[LegacyUG] Legacy Forum (was: Impossible to unsubscribe?)
There is a lightly used message board on RootsWeb: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.software.legacy/mb.ashx John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Freddy Rodriguez freddy...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:00 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: RE: [LegacyUG] Impossible to unsubscribe? Why doesn't Legacy have a forum setup instead of or along with a mailing list? 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] Charts For Requesting Info
Take a look at the Legacy Ancestor Book Report. From your family file, select the individual you wish to send the report to. On the Options page, under Insert Underlines for Missing check Given and surnames and Dates and places. Then select the number of desired generations. Go to Report Options and select the information and format you wish to include. Return to the Ancestor Book page and select Preview. If this is what you want, send it to the selected relative and ask him to fill in the blanks. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: John Magyari jmagy...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 4:48 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Charts For Requesting Info I'd like to create a chart similar to the following, so I can forward it on to have others fill in missing blanks. I'd like to be able to specify how many generations to create, when individuals are not in DB create placeholders for them with categories, and have categories displayed with known and unknown info. If info is known in Legacy Fill in the info, if not Leave a blank space behind Category Field If we can not currently do this in Legacy, is there a 3rd party app if gedcom is imported to that will create this type of chart? 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] Location time line
Jane, Unless I'm misunderstanding your request, the Chronology view should provide what you're looking for. Access it from the tab above the Legacy screen to the left of the Research Guidance tab. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 4:58 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Location time line I should like to see something like the timeline that one gets in the Reserach Guidance section of Legacy, which can be printed or saved. Unfortunately, I cannot find a way to print that timeline. Often I need a summary of locations associated with a particular person, so that I have a quick way of choosing what geographical location to search. I have not found a report that does that. Am I missing one? I am thinking of one a timeline very like the one in Research Guidance, giving person's name, type of event, date, and location. Is there a way to print that which I just haven't discovered? Jane Sarles 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] Does anyone know how to increase max number of children from 60 to 99
Do you have someone who has more than 60 children? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Robert Arens bob.aren...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 6:13 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Does anyone know how to increase max number of children from 60 to 99 Does anyone know how to increase the maximum number of children from 60 to 99 in Legacy 7 Delux? -- Bob Arens Vice President Chief Financial Officer EagleVisions Energy LLC www.eaglevisionsenergy.com 1-952-430-7000 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] Chart question
2. It would also be great if I could do one chart, such as the hourglass, with our grandfather's ancestry on one side and grandmother's ancestry on the other. Is this possible? Try the Bow Tie chart with a child of the grandparents as the focal person. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Mary Figgins mbfigg...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:21 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Chart question I'm trying to put together a descendancy chart for a small family get together of my mother, her sibling and their children and grandchildren. Some the of the cousins have never met each other and don't know who each other are. The chart is to help them know how we all fit together. There a few things I'd really like to have on the chart but can't find. I'm using Legacy Charting. 1. Is it is possible to show children of previous marriages of the spouse? My sister and brother have both married people who have children by a previous marriage. Even though they are not blood relatives, these older children are considered part of our family. I remember my uncle have boys older than me. I just found out that they were his wife's from a previous marriage. Can a chart show these children? If not, is there some way to cleanly edit the chart to insert them? 2. It would also be great if I could do one chart, such as the hourglass, with our grandfather's ancestry on one side and grandmother's ancestry on the other. Is this possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mary Beth Figgins 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] Handling Divorces in Charting
I think this is possible by creating 2 hour glass charts, one for each parent. With some judicious editing and moving of boxes, and probably a lot of trial and error, the printed pages could be taped together to create such a chart. I don't know of any way to do this in one digital file. It's kind of a cut and paste job, but possible. Give it a try. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: michael barberi michaelbarb...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:44 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Handling Divorces in Charting Can anyone advise me how to solve the following problem. Most people want to see the ancestors of both of their parents and their descendants, however I find no chart that will do this. I like the hour-glass chart, but it only shows the ancestors of the selected person and his/her descendants (not the ancestors of his/her spouse). Mike Barberi 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] Charting - ancestry
Mary, See my post of a few minutes with the mistaken subject line of Re: [LegacyUG] Handling Divorces in Charting. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Mary Figgins Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:36 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Charting - ancestry Is it possible to have a chart that shows ancestor and descendants of a couple? I can get a hour glass that gives the descendants of a couple and the ancestors of one person in the couple. Can it show the ancestors of both members of the couple? 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] Chart question
Mary Beth, Instead of creating a separate chart for each child, I would add a phantom child to the grandparents and name it something like, Jane, Thomas, and Cynthia, JONES or Children of Sam and Margaret JONES, and choose the phony kid as the focal person for the chart. Of course you need to delete the phantom after you've printed your chart. -- From: Mary Figgins mbfigg...@yahoo.com Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 4:42 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Chart question Duh! I guess I can do one from each of the children showing them in that position. Mary Beth 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] Birth certificate as a master source
When I first started to source my data, I used the rule of thumb that a Master Source was any single document whether it was a single page, as a Birth Certificate, or millions of pages, as the 1900 U.S. Census. Of course, as time passed I encountered many sources for which this format wasn't a good fit. And then I came across collections of data, such as Ancestry.com has. So now I use the collection (e.g., Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909) as a Master Source. Almost all my Birth/Death certificates that I use as Master Sources were created with the Basic Source template, so the individual name is included in the Title. If you are determined to keep the BC as a Master Source, you might try entering individual identifying date in the Text or Comments fields and checking the Include on reports box and see if you can get wording that works for you. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Boyd Miller bo...@vodafone.net.nz Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:57 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Birth certificate as a master source I treat each birth, marriage and death certificate as a master source because information from each certificate relates to a number of different people. A birth certificate can give father's and mothers full names, ages (hence approximate birth date), occupations and birthplaces, parents marriage date and place, and birth informant. Other certificates similarly have data on several people apart from the certificate subject person(s). I am trying to cite a birth certificate issued in Scotland. The template for a birth certificate comes from Birth recordsBirth certificateAll countries except.Created at state/provincial levelbasic format (Most other options within this certificate string get you to a similar set of fields) There does not appear to be a field to record whose birth the certificate relates to. If I use this master source to, for instance, source the parent's marriage place or the father's occupation, there is no way in the printed out source list that comes from this template, to tell which certificate the information was taken from. I can title the document in the Source List Name to uniquely identify it, but that does not print out in the reports. The same issue relates to citing marriage and death certificates - there does not appear to be a field to record the name of the principal player. These templates are thus of no use at all, or am I missing something? Do I have to go back to the Basic source format and use the Title field to get a source that tells me whose birth is being recorded? How does anybody else cite a birth certificate? Boyd No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.93/2365 - Release Date: 09/12/09 06:37:00 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: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Reports of Migration Patterns--was Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location
You can also create an Event Report. Just tag the individuals you want to include, and make a report for the tagged individuals for Residence events. Use Options to select the data you want to include, e.g. Date, Place. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:37 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location Mike: I believe you can accomplish the migration patterns for an individual using Legacy as follows: 1. Place a Resident event for the individual for each resident location, e.g., at college, 1st job, 2nd job, etc -- I have about 15 resident events for myself for each location that I have lived at - be sure to include the city, county, state, country location in the resident event 2. Then View the Chronology Tab and it will display the time history of a person very nicely -- this provides a 1 or 2 page summary of a persons life 3. You can also map an individual and it will map all of these resident event locations during the persons life. When I 1st started using Legacy, I didn't use event, but I now place Census events, resident events, and others for each person so I can use the Chronology reporting capability and the mapping capability. Try this for yourself in your database, you might like it. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, michael barberi michaelbarb...@yahoo.comwrote: 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) 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
Judy, The Master Source should be the same for each individual. The differences should be entered in the Detail screen. After you create the Master Source with the common information for the letter, select that for as the source for the first individual and enter the text for him in the Source Detail screen. For the next individual, select the same source, but change the Detail text. Thus, for each individual, the Master Source info will be the same, but the Detail text will be different. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Judy jusen...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:21 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Master source question I have a question about master sources. I am a new user, and am adding some new people to my file. I have a document (a letter) which I want to use as a master source for these new people. So I created a master source, and started inputting the pertinent text for each person as I went along. However, I find that this seems to be a snowballing effect...the text for the last person reappears for the new person and so on. How do I create a master source, such as a document, that is used for multiple people, and just refer to the part that pertains to a certain individual in that individual's source? Judy 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] Birth/Born Sentence Structure
I assume you are trying to create a Descendant BOOK Report. You cannot include Events on the Descendant CHART. In the Book report you can select Report Options and then check the very first box on the Include tab, Addr for birth, chr, death, bur., marr. to include addresses for those events. The addresses appear as follows: John SMITH was born on 1 Sep 1950 in Hometown, Home County, California, USA (Hometown Memorial Hospital, 3330 Main St., Hometown, CA, USA). This may not be the exact format you want, but I don't think you can change the sentence structure. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Ronald E Howell rehowell0...@earthlink.net Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 4:04 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Birth/Born Sentence Structure Mike, Your answer makes the most sense. The Birth/Born, Baptism/Christening, Death, Burial and possibly Marriage should be considered as 'information' not 'events'. How would you stop these 'events/information' from printing? Thanks Again, Ron Howell -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Mike Fry Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 4:24 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Birth/Born Sentence Structure Ronald E Howell wrote: Is it possible to change the sentence structure for the 'Birth/Born' event to include an address? For example: ' was born at (Hospital Address) in (City, County, State, USA)'. I known the structure can be changed on other events, but would like to do this with birth, death, and marriage. The report I'm trying to do this on is a 'Descendant Report'. I am running the current update to Legacy (7.0.0.107). I have looked through the Legacy Archives and could not fine anything to help. Problem: Birth, Baptism/Christening, Death and Burial 'events' are not Events in the sense that they normally have definitions in the Master List of Event Definitions. Nothing to stop you adding these as Events along with your own definition of how they print. Of course, you'd have to stop the 'events' from printing as well. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Descendants narrative report query
