Re: [LegacyUG] Error in new version

2015-09-08 Thread Steve Hayes
On 6 Sep 2015 at 16:55, Gene C. Harris wrote: > I just loaded version .516 yesterday and already the 1st thing I did brought > an error and shutdown. I just installed the new version, and it would not run at all. Eventually I did a system restore to get the old one back. -- Keep well,

Re: [LegacyUG] Error in new version

2015-09-08 Thread Steve Hayes
On 6 Sep 2015 at 16:55, Gene C. Harris wrote: > I just loaded version .516 yesterday and already the 1st thing I did brought > an error and shutdown. I just installed the new version, and it would not run at all. Eventually I did a system restore to get the old one back. -- Keep well,

Re: [LegacyUG] Importing GEDCOMs

2015-09-10 Thread Steve Hayes
y way that Legacy GEDCOM import could be modified so that it does NOT scramble the RINs during the import process? -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525

Re: [LegacyUG] Error in new version

2015-09-10 Thread Steve Hayes
On 9 Sep 2015 at 8:11, Steve Hayes wrote: > I just installed the new version, and it would not run at all. > > Eventually I did a system restore to get the old one back. Just in case it helps someone else, I've now got the new version running. There are three things I did di

Re: [LegacyUG] Importing GEDCOMs

2015-09-10 Thread Steve Hayes
including the ability to export an exact range of RINs/ Of course Legacy has several features that FHS lacks, which is why I use both of them! -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk ---

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom

2015-09-11 Thread Steve Hayes
ur computer, and the other program referenced them, a GEDCOM file can include those references, and can therefore show the uimages. But your images are not on Ancestry.com's computers unless you transfer them -- the GEDCOM file transfers the references, not the images themselves. -- Keep

Re: [LegacyUG] adding death cause in notes

2015-10-08 Thread Steve Hayes
Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus Legacy User Group guidelin

Re: [LegacyUG] Seeking suggestions for sorting through a database mess

2015-10-15 Thread Steve Hayes
e them. Leave the other stuff in the research file, and add other new stuff to it that may be doubtful -- Gedcoms you receive from other people etc. . -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [LegacyUG] Census event vs source

2015-10-16 Thread Steve Hayes
as source for each. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [LegacyUG] Odd characters in LUG posts (was: Census event vs source)

2015-10-17 Thread Steve Hayes
ppears in some charactrer sets where there is a non-break space ( ), and there are often other strange characters as well, which makes messages difficult to read. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-34

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Census event vs source

2015-10-20 Thread Steve Hayes
But the publication of a book is an event -- it took place on a certain day. Your reading a book is an event, it took place at a certain time. A census is an event, it takes place on a certain day. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.or

Re: [LegacyUG] Gay Marriage and Adoption

2015-10-24 Thread Steve Hayes
controversy but now that it´s legalized > how do we deal with it. I'd record it as an event, with event notes. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-252

Re: [LegacyUG] Gay Marriage and Adoption

2015-10-25 Thread Steve Hayes
le pregnancy become commonplace). It is, of course, significant for family history, and it is quite easy to add an "event" in Legacy to accommodate that. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dun

Re: [LegacyUG] cfg to Legacy

2015-10-28 Thread Steve Hayes
lines below, or click "Browse My Computer" and select your file. Your CGF file analysis report will then be displayed directly below in this browser window. http://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/file-extension-cgf/ -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya

Re: [LegacyUG] LFT under Linux?

2015-11-06 Thread Steve Hayes
7? That's my biggest concern about 10. I suppose I could back up 7 and restore if my stuff won't run, but that's a schlep. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-672

Re: [LegacyUG] Help with complex SQL

2015-11-14 Thread Steve Hayes
ho cares? Instead of posting meaningless decorations of meaningless text, please post something meaningful about Legacy! -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Legacy User Group guideli

Re: [LegacyUG] Converting FamilySearch copied sources

2015-11-17 Thread Steve Hayes
ttach it. I have found this useful for information like birth or baptism. In the case of marriages, however, it is not always clear where the information should be attached. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail:

Re: [LegacyUG] Converting FamilySearch copied sources

2015-11-18 Thread Steve Hayes
uch to attach them to other than name and sex. If there is an age, it can give a clue to date of birth, but there is not always that. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [LegacyUG] Correction of a major mistake - advice welcome please !!!!

