[LegacyUG] Legacy and Access
Since I have heard that Legacy and Access are intertwined, is there any data written out that explains the columnar headings and their uses within the various Access reports. I am particularly interested in the correlation of the numbers noted in the columnar headings of 'SrcDetail', 'FilingRef', 'IDSR', etc. I have made some use of the Access files to locate and review some of my source numbers and detail numbers, but would like to know what those other columns represent. It may be that some issues I have encountered could be addressed via the Access route. Please advise. Bob /Users/robertrunion/Desktop/eMail Icons/signature.pdf Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Access
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 6:48:42 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: is there any data written out that explains the columnar headings and their uses within the various Access reports. I don't know of anything public that goes into this detail. I created a list of the various Legacy tables and published it at: http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/help/v1/tables.htm But I did not write up anything on the columns and how they were used. That would take a lot of time. You can figure these things out easily enough by doing a little experimenting. Create a test database and play around. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
I have a similar problem to Elizabeth and need help please, I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD. I loaded the files into my laptop with Vista and Legacy 7. It seems everything is there except the notes that I made for some people.. Do I have to start over? and if so, what do I do? Thank you, Janet On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dermot McGlone dmg.familyt...@gmail.comwrote: Elizabeth, You can't just copy the whole Legacy folder onto yoru flash drive and paste it back in, that won't work. I'd just do a backup of the family file onto the USB flash drive, and also copy the downloaded setup file (Legacy7Setup.exe) to the same stick. When your computer is ready again, use that setup file to load Legacy onto it, and then restore your family file from the backup. Et Voila! If you need more info, get back on, and we'll try and guide you through it in baby steps. Regards, Dermot. -- Try out Legacy Family Tree Software today! It's FREE!! http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/?Click=1440 Groucho Marx - A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. 2009/4/17 ewinpa ewi...@verizon.net snip Could someone tell me step-by-step how to save my Legacy program and files on to a USB flash drive in such a way that I can then put it back on to my computer which I am having reformatted this weekend? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Editing notes and sources
Regrettably, all of my sources are embedded in my notes. Is it possible to view my family in split view mode with my family in both windows. Can I then view my notes for Individual1 in window 1 and then edit the sources of Individual 1 in window 2? My objective is to be able to view the notes and sources in one window and then edit them in the other window. Bottom line, is that I am trying to find an easy way of entering all of my sources without having to print on paper all the records in my database. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Bill
Re: [LegacyUG] Editing notes and sources
Simple answer: Yes. When you use SplitView, simply don't select a different family file. Better yet, make a copy of your family file, then open that one as a second file, but do all of your editing in the original. If you run into a problem you won't lose anything. Mike Michael J Method family research of: Method, Feehily, Fredrick, Herzog, tenEyck, Belsley In a message dated 4/20/2009 11:25:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wdukst...@gmail.com writes: Regrettably, all of my sources are embedded in my notes. Is it possible to view my family in split view mode with my family in both windows. Can I then view my notes for Individual1 in window 1 and then edit the sources of Individual 1 in window 2? My objective is to be able to view the notes and sources in one window and then edit them in the other window. Bottom line, is that I am trying to find an easy way of entering all of my sources without having to print on paper all the records in my database. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Bill **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220572844x1201387506/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072hmpgID=62bcd= Aprilfooter420NO62) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Editing notes and sources
You could copy the notes for the individual to Notepad and then edit the sources with that information displayed in Notepad. In Legacy, select the individual and open the Notes. In Windows click Start - Run, then type notepad in the box and click OK. Back to Legacy, select and copy the desired information. If you want everything in a Notes window, the keyboard shortcuts are Ctrl-A (select all) and Ctrl-C (copy). Back to the Notepad window and paste the information (keyboard shortcut is Ctrl-V). It took you longer to read this than it will to do it ;-) The advantage of using Notepad instead of two Legacy windows is that you won't forget which Legacy window you want to make changes in... John Regrettably, all of my sources are embedded in my notes. Is it possible to view my family in split view mode with my family in both windows. Can I then view my notes for Individual1 in window 1 and then edit the sources of Individual 1 in window 2? My objective is to be able to view the notes and sources in one window and then edit them in the other window. Bottom line, is that I am trying to find an easy way of entering all of my sources without having to print on paper all the records in my database. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Bill Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
Janet, Your question is very vague and I wonder if you could be more specific. Windows and Vista operate quite differently and store data in different places. When you installed Legacy7 from the Web on your Vista machine, did you follow the instructions for Legacy? You say: I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD Presumably you mean that on your PC, which is XP, you copied your Legacy 6, but do you mean the Legacy Folder as a whole or just the Data Folder? Again when you say you copied your files onto your Laptop what files do you mean - the whole Legcy folder, or just those in the Data folder - and where did you copy them to, and how did you do it? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:56:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com I have a similar problem to Elizabeth and need help please, I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD. I loaded the files into my laptop with Vista and Legacy 7. It seems everything is there except the notes that I made for some people.. Do I have to start over? and if so, what do I do? Thank you, Janet On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dermot McGlone wrote: Elizabeth, You can't just copy the whole Legacy folder onto yoru flash drive and paste it back in, that won't work. I'd just do a backup of the family file onto the USB flash drive, and also copy the downloaded setup file (Legacy7Setup.exe) to the same stick. When your computer is ready again, use that setup file to load Legacy onto it, and then restore your family file from the backup. Et Voila! If you need more info, get back on, and we'll try and guide you through it in baby steps. Regards, Dermot. -- Try out Legacy Family Tree Software today! It's FREE!! http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/?Click=1440 Groucho Marx - A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. 2009/4/17 ewinpa Could someone tell me step-by-step how to save my Legacy program and files on to a USB flash drive in such a way that I can then put it back on to my computer which I am having reformatted this weekend? _ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Access
