[LegacyUG] Military interment records sourcing

2014-07-18 Thread Maureen Lake
Good morning, Ancestry has images of the US National Cemetery Interment Control Forms. I tend to use Source Writer for my sourcing, but I'm not averse to using the Basic version. Any suggestions as to how best to record this source information? It's kind of an awkward record. Thanks. Mauree

[LegacyUG] US census master source

2013-11-24 Thread Maureen Lake
Good morning, I'm just looking for input. How do you handle the US (or any other) census as a master source? It asks you to break it down by locality, state and county. If you are dealing with diverse areas of the country, how do you differentiate the carious localities. Basically I'm wonde

Re: [LegacyUG] Same gender marriage???

2013-08-16 Thread Maureen Lake
Here's a thought as a stop gap. Can you mark both genders as unknown and add the actual gender in notes? Not ideal, but it should solve the problem in the short run. My two cents for what they're worth... Maureen Sent from my iPhone On Aug 16, 2013, at 3:25 PM, Kathy Thompson wrote: > I g

Re: [LegacyUG] Generational migration patterns

2012-08-16 Thread Maureen Lake
It looks like the Google Fusion Tables option might work, which leaves the question of how to get the data onto a table. Here's the first glimmer of an idea. Please let me know what you think of my thought process. Can I run a descendant outline, save it as an RTF file, and then import that i

[LegacyUG] Generational migration patterns

2012-08-15 Thread Maureen Lake
locations on a map, but can I save those maps, or build on them, or will I need to go to an outside program? Google Maps might have the capabilities I am looking for, but it is not necessarily the most user friendly interface. Thank you, Maureen Lake Las Vegas, NV Legacy User Group guidelines

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Desktop Icon

2012-07-15 Thread Maureen Lake
Can you access Legacy from the start menu? If so, click on All Programs, scroll to Legacy, right click on the Legacy entry and then "send to" Desktop. That should give you the icon back. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 15, 2012, at 1:11 PM, "Judith" wrote: > Help! For some reason I’ve lost my L

Re: [LegacyUG] FamilySearch Interface

2012-07-13 Thread Maureen Lake
I've been on Family Tree for nearly a year now in beta. Yes, changes made in nFS will also appear in FT. The only thing I have heard conflicting stories about is whether your nFS sources will transfer. Anyone looking to check out FT can contact me off-list and we'll see what we can do. I'm l

Re: [LegacyUG]. Apologies for spam...

2012-06-28 Thread Maureen Lake
somewhere else? > We have already notified www.eurekasystem.net that we found malware on the > site. For more about the problems found on www.eurekasystem.net, visit the > Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page. > > > From: Maureen Lake [mailto:arespo...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Fri

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2012-06-28 Thread Maureen Lake
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Re: [LegacyUG] 1930 US census

2012-03-19 Thread Maureen Lake
I have a related question to using SourceWriter for US Census data. If I use the template as written, how do I differentiate between the source for San Bernardino, California and the one for Renssalear, New York? Just curious as to what others do. My personal solution at this time is to name

Re: [LegacyUG] 1940

2012-03-11 Thread Maureen Lake
Archives.com and Find My Past have teamed together with FamilySearch to index the 1940 census and to keep it free in perpetuity. FamilySearch has pledged their indexers to have the entire census, all 132+ million people, in six months. They expect to have the first images available to index by

[LegacyUG] Universal Source?

2012-03-01 Thread Maureen Lake
I have a weird question.  I have a friend building me a Legacy file of names from a specific inigration event (a ship and travel list) which will include almost 500 families, and over 1500 people.  Once I have that, I will be doing descendancy research on those families for a historic recreation

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

2012-02-14 Thread Maureen Lake
Just a comment from the peanut gallery, but you CAN alter the title of a report. It could read something like "Secor family in ". Maureen Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Jane Sarles wrote: > Well, I tried putting in just the person's surname and no given name, but I >

[LegacyUG] Fixed, cascading pedigrees

2011-12-09 Thread Maureen Lake
Good morning all! First of all, thanks to everyone who helped with my last question. Preparations for my class are well underway and I feel considerable more confident now than I did a week ago, thanks to all of you. Some former PAF user have come to ask me if Legacy can "fix" the numbering i

