RE: [LegacyUG] Export to GED, Import Ged back to Legacy. Drawbacks?
Richard, I realised shortly after I had replied that that was probably the reason for you wishing to roll back. It is something which, like you, I would be loathe to do, especially since it means going the Gedcom route. I'm afraid that I have always had doubts about the abililty of Gedcoms to accurately transfer all the data - but no real proof. On my laptop I have another, lightweight, genealogy program onto which I transfer my data using a Gedcom, whenever I am going away, and I know that the transfer is incomplete, especially with respect to sources. OK, this is probably due to the other program, and Legacy to Legacy will be much more accurate, but...?? 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: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:22:42 -0700 > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Export to GED, Import Ged back to Legacy. Drawbacks? > From: rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > > I'm not presently interested in reports but want to consolidate > sources. In version 7.0.0.55 we could merge basic into source writer > sources. Everyhing in Multimedia and Text/Comments transferred and > Recorded Date under Detail Information also transferred. All the new > fields under Detail Information need to be filled in of course. > You'll recall I was unable to merge 2 identical source writer sources > last week until you provided a finagling trick. > I now have one computer on version 7.0.0.40 to merge sources but then > I have to import to the other computer and merge individuals. Big > hassle there. > I know there are more serious losses going through GEDcom than the 2 I > listed but I can't recall what they are. > > -- > Richard Van Wasshnova > http://www.gencircles.com/users/vanwasshnova > http://gw.geneanet.org/vanwasshnova > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:53 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: >> >> Rich, >> >> I cannot add to your list, but why (apart from the fact that you have a CD) >> are you considering rolling back to 7.0.0.40 with all its bugs, particularly >> with respect to reports. >> >> >> >> Ron Ferguson >> >> _ Beyond Hotmail — see what else you can do with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665375/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] Travelling with Legacy
Brian/Support wrote: You cannot put the program on a flash drive, it needs files that have to be in the Windows system folders to work correctly. You could put your data file on a flash drive but you would have to find a computer with Legacy already installed to be able to access the file. If there is an LDS Family History Center in the area you could contact them to see if they have Legacy installed on their computers. We provide free copies to Family History Centers but not all of them have taken us up on the offer. Some memory sticks here, come with U3 software pre-installed on them. Although I don't use it, the software is supposed to be able let you put an installation package on the stick that will be installed on which ever machine you plug the stick into. Not quite the same as a truly portable application that can run from the stick, but a useful adjunct provided that you remember to remove the installed software once you leave the macine. -- 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] Travelling with Legacy
> Some memory sticks here, come with U3 software pre-installed on > them. Although I don't use it, the software is supposed to be able > let you put an installation package on the stick that will be > installed on which ever machine you plug the stick into. Sorry Mike but U3 only works with what are called Portable Apps they only work directly of the memory stick and don't put anything on the host computer. -- Regards, Laurence E Stephenson http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/lauries/web/index.html I am Researching:- Butcher..Stroud, Gloucestershire, England Buttigieg.Tripoli, Libya Fortune..Berwickshire, Scotland Garlick...Liverpool, Lancashire, England Mee...Kilflyn, Limerick, Ireland (Palatine) PayneWashingborough, Lincolnshire, England Ritchie...Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, Scotland StephensonPickering, Yorkshire, England Wittick.. ...(Convict) Walsall, Staffordshire, England 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] Export to GED, Import Ged back to Legacy. Drawbacks?
