Re: [LegacyUG] Need Help in Exporting GEDCOM Files

Without knowing what program produced the questionnaire it is just wild guessing what the solution would be.  Are you sure that it is not just a plain PDF format file?  More information is needed for a qualified solution. -- Gene Young

Re: [LegacyUG] Need Help in Exporting GEDCOM Files

On 04/08/2021 13:18, Thomas Cox wrote: Follow up Note ... a copy and paste procedure was unsuccessful in moving the GEDCOM file to the questionnaire. What file format is the questionnaire? I am a bit suspicious that copy & paste did not work if you are supposed to be able to drag and drop,

Re: [LegacyUG] Need Help in Exporting GEDCOM Files

Where is the questionnaire, if not on-screen? Jennie On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 10:20 PM Thomas Cox wrote: > Follow up Note ... a copy and paste procedure was unsuccessful in moving > the GEDCOM file to the questionnaire. > > Tom Cox > On 8/4/2021 8:12 AM, Thomas Cox wrote: > > Good Morning! > > I

Re: [LegacyUG] Need Help in Exporting GEDCOM Files

Follow up Note ... a copy and paste procedure was unsuccessful in moving the GEDCOM file to the questionnaire. Tom Cox On 8/4/2021 8:12 AM, Thomas Cox wrote: Good Morning! I find myself in a predicament.  I am trying to send a GEDCOM file to a third party.  I printed out the instructions

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help - set up list

Hello Cathy! Thank you so VERY much for the details of my cemetery project. I have worked ALL day on the project and not yet done. I had listed 5 different names for the cemetery: Blacks' Cemetery, Blacks Cemetery, Black Cemetery, etc. had to make a lot of changes, but got it all ready to

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help - set up list

Cynthia, You can print your list from the Search List but first you have to create your search list. How you do that depends on where the cemetery information is. If your Burial location is entered as Black(s) Cemetery, Pike Twp, Clark County, OH then you go to the Master Location list View >

Re: [LegacyUG] need help

t; *From:*LegacyUserGroup > [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Cathy > Pinner > *Sent:* Sunday, April 4, 2021 8:19 PM > *To:* Legacy User Group > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] need help > > Norma, > As Chris says, this should be an easy task p

Re: [LegacyUG] need help

1 8:19 PM *To:* Legacy User Group *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] need help Norma, As Chris says, this should be an easy task provided you don't have wrong links between people in your family file. Make sure you have tagging on at Options > Customise 1.5 or if you've been using tags, that you have

Re: [LegacyUG] need help

pouses of actual descendants. Norma From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2021 8:19 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help Norma, As Chris says, this should be an easy task provided you don't have wron

Re: [LegacyUG] need help

Norma, As Chris says, this should be an easy task provided you don't have wrong links between people in your family file. Make sure you have tagging on at Options > Customise 1.5 or if you've been using tags, that you have a clear tag and you know which one it is. (Right click on a tag box to

Re: [LegacyUG] need help

The question is whether you have made links ie children or spouses between them or not. If not they should in separate trees. You could start at the top of the tree and then tag everyone who is a dependent of them. Then you should be able to extract just them and their spouses. Alternatively just

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size, please

@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size, please I do not think there is a way to change the font size in the Legacy Family Search (LFS) window. I looked for a font size setting in the Options without success and when I tried to change the size of the LFS window the text

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size, please

I do not think there is a way to change the font size in the Legacy Family Search (LFS) window. I looked for a font size setting in the Options without success and when I tried to change the size of the LFS window the text on the screen stayed the same size no matter how small or how large I

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a reinstall of Lagacy

Yes no reply yet! On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:40 AM Sherry H wrote: > Did you write to Support, per the instructions? > > Sherry > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 8:32 AM Philip & Linda Barnes > wrote: > > > > Can anyone help me with this? Keep getting Red X Error creating new > folder

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a reinstall of Lagacy

Did you write to Support, per the instructions? Sherry On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 8:32 AM Philip & Linda Barnes wrote: > > Can anyone help me with this? Keep getting Red X Error creating new folder > 'C:\Users\pokie\OneDrive\Pictures\ > Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData' which is required to

Re: [LegacyUG] Need Help in Removing Additional Remark Made in Event

Thomas, Do you know where you entered that comment/editorial remark? If so select that event from the ancestor's event list and click the edit button beside the list of events. Select the text/comments tab. Below each of the text and comment entry boxes is a check box about including the

