Keith and others, Providing historical locations for counties in the U.S. was a bit easier to begin with because the data for the U.S. has been published in the Handybook for Genealogists and other places.
We very much would like to have historical data for the rest of the world. But if we start from scratch compiling this kind of data, it would be an enormous project. If you, or anyone, is aware of a previously-compiled database or publication of this type of historical data, we'd like to know about it. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of keith Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 12:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] V6 Features - Kens Response Ken, Thanks for updating us on your reasons for not being able to implement witnesses. As an SAP software developer I understand the kind of issues your dealing with. Thanks also for providing a list of features in V6, I'm really looking forward to some of these. Just one question regarding "Global US County Verification". This is great for US customers, but not for customers from other countries. However the UK, for one, has a similar issue with county names changing over time. This would be a great feature if you could have a database for each country. Are there any plans for this? I don't how many units Legacy sells in the UK but I can imiagine it's this kind of functionality with a very specific US focus, which alienates many UK customers from trying Legacy, much to their loss as well as Millenia's. Regards Keith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken McGinnis Sent: 27 August 2005 04:15 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] V6 Features Ron and others, I know that you and many others are frustrated that I have been promising a Witness feature and you still don't have it. It's my fault for poor planning and simply getting busy. We really don't like maintaining two versions of source code so we do development of the next version in the current code base and with each build we give Beta testers access to the new features similar to how users can turn on extra Deluxe Edition futures. This way we can be working on them and testing them for many months before they are actually released. There are some features that require a database change and once that change happens there is no way to maintain a single source code base between the current version and the next version. For this reason we push off implementation of the items that require database changes that cannot be put in the current version off until a couple months before a release. As I started working on the Witness feature I could have done a hack to get it implemented for version 6.0 but I wasn't happy with doing it that way. I'd rather re-design the core functionality of events and how they are handled and that started to become a larger and larger project that was going to affect a bunch of code. After long debates we decided to hold off on doing the quick and dirty method I came up with that would have worked but wouldn't have been what it could be. We decided it was best to wait and do it right even though we knew many would be very unhappy with this decision. I take the full blame for not getting started sooner so we had more time. I am very sorry it won't be in 6.0 and at this point I really hate to make any promises even though this is a feature I do agree with you is extremely important. I think once we have Witnesses that there would be a whole bunch of TMG users making the switch to Legacy. I know excuses or reasons do help the fact that you still do not have a promised feature. I'm sorry about this, I really am. We are excited about some of the great new features that we have worked very hard to get into Legacy 6.0. This is going to be a great new version. What's New in Legacy 6? Research Guidance - Legacy's Research Guidance helps you locate records that may contain information about your ancestors. It does this in four steps: 1. Legacy helps you review the ancestor's timeline, to be certain that you've already recorded everything you know about the ancestor. 2. Legacy suggests preliminary survey sources to help you learn if the research is already in progress by another researcher, or if it has been published. 3. After selecting your goals, Legacy provides a list of prioritized suggestions to help you accomplish them. 4. Finally, Legacy organizes the sources into a To-Do List. Publishing Center - This new feature lets you select one or more reports and combine them into one large book report. All the information from the various reports are indexed and sourced together and a master Table of Contents is generated. You can also add a Title page, Preface page, Dedication page, Copyright Notice page, Introduction Section, and Abbreviations page to the beginning of the book. Legacy Home - The new Legacy Home tab on the main screen of Legacy brings you important information about your family file and also gives you a global view into the world of genealogy. It includes daily genealogy and Legacy News, To-Do item reminders, birthday and anniversary reminders, statistics about your family file, links to update Legacy, technical support links and much more. The built-in browser lets you browse the Internet without ever leaving Legacy. Timelines - This feature lets you select historical timeline files containing events from certain localities, and add them to the Chronology View and reports as background information to show what was happening during a person's life. Timeline files can be created and edited by the user. DNA - Legacy now lets you record DNA marker test results from several different companies. Forms Center - (Reports > All Reports > Forms Center) or Report button > Books/Other tab > Forms Center) New forms will be added on a continuing basis. These new forms will probably be available online in various packets for those who want to download them. Potential Problems List Format - The list of all the problems found are now presented in a grid list that is retained from session to session (until rebuilt by the user). From the list you can edit the affected individuals and correct the problem or exclude it from future checking. Global US County Verification - This new feature checks your entire family file to verify that the US counties you have used were in existence for the time periods you are using them. Location Prepositions - On the Add/Edit Location screen (reached from the Master Location List), there is a field for the location preposition. This defaults to "in" but can be changed to other prepositions like near, around, outside, northwest, etc. These prepositions are then used when building report sentences. Sources - You can now connect source citations to: This individual never married (individual screen), This couple didn't marry, This couple didn't have children, To Do Items Note Fields - There are now Font styles buttons allowing you to bold, underline, italicize, and superscript parts of the notes. The changes show in the notes instead of just showing printer codes as in the past. And much more . . . Thanks Ken McGinnis Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! 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