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:22:42 -0700, Richard Van Wasshnova wrote: >I know there are more serious losses going through GEDcom than the 2 I >listed but I can't recall what they are. Look at the thread "Exporting to a new Family File" from the beginning of March. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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] Travelling with Legacy
Gayle, If all you need is to have your Legacy data available for referance use GRAMPS Portable at http://portableapps.com/node/18728 . Install GRAMPS on a USB drive then export Legacy file to GEDCOM and import into GRAMPS. I have done this without a problem. I do not recomend making changes in Gramps then try to merge back to Legacy but at least you should have your data as reference. Also GRAMPS is by no means a replacement for Legacy just a way of making the data portable. G.C. Oliver Athens, Ga. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Gayle Mann wrote: > I am planning a research trip and would like to have my Legacy information > with me but I will not be able to take a laptop. Is it possible to put the > program and my information on a USB port and use it on someone else's > computer? > > Gayle Mann > > 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] Travelling with Legacy
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:53:01 -0400, Grover Oliver wrote: >If all you need is to have your Legacy data available for referance >use GRAMPS Portable at http://portableapps.com/node/18728 . > >Install GRAMPS on a USB drive then export Legacy file to GEDCOM and >import into GRAMPS. I have done this without a problem. > >I do not recomend making changes in Gramps then try to merge back to >Legacy but at least you should have your data as reference. >Also GRAMPS is by no means a replacement for Legacy just a way of >making the data portable. GENViewer can also generate a self-viewing GEDCOM. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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] Travelling with Legacy
I believe Gramps is a Linux application, not a Windows application which most Legacy users are. Am I wrong? Jeff - Original Message - From: "Grover Oliver" To: Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Travelling with Legacy Gayle, If all you need is to have your Legacy data available for referance use GRAMPS Portable at http://portableapps.com/node/18728 . Install GRAMPS on a USB drive then export Legacy file to GEDCOM and import into GRAMPS. I have done this without a problem. I do not recomend making changes in Gramps then try to merge back to Legacy but at least you should have your data as reference. Also GRAMPS is by no means a replacement for Legacy just a way of making the data portable. G.C. Oliver Athens, Ga. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Gayle Mann wrote: I am planning a research trip and would like to have my Legacy information with me but I will not be able to take a laptop. Is it possible to put the program and my information on a USB port and use it on someone else's computer? Gayle Mann 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 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] Travelling with Legacy
Aha! I will try it too. Jeff - Original Message - From: "Gene Young" To: Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Travelling with Legacy jeffma...@orthohelp.com wrote: I believe Gramps is a Linux application, not a Windows application which most Legacy users are. Am I wrong? Jeff Yes. Portable Gramps is for the portable apps suite of applications that run on windows. I have not yet had the opportunity to try it but am in the process of loading it now. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ 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] Travelling with Legacy
I have GRAMPS portable installed in a seperate folder on a Sandisk USB drive with U3 . It does not need Portable Apps suite or U3. You have to go into the folder to start it using the .exe but it works OK. G.C. Oliver On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Gene Young wrote: > jeffma...@orthohelp.com wrote: >> >> I believe Gramps is a Linux application, not a Windows application which >> most Legacy users are. >> >> Am I wrong? >> >> Jeff > > > Yes.. > > Portable Gramps is for the portable apps suite of applications that run on > windows. I have not yet had the opportunity to try it but am in the process > of loading it now. > > -- > Gene Y. > n2kvs > Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with > Legacy Family Tree > http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ > > > > 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] Travelling with Legacy
jeffma...@orthohelp.com wrote: I believe Gramps is a Linux application, not a Windows application which most Legacy users are. Am I wrong? Jeff Yes. Portable Gramps is for the portable apps suite of applications that run on windows. I have not yet had the opportunity to try it but am in the process of loading it now. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ 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] Travelling with Legacy
Gayle wrote: >I am planning a research trip and would like to have my Legacy information >with me but I will not be able to take a laptop. Is it possible to put the >program and my information on a USB port and use it on someone else's computer? You might consider using Legacy to create one or more websites with all your information. You could upload the site to the Internet and access it from any computer that has a browser. Rootsweb has free accounts if you don't have your own site somewhere else. Or you could put the folder of website files on a USB flash drive and access that from a browser on any computer with a USB port. I find it useful to make and save several websites of different types (ancestor, descendant, etc), starting with different people. Depending on the type of research you are doing, one or another of these sites will be more convenient to use. At the top level of Legacy, click the Internet tab, then click "Create Web Pages" and follow the instructions. The built-in Help document is indeed helpful. You wouldn't be able to add to or change your information. But at least you could view it all, and make notes for entry into Legacy when you get back home. /daveDave Damouth mailto:d...@damouth.com www.damouth.com 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] Travelling with Legacy
Grover Oliver wrote: I have GRAMPS portable installed in a seperate folder on a Sandisk USB drive with U3 . It does not need Portable Apps suite or U3. You have to go into the folder to start it using the .exe but it works OK. G.C. Oliver Actually all of the portable apps will run as standalone program. They can even be run from your computer's hard drive, although that defeats the purpose of a portable app. I just like the convenience of using the Portable apps interface because of the convenience of starting any of the programs I have loaded. Also, I have contacted Mojo Pac about getting Legacy to run with their program. That would be even better! -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ 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] Travelling with Legacy
I just installed it and imported a gedcom. It works but is excruciatingly slow. Not too practical from my point of view. Jeff Grover Oliver wrote: I have GRAMPS portable installed in a seperate folder on a Sandisk USB drive with U3 . It does not need Portable Apps suite or U3. You have to go into the folder to start it using the .exe but it works OK. G.C. Oliver On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Gene Young wrote: jeffma...@orthohelp.com wrote: I believe Gramps is a Linux application, not a Windows application which most Legacy users are. Am I wrong? Jeff Yes.. Portable Gramps is for the portable apps suite of applications that run on windows. I have not yet had the opportunity to try it but am in the process of loading it now. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ 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 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] Travelling with Legacy
I agree that it is painfully slow to start up but when it finally decides to get going I did not have a problem. G.C. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM, jeffma...@orthohelp.com wrote: > I just installed it and imported a gedcom. It works but is excruciatingly > slow. Not too practical from my point of view. > > Jeff > > Grover Oliver wrote: >> >> I have GRAMPS portable installed in a seperate folder on a Sandisk USB >> drive with U3 . It does not need Portable Apps suite or U3. You have >> to go into the folder to start it using the .exe but it works OK. >> G.C. Oliver >> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Gene Young wrote: >>> >>> jeffma...@orthohelp.com wrote: I believe Gramps is a Linux application, not a Windows application which most Legacy users are. Am I wrong? Jeff >>> >>> >>> Yes.. >>> >>> Portable Gramps is for the portable apps suite of applications that >>> run on windows. I have not yet had the opportunity to try it but am >>> in the process of loading it now. >>> >>> -- >>> Gene Y. >>> n2kvs >>> Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with >>> Legacy Family Tree >>> http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 > > > > > 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] Export to GED, Import Ged back to Legacy. Drawbacks?
