports, I ordinarily like to have general notes with little indentation as I use them in part for introductory material. On the other hand, I would like to have birth, marriage, and death notes deeply indented. Is there any way to accomplish this?? Pat Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Indenting birth, marriage, death notes

2012-10-02 Thread Pat Hickin
Thanks, Paula, I've made a suggestion to allow it. Pat On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.netwrote: I thought there was, but I was wrong. All notes are indented the same. --Paula -- *From:* Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com

[LegacyUG] Notes; Events

2012-10-03 Thread Pat Hickin
On reports I would like to have a space between the words/heading General Notes and the actual contents. With notes, it's easy enough, as I can just insert a HardReturn and leave a blank line at the beginning of the notes. But between the words introducing the Events and the first Event, I don't

Re: [LegacyUG] Notes; Events

2012-10-04 Thread Pat Hickin
Thanks, Brian, That did the trick!! Pat On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.comwrote: Sorry, forgot to say that the event intro in on the wording 1 tab of the reports. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com

[LegacyUG] GEDCOMs - exporting - problem with deleting a source.

2012-10-04 Thread Pat Hickin
I have created a .gedcom of the ancestors of a 2x grgrandmother. I am trying to eliminate a faulty source that I don't need. Legacy won't delete it as it is being 'used.' When I click on show List,' I am told it is attached to Marriage Record 902. So I do a search on MRIN = 902. I am told it

[LegacyUG] Ancestor tagging

2012-10-04 Thread Pat Hickin
Is there a way to tag all siblings and ancestors of an individual and ALL spouses of EVERYONE listed? Plus ALL children siblings of everyone in the ORIGINAL list? (but not other descendants--no grand children --unless they're in as children of course) I want to do this in one fell swoop,not

[LegacyUG] does gedcom drop source details???

2012-10-04 Thread Pat Hickin
I am checking a newly-created (by me) generic gedcom and it seems to have dropped ALL my source details!! Should that have happened? Is there a way to avoid it? If that's the norm, then one should certainly be a splitter!! Thanks, Pat Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOMs - exporting - problem with deleting a source.

2012-10-04 Thread Pat Hickin
. On 2012-10-04 12:55 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: I have created a .gedcom of the ancestors of a 2x grgrandmother. I am trying to eliminate a faulty source that I don't need. Legacy won't delete it as it is being 'used.' When I click on show List,' I am told it is attached to Marriage Record 902

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOMs - exporting - problem with deleting a source.

2012-10-04 Thread Pat Hickin
that you mention, I'm not taken to that Window at all!! Instead, I simply get a message saying This Master Source is attached to Marriage Record 902. -- which Marriage Record is not even in the file!!! Pat On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Anthony, Thanks

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOMs - exporting - problem with deleting a source.

2012-10-04 Thread Pat Hickin
I suppose I should add that I was able to delete it in the original file, so all I have to do is put it back in correctly and create a new .gedcom. Which I hope to be able to open. Well, I've done that AND opened it. Pat Legacy User Group guidelines:

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