Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available?
You will not regret the move Bill, I too gave up on FTM and find Legacy a much better program! Colin. - Original Message - From: William H. Boswell To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:58 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? Thanks. I will probably purchase it this week. My transition from FTM 2009 to Legacy is not an easy one and will take a long time to convert everything. I hope in the next version they have more options for importing other than PAF and GEDCOM, but I know how other companies are about protecting their code. I'm simultaneously updating FTM 2009 at the same time as Legacy in case I have to re-import again after screwing things up. I used The Master Genealogy as a bridge between the two since it uses GenBridge and can read FTM2008/2009 files. I upgraded to FTM 2010, but it is a lot worse than 2009 so I switched to Legacy and plan to dump FTM once I'm finished cleaning up. Bill -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Marilyn Clark Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? I purchased my PDF manual at the same time I upgraded from free Legacy 7 to the Deluxe Version, about a month ago. I am sure one of the Millenia people will help you get one. Marilyn --- On Wed, 9/9/09, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: From: William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com Subject: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 9:18 AM Is there a PDF manual available online for Legacy 7? I looked in all the program folders and only found the help, but I prefer something that does into more detail. I am thinking more along the lines of the one that would be included with the software, but has to be purchased. Most software companies give you a PDF reference manual for free and allow you to purchase the printed version. Apparently this company doesn't do that. Since I have converted all my data over to Legacy 7 Deluxe from Family Tree Maker 2009, I have a lot of issues to clean up. I find a user's manual better than the in-program help because I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Bill Boswell 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] Grave Transcriptions and Photo--Where?
But the grave photos are just that. Taken long after the event. I do have burial photos taken at the funeral so I assumed that's the photos that would go with burial. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of mjmet...@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:46 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Grave Transcriptions and Photo--Where? IMHO, I think you are taking the Burial event too deep [pun intended]. Like Sources, the photos are a documentation, and at least as real as a Sexton's records, etc. Mike Michael J Method family research of: Method, Feehily, Fredrick, Herzog, tenEyck, Belsley In a message dated 9/9/2009 7:26:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, whbosw...@gmail.com writes: I just ran into this while still cleaning up my data. I have a custom category called Grave that I created in Family Tree Maker some time ago. This is usually where I attach photos of the grave, the date of the visit, and grave transcriptions. Ordinarily I would just leave this, but I'm still moving cemeteries over to where they belong and want to get rid of all cemetery names from my Master Location List. Something tells me I should not, but I'm only going by what I saw in the online video. I don't think it should be attached to the burial event since these photos were taken many years later. Is there a specific place grave photos and info. should go? There probably is a place, but I haven't found it yet. 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 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] Grave Transcriptions and Photo--Where?
Mine is just listed as Grave under events too I think. It shows the photo and the transcription if there is one. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of GeoSci Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:46 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Grave Transcriptions and Photo--Where? Bill, I use an EVENT called Cemetery. That makes it easy to sort by a particular cemetery - or Burial Place. I also include the Find-A-Grave ID# in the description - thus pointing to an image (or at least a memorial). I am certain others do it differently. I just like the freedom the an EVENT gives for reports, etc. Keith Surnames: McKain, Horn, Riale, Ulrich, Erisman, Leiphart, Reed and Henry Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 EMail: geosc...@gmail.com McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM, William H. Boswellwhbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I just ran into this while still cleaning up my data. I have a custom category called Grave that I created in Family Tree Maker some time ago. This is usually where I attach photos of the grave, the date of the visit, and grave transcriptions. Ordinarily I would just leave this, but I'm still moving cemeteries over to where they belong and want to get rid of all cemetery names from my Master Location List. Something tells me I should not, but I'm only going by what I saw in the online video. I don't think it should be attached to the burial event since these photos were taken many years later. Is there a specific place grave photos and info. should go? There probably is a place, but I haven't found it yet. 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 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] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
I don't like it in the address field either. It's handy to have the address associated with the cemetery, but I'm thinking of having it in both places or just remove it from addresses despite what that video says. I don't like that when you look at a person's data you don't see what cemetery they are buried in. Unfortunately, I just converted over 200 of them and will have to revert back. I would do a restore, but I don't know what else I did since then so I'll just do it manually. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Mary Moyer Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:37 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location I agree with Ron, Jenny and Dennis. I spent many hours converting my locations so the cemetery etc was in the address field, and I now regret having done so. I'm slowly working my way thru thousands of addresses to change it back again so the address is in the location field. Mary One Up the Competition Earn your MBA from Post University. Free textbooks for new students! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2131/c?cp=207Y1y9cFd2BcSXlLX3mXwAAJz0yh- brJvTNYnbQ7UydqFV0AAQFAKRwnT4AEiFZAA== 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] PDF Manual Available?
I just wish Legacy would send me the link to download the PDF manual I purchased yesterday evening. I thought it would be an instant download. I hope I don't have to wait until they're back from the cruise otherwise I would have waited. FTM is not for serious genealogy, it has limited reports, and is not for the technically-minded genealogist. I had too much trouble relinking my external media files which caused it to crash and reboot my system after about 15 minutes. I gave up on it. These companies need to stop using Microsoft's Net Framework with their own software because it is the problem. I actually liked parts of FTM 2009, but not the limited report output and the constant crashes. The images in the media section would actually move around the page as I was trying to relink them then reboot my system. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Colin Liddell Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:10 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? You will not regret the move Bill, I too gave up on FTM and find Legacy a much better program! Colin. - Original Message - From: William H. Boswell To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:58 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? Thanks. I will probably purchase it this week. My transition from FTM 2009 to Legacy is not an easy one and will take a long time to convert everything. I hope in the next version they have more options for importing other than PAF and GEDCOM, but I know how other companies are about protecting their code. I'm simultaneously updating FTM 2009 at the same time as Legacy in case I have to re-import again after screwing things up. I used The Master Genealogy as a bridge between the two since it uses GenBridge and can read FTM2008/2009 files. I upgraded to FTM 2010, but it is a lot worse than 2009 so I switched to Legacy and plan to dump FTM once I'm finished cleaning up. Bill -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Marilyn Clark Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? I purchased my PDF manual at the same time I upgraded from free Legacy 7 to the Deluxe Version, about a month ago. I am sure one of the Millenia people will help you get one. Marilyn --- On Wed, 9/9/09, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: From: William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com Subject: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 9:18 AM Is there a PDF manual available online for Legacy 7? I looked in all the program folders and only found the help, but I prefer something that does into more detail. I am thinking more along the lines of the one that would be included with the software, but has to be purchased. Most software companies give you a PDF reference manual for free and allow you to purchase the printed version. Apparently this company doesn't do that. Since I have converted all my data over to Legacy 7 Deluxe from Family Tree Maker 2009, I have a lot of issues to clean up. I find a user's manual better than the in-program help because I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Bill Boswell 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 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical
[LegacyUG] Capitalized Surnames
I have been cleaning up some hundreds of errors in the file via the 'Potential Problems' list but there is one item I do not seem to be able to correct. Somehow I have about 20 individual records where the surnames are permanently capitalized either by incorporating from a GEDCOM or from records I entered - can't tell at this point. I have tried to correct the capitalized surname by retyping it in the individual edit field, but the capitalized name continues to reappear when I 'save'. I have removed the offending capitalized name from tblNR and tblNX - but even though the capitalized name has been removed from these tables, it continues to plague me when I try to change it to the 'Smith' version on the individual edit. Even with deleting 'SMITH' from the tables and selecting the 'smith' name from the drop down arrow in the individual surname edit, it defaults to the 'SMITH' capitalized version on 'save' - even though 'SMITH' does not appear in the list. When 'SMITH' does appear in the list, I have tried to combine it with 'smith', and even though this occurs and only 'smith' remains, when I try to select and 'save' 'smith' from the individual edit feature, the surname reverts to 'SMITH'. It is not of monumental significance, but having Smith default to SMITH is an aggravation and I would like some advice on how to remove and correct this. 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] marking people as not living
Michele, We seem to be at cross-purposes here. No, I was not suggesting that one updates before transferring to Legacy (your last post). OptionsCustomiseData Entry does what it says on the tin! it applies when one is making a *Data Entry* ie. adding or amending data. Thus if you enter someone with a birthdate more than (say) 120 years ago is will automatically set them to dead. If there is no birthdate and no death it will set them according to your Living Indicator Defaults (OptionsCustomiseData Defaults) and will not make any calculation was to whether the individual should be living or otherwise. If using ToolsAdvanced Living killed off 500 people, then within your files you had 500 people who were older than the setting which you made when using the tool. Thus you had 500 people set to living but who are, in fact, dead. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:12:57 -0400 I am going to OPTIONS, CUSTOMIZE, DATA ENTRY, then there is a section titled Presumed Dead I have that set up but when I did it your way it killed off over 500 more people! michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 4:41 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, How are you doing this? If you go to ToolsAdvanced Set Living, set the age to whatever age you require for age at death and run, it will set them all above that age as dead. No tags no nothing. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:29:44 -0400 I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the following criteria... no death date set as living Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going in and marking them as dead. I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage 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/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set
Re: [LegacyUG] Capitalized Surnames
1. Go to Options Customise Data Format and check your settings. I have don't change what I enter set for Letter Case of Surnames. 2. Having checked that option, have you tried to alter the surname via the Master Surname List? View Master Lists Surname. Hope this helps. Please let us know how you get on. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy 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] Capitalized Surnames
Bob, Try OptionsCustomiseData Defaults and ensure that the settings for names are set to Do not change what I enter this will cover names like McTavis. Use SearchSearch and Replace and set it to Surnames. Check at least case sensitive and enter in caps the orginal and in lower case the new. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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, 10 Sep 2009 03:30:43 -0400 From: s...@cox.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Capitalized Surnames I have been cleaning up some hundreds of errors in the file via the 'Potential Problems' list but there is one item I do not seem to be able to correct. Somehow I have about 20 individual records where the surnames are permanently capitalized either by incorporating from a GEDCOM or from records I entered - can't tell at this point. I have tried to correct the capitalized surname by retyping it in the individual edit field, but the capitalized name continues to reappear when I 'save'. I have removed the offending capitalized name from tblNR and tblNX - but even though the capitalized name has been removed from these tables, it continues to plague me when I try to change it to the 'Smith' version on the individual edit. Even with deleting 'SMITH' from the tables and selecting the 'smith' name from the drop down arrow in the individual surname edit, it defaults to the 'SMITH' capitalized version on 'save' - even though 'SMITH' does not appear in the list. When 'SMITH' does appear in the list, I have tried to combine it with 'smith', and even though this occurs and only 'smith' remains, when I try to select and 'save' 'smith' from the individual edit feature, the surname reverts to 'SMITH'. It is not of monumental significance, but having Smith default to SMITH is an aggravation and I would like some advice on how to remove and correct this. Bob _ Access your other email accounts and manage all your email from one place. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/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] pros/cons source conversion
Michele Lewis wrote I am an everything has to match sort of person so I like the uniformity of the new source writer. It has been timeconsuming to convert everything over BUT tthe plus side is that I found some errors in my file I was able to fix and new info that I didn't see before. My thoughts exactly! I have found it hugely beneficial to be going over my complete file all over again. Most of my Basic Sources were an inadequate mess and the professional look of the new ones is very pleasing! Not only have I discovered many errors and inconsistencies but I have often found information I had failed to discover the first time round because I am much more experienced at seeking it out now. -- Jenny M Benson 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] pros/cons source conversion
What is L tools? michele - Original Message - From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:45 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion Not yet. Thanks. Rich in lA CA -- From: Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 2:11:01 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion Rich: Have you tried LTools?? That S/W converts the old sources to the new source format. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.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] PDF Manual Available?