2015-11-18 Thread Steve Hayes
don't delete it, but either correct it in place, or unlink and reuse the RIN for someone else. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamily

Re: [LegacyUG] How to combine files

2015-11-19 Thread Steve Hayes
I can do that easily in other programs, but have never discovered how to do it in Legacy, so I too would love to know. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Legacy User Group guid

Re: [LegacyUG] Bulk Moving of Media

2015-12-03 Thread Steve Hayes
ood news is that Legacy can go looking for the files and set the new links. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://

[LegacyUG] Legacy 8 installation and data files

2015-12-11 Thread Steve Hayes
thing, and hope that when her son reinstalls Legacy she will know where to put the backed up0 stuff. One of the reasons I prefer the old Legacy file structure is that everything was in one place, so it made it simpler to back up and restore files. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgr

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 installation and data files

2015-12-11 Thread Steve Hayes
the spaces in \Legacy Family Tree\ -- some of the programs I use for backing up data etc. barf if they encounter spaces in path names, but I'm sure the user who asked the question doesn't use any programs like that. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.co

Re: [LegacyUG] Trying to decide between Rootsmagic and Legacy 8 (or just stay with FTM for now)

2015-12-13 Thread Steve Hayes
year. I've never tried to use a genealogy program to produce a book, but I'm not sure that a Legacy user group is the best place the relative merits of Legacy and another program as a suitable replacement for a third. I do use both Legacy and Rootsmagic, but I haven't tried to prod

Re: [LegacyUG] Trying to decide between Rootsmagic and Legacy 8 (or just stay with FTM for now)

2015-12-13 Thread Steve Hayes
moderator, because I have my doubts about the appropriateness of such a discussion in this forum, and bearing in mind that I haven't used either to create a book. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 08

Re: [LegacyUG] FTM User - Hidden Field in Baptism Event

2015-12-16 Thread Steve Hayes
ear under the "Desc/Place/Notes" column but I foresee > a problem down the road. It sounds like the sort of problem that could be fixed by processing the GEDCOM file with an AWK script. I don't know enough about AWK to do it, but maybe somebody else knows somebody who could do it. -- Stev

Re: [LegacyUG] File Id's

2015-12-18 Thread Steve Hayes
omplex, but it would be good is someone could do an update on the Research Data Filer (RDF). -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 Legacy User

Re: [LegacyUG] File Id's

2015-12-18 Thread Steve Hayes
s mentioned in the document. If I use that document as a source for information in every,y Legacy database, then I would give the file Id, so I can go straight to that document to see what it says. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.z

Re: [LegacyUG] obituary on website as source

2015-12-18 Thread Steve Hayes
;t been to the cemetery. Similarly, if it quotes an obituary from a newspaper, I could include that in the detail text, but not give the actual newspaper as the source, because that is not what I saw. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.kha

Re: [LegacyUG] File Id's

2015-12-19 Thread Steve Hayes
of that person, which also appears in Legacy (which is why I never reorganise RINs in Legacy, and never was even tempted to use FTM). , -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk L

Re: [LegacyUG] File Id's

2015-12-19 Thread Steve Hayes
I made from a book or archival records (I would, of course, include full bibliographical information on the book), or any other kind of paper information. If the File Id doesn't fit your system of record keeping, there's no need to use it. But it fits my system, so I use it. -- St

Re: [LegacyUG] File Id's

2015-12-19 Thread Steve Hayes
e file Id field in Legacy links the two. I believe Clooz does something similar, but I've found it far more complex and difficult to use. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [LegacyUG] obituary on website as source