When I used to use Access at work, I printed a partial list of field names and the 'long' versions for them. It is in the bottom of my file cabinet, since the computer I created it on is long gone to the dump, I will try to find it. I am curious about the reasons for 'explains the columnar headings and their uses within the various Access reports.' Rich in LA CA --- On Mon, 4/20/09, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: From: Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Access To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 5:02 AM On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 6:48:42 -0400, SgtBob s...@cox.net wrote: is there any data written out that explains the columnar headings and their uses within the various Access reports. I don't know of anything public that goes into this detail. I created a list of the various Legacy tables and published it at: http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/help/v1/tables.htm But I did not write up anything on the columns and how they were used. That would take a lot of time. You can figure these things out easily enough by doing a little experimenting. Create a test database and play around. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
Ron, Sorry to be so vague, maybe it is because I don't know what I am doing! When I installed Legacy 7 on my Vista laptop, I used my Legacy 7 Disk. I have Legacy Deluxe. On my desktop, I backed up each family file onto a DVD. I just opened each family file and chose Backup Family File. Then I cannot remember what I did, but I got it to Legacy 7 on the laptop only to find there are no notes. I do remember that I went in and made a blank family file for each family. I think I saved each family file to Legacy 7. I did this last week and cannot remember what I did as far as saving or backing up the files to Legacy 7. When I get this done, I am going to combine into just one family file. I do have a new large thumb drive that I can use for Legacy. Should I just start over and use my thumb drive? Thank you very much, Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: Janet, Your question is very vague and I wonder if you could be more specific. Windows and Vista operate quite differently and store data in different places. When you installed Legacy7 from the Web on your Vista machine, did you follow the instructions for Legacy? You say: I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD Presumably you mean that on your PC, which is XP, you copied your Legacy 6, but do you mean the Legacy Folder as a whole or just the Data Folder? Again when you say you copied your files onto your Laptop what files do you mean - the whole Legcy folder, or just those in the Data folder - and where did you copy them to, and how did you do it? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:56:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com I have a similar problem to Elizabeth and need help please, I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD. I loaded the files into my laptop with Vista and Legacy 7. It seems everything is there except the notes that I made for some people.. Do I have to start over? and if so, what do I do? Thank you, Janet On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dermot McGlone wrote: Elizabeth, You can't just copy the whole Legacy folder onto yoru flash drive and paste it back in, that won't work. I'd just do a backup of the family file onto the USB flash drive, and also copy the downloaded setup file (Legacy7Setup.exe) to the same stick. When your computer is ready again, use that setup file to load Legacy onto it, and then restore your family file from the backup. Et Voila! If you need more info, get back on, and we'll try and guide you through it in baby steps. Regards, Dermot. -- Try out Legacy Family Tree Software today! It's FREE!! http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/?Click=1440 Groucho Marx - A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. 2009/4/17 ewinpa Could someone tell me step-by-step how to save my Legacy program and files on to a USB flash drive in such a way that I can then put it back on to my computer which I am having reformatted this weekend? _ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Editing notes and sources
Regrettably, all of my sources are embedded in my notes. Is it possible to view my family in split view mode with my family in both windows. I do an easy work-around. I copy the notes and paste them into a word processor, such as notepad, then I can view them and copy as needed into the Legacy screen of my choice. It only takes a couple of clicks. Carl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
OK Janet, let's take this slowly. The first thing which I would like you to check is the location where you have Legacy7 installed on your laptop. It is possible that Vista installed it in the Program files, and if so it will not work properly. So would you let me know whether your Legacy folder is in C:\ or C:\Program Files\. If you do not know how to do this in Vista then click the Windows key on your keyboard you will see Computer in the right column, click this and then double click on the hard drive icon labelled system (C:). In the folders you should see one called Legacy, if not double click the Program Files folder and see if it is there. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:36:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, Sorry to be so vague, maybe it is because I don't know what I am doing! When I installed Legacy 7 on my Vista laptop, I used my Legacy 7 Disk. I have Legacy Deluxe. On my desktop, I backed up each family file onto a DVD. I just opened each family file and chose Backup Family File. Then I cannot remember what I did, but I got it to Legacy 7 on the laptop only to find there are no notes. I do remember that I went in and made a blank family file for each family. I think I saved each family file to Legacy 7. I did this last week and cannot remember what I did as far as saving or backing up the files to Legacy 7. When I get this done, I am going to combine into just one family file. I do have a new large thumb drive that I can use for Legacy. Should I just start over and use my thumb drive? Thank you very much, Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, ronald ferguson wrote: Janet, Your question is very vague and I wonder if you could be more specific. Windows and Vista operate quite differently and store data in different places. When you installed Legacy7 from the Web on your Vista machine, did you follow the instructions for Legacy? You say: I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD Presumably you mean that on your PC, which is XP, you copied your Legacy 6, but do you mean the Legacy Folder as a whole or just the Data Folder? Again when you say you copied your files onto your Laptop what files do you mean - the whole Legcy folder, or just those in the Data folder - and where did you copy them to, and how did you do it? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:56:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com I have a similar problem to Elizabeth and need help please, I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD. I loaded the files into my laptop with Vista and Legacy 7. It seems everything is there except the notes that I made for some people.. Do I have to start over? and if so, what do I do? Thank you, Janet On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dermot McGlone wrote: Elizabeth, You can't just copy the whole Legacy folder onto yoru flash drive and paste it back in, that won't work. I'd just do a backup of the family file onto the USB flash drive, and also copy the downloaded setup file (Legacy7Setup.exe) to the same stick. When your computer is ready again, use that setup file to load Legacy onto it, and then restore your family file from the backup. Et Voila! If you need more info, get back on, and we'll try and guide you through it in baby steps. Regards, Dermot. -- Try out Legacy Family Tree Software today! It's FREE!! http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/?Click=1440 Groucho Marx - A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. 2009/4/17 ewinpa Could someone tell me step-by-step how to save my Legacy program and files on to a USB flash drive in such a way that I can then put it back on to my computer which I am having reformatted this weekend?
Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
Ron, The Legacy folder is in C:\ On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: OK Janet, let's take this slowly. The first thing which I would like you to check is the location where you have Legacy7 installed on your laptop. It is possible that Vista installed it in the Program files, and if so it will not work properly. So would you let me know whether your Legacy folder is in C:\ or C:\Program Files\. If you do not know how to do this in Vista then click the Windows key on your keyboard you will see Computer in the right column, click this and then double click on the hard drive icon labelled system (C:). In the folders you should see one called Legacy, if not double click the Program Files folder and see if it is there. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:36:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, Sorry to be so vague, maybe it is because I don't know what I am doing! When I installed Legacy 7 on my Vista laptop, I used my Legacy 7 Disk. I have Legacy Deluxe. On my desktop, I backed up each family file onto a DVD. I just opened each family file and chose Backup Family File. Then I cannot remember what I did, but I got it to Legacy 7 on the laptop only to find there are no notes. I do remember that I went in and made a blank family file for each family. I think I saved each family file to Legacy 7. I did this last week and cannot remember what I did as far as saving or backing up the files to Legacy 7. When I get this done, I am going to combine into just one family file. I do have a new large thumb drive that I can use for Legacy. Should I just start over and use my thumb drive? Thank you very much, Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, ronald ferguson wrote: Janet, Your question is very vague and I wonder if you could be more specific. Windows and Vista operate quite differently and store data in different places. When you installed Legacy7 from the Web on your Vista machine, did you follow the instructions for Legacy? You say: I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD Presumably you mean that on your PC, which is XP, you copied your Legacy 6, but do you mean the Legacy Folder as a whole or just the Data Folder? Again when you say you copied your files onto your Laptop what files do you mean - the whole Legcy folder, or just those in the Data folder - and where did you copy them to, and how did you do it? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:56:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com I have a similar problem to Elizabeth and need help please, I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD. I loaded the files into my laptop with Vista and Legacy 7. It seems everything is there except the notes that I made for some people.. Do I have to start over? and if so, what do I do? Thank you, Janet On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dermot McGlone wrote: Elizabeth, You can't just copy the whole Legacy folder onto yoru flash drive and paste it back in, that won't work. I'd just do a backup of the family file onto the USB flash drive, and also copy the downloaded setup file (Legacy7Setup.exe) to the same stick. When your computer is ready again, use that setup file to load Legacy onto it, and then restore your family file from the backup. Et Voila! If you need more info, get back on, and we'll try and guide you through it in baby steps. Regards, Dermot. -- Try out Legacy Family Tree Software today! It's FREE!! http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/?Click=1440 Groucho Marx - A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. 2009/4/17 ewinpa
RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
Great. Open the Data folder in C:\Legacy\Data and you should find your .fdb files and your FileName.zip backup files. If not please come back to us. Update Legacy to the latest version, and check that your delux option is enabled (if you haven't already entered your number). Open Legacy and click FileOpen File. Ensure that the Look in box at the top of the Screen says Data. If not use the down arrow at the right hand edge of the box it and select it from the tree on the drop-down screen. Select any of the .fdb files - are the notes present? If not then try FileRestore Family File and select one of the zip files. Wnen asked give it a new name to avoid overwriting the original fdb file. Are the notes present now? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:46:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, The Legacy folder is in C:\ On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: OK Janet, let's take this slowly. The first thing which I would like you to check is the location where you have Legacy7 installed on your laptop. It is possible that Vista installed it in the Program files, and if so it will not work properly. So would you let me know whether your Legacy folder is in C:\ or C:\Program Files\. If you do not know how to do this in Vista then click the Windows key on your keyboard you will see Computer in the right column, click this and then double click on the hard drive icon labelled system (C:). In the folders you should see one called Legacy, if not double click the Program Files folder and see if it is there. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:36:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, Sorry to be so vague, maybe it is because I don't know what I am doing! When I installed Legacy 7 on my Vista laptop, I used my Legacy 7 Disk. I have Legacy Deluxe. On my desktop, I backed up each family file onto a DVD. I just opened each family file and chose Backup Family File. Then I cannot remember what I did, but I got it to Legacy 7 on the laptop only to find there are no notes. I do remember that I went in and made a blank family file for each family. I think I saved each family file to Legacy 7. I did this last week and cannot remember what I did as far as saving or backing up the files to Legacy 7. When I get this done, I am going to combine into just one family file. I do have a new large thumb drive that I can use for Legacy. Should I just start over and use my thumb drive? Thank you very much, Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, ronald ferguson wrote: Janet, Your question is very vague and I wonder if you could be more specific. Windows and Vista operate quite differently and store data in different places. When you installed Legacy7 from the Web on your Vista machine, did you follow the instructions for Legacy? You say: I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD Presumably you mean that on your PC, which is XP, you copied your Legacy 6, but do you mean the Legacy Folder as a whole or just the Data Folder? Again when you say you copied your files onto your Laptop what files do you mean - the whole Legcy folder, or just those in the Data folder - and where did you copy them to, and how did you do it? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:56:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From:
RE: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson
Welcome back!!! I think I'm pretty much doing it as you do. If I have sources/records for a child and I don't know if that child ever got married then I treat him/her as unmarried and use the parents MRIN. If I latter find out the child did marry then any records after the marriage I put with the child's MRIN. However, I have not been going back and re-numbering the child's records from the parents' MRIN to the child's MRIN. I'm a little nervous about how the linking works with Legacy. If you rename a document do you have to go and find all the places in Legacy where it was used and change the name? Or, does Legacy somehow track when we rename a file? Thanks for the feedback and advice, Brian -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of JLB Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson I heard you talking about me so I resubscribed. I got a new job so I've been away from this for what seems like months and I'm a bit rusty. I put all documents for unmarried children with their parents. For children who marry I put all their documents, including childhood ones, under their own MRIN. Anything that's an individual record like a birth certificate, but not the census records that would be filed under one of the parents. Maybe this is the wrong way to do it? If a person remarries, obviously they would have a second MRIN and all documents pertaining to the marriage and events after the marriage go there. So apparently there's a difference in our methods but I don't know if it matters. What happens with children where they might have been married but I don't have that information yet? Well, for starters I regard them as unmarried and all their information goes with the parents. If later I find out they were married, I have to move some things. At least I don't have to go far to find them. I used to put MRIN's in the Individual Information User ID fields as a kind of backup and also because I could sort the Name List by User ID, i.e. MRIN's. Then I moved them all to the Marriage Information Screen which has also has a box for User ID and all things considered, that one makes more sense, but it doesn't work in the Name List, at least didn't the last I looked. - JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp The information contained in this message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, dissemination or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete the message from your system. Thank you. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
OK, Ron, I will get back as soon as I have done this...doing it now. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: Great. Open the Data folder in C:\Legacy\Data and you should find your .fdb files and your FileName.zip backup files. If not please come back to us. Update Legacy to the latest version, and check that your delux option is enabled (if you haven't already entered your number). Open Legacy and click FileOpen File. Ensure that the Look in box at the top of the Screen says Data. If not use the down arrow at the right hand edge of the box it and select it from the tree on the drop-down screen. Select any of the .fdb files - are the notes present? If not then try FileRestore Family File and select one of the zip files. Wnen asked give it a new name to avoid overwriting the original fdb file. Are the notes present now? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:46:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, The Legacy folder is in C:\ On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: OK Janet, let's take this slowly. The first thing which I would like you to check is the location where you have Legacy7 installed on your laptop. It is possible that Vista installed it in the Program files, and if so it will not work properly. So would you let me know whether your Legacy folder is in C:\ or C:\Program Files\. If you do not know how to do this in Vista then click the Windows key on your keyboard you will see Computer in the right column, click this and then double click on the hard drive icon labelled system (C:). In the folders you should see one called Legacy, if not double click the Program Files folder and see if it is there. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:36:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, Sorry to be so vague, maybe it is because I don't know what I am doing! When I installed Legacy 7 on my Vista laptop, I used my Legacy 7 Disk. I have Legacy Deluxe. On my desktop, I backed up each family file onto a DVD. I just opened each family file and chose Backup Family File. Then I cannot remember what I did, but I got it to Legacy 7 on the laptop only to find there are no notes. I do remember that I went in and made a blank family file for each family. I think I saved each family file to Legacy 7. I did this last week and cannot remember what I did as far as saving or backing up the files to Legacy 7. When I get this done, I am going to combine into just one family file. I do have a new large thumb drive that I can use for Legacy. Should I just start over and use my thumb drive? Thank you very much, Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, ronald ferguson wrote: Janet, Your question is very vague and I wonder if you could be more specific. Windows and Vista operate quite differently and store data in different places. When you installed Legacy7 from the Web on your Vista machine, did you follow the instructions for Legacy? You say: I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD Presumably you mean that on your PC, which is XP, you copied your Legacy 6, but do you mean the Legacy Folder as a whole or just the Data Folder? Again when you say you copied your files onto your Laptop what files do you mean - the whole Legcy folder, or just those in the Data folder - and where did you copy them to, and how did you do it? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See:
Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
Ron, it is not there There are 3 things there: SAMPLE 4/3/2009 1:51 PM Legacy Genealogy 3072 KB SAMPLE.REL 4/14/2008 2:42 PM REL File 188 kb SAMPLE.TC 4/3/2009 1:51 PM TC File 1 KB Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Janet Lee jlee882...@gmail.com wrote: OK, Ron, I will get back as soon as I have done this...doing it now. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: Great. Open the Data folder in C:\Legacy\Data and you should find your .fdb files and your FileName.zip backup files. If not please come back to us. Update Legacy to the latest version, and check that your delux option is enabled (if you haven't already entered your number). Open Legacy and click FileOpen File. Ensure that the Look in box at the top of the Screen says Data. If not use the down arrow at the right hand edge of the box it and select it from the tree on the drop-down screen. Select any of the .fdb files - are the notes present? If not then try FileRestore Family File and select one of the zip files. Wnen asked give it a new name to avoid overwriting the original fdb file. Are the notes present now? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:46:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, The Legacy folder is in C:\ On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: OK Janet, let's take this slowly. The first thing which I would like you to check is the location where you have Legacy7 installed on your laptop. It is possible that Vista installed it in the Program files, and if so it will not work properly. So would you let me know whether your Legacy folder is in C:\ or C:\Program Files\. If you do not know how to do this in Vista then click the Windows key on your keyboard you will see Computer in the right column, click this and then double click on the hard drive icon labelled system (C:). In the folders you should see one called Legacy, if not double click the Program Files folder and see if it is there. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:36:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, Sorry to be so vague, maybe it is because I don't know what I am doing! When I installed Legacy 7 on my Vista laptop, I used my Legacy 7 Disk. I have Legacy Deluxe. On my desktop, I backed up each family file onto a DVD. I just opened each family file and chose Backup Family File. Then I cannot remember what I did, but I got it to Legacy 7 on the laptop only to find there are no notes. I do remember that I went in and made a blank family file for each family. I think I saved each family file to Legacy 7. I did this last week and cannot remember what I did as far as saving or backing up the files to Legacy 7. When I get this done, I am going to combine into just one family file. I do have a new large thumb drive that I can use for Legacy. Should I just start over and use my thumb drive? Thank you very much, Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, ronald ferguson wrote: Janet, Your question is very vague and I wonder if you could be more specific. Windows and Vista operate quite differently and store data in different places. When you installed Legacy7 from the Web on your Vista machine, did you follow the instructions for Legacy? You say: I did a backup on my desktop with XP and Legacy 6 with all of my family files on a DVD Presumably you mean that on your PC, which is XP, you copied your Legacy 6, but do you mean the Legacy Folder as a whole or just the Data Folder? Again when you say you copied your files onto your Laptop what files do you mean - the whole Legcy folder, or just those in the Data folder - and where did you copy them to, and how did you do it? Ron Ferguson
Re: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson
If you do the rename in the Picture Center within Legacy, all links to that file should be updated. If you do the rename outside of Legacy, you would need to relink every occurrence. Hope this helps. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Brian Beddor bbed...@japsolson.com wrote: Welcome back!!! I think I'm pretty much doing it as you do. If I have sources/records for a child and I don't know if that child ever got married then I treat him/her as unmarried and use the parents MRIN. If I latter find out the child did marry then any records after the marriage I put with the child's MRIN. However, I have not been going back and re-numbering the child's records from the parents' MRIN to the child's MRIN. I'm a little nervous about how the linking works with Legacy. If you rename a document do you have to go and find all the places in Legacy where it was used and change the name? Or, does Legacy somehow track when we rename a file? Thanks for the feedback and advice, Brian -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of JLB Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson I heard you talking about me so I resubscribed. I got a new job so I've been away from this for what seems like months and I'm a bit rusty. I put all documents for unmarried children with their parents. For children who marry I put all their documents, including childhood ones, under their own MRIN. Anything that's an individual record like a birth certificate, but not the census records that would be filed under one of the parents. Maybe this is the wrong way to do it? If a person remarries, obviously they would have a second MRIN and all documents pertaining to the marriage and events after the marriage go there. So apparently there's a difference in our methods but I don't know if it matters. What happens with children where they might have been married but I don't have that information yet? Well, for starters I regard them as unmarried and all their information goes with the parents. If later I find out they were married, I have to move some things. At least I don't have to go far to find them. I used to put MRIN's in the Individual Information User ID fields as a kind of backup and also because I could sort the Name List by User ID, i.e. MRIN's. Then I moved them all to the Marriage Information Screen which has also has a box for User ID and all things considered, that one makes more sense, but it doesn't work in the Name List, at least didn't the last I looked. - JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp The information contained in this message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, dissemination or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete the message from your system. Thank you. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] order of names
In what I viewed as trying to be helpful I fired off a quick note to an Ancestry.com poster to let her know that she had reversed portions of my cousins name. Below is part of her response: The order of the names has to do with the Ancestry suggestion that runs throughout my extensive trees and is common in the US. The important for genealogy reasons maiden name is placed at the end and any married last names placed after the first name. Has anyone ever heard of this?
RE: [LegacyUG] order of names
No, and please don't export it :-) Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:33:58 -0400 Subject: [LegacyUG] order of names From: ceddaco...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com In what I viewed as trying to be helpful I fired off a quick note to an Ancestry.com poster to let her know that she had reversed portions of my cousins name. Below is part of her response: The order of the names has to do with the Ancestry suggestion that runs throughout my extensive trees and is common in the US. The important for genealogy reasons maiden name is placed at the end and any married last names placed after the first name. Has anyone ever heard of this? _ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] order of names
Randolph, please give an example, because I am not sure that I understand what you are saying. A woman¹s maiden name is Susan Jane Jones. She marries a man whose last name is Smith. So she should, in my view, be referred to as Susan Jane Jones most of the time, but sometimes by her married name of Susan Jane (Jones) Smith. Janis On 4/20/09 5:33 PM, Randolph Clark ceddaco...@gmail.com wrote: In what I viewed as trying to be helpful I fired off a quick note to an Ancestry.com poster to let her know that she had reversed portions of my cousins name. Below is part of her response: The order of the names has to do with the Ancestry suggestion that runs throughout my extensive trees and is common in the US. The important for genealogy reasons maiden name is placed at the end and any married last names placed after the first name. Has anyone ever heard of this? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson
Now you're making me think! I keep all my source documents in one folder called Source Library so I don't have to work so hard wondering where they are. If they're scattered all over your computer it's the same process. Renaming linked files can be a challenge but fortunately alot of genealogists are Virgos so if you're so blessed the agonizing detail of this will be right up your alley. After re-naming a file in the Picture Center, it automatically updates the link to the re-named file, but the Source Detail File ID stays as the original name. This is a major pain to deal with because your numbering will be off all the way through and you will have to go through them one by one updating. If you're very careful, you can use Search Replace for this. Make sure you're very organized before you begin. Go down to Citation-File ID and then put in your Find What and Replacement Text. eg. 0593-04 going to 0593-07. If you re-name files outside of the Picture Center, which you will be forced to do with pdf's and other text documents (because they don't show up in the Picture Center list) they will become unlinked for sure. After you've unlinked a file or a thousand of them, you go to Options/Customize/Location/Test All Multimedia Paths. Untick the two boxes up top, and click on Proceed. It goes through the list of unlinked files one by one and on each one you browse to the