I too switched from FTM. I started with FTM with their very first version. I switched when they went to their new look. It was the best thing I could have ever done. Legacy is a much better program. The first time I ran the potential problems report I was SHOCKED! Now I can run it with zero errors. My locations are completely uniform. My reports print out predictable and uniformally. I too moved from the free version of Legacy to the complete version and at that time I did get the user's manual. It is well worth the extra money. I also invested in the companion videos which were VERY helpful. You learn all of the shortcuts and tricks. I also bought the pdf The Legacy Family by Mark Lang. It is a great complement to the user's manual. How much I spent for the program, pdfs and the videos is a drop in the bucket compared to what I spend on genealogy in general :) :) :) It was a very good investment. Michele Lewis, Staff Genealogist McDuffie Mirror Thomson, McDuffie Co, GA - Original Message - From: Doris doris...@sbcglobal.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:04 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? Bill, You will be happy you made the switch! I made the move to Legacy from FTM 2009. I am still cleaning up. It is so much nicer to be able to include so much more information for a more complete picture, so at the end of clean up it will have been worth it. Sources is the area I could use seasoned users suggestions on the organization of! Doris -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:59 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? Thanks. I will probably purchase it this week. My transition from FTM 2009 to Legacy is not an easy one and will take a long time to convert everything. I hope in the next version they have more options for importing other than PAF and GEDCOM, but I know how other companies are about protecting their code. I'm simultaneously updating FTM 2009 at the same time as Legacy in case I have to re-import again after screwing things up. I used The Master Genealogy as a bridge between the two since it uses GenBridge and can read FTM2008/2009 files. I upgraded to FTM 2010, but it is a lot worse than 2009 so I switched to Legacy and plan to dump FTM once I'm finished cleaning up. Bill -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Marilyn Clark Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? I purchased my PDF manual at the same time I upgraded from free Legacy 7 to the Deluxe Version, about a month ago. I am sure one of the Millenia people will help you get one. Marilyn --- On Wed, 9/9/09, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: From: William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com Subject: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 9:18 AM Is there a PDF manual available online for Legacy 7? I looked in all the program folders and only found the help, but I prefer something that does into more detail. I am thinking more along the lines of the one that would be included with the software, but has to be purchased. Most software companies give you a PDF reference manual for free and allow you to purchase the printed version. Apparently this company doesn't do that. Since I have converted all my data over to Legacy 7 Deluxe from Family Tree Maker 2009, I have a lot of issues to clean up. I find a user's manual better than the in-program help because I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Bill Boswell 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:
Re: [LegacyUG] Grave Transcriptions and Photo--Where?
I too use Cemetery as an event. It makes searches easy. michele - Original Message - From: GeoSci geosc...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Grave Transcriptions and Photo--Where? Bill, I use an EVENT called Cemetery. That makes it easy to sort by a particular cemetery - or Burial Place. I also include the Find-A-Grave ID# in the description - thus pointing to an image (or at least a memorial). I am certain others do it differently. I just like the freedom the an EVENT gives for reports, etc. Keith Surnames: McKain, Horn, Riale, Ulrich, Erisman, Leiphart, Reed and Henry Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 EMail: geosc...@gmail.com McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM, William H. Boswellwhbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I just ran into this while still cleaning up my data. I have a custom category called Grave that I created in Family Tree Maker some time ago. This is usually where I attach photos of the grave, the date of the visit, and grave transcriptions. Ordinarily I would just leave this, but I'm still moving cemeteries over to where they belong and want to get rid of all cemetery names from my Master Location List. Something tells me I should not, but I'm only going by what I saw in the online video. I don't think it should be attached to the burial event since these photos were taken many years later. Is there a specific place grave photos and info. should go? There probably is a place, but I haven't found it yet. 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 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: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.87/2356 - Release Date: 09/09/09 06:53:00 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] Capitalized Surnames
Go to MASTER, then to SURNAMES, then scroll down and your will find all of your surnames that are in caps. If your fix them on this screen you don't heave any more problems :) michele - Original Message - From: SgtBob s...@cox.net To: Legacy LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:30 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Capitalized Surnames I have been cleaning up some hundreds of errors in the file via the 'Potential Problems' list but there is one item I do not seem to be able to correct. Somehow I have about 20 individual records where the surnames are permanently capitalized either by incorporating from a GEDCOM or from records I entered - can't tell at this point. I have tried to correct the capitalized surname by retyping it in the individual edit field, but the capitalized name continues to reappear when I 'save'. I have removed the offending capitalized name from tblNR and tblNX - but even though the capitalized name has been removed from these tables, it continues to plague me when I try to change it to the 'Smith' version on the individual edit. Even with deleting 'SMITH' from the tables and selecting the 'smith' name from the drop down arrow in the individual surname edit, it defaults to the 'SMITH' capitalized version on 'save' - even though 'SMITH' does not appear in the list. When 'SMITH' does appear in the list, I have tried to combine it with 'smith', and even though this occurs and only 'smith' remains, when I try to select and 'save' 'smith' from the individual edit feature, the surname reverts to 'SMITH'. It is not of monumental significance, but having Smith default to SMITH is an aggravation and I would like some advice on how to remove and correct this. 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.87/2356 - Release Date: 09/09/09 06:53:00 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] marking people as not living
Michele Lewis wrote: Okay regroup I have it set like that under options. I did exactly as your said and did it off of the tools menu and you were right. It marked 508 people as dead. Why is it then that I have it set up properly on the options menu but it isn't working. I go to the tool menu and use the same age cut off and it works. michele One way is a SETTING that marks NEW people you are currently entering, the other is a TOOL that retroactively searches for EXISTING people who meet the criteria and re-sets their living status according to the rules you have defined. -- 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] pros/cons source conversion
See: http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:19:12 -0400 What is L tools? michele - Original Message - From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:45 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion Not yet. Thanks. Rich in lA CA From: Leon Chapman To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 2:11:01 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion Rich: Have you tried LTools?? That S/W converts the old sources to the new source format. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com _ Access your other email accounts and manage all your email from one place. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/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] pros/cons source conversion
Michele Lewis wrote: What is L tools? michele It is a software tool written by Dennis Kowallek to work with the underlying tables that make up a Legacy database. It, and more information about it, can be found here: http://kowallekfamily.com/zippersoftware/ltools/index.htm -- 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] pros/cons source conversion
Oh my goodness! I didn't know that existed! michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion See: http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:19:12 -0400 What is L tools? michele - Original Message - From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:45 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion Not yet. Thanks. Rich in lA CA From: Leon Chapman To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 2:11:01 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pros/cons source conversion Rich: Have you tried LTools?? That S/W converts the old sources to the new source format. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com _ Access your other email accounts and manage all your email from one place. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.89/2359 - Release Date: 09/10/09 05:50:00 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] PDF Manual Available?