Re: [LegacyUG] Need Help in Removing Additional Remark Made in Event

Jenny, Thank you for the great tip. As many years as I have used computers, genealogy and Legacy I did not know that. Ruth On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 8:08 AM Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 21/12/2018 12:44, Thomas Cox wrote: > > I am having a problem in removing a "editorial" remark I entered on a

Re: [LegacyUG] Need Help in Removing Additional Remark Made in Event

On 21/12/2018 12:44, Thomas Cox wrote: I am having a problem in removing a "editorial" remark I entered on a Event relating to a ancestor.  I cannot seem to remove this unwanted entry from PDF reports that are prepared for viewing.  I have gone through as many steps that I can think of to

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help downloading

When you buy the products from the Legacy Store you should get an email within an hour or two from the company with a customer number to activate the deluxe features of Legacy 9. Did you get that Email? It contains instructions on how to proceed. Brian Kelly On 01-Jun-18 11:28 AM, Carol

Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report

Thanks Sherry & CE Have done just that & emailed Legacy Support Norma -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 9:17 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help

Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report

on the list. > > > CE > > > > From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on behalf of > Norma Heaton <ndai...@verizon.net> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 9:42 PM > > To: 'Legacy User Group' > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need h

Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report

2016 9:42 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report I just wish I could create a report that would include everyone back from a certain person & wonder why this is not possible. I mention this child of a great-grand-aunt (aunt of the starting pe

Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report

out it? Can you program the software to create such a report? Norma -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Eliz Hanebury Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 1:14 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] ne

Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report

port with everyone? Thank you for trying to help Norma From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 12:52 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report Norma,

Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report

e a report with everyone? > > Thank you for trying to help > > Norma > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On > Behalf Of *Cathy Pinner > *Sent:* Thursday, September 29, 2016 12:52 AM > *To:* Legacy User Group > *Subjec

Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report

be able to generate a report with everyone? Thank you for trying to help Norma From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 12:52 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafe

Re: [LegacyUG] need help creating ahnentafel report

Norma, You'll need to do descendant reports to get all the people you want. Ancestor (ahnentafel ) reports include direct ancestors and at most a list of their siblings but not the children of those siblings. You may want to look at the Multiple Lines of Descent Report so you can start from

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size

To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size Boyd: Have you tried the Legacy Charting rather than the Pedigree. You have a lot more options at to what goes in the boxes, fonts, etc. The Icon for this should be in the My Toolbar tab to right of Internet called Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size

...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 9:14 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size Open the Pedigree Chart options then the Report Options button and look for the Report Fonts button. But I'm not sure that they make much or any difference

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size

Boyd, thank you for your comments. I am still working on this... From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Boyd Miller Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 11:25 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size I don't have any

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size

Boyd: Have you tried the Legacy Charting rather than the Pedigree. You have a lot more options at to what goes in the boxes, fonts, etc. The Icon for this should be in the My Toolbar tab to right of Internet called Legacy Charting. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Jul 17,

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size

I don't have any trouble with the five generation chart except that if you put boxes around the names the font reduces. With the six generation chart the font size changes after the first four generations, and if you put boxes around the names you loose a lot of data in the last two

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with text size

Open the Pedigree Chart options then the Report Options button and look for the Report Fonts button. But I'm not sure that they make much or any difference in a Pedigree Chart. It's the number of generations that have to fit on a page that determines the font size I think. The simplest thing

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with doing a gedcom

The file that you had open on your screen when you went to File > Export > gedcom is the file that will be exported. Michele Technical Support Millennia Corporation mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help relinking media

Unless you have only one picture linked there is no single media file, each picture etc. is an individual file. I suspect you are confusing the single backup file for your media which Legacy creates with your media files. To reconnect your media you will need to extract all the media files from

Re: [LegacyUG] need help switching files/fdb

Deb, When a file is converted to version 8, it is also copied to a new disk folder location.  It sounds like you may have done that but then when you decide to open your file again you are opening the original file.  See if that is the case.  If so you can verify that the new converted version

RE: [LegacyUG] need help switching files/fdb

Are you sure that you are opening the NEW copy of the files that are updated to version 8? Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers This message represents the official view of the voices in my head.

