jr wroteI honestly don't know why Legacy is set up to change people's
data by default.
John, I think I'd be a prime example of why. I tend to be inconsistent, so
one day I'll type in the full month, the next I won't. One day I'll type
people's last name in all caps, the next I won't.
I'm thinking through the source with me as the repository. If there is a
Bible record and I have that record and haven't registered it or sent copies
to some site such as http://www.newenglandancestors.org, which will accept
and catalog and disseminate copies of Bible records then I can
Nice idea except it takes a good amount of time to download updates as well.
It might be less time consuming to copy updates to the flash drive as well.
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Bill wrote I have numbered the different pages of the pension file start.
I now
want to cite each document to the different areas in Legacy ... Where
do I show the different pages within the pension file so the viewer can
go and see them his self?
I am working so hard to learn to do sourcing
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Good luck
Rich in LA CA
Marie Peer wrote:
Bill wrote I have numbered the different pages of the pension file
start.
I now
want to cite each document to the different areas in Legacy ... Where
do I show the different pages within the pension
In a previous post, someone wrote The Source Clipboard holds a copy of up
to
five source citations you are currently working from. You can then record
the sources of each piece of information by simply clicking one button.
I have gone over and over the training CD's and am slowly entering
that there are two separate
events. It works for me, but sounds like this is not happening for you, or
maybe I'm missing something?
Cheers,
Rob
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Thank you so much for replying, Paula!
You wrote If you're talking about the Events list for an Individual (not
the Assigned
Sources list for the Individual's data), then you can move the Events up and
down using the Set Order arrows on the right side of the screen. You can
also sort Events by
And Thank you again, Rob! I sighed a great sigh of relief when you said
there is a way to activate the option to confirm that one wants to sign out
of the program and that it won't be come a part we all must do every time we
sign out. A big thank you to the designers and programmers who spared
Paula,
Another 'aha, so that's how it works'. I don't have enough events added to
have a scroll bar yet. It makes it easier to know the program is designed
to work that way rather than it's working that way because I forgot to do
something! Thank you so much, Paula!
Marie
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Paula,
And another Aha! How helpful so know that Alt Birth will again be listed if
I have another alternate birth date! I'd have been scratching my head
wondering if you hadn't explained that. Thank you for the ability to breeze
right through that occurrence without wondering why alt birth was
Can someone please explain why the word 'cancel' is better than the word
'skip'? The advantage of using cancel rather than skip would be
?
Thank you, Marie
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'backup' if I've added something that I don't want lost.
I hope this helps.
Gene
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Can someone please explain why
Bob wrote It seems to me that separate Events for each census is a bit of
overkill. I use just one Event named Census and then the census date
is placed in the date field and the census description becomes the
source.
Hi Bob, Whether entering separate Census Events is overkill depends upon
how
.
They have as many Census events as times I found them in a census.
I see that Cathy has already sent an example, so I don't have to!
Bob
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Hi Leon,
I don't know exactly what Legacy developers meant or intended by Natural and
Biological, but as someone who has worked in the adoption of children for
many years, I can tell you how the use of those two terms evolved.
Thirty years ago, natural child was used to refer to a child
Hi Debbie,
I read and remember your post.
Despite what Maurine and Glen Harris, Ancestry's Concise Genealogical
Dictionary says, when I see the word natural I will probably not apply their
meaning nor take the time to look for the meaning in a dictionary unless it
is in some old record, just as
I Like what you said, Tom. You said that some events are family events,
such as moving or immigrating from one place to another, and need to be
entered for the whole family, not just the head of the household. I agree.
BUT, how do you do that? How do you enter an event for each member of a
Good Morning Jake,
There is a great method of organizing paper files that you can find on the
Legacy homepage. The link to this short video presentation about organizing
your paper files is on the left hand side of the homepage
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com; click on Tips, then scroll down to
Ruth Ann,
Does 60 generations take you back to Noah?