I still haven't received a link for the PDF manual. Why aren't these downloads available immediately? The email says it is sent by the next business day but usually sooner. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:16 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? I too switched from FTM. I started with FTM with their very first version. I switched when they went to their new look. It was the best thing I could have ever done. Legacy is a much better program. The first time I ran the potential problems report I was SHOCKED! Now I can run it with zero errors. My locations are completely uniform. My reports print out predictable and uniformally. I too moved from the free version of Legacy to the complete version and at that time I did get the user's manual. It is well worth the extra money. I also invested in the companion videos which were VERY helpful. You learn all of the shortcuts and tricks. I also bought the pdf The Legacy Family by Mark Lang. It is a great complement to the user's manual. How much I spent for the program, pdfs and the videos is a drop in the bucket compared to what I spend on genealogy in general :) :) :) It was a very good investment. Michele Lewis, Staff Genealogist McDuffie Mirror Thomson, McDuffie Co, GA - Original Message - From: Doris doris...@sbcglobal.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:04 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? Bill, You will be happy you made the switch! I made the move to Legacy from FTM 2009. I am still cleaning up. It is so much nicer to be able to include so much more information for a more complete picture, so at the end of clean up it will have been worth it. Sources is the area I could use seasoned users suggestions on the organization of! Doris -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:59 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? Thanks. I will probably purchase it this week. My transition from FTM 2009 to Legacy is not an easy one and will take a long time to convert everything. I hope in the next version they have more options for importing other than PAF and GEDCOM, but I know how other companies are about protecting their code. I'm simultaneously updating FTM 2009 at the same time as Legacy in case I have to re-import again after screwing things up. I used The Master Genealogy as a bridge between the two since it uses GenBridge and can read FTM2008/2009 files. I upgraded to FTM 2010, but it is a lot worse than 2009 so I switched to Legacy and plan to dump FTM once I'm finished cleaning up. Bill -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Marilyn Clark Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? I purchased my PDF manual at the same time I upgraded from free Legacy 7 to the Deluxe Version, about a month ago. I am sure one of the Millenia people will help you get one. Marilyn --- On Wed, 9/9/09, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: From: William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com Subject: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 9:18 AM Is there a PDF manual available online for Legacy 7? I looked in all the program folders and only found the help, but I prefer something that does into more detail. I am thinking more along the lines of the one that would be included with the software, but has to be purchased. Most software companies give you a PDF reference manual for free and allow you to purchase the printed version. Apparently this company doesn't do that. Since I have converted all my data over to Legacy 7 Deluxe from Family Tree Maker 2009, I have a lot of issues to clean up. I find a user's manual better than the in-program help because I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Bill Boswell 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:
RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available?
There is someone working in Sales. As with the customer number for the program, the email for downloading the PDF manual is sent out by the end of the next business day. Your credit card information needs to be processed. If you don't get it by the end of today, please contact Sales directly by email to sa...@legacyfamilytree.com or phone 1-800-753-3453 Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:35 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? I just wish Legacy would send me the link to download the PDF manual I purchased yesterday evening. I thought it would be an instant download. I hope I don't have to wait until they're back from the cruise otherwise I would have waited. snip? 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] Download of Legacy 7
There is a toll-free number for Sales - 1-800-753-3453. All our contact info is on the website under Help Center Contact Us The password to install Legacy is in bright red letters on the download page. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Robert Carneal USA Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 2:01 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Download of Legacy 7 Some of them are on the cruise. here are some Millennia numbers, but not toll free unfortunately. Outside the USA 1-623-444-8918 Technical Support 1-425-788-0932 Their cruise is about half over, so if you want to wait, you can. If you are impatient, I guess you can try the numbers. Also, supp...@legacyfamilytree.com might be able to put you in contact with someone who can help. I don't think they can send you the password, they probably don't have it. Robert At 2009-09-09 03:06 PM, you wrote: Hello I downloaded the above some time ago and still have not received the password to install. Is anyone able to assist please. With thanks Anne 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] PDF Manual Available?
Because Sales has to process your credit card information when the information shows up in the computer. The first of the week is always busiest for support and sales, so please be patient if you ordered late on Friday or over a weekend. Plus we just had a three-day weekend which put us all a little more behind, along with the fact that one of the Sales persons is on the cruise. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? I still haven't received a link for the PDF manual. Why aren't these downloads available immediately? The email says it is sent by the next business day but usually sooner. 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] PDF Manual Available?
It frustrating when you can't get it immediately especially when the site says usually by the next business day, but please remember Millennia is a small company. They are on a well-earned trip, I don't think we can begrudge them that. I do agree there ought to a way that satisfies Millennia of getting the purchases out quicker though. Robert At 2009-09-10 09:51 AM, you wrote: I still haven't received a link for the PDF manual. Why aren't these downloads available immediately? The email says it is sent by the next business day but usually sooner. 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] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
Bill, An entry like this: 3553 SW Adams Street, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA will take you directly to the location that I used to live at in the 1930's. It wont show the house, because it don't exist any more, and your notes can show name changes. The street was called S. Adams then. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: William H. Boswell To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:26 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location ks for the tips. I really don't like the mapping feature anyway because, as you said, you can't plot the entire house number and street. I really don't care about the city unless to just verify that it ever existed. I am not going to move the addresses, but already moved a few cemetery names--one for more than 200 people buried there. 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] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
That's what I'm thinking. It's best to use the original address not the new one like FTM wants you to do and I never did that. Because you will need the original address for searches. Who really cares what's there now? At least I don't unless I want to do a before and after. I just have a lot of addresses that have SW and NW (examples) for the same street number and name. I'm very hesitant to change them because they are listed that way in records. DC streets always were a mess and still are. I'm not going to convert my addresses in the Place list to exclude street numbers and names to just city and state. To me that is not useful. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Art Seddon Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Bill, An entry like this: 3553 SW Adams Street, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA will take you directly to the location that I used to live at in the 1930's. It wont show the house, because it don't exist any more, and your notes can show name changes. The street was called S. Adams then. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: William H. Boswell To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:26 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location ks for the tips. I really don't like the mapping feature anyway because, as you said, you can't plot the entire house number and street. I really don't care about the city unless to just verify that it ever existed. I am not going to move the addresses, but already moved a few cemetery names--one for more than 200 people buried there. 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] PDF Manual Available?
It should be mentioned before you hit the button to pay for it not afterward. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Robert Carneal USA Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:21 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? It frustrating when you can't get it immediately especially when the site says usually by the next business day, but please remember Millennia is a small company. They are on a well-earned trip, I don't think we can begrudge them that. I do agree there ought to a way that satisfies Millennia of getting the purchases out quicker though. Robert At 2009-09-10 09:51 AM, you wrote: I still haven't received a link for the PDF manual. Why aren't these downloads available immediately? The email says it is sent by the next business day but usually sooner. 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] PDF Manual Available?
But not all of us, Robert! All four support techs are still working as well as the Sales department! Just the programmers and Geoff are on the Legacy cruise. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Robert Carneal USA Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:21 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? It frustrating when you can't get it immediately especially when the site says usually by the next business day, but please remember Millennia is a small company. They are on a well-earned trip, I don't think we can begrudge them that. I do agree there ought to a way that satisfies Millennia of getting the purchases out quicker though. Robert At 2009-09-10 09:51 AM, you wrote: I still haven't received a link for the PDF manual. Why aren't these downloads available immediately? The email says it is sent by the next business day but usually sooner. 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] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
Bill, I think you misunderstood me. I was trying to say that if you enter the complete address in the location field then that exact place CAN be plotted on the map. That's why I think it's a waste of the mapping feature to enter just the city, county, state, country in the location field. I've even plotted locations that didn't have an actual street address - like [[John Taylor Farm, ]]County, State. I put privacy brackets around the part that wouldn't look right on printed reports but I can still document the exact location of the property. Of course, in that situation, I have to set the marker where it should be on the map. As someone else mentioned (Ron, I think), I keep my locations sorted right to left so that locations in a particular town or county are together in the location master list. Linda On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:26 PM, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the tips. I really don't like the mapping feature anyway because, as you said, you can't plot the entire house number and street. I really don't care about the city unless to just verify that it ever existed. I am not going to move the addresses, but already moved a few cemetery names--one for more than 200 people buried there. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Linda McCauley Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 2:58 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Bill, Before you jump into changing everything, let me recommend that you enter a few both ways then run some test reports and web pages (if you are going to create a website) to see how they look to you. Also check out how the information displays within Legacy - especially the mapping feature. I prefer to have the full address in the location field and also include the cemetery name in the burial location field. Others on this list do the same. It seems to me a terrible waste of the mapping feature to only plot a town when you could plot the exact location. As far as I know, entering a full address or a cemetery name in the location field does not cause any problems. One of the things I like about Legacy is that there is often more than one way to do something and you can find the way that you like best. Linda On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:54 PM, William H. Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is going to be confusing which is why I can't find it in the Help of Legacy. I looked at a tutorial online at the Legacy website and found that it was recommended that cemetery names be moved from the Buried field leaving only the city and state. A spent a long time putting them there in FTM 2009 because it seemed appropriate, but I can understand why they shouldn't be there now. Multiple Questions on this one: 1) I tagged all the cemeteries that need to have their name moved by clicking on the plus sign. Is there a way I can first show all the tagged items and start moving cemetery names from there. I can't find anything within the program that lets you show tagged items only so what's the point of tagging if you can't? 2) Should this be done for all locations including residences where the person lived? I have a lot of those and just started, but didn't finish because I don't want to have to revert back with hundreds of them. 3) Are mailing list addresses just for living people or residences where the person lived (i.e., census, death notices, etc.). This question kind of goes with item 2. 4) Master List Location list: only city and state? I'm finding this very confusing. I think I'm going to have to purchase and download the PDF manual then read the entire thing. Bill Boswell 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] PDF Manual Available?