I reread that thread and found nothing. I'm sure if I tried the procedure I would discover somethig lost but it would take 3 months before I discover what it is. -- Richard Van Wasshnova http://www.gencircles.com/users/vanwasshnova http://gw.geneanet.org/vanwasshnova = On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:22:42 -0700, Richard Van Wasshnova > wrote: > >>I know there are more serious losses going through GEDcom than the 2 I >>listed but I can't recall what they are. > > Look at the thread "Exporting to a new Family File" from the beginning > of March. > > -- > > Dennis Kowallek (LTools) > http://zippersoftware.com/ltools > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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] Export to GED, Import Ged back to Legacy. Drawbacks?
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:12:48 -0700, Richard Van Wasshnova wrote: >I reread that thread and found nothing. I'm sure if I tried the >procedure I would discover somethig lost but it would take 3 months >before I discover what it is. I think there was mention of Tag names and Focus Groups being lost. At the very least you know the name of the person who tried it (Mary Young) and you can contact them directly. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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
[LegacyUG] floater
Found a person totally unlinked to anybody. Tried to link him to who I thought was his brother and got message "he's already part of this family" same with the brother--no parents showing.
[LegacyUG] Sorting AKAs
Whenever I have 2 or more AKAs for an individual I strongly wish they were in chronological order. If I start with baptism name and source it, then as a 5 yr old in census the second entry goes on top. I would really like to see a date for each AKA AND the Up/Down arrow to manually shift position to see how a name evolves with time. It looks like they could be re-ordered from Access tblNX on an individual basis but you would first need to check each source date to determine preferred order. Does anyone else agreethis would be a valuable enhancement? -- Richard Van Wasshnova http://www.gencircles.com/users/vanwasshnova http://gw.geneanet.org/vanwasshnova 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] Sorting AKAs
Richard, It is something which irritates me also, although I would not give it a high priority. 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: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:47:47 -0700 > Subject: [LegacyUG] Sorting AKAs > From: rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > > Whenever I have 2 or more AKAs for an individual I strongly wish they > were in chronological order. If I start with baptism name and source > it, then as a 5 yr old in census the second entry goes on top. I would > really like to see a date for each AKA AND the Up/Down arrow to > manually shift position to see how a name evolves with time. > > It looks like they could be re-ordered from Access tblNX on an > individual basis but you would first need to check each source date to > determine preferred order. > > Does anyone else agreethis would be a valuable enhancement? > > -- > Richard Van Wasshnova > http://www.gencircles.com/users/vanwasshnova > http://gw.geneanet.org/vanwasshnova _ 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] Sorting AKAs
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:47:47 -0700, Richard Van Wasshnova wrote: >Whenever I have 2 or more AKAs for an individual I strongly wish they >were in chronological order. If I start with baptism name and source >it, then as a 5 yr old in census the second entry goes on top. I would >really like to see a date for each AKA AND the Up/Down arrow to >manually shift position to see how a name evolves with time. > >It looks like they could be re-ordered from Access tblNX on an >individual basis but you would first need to check each source date to >determine preferred order. > >Does anyone else agreethis would be a valuable enhancement? If I were starting over I would abandon AKAs all together and just put this kind of info in Event/Fact. You can order them, assign dates, make them private, categorize them (misspelling, transcription error, nickname, legal name change, etc.), customize the report sentence ... all the things you can't do with an AKA. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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] Sorting AKAs
One of the main reasons I switched to Legacy many years ago was the facility of its AKAs. The majority of my entries have multiple names, mostly titles by which they were known. It is invaluable that I can list all of these names and find each one almost as easily as main surname. I wish they were also included when adding parents. When researching old records, Visitations, genealogies and the like, any one of many names may be used. It is of incalculable value to be able to go to my Index and find the person whom I list as Humphrey de /Bohun/, 2nd Earl of Essex, but who is referred to in research as Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of /Hereford/, or as Humphrey de Bohun, 1st Earl of /Essex/, and several more. It is also invaluable in creating a list of successive lords, dukes, kings, or whatever, because I can use the place as a surname also (as above). With more recent ancestors, name changes were not always successive, especially because there was no spelling consistency in English until the OED in