A generation is about 40 years. 40 years x 60 generations is 2400 years
ago.
Is that about Noah's time or was he before that?
Marie
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You have to be really smart, Jeaneth. I read and read that page about the
Knot
system and don't get it.
Marie
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the aid of
MRINS or four-field addresses.
Bill Peterson
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Marie Peer wrote:
Ruth Ann,
Does 60 generations take you back to Noah?
A generation is about 40 years. 40 years x 60 generations is 2400 years
ago.
Is that about Noah's time or was he before that?
Marie
Geoff,
Is there an answer to MRINs changing when importing another database into a
Legacy database or when unlinking and relinking? Is there a way to set them
and not allow them to change?
Do you have any ideas or suggestions for those who are using the paper
filing format using MRINs as the
Thank you, Geoff, you and the development team for listening. The team's
responsiveness and commitment to fixes and changes is one of the two major
reasons I use Legacy. Thank you!!
Marie
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I am totally confused about installing or running Geo Locator or whatever
it's called.
I've read instructions from the list, from the program and it comes back to:
Set the Path or Move the Geo Location Database
Before you can use the Geo Location Database, you must first tell Legacy
where it is
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Geo Database
I am totally confused about installing or running Geo Locator or whatever
it's called.
I've read instructions from the list, from the program and it comes back
Good Morning Mike,
For me, the event's list is terricially helpful. Long before I used Legacy,
I would develop time lines for families. It would be great if I did them
for all, but I always did them when I was stumped about where to look next
to learn what I wanted to know. Reading through
Hi Tom,
You shared this resource in October and here it is two months later and I am
just checking it out. It is excellent if it does all that it says it will
do and I trust it does since you are so pleased with it.
Thank you for sharing an excellent resource!
Marie
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Hi Brian,
Thank you, thank you for carefully considering how you source information.
Although I find family trees on the web helpful with clues sometimes, I
often ignore what I find. It will take me about as long to research wild
goose chases as it will to forge ahead with original research.
Hi Hugh,
Is it really true that people will put wrong information into their Legacy
database, upload it to the web and then try to catch people using their
information? I'm wondering why anyone would upload information to the web
if they don't want others to see and use it.
I realize it would
it.
Regards,
Jane Hakes
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Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:14 PM
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering sources
One of the things that has been a concern for me
To: LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering sources
Hi Marie,
I can relate very well to what you have written. I've spent a lot of
time trying to come up with solutions that work for me.
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Hi Brian,
Thank you
After reading the posts about PDF and needing to buy Adobe Acrobat program
to edit them, why would anyone want to use it rather than .rtf? What am I
missing? Why wouldn't it be easier to use .rtf and then move them to
whatever word processing program?
The only reason I've picked up in the
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After reading the posts about PDF and needing to buy Adobe Acrobat program
to
edit them, why would anyone
Good Morning Hugh,
You wrote:
First ask the question, Why do I cite or source? My answer is that it's
to
return to exactly the same place if I need to OR not waste my time reviewing
the same source over and over since I've milked it dry. I'm not too
interested in revealing my sources to others
Thank you for your support three years ago, Kristian. I wasn't aware that
Norway sent financial aid at that time. Thank you so much for that aid and
for the amount you personally donated!
May I ask the amount Norway donated after 9/11. I won't ask your personal
donation, I'll simply thank you
Cathy,
Thank you for the clear answers you give. I appreciate them.
Marie
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Alistair wrote:
snip although many of us are
familiar with the fact that SP2 is a seriously imperfect release.
Are many of us familiar with this fact? Is SP2 really a seriously imperfect
release or are many of us not taking the extra steps (including backing up
our files) it takes to prepare
Dennis wrote:
I click on Internet|Search Internet for Current Person... then click the
Customize Searches... button. I get Run-time error: 52 Bad file name or
number. Clicking OK then causes Legacy to close.