Re: [LegacyUG] FHC introductory class

2011-11-29 Thread Maureen Lake
Thanks for the responses. I'm in Las Vegas. I didn't want to presume where the videos were concerned - it can get dicey and feelings can get hurt. I'll look at it more closely. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 29, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Kathy Meyer wrote: > Ditto to Sherry's response. You can even us

[LegacyUG] FHC introductory class

2011-11-29 Thread Maureen Lake
I volunteer four days a week at the local Family History Center.  The new director has decreed that each volunteer teach a class on a subject that they have experinece with. I'm the only one on staff with any experience with Legacy.  They've asked me to teach a three session class on Legacy.  Do

[LegacyUG] File recovery from damaged sectors

2011-08-15 Thread Maureen Lake
Good afternoon, I keep my Legacy file on a portable hard drive that the micro USB port was damaged on. My husband has been able to pull 95% of the information that was on that drive over on to another one, but there are some damaged sectors. One of the files he can't reclaim is the .RC3 file f

Re: [LegacyUG] Quirk of the latest update?

2011-06-10 Thread Maureen Lake
From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com Nope - you just need to go to Options > Customize > General and select "Open last used family file automatically" in the "Starting Family File" section. Sherry, Thanks, that did the trick.  This is the first update in YEARS that has given me an

[LegacyUG] Quirk of the latest update?

2011-06-10 Thread Maureen Lake
I have a question? Lately I've had to specify which database to open each time I open Legacy. Is this new to the latest update to the program? Is there some switch I just need to re-throw. I really miss the old version where it would open the last file I had accessed. It does still open the da

Re: [LegacyUG] Following two paternal lines

2010-10-22 Thread Maureen Lake
Thank you. I did check the help file, but I must not have looked in the right place. I never found it. You're a life saver. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:16 AM, "Jim Terry/Support" wrote: > Maureen, > > The steps for adding a second set of parents are in Legacy's Help file. >

[LegacyUG] Following two paternal lines

2010-10-22 Thread Maureen Lake
race both lines. The question that has arisen is: is there a way in Legacy to attach both father s to this son, one as biological and one as adoptive? I apologize if this has come up before. I did search the archives, but I might not have used the correct search parameters. Thank you,

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Writer challenge

2010-09-22 Thread Maureen Lake
I see that the Legacy GeoLocation database is not very helpful, as a search turns up "Saint-Michel, , Québec, Canada". If you put "Bellechasse" in the county position, the search comes up blank. In fact, counties seem to be totally ignored for Canada. Wikipedia says that Bellechasse is a "regional

[LegacyUG] Challenge #2: Changing place names

2010-09-22 Thread Maureen Lake
Hello again, all, On to my second challenge.  I checked through the archives as best I could, but I just couldn't figure out the best search parameters I guess, so here goes. Much to the diappointment of my DAR friends, my ancestors didn't come to the US until the middle of the 19th century, for

[LegacyUG] Source Writer challenge

2010-09-22 Thread Maureen Lake
Good afternoon, all, I have run up against a few challenges, but I will set them out in separate emails so I can keep the subjects straight.  I just recently combined two sources into one.  The first was created in the basic style, the second with Source Writer.  I am now going through and (finall

Re: [LegacyUG] Adulterine offspring

2010-09-05 Thread Maureen Lake
Larry, When you input the couple, when the time comes to input the date, in the upper lefy hand corner is a little check box which reads "This couple did not marry".  Check that and it will mark the marriage area accordingly. Hope this helps. Maureen - Original Message From: Larry Le

Re: [LegacyUG] Sorting Children

2010-07-29 Thread Maureen Lake
I generally put children with unknown dates at the end of families, rather than at the beginning. It makes it easier to find them when researching a specific family or, frabjous day, I accidentally stumble across their record, which happens more frequently in Québécois research than your standa