new file and link it up again. It's a tedious process but it could be worse. If there are shortcuts for this I'm sure someone will jump in and tell us. - JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog Brian Beddor wrote: Welcome back!!! I think I'm pretty much doing it as you do. If I have sources/records for a child and I don't know if that child ever got married then I treat him/her as unmarried and use the parents MRIN. If I latter find out the child did marry then any records after the marriage I put with the child's MRIN. However, I have not been going back and re-numbering the child's records from the parents' MRIN to the child's MRIN. I'm a little nervous about how the linking works with Legacy. If you rename a document do you have to go and find all the places in Legacy where it was used and change the name? Or, does Legacy somehow track when we rename a file? Thanks for the feedback and advice, Brian -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of JLB Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson I heard you talking about me so I resubscribed. I got a new job so I've been away from this for what seems like months and I'm a bit rusty. I put all documents for unmarried children with their parents. For children who marry I put all their documents, including childhood ones, under their own MRIN. Anything that's an individual record like a birth certificate, but not the census records that would be filed under one of the parents. Maybe this is the wrong way to do it? If a person remarries, obviously they would have a second MRIN and all documents pertaining to the marriage and events after the marriage go there. So apparently there's a difference in our methods but I don't know if it matters. What happens with children where they might have been married but I don't have that information yet? Well, for starters I regard them as unmarried and all their information goes with the parents. If later I find out they were married, I have to move some things. At least I don't have to go far to find them. I used to put MRIN's in the Individual Information User ID fields as a kind of backup and also because I could sort the Name List by User ID, i.e. MRIN's. Then I moved them all to the Marriage Information Screen which has also has a box for User ID and all things considered, that one makes more sense, but it doesn't work in the Name List, at least didn't the last I looked. - JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp The information contained in this message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, dissemination or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete the message from your system. Thank you. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To
Re: [LegacyUG] order of names
Janis L Gilmore wrote: Randolph, please give an example, because I am not sure that I understand what you are saying. A woman’s maiden name is Susan Jane Jones. She marries a man whose last name is Smith. So she should, in my view, be referred to as Susan Jane Jones most of the time, but sometimes by her married name of Susan Jane (Jones) Smith. That's what Ron was trying to say - promulgate this so-called standard and add to the confusion. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
OK Janet, You said that you have your original files on DVD. You need to insert the DVD into the slot on the laptop and the content folders should be displayed. Open the Data Folder Click the Windows key on your keyboard, then open Drive C, Legacy, and Data, as before. Arrange the two screens so that they overlap horizontally and hold down the ctrl key whilst selecting all the files in the DVD Data Folder with a .fdb and .zip extension. Continue to hold down the cursor when the last one has been selected and drag the selected files to the Data Folder in the Vista Legacy Data File. They should stick - if not repeat until they do :-) Open Legacy and try and open as previously described. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:38:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, it is not there There are 3 things there: SAMPLE 4/3/2009 1:51 PM Legacy Genealogy 3072 KB SAMPLE.REL 4/14/2008 2:42 PM REL File 188 kb SAMPLE.TC 4/3/2009 1:51 PM TC File 1 KB Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Janet Lee wrote: OK, Ron, I will get back as soon as I have done this...doing it now. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: Great. Open the Data folder in C:\Legacy\Data and you should find your .fdb files and your FileName.zip backup files. If not please come back to us. Update Legacy to the latest version, and check that your delux option is enabled (if you haven't already entered your number). Open Legacy and click FileOpen File. Ensure that the Look in box at the top of the Screen says Data. If not use the down arrow at the right hand edge of the box it and select it from the tree on the drop-down screen. Select any of the .fdb files - are the notes present? If not then try FileRestore Family File and select one of the zip files. Wnen asked give it a new name to avoid overwriting the original fdb file. Are the notes present now? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:46:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, The Legacy folder is in C:\ On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: OK Janet, let's take this slowly. The first thing which I would like you to check is the location where you have Legacy7 installed on your laptop. It is possible that Vista installed it in the Program files, and if so it will not work properly. So would you let me know whether your Legacy folder is in C:\ or C:\Program Files\. If you do not know how to do this in Vista then click the Windows key on your keyboard you will see Computer in the right column, click this and then double click on the hard drive icon labelled system (C:). In the folders you should see one called Legacy, if not double click the Program Files folder and see if it is there. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:36:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, Sorry to be so vague, maybe it is because I don't know what I am doing! When I installed Legacy 7 on my Vista laptop, I used my Legacy 7 Disk. I have Legacy Deluxe. On my desktop, I backed up each family file onto a DVD. I just opened each family file and chose Backup Family File. Then I cannot remember what I did, but I got it to Legacy 7 on the laptop only to find there are no notes. I do remember that I went in and made a blank family file for each family. I think I
Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