They can wait until Friday anyway since I won't have time to use it at all today. I could have used it last night instead. If not tomorrow next week is okay. I figured instead of asking a lot of questions here, I could read the manual and figure it out for myself before I start making a lot of mistakes and screw up my data. Bill -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Sherry/Support Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? But not all of us, Robert! All four support techs are still working as well as the Sales department! Just the programmers and Geoff are on the Legacy cruise. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Robert Carneal USA Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:21 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? It frustrating when you can't get it immediately especially when the site says usually by the next business day, but please remember Millennia is a small company. They are on a well-earned trip, I don't think we can begrudge them that. I do agree there ought to a way that satisfies Millennia of getting the purchases out quicker though. Robert At 2009-09-10 09:51 AM, you wrote: I still haven't received a link for the PDF manual. Why aren't these downloads available immediately? The email says it is sent by the next business day but usually sooner. 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] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
Bill, As I have previously mentioned, it is standard practice, or at least the most common practice, to record the address as that at the time of the event. I have, for example, in my records, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England and Saddleworth, Lancashire, England both locations being the same but after a shift in the county boundary. Both are correct at their respective times. I have a note to say they are the same place. I agree that it might look messy, but it is accurate, and as far as I am concerned that is the important point. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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/ _ From: whbosw...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:23:08 -0400 That's what I'm thinking. It's best to use the original address not the new one like FTM wants you to do and I never did that. Because you will need the original address for searches. Who really cares what's there now? At least I don't unless I want to do a before and after. I just have a lot of addresses that have SW and NW (examples) for the same street number and name. I'm very hesitant to change them because they are listed that way in records. DC streets always were a mess and still are. I'm not going to convert my addresses in the Place list to exclude street numbers and names to just city and state. To me that is not useful. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Art Seddon Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Bill, An entry like this: 3553 SW Adams Street, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA will take you directly to the location that I used to live at in the 1930's. It wont show the house, because it don't exist any more, and your notes can show name changes. The street was called S. Adams then. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: William H. Boswell To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:26 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location ks for the tips. I really don't like the mapping feature anyway because, as you said, you can't plot the entire house number and street. I really don't care about the city unless to just verify that it ever existed. I am not going to move the addresses, but already moved a few cemetery names--one for more than 200 people buried there. _ View your other email accounts from your Hotmail inbox. Add them now. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/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] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
I feel the same way about accuracy and recording locations as they were at that specific time in history. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:13 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Bill, As I have previously mentioned, it is standard practice, or at least the most common practice, to record the address as that at the time of the event. I have, for example, in my records, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England and Saddleworth, Lancashire, England both locations being the same but after a shift in the county boundary. Both are correct at their respective times. I have a note to say they are the same place. I agree that it might look messy, but it is accurate, and as far as I am concerned that is the important point. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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/ _ From: whbosw...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:23:08 -0400 That's what I'm thinking. It's best to use the original address not the new one like FTM wants you to do and I never did that. Because you will need the original address for searches. Who really cares what's there now? At least I don't unless I want to do a before and after. I just have a lot of addresses that have SW and NW (examples) for the same street number and name. I'm very hesitant to change them because they are listed that way in records. DC streets always were a mess and still are. I'm not going to convert my addresses in the Place list to exclude street numbers and names to just city and state. To me that is not useful. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Art Seddon Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Bill, An entry like this: 3553 SW Adams Street, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA will take you directly to the location that I used to live at in the 1930's. It wont show the house, because it don't exist any more, and your notes can show name changes. The street was called S. Adams then. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: William H. Boswell To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:26 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location ks for the tips. I really don't like the mapping feature anyway because, as you said, you can't plot the entire house number and street. I really don't care about the city unless to just verify that it ever existed. I am not going to move the addresses, but already moved a few cemetery names--one for more than 200 people buried there. _ View your other email accounts from your Hotmail inbox. Add them now. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/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 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] Capitalized Surnames
Wendy and others - Thanks for the help. I was at my wits end - not a long journey though - and the suggestion to Options -- Customize -- Data Format and allowing the program to convert all spellings to the format suggested solved the issue. Bob On Sep 10, 2009, at 2:52 AM, Wendy Howard wrote: 1. Go to Options Customise Data Format and check your settings. I have don't change what I enter set for Letter Case of Surnames. 2. Having checked that option, have you tried to alter the surname via the Master Surname List? View Master Lists Surname. Hope this helps. Please let us know how you get on. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy 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] Report Sizing
Thank Kathy for this education. I will try your suggestion. Mike Barberi In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas. In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love. St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430) From: Kathy Shiell-Stokes shearerfamilyt...@3web.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 6:59:43 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Report Sizing Michael: In most cases most printers use a standard size of paper in which case you would ordinarily use a printer driver that matches the printer hooked up to your computer HOWEVER...plotters are somewhat specialised in their paper sizes using non standard paper sizes(Standard paper sizes would be letter, legal or even 11x17...Much harder to find a printer that prints on that size paper but still can be done. Plotters often use 36 in wide sheets or other variants.if you downloaded a plotter driver and played with it a bit you would find a whole gamut of strange and wonderful paper sizes that you could use tofool your computer into thinking that that's the printer you were planning on using. The idea is to give you a sense of the size of the chartand that's when you can use legacy to expand and decrease the print sizes etc. to get it to look exactly the way you want it to...If you actually tried to USE that printer driver to print you would get an error message since you don't have a plotter hooked up to your computer. What you want is the print preview feature. Computers are basically stupid...if you tell them you have a printer hooked up to your computer they will believe you... To do all this, you need to: download a plotter driver install it...and make it your default printer in Windows control panel use Legacy to format the chart and make any adjustments to font, etc while having the plotter print driver selected as your default printer. save the chartand then go back to the printer driver that you ordinarily use. The plotter driver is only for showAt 03:55 PM 09/09/2009, you wrote: Kathy: Thank you for this suggestion. I am not schooled on computers, so please be patient with me. What does the printer driver have to do with the printer selection. I thought the computer recognizes, as a default, my current printer. Do I go into my control panel and add a printer? Is there something I should do in Legacy? Mike Barberi In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas. In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love. St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430) From: Kathy Shiell-Stokes shearerfamilyt...@3web.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 10:17:59 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Report Sizing Michael: I would suggest that you contact the outlet you have selected to do the printing and find out from them what printer drivers they use(assuming that they are using a plotter type printer) Once you know which printer/plotter they are using, download the driver and then, using that driver, format your chart according to the paper sizes available for that printer/plotter. That should give you a pretty exact chart size and make the chart a dream for them to print. Kathy At 09:21 PM 08/09/2009, you wrote: Thank you Jenny. I did realize that the size at the bottom of the screen was the rectangle created by the pages. I just don't know how to change this size. Where do you choose the size of paper to print on? Mike Barberi In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas. In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love. St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430) 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.87/2356 - Release Date: 09/09/09 06:53:00 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 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support:
[LegacyUG] Cleaning up Sources suggestions
Hi All, I am in hopes that some of you more experienced users can advise me on the best way to clean up master sources? When originally entered, I created a source (relative to whichever event) example Birth Certificate: Jane Doe, DOB. Now that my list of sources is getting so long, I thought I would use Legacy's SW and create one source per state per event, example for Birth Records: Pennsylvania, Birth Certificates After 1906. In my obsession also of everything must match, I am confusing myself as to what way is the best way is to represent my research. Since SW mirrors EE, I thought it would be best to switch to this format. The final result must make sense and be easy to follow so that I can be consistent here on out when adding new information. Truth be told, this attempt at organization maintenance is how I ended recreating my file from scratch while using FTM and now that the number of individuals in my file has quadrupled, I don't wish to repeat this nightmare. I have yet to make use of the tagging features in the program, mainly from a lack of understanding of how and why they would be used. Can tagging be used to mark the records I want to convert from an individual basic source to a source writer source? Or else, can it only be changed tediously, one record at time by adding and removing sources and than once a source has no one associated with it, deleting it? Some of you have mentioned the Source Template Conversion Tool, but if I am following correctly this feature is not yet available in the Legacy program? Any suggested work about, like maybe this L Tools some have mentioned? Hope I made enough sense that someone can offer some sage advice! Thanks! Doris 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] Cleaning up Sources suggestions
I reccommend making a different source for each governmental unit. If ALL births are from the same state list, then yes, but if from other sources, keep separate. Example, in my state each county creates its own records, and sends them to a statewide indexm later. Yours may be all in the same list, but I would split by county groups anyway. Example: Pennsylvania, Alleghany County, Birth Certificates After 1906 and Pennsylvania, Erie County, Birth Certificates After 1906 The sources sort better that way. (I have family in about 30 counties in Indiana, so this keeps me sane. Rich in LA CA From: Doris doris...@sbcglobal.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:13:21 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Sources suggestions Hi All, I am in hopes that some of you more experienced users can advise me on the best way to clean up master sources? When originally entered, I created a source (relative to whichever event) example Birth Certificate: Jane Doe, DOB. Now that my list of sources is getting so long, I thought I would use Legacy’s SW and create one source per state per event, example for Birth Records: ” Pennsylvania , Birth Certificates After 1906”. In my obsession also of “everything must match”, I am confusing myself as to what way is the best way is to represent my research. Since SW mirrors EE, I thought it would be best to switch to this format. The final result must make sense and be easy to follow so that I can be consistent here on out when adding new information. Truth be told, this attempt at organization maintenance is how I ended recreating my file from scratch while using FTM and now that the number of individuals in my file has quadrupled, I don’t wish to repeat this nightmare. I have yet to make use of the tagging features in the program, mainly from a lack of understanding of how and why they would be used. Can tagging be used to mark the records I want to convert from an individual basic source to a source writer source? Or else, can it only be changed tediously, one record at time by adding and removing sources and than once a source has no one associated with it, deleting it? Some of you have mentioned the “Source Template Conversion Tool”, but if I am following correctly this feature is not yet available in the Legacy program? Any suggested work about, like maybe this L Tools some have mentioned? Hope I made enough sense that someone can offer some sage advice! Thanks! Doris 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] Surnames with Mc standard?