2015-12-19 Thread Steve Hayes
, that is what Find-a-Grave is there for, and I record the information from it in much the same way as you do, except that I don't always pot it in the "source text" field. I sometimes copy and paste it into the "Burial Notes" field, which is where I often put the text of obituaries f

Re: [LegacyUG] Combining Legacy Family Tree files

2015-12-20 Thread Steve Hayes
urpose, it means I usually have four copies of the main file at any one time, which is additional insurance. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 Lega

[LegacyUG] Linking people to events

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Hayes
ease e-mail me privately, as I don't think there should be a lot of discussion here, unless Millennia are interested in taking up the project. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@du

Re: [LegacyUG] Linking people to events

2015-12-31 Thread Steve Hayes
ersons to events, not events to persons. And I repeat, I'm not asking or expecting Legacy to do this, just hinting that Millennia might write such a program, as a complement to Legacy. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/fam

[LegacyUG] Census description field

2016-01-01 Thread Steve Hayes
uppose one could put in the date and place of the census, but this would simply duplicate the information in the date and place fields. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 home tab

2016-01-05 Thread Steve Hayes
y Home Page. (1) > Error 13: Type mismatch > Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN? (options return same results) I rarely look there, but did so today, and it displayed OK. I'm using Windows XP. Which operating system and version are you using? -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:htt

Re: [LegacyUG] Household Staff on Census Forms

2016-01-13 Thread Steve Hayes
ated visitors etc. See here for details: https://t.co/gef7ukOLBF -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp

[LegacyUG] Date error in search

2016-01-15 Thread Steve Hayes
When I do an Internet search, Legacy sometimes gives an error message, such as Unrecognized Date 2-20-1950 The search was "Start 1886" and "End 1950" -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Ph

Re: [LegacyUG] This is awesome

2016-01-21 Thread Steve Hayes
On 21 Jan 2016 at 9:00, Ronald Strout wrote: > Not able to display full message. > > LegacyUsers error code: 5478 (Thu Jan 21 9:00:52 ART 2016) An awesome error code? -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.

Re: [LegacyUG] Status of TMG importer

2016-01-22 Thread Steve Hayes
ehand I also often want to look up people and their relationships to check where the new material fits in. Using cloud servers for backup or transfer is fine, but it seems crazy to want to do everything there. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://w

Re: [LegacyUG] Status of TMG importer

2016-01-22 Thread Steve Hayes
the data file up to Dropbox. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] Status of TMG importer

2016-01-23 Thread Steve Hayes
with cloud backup and transfer. There is also a special Legacy multiuser thign, but I have not used that. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 Legac

Re: [LegacyUG] Status of TMG importer

2016-01-23 Thread Steve Hayes
with a local copy of your data. Of course. That's what makes Dropbox so useful. I don't think Legacy would work very efficiently (or at all) with data files stored only on a remote server. But with Dropbox your data is backed up remotely as soon as you sync it. -- Keep well, Ste

Re: [LegacyUG] Citing Personal knowledge

2016-01-25 Thread Steve Hayes
> a note; as a Document attached to the file or some other method? If it was a written response, I would cite the source as a questionnaire, and if it was an oral response I would cite it as an interview. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.

Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter and personal knowledge

2016-01-27 Thread Steve Hayes
rticular person I will copy the relevant bits to the Research Notes field for that person, and put a reference in brackets after it, such as "E-mail from John Doe , 20 Jan 2016", since the "Sources" field for research notes only allows a general source for the whole field. --

Re: [LegacyUG] FW: Post to users group First time user

2016-02-02 Thread Steve Hayes
; [cid:image001.png@01D15D29.CD1A9A10] Legacy has provision for entering aliases, so enter him with the birth family name and his marriage and children under the new name. You can swap the birth name with the alias at any time. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:

Re: [LegacyUG] Master source template - deeds

2016-02-06 Thread Steve Hayes
relevant "Master Sources" before using Show List. And that is one reason why I don't use SourceWriter much -- it tends to make everthing a master source. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...