Thank you Ron, Will do On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:36 PM, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: OK Janet, You said that you have your original files on DVD. You need to insert the DVD into the slot on the laptop and the content folders should be displayed. Open the Data Folder Click the Windows key on your keyboard, then open Drive C, Legacy, and Data, as before. Arrange the two screens so that they overlap horizontally and hold down the ctrl key whilst selecting all the files in the DVD Data Folder with a .fdb and .zip extension. Continue to hold down the cursor when the last one has been selected and drag the selected files to the Data Folder in the Vista Legacy Data File. They should stick - if not repeat until they do :-) Open Legacy and try and open as previously described. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:38:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, it is not there There are 3 things there: SAMPLE 4/3/2009 1:51 PM Legacy Genealogy 3072 KB SAMPLE.REL 4/14/2008 2:42 PM REL File 188 kb SAMPLE.TC http://sample.tc/ 4/3/2009 1:51 PM TC File 1 KB Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Janet Lee wrote: OK, Ron, I will get back as soon as I have done this...doing it now. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: Great. Open the Data folder in C:\Legacy\Data and you should find your .fdb files and your FileName.zip backup files. If not please come back to us. Update Legacy to the latest version, and check that your delux option is enabled (if you haven't already entered your number). Open Legacy and click FileOpen File. Ensure that the Look in box at the top of the Screen says Data. If not use the down arrow at the right hand edge of the box it and select it from the tree on the drop-down screen. Select any of the .fdb files - are the notes present? If not then try FileRestore Family File and select one of the zip files. Wnen asked give it a new name to avoid overwriting the original fdb file. Are the notes present now? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:46:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, The Legacy folder is in C:\ On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: OK Janet, let's take this slowly. The first thing which I would like you to check is the location where you have Legacy7 installed on your laptop. It is possible that Vista installed it in the Program files, and if so it will not work properly. So would you let me know whether your Legacy folder is in C:\ or C:\Program Files\. If you do not know how to do this in Vista then click the Windows key on your keyboard you will see Computer in the right column, click this and then double click on the hard drive icon labelled system (C:). In the folders you should see one called Legacy, if not double click the Program Files folder and see if it is there. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:36:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, Sorry to be so vague, maybe it is because I don't know what I am doing! When I installed Legacy 7 on my Vista laptop, I used my Legacy 7 Disk. I have Legacy Deluxe. On my desktop, I backed up each family file onto a
Re: [LegacyUG] order of names
To me Janis is doing what the standard is; the name of the woman, if the married and maiden name are used, is first name (maiden name) married name. But what Randolph was being told is that the order is first name, married name, maiden name. That is very strange indeed and I would not want it imported, imported or exchanged! Howland Davis From: Janis L Gilmore rajan...@earthlink.net Randolph, please give an example, because I am not sure that I understand what you are saying. A woman’s maiden name is Susan Jane Jones. She marries a man whose last name is Smith. So she should, in my view, be referred to as Susan Jane Jones most of the time, but sometimes by her married name of Susan Jane (Jones) Smith. Janis On 4/20/09 5:33 PM, Randolph Clark ceddaco...@gmail.com wrote: The important for genealogy reasons maiden name is placed at the end and any married last names placed after the first name. Has anyone ever heard of this? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] order of names
I've only seen the maiden name follow the maried name when it is expressed thusly: Mrs. Mary Jane Williams-Smythe (nee Hawley-Silverston), wife since 2007 of George Percy Williams-Smythe, gave birth to a son, Percy Hawley, on 21 April, 2006. I much perfer that to Mrs. Mary Jane (Hawley-Silverston) Williams-Smythe. - Original Message - From: Randolph Clark ceddaco...@gmail.com To: legacyusergroup LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 4:33:58 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [LegacyUG] order of names In what I viewed as trying to be helpful I fired off a quick note to an Ancestry.com poster to let her know that she had reversed portions of my cousins name. Below is part of her response: The order of the names has to do with the Ancestry suggestion that runs throughout my extensive trees and is common in the US. The important for genealogy reasons maiden name is placed at the end and any married last names placed after the first name. Has anyone ever heard of this? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
Ron, I opened the DVD and there are compressed files there only, zip files. Now I remember, I made a Gedcome of my Legacy 6 on the desktop and that is how I got it into Legacy 7 on the laptop. Do you still want me to do what you suggested below? I think the .fbd files are on the gedcom and the zip files are on the DVD. Both are DVD's. I can insert one and then insert the other one? Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:36 PM, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: OK Janet, You said that you have your original files on DVD. You need to insert the DVD into the slot on the laptop and the content folders should be displayed. Open the Data Folder Click the Windows key on your keyboard, then open Drive C, Legacy, and Data, as before. Arrange the two screens so that they overlap horizontally and hold down the ctrl key whilst selecting all the files in the DVD Data Folder with a .fdb and .zip extension. Continue to hold down the cursor when the last one has been selected and drag the selected files to the Data Folder in the Vista Legacy Data File. They should stick - if not repeat until they do :-) Open Legacy and try and open as previously described. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:38:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, it is not there There are 3 things there: SAMPLE 4/3/2009 1:51 PM Legacy Genealogy 3072 KB SAMPLE.REL 4/14/2008 2:42 PM REL File 188 kb SAMPLE.TC http://sample.tc/ 4/3/2009 1:51 PM TC File 1 KB Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Janet Lee wrote: OK, Ron, I will get back as soon as I have done this...doing it now. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: Great. Open the Data folder in C:\Legacy\Data and you should find your .fdb files and your FileName.zip backup files. If not please come back to us. Update Legacy to the latest version, and check that your delux option is enabled (if you haven't already entered your number). Open Legacy and click FileOpen File. Ensure that the Look in box at the top of the Screen says Data. If not use the down arrow at the right hand edge of the box it and select it from the tree on the drop-down screen. Select any of the .fdb files - are the notes present? If not then try FileRestore Family File and select one of the zip files. Wnen asked give it a new name to avoid overwriting the original fdb file. Are the notes present now? Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:46:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, The Legacy folder is in C:\ On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: OK Janet, let's take this slowly. The first thing which I would like you to check is the location where you have Legacy7 installed on your laptop. It is possible that Vista installed it in the Program files, and if so it will not work properly. So would you let me know whether your Legacy folder is in C:\ or C:\Program Files\. If you do not know how to do this in Vista then click the Windows key on your keyboard you will see Computer in the right column, click this and then double click on the hard drive icon labelled system (C:). In the folders you should see one called Legacy, if not double click the Program Files folder and see if it is there. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:36:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer
RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