What's the standard for entering surnames that begin with Mc.. leave a space or not? For example, Mc Dowell or McDowell...? In looking for ALL CAPS in the Surname list, I discovered I have entered the Mc names both ways. Thanks, --Paula in Texas 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] Master source question
It sounds to me like Jenny and Ron are saying much the same thing. If Michael sets up one new general master source, then combines one of his specific master sources with this new one, the detail citations of the old specific master source still be there, tied to the new general master source. I think that's what Jenny is saying. And what Ron is saying is: Try it once and see if it works before doing any more! ;) --Paula --- On Mon, 9/7/09, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master source question To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 4:49 PM SgtBob wrote Jenny - If I created a new source with all the data I wanted that 'mirrors' an older one, and then combined the older one with the new one, would all the sources be changed to the new source? It seems to me that I have tried this and the data is now reflected with the new source. Could you elaborate on the consequences of this? Yes, if you merge a Source you have already used with another Source, all the records which had used the previous Source will now use the new one. -- Jenny M Benson 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] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
I have the Deluxe version 7 on a windows XP machine (Dell 9200 Laptop). I entered numerous different events made sure Show Events was checked under options, but none of the events show up under the chronology tab. Even my marriage doesn't show up. Just the children. I know this was working better before. I already ran the Check/Repair with no issues found. Any ideas? Kirstin RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: That is what the Chronology tab is for. It is in Delixe. From: michael barberi michaelbarb...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 6:48:33 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Ron: Thanks for responding. My main point was that there is no single place in Legacy that deals with migration patterns of ancestors. I believe that this information is very important if someone wants to understand such issues. Therefore, having a complete history of locations and addresses of individuals throughout their lifetime (in one place) can be created through an broad Event, such as Residence History. In one click on your mouse or in a print out of an individual's genealogy data, you can see at-a-glance the most important information summarize appropriately. You can then compare such migration information to other family members, etc. Patterns will emerge that will enable you to write a great family story. It would be great if Legacy could develop a migration capability so that we all could see a migration pattern plotting chart. It would be also interesting to overlay one individual's migration pattern on to other family members information. Hence, one could view a complete family's migration history. Any thoughts? Mike Barberi In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas. In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love. St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430) From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 3:54:38 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Mike, Yes, Events/Facts appear in reports and they contain the Location Field where it says Place in the Event boxes. Which is why I use Location Fields and not the Address Fields in the Address Book. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:25:33 -0700 From: michaelbarb...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Does not Events/Facts appear in reports? If so, I have found creating an Event called Residence History is a great way to see the migration patterns of your ancestors over time. In this Event, I list all known addresses by year, including those locations/addresses at birth, marriage, and death as well as those in Census Records, Naturalization Records, etc. Its all in one place in an easy understandable format. This does not mean I don't record addresses/locations in specific records. I do. However, I don't know of any way that Legacy can display all of an ancestors locations/addresses over his/her lifetime in one place. Mike Barberi In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas. In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love. St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430) From: ronald ferguson To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 11:51:30 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Bill, I regret to say that you are likely to get many conflicting answers to this one! Personally, I only use the Address Fields as an address book - hence only for living people. I include the full address in the Location Field, in which I include House, and Street as well as Town, City, County, Country (I'm from England). Why? Mainly because the Address Fields do not appear in many reports. I also find the mapping, in general, more accurate when the full address is in the Location Field. Whilst some believe in trying to get the use of the Address Fields improved, I'm afraid I would rather adopt a pragmatic approach :-). Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of
RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available?
William, Did you finally get the email with the download information? I contacted Sales for you and she said your order came through 2:45 pm Arizona time and the email was sent out to you at 3:41 pm Wednesday. She resent the download message to you today shortly after lunch. The original was probably in your spam folder. It happens all the time that the messages we send out automatically get filtered off to spam folders Sales does not monitor the Legacy User Group mailing list and any questions regarding orders should be sent directly to them at sa...@legacyfamilytree.com or phone 1-800-753-3453. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? I still haven't received a link for the PDF manual. Why aren't these downloads available immediately? The email says it is sent by the next business day but usually sooner. 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] Surnames with Mc standard?
No space my whole life! Can't recall seeing a space in over 2000 ancestors on the McKain side... Keith McKain Surnames: McKain, Horn, Riale, Ulrich, Erisman, Leiphart, Reed and Henry Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 EMail: geosc...@gmail.com McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: What's the standard for entering surnames that begin with Mc.. leave a space or not? For example, Mc Dowell or McDowell...? In looking for ALL CAPS in the Surname list, I discovered I have entered the Mc names both ways. Thanks, --Paula in Texas 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] Parent-Child relationship
Once upon a time when I first transferred my data from Family Tree Maker to Legacy (L4 or L5??), there was a bug in the GEDCOM load that set all my children's statuses to Natural. Of course, I had done a lot of other work in my file before I discovered that! The bug was fixed immediately after I reported it, but I'm still working my way through my Tag 5 people ;) years later. (just have the outer branches of my tree left) Anyway, there may have been something different about how you loaded those records...? --Paula in Texas --- On Thu, 8/20/09, Chick Lewis cglewi...@gmail.com wrote: From: Chick Lewis cglewi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Parent-Child relationship To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 4:51 PM Thank you Jenny, for showing me a feature I was un-aware of. I still don't know why the relationship showed unknown, but at least I know how to fix it. Legacy is a powerful program with many great features. I think it will take me a month of Sundays to learn everything (well, most of everything) about Legacy. Chick On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Jenny M Bensonge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: Chick Lewis wrote I meant that the family page shows the married couple and their 10 children listed below them. I thought perhaps that was what you meant! I was not aware that right clicking on the child would show a relationship, but yes it does show unknown for 3 of the 10 listed children. I see how to fix it by replacing unknown with the blank selection, but I don't understand how unknown got there to begin with. Nor do I. Is this field supposed to be set when entering data? Shouldn't the default show nothing? Yes, it should. Sorry, but I can't offer any explanation. -- Jenny M Benson 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] Surnames with Mc standard?
I have (RARELY) seen a dash under the c (not sure how to even type it) but nospace. Keith Surnames: McKain, Horn, Riale, Ulrich, Erisman, Leiphart, Reed and Henry Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 EMail: geosc...@gmail.com McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: What's the standard for entering surnames that begin with Mc.. leave a space or not? For example, Mc Dowell or McDowell...? In looking for ALL CAPS in the Surname list, I discovered I have entered the Mc names both ways. Thanks, --Paula in Texas 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] Surnames with Mc standard?