Re: [LegacyUG] Master source template - deeds

2016-02-07 Thread Steve Hayes
al letter, entered by date. Does that make me a lumper or a splitter, extreme or moderate? -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFami

Re: [LegacyUG] Master source template - deeds

2016-02-07 Thread Steve Hayes
On 7 Feb 2016 at 10:21, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 07/02/2016 09:45, Steve Hayes wrote: > > I don't use Sourcewriter for correspondence, because it makes me enter each > > letter as a master source. I prefer to make the correspondent the master > > source, and the "

Re: [LegacyUG] Mods / Utilities for Legacy

2016-02-08 Thread Steve Hayes
mail Addresses Post message: gens...@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: gensoft-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe:gensoft-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com List owner: gensoft-ow...@yahoogroups.com -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.or

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy on a laptop

2016-02-10 Thread Steve Hayes
e the laptop has booted up I just need to take the flash drive, put it in the laptop and type flsh2lap. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.Le

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy on a laptop

2016-02-11 Thread Steve Hayes
ked up securely before I try anything However you eventually decide to do it, having a copy of your data on more than one computer is a backup. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [LegacyUG] Search for Master Source by File ID

2016-02-12 Thread Steve Hayes
sing it more for digital files as I'm > rethinking some of my organisation. I too mostly use it in the Source Detail. Would it be possible to have a report that showed both? -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/steve

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Verify your subscription to legacyusergroup mailing list

2016-02-13 Thread Steve Hayes
om). To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp I am not suse what this is supposed to be about. It appeared in my inbox saying "No formatted content". -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha.

Re: [LegacyUG] New Mailing List Software and Servers

2016-02-22 Thread Steve Hayes
d a message to everyone saying it is being moved to a new server until it is moved to the new server. And yes, I hate messages that are sent as attachments, but the way to avoid that is to set your mail software to send as plain text and not as HTML (sometimes called "rich tex

Re: [LegacyUG] New Mailing List Software and Servers

2016-02-22 Thread Steve Hayes
are receiving a ton of e-mails, and by saying that they are adding yet another ton. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2

[LegacyUG] Re: Verify your subscription to legacyusergroup mailing list

2014-06-18 Thread Steve Hayes
pen the link. 404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 0

Re: [LegacyUG] testing

2016-02-23 Thread Steve Hayes
On 23 Feb 2016 at 12:57, Sharon Blair wrote: > just testing to see what happens > > What happened was that you sent a message to the Legacy user mailing list, and I was one of those who received it. I am replying to let you know what happened. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog

Re: [LegacyUG] How to enter the following.

2016-02-24 Thread Steve Hayes
now who the parents of grandparents were, you can either enter someone as a "placeholder", or you can wait until you do know the names. But you can't ENTER someone as a cousin iof someone else. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:

Re: [LegacyUG] How to enter the following.

2016-02-24 Thread Steve Hayes
Smith and Grandma Smith. And then, voila! David and Simon are cousins. And when you do find the real names, you substitute them for the placeholder names. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dune

Re: [LegacyUG] Not receiving your own posts?

2016-02-28 Thread Steve Hayes
later. Perhaps the new list is just a bit slowe than the old one. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-54

Re: [LegacyUG] Restoring Media Files

2016-02-28 Thread Steve Hayes
tting files all in sub-directories of one directory, and not all over the place, sometimes across several disk drives. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk -- __

Re: [LegacyUG] Not receiving your own posts?

2016-02-29 Thread Steve Hayes
pointless "please take me off your list" messages. So thank you both very much for the time you have spent saving us all from those annoyances! -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-35

Re: [LegacyUG] Another test message.

2016-03-05 Thread Steve Hayes
t conversion to attachments should use a different email address > for their subscription. I assume the above is rhe result o9f the test. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727

Re: [LegacyUG] Another test message.