Gwen, It looks to me that the starting person for the report is an ancestor of the sisters. Therefore, each sister appears as a descendant and the husband would appear twice (once as the husband of each of the sisters) and so would his information. If the starting person was an ancestor of the husband, he would appear just once and so would his information. Also, in the case of a man married twice to non-sisters, only one of the wives would be a descendant and the other wife would not be mentioned. I'd have to do a little experimenting to try all the variables of family relationships, so your situation might be something else. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Noddie 7thw...@ihug.co.nz Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:24 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Descendants narrative report query Hi Ron and thank you for your reply to my query. I understand your answer and believe Legacy is working fine for me. What I cannot come to grips with is I have a similar situation (though they are not sisters this time) in the same family where another brother married twice but his Noted events only show up with one spouse and I have not changed any of the settings to make this appear otherwise.? Weird. Thanks again Gwen Land of the long white cloud - New Zealand On 27/08/2009, at 7:55 PM, ronald ferguson wrote: Gwen, As I understand your question, I believe that Legacy is acting correctly, and in a way which I would wish. If I go to either of the sisters then I would expect to see her husband's details, if they are only set for one sister then how would I know which, indeed would I even know that they are with the other, if they are not there? You can minimise what is shown by unchecking show spouses notesbut do note that this would apply to all spouses. Ron Ferguson _ Tutorials: Programme of adding videos commenced 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/ _ To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com From: 7thw...@ihug.co.nz Subject: [LegacyUG] Descendants narrative report query Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:06:07 +1200 Hi I have created a descendants narrative report for my relative. I checked the detail and find on the following pages I have duplicated information which I believe is not correct. I have a chap who married two sisters, the 2nd after the first sister died. I have events entered for this chap, but am finding on my report and it is only with him, that the events for :Noted events in his life: are printing out twice. Once for his entry for his 1st wife and then again for the entry with his 2nd wife (her sister). I have other relatives who have been married twice and this does seem to happen with them. Have I pushed some magic button and made it appear twice by mistake. I do hope someone can help with this as I have checked my settings and cannot find an answer. In the options for the report under include I have ticked Events for husband and wife Events for marriage Notes all of these options are ticked I have tried unchecking events for husband and wife and events for marriage alternatively and this does not fix the problem Thanks for any kind help with this. Ta Gwen Land of the long white cloud - New Zealand _ Windows Live Messenger: Celebrate 10 amazing years with free winks and emoticons. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/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 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] Creating Books
Chick, Drop down chart is the classic descendant chart which has the starting couple on the top line (usually in a box or boxes) with their children and spouses on the second line, grandchildren on the third line, ggrandchildren on the fourth, etc. In Legacy Charting it is the Standard Descendant Chart type. By direct descendant chart, do you mean the chart described above without showing spouses for the children, grandchildren, etc.? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Chick Lewis cglewi...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 12:43 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Creating Books John, Thanks, but that is still a bit un-wieldly with large families. That method would work great with a direct descendant only chart. In fact, I use that method to create multiple page ancestor charts, 4 generations at a time. I am not sure I know what a drop-down descendant chart is. Is it printable in a book or a web page? FTM16 had the capability of producing direct descendant charts, but I rather not go back to it. Does anyone know if one of the Legacy add-on charting programs can do a direct descendant chart? Chick On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:34 PM, John S. Adamsoldbr...@hotmail.com wrote: Chick, I assume you want a drop down descendant chart rather than the line or box descendant chart you can create in Legacy from the Reports menu. You could create a multiple page, multiple generation, descendant chart with Legacy Charting by making a series of 2 generation charts. The first chart would show the starting couple with all their children and children's spouses. Then create a 2 generation chart for each of the children. Then a chart for each of their children, etc., until you've covered the desired number of generations. The number of pages required would of course depend on the number of generations and the number of children in each generation. Is this what you're looking for? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Chick Lewis cglewi...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:26 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Creating Books Alastair, Thank you for your response. I am not ready to publish as yet. I am still trying to determine what should go in the book and what type of charts to use. It is difficult to create a readable chart with more than 4 generations on a single standard size page. An ancestor chart or pedigree chart can easily span several generations with continuations to other pages, but that does not work very well with descendant charts. I am looking for a way to create a descendant chart in multiple pages suitable for a book. Another possible way to reduce the size of a descendant chart would be to show direct descendants only. Chick 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] Creating Books
In that case, I think the Relationship Calculator would produce the desired chart. However, carefully proofread any chart, as the RC is rather buggy. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Valerie Laskowski lask...@att.net Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 8:26 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Creating Books No, he is referring to taking an ancestor say from the 15th century and having a descendant chart from them to yourself in the most DIRECT route. The descendant chart options in FTM had this feature. At a glance, I think the DNA charts are closest to this, but I will have to make one for myself to see if it matches. Valerie -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of John S. Adams Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:49 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Cc: cglewi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Creating Books Chick, Drop down chart is the classic descendant chart which has the starting couple on the top line (usually in a box or boxes) with their children and spouses on the second line, grandchildren on the third line, ggrandchildren on the fourth, etc. In Legacy Charting it is the Standard Descendant Chart type. By direct descendant chart, do you mean the chart described above without showing spouses for the children, grandchildren, etc.? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Creating Books
Chick, I assume you want a drop down descendant chart rather than the line or box descendant chart you can create in Legacy from the Reports menu. You could create a multiple page, multiple generation, descendant chart with Legacy Charting by making a series of 2 generation charts. The first chart would show the starting couple with all their children and children's spouses. Then create a 2 generation chart for each of the children. Then a chart for each of their children, etc., until you've covered the desired number of generations. The number of pages required would of course depend on the number of generations and the number of children in each generation. Is this what you're looking for? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Chick Lewis cglewi...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:26 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Creating Books Alastair, Thank you for your response. I am not ready to publish as yet. I am still trying to determine what should go in the book and what type of charts to use. It is difficult to create a readable chart with more than 4 generations on a single standard size page. An ancestor chart or pedigree chart can easily span several generations with continuations to other pages, but that does not work very well with descendant charts. I am looking for a way to create a descendant chart in multiple pages suitable for a book. Another possible way to reduce the size of a descendant chart would be to show direct descendants only. Chick 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] Relationships not working - AGAIN
Welcome to the club. I first reported problems with the Relationship Calculator 6 or 8 years ago. I even sent a copy of my family file to Legacy at their request so they could attempt to resolve the problem. I never heard back from them. There have been many reports of RC problems on this forum over the years, but very little, if any, response from Legacy. There are still problems in v7.0.097 with 1/2 relationships (e.g., 1/2 Granduncle reported as Granduncle), relationships changing when Swap is selected, and duplication or omission of generations at times. I have nothing near the 30+ generations that you have, but I'm sure the chances of errors increase exponentially with more generations. I would really like to be able to use the RC as I think the charts it produces would be very useful. However, I can't trust the accuracy unless I proofread it in great detail. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: CE Wood wood...@msn.com Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:31 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationships not working - AGAIN I am again having relationship problems with the database. Bad enough that the relationship that shows in Family View and o Pedigree View are not the direct relationship but the closest relationship. Many agree with me that THAT should be the default or, at the VERY least, an option! However, I now have ancestors that are listed as NOT direct ancestors by Relationship Setting or Calculating. They are correctly shown as direct ancestors by Ancestor Colors and by direct ancestor tagging. I have a 29th GGF and GGM who had two children. One is shown as 28th GGM, but her full brother is shown as 28th GGU and his wife as Wife of 28th GGU. Right clicking on the + next to the Relationship to see other relationships does not list as another relationship the fact that they are my 28th GGF and 29th GGM. And, all their descendants are incorrectly calculated by Relationship Calculator! I have my Relationship Calculator set to find the closest 20 relationships and closest 2 paths, as Brian had me do when I last had this problem. It must be a bug if Ancestor Colors and Ancestor Tagging can make them direct ancestors but Relationship Calculator cannot. Anyone help? CE 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] Things I Would Like to See
One way to do this would be to create a Calendar List Report for all individuals in you file. This will sort everyone by birth date. You can save a PDF of this report have it on hand to refer to at any time. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Chick Lewis cglewi...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 3:13 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See CE, Secondary sorting in the index does not sort the DB by birth date. It sorts on names (or RIN) first. I would like to see sorting on birth date completely independent of the name. Take a look at Rebecca's example. Sorting the index on another field should not pose a problem for the programmers. Chick 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] Things I Would Like to See
Mary, If you look carefully at the Calendar List, you will see that, within each date, the names are sorted by birth year. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Mary Young m...@cmy.org.uk Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:02 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Things I Would Like to See 2009/8/3 John S. Adams oldbr...@hotmail.com: One way to do this would be to create a Calendar List Report for all individuals in you file. This will sort everyone by birth date. Unfortunately, there is no sort order within each birth date, so it's near-impossible to spot matches in a large data set. Mary Young 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] Magically Appearing Unknown Spouses and Parents
Hear! Hear!, Ron. One thing I have noticed with Legacy over the years, is the increasing complexity of the program. When I first bought Legacy, about version 4.0, or so, I was fairly new to genealogy and genealogy programs. The things that most appealed to me were the reviews and user testimonials that classified Legacy as user friendly, intuitive, and with a short learning curve. Now, some of the most common complaints are that it is too complicated, or that some features are too confusing (e.g., the Picture Center), or that access to some options aren't intuitive, or that the learning curve is too steep. For myself, there are many feature which, although they appear to be very useful, I don't use or bother to learn because it takes too long to become comfortable with them. I understand that all these bells and whistles have been added in response to user demands and for competitive reasons; and that many have been add-ons rather than integrated into a comprehensive program because extensive re-programming might affect long time users' saved user files, reports, formatting, events, charts, etc., etc. The result may be that Legacy, as well as other genealogy and office utility programs caught in this competitive vicious cycle, will sink under its own weight. New programs which are designed from scratch to include the features which we now take for granted or can't live without and are more intuitive and user friendly because of that design, will take over the market and the dinosaurs will sink into the tar. The temptation is to say , I like Legacy 7 (or 6 or 5) so I will stick with it. But when Version 8 or 9, comes out with new innovative and flashy features, can we resist upgrading? I'm certainly glad I'm not a software programmer or marketing director. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:05 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Magically Appearing Unknown Spouses and Parents Let us be perfectly clear as to what Legacy is. It is a genealogy database with some facilities for producing reports and webpages. It is not, and I hope never will be, a full blown word processing package or desktop publishing software. . Ron Ferguson 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] Another backup problem
I have Legacy 7.0.0.97 Deluxe, Win XP, 1 Gb RAM, 250 Gb hard drive. I have Reminder to make a backup when exiting Legacy checked. When I close Legacy by using the program Exit icon or clicking Exit on the File drop down menu, I get the Are you sure you want to exit Legacy? message. If I check Yes, I get the backup reminder. However, if Legacy is open when I turn off the computer using the windows icon, I get the Are you sure... message. If I check Yes, Legacy closes immediately and does not display the backup reminder. If I backup my file using the Backup Family File command on the File dropdown menu, it backs up correctly. If I then close the computer using the Windows mandated procedure, THEN I get the backup reminder, even though I just backed it up. Annoying. Does anyone have any thoughts? Any help appreciated. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Another backup problem
