I recently uploaded my database to ancestry.com mainly so I could get
other folks involved in finding links in my Winfrey studies.
Instantly, ancestry starting showing me they had hints for
practically everybody in my database. I don't particularly like their
hints unless it is census data or
Rootsmagic 4 will run on a zip drive (not a memory stick). The
program installs itself and copies your database and media over. You
can run it on any Windows computer without actually installing
anything to that computer. I sure do wish Legacy could do that.
Folks who use Reunion and
Don, I bought a 24 monitor and it is great to have Legacy and a full
screen view of Ancestry.com open at the same time. The way the prices
have come down, you can get a great monitor for $300.
Jim
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Don Cook docoo...@msn.com wrote:
My old 17 in. LCD flat panel
John I add unlinked individuals to my database too. I have 500+
islands at this point. I keep them separate by using Legacy's tags.
All the people in my tree are tagged on Tag 8 and all the orphans
are tagged on Tag 9.
Jim
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:53 PM, John S. Adams oldbr...@hotmail.com
My thanks to Kathy for introducing us to Dropbox. I have been using a
shared folder across my computers and that works great. But with
Dropbox, essentially it is not a shared folder but a live file so
everything works faster. I still back up to my Shared Folder so that
Mac can save to Time
Kathy,
Drop Box comes with Mac OSx for Intel. All I had to do was to share
Drop Box and I have access to it from all my computers. I don't sync
anything. I have just one database and it is stored in the Drop Box
as are my media files. Mac automatically backs up the Drop Box
changes hourly and
Dawn, it scares me a little that the AVG message at the bottom of your
posts say your virus database is out of date.
Jim
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Dawn Crowley
sc...@relatively-speaking.org wrote:
Have you tried exporting from FTM again? Maybe there were some export
and/or import
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Michele Lewis
cranberryf...@charter.net wrote:
That happened to me too! I got the spaces in the notes section but I didn't
know I could have avoided that.
I did some testing on FTM's gedcom creation recently. Prior to FTM
2008 the gedcom export was woefully
Sheri,
To my narrow mind, the disaster is not an event. It is a fact, a
history, etc that is attached to an event. I've handled this by
adding a note to the couple's Residence event. It keeps the history
of the time that event occurred all together.
Jim
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Sheri
Weird, Marilyn's e-mail came to me at gmail in plain text.
Jim
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote:
marilyn E B wrote:
Must be your computer. I checked my settings, sent messages to friends and
all says Plain Text. I have never had a complaint from the list
Gene,
To the second part of your problems, the default for the backup adds the
date to the file name so it is always going to create a new file. But, you
have an option to turn the date stamp off. If you choose that, you will
again get the message to overwrite the existing file.
I don't
Janis,
If you have Fusion 2.x, you already have Coherence.
Jim
--
From: Janis L Gilmore rajan...@earthlink.net
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 6:03 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Newbie questions
Allen,
Just restart your computer and it should be OK. There is something flaky in
the installation right now that's wiping out the printer address. It
reestablished after you restart Legacy.
Jim
- Original Message -
From: Dennis Krantz
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
What are the circumstances that cause you to want to save these files?
Looks like they are all related to your database. A much easier way would
be to create a backup of the database and then save the zipped file that
creates. You will have all the files you need automagically backed up.
Bob,
I have been running Legacy on my iMac for a couple of years. I looked at
every Mac genealogy program before deciding I had to find a way to get
Windows on the Mac. I installed WinXP under VMWare Fusion and it works
great. I hate having to set my iMac up to run Windows just to run one
Allen, my experience is that DAR (Darwin Ports) Wine will sorta run
Legacy. It will look good on startup but there will be some features
that don't give you the output you expect. For normal users, Fusion
or Parallels is the best option. I have used both but prefer Fusion
because I can run
tab to see the option to turn it on.
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Janis L Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is ClearPrint. I find that on my iMac it looks good, just a little
jaggy on the laptop.
What is ClearPrint?
Janis
On 10/4/08 9:14 AM, Jim Winfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
I am trying to create a template for sources for census events and
can't figure out how to do it. I created a template called Census
Template and added all the data that generally does not change much
like publication, type and repository. Now I can't figure out how to
use it to create new
for letting us (spelled me) know about being able to open a
gedcom in Wordpad. I had not realized that was an option.
Thanks!
Rob Miller
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Winfrey
Sent: September 8, 2006 11:31 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup
Hi Rob,
I like what you do, up to a point. You have to remember that the
RIN#s for folks can change when you do file maintenance, rebuild from
a backup, etc so they are really not safe to use as a permanent
reference. The good news is that Legacy allows you to copy the RIN#s
into the ID field
John,
Adobe Reader 7.0 is an improvement over 6.0. It fixed a lot of
compatibility problems. It will NOT install over 6.0. It will leave
6.0 as is. I would advise that you remove 6.0 first, then install 7.0
so the registry get pdf associations right. Finally, yes, 7.0 will
read all prior
Dick,
Take a look at the Google suite of tools. I use their calendar, to-do
list, and e-mail. The calendar and e-mail are integrated pretty well.
You can customize your Google search screen to show the tools plus
any kind of news you want to see. Best thing is that it is free and
can be
Jeff,
You can open the gedcom in Wordpad and look at it to see if the
sources were exported to the gedcom. Most programs have the option to
not export sources and some of us only export sources to folks we
really, really trust.