2016-03-05 Thread Steve Hayes
ecame too dificult for the senders, and it seems they are now making it too difficult for the recipients as well. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk -- _

Re: [LegacyUG] Numbering System usage/survey

2016-03-10 Thread Steve Hayes
> I hope this does not confuse people, because from what I read last > night, it is very important (and informative) when you publish material > in professional journals and books. > > Thank you for your patience. > > John Hannigan > Florida > > -- Keep well, S

Re: [LegacyUG] Simple text file

2016-03-11 Thread Steve Hayes
. Don't edit it. Don't cut and paste it. Just open Excel and import it. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk -- ___ LegacyUserGrou

Re: [LegacyUG] New Email Process

2016-03-19 Thread Steve Hayes
to move any messages containing the text "DMARC Reject/Quarantine Policy" to spam, and now i no longer see them at all. I had a look at my SPAM directory and see that there have been about 4-5 a day. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.co

[LegacyUG] Combining locations in Lecacy 8

2016-03-22 Thread Steve Hayes
having to run file maintenance after each one? -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 -- ___ LegacyUserGro

Re: [LegacyUG] AppData

2016-03-22 Thread Steve Hayes
ick "Options for default settings" at the bottom of the screen. Then "Reset to user defaults". "Yes" and "Save". -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:ht

Re: [LegacyUG] Slow Down???

2016-03-28 Thread Steve Hayes
if maps are displayed. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk -- ___ LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage

[LegacyUG] Arbitrary changes to placenames?

2016-04-01 Thread Steve Hayes
ry few who used St Luke's, so I simply edited the place name to change it to St Lukes, but my concern is -- how many other place names in the Master Location List is Legacy changing without my knowledge? -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpres

Re: [LegacyUG] Arbitrary changes to placenames?

2016-04-02 Thread Steve Hayes
On 1 Apr 2016 at 10:27, Steve Hayes wrote: > This morning I discovered that Legacy had changed one place name to another, > without my knowledge. Could it be related to this? Check/Repair of Legacy Family File: E:\Leg8Data\data\MainFile.fdb Date: 04-03-2016 Please check this file very car

[LegacyUG] [META] Posts getting harder to read

2016-04-03 Thread Steve Hayes
s seem to be getting a lot harder to read now. Is this another feature of the new mail server, or another brainwave from Yahoo! -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 o

Re: [LegacyUG] Is this still active?

2016-04-06 Thread Steve Hayes
> to use Facebook, when we do NOT want to be on Facebook is ridiculous. Is this > list still active? Yes it is still active. Presumably people only post when they have something to say -- a question about or a problem with Legacy. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.or

Re: [LegacyUG] Is this still active?

2016-04-07 Thread Steve Hayes
;s the luck of the draw to see a message at all -- Facebook may or may not decide to show it to you. And if you want to look at it again 10 minutes after reading it, you can spend three hours searching for it withoput success. In that way, Facebook can be a huge waste of time. -- Keep

Re: [LegacyUG] Is this still active?

2016-04-07 Thread Steve Hayes
bers was on facebook, and they were talking about one of them who had died two days before. Facebook is good at that, but for things like helping you to get the most out of Legacy, not so good. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Dates

2016-04-08 Thread Steve Hayes
glish 1891 census. Perhaps the question needs to be clarified a bit. I am not sure if the OP was asking for Legacy to create a census event for people, or to calculate a date of birth. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/s

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Dates

2016-04-08 Thread Steve Hayes
On 9 Apr 2016 at 10:33, Helen McCall wrote: > I'm confused - I thought the first census was 1841. Where do you access the > earlier ones? You don't. The returns were destroyed after statistical data had been abstracted. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgree

Re: [LegacyUG] LUG vs FB

2016-04-11 Thread Steve Hayes
again is no trivial task -- someone would have to be sitting there all day (and night too) copying and pasting and copying and pasting. I'd rather they spent their time improving Legacy! -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.