I went exactly where you went, Dennis, not into the button next door that
leads to the
Good Morning Everyone and Sherry,
In reply to Jan, see below, you advised that she do a backup of the Family
File and then burn that backup over to the CD.
When I close Legacy and am asked if I want to make a backup, I say yes and
then choose to backup to a CD rather than to my hard drive. Why
: [LegacyUG] Which files do I back up on CD-RW?
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Good Morning Everyone and Sherry,
In reply to Jan, see below, you advised that she do a backup of the
Family
File and then burn that backup over to the CD.
When I close Legacy and am asked if I want to make
Thank you Pat, Ron, and Sherry. More great, clear information!
Marie
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Please enroll me in the Legacy User Group.
My email address is
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Marie
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Hello Marie,
You have to go
It is very helpful for the subject to relate to the message. In gmail
labels can be used to perform a temporary sort to locate mail and threaded
mail pertaining to a specific subject. 20 labels are available. For legacy
mail, I use geo/ani, reports, fields, IGI, clipboard, customize, sources,
Hi Jack,
There are many blank family group sheets out there to print. You can go to
http://www.cyndislist.com/supplies.htm to find links to different styles and
choose the one you that best suits you.
Marie
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Good Morning Jeaneth (what a great name btw),
You wrote When I find some information on a website or the like and the
website gives
for instance a document as source of the information, should I then use the
website or the document as the source? I will give some examples:
1) A website tells
Message read You must understand what the IGI is. before computer access,
LDS members submitted family group sheets on at least 4 generations (if
possible). They eventually transferred all the submissions into one DB. They
therefore input multiple variations of a person, with varying levels of
I just upgraded to 6 (I'm slow).
Before opening the family data base files created in version
5, I would like to copy them to a CD or to another folder on
the hard drive so they are accessible if all goes south when
I use this new version.
I've done a search for each file and the search tells
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:34:53 -0700, Marie Peer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I've done a search for each file and the search tells me there
are no such files.
Did you search for *.fdb?
Where are those files?
They will probably be in the folder
of searching checked or
something.
Marie
On 3/20/2006 7:18:55 PM, Dennis Kowallek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:08:43 -0700, Marie Peer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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No search results for *.fdb
This is odd. I suppose it
doesn't matter now that you found them, but
when you say
maybe that's what I did. it has to be something strange I did.
On 3/20/2006 7:59:42 PM, Margaret Couch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Marie
I just tried your method and got the same surprising result you did - no
*.fdb files - make sure you check that the third box has C drive (or what
ever is
you for clarifying this.
Marie Peer
On 4/2/2006 4:44:26 PM, John R. Bayle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Judie wrote:
Which add-on has box charts?
Which add-on has circle chart?
Tree Draw Legacy definitely has box charts.
What's a circle chart?
Do you mean a fan chart that shows all
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Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Box Charts available ? ? ?
Does Legacy Tree Draw or Legacy Charting Companion produce
drop down charts where all families, all descendants
Thank you, Cathy. When I reread the descriptions, I couldn't
find drop down charts in Legacy Charting Companion at all but
could in Tree Draw. Thank you for your input.
Marie
On 4/3/2006 10:21:35 PM, Cathy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Charting Companion 2 makes top to bottom descendant charts.
not
appreciate having to download a free reader to look at the Treedraw
charts.
Also LCC II made it very easy to produce drop-down charts.
Jacob
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Hi Gary and Ron,
Gary, are you saying what has niggled at me for quite some time? If the
same Master Source and attached Detail are sources that apply to more
than one person or event, I still need to re-enter the Detail even if I
place
that source on the clipboard. Therefore, it seems like
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Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] RECORDING SOURCES
Hi Gary and Ron,
Gary, are you saying what has niggled at me for quite som
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master+detail
combo. This would be a huge benefit in my opinion. I keep
hoping!!
Gary and Marie, was this kind of what you too were saying?
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, Georgia
www.roots2buds.net
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