Re: [LegacyUG] need help switching files/fdb

Deb: If you open a file A in Legacy 7 or 8, any changes you make will not appear in a 2nd file B. If you want the changes to appear in both files A 7 B you can do one of two things: 1. Make changes to both files independently 2. Combine files A B into a single file C and make all changes to

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

drive. Norma -Original Message- From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 9:40 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view Norma, Since this is a problem with every file, then the problem isn't within

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

On 04 Apr 2014 05:04, Norma wrote: Something strange has just happened to my file. In the family view in the upper left corner of each person’s details, where either husband or wife is printed, suddenly all the females have a “0” and the males have “husband”. In the case of a male child

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

That does sound very strange. Have you tried closing Legacy and reopening? And if that doesn't work, closing down the computer and then restarting. That's what I'd try before doing anything else. Cathy At 11:04 AM 4/04/2014, you wrote: Please Help! Something strange has just happened to my

RE: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

this happened so it never happens again. Norma -Original Message- From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:15 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view On 04 Apr 2014 05:04, Norma wrote: Something strange has

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

On 04 Apr 2014 15:13, Norma wrote: One other problem I hadn't mentioned, but which is most likely related: I first noticed something was wrong when I added a father to an existing family. When I went to the father's family view to add a wife, I noticed the words husb were in the pane where

RE: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

then update? Please guide me through this. Norma -Original Message- From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:15 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view On 04 Apr 2014 05:04, Norma wrote: Something

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

On 04 Apr 2014 15:18, Norma wrote: I have 3 other family files on my PC and every one has the same problem: 0 in the upper left pane of the wife's view. Is the solution to uninstall Legacy and reinstall? I do have the original CD, but it isn't the latest version. Should I reinstall from

RE: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

I wonder if it could be that the options for default marriage wording got messed up. I no longer have V7 on my system, but in V8 it is option 8.7. At the top of that options panel, there are six labels that are user configurable. Three for the left side person, three for the right side person.

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

As I see it in version 7.5 there are two options, DATA ENTRY - default married names - either generate surname of spouse or nothing and in VIEW - default family view labels (edit default marriage wording) your choices are husband/wife or male/female AND married, married someone, had a relationship

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

On 04 Apr 2014 17:33, Paul Gray wrote: Could someone who still has 7.5 advise Norma where to look for these settings in 7.5? Options-- Customise-- View Then, select Edit Default Marriage Wording -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

Thanks Tessa, What you are describing under VIEW is virtually the same thing that is in the top panel in option 8.7 in V8. I would certainly look there before doing a reinstall. Paul Sent from my iPhone On Apr 4, 2014, at 9:49, Tessa Keough murke...@gmail.com wrote: As I see it in version

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

: [LegacyUG] need help with family view On 04 Apr 2014 05:04, Norma wrote: Something strange has just happened to my file. In the family view in the upper left corner of each person’s details, where either husband or wife is printed, suddenly all the females have a “0” and the males have â

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

Go to Marriage List at the top of your screen Choose Edit Marriage at bottom of new screen There are 2 tabs on the top of the new screen - General and Wording Options Choose Wording Options I hope this helps Margaret On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Paul Gray graypa...@outlook.com wrote: I

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

Norma, Since this is a problem with every file, then the problem isn't within your family file, so you can relax about that. You can check Options - Customise - View tab - Edit Marriage Wording - the labels section. If they have what you are seeing, correct them and save and all should be well -

RE: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

[mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:16 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view If you see a person's name in the Husb area of the family view that is because Legacy thinks the person is Male. When you add a spouse

RE: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view Norma, Since this is a problem with every file, then the problem isn't within your family file, so you can relax about that. You can check Options - Customise - View tab - Edit Marriage Wording - the labels section. If they have what you

RE: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

: Friday, April 04, 2014 9:40 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view Norma, Since this is a problem with every file, then the problem isn't within your family file, so you can relax about that. You can check Options - Customise - View tab - Edit

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view

-Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:16 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help with family view If you see a person's name in the Husb area of the family view that is because

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with PATH

Where can one get Ltools? Emily On Mar 9, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Ron Taylor wrote: Jay, Ltools can make the change to all your multimedia paths. Run Repair Multimedia Paths and set Find Substring in Path to c:\ then set and Replace with to C:\ It can also fix paths that have actually