Ron Ferguson wrote: Legacy will only ask if you wish to back-up if you have changed the file during the session. If no changes have been made then you will not be asked. Yes, I made sure to make at least a minor change each time I tested the various shut down procedures. Jenny Benson wrote: My only thought is that I would always close all programs down correctly before shutting down the computer, if at all possible. Lots of programs do things (delete temporary files, etc) when they are closed down and should be given the opportunity to do so. Gary Templeman wrote: I will second Jenny's suggestion. I had thought of this, but I have always thought that one purpose of the Windows correct turn off procedure, i.e. using the Turn Off Computer button, was so that Windows could insure that all open programs were exited correctly, and also to save time and mouse clicks required to exit multiple programs. The fact that I get Are you sure you want to exit Legacy led me to believe that using the Windows procedure to exit was O.K. Thanks for all the responses. I will try changing my habits and close all programs before turning the computer off. Thanks, John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Another backup problem
Thanks, Ron John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:47 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Another backup problem John, I have just recalled that a while back I think I read that if Legacy was shut down from the windows Task Bar then the option to create a back-up was not offered. Ron Ferguson 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] OverWriting
David, When you get the Backup screen upon closing Legacy, you will see in the top half of the screen a bar labeled Select Name and Location for Data Backup. If you press that bar, a screen will open which allows you to enter any file name you wish. If you haven't done so in the past, Legacy will automatically give it the same name as your family file. Directly underneath the selection bar is a line that says something like Currently: C:\Legacy\BACKUP\DavesFamily.zip. If you don't select a new name for the file, you will get the pop-up alert that says, Backup Data Files - File Already Exists and below that, C:\Legacy\BACKUP\DavesFamily.zip already exists. Overwrite existing file? If you select Yes, your backup will be saved with the same name, but the last backup you made will be overwritten (destroyed). You haven't lost any data, but will only have one backup--your latest. The reason you get the message about not finding any multimedia files, is probably because you don't have any. In the lower half of the Customize Backup screen, just above the Multimedia selection bar, is a check box labeled Multimedia Files. It is probably checked. Uncheck it and you won't get the message again. If you want Legacy to automatically change the name of the backup file each time you backup, click on Options at the bottom of the screen. You can select to append the date, time or both to the file name. This will automatically give a different name to each backup you make and allow to see at a glance when it was made. You won't get the overwrite message because a new file is created and your old backup files are retained. The disadvantage to this is that, unless you regularly delete old backup files, you end up with dozens of old backups. I just looked at mine and had over 30, each of about 8 megabytes. To look at your backup files, go to My ComputerC: driveLegacyBackup. All of this reminds me that I have a problem with Backup which I will ask about in a later post. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA P.S. David, this forum is a sanctuary for the stupid and depressed. Welcome to the club. -- From: David MacDiarmid david.macdiar...@snp.org Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:23 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] OverWriting Patti Wyble wrote: It sounds like you overwrote your new database with your older one? Have you tried opening the database from each location? (Close any Legacy database you have open and double click the file from inside the folder to make sure you're looking at the right one.) I would have thought it would ask to confirm overwriting your new file onto the flash drive, so please double check that. When Legacy closes, it asks if you want to make a backup. When is the last time you did so? -Patti - Original Message From: David MacDiarmid david.macdiar...@snp.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 5:47:03 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] OverWriting Hi,I put myself in a very Depressing situation last night.Not being too computer literate i thought it best to download all my Legacy info onto my flash drive,(not used since Nov 2008).I got to a point in my attempt to do this,flashdrive plugged in etc' i was asked the question do you want to overwrite and i pressed yes or something.The flashdrive has now taken all my Legacy History back to Nov 2008 Can anyone helpme ,i feel so stupid and depressed,David 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] Citing Questionnaires
SourceWriter use Interviews and change the wording (e.g., Interviewee to Respondent) to suit you. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Ross Chapman ross.chap...@rogers.com Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:29 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Citing Questionnaires I have a number of questionnaires that I have received back from family members. Any ideas on how to cite them using either source writer or the old format? 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] Merging Charts
Veronica, You could create such a chart by printing out two descendant charts and cutting pasting the paper. And you wouldn't have to do much, if any, cutting, if you judicially arranged the individual boxes. However, I can't think of any way to create a single computer file that merges the two. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Veronica Manalvo ronnie_...@hotmail.com Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:49 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Merging Charts Hi everyone, I'm a relatively new user of Legacy Family Tree v7.0 and I have a query in regards to charting. What I am trying to do essentially is create a standard descendant chart but with two groups of descendants merged on the one chart - that is, I am trying to get the descendants of both of my grandparents on the same chart, where the common link is the marriage of my parents. I can create the separate charts for each set of my grandparents easily enough but I can't seem to combine them together, by copying/pasting or otherwise. Does anyone have any tips on how I can achieve this, or if it is even achievable in Legacy Charting v7.0? Thanks in advance. Veronica. _ View photos of singles in your area Click Here http://dating.ninemsn.com.au/search/search.aspx?exec=gotp=qgc=2tr=1lage=18uage=55cl=14sl=0dist=50po=1do=2trackingid=1046138r2s=1_t=773166090_r=WLM_EndText 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] citing US genweb
Linda, I use the InternetWebsite, generic template. For the Master Source, I entered the following: Source List Name: USGenWeb Website Title: The USGenWeb Project URL: http://www.usgenweb.org/ I left the other fields blank, but you could add more info to make the result to your liking. For the Source Detail, I enter: Date Accessed: [date] Item of Interest: ILGenWebDekalb CountyCemetery InformationKingston CemeteryHarper Actual Source Text: Harper, Jerome; B5, 10 Sep 1828, 23 Dec 1893 [although I choose not to print this out in reports] The resultant citation looks like this: *The USGenWeb Project* (http://www.usgenweb.org/: accessed 23 Aug 2008), ILGenWebDekalb CountyCemetery InformationKingston CemeteryHarper [*...* signifies italics] You can, of course, play around with the entries until you get a citation that you like. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Linda Bischoff lkbisch...@mchsi.com Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:20 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] citing US genweb I am braving the wrath of certain individuals on this list, hoping that I have my ducks in a row and won't offend anyone with my question. I have used plain text and have searched the archives for a suitable answer but not sure I have entered the right search terms. I would like to know if I can use Sourcewriter for citing the US genweb (or world genweb). It is so useful for research, but I don't know how to cite it. Do I use internet? and if so, where do I go from there? In my old sources, I have used Genweb, United States, with (for instance) Kansas, Ford County, Newspaper articles (accessed 30 Jun 2003) in the detail and then citing the article I read. But I don't like the way it looks, especially with the professional looking Sourcewriter citations. Does anyone else use information from GenWeb as a source when using Sourcewriter. Thanks. Linda B. 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] Reports and Books
Look at ReportsPublishing Center, where you can combine any Books with any Reports. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Nina K. Johnson momalo...@aol.com Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 6:34 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Reports and Books Can one make a report and add it somehow to a book? 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] Book Results and possible Bug
Nina, One picture is listed twice in the Attached Pictures section in the middle/lower section of the Picture Center. How do you delete the duplicate picture? It's in the events section of the person. It doesn't delete when I try to do it. Can't give you any help on the Picture Center. I don't have much experience there. I think I probably am expecting too much from the Legacy program and should just be satisfied with the stock pages as Title Page which I would like to separate to be on more lines or even add a picture on the title page. Not really needed . . . I'll just shorten the title!!! And be satisfied! I'm not sure what you want here. However, there are 4 lines on the Title Page for the Descendant or Ancestor Reports and I have been able to enter 100 characters on each line. How much info to you need to put in the title? You can certainly put a picture on the Title Page. Click on Title Page and on the screen that comes up, click Include Picture on the left side. Someone pointed out that LUG rules discourage file attachments. How should I be doing this Just don't add an attachment to your e-mail. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Nina K. Johnson momalo...@aol.com Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:44 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Book Results and possible Bug 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] Multiple lines of descent report
Jim, Using [CoupleNames] works for me. But if you want to have the title include the phrase including associated families of , I guess you'll have to enter it manually. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Jimquist jim-almqu...@msn.com Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:04 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Multiple lines of descent report Thanks for the shout Valerie. I had found all those reserved words to customize the various fields, but what I was thinking that there might be a setting somewhere to auto title the report with each of the couples names that are the basis for the multiple lines. Guess not so, I'll just not be so lazy and type in the various couples names. thanks again, Jim -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Jimquist Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup Subject: [LegacyUG] Multiple lines of descent report Shouldn't the Title Page indicate the multiple lines covered in the report instead of reading just Descendants of Joe Blow. Seems like the Title Page might read: Descendants of Joe Blow and Juli Jones including associated families of Jim Smith and Lucy Crow; Dale Dunn and Mini Mouse I don't find a way to have the program do this automatically, so am either missing something or it wasn't intended to operate in this manner. If I type it in on the set up page for the title page, it will work. Am I a bit off-base in my thinking? Jim Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7 Reports - Ancestor or Descendant Reports - Paternal Or Maternal Side Only
1. Just select the father (or the mother) of the starting person and create the report for him, or 2. Export the paternal line or maternal line to a new file and create the report from there. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Stuart Einbinder stuarteinbin...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:51 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7 Reports - Ancestor or Descendant Reports - Paternal Or Maternal Side Only Is there a way to have Legacy 7 produce ancestor or descendant reports (not charts), for only the paternal or maternal side of the starting person on the report? When I click on the record selection button I do not see any option to select a particular family line. Thanks. Stu E. 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] A SourceWriter Question, and follow-up on the AKA problem
I would use the Directories template in SourceWriter. You can select Online images or Online database, as appropriate. Hope this helps, John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Roxanne maighe...@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:56 PM To: Legacy legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] A SourceWriter Question, and follow-up on the AKA problem Me being the stickler for accuracy that I am, I have a question as to how to source this one. My ancestors' Centre County, Pennsylvania 1890 census was destroyed, like most of the 1890 census. However, there is a surviving Postal Directory, which is available online, and is an attempt to reconstruct the 1890 census for that county. My question is: how do I record the source? It's not the census itself, it's a directory. But it represents the census in this case, with much of the same information as the census. Referring back to my AKA problem (remember, my nicknames in quotes in the given name field somehow magically transferred to the AKA field): I found that it happened with all four of my files, but since my files are so small, I was able to make the corrections individually. So thank you to Dennis K. for the offer to check the file. Roxanne Baird 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] Family Group Sheet Error - Calculated Date Terminology
Ron, It appears you are right IF you have set the program language option to English (UK), i.e., English English. However, try changing the language setting on the report screen to English (US). For me at least, this then causes cal to be displayed as Ber. In other words, if the program option is set to one version of English, but the language option for a report is set for a different version, the Ber anomaly seems to appear. The same thing seems to happen with abt and cir for approximate dates. I guess this doesn't apply to Book Reports as I don't see anyplace to change the language settings for them. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:00 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Family Group Sheet Error - Calculated Date Terminology John, I can assure you that in English English Cal is reproduced as Cal - at least on my set up. Ron Ferguson England Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Sheet Error - Calculated Date Terminology
