[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day (Legacy Staff)

TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - Sources The most frequent type of genealogy questions we get are questions about sources and source citations (DNA is a close second). I wanted to give you some resources that will help you understand this topic better. Our SourceWriter templates are based on the

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erGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On >> Behalf Of *Michele Lewis >> *Sent:* Sunday, September 17, 2017 1:09 PM >> *To:* Mailing List for users of Legacy Family Tree software < >> LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> >> *Subject:*

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alf Of *Michele Lewis > *Sent:* Sunday, September 17, 2017 1:09 PM > *To:* Mailing List for users of Legacy Family Tree software < > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day > > > > How many markers do they test for yDNA? 12? 25? 3

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: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2017 1:09 PM To: Mailing List for users of Legacy Family Tree software <LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day How many markers do they test fo

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- new share section. > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On > Behalf Of *Michele Lewis > *Sent:* Sunday, September 17, 2017 12:31 PM > *To:* Mailing List for users of Legacy Family Tree software < > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.c

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<LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Living DNA will give you your yDNA and mtDNA haplogroups, nothing more. On Sep 17, 2017 12:53 PM, "Denise Moss-Fritch" <d.mossfri...@comcast.net <mailto:d.mossfri...@comcast.net> > wrote: No, that is not

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acyusers.com] *On > Behalf Of *Michele Lewis > *Sent:* Saturday, September 16, 2017 7:30 PM > *To:* Mailing List for users of Legacy Family Tree software < > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day > > > > FTDNA. They are the only one

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. Denise From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 7:30 PM To: Mailing List for users of Legacy Family Tree software <LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

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FTDNA. They are the only ones that do yDNA testing. On Sep 16, 2017 8:06 PM, "Frederick C Buss Jr." wrote: > Who did your Uncle take his DNA with. From Frederick C Buss JR. took 1 at > 23 and me and Family tree and Me also MH. > > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Gene Wheeler

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Who did your Uncle take his DNA with. From Frederick C Buss JR. took 1 at 23 and me and Family tree and Me also MH. On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Gene Wheeler wrote: > Excellent examples, and food for thought! Thank you! > > Gene > > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 12:58 PM,

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2017 19:10 To: 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Chris, The _AppData folder is not hidden. Michele Simmons Lewis, CG Legacy Family Tree mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.legacyfamil

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tency standards. *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Denise Moss-Fritch *Sent:* Sunday, June 25, 2017 12:44 PM *To:* 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Michele, I was very in

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gt; *Sent:* Sunday, June 25, 2017 12:44 PM > *To:* 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day > > > > Michele, > > > > I was very interested to read the following in your post: > > > > > You need

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: Sunday, June 25, 2017 11:49 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day I found the issue Michele was looking for and gave her the issue number privately. Submit the suggestion anyway, Michele can add this to the issue and it might help get the issue raised

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acyusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Denise Moss-Fritch *Sent:* Sunday, June 25, 2017 12:44 PM *To:* 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Michele, I was very interested to read the following in your post: > You need to backup

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large files in their _AppData folders. /rant Regards Chris *From:*LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Denise Moss-Fritch *Sent:* 25 June 2017 17:44 *To:* 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of t

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acyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Denise Moss-Fritch Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2017 12:44 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Michele, I was very interested to read the following in yo

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'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Using the _AppData folder for any files that relate to the user and their data SHOULD BE BANNED. I suspect that MicroSoft designed it for internal files relating to applications, which

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place very large files in their _AppData folders. /rant Regards Chris From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Denise Moss-Fritch Sent: 25 June 2017 17:44 To: 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyU

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Michele, I was very interested to read the following in your post: > You need to backup your _AppData folder. This folder holds your custom settings. Has there ever been a feature recommendation to include the _AppData folder in Legacy's backup system? As important as this folder is I

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

TIP OF THE DAY - How to backup the _AppData folder (Legacy Staff) Legacy 8 and 9 Y'all know my backup routine by now but I actually left something out. This part of the routine will be very important if you ever have to do a "clean uninstall" which will start you over completely from scratch.

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, 2017 10:25 PMTo: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day If you are going to be using Excel, the easiest work around for the date issue is to change the date format in Legacy at Options - Customise 5.1 to -mm-dd and then make the Date c

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der license by Board certificants who meet competency standards. From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 10:25 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of

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oup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day If you are going to be using Excel, the easiest work around for the date issue is to change the date format in Legacy at Options - Customise 5.1 to -mm-dd and then make the Date columns in Excel Number or Text rather than Date. You stil

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by Board certificants who meet competency standards. -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Pete Beatty Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 10:36 AM To: Legacy User Group<legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyU

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certificants who meet competency standards. -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Pete Beatty Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 10:36 AM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of t

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I found the link below which provides a comprehensive discussion of the Excel issues with dates and work arounds. http://www.exceluser.com/formulas/earlydates.htm I am sure there are other discussions and work arounds. This was just one of the more comprehensive discussions that I found.