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with PATH

Look up LTools on the Internet. http://zippersoftware.com/wp/ltools/what-is-ltools/ - JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://jlog.jgen.ws/ On 3/16/2013 1:55 PM, Emily Moore wrote: Where can one get Ltools? Emily On Mar 9, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Ron Taylor wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with PATH

Jay; Options Customize Locations Data Format (tab) Letter Case of Locations ((Initial caps is ticked on mine). Hope that works. -- Richard Van Wasshnova On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jay 1FamilyTree 1familytree@gmail.com wrote: Whenever I add a new media path Legacy defaults to

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with PATH

Jay, Ltools can make the change to all your multimedia paths. Run Repair Multimedia Paths and set Find Substring in Path to c:\ then set and Replace with to C:\ It can also fix paths that have actually changed because of rearranging where the files are kept. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with PATH

It is not a default setting, both the picture gallery and the picture centre are using lowercase in the path names. Since Legacy is a Windows based program this error does not cause problems locating the pictures within Legacy. Windows is not case sensitive. Problem confirmed and I have added a

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with PATH

Thanks Brian, Agreed, it has never been an issue on my PC, Only when the exported gedcom is used by another program that sees the C and c as two different locations. My suggestion would be that Legacy make it a variable in the creation of a gedcom to ensure that drive letters are All

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help on make usable lists

Nancy, Though the locations were different (cemeteries in Michigan and Illinois), the idea is the same. I used the Search Find Detailed Search feature, and then worked with the Print options to get the report to be useful (I was asking my folks to take pictures, so needed married names on the

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help on make usable lists

Nancy, I do a location search for vital info for a specific place all the time. This is how I do it: Click on Search Detailed Search. Then under the Look for Whom? Select Individual. Under Where to Look, select Birth Place. Under How to Look, Select Contains. Under the column, What to Look

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help on make usable lists

Has anyone split the drive on an Mac and loaded Windows on one part of the drive to run Legacy? Is it doable? Will Legacy run on a Mac using the Boot Camp software? Marie Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL Melchiori Research Services, L.L.C.

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help locating on line records

They may not be online is the bad news. I use this site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~thecohens/birthindexes-eur.html#c1876416 to look for places I am looking for. But with old Europe you have to be clever to figure where they hid the town. In the place the town was when the

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help locating on line records

Please keep on topic of using Legacy and Legacy add-ons. If anyone can help Rich, please email him off-list rfalz...@yahoo.com Thanks, Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Richard Falzini rfalz...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, Is

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

On 10/13/2012 7:59 PM, RHS Consulting wrote: To avoid printing complications, may I suggest you write all Umlauts with an e which is standard practice worldwide. It is standard practice ? I have never heard that before, so if you could offer me a reference it would be appreciated. All my

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

Neither have I, and I definitely advise against using abbreviations in locations, especially if you wish to publish, as very few will know what they mean, especially for states, counties, provinces. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 Confused wasbornconfu...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

On 10/14/2012 10:07 AM, Confused wrote: On 10/13/2012 7:59 PM, RHS Consulting wrote: To avoid printing complications, may I suggest you write all Umlauts with an e which is standard practice worldwide. It is standard practice ? I have never heard that before, so if you could offer me a

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

On 10/14/2012 10:24 AM, Gene Young wrote: On 10/14/2012 10:07 AM, Confused wrote: On 10/13/2012 7:59 PM, RHS Consulting wrote: To avoid printing complications, may I suggest you write all Umlauts with an e which is standard practice worldwide. It is standard practice ? I have never heard

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

We seem to have gotten off track a bit here guys, I was asking about finding all individuals, living in a particular place in a given year? Brian Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

Brian, I don't think it can be done from your Legacy program - not sure about LTools though. It will be possible using Access. BTW I would have picked this up earlier, but I have been away for a few days. I gave up looking at stuff on my tablet because this list was filled with requests for

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

Thanks Ron, I'm trying to find all individuals in my data base, alive in Munzesheim in say 1839. Since I create an Event to record Birth, death and marriages, and I have those dates for everybody in Munzesheim, I am searching for individuals for, Event Placecontains - Munzesheim, that list I

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

Hi Brian, I've just run an experimental test on my own database to try and emulate what you're looking for, and this worked for me... Look for: individual Where: birth date How: contains What: 1965 AND Look for: individual Where: birth place How: contains What: auckland ... and this gave me a