Kay, Could the Report Language on the FGR screen be set to something other than U.S. English? If you are using Australian, Canadian or UK English, cal is rendered as ber. Why, I have no idea. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Kay Fordham kayhawo...@earthlink.net Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:09 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Sheet Error - Calculated Date Terminology Ron - Yes, I checked the Prefixes mentioned below. Calculated shows correctly as cal. I'll try to investigate further later today to see if I may have done something weird that would affect the output. Thanks, Kay - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:05 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Family Group Sheet Error - Calculated Date Terminology Kay, I cannot see how it can be due to Legacy7 or we would all have the sme problem, and this one seems to be limited to your files. Have you checked the Prefixes in OptionsCustomiseDates? Although if these were incorrect I would have expected them to affect all instances. Ron Ferguson _ From: kayhawo...@earthlink.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Sheet Error - Calculated Date Terminology Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:13:51 -0700 Connie - The strange thing about this is that calculated dates show correctly as cal 3 April 1849 on all reports except the FGS. Every individual with a calculated date shows ber instead of cal on the FGS. I've not seen this problem before Version 7. Not sure if it commenced with Version 7 or the newest build. Immediately did a check and repair and reboot - the glitch is still there. Thanks, Kay - Original Message - From: Connie Sheets To: Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Sheet Error - Calculated Date Terminology Kay, I'm using the same build as you, and on my one example entered since installing this build, it shows properly on Print Preview of an FGS as cal not ber (also a calculated birth). Connie Kay Fordham wrote: Using 7.0.0.90 Build Date of: 13 March 2009 When I use the calendar feature to calculate a date (in this case birth), it shows properly as cal 3 April 1849 in the Family View; however, in the print preview and printed copy it shows up as ber 3 April 1849. No problem with the others; i.e., bef, abt, aft. Can anyone else duplicate this anomaly? Thanks, Kay Fordham _ 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] Starting Master Source List
Howland, Double click the Sources icon (pic of books), either from the tool bar at the top of the Legacy screen, or from the Family View tool bar directly below individual data for the person you want to source. A list of your Master Sources will open. If you have not recorded any sources, it will be blank. On the upper right is a column of buttons. The 3rd one down is labeled Add. Click on it. A screen will open asking if you want to use SourceWriter. Click Yes and a menu of available template types will open. If you don't see one on the list that seems appropriate, enter a keyword in the field at the very top (e.g., Obituary) and click on the Search button. A list of templates which might fill you needs will open. Choose one and following the prompts. If this isn't clear, please ask again. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: howlanddavi...@aol.com Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:58 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Starting Master Source List Kirsten: ??? Thank you for your response. ??? That would work perfectly I would think.? But as a beginner on sourcing, how to I get there?? Do I type in Family Group Sheet Privately Held? to start or does some sort of template drop down; one that I have been unable to find so far? Howland Davis 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] A book including everyone in my data base
June, I haven't seen a response to your query. Perhaps because it isn't entirely clear what you are asking for. Do you want one of the standard book reports which includes everyone in your data base? Or a listing of everyone? The only way I can think of to include everyone without a huge amount of duplication, is to open the Name List and customize the columns to include the information you want. You can show the relationship of each person to your son if you wish. However, this list will be in alphabetical or RIN order, and may not be what you want. If your data base is relatively small (maybe a couple of hundred names), one of the book reports might work for you. Please clarify what you are looking for. I'm sure someone on the list will be able to help. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: June Chan mai_l...@aapt.net.au Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:04 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] A book including everyone in my data base I would like to produce a book which includes everyone from my son down regardless of the connection. So far the only one I have been able to produce seems to limit the people who are included. Could someone please advise if this is possible. Thank you - June 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 and event for passenger lists?
I use the Travel event for this--I believe it is a Legacy-provided event, but if not, you can create one. There is a Passenger Manifest source template (Immigration EmigrationUnited StatesPassenger Manifests) which works well for this and doesn't necessarily imply immigration. Even though it is reached by selecting United States, I see nothing in the template format which would exclude records from other countries. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Brian Beddor bbed...@japsolson.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:55 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Master source and event for passenger lists? Hi, I have a group of 4 people that I found on the New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 who arrived on Pan American Airways returning from Bermuda. When I start to set-up a Master Source I don't see anything for traveling or passengers or tourists. The closest I see is for immigration and they were not immigrating but returning from a vacation. How should I set-up the Master Source for this? How should I define this in the Events? I don't see any templates for traveling there either. Thanks, Brian 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] End of Line Ancestors
I tried this and the first thing I noticed was no ADAMS, my primary line, in the list. When I went to Asahel ADAMS, my earliest ancestor, on the Family View screen, the parents block was empty. I then selected Asahel's son Asa, my next earliest direct line ancestor. With Asa as the primary person, Asahel appears in the parents block with a + at the left of his name. This indicates that there is a parent in the database for Asahel. When I moved Asahel into the primary location, I noticed that the icon for parents was colored in and indicated 1 set of parents. When I clicked on it, the pop-up screen showed parents unknown unknown. At the bottom of that pop-up is a button labeled Unlink from Child. Selecting that deleted the unknown parents. I ran the find direct line ancestors with no parents routine again and the resulting list correctly showed Asahel ADAMS. I'm not sure how the unknown parents got attached to Asahel, but this may be your problem. Check the parents icon on your earliest ancestors. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: GeoSci geosc...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:51 AM To: Legacy User Group LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] End of Line Ancestors From Legacy News: End-of-line ancestors. We all have them. We think about them. We study them. We even dream about them. Once we find their parents, we do a quick Genealogy Happy Dance, and then it starts over again - we now have new end-of-line ancestors. Who are your end-of-line ancestors? Let Legacy Family Tree identify them for you using one of the two following methods. Special Search List First, in the Family View, navigate to yourself. Click on Search Find Miscellaneous tab. Select the Direct-line ancestors with no parents option and click on Create List. WELL - I did this - and quite a few of my End-of-line Ancestors ARE NOT IN THE LIST!! There is NO McKain!! NO Horn (my maternal Grandfather). Apparently this was a good idea - gone wrong! Ideas?? 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 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] Digital Images of Census Pages
Why have you been forced to become a splitter? I'm a lumper (for Censuses, at least) and have just one Master Source for each US census year and I use the Sourcewriter. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 7:09 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages I used to be a die hard lumper. I only had one source for the 1900 census (for example). However, with the new Sourcewriter I have been forced to become a splitter :) :) :) Here is what my source list looks like... Census - Federal - GA - Columbia Co - 1880 Census - Federal - GA - Columbia Co - 1900 Census - Federal - GA - Columbia Co - 1910 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1850 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1860 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1860 (slave) Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1870 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1880 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1880 (mortality) Census - Federal - MS - Marion Co - 1840 Census - Federal - MS - Marion Co - 1850 Census - Federal - MS - Marion Co - 1860 Census - Federal - MS - Perry Co - 1850 Census - Federal - MS - Perry Co - 1850 (slave) Census - Federal - MS - Perry Co - 1860 Census - Federal - MS - Perry Co - 1870 Census - Federal - NC - Robeson Co - 1790 Census - Federal - NC - Robeson Co - 1800 Census - Federal - NC - Robeson Co - 1810 This of course is just a small snippet. I have them organized this way so that I can find my master source quickly. - Original Message - From: tamieh tam...@sfcn.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages Michele --- I have a question for you. I know this has been addressed on this list before -- so sorry for asking again. But I too transcribe census records as you do. How do you list them in your master source list? Do you list each census seperately or put all the 1900 Census records under a 1900 census listing? Thanks for your input! Tamie - Original Message - From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 6:25 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages I will tell you another advantage, as I am transcribing the census I really pick up on things like when something isn't right (an age, a relationship etc) Here is an example of what it looks like (this is an 1860)... Soloman Garaway, age 32, male, farmer, value of real estate $600, born in GA Elizabeth Garaway, age 33, female, born in MS, unable to read or write Sarah Garaway, age 11, female, born in MS Benjamin Garaway, age 8, male, born in MS Clarissa Garaway, age 6, female, born in MS Mary Garaway, age 4, female, born in MS Matilda Garaway, age 2, female, born in MS Leucretia Garaway, age 5/12, female, born in MS Or a later census (1930)... Henry Bounds, head, owns home, lives on a farm, male, white, age 42, married, married at age 19, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English, farmer, farm, #31 on farm schedule Adia Bounds, wife, female, white, age 41, married, married at age 18, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English Virgil Bounds, son, male, white, age 20, single, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks, English, log sawyer, logging [2nd word unreadable] Cull Bounds, son, male, white, age 15, single, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English, laborer, farm Ernest Bounds, son, male, white, age 12, single, attended school this year, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English Corzella Bounds, daughter, female, white, age 10, single, attended school this year, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English Harvey Bounds, son, male, white, age 7, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English Elias Bounds, son, male, white, age 4, single, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English I copy the event and add it to each person listed. When you run a report it will show the census for every year in order and it makes for a nice progression of what happened in their life. They start out living with their parents, they get married and have a family of their own, and then sometimes they move in with their kids in their later life. You don't see it as well if you have just attached a copy (link) of the census. It does take more time but I think it is worth the effort. Another thing, as I am going back through looking at stuff, it is a lot esier looking at transcriptions than it is to have to look at the original image again and have to re-analyze it. Or course if there is ever a question I can pull the census page up easily. Michele
Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages
I don't enter county and state in the Master source--leave'em blank. In the Detail Source, where it asks for Jurisdiction City (which I think is incorrect--cities don't have jurisdiction over census operations), I enter City/Township/County. Works great. You have to be flexible with Sourcewriter. Don't let it intimidate you. Play around with it to see how entering different data in the available fields will affect the output. Many ways to skin a cat (or template). John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 5:03 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages Because it asks for the county and state? michele - Original Message - From: John S. Adams oldbr...@hotmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages Why have you been forced to become a splitter? I'm a lumper (for Censuses, at least) and have just one Master Source for each US census year and I use the Sourcewriter. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 7:09 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages I used to be a die hard lumper. I only had one source for the 1900 census (for example). However, with the new Sourcewriter I have been forced to become a splitter :) :) :) Here is what my source list looks like... Census - Federal - GA - Columbia Co - 1880 Census - Federal - GA - Columbia Co - 1900 Census - Federal - GA - Columbia Co - 1910 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1850 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1860 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1860 (slave) Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1870 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1880 Census - Federal - GA - Lincoln Co - 1880 (mortality) Census - Federal - MS - Marion Co - 1840 Census - Federal - MS - Marion Co - 1850 Census - Federal - MS - Marion Co - 1860 Census - Federal - MS - Perry Co - 1850 Census - Federal - MS - Perry Co - 1850 (slave) Census - Federal - MS - Perry Co - 1860 Census - Federal - MS - Perry Co - 1870 Census - Federal - NC - Robeson Co - 1790 Census - Federal - NC - Robeson Co - 1800 Census - Federal - NC - Robeson Co - 1810 This of course is just a small snippet. I have them organized this way so that I can find my master source quickly. - Original Message - From: tamieh tam...@sfcn.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages Michele --- I have a question for you. I know this has been addressed on this list before -- so sorry for asking again. But I too transcribe census records as you do. How do you list them in your master source list? Do you list each census seperately or put all the 1900 Census records under a 1900 census listing? Thanks for your input! Tamie - Original Message - From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 6:25 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages I will tell you another advantage, as I am transcribing the census I really pick up on things like when something isn't right (an age, a relationship etc) Here is an example of what it looks like (this is an 1860)... Soloman Garaway, age 32, male, farmer, value of real estate $600, born in GA Elizabeth Garaway, age 33, female, born in MS, unable to read or write Sarah Garaway, age 11, female, born in MS Benjamin Garaway, age 8, male, born in MS Clarissa Garaway, age 6, female, born in MS Mary Garaway, age 4, female, born in MS Matilda Garaway, age 2, female, born in MS Leucretia Garaway, age 5/12, female, born in MS Or a later census (1930)... Henry Bounds, head, owns home, lives on a farm, male, white, age 42, married, married at age 19, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English, farmer, farm, #31 on farm schedule Adia Bounds, wife, female, white, age 41, married, married at age 18, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English Virgil Bounds, son, male, white, age 20, single, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks, English, log sawyer, logging [2nd word unreadable] Cull Bounds, son, male, white, age 15, single, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English, laborer, farm Ernest Bounds, son, male, white, age 12, single, attended school this year, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born in MS, speaks English Corzella Bounds, daughter, female, white, age 10, single, attended school this year, able to read and write, born in MS, both parents born
Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Picture
Kris, You don't need to print your pictures out from Legacy. Open the picture in a photo program and print it out there. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Kris gen.mailing.li...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:47 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Printing Picture I want to make a print of a JPG that I have attached to source detail. When I click on it, the only way I can see to print it is Print Picture Album. This is fine -- it's the only picture there. I've been able to get rid of the border lines and the page number at the bottom, but I can't figure out where the title Report at the top of the page is coming from. How do I get rid of it? Thanks 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] Tracking Individuals
When I run across individuals or families who appear to be connected to my family, I enter them into Legacy as Unlinked Individuals. I then add BDM and event information as I find it, just as I would for a linked person. Then, if I find that they are related to the main line, I have all the data available and I can just link them in. I presently have 21 island trees containing from 1 to 46 people. The idea of entering them into a ToDo list to keep track of them is good; I may have to try that, as I am chronically disorganized. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Judy eldestdaugh...@comcast.net Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 12:22 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images of Census Pages - Tracking Individuals Thanks, Jenny - your idea is a good way to keep track of these people!! I appreciate your response. Judy Judy wrote I, too, track individuals through census pages, and would appreciate knowing how others keep track of other people, who at one time may not be recognized as related, but after further work, end up being so. Jenny wrote: But it occurs to me that one could also create a To Do, putting something like Other People in Task needing to be done and just add the names to the Task Description as one comes across them. If one inserted each name in alphabetical order, it would not be too difficult to check this list whenever a new connection was found. 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] Incorrect Relationships
What error? What child? What correct designation? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: CE WOOD wood...@msn.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 6:30 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incorrect Relationships Actually, the error occurs when the couple involved are the biological parents of the child. Only if one of them were a step-parent and not the biological parent of the child should the spouse be called husband or wife of the Grand Uncle or Grand Aunt rather than by the correct designation. Carolyn - Original Message - From: Mary Hagenmailto:hagen.m...@mchsi.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.commailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incorrect Relationships I believe that is worded that way is because the Grand Uncle is the person related by blood. If the aunt were the one related by blood, it would be worded Grand Aunt and the husband would be husband of Grand Aunt. My 2 cents Mary - Original Message - From: Gene Hutsonmailto:fish...@cableone.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.commailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incorrect Relationships I think the one that I see the most and still boggles the mind, you'll have your Grand Uncle and then his wife who should be Grand Aunt labeled as wife of Grand Uncle. Just 2 cents, Gene 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] Incorrect Relationships
I think the Relationship Calculator is, in theory, a great tool. I really like the charts it produces showing the relationships of distant cousins. HOWEVER, I have almost stopped using it because it is so rife with errors and has been from at least Legacy 5.0. The most obvious is that, with some multiple relationships, if you click the Swap button, different relationships are displayed, which is wrong. Less obvious problems can be found if one traces relationships by hand and then uses the calculator. I found one case where a generation was skipped. The problems are ongoing--Legacy has solved some, but others persist. Every time I look at it and try different relationships, I find more problems. There was a thread on this subject in Aug 2006. Some of the problems discussed then involved 1/2 relationships and some of those have been fixed, but I can still produce at least one. I hope that Legacy can do a thorough redesign of the RC soon and it becomes a reliable tool. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: CE WOOD wood...@msn.com Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 1:02 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incorrect Relationships Unfortunately, this is not the case. Direct ancestors are not being identified correctly, such as my 27th GGF. His mother is shown as my 24th GGA; his father as my 2nd cousin 23 times removed, and Relationship Calculator says there is no relationship between father and son, between mother and son, or between husband and wife! And that's just one of the messed up ones. It also happens as close as my 6th GGParents! Brian is now working on it, but if anyone else is having problems with incorrect relationships, it would help them find the bug. Carolyn 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] travel vs emigration
I think the Immigration/Emigration events would be used when an individual changed his permanent residence from one country to another, regardless of whether he changed citizenship. I would record a return visit to his native country as a Travel event, unless he stayed there permanently, in which case, it would be another Immigration or Emigration event. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: SKL 1750 skl1...@yahoo.co.uk Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] travel vs emigration Hello listers, I have several people who have left Belgium for the US in the early 1900s. For those that I know to have stayed/died in the US, I have used event Emigration (mostly for their first travel, if other info is missing). For those who have come back/died in Belgium, I've used event Travel. Howeevr, I realised that I haven't used this consistently, and maybe not even correctly. When is a person considered emigrated? When they first entered the country, or when they requested nationality, or when they received it? We can have people travelling a few times and then emigrated. We could also have people who have traveled after they emigrated... I'd be interested to know how other people record those situation? I am just starting now to look across the pond and I definitely don't want to have to go back and redo ever single event... thanks in advance for your advise/experience, nina 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] How to identify the commonly used first name?
I think you also have to check the Alternate given and surnames box in the upper left corner of the Include tab under Report Options. (If alternate names aren't included in the report, they obviously won't be in the Index.) John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Ruth Nerud baber...@worldnet.att.net Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:01 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to identify the commonly used first name? Nope! Ruth - Original Message - From: Bert van Kootwijk To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to identify the commonly used first name? They don't if you check the checkbox located in Index Options? Bert 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] Pedigree View Enhancement
The current 5 generation Pedigree View shows 16 names in the last generation. If I reduce the screen to half size on my 19 monitor, I can just barely read the names. The 16 lines cover about 6 vertical inches. 10 generations would have 512 names in the last generation, so I would need a screen about 16 FEET high in order to read the names. 12 generations, 2048 names, 64 foot high screen. Don't have room in my den for a billboard. Eight generations might be doable if I had 97 monitor. That might take up only one wall. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: C.G. Ouimet couim...@cogeco.ca Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 5:24 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Pedigree View Enhancement My thought would be user selectable number of generations. I currently use 5 with 1/2 of my screen. Once could select 6, 8, 10 or 12 depending on need ... C.G. Ouimet Kingston, ON From: couim...@cogeco.ca To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Pedigree View Enhancement Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 18:09:27 -0500 How about 6-8? C.G. Ouimet Kingston, ON 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] My surnames / A selfish search
Or, create an Ancestor Book Report for youself, including an index; customize the index to include Birth Death Years on Names. From the Preview screen, print out just the Index. This should give you exactly what you want. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:31 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] My surnames / A selfish search On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:00:35 -0700, Arnold Sprague aspra...@chicagogsb.edu wrote: I would like to be able to do a search within Legacy of all the surnames my ancestors have. At a certain point, it becomes impossible to remember them all. How about this: 1) Clear a tag. 2) Select yourself and then tag all your ancestors using Advanced Tagging. 3) Then do a Detailed Search for everyone with the tag on. 4) Once you get the Search List, click Print and customize the output with the fields you want to see. HTH, -- Dennis Kowallek http://ltools.kowallekfamily.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 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] Sibling relationships
Because it is much, much, much easier to modify your e-mail environment than to control the behavior of hundreds of strangers. -- From: Famhobby famho...@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:38 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sibling relationships Why is the solution always something other than simply following the list rules? Every time someone raises the issue of list rules being broken, the discussion quickly turns to something everyone else on the list can do to cope with it. And usually the person raising the issue becomes the villain. The list has rules for a reason. We all agreed to follow them. 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] BOOK
Huh? -- From: momalo...@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:54 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] BOOK Where do I find information to help me do this . . . preview, etc. I've looked at all the tapes in Legacy 7 Deluxe. **New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom0026) 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] Report Problems
I have been playing around with Individual Reports and Family Reports in preparation for sending some info to a group of new found cousins and discovered the following problems: 1. Indiv Rpt: Whether or not any notes are checked on the Include tab, Marriage Notes show up If Show other spouses is checked, Marriage Notes for all spouses are displayed The Marriage Notes choices are greyed out, as I think they should be--but the notes should not be included in an Individual Report 2. Family Group Record The Marriage Notes perform as expected--no apparent problem If General, Research, or Medical Notes are selected, they appear as follows: General Notes: Husband - Esther Lee General Notes: Wife - Esther Lee Can't get the husband's name to display for notes. I have only viewed in Preview, have not printed. I have version 7.0.0.76 Deluxe; XP, 1 Gb RAM. Anyone else experience these problems? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and more. Visit http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** 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] Latest Update (7.0.0.76)
No you don't. Go to CustomizeSourcesSource Detail Defaults John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Gene Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:23 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Latest Update (7.0.0.76) I have just discovered that I have to edit every single source citation individually to select include on reports every time on the text of source tab. -- *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and more. Visit http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** 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] Descendant Chart display
Elizabeth, As I usually select Pack information on one line for Descendant Charts, I have not encountered this problem. I unchecked that box and still didn't see the gap. Then I noticed that you had marriage info displayed and I didn't. When I included marriage, the gap showed up. It looks like a buglet. The program has left a space for marriage info between the husband's b. and d. info. Don't think you can delete it on screen. If you are going to print it as a text or HTML doc, you would have to edit out the gaps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Hope Bagot Bees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:23 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Chart display Yes, certainly the gap is useful between husband and wife, it is the gap between birth and death - now marked with Xs - that I don't want. Elizabeth On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Hope Bagot Bees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an example of the preview of a Descendant chart in Legacy. I understand the gap between his death date and his wife's name is for clarity, but how can I remove the line gap between born date and died date for Charles, please? Charles Berjew Brooke J.P. [29] born: 5 May 1839, 13 Gilbert Street, Grosvenor Sq. Middlx XX died: 10 Aug 1922, Brantham, Suffolk + Jane ROBINSON [30] born: 2 Feb 1840, Liverpool marr: 24 Jun 1862, Lee Chapel, Lee, Kent died: 27 Jun 1891, Highbury, Middlesex *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and more. Visit http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** 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] What would you call America in 1666?