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There is(or used to be) an Excel Add-on you can install for pre 1900 dates but in its raw form versions of Excel up to 2007 did not understand dates before 1 Jan 1900. Dates were stored internally as the number of days since 1 Jan 1900. If your Excel is working for dates before 1 Jan 1900

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Michele, your current tip contains the following: "Excel can't handle pre-1901 dates so you will have a problem sorting by columns." Excel Does not have a problem with dates prior 1901. It can handle all formats of dates. I have several spreadsheets with some having thousands of records with

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

Tip of the Day (Legacy Staff) - exporting as a CSV All versions (at least since 5) You can export the Name List and any Search List as a CSV file and then open that file in a spreadsheet program. I recommend that you use the free Open Office spreadsheet program and not MS Excel. Excel can't

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Excellent examples, and food for thought! Thank you! Gene On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Michele/Support < mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> wrote: > TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - Fun with Hashtags > > (Legacy 9) > > Background information - My uncle took a yDNA test at 111 markers. He has >

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - Fun with Hashtags (Legacy 9) Background information - My uncle took a yDNA test at 111 markers. He has two matches and they both match him at 110 markers and they match each other at 111. All three lines end in a brick wall and we are yet to find the connection.

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - What exactly are RINs and MRINs? (All versions, Legacy 7/8/9 for Legacy Charting and Legacy 8/9 for FamilySearch) We get this question all the time. RIN stands for Record Identification Number and MRIN stands for Marriage Record Identification Number. These

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - IntelliMurder and why it is important All versions (4+) Tools > Advanced Set Living. We (programmers and staff) affectionately call this feature "IntelliMurder." It will go through your file and kill off people that are most assuredly dead. Legacy automatically

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Thank you very much Michele. I remember using this years ago, but had since forgotten about it, and your tip prompted me to do as you suggested on my big Leavitt db file (186k records), using Find Duplicates - Special Duplicates Searches tab, and was surprised to see 80 hits! I didn't want to

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On 14-May-17 11:32 PM, Michele/Support wrote: TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - "Find duplicates using only FamilySearch ID number" (Legacy 8 and 9) Brilliant tip - thanks, Michelle! I hardly ever import anyone, preferring to have more control by entering everything by hand, so rarely have a

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - Clearing the Quick Bookmarks (all versions) Quick Bookmarks are the three fields you see at the bottom of the Family View. These are a shortcut to get to up to three specific people in your file. I have one set to myself and then the other two are people I am

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ers.com > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 19:24:03 -0400 > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the day > Michelle: > > Thanks for the tip. I found a duplicate User ID with one a man and > the other a woman. > > Howland Davis > > -Original Me

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and the other a woman. Howland Davis -Original Message- From: Michele/Support <mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> To: 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Sent: Sun, May 14, 2017 6:34 pm Subject: [LegacyUG] Tip of the day TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - "Find

[LegacyUG] Tip of the day

TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - "Find duplicates using only FamilySearch ID number" (Legacy 8 and 9) I ran this search for the first time today. I am not sure why I never tried it before. To get to it go to Tools > Merge Duplicates > Find Duplicates and then select the "Special Duplicates

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n Stiles Blair From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on behalf of Michele/Support <mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 10:47 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day If the pers

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If you ask the FAG volunteer to take a photo of the spot where the grave should be (I know not always possible) it will prevent the next hunter from asking for that photo over and over again. Some of the volunteers have unique methods like placing a flag or flowers on the spot and then taking the

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gistsR, used under license by Board certificants who meet competency standards. From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Junk gmail Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 10:23 AM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [Legacy

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that she would like not being bothered with a request to use one of her photos since it is in her profile. Barb - Original Message - From: Michele/Support To: 'Legacy User Group' Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2017 8:06 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - My

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - My current project (Legacy 9) I have been doing genealogy a long time, long before Find a Grave (or any other website for that matter) existed. Back in the day you either visited the cemetery yourself or you used a cemetery survey book. I have A LOT of people

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - Cloud backup (Legacy 9) When you backup to the Legacy Cloud this is in addition to, not instead of, your regular backup routine. The Legacy Cloud backup gives you an extra layer of protection. You don't want this to be your only backup because it only backs up

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gacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>> *Subject:*Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Just to share: I couldn't see the relationships on my family view screen even though I had run the tool to set relationships. Then I realized that when I downloaded Version 9,

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y standards. > *From:*LegacyUserGroup > [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com > <mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com>]*On Behalf Of*Linda > Greethurst > *Sent:*Thursday, April 27, 2017 10:54 AM > *To:*Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.co

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*Thursday, April 27, 2017 10:54 AM *To:*Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>> *Subject:*Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Just to share: I couldn't see the relationships on my family view screen even though I had run the tool to set relatio

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p <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Just to share: I couldn't see the relationships on my family view screen even though I had run the tool to set relationships. Then I realized that when I downloaded Version 9, my customized setting had reset. I h

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used under > license by Board certificants who meet competency standards. > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On > Behalf Of *Ed Ladendorf > *Sent:* Thursday, April 27, 2017 12:17 PM > *To:* Legacy User Group <legacy

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om> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day Just to share: I couldn't see the relationships on my family view screen even though I had run the tool to set relationships. Then I realized that when I downloaded Version 9, my customized setting had reset. I had white text on a white backgroun

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ergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Ed Ladendorf Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 12:17 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day All versions? On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Michele/Support <mich...@legacyfamilyt

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All versions? On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Michele/Support < mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> wrote: > TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - The Relationship Report > > > I am posting this because this is something we see in Support on a regular > basis. The Relationship Report will not work unless

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Just to share: I couldn't see the relationships on my family view screen even though I had run the tool to set relationships. Then I realized that when I downloaded Version 9, my customized setting had reset. I had white text on a white background!!! Easily fixed - happy again. Love Version 9.

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - The Relationship Report I am posting this because this is something we see in Support on a regular basis. The Relationship Report will not work unless you have set the relationships in Tools > Set Relationships. Michele Simmons Lewis, CG Legacy Family