Re: [LegacyUG] LUG vs FB

2016-04-11 Thread Steve Hayes
to connect proprietary sites like Facebook with standard communications like mailing lists. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 -- LegacyUserGroup m

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I enter English locations in Legacy

2016-04-12 Thread Steve Hayes
took place there. > I am aware of the option to omit leading commas for easier reading to the > non-genealogist. And I know I can use more than 4 slots, but then the sort > order gets "out of sorts". Thus, what are the 4 vital names. You can sort them from bigtgest to smallest

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I enter English locations in Legacy

2016-04-12 Thread Steve Hayes
an change and can cover two or more counties. If the village/town/city is known I use that, and may include the Registration Distroct in the source info - after all it is more a descrioption of the source of the record than of the place of the event. -- Keep well, St

Re: [LegacyUG] delete my goddam account, i am sick of this

2016-04-12 Thread Steve Hayes
see the message. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and u

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I enter English locations in Legacy

2016-04-12 Thread Steve Hayes
> LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- Keep well, Steve H

Re: [LegacyUG] UK Locations

2016-04-14 Thread Steve Hayes
why people do have this four place names obsession. I think it's because way back in the 1970s some programmer decided to offer four place name fields in PAF, and ever since then some genealogy fundamentalists have treated it as the verbal inerrancy of Holy Scripture, -- Ke

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing a name (when you only have AKA's)

2016-04-17 Thread Steve Hayes
as you described, I > would use the same method. Perhaps that is something you need to put in the "Research Notes" -- explain to yourself (and anyone coming to your research after you) why you came to a particular conclusion. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.

Re: [LegacyUG] Sorry for the attachments

2016-04-19 Thread Steve Hayes
ddresses still seem to turn up. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://l

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources not available to upload to FamilySearch

2016-04-22 Thread Steve Hayes
irths and deaths OK, but does not seem to recognise marriage sources from FamilySearch Family Tree. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 --

Re: [LegacyUG] Endnotes

2016-04-23 Thread Steve Hayes
es, but it is a bad practice, because when later research brings new facts to light the Ibid may get separated from the fact it repeats, causing a lot of confusion and extra work for subsequent researchers. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I add a Possible father?

2016-04-27 Thread Steve Hayes
ere is a "research" one where I add speculative links and try to prove or disprove them. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 --

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry Merge

2016-05-01 Thread Steve Hayes
esearch using Mundia, the free version, now discontinued. In one case we found 11 erroneous versions of a couple who were married to someone else, and only two correct versions. It's too easy to copy the wrong thing. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:

Re: [LegacyUG] Wiki tree

2016-05-02 Thread Steve Hayes
to make it acceptable, but it was still rejected and in the end I gave up because I didn't want to waste any more time on it. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk -- LegacyU

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship calculation - charts, etc

2016-05-08 Thread Steve Hayes
s Set the left person as your 3rd great grandfather Set the right person as your grandson. Click "Calculate" Click "Print". -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog:http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web:http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: new message

2016-05-13 Thread Steve Hayes
On 14 May 2016 at 8:12, LegacyUserGroup wrote: > You have a new message, please read You have a new reply; please read: http://www.khanya.org.za/peeves.htm Go 'way from my window Leave at your own chosen speed I'm not the one you want, Babe I'm not the one you need. -- Yours disinterestedly

Re: [LegacyUG] Cloud Storage

2016-05-21 Thread Steve Hayes
ust, so I'll have to revert to flash drives and batch files to transfer my working files from my desktop to my laptop and vice versa, and will lose my off-site backup as well. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.h

Re: [LegacyUG] Cloud Storage

2016-05-21 Thread Steve Hayes
ple of months, so if you are using that O/S you'll lose direct access to your files. If anyone knows of an alternative to Dropbox for that purpose, I'd like to know of it. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/ste

Re: [LegacyUG] Cloud Storage

2016-05-22 Thread Steve Hayes
On 22 May 2016 at 19:38, Wendy Howard wrote: > Why do you say that Dropbox is going to stop working in August, please? Can > you point to an announcement from Dropbox? I received an e-mail message from DropBox saying that they are pulling the plug on 29 August. -- Steve Hayes E-mai

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