British North America or Colonial America wouldn't differentiate between areas controlled at different times by the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, or even the Russians. Even the borders and names of the British Colonies changed over time, e.g., East Jersey, West Jersey, New Jersey. Very confusing. I haven't been consistent. I think I'll have to add a North American history book or a timeline for each present state to my genealogy library. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: MICHELLE CROSBY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 4:38 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What would you call America in 1666? I don't know if this is correct or not, I have always used BNA for Britsh North America and when the Colonies won their independence I then enter the location as USA. Shelly 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] copy master sources to new family file
Joan, I add unconnected people to my main file as New Unlinked Individuals with all the info I have on them and Sources. If I find others who are related to them but not to my main tree, I link them also. They will appear as a separate tree which you can view by selecting ViewTree Finder. When or if you do find a link to your main tree, it is simple to link them and all the data and sources you've entered will be there. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Joan S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:40 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] copy master sources to new family file I have a bunch of people that are involved in my current research. I don't know yet how they all connect so can't really put them in my tree. However I have a lot of data about them and would like to put them somewhere. Someone suggested I start a new family file of just these people and then connect them when I can. As these people come from the same area as my already connected people, I would like to copy all my master sources to the new file so I don't have to re-enter them again. I can't figure out how to do that. BTW - is starting a separate family file the way you all deal with unconnected people too? Do you have any other suggestions?? Joan Researching BOND and CASHIN in Port Felix Nova Scotia. Researching BROWN and LAFORET in Boston Mass. Researching DESCHENES and LAVOIE in Quebec. ** $10 OFF when you spend $50 or more in our store. Use coupon code: Legacy2008 at checkout. Offer expires 10/31/08 ** 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] What's the best way to source a relationship?
Kris, I just tried sourcing the relationship of an individual to his father. Here is how I went about it. 1. Select the father on the Family View screen. 2. Right click on the Children's list. 3. Select Children's Settings. 4. Select the child you wish to source. 5. In the Relationship to Father field, select the relationship (Biological, Adopted, etc) OR leave it blank. 6. Click on the Source icon on the left of the screen. 7. You will be taken to the Assigned Sources for: Charles L. ADAMS screen. 8. Make sure the Show all Events box on the left side is checked. 9. Highlight the Father Rel: field. You may have to scroll down to find this field. 10. Click on Cite a Master Source button and enter your source. When you choose a Report, make sure you have checked the Child-parent relationships box on the Include tab and the Print source citations on the Sources tab. I looked at the Individual Report, Family Group Record, and the father's Descendant Book Report. The child-parent relationship and correct source were displayed. I haven't looked at other reports. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. -- From: Kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 7:11 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What's the best way to source a relationship? Well, we must both be muddy the same way, 'cause this makes perfect sense to me. Thank you! :-) Kris Jessica Morgan wrote: After reading your quandry, and some of the responses, there's definately no right or wrong way. Personally, if I am deducing information from sources without actually having a source for the event or information in question, I would put it as an event (now that I use events) that I've made and named Deduction, writing out what I deduced and from what and why. I then source it to any and all documents that back this deduction up, as well as attach a source that I've named Self Deduction, citing myself as the source, and my thoughts as the detail. Clear as mudd? Jessica Morgan On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ron -- Well, obviously I've just made a total mess of this, since no one seems to understand what I'm talking about, so I'll try it this way -- What FIELD do I attach the source citation to? I know children are linked through birth certificates, etc., but what FIELD do I use for this in the *mother* or *father's* individual information screen? Yes, I source the child's birth date, etc., with the birth certificate in the *child's* information screen -- but what about the parents' information screens? I agree that if I have a birth certificate source, anyone reading the report can probably assume that the child is linked to the parents through that source. But what if this is *before* birth certificates? And I'm using a combination of other information and sources to determine that Baby Doe is the child of John Doe and Jane Doe? If I have a will, some deeds, some newspaper articles and some census information that all points to this being the child of these parents, what FIELD in the parent's information screen do I use to show that this source, or these sources, link these individuals that will also show up on an ancestor or descendant report -- other than the father or mother relationships in the Children's settings? Or is it just the fact that the child shows up in the report as the child of this marriage, and then when someone asks me how I determined that, I then tell them how I did it? And hope that they ask me before I'm dead myself? Kris ** $10 OFF when you spend $50 or more in our store. Use coupon code: 'Legacy2008' at checkout. Offer expires 10/31/08 ** 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 ** $10 OFF when you spend $50 or more in our store. Use coupon code: Legacy2008 at checkout. Offer expires 10/31/08 ** 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] What's the best way to source a relationship?
Sorry, it my last post 7. You will be taken to the Assigned Sources for: Charles L. ADAMS screen. should read: 7. You will be taken to the Assigned Sources for: [child's name] screen. Didn't intend to further confuse and already confusing subject. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA ** $10 OFF when you spend $50 or more in our store. Use coupon code: Legacy2008 at checkout. Offer expires 10/31/08 ** 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] Help with event wording
I would use the Relocation event for moves within a country and the Emigration or Immigration events for moves from one country to another. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Laurel Feal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 12:25 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Help with event wording Relocation Event. Relocated? John relocated from India to Scotland... Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:41:55 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Help with event wording Hello, I'd like to create an event for when people move from one place to another, not just list their residence at a given date. As I have it now, I am using the word 'moved' as an event name. The word moved just doesn't see quite right--it doesn't flow very well. I guess I could use removed or removal, but I had never heard that word until I started doing genealogy. So far, the event reads as follows: Moved: John moved from India to Scotland when he was 11 years old in 1877 or 1878. Any ideas? Thanks, Melanie Tucker 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] Childrens' place of birth on family view?
Barb, On the CustomizeGeneral tab, make sure you haven't checked the Never popup Info Boxes box. You should be able to hover your mouse cursor over the child's name and see a popup box that displays his BMD data. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 8:40 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Childrens' place of birth on family view? On a family view, I can see the name of the children, the year of birth and death and symbols to indicate if married, had children. Is it possible to set an option somewhere to see the place of birth as well? Bobbie Snow Ann Arbor, Michigan 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] Input of Cemetery Names
Bill, It appears that you may not be checking the Addr for birth, chr, death, bur., marr. box on the Report OptionsInclude tab for your report. I enter the cemetery name in the Name field of the Burial Address and it shows on the Individual Report as (for example): Burial Date: 20 Jan 1979Place: Whittier, CA Addr: Rose Hills Memorial Park and in a book report as: ...was buried on 20 Jan 1979 in Whittier, CA (Rose Hills Memorial Park). Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: William Kahler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 7:52 AM To: Legacy User Group LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names ..Am interested in the best way to input cemetery names - considering how they will be displayed in reports. The video “Legacy for Beginners” (in “3- Basic Data Entry”) indicates that cemetery names should not be included as the initial part of the entry in the “Buried ...in...” section of the “Individual's Information” screen because of database sorting problems. It doesn’t address the inclusion of the cemetery name at the end of the entry but suggests that the proper location of the cemetery name is in the “Burial Address” screen – that by inserting the actual name of the cemetery in the name section of the “Burial Address” screen the cemetery name will then be shown as part of burial entry on the Family View screen and on reports. I don't find this to be the case and believe that what is shown in the video is the leftover entry from previously demonstrating what happens when the cemetery name is inserted as the initial part of the burial location input on the “Individual's Information” screen. Maybe I am doing something wroing but from my limited experience in using the Legacy software, it appears that simply inserting the cemetery name in the Burial Address screen doesn’t do the job. Bill Kahler 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] less steps to make a back up?
Windows already does this. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:39 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] less steps to make a back up? One thing Legacy could add to make backups better is the option to automatically add the current date to the backup file name. Adding it manually is error prone and tedious. Jeff 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] less steps to make a back up?