Both may be correct! or neither! Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:54:56 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Surnames with Mc standard? What's the standard for entering surnames that begin with Mc.. leave a space or not? For example, Mc Dowell or McDowell...? In looking for ALL CAPS in the Surname list, I discovered I have entered the Mc names both ways. Thanks, --Paula in Texas 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] pictures questions
I am just now scanning photos to add to my file. When I upload my web page, will these photos show up? Also, will ALL of the photos show up or only the primary one? michele 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] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
There are choice tabs hiding in the Chronology setup areas, and other places. They may be marked private elsewhere. I won't tell how many times I 'must have changed it and forgot'. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Kirstin catlady1...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:19:51 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location I have the Deluxe version 7 on a windows XP machine (Dell 9200 Laptop). I entered numerous different events made sure Show Events was checked under options, but none of the events show up under the chronology tab. Even my marriage doesn't show up. Just the children. I know this was working better before. I already ran the Check/Repair with no issues found. Any ideas? Kirstin RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: That is what the Chronology tab is for. It is in Delixe. From: michael barberi michaelbarb...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 6:48:33 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Ron: Thanks for responding. My main point was that there is no single place in Legacy that deals with migration patterns of ancestors. I believe that this information is very important if someone wants to understand such issues. Therefore, having a complete history of locations and addresses of individuals throughout their lifetime (in one place) can be created through an broad Event, such as Residence History. In one click on your mouse or in a print out of an individual's genealogy data, you can see at-a-glance the most important information summarize appropriately. You can then compare such migration information to other family members, etc. Patterns will emerge that will enable you to write a great family story. It would be great if Legacy could develop a migration capability so that we all could see a migration pattern plotting chart. It would be also interesting to overlay one individual's migration pattern on to other family members information. Hence, one could view a complete family's migration history. Any thoughts? Mike Barberi In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas. In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love. St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430) From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 3:54:38 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Mike, Yes, Events/Facts appear in reports and they contain the Location Field where it says Place in the Event boxes. Which is why I use Location Fields and not the Address Fields in the Address Book. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:25:33 -0700 From: michaelbarb...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Does not Events/Facts appear in reports? If so, I have found creating an Event called Residence History is a great way to see the migration patterns of your ancestors over time. In this Event, I list all known addresses by year, including those locations/addresses at birth, marriage, and death as well as those in Census Records, Naturalization Records, etc. Its all in one place in an easy understandable format. This does not mean I don't record addresses/locations in specific records. I do. However, I don't know of any way that Legacy can display all of an ancestors locations/addresses over his/her lifetime in one place. Mike Barberi In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas. In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love. St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430) From: ronald ferguson To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 11:51:30 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Bill, I regret to say that you are likely to get many conflicting answers to this one! Personally, I only use the Address Fields as an address book - hence only for living people. I include the full address in the Location Field, in which I include House, and Street as well as Town, City, County, Country (I'm from England). Why? Mainly because the Address Fields do not
Re: [LegacyUG] Photo Gallery
Rich, I think what you are looking for is the Scrapbook (View Scrapbook). There is an option to Only include tagged multimedia. Once you click on Print Scrapbook, you can choose other options like how many pictures per page. You can tag/untag items in the Picture Gallery for use in the Scrapbook. Mine is not cooperating at the moment. Every time I click on Preview, Legacy freezes up. Hmmm. Bug or my PC? Off to play with that little problem. Terri - Original Message From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:15:36 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Photo Gallery I have some people with 'dozens' of photos. Looking at the Gallery, I uncheck many of them to create a Photo Album with less than the whole batch. Using the 'Preview' it still includes ALL of them. I can not find, in either the book or the help file, how to print a partial list. What I have been doing is create a Photo album at 30 per page, then send to a 'new' family member to choose which they might like to have forwarded to them, but some of the photos are actually scans of documents, which are not offered by me in this operation. I don't want to remove the photos from my photo gallery and reinstall later. 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 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] Surnames with Mc standard?
I believe the dash indicates Mac. As for Spaces, I am chicken, I find my McNeills frequently as Mc Neill which I think is a bureaucrats way of doing it. Eliz On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:48 PM, GeoSci geosc...@gmail.com wrote: I have (RARELY) seen a dash under the c (not sure how to even type it) but nospace. Keith Surnames: McKain, Horn, Riale, Ulrich, Erisman, Leiphart, Reed and Henry Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 EMail: geosc...@gmail.com McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: What's the standard for entering surnames that begin with Mc.. leave a space or not? For example, Mc Dowell or McDowell...? In looking for ALL CAPS in the Surname list, I discovered I have entered the Mc names both ways. Thanks, --Paula in Texas 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] PDF Manual Available?
I just checked the spam folder and it was the last item on the list meaning that when I cleared the spam folder last night, it must have just come in after that. Both of the emails were in there. I checked the spam folder twice after ordering and didn't see them. The first one was sent at 6:41pm so I don't know why I didn't find it in the spam folder the first time unless it was 6:41pm their time and not mine (eastern). Thanks -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Sherry/Support Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:43 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? William, Did you finally get the email with the download information? I contacted Sales for you and she said your order came through 2:45 pm Arizona time and the email was sent out to you at 3:41 pm Wednesday. She resent the download message to you today shortly after lunch. The original was probably in your spam folder. It happens all the time that the messages we send out automatically get filtered off to spam folders Sales does not monitor the Legacy User Group mailing list and any questions regarding orders should be sent directly to them at sa...@legacyfamilytree.com or phone 1-800-753-3453. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Manual Available? I still haven't received a link for the PDF manual. Why aren't these downloads available immediately? The email says it is sent by the next business day but usually sooner. 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] Photo Gallery
I was printing from Picture gallery. I didn't know about Scrapbook existing. Thank you. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Terri Brown ridge...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:00:08 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Photo Gallery Rich, I think what you are looking for is the Scrapbook (View Scrapbook). There is an option to Only include tagged multimedia. Once you click on Print Scrapbook, you can choose other options like how many pictures per page. You can tag/untag items in the Picture Gallery for use in the Scrapbook. Mine is not cooperating at the moment. Every time I click on Preview, Legacy freezes up. Hmmm. Bug or my PC? Off to play with that little problem. Terri - Original Message From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:15:36 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Photo Gallery I have some people with 'dozens' of photos. Looking at the Gallery, I uncheck many of them to create a Photo Album with less than the whole batch. Using the 'Preview' it still includes ALL of them. I can not find, in either the book or the help file, how to print a partial list. What I have been doing is create a Photo album at 30 per page, then send to a 'new' family member to choose which they might like to have forwarded to them, but some of the photos are actually scans of documents, which are not offered by me in this operation. I don't want to remove the photos from my photo gallery and reinstall later. 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 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] Cleaning up Sources suggestions
Doris: You covered a whole basket of topics in this post and I won't even try to respond to all, but I think the first one to address is organization of your Master Source List. Since you're an _EE_ fan, check p 67. I don't think it's possible (or even advisable) to apply an everything must match philosophy to organizing sources, and that's where Legacy's separate fields for Source List Name and Source Title comes in so handy. Books, for example, should be grouped by author and title, but that doesn't work at all for census records or for birth/marriage/death records. Some things lend themselves best to being grouped by geographic location and others work better when grouped by source type. Now that you apparently have a fairly long list of Master Sources, and before you begin reworking it, I'd suggest you take a close look at the items there and think about how to group them. That will then dictate the informal Source List Name you use (since the list is alphabetized by that name) and the Source Title (since that dictates the sequence in the bibliography). There are also some tricks that you can use to force the Master List sorting. For example, in the Source List Name I always preceed a book title with Book so all the books sort together alphabetically by title. Others use codes to accomplish the same thing. Neither of these will appear in the source notes or bibliography but they will definitely help to organize your list of Master Sources so that you can find things easily. By spending some serious thought up front on how to organize, I think you'll be much happier with the end result. I'm sure list members would be happy to suggest source grouping approaches if you ask. Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Doris Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:13 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Sources suggestions Hi All, I am in hopes that some of you more experienced users can advise me on the best way to clean up master sources? When originally entered, I created a source (relative to whichever event) example Birth Certificate: Jane Doe, DOB. Now that my list of sources is getting so long, I thought I would use Legacy's SW and create one source per state per event, example for Birth Records: Pennsylvania, Birth Certificates After 1906. In my obsession also of everything must match, I am confusing myself as to what way is the best way is to represent my research. Since SW mirrors EE, I thought it would be best to switch to this format. The final result must make sense and be easy to follow so that I can be consistent here on out when adding new information. Truth be told, this attempt at organization maintenance is how I ended recreating my file from scratch while using FTM and now that the number of individuals in my file has quadrupled, I don't wish to repeat this nightmare. I have yet to make use of the tagging features in the program, mainly from a lack of understanding of how and why they would be used. Can tagging be used to mark the records I want to convert from an individual basic source to a source writer source? Or else, can it only be changed tediously, one record at time by adding and removing sources and than once a source has no one associated with it, deleting it? Some of you have mentioned the Source Template Conversion Tool, but if I am following correctly this feature is not yet available in the Legacy program? Any suggested work about, like maybe this L Tools some have mentioned? Hope I made enough sense that someone can offer some sage advice! Thanks! Doris 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] Compiler Information
I printed some family group sheets today and noticed the date and my compiler information did not print on them. I checked and the those fields are filled in when I go to Options/Compiler Info. Is there something else I need to turn on? I am using Windows Vista and the currant version of Legacy Deluxe. Thanks, Rita in South Carolina 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] Surnames with Mc standard?
Paula: _Getting It Right_ by Mary H. Slawson recommends leaving a space. Because I post my database at RootsWeb though, I use the version with no space as an alternate name. Otherwise RootsWeb searches for McDowell won't find Mc Dowell. That's likely to re-start the not a true aka discussion, but it's the way I do it. Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Paula Ryburn Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:55 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Surnames with Mc standard? What's the standard for entering surnames that begin with Mc.. leave a space or not? For example, Mc Dowell or McDowell...? In looking for ALL CAPS in the Surname list, I discovered I have entered the Mc names both ways. Thanks, --Paula in Texas 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] Why are my pictures disappearing!