Janet, It's bed time here now, well, 2-15am.; I will be turning in after I send this! So I will try and give you the options. You have a confusion between a Gedcom and .fdb file, nor have you said how you got a Gedcom into the Laptop - if it is not on the DVD then how was it done? If it was a Gedcom then this could well be how you lost the notes. There are two main ways you can get the files onto your Laptop, either via a CD/DVD or USB stick. You say that the DVD only has zip files on it, but do don't the file names mean anything to you ie Filename.zip? You should be able to tell if they are your Legacy backup from the file name. If you have more than one then can you tell which is the latest? Did you have more than one family file? One way of telling the latest is to put the DVD into The Laptop drive and right click on each file, select properties and look at the date. To see what is in it you could right click on it and Extract to a convenient folder (just creat one somewhere and delete it when you've finished) If you have only used Legacy to put the files onto the DVD then they must be back up files. and you need to drag the latest into the Legacy Data Folder on your laptop and use FileFile restore, as previously described to open it in Legacy. If you still have Legacy running on your PC then as a last resort you could create a backup(s) of your family files, giving it a name which is clear, copy this .zip file to a CD/DVD/USB and drag that into the C:\Legacy\Data folder on your laptop. I would not consider using a Gedcom. I hope that will get you going. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:03:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, I opened the DVD and there are compressed files there only, zip files. Now I remember, I made a Gedcome of my Legacy 6 on the desktop and that is how I got it into Legacy 7 on the laptop. Do you still want me to do what you suggested below? I think the .fbd files are on the gedcom and the zip files are on the DVD. Both are DVD's. I can insert one and then insert the other one? Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:36 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: OK Janet, You said that you have your original files on DVD. You need to insert the DVD into the slot on the laptop and the content folders should be displayed. Open the Data Folder Click the Windows key on your keyboard, then open Drive C, Legacy, and Data, as before. Arrange the two screens so that they overlap horizontally and hold down the ctrl key whilst selecting all the files in the DVD Data Folder with a .fdb and .zip extension. Continue to hold down the cursor when the last one has been selected and drag the selected files to the Data Folder in the Vista Legacy Data File. They should stick - if not repeat until they do :-) Open Legacy and try and open as previously described. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:38:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, it is not there There are 3 things there: SAMPLE 4/3/2009 1:51 PM Legacy Genealogy 3072 KB SAMPLE.REL 4/14/2008 2:42 PM REL File 188 kb SAMPLE.TC 4/3/2009 1:51 PM TC File 1 KB Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Janet Lee wrote: OK, Ron, I will get back as soon as I have done this...doing it now. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: Great. Open the Data folder in C:\Legacy\Data and you should find your .fdb files and your FileName.zip backup files. If not please come back to us. Update Legacy to the latest version, and check that your delux option is enabled (if you haven't already entered your number). Open Legacy and click FileOpen File. Ensure that the Look in box at the top of the Screen says Data. If not use the down arrow at the right hand edge of the box it and select it from the tree on the drop-down screen. Select any of the .fdb files - are the notes
Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer?
Ron, Thank you for your help, I know you must think I am really dumb about this, and actually, I am. It is late here also and I will be out of town all day tomorrow. It will be Wednesday afternoon before I can do anything with Legacy. I do thank you for being so tolerant, maybe we will get this done eventually! Thank you, Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:44 PM, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com wrote: Janet, It's bed time here now, well, 2-15am.; I will be turning in after I send this! So I will try and give you the options. You have a confusion between a Gedcom and .fdb file, nor have you said how you got a Gedcom into the Laptop - if it is not on the DVD then how was it done? If it was a Gedcom then this could well be how you lost the notes. There are two main ways you can get the files onto your Laptop, either via a CD/DVD or USB stick. You say that the DVD only has zip files on it, but do don't the file names mean anything to you ie Filename.zip? You should be able to tell if they are your Legacy backup from the file name. If you have more than one then can you tell which is the latest? Did you have more than one family file? One way of telling the latest is to put the DVD into The Laptop drive and right click on each file, select properties and look at the date. To see what is in it you could right click on it and Extract to a convenient folder (just creat one somewhere and delete it when you've finished) If you have only used Legacy to put the files onto the DVD then they must be back up files. and you need to drag the latest into the Legacy Data Folder on your laptop and use FileFile restore, as previously described to open it in Legacy. If you still have Legacy running on your PC then as a last resort you could create a backup(s) of your family files, giving it a name which is clear, copy this .zip file to a CD/DVD/USB and drag that into the C:\Legacy\Data folder on your laptop. I would not consider using a Gedcom. I hope that will get you going. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:03:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, I opened the DVD and there are compressed files there only, zip files. Now I remember, I made a Gedcome of my Legacy 6 on the desktop and that is how I got it into Legacy 7 on the laptop. Do you still want me to do what you suggested below? I think the .fbd files are on the gedcom and the zip files are on the DVD. Both are DVD's. I can insert one and then insert the other one? Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:36 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: OK Janet, You said that you have your original files on DVD. You need to insert the DVD into the slot on the laptop and the content folders should be displayed. Open the Data Folder Click the Windows key on your keyboard, then open Drive C, Legacy, and Data, as before. Arrange the two screens so that they overlap horizontally and hold down the ctrl key whilst selecting all the files in the DVD Data Folder with a .fdb and .zip extension. Continue to hold down the cursor when the last one has been selected and drag the selected files to the Data Folder in the Vista Legacy Data File. They should stick - if not repeat until they do :-) Open Legacy and try and open as previously described. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:38:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer Legacy files to reformatted computer? From: jlee882...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Ron, it is not there There are 3 things there: SAMPLE 4/3/2009 1:51 PM Legacy Genealogy 3072 KB SAMPLE.REL 4/14/2008 2:42 PM REL File 188 kb SAMPLE.TC http://sample.tc/ 4/3/2009 1:51 PM TC File 1 KB Janet On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Janet Lee wrote: OK, Ron, I will get back as soon as I have done this...doing it now. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: Great. Open the Data folder in