I'm sorry. Didn't mean to imply that the date was part of the file name. But when you click the Select Name and Location bar, its easy to see the date of each backup in the Details view of your files. Why should Legacy duplicate this? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:33 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] less steps to make a back up? Not as part of the file name where it would be easy to see and prevent overwriting. Jeff John S. Adams wrote: Windows already does this. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] source attaching to numerous events
You probably clicked on the 3 bars of the Source Clipboard when attaching the source to the 1900 census event. This is labelled, Add Clipboard Source to All Used Fields. You should have clicked on the single bar, Add Clipboard Source to Current Field. I've made this mistake enough times to be an expert at it. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA -- From: Janis Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:24 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] source attaching to numerous events I have a source which has attached itself to every event for a particular individual. Clearly, I did not manually attach this source to each of about 15 events. I am manually removing it from each event (except the 1900 census event to which it belongs). I have seen this happen a time or two before, in previous versions of Legacy. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it possible that I have inadvertently caused this to happen by doing something of which I am not aware? Thanks for any input. Janis Walker Gilmore 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] GPS Coordinates
Cool, indeed, but can you make a phone call? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA From: G Oliver Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:57 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS Coordinates Interesting that this topic has just now came up. Recently I purchased an ATT Blackjack II for $ another 2 year commitment. The first thing that I did was install Pocket Genealogist, but only for reference as I am always afraid that I will mess something up when I merged with legacy. I really have not explored what PG can do with GPS. What I was really interested in was getting the Internal GPS working and usable without spending any more money. So I went about searching for free programs and this is what I found. 1. To open up the GPS for other programs: http://www.myblackjack2.com/hacks-and-mods/modaco-gps-hack/ 2. To start the GPS and provide coordinates etc. : http://www.smartphone-freeware.org/download/gps-test-1.04 /This may be all you want. 3. A freeware GPS program GPSVP: http://gpsvp.com/ I then loaded the GPSVP program with GARMIN TOPO maps in my area. There is a freeware version that may work : http://www.ibycus.com/ibycustopo/ With these programs loaded I start the Gpstest program, it acts as a front end for the GPS. When it gets a fix, I then start GPSVP. Works like a charm. I can now lookup relatives take pictures, get exact coordinates, (save waypoints, tracks etc) and bring it all home to enter into Legacy using one little cellphone. Cool. gco 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] Cash entry files in SourceWriter
Patti, It appears you put GLO in the search field at the top of the Add a New Master Source screen in response to the question, What kind of source do you want to cite? If instead, you use the menu below that and go to Land Property records, you can then select (1) Cash entry filesBasic format or (2) Land office records (U.S.) with appropriate medium (microfilm, online data base, etc). If your file is a photocopy, option (1) will probably work for you. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA From: Patti Hobbs Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 6:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Cash entry files in SourceWriter I wanted to enter a cash entry land file that I got from the National Archives but I think are considered GLO records. When I look at the drop-down menu for options to choose from for GLOLand Property recordscash entry files, I see only options for CD/DVD databases or FHL. Then under Land grants, I see Land Property recordsland grantsstate land office records for public lands basic format. That would seem right except that I didn't think they were state land offices. I thought the land offices were under the jurisdiction of the federal government, not the state.Is there another way, I should be doing this? Patti 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] SourceWriter options
I see a lot of questions to this group which indicate to me that many users are hung up on the literal titles of the various source templates. After experimenting with SourceWriter for a while, it seems to me that it is quite flexible and that many templates can be adapted for sources other than those specified in their titles. Some examples: 1. Some time ago someone noted that while there is a template for Birth Records index, there is none for Death Records index. I used the Birth Records index template and just titled it California Death Index. The printed citation reads just fine and doesn't reference birth anywhere. 2. A request was made for a way to make a Master Source for an on-going correspondence and to cite an individual letter or e-mail in the Detail. Since this is the way I like to source, (e.g. Master: Smith Correspondence; Detail: e-mail to J. S. Adams dated 29 Jun 2008) I tried various approaches and found that by judicious use of the available fields I could produce acceptable citations (although perhaps not in strict accordance with Mills' examples) using either the single e-mail template or the Artifact template. I think the Letters template could also work. 3. A recent discussion concerned how to cite government employment records. There a several templates which could probably be adapted. I tried the School Records template and that seemed as though it would work. Other templates that might work are Insurance Company Records, Military RecordsPension Files, or Railroad Records. 4. Government Land Office Records. See my posting today re: Cash Entry Files. I think the Artifact template could be adapted for any collection of documents, letters, photos, etc. My point is that SourceWriter is flexible. If you experiment, you can probably find a template that will work for that unique or unusual source you want to cite. The title of the template usually doesn't show up in the printed citation. I'd like to hear others' opinions on this. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, 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
Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter options
Patti, I certainly agree that it is much easier to use a template designed for the particular source at hand. But my point is, if the available templates don't seem to match, a little exploring and tweaking may produce acceptable results without adding interminably to the Legacy wish list. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA From: Patti Hobbs Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:26 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter options John, I think I realized that I probably could make other things work, but I also figured that if there was a template specifically designed for the particular information and format, I'd rather use that. Also, it usually helps to understand the thinking behind how certain options are chosen. (for example, it was helpful for me to understand that state land probably just meant the GLO office located in a particular state rather than a state government land office) So then rather than floundering around tweaking things and maybe using different options each time, I'd rather understand the logic behind the options available so that I can make the best use of the design of the SourceWriter. I do have Evidence Explained and that helps immensely as to seeing the general categories and understanding the logic behind those categories. Just as someone tried to enter an unidentified and undated newspaper into the newspaper selection rather than in to artifacts as EE shows. You're presented with options you don't know what to do with if you've not chosen the option that most closely aligns with EE and by extension Legacy SourceWriter. It's much easier in the long run to understand and then choose the option designed for the specific purpose. Patti 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] More basic questions
Trippsibs5 wrote A tip from this LUG was to add the Individual Report icon to the Main (icon) toolbar. With one click, you can see how any individual event (but not marriage events) looks in a report before you add 20 more and decide Oh, that's not what I wanted. Or add the Family Group Report icon instead of the Indiv Rpt to also get the marriage events. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, 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
Re: [LegacyUG] More very very newbie questions
Question 2., below: You can put anything you want or leave it blank. Look at the area at the bottom of the Event screen. As you type in the data fields, the wording that will appear on your reports is displayed. As you enter into the Description field, if you don't like the way the sentence looks, change the wording. You can globally change the way an Event is worded by clicking on the Edit Event Sentence Definition button or change the wording for just the one event you are working on by clicking on the Sentence Override tab above the Notes box. For example, I enter something like, in the household of Samuel Jones in the Description field. This will print out in a report as: He appeared in the census on 15 Apr 1870 in the household of Samuel Jones in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Question 3: I use the standard 4 position entry for US locations: Town/City/Township, County, State, Country. If the location in an incorporated city or town, I enter that in the first position. If the location is rural, not in a town, I enter the township. I don't think the township is necessary if the location is an incorporated community. Good hunting, John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. From: Jane Sarles Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:45 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] More very very newbie questions 1. Can I do a find and replace for places? For instance, in the past I have used Co. for County and abbreviations for states. I would like to change to spelling out the county and state Is there a feature that will allow me to do that globally? 2. On the Event Screen, what kind of information goes into description. The note itself goes into the box below, and the type of note is enter in the event box. 3. Where would be the place to add township, which one would know in only some cases? If township is put in only when it is known, wouldn't it affect the order of the master place list? 4. Where does one go to put in cause of death? Sorry to ask so many basic questions. I know the answers will be in the material sent with the Deluxe version, but I am still trying to evaluate how much difficulty I will encounter. Thanks for any help. Jane Sarles 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] Very Basic Questions
I don't usually bother with street addresses, but for Birth, Marriage, Death, Baptism, Burial, I also enter the name of the hospital, cemetery, church, etc. in the address field accessed by the + sign. The only problem I have with it is that when you include the address on a report, it shows up following the event as Address: Riverside Cemetery. The Address: lead-in annoys me, but I'll live with it. Elsie, you don't have to enter a marriage location event to record the marriage address. From the marriage screen, click on the house icon at the top and a screen will open where you can enter marriage address info. Don't know why this couldn't be somehow standardized with the Birth and Death address methods. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. From: Elsie Saar Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:39 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Very Basic Questions For cemeteries and churches, I use the + sign after the burial and baptism fields that leads to the address list and enter it there. Don't know if this is how most people do it. For marriages I have to make an event called Marriage location and then put the church, etc, in the description field and the town, county, etc in the Place field. I do that for census info also. Ex: Residence, 1930, (desc:) at 253 Railroad Avenue in the town of (place:) High Falls, Ulster Co., New York, USA.. 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] Not fair Millennia!
The logic is very simple: Cash Flow. Last summer it was announced that Ver. 7 would be released soon. Why would new potential customers buy Ver. 6 at full price when they knew they would have to spend full price again in a few weeks or months for Ver. 7? They wouldn't. They'd either wait, meaning Millenia's cash flow would drop to zero; or they would buy another program, meaning Millenia would have lost customers, probably permanently. So Millenia offered an incentive--Buy now, get Ver. 7 at no additional cost when it is released. In effect, new customers after June 2007 paid in advance for Ver. 7 and received Ver. 6 in the interim. Since they've already purchased Ver. 7, they get it first. Sounds fair to me. I bought Ver. 6 shortly after it was released in 2005. Should I get Ver. 7 free? It would be nice, but I'm willing to pay full price. I want Millenia to stay in business. As I recall, Millenia has made the same offer for the last several releases. It makes business sense, and they are after all in business. No profit, no Legacy. just my ¢¢ John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Krisjan To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 8:16 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Not fair Millennia! Ken, You said: Those who purchase in last 10 months have already paid for Legacy 7.0 Deluxe and really deserve to have it first. My question is: What about the loyal customers who started way back with Legacy version 2.0; also bought version 3.0 and version 4.0 and version 5.0 and purchased the download version of version 6? (By the way I have CD's of each of these versions except v6.0, for which I have my customer number, to prove my point). Are these people because they bought the new versions more or less at the time that each was released not MORE important than Johnny Come Latelies that only bought a copy within the last 10 months? I must admit your explanation as to who really deserve to have the new version first, makes no logic sense to me. Christiaan 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] V6 - Adding Correspondence to Legacy
Steve, I would record the letters as sources, transcribing the contents in the text field or scanning them and attaching them as pictures, or both. The letters probably contain information about various family members which you would enter for those individuals and use the letter(s) as sources. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Steve Ayres To: Legacy User Group Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:12 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] V6 - Adding Correspondence to Legacy Mike, I like the idea of putting the version number first to assist sorting/reading so here goes. I have a number of very old letters from my G/Parents that I would like to document somehow in a general area as distinct from an individuals notes if possible in Legacy but cannot see how it can be done. I am looking at Clooz as a possibility but would like to try and keep everything within Legacy to avoid another avenue for a mess to sort out latter, I'm having enough fun with what I have without creating anything else. Regards Steve 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] how to show two brothers' lines
Connie, Probably not with Legacy Charting, but you can do this nicely with the Relationship Calculator under Tools. The chart you can print from this may be what you want. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:57 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] how to show two brothers' lines In Legacy or the new Legacy Charting, is there an easy way to show only the descendant lines of two sons of a given marriage? There were 10 or more children, but I want to show my daughter (on one page, if possible) how she and her third cousin once-removed are connected, without confusing her with the other 8 siblings. Have not done much charting in the past, and have played around with both programs, with no success. Connie Beattie 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] charting - shrink to one page, move title box
First, select to topmost, left icon (looks like pedigree chart) Select Page Setup Select Landscape The chart will align to the Landscape orientation and the Title block will be correct Now adjust the box sizes until your chart fits on one page I just did this for a 6 gen half-fan chart and printed it. It is generally readable, but I would think that any more generations would not be. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: Dee To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:21 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] charting - shrink to one page, move title box I am trying to shrink a half-circle fan chart to fit on one page. I can't find a place that gives this global capability. I only find a place to change the size of boxes. Also, I have rotated the chart to landscape (better use of space), but the title remains on the landscape side. Is there any way to change that? Thanks, Dee Whiting 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] How do I keep my locations menu open?