I added about 30 pictures this evening. They all showed up just like they were supposed to. I DID NOT CHANGE ANY FILE NAMES AFTER ADDING THE PICTURES. However, some of the pictures are no longer showing up! I am having to reattach them to the person. Michele 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] Entering US Census Information
I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different styles and to be honest I have not made up my mind and won't till I have really done enough to decide. What I have seen less discussion of and really wanted to know more of is how to others document the lines/columns in a Census or do you even bother? 1. In Legacy you have an event called Census. What others enter do and find works best and why for the related event fields? -Description: -Date: -Place: -Notes: 2. How do you enter specific fields such as in the 1900 US Census like: Relation, Color or Race, Attended School, Can Read, Can Write, Can speak English, Owner or rented home, Farm or House .. or even my favorite in the 1870 Census is Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic. Do you actually type Can Read: then Yes or No etc.? For each field? Where do you put that info so it looks right and shows up. 3. Do you do anything different if they are Head of House Hold vs not? 4. If you find an occupation field do then also enter that information into a new occupation event? Same thing This information sorta seems like source text, but that did not seem like the best place to put it so it would show up right in most reports. I could see how some would even put it in two places event and source text and I don't mind doing that if that were the best thing How do others handle all the fields and fun details so it shows right in reports or do you just say they were listed in the Census and provide no detailed information? More details the better. thanks for any all suggestions Alan 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] I just updated the Legacy Charting program and
Every time I try to generate a chart I get the following error message... Cannot create file C:\Program Files\Millennia\Legcy\Charting7\data\AncStand\_Default.theme. The system cannont find the path specified. How do I fix this? michele 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] Nevermind about the charting problem
Nevermind about the charting program problem after updating... I closed the program and restarted my computer and it is working normally now. michele 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] Entering US Census Information
Here is what I do... Event: 1870 United Stated Federal Census Description: population schedule Date: 31 Jul 1870 Place: , Marion County, Mississippi, USA B.F. Graham, age 35, male, white, farmer, value of real state $50, born in MS, unable to read or write Sarah Ann Graham, age 30, female, white, wife, born in MS, unable to read or write Archibald Graham, age 6, male, white, at home, born in MS Sarah E. Graham, age 5, female, white, at home, born in MS Isabella Graham, age 1, female, white, at home, born in MS William Graham, age 9/12, male, white, at home, born in MS, born in Sep Here is one from 1900 for you... Event: 1900 United States Federal Census Description: population schedule Date: 11 Jun 1900 Place: , Marion County, Mississippi, USA James E. Simmons, head, white male, born Feb 1870, age 30, married 11 years, farmer, born in MS, both parents born in MS, can read/write/speak English, owns home free and clear, farm, #81 on farm schedule Corine E. Simmons, wife, white female, born Oct 1870, age 29, married 11 years, mother of 7 children, 6 living, born in MS, both parents born in MS, can read/speak English, unable to write Francis A. Simmons, daughter, white female, born Jul 1890, age 9, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS Mary Simmons, daughter, white female, born Oct 1891, age 8, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS, did not attend school this year, unable to read or write, speaks English Jesse Simmons, son, white male, born Apr 1894, age 6, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS Walter Simmons, son, white male, born Mar 1896, age, 4 single, born in MS, both parents born in MS Lemuel Simmons, son, white male, born May 1900, age 1/12, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS Here is one that is not a population schedule... Event: 1850 United States Federal Census Description: slave schedule Date: 24 Sep 1850 Place: , Columbia County, Georgia, USA John Lewis 20 year old black male 14 year old black male 2 year old black male 1 year old black male 24 year old black female 4 year old black female And yet another.. Event: 1880 United States Federal Census Description: mortality schedule Date: 31 May 1880 Place: , Columbia County, Georgia, USA John Lewis, age 81, male, white, widowed, born in GA, both parents born in GA, farmer, died in May, cause of death - paralysis, attending physcian - J. Maddox Michele - Original Message - From: Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:34 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different styles and to be honest I have not made up my mind and won't till I have really done enough to decide. What I have seen less discussion of and really wanted to know more of is how to others document the lines/columns in a Census or do you even bother? 1. In Legacy you have an event called Census. What others enter do and find works best and why for the related event fields? -Description: -Date: -Place: -Notes: 2. How do you enter specific fields such as in the 1900 US Census like: Relation, Color or Race, Attended School, Can Read, Can Write, Can speak English, Owner or rented home, Farm or House .. or even my favorite in the 1870 Census is Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic. Do you actually type Can Read: then Yes or No etc.? For each field? Where do you put that info so it looks right and shows up. 3. Do you do anything different if they are Head of House Hold vs not? 4. If you find an occupation field do then also enter that information into a new occupation event? Same thing This information sorta seems like source text, but that did not seem like the best place to put it so it would show up right in most reports. I could see how some would even put it in two places event and source text and I don't mind doing that if that were the best thing How do others handle all the fields and fun details so it shows right in reports or do you just say they were listed in the Census and provide no detailed information? More details the better. thanks for any all suggestions Alan 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: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.89/2359 - Release Date: 09/10/09 05:50:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support:
Re: [LegacyUG] Why are my pictures disappearing!
Happened to me also, however, I had my pics on CD and not stored on my computer. Therefore, Legacy had an invalid path. The pics need to be located on your computer. Are they? AMYA Michele Lewis wrote: I added about 30 pictures this evening. They all showed up just like they were supposed to. I DID NOT CHANGE ANY FILE NAMES AFTER ADDING THE PICTURES. However, some of the pictures are no longer showing up! I am having to reattach them to the person. Michele 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] Compiler Information
Rita, Go to Reports - Family - Header/Footer and click the box near the bottom - Include Compilers Information. Unclick - Report Credit Information, if you wish. At 11:50 AM 11/09/2009, you wrote: I printed some family group sheets today and noticed the date and my compiler information did not print on them. I checked and the those fields are filled in when I go to Options/Compiler Info. Is there something else I need to turn on? I am using Windows Vista and the currant version of Legacy Deluxe. Thanks, Rita in South Carolina Susan, Victoria, Australia. English webpage: http://www.st.net.au/~susanp/index.html American webpage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~susanp Research: ALSTON-Suffolk/Bedford/America,post 1850, BOURCHIER-UK, post 1650, CHUDLEIGH-Devon, All, HOLTTUM-Kent,pre 1720,MARTEN-Sussex,pre 1660, OXENDEN-Kent, All. 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] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
Alan, if you put the info in the location field, your location master list will look like: Easton, Lehigh Co, PA, USA Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA, USA St. Luke's Cemetery/867 Mervin Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, USA You will have the Cemetery or Street address in the place of the city and everything else moved out from there. It will be difficult to merge things and have things consistent. I use the Event Address to save that info. However, there is no way to note the Church name and address in the Marriage view unless it is put in as a marriage event. I wish that were changed. Ellen Kramer Researching and loving Dorman, Kramer, Mirarchi, Procopio, Renninger and Staudt-Stoudt-Stout families On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Alan Jones wrote: When I used FTM I put my addresses like this with the street/ cemetery, city, county, state, USA. Then when i converted to Legacy I read and watched the videos and decided i should do it how Legacy does and stopped putting the street or cemetery name in the description. I slowly started moving existing entries taking out the street address or cemetery line in the location field and moving it to and address. I am not sure I like the output. Can anyone especially the Legacy people who suggest not putting in the street/cemetery info in the location field give me some things I need watch out for or reasons NOT put the street/cemetery in the field? I am thinking of going back the other way as I see so many others doing this. What are the issues with putting all the info in the location field? I am not trying to give anyone a hard time just trying to understand the Pros and Cons especially before switching back. I would appreciate any and all constructive comments pro and con thanks Alan Art Seddon wrote: Bill, An entry like this: 3553 SW Adams Street, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA will take you directly to the location that I used to live at in the 1930's. It wont show the house, because it don't exist any more, and your notes can show name changes. The street was called S. Adams then. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: William H. Boswell To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:26 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location ks for the tips. I really don't like the mapping feature anyway because, as you said, you can't plot the entire house number and street. I really don't care about the city unless to just verify that it ever existed. I am not going to move the addresses, but already moved a few cemetery names--one for more than 200 people buried there. 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] Surnames with Mc standard?
Well, as someone with a Maiden Name that starts with Mc - here is my rant. (ignore if you like.) I personally always hated it when someone put a space in my name. Drove me crazy! I also hated it if people got the capitalization wrong. Even if someone was doing all-caps, I would do that c little and I hated it when people had it in caps. (Hey, in typing class (back in the old days of typewriters...) - in timed tests - I would take the time to roll the paper to superscript the c) So - I would personally say - never, never, never put a space in. I don't think that people with a name with a Mc tend to put a space in when they use it. That said - I don't think there is a standard What's the standard for entering surnames that begin with Mc.. leave a space or not? For example, Mc Dowell or McDowell...?
Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information
Because I started with computers 30 years ago and memory was expensive, I used a lot of one letter words, and put a - when it was blank, for a place saver, to maintain the columns (never really looked good). The important part is to make your transcription something that you (and others) can look at and understand what the census actually says. Example in 1930 NR means no radio but elsewhere NRNW means no read no write. Do what makes sense to you. For your question 2 I use NDDB = Not Deaf, Dumb, Blind; beause my family members that had one or more of these situations , had the types filled in there, so I saw someone on a page, near my relation who had deaf and dumb, and idiotic listed. I put Y for speak English or N for obvious. I at one time had tried to move the details into Excel, but it was eating up too much memory. Now I can afford more but don't want to do it anymore. I am content with what I have. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:34:44 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different styles and to be honest I have not made up my mind and won't till I have really done enough to decide. What I have seen less discussion of and really wanted to know more of is how to others document the lines/columns in a Census or do you even bother? 1. In Legacy you have an event called Census. What others enter do and find works best and why for the related event fields? -Description: -Date: -Place: -Notes: 2. How do you enter specific fields such as in the 1900 US Census like: Relation, Color or Race, Attended School, Can Read, Can Write, Can speak English, Owner or rented home, Farm or House .. or even my favorite in the 1870 Census is Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic. Do you actually type Can Read: then Yes or No etc.? For each field? Where do you put that info so it looks right and shows up. 3. Do you do anything different if they are Head of House Hold vs not? 4. If you find an occupation field do then also enter that information into a new occupation event? Same thing This information sorta seems like source text, but that did not seem like the best place to put it so it would show up right in most reports. I could see how some would even put it in two places event and source text and I don't mind doing that if that were the best thing How do others handle all the fields and fun details so it shows right in reports or do you just say they were listed in the Census and provide no detailed information? More details the better. thanks for any all suggestions Alan 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] I just updated the Legacy Charting program and
I see possible spelling errors in you file name, which most of us are used to ignoring (usually) but the computer is not as flexible. You left the a out of Legacy. I make spelling errors all the time, but I don't know if that is the problem? Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net To: Legacy E-Mail List LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:41:21 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] I just updated the Legacy Charting program and Every time I try to generate a chart I get the following error message... Cannot create file C:\Program Files\Millennia\Legcy\Charting7\data\AncStand\_Default.theme. The system cannont find the path specified. How do I fix this? michele 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] Cleaning up Sources suggestions
I added these tools back in the Basic days. My letters, correspondences and other 'not available anywhere in the world but from me' a comma as the first character ,Lincoln, Abraham letter to John Smith; ,Smith, Mary - Pedigree charts and family group sheets- 17 pages; and government/church transcripts with a period. .USA, IL, Cook, Chicago, 1880 census; .USA, KY, Owen, New Liberty Baptist Church records and let the books have no character at the first spot. This clumps all the stuff into the 3 categories family docs, official docs, and compiled docs. You need to come up with a philosophy of what you want to do. I am now switching over to EE, but you have to come up with naming ideas, anyway. Abbreviations (where and when)?, How big the area (country, state, county, city, census page)? and each e-mail from a person separate or combined together. Each of us must or already have found 'my' answers to these questions. Good Luck Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:48:21 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Sources suggestions Doris: You covered a whole basket of topics in this post and I won't even try to respond to all, but I think the first one to address is organization of your Master Source List. Since you're an _EE_ fan, check p 67. I don't think it's possible (or even advisable) to apply an everything must match philosophy to organizing sources, and that's where Legacy's separate fields for Source List Name and Source Title comes in so handy. Books, for example, should be grouped by author and title, but that doesn't work at all for census records or for birth/marriage/death records. Some things lend themselves best to being grouped by geographic location and others work better when grouped by source type. Now that you apparently have a fairly long list of Master Sources, and before you begin reworking it, I'd suggest you take a close look at the items there and think about how to group them. That will then dictate the informal Source List Name you use (since the list is alphabetized by that name) and the Source Title (since that dictates the sequence in the bibliography). There are also some tricks that you can use to force the Master List sorting. For example, in the Source List Name I always preceed a book title with Book so all the books sort together alphabetically by title. Others use codes to accomplish the same thing. Neither of these will appear in the source notes or bibliography but they will definitely help to organize your list of Master Sources so that you can find things easily. By spending some serious thought up front on how to organize, I think you'll be much happier with the end result. I'm sure list members would be happy to suggest source grouping approaches if you ask. Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Doris Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:13 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Sources suggestions Hi All, I am in hopes that some of you more experienced users can advise me on the best way to clean up master sources? When originally entered, I created a source (relative to whichever event) example Birth Certificate: Jane Doe, DOB. Now that my list of sources is getting so long, I thought I would use Legacy's SW and create one source per state per event, example for Birth Records: Pennsylvania, Birth Certificates After 1906. In my obsession also of everything must match, I am confusing myself as to what way is the best way is to represent my research. Since SW mirrors EE, I thought it would be best to switch to this format. The final result must make sense and be easy to follow so that I can be consistent here on out when adding new information. Truth be told, this attempt at organization maintenance is how I ended recreating my file from scratch while using FTM and now that the number of individuals in my file has quadrupled, I don't wish to repeat this nightmare. I have yet to make use of the tagging features in the program, mainly from a lack of understanding of how and why they would be used. Can tagging be used to mark the records I want to convert from an individual basic source to a source writer source? Or else, can it only be changed tediously, one record at time by adding and removing sources and than once a source has no one associated with it, deleting it? Some of you have mentioned the Source Template Conversion Tool, but if I am following correctly this feature is not yet available in the Legacy program? Any suggested work about, like maybe this L Tools some have mentioned? Hope I made enough sense that someone can offer some sage advice! Thanks! Doris Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages:
Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information
Michele, Interesting so you don't use the default Census event but instead use an event for each Census? I had not thought about that. I guess that works better with the sentence structure and wording? I see for what I assume is your notes section you list each family member that was on the Census. So do you put that same event in for each person so that in your first example the exact same event (notes and all) for B.F. Graham, Sarah Ann, Archibald, Sarah E, Isabella, and William? I figure you would so that a report for any one person would show everything and one knows who the Head of House Hold was etc. I also noted that you did not put down unable to read or write for the kids. I got a kick out of finding my Grandfather on a Census entry and it saying could not read or write when i knew he could then i realized he was 3 at the time of the Census. I truly appreciate the details you provided they give some good examples. How do others handle this? thanks again Michele Alan Michele Lewis wrote: Here is what I do... Event: 1870 United Stated Federal Census Description: population schedule Date: 31 Jul 1870 Place: , Marion County, Mississippi, USA B.F. Graham, age 35, male, white, farmer, value of real state $50, born in MS, unable to read or write Sarah Ann Graham, age 30, female, white, wife, born in MS, unable to read or write Archibald Graham, age 6, male, white, at home, born in MS Sarah E. Graham, age 5, female, white, at home, born in MS Isabella Graham, age 1, female, white, at home, born in MS William Graham, age 9/12, male, white, at home, born in MS, born in Sep Here is one from 1900 for you... Event: 1900 United States Federal Census Description: population schedule Date: 11 Jun 1900 Place: , Marion County, Mississippi, USA James E. Simmons, head, white male, born Feb 1870, age 30, married 11 years, farmer, born in MS, both parents born in MS, can read/write/speak English, owns home free and clear, farm, #81 on farm schedule Corine E. Simmons, wife, white female, born Oct 1870, age 29, married 11 years, mother of 7 children, 6 living, born in MS, both parents born in MS, can read/speak English, unable to write Francis A. Simmons, daughter, white female, born Jul 1890, age 9, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS Mary Simmons, daughter, white female, born Oct 1891, age 8, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS, did not attend school this year, unable to read or write, speaks English Jesse Simmons, son, white male, born Apr 1894, age 6, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS Walter Simmons, son, white male, born Mar 1896, age, 4 single, born in MS, both parents born in MS Lemuel Simmons, son, white male, born May 1900, age 1/12, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS Here is one that is not a population schedule... Event: 1850 United States Federal Census Description: slave schedule Date: 24 Sep 1850 Place: , Columbia County, Georgia, USA John Lewis 20 year old black male 14 year old black male 2 year old black male 1 year old black male 24 year old black female 4 year old black female And yet another.. Event: 1880 United States Federal Census Description: mortality schedule Date: 31 May 1880 Place: , Columbia County, Georgia, USA John Lewis, age 81, male, white, widowed, born in GA, both parents born in GA, farmer, died in May, cause of death - paralysis, attending physcian - J. Maddox Michele - Original Message - From: Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:34 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different styles and to be honest I have not made up my mind and won't till I have really done enough to decide. What I have seen less discussion of and really wanted to know more of is how to others document the lines/columns in a Census or do you even bother? 1. In Legacy you have an event called Census. What others enter do and find works best and why for the related event fields? -Description: -Date: -Place: -Notes: 2. How do you enter specific fields such as in the 1900 US Census like: Relation, Color or Race, Attended School, Can Read, Can Write, Can speak English, Owner or rented home, Farm or House .. or even my favorite in the 1870 Census is Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic. Do you actually type Can Read: then Yes or No etc.? For each field? Where do you put that info so it looks right and shows up. 3. Do you do anything different if they are Head of House Hold vs not? 4. If you find an occupation field do then also enter that information into a new occupation event? Same thing This information sorta seems like source text, but that did not seem like the best place to put it so it would show up right in most reports. I could see how some would even put it in two places event and source