Re: [LegacyUG] Sorting Children

2010-07-29 Thread Maureen Lake
Okay, I am officially curious. I've been doing this for 30 years and this is a new one. Why put the children with no birthdays first? Just asking. Maureen Sent from my iPhone On Jul 29, 2010, at 4:38 PM, "Carl Cox" wrote: > I haven't followed this thread closely, so this might have already

[LegacyUG] Apologies

2010-07-08 Thread Maureen Lake
Good morning, all, I'd like to apologise to Ann especially, and to all generally for accidentally hijacking her thread.  It was not my intention.  I acted in haste and ignoranvce and I have learned a valuable lesson.  My thanks to Ron for pointing out my error. Maureen Legacy User Group gui

Re: [LegacyUG] Updating images

2010-07-08 Thread Maureen Lake
fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ________ Maureen Lake wrote: The only reasons I can think that the images won't automatically update is that: 1) They have different file-names. -- I rarely c

Re: [LegacyUG] Updating images

2010-07-07 Thread Maureen Lake
ay, editing and resaving jpg's is not a good thing to do but you can do less damage if you don't change the compression when you resave it. . JL http://www.jgen.ws/jlog On 7/7/2010 3:57 PM, Maureen Lake wrote: The only reasons I can think that the images won't automatically upda

Re: [LegacyUG] Updating images

2010-07-07 Thread Maureen Lake
The only reasons I can think that the images won't automatically update is that: 1) They have different file-names.  --  I rarely change the name.  Because of the size of the database and the prevalnce of some of the names ( I literally have 15 Joe Blows) I name the files by RIN and document type

[LegacyUG] Updating images

2010-07-07 Thread Maureen Lake
Good afternoon, all, Here's a question I haven't been able to find addressed in the archives, so I throw it out there for your ideas.  I know they won't print worth a darn, but I am attaching digital images much of my back-up proof to my events as I can. Some of these images have been attached f

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Windows Sync (w/Windows 7, 32-bit) to copy my database

2010-06-28 Thread Maureen Lake
Everyone's computer situation is unique, so I would be cetain to be backed up and GEDCom-ed out, but I did a computer sync when I changed from my 32-bitold   laptop to my 64-bit new laptop without a problem.  It was simple and easy.  Well worth the cost of the sync cord. Best of luck. Ma

Re: [LegacyUG] Seminars?

2010-06-08 Thread Maureen Lake
Bill, I've lived in Las Vegas for years and have been a Legacy user since version 4. I don't claim to be an expert, but I would be happy to get together off list to see if I can help. Maureen Lake Las Vegas, Nevada Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Bill McFall wr

Re: [LegacyUG] Timeline help

2010-05-27 Thread Maureen Lake
Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ________ Maureen Lake wrote: Okay, so if I'm following the logic here, by rights I should be able to export a new GE

Re: [LegacyUG] Timeline help

2010-05-27 Thread Maureen Lake
Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ________ Maureen Lake wrote: Okay, so if I'm following the logic here, by rights I should be able to export a new GE

Re: [LegacyUG] Timeline help

2010-05-27 Thread Maureen Lake
Thank you. Boy, do I feel dumb! Sent from my iPhone On May 27, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: Maureen Lake wrote (I couldn't figure out how to get to the archives, if there are any). For future reference, look to the foot of every mail from this list. -- Jenny M Benson L

Re: [LegacyUG] Timeline help

2010-05-27 Thread Maureen Lake
Thank you. Boy, do I feel dumb! Sent from my iPhone On May 27, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: Maureen Lake wrote (I couldn't figure out how to get to the archives, if there are any). For future reference, look to the foot of every mail from this list. -- Jenny M Benson L

Re: [LegacyUG] Timeline help

2010-05-26 Thread Maureen Lake
uch.  Can I get those to print on the timeline or chronology reports? Thanks again. Maureen - Original Message From: Ron Ferguson To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, May 26, 2010 4:02:35 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Timeline help Maureen Lake wrote: > I'm new to the

[LegacyUG] Timeline help

2010-05-26 Thread Maureen Lake
those all points I would have to add seperately into the Events/Facts area of the entry? Thanks so much. Maureen Lake Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@lega