Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Judy Wardlaw
Patricia I am not surprised that you are confused. All I produced was a direct line descendant chart with siblings from one earliest male ancestor. I would need to repeat it for the other male ancestor surnames if I was interested in them.It is not a complete chart but a series of charts. I thou

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread GeoSci
Go to your Legacy folder and copy the file LegacyCharting.chm. Go to the LegacyCharting7 folder within Legacy and PASTE the LegacyCharting.chm file. Help will now work correctly!! A minor BUG but one that should be fixed - The help files ends up in the wrong directory during INSTALL!! Keith --

[LegacyUG] Extra Comma

2010-02-07 Thread Gavin Nicholson
Hi List, I seem to remember that with the initial release of version 7 there were a lot of issues with the source writer templates and extra commas when certain fields weren’t filled in. I don't seem to notice that anymore generally so I am assuming that they have been mostly fixed? If so, is t

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Judy Wardlaw
Ron and Dawn I have just tried my database on a second XP computer and the Help File in Legacy Charting is blank. The Help File still works on my own computer with the latest Legacy version! Both from within Legacy and from the stand alone programme on the desktop. Mystery! Judy It sounds as thou

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Patricia Hill
Judy, I am a little confused or missing something in your reply to Dawn.  I understand creating the new file, but then how do I use the charting to produce the file with all ancestors and their siblings?  All I have been able to get is the ancestors.   Patricia Thomas-Hill tris...@bellsouth.net

Re: [BULK] RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on Sourcing of marriage record

2010-02-07 Thread Patricia Hill
Sherry, I really like the way that you are sourcing the marriage records for Missouri that are on Ancestry.  If you had researched and found the marriage license and marriage at the courthouse of record, how would you source.  I am new at this and am interested in how others are sourcing data. 

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Judy Wardlaw
Ron and Dawn I realised what I did. I made a Descendant chart of the earliest ancestor with the particular surname ( Dawn I think, was wanting ancestors and siblings with same surname). You still need to make the new file from tagged entries as mentioned before and use that. You would need to do

Re: [BULK] RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on Sourcing of marriage record

2010-02-07 Thread S. Fry
I often use and save the digital images from "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," at Ancestry.com and like Connie, I find the images problematic for the reasons she stated. I use other sources to find the book number and only look at the transcriptions to see how Ancestry has dealt with the som

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread GeoSci
So you goning to tell us how?? :-) Keith -- Find-A-Grave "County Keeper" for Schuylkill County, PA Keith A. McKain McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 - # Mc17936 Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 Email: geosc...@comcast.net On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Judy Wardlaw wrote: > Ro

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Judy Wardlaw
Ron Yes I am using V7.0.4.6 and have been since it was released. I have just made a chart using Legacy Charting 7.0.120 with Ancestors and siblings. Judy Ron wrote Judy, It sounds as though you are not using the latest version of Legacy (V7.0.4.6). Ron Ferguson

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Ron Ferguson
Judy, It sounds as though you are not using the latest version of Legacy (V7.0.4.6). Ron Ferguson _ Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Judy Wardlaw
Dawn I use Charting and my help file comes up fine. To check for updates click on "Tips & Updates" (the last item on the Charting toolbar ribbon) As regards the chart you want In Legacy tag all ancestors on an unused tag (Family View.> Edit > Tag records) . Then on the second screen Check Direct li

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread GeoSci
Bert HAS IT! Go to your Legacy folder and copy the file LegacyCharting.chm. Go to the LegacyCharting7 folder within Legacy and PASTE the LegacyCharting.chm file. Help will now work correctly!! A minor BUG but one that should be fixed - The help files ends up in the wrong directory during INSTAL

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Bert van Kootwijk
The Help for Charting is placed in the wrong directory. It is placed in /Legacy instead of /legacy/LegacyCharting. Bert - Original Message - From: "Ron Ferguson" To: Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank Dawn, I don't think

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Ron Ferguson
Dawn, I don't think it is a case of nobody having tried it, indeed I can remember similar sorts of requests over the years. It can be done in html, but I can't think of a way of doing it for a chart/printing. Someone else may have an idea though. It may be possible to create the html and use anoth

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Dawn Del Guercio
Hi Ron, Hmm... I'm surprised there's no one that has ever tried this. I do of course want the focus to be on my ancestors, so I don't want the sibling families... just the siblings listed along side my ancestor. My reasoning is because I need a visual way to see the relation between many people wi

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on Sourcing of marriage record

2010-02-07 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Jenny: I'd also use the SourceWriter Marriage template that you mentioned, but I see a nice feature about Connie's format in that it treats the title of the record set as the lead element whereas the SourceWriter template doesn't. The second example is part of a similar citation generated by S

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on Sourcing of marriage record

2010-02-07 Thread Connie Sheets
Jenny M Benson wrote: "I am curious as to why you are using a database template when your Source is online images. I don't have access to the Ancestry records to which you refer, but I think I would use the Marriage records>Found in Governmental records>Marriage registers>Created at State/Provin

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on Sourcing of marriage record

2010-02-07 Thread Jenny M Benson
Connie Sheets wrote: > [My apologies that this won't thread properly, but I'm still having to > read the list in the archives]. > > The Missouri Marriage Record images at Ancestry are problematic, IMO, > because Ancestry has not given enough information as to what we are > looking at.  Yes, they

[LegacyUG] Advice on Sourcing of marriage record

2010-02-07 Thread Connie Sheets
[My apologies that this won't thread properly, but I'm still having to read the list in the archives]. The Missouri Marriage Record images at Ancestry are problematic, IMO, because Ancestry has not given enough information as to what we are looking at.  Yes, they are apparently using State Arch

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Ron Ferguson
Dawn Del Guercio wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm here plugging away at my genealogy data entry. I have two > questions related to one another. I am trying to find a way to do an > ancestor tree (graphical) that shows the siblings of my ancestors on > the same tree. I couldn't find a way to do it on Leg

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Randy Clark
Help is blank. Life is full of surprises. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Dawn Del Guercio wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm here plugging away at my genealogy data entry.  I have two > questions related to one another.  I am trying to find a way to do an > ancestor tree (graphical) that shows the sibli

[LegacyUG] Legacy Charting Help window blank

2010-02-07 Thread Dawn Del Guercio
Hi all, I'm here plugging away at my genealogy data entry. I have two questions related to one another. I am trying to find a way to do an ancestor tree (graphical) that shows the siblings of my ancestors on the same tree. I couldn't find a way to do it on Legacy, and then through to try out th