the late 1880s. Just read some early American wills if you haven't already. And that's just English! When dealing with foreign names, it is marvelous to be able to use Wilhelm, Willem, Guillaume, and William, for example, as well as the mangled English attempts at reproducing foreign surnames. Yes, sometimes, such as when the US Immigration officials decided that my brother-in-law's first name was not a real name, they changed it right there on Ellis Island, it is nice to be able to date the change. Census takers were challenged by the accents of their interviewees and their own lack of knowledge how to spell foreign names. That a name was different on a census was usually a result of such rather than a true name change. My Quin relatives were sometimes correctly listed as Quin, but too often as Quinn, because that's the way the census taker thought it was spelled. There never was any actual name change. Carolyn -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:12 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sorting AKAs On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:47:47 -0700, Richard Van Wasshnova wrote: >Whenever I have 2 or more AKAs for an individual I strongly wish they >were in chronological order. If I start with baptism name and source >it, then as a 5 yr old in census the second entry goes on top. I would >really like to see a date for each AKA AND the Up/Down arrow to >manually shift position to see how a name evolves with time. > >It looks like they could be re-ordered from Access tblNX on an >individual basis but you would first need to check each source date to >determine preferred order. > >Does anyone else agreethis would be a valuable enhancement? If I were starting over I would abandon AKAs all together and just put this kind of info in Event/Fact. You can order them, assign dates, make them private, categorize them (misspelling, transcription error, nickname, legal name change, etc.), customize the report sentence ... all the things you can't do with an AKA. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.58/2061 - Release Date: 04/23/09 19:21:00 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] Export to GED, Import Ged back to Legacy. Drawbacks?
Hi Dennis I wonder whether my Thread "Exporting to a New Family File" has any relevance in Richard's situation. He is considering Exporting to Gedcom in order to roll back to an earlier version of 7, whereas I was Exporting to a New _Legacy_ Family File. Mary Young 2009/4/24 Dennis M. Kowallek : > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:22:42 -0700, Richard Van Wasshnova > wrote: > >>I know there are more serious losses going through GEDcom than the 2 I >>listed but I can't recall what they are. > > Look at the thread "Exporting to a new Family File" from the beginning > of March. > > -- > > Dennis Kowallek (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] Sorting AKAs
The first time I asked was in L5, I don't think reordering using Access because it willl just re-alphabetize the names anyway. Rich in LA CA --- On Fri, 4/24/09, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: > From: Dennis M. Kowallek > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sorting AKAs > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Date: Friday, April 24, 2009, 1:11 PM > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:47:47 -0700, Richard Van Wasshnova > wrote: > > >Whenever I have 2 or more AKAs for an individual I > strongly wish they > >were in chronological order. If I start with baptism > name and source > >it, then as a 5 yr old in census the second entry goes > on top. I would > >really like to see a date for each AKA AND the Up/Down > arrow to > >manually shift position to see how a name evolves with > time. > > > >It looks like they could be re-ordered from Access > tblNX on an > >individual basis but you would first need to check each > source date to > >determine preferred order. > > > >Does anyone else agreethis would be a valuable > enhancement? > > If I were starting over I would abandon AKAs all together > and just put > this kind of info in Event/Fact. You can order them, assign > dates, make > them private, categorize them (misspelling, transcription > error, > nickname, legal name change, etc.), customize the report > sentence ... > all the things you can't do with an AKA. > > -- > > Dennis Kowallek (LTools) > http://zippersoftware.com/ltools > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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] floater
Have you run file check/repair? Gary Templeman - Original Message - From: Randolph Clark To: legacyusergroup ; Legacy Support Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:30 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] floater Found a person totally unlinked to anybody. Tried to link him to who I thought was his brother and got message "he's already part of this family" same with the brother--no parents showing. 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] Sorting AKAs
I forgot they were alphabetic. Thanks! -- Richard Van Wasshnova http://www.gencircles.com/users/vanwasshnova http://gw.geneanet.org/vanwasshnova On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:07 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: > > The first time I asked was in L5, I don't think reordering using Access > because it willl just re-alphabetize the names anyway. > Rich in LA CA > 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