Jim
On 9/7/06, malkajef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am very new
Cary,
Really think this out before you start changing everything. Remember
that, as yet, no other genealogy program on the market correctly
interprets Legacy's event addresses when a Legacy file is imported via
either gedcom or Genbridge. So, if you ever move to another genealogy
program,
A correction to my earlier e-mail regarding the use of event
addresses. Event addresses do print on Descendant Book reports but
not on Descendant reports. Sorry if I misled anybody.
Jim
On 8/30/06, Jim Winfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cary,
Really think this out before you start changing
On 8/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see the + sign after the burial location field for adding addresses,
etc., but I don't see anything similar for an address for an event.
Pat H.
Pat,
All event screens have an address icon. It's the little house and
phone icon at the
If you ever create a gedcom of your Legacy file to be send to another
genealogy program, be sure to check Override Source Options - include
all source information on the gedcom menu. If you do not check this
action, the source citations and publication information transfers but
not the detailed
That is normal behavior. Legacy sees a click and tries to open a
screen but your computer is off doing other things. You think the
click didn't register so you click again. Legacy thinks you want to
go to yet another screen. Then the computer finishes what it was
grinding on and Legacy
Jan,
Legacy saves data to your hard drive pretty much as it is entered.
That's why you don't have to save your file periodically. I lost data
in a very similar way several years ago. I finally figured out that I
had two Legacy files on my drive with the same name. I never did
figure out how
The software I referred to lets you sign off either on events or for
all the data you have for a person or a relationship. You can see at
a glance the people you know you aren't going to find any new
information on and keeps you from revisiting. In Legacy, I use many,
many to-dos to do the same
I'm with Margaret on this one. I hope I never hear a great neice or
nephew call me Grandaunt Jim BG.
Jim
On 7/31/06, Jennifer H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/31/06, Markie Flint Blackmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
If I EVER hear any of my darling great nieces or great nephews refer to
For a long time, I tried to keep the location fields as pure place
names but Ed, your solution works best for me also. I have quite a
few people who were buried at sea and at least this way I can see them
all together. Another way would be to put the information in the
Death or Burial Notes. I
Good point Linda. I am a family historian first and a genealogist
second but the two really can't mix. The way you prescribe handling
these situation takes care of both worlds about as well as it can be
be done. There are a male and a female behind the creation of each of
us unless we are a
Peggy,
I think Legacy 4 Deluxe had the capability for creating your own
custom notes for events. I know both 5 and 6 have it. I do what
you're talking about a lot. I write the custom event note/sentence as
I want it to read when printed in the various reports. It makes more
sense. But keep
Carol,
Check Robert's response again. You CAN scan the form as a *.jpg file
which is a picture image. I scan all my census forms in and attach
them to the applicable individuals or families this way.
Jim
On 7/21/06, Carol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you!! I knew there had to be a
You can save any kind of media in Legacy but Excel, Word, etc will
open in their native format. If you download (or Save) directly
from Ancestry.com the image will be a jpg. The simplest thing to do
with non-picture documents is to go to www.hamrick.com and download
their shareware program
is the smaller file, a JPG
or a PDF of, say, a typed-in census page?
Jennie
--- Jim Winfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carol,
Check Robert's response again. You CAN scan the
form as a *.jpg file
which is a picture image. I scan all my census
forms in and attach
them to the applicable individuals
Then, of course, somebody in the bloodline takes a DNA test and the
whole discussion is moot. Anybody been keeping up with the problems
the Mayflower Association has been struggling with? Seems to me each
person has to decide the direction and scope of their research and
that becomes their
Folks,
The Millennia folks had to go to a new e-mail system because of
significant problems with the old one. At the time they told us the
Digest version was not working with the new system but that after they
got the kinks out of it they would look at the Digest option. Then
the new system
Pat,
Nick is right. The gedcom file will not accurately copy all of your
data as you have it set up in Legacy. A simpler and much more
accurate solution is to create a Legacy backup and e-mail it to
yourself. Besides the backup in many cases is smaller than a gedcom
file.
Jim
On 7/20/06,
Dick Eastman wrote about a great backup program several months ago.
It is called NTI Shadow. I bought a 300GB Maxtor USB drive and setup
NTI Shadow to back up every file on my hard drive when I modify them.
It does it in the background and does not cost much overhead. So far
after about 5
In Dick Eastman's weekly newsletter (www.eogn.com) sometime around
March or April I think. Go to the link and do a search for it.
Apparently I didn't keep the newsletter.
Jim
On 7/20/06, Nicholas Cirillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim,
Where was this review published?
Nick Cirillo
Jim Winfrey
Kay, my hero - looks like you fixed the e-mail problems. Yours is the
first since 7/5.
Jim
On 7/19/06, Dave Pointer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey, yours is the first message I've received thru the list since 07/05.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marion,
I use G-Mail and see the same thing you're seeing. I have a filter to
add the Legacy label and to archive anything where the subject
contains [LegacyUG]. I can't explain it. Everything is being
assigned the Legacy label, then some goes to the Legacy archive and
some goes to Spam. I
I see Nicknames as being in the same category as Call Names in some
Scandinavian areas. It is the name the person is called by and
sometimes has little to do with the birth name. The Beta version of
Gramps (Linux software) has a field for Call Name and the option to
use this name for reports,
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