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

Ah, what you describe here is quite different to your previous email, and I'd forgotten the details. The search I described won't do what you've outlined here. It will find people born in a particular place in a particular year, not people who may have been living in a particular place at a

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

Use the Census List Search. (Search Census List) Bert Op 14-10-2012 22:22, Brian Lehman schreef: Thanks Ron, I'm trying to find all individuals in my data base, alive in Munzesheim in say 1839. Since I create an Event to record Birth, death and marriages, and I have those dates for

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

Brian, Don't you mean death date after 1839? The problem is that this will give you those who were not born before 1839. If you tag those who have an Event place for Munzesheim then this will include those who lived there in any year, so even if you then search this list for those born before

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

Are you sure all of your entries are spelled the same way? The city in German is Münzesheim (that's Munzesheim with an umlaut on the u for those whose computers put in ? instead of umlauts). Usually in English an umlauted u is spelled Muenzesheim, but sometimes just plain ole Munzesheim. If

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

My email doesn't have an umlaut icon as Legacy does. Standard location all around, Münzesheim,Baden-Württemberg,Germany. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search

Thanks for the location advice, but I could really use some help listing who was alive in this town in a given year. Brian Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help for merging files

Cherie Brumfield wrote: What I really need is step-by-step directions, or even just general directions, for merging 2 Legacy databases into one. Merging 2 people in a single database has plenty of directions, which is really not a particularly difficult task; and merging a database from a

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help for merging files

Open one family file, go to File/Import/Legacy File and choose the other one. A screen will come up where you choose 'Add to existing file', and carry on from there. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 7/24/2012 12:32 PM, Cherie Brumfield

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help for merging files

Cherie, First, let's understand what you want to do... You *import* one file into another - the gedcom or PAF is imported into your Legacy Family File. Then you *merge* the duplicates in that file. Howeverwe recommend that you import the PAF or gedcom file into a *new* Legacy Family File.

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with updating details of sources when they are part of a master source

Can you just edit the sources, adding the transcription into Text of Source and adding the photo to the Multimedia tab? JL | http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 6/14/2012 2:44 PM, Suzanne Scheraga wrote: I'm having a very frustrating time trying to update mycensus recordsources. I have one master

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with updating details of sources when they are part of a master source

Suzanne, LTools does not recognise Source Writer Sources. The same enquiry was made within the past month, so I suggest that you look in the archives for “Sources” or “Copy Sources”and also the help files for “Source Clipboard” and “Event Clipboard”. Basically you need to use the blue arrow

Re: [LegacyUG] need help with updating details of sources when they are part of a master source

Suzanne, You asked the very same question on June 9, 2012. You will find the answers given to you here: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/msg21862.html = On 6/14/2012 4:44 PM, Suzanne Scheraga wrote: I'm having a very frustrating time trying to update

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search option has contains

Hi Barb. Search Find Detailed Search Individual Death Place Contains Long That would bring up the list of individual's Death Place of 'Long Beach' or any other instance with 'long' in it. Regards, Tim Rosenlof On 6/28/2010 11:37 AM, Barbara Lewis wrote: I'm confused with the 2 user

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search option has contains

Barb, Please forgive me if this has already been asked of you. Are you using Basic Legacy v7 or Deluxe v7? If basic, perhaps the more full featured searches aren't available to you. Mary From: Barbara Lewis To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 12:37 PM

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search option has contains

I think all Search options are available in the Standard Edition. Evert 2010/6/28 Mary Fowler Leek ml...@sbcglobal.net: Barb, Please forgive me if this has already been asked of you. Are you using Basic Legacy v7 or Deluxe v7? If basic, perhaps the more full featured searches aren't

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with a search option has contains

Barbara, Spamming help groups with the same quesyion is never a good idea as it also confuses the helpers! I have already answered this query, and I now see that you have had more or less the same answer from someone else. Ron Ferguson BTW This is the no HTML group

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with the search feature that has contains

Barbara, You do not say which search you are using. In SearchFindDetailed search, if it is available for the search you are using, it is in the drop-down box headed how to look Ron Ferguson _ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with spell checker

-- From: d...@wavecable.com [mailto:d...@wavecable.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:04 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with spell checker Hi TT, First, welcome to Legacy! I have noticed the same thing you report about the Spellchecker