Try this: Tag the locations you want Create a Location Report of the tagged locations Save the report to your Desktop as a PDF file Open the PDF report and size it and your Legacy display so that you can read both Edit Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How do I keep my locations menu open? Hi Elizabeth, Thanks for your reply and yes, printing is what I have been doing. It is just that I was wondering if there was any way to have more screens (drop down menus) open and still edit the family view. Myrna 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] CHILD OF UNMARRIED PERSON
Dick, Regardless of anyone's druthers, the boy is biologically linked to both parents, and should be so recorded. Your cousin IS the father, his amorata IS the mother--period. Remember, the information which appears on the Family Screen is only seen on your computer. All reports which you may share with others will show the relationship you select (partners, significant other, close friends,---whatever). John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Jennifer Crockett To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:27 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] CHILD OF UNMARRIED PERSON In the Marriage Information screen you can change Husband to father and Wife to mother. You can also alter the report phrase to partnered, had a relationship with, had a one night stand with or anything you like instead of married. Jennifer From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dick Sent: Sunday, 17 February 2008 1:35 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] CHILD OF UNMARRIED PERSON I had already done all those steps ... the problem is that they were never married or even lived together ... yet Legacy insists on labeling her ( Johnson ) as wife / spouse ... even with the never married option checked! If she hadn't raised the son alone, it might be easier to simply delete / unlink either her or the father from the son ... which goes back to square one, who do I link the boy to? 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] Land purchase event
Nancy, I use the following Sentence Definition for Land envents: [HeShe] [Desc] [onDate] [inPlace]. ([Notes]) [Sources] I enter the following info into the Event fields: Event: Land Description: description of land, to/from whom land sold, price Date: date of land transaction document Place: location of land Notes: legal description of land and any other pertinent info Here is an example of my entries for one transaction: Description: bought 53 acres from Samuel and Elizabeth Penny for $50 Date: 1 Apr 1851 Place: , Delaware County, Iowa, USA Notes: W2/3 of NE¼ of NW¼ of Sec 17, T90N, R4W, in Delaware Co., and W2/3 of SE¼ of NW¼ of Sec 17, T91N, R4W, in Clayton Co. Both parties were residents of Dubuque Co, IA. Witnessed by James A. Ginger, J.P., and James Martin. The Event will print out as: He bought 53 acres from Samuel and Elizabeth Penny for $50 on 1 Apr 1851 in Delaware County, Iowa, USA. (W2/3 of NE¼ of NW¼ of Sec 17, T90N, R4W, in Delaware Co., and W2/3 of SE¼ of NW¼ of Sec 17, T91N, R4W, in Clayton Co. Both parties were residents of Dubuque Co, IA. Witnessed by James A. Ginger, J.P., and James Martin.) Just my method. You have to develop an approach which you are satisfied with. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Nancy Bender To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 7:17 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Land purchase event I am looking for suggestions on entering land events. I see that there is an event that is probably a default as I have not dealt with land records before so I am sure I did not enter it. When I use that, the sentence reads that John Doe owned land... If I have a record of a purchase, I want to enter the date, the price and from whom it was purchased. I know I can either do a sentence override or create a new event, but I thought I'd see if anyone already has a land purchase event and would share the sentence format. Thank you, Nancy -- Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power. Play now! 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] Individual's Information Screen
Nope, Ruth--that's still not it. The color differences on the Name List differentiate Male from Female (at least on mine). The color change indicating that a source has been added are on the Individual's Information screen, where you originally enter the data. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: Ruth Nerud To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Individual's Information Screen Oh, I just got it - it's blue on the Name List screen - I thought it would be on the Family View. Sorry!! Ruth Nerud - Original Message - From: Sharon Perdue To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Individual's Information Screen Been using Legacy for several years and I never knew this, and never noticed that the field names were actually a different color. Very cool! Love this list. Sharon - Original Message - From: Jim Keener To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Individual's Information Screen That fixed it George. Thank you, Jim On Dec 8, 2007 10:31 PM, George/Kathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I had this problem quite a while ago and if I remember correctly I think I fixed it by changing the color scheme back to the Legacy default. Not sure which scheme I had changed to that seemed to have caused the problem. George - Original Message - From: Jim Keener [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 7:26 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Individual's Information Screen I know the field names are supposed to be turned blue when there is a source entered for that field, but I just noticed that my field names are now black, regardless of whether there is a source listed for the event or not. I've searched through my manual and online help files and I can't figure out what has happened. I'm sure the problem is probably in the customize section, but I can't seem to find it. Can someone please help? Thanks to everyone who posts here. I love it. Rarely post, read every day. Jim Jim R. Keener Sevierville, TN USA Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et 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 Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et 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 Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Buy Now 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 Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Buy Now 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 Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Buy Now 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 Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et 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] Source Clipboard (was: Source Dropdown Box)
You can select 1 source from among several on the Clipboard, but it is not straight forward. This is a method I stumbled on by accident. 1. Load the sources (up to 5) on your Clipboard; check Prompt for Detail on each Source screen. 2. When you want to attach a single source to an event, click on the Open Source Clipboard button (the blue up arrow button on the left of the screen). 3. When the Source Clipboard screen opens, if the source you want attached isn't on the Source 1 page, move it there using the Swap buttons on the right. 4. Click the OK button. 5. Click the Attach Clipboard Source... button (the blue dash or 3 blue dashes buttons on the left of the screen). 6. When the Source Detail screen opens, click on the Save button. 7. The next Source Detail screen (for Source 2) will then open. If you do not want to attach this source, click on the Cancel button. The Clipboard will close and Source 2 and all subsequent sources will not be attached. If you want to attach more the one, but not all of the sources on the Clipboard, make sure that you move the desired sources to the front in step 3 and click on the Save button to attach each one. This work-around does require a little work, but if you have a large number of events you want to attach multiple sources to, it might save some time. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in [rainy] paradise. - Original Message - From: Bert van Kootwijk To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Dropdown Box Idea In that case that feature is useless. Bert - Original Message - From: Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Dropdown Box Idea Bert van Kootwijk wrote You can have up to 5 different sources on the clipboard. See help.: Source clipboard Yes, I know that, but when you Paste it pastes all 5 Sources. (I often paste multiple sources, as I said) but I want to be able to choose which I paste. Or is this capability in there somewhere and I haven't found it? -- Jenny M Benson Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et 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 Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et 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 Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et 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] Writing text
I think it would depend on your audience. If it's a book for family, where the readers know that you wrote it, use the first person. If you're submitting a book or article for publication in a journal, use the third person. I often insert my comments in notes followed by something like: --jsa, 9/29/07. You might reserve the General Notes field for first person narratives and use the third person in all Events Notes and Sources. Then you could choose which notes to print in a Report or Book, depending on the intended readers. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: June To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 4:22 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Writing text When entering text do people write in the 1st person, or just give facts. For example - when I write information that my mam has told me about her mam is it more common to says that 'my mam said that grandma' or is it more common to say that Pauline Smith said that her mother I currently use 'my mam said' because although my family history is full of facts and official data, it is something that I am putting together (with a lot of enjoyment) for my children and their children. I am still interested in how others do it though because I have adapted many of the things I do due to the messages on this forum. And have also learned a lot about the things I have been missing out on. Thank you June (Chan) 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] Changing the order of Chinese names
Thank you June. Of course the given and generation names should be in the SUFFIX field. Be sure that the Put comma before titles suffix on the Customize/Data Format screen is UNCHECKED. Sorry for confusing things further. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Cathy To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Changing the order of Chinese names Hi John and June, I think John meant to put the first name and generation name in the Title Suffix field given that you want the Surname to print first. You could also put the first name and generation name in double square brackets in the Given Name field followed by a quoted name - the name you want used in narrative. Then in report options on the Format tab, check Remove Quoted name AND use Quoted Name in narrative. This then lists him as CHAN Chung Sing and the narrative reads: Sing married June on ... So: Given Names: [[Chung Sing]] Sing Surname: CHAN Suffix: Chung Sing AKA John CHAN I think this will work pretty well. It did when I tried it. Cheers, Cathy 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] Changing the order of Chinese names
Cathy, not June. Sorry again. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: John S. Adams To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Changing the order of Chinese names Thank you June. Of course the given and generation names should be in the SUFFIX field. Be sure that the Put comma before titles suffix on the Customize/Data Format screen is UNCHECKED. Sorry for confusing things further. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - 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] Names and locations
The discussions about how to enter adopted vs. biological surnames and the formatting of place names prompts me to offer my philosophy. When entering this information, I try to keep in mind what will help me, other researchers or future descendants find the relevant sources. In other words, for an individual, what name would be that under which most of his vital records are listed? If a child were adopted in infancy and the original birth record was deleted and replaced by one in his adopted name, it would make sense to enter his adopted name in your records as his primary name. If he was adopted by a step-father when he was a teenager and took the step-father's name, his birth certificate, baptismal and school records would probably be recorded under his birth name, but subsequent records would be recorded under his adopted name. If he changed his name later in life, for whatever reason, his personal records would be recorded in both names. I think you have to make a decision about which name would most aid researchers and list any others in notes. Of course, if the person is still living, deference to his, or his immediate family's, wishes should be taken into account. If you choose to use the genealogical standard of always entering the birth name (if known), you should use the AKA field to list all other names under which relevant data might be recorded. And use copius notes to document name changes. Concerning location formats: I think that the four position (i.e., city, county, state, country), standard which Legacy encourages (but does not impose), originated in some of the old line genealogical societies in the U.S. In order to standardize submittals from many subscribers or applicants, these societies developed these standards which were then adopted by the LDS and most of the U.S.-based genealogy software program(me)s. In my personal experience, the important things are, first, to identify locations where records can be found, and second, to define the geographic location of an event. For most of my U.S. ancestors, the bmd records, land records, and court records are held by the county. The most narrow geographic location is defined by the city or township. Therefore, I always try to include the county and smallest geographic entity (village/town/city/township). As has been vigorously pointed out by several posters here, the 4 position U.S. standard location doesn't accommodate most British or European place names. The best approach is to CONSISTENTLY enter locations from the smallest to the largest geographical/political entity. This could involve 3, 4, 5, 6 or more, entities. I think Legacy will accommodate them all. Of course, border and name changes over the years complicate all this, so notes are important. My 2 cents. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. 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] Family View: * next to relationship
The original question referred to an asterisk next to the relationship. It designates a relative of a later, or younger generation. E.g., my first cousin's granddaughter is my 1st cousin, twice removed. My grandfather's 1st cousin is also my 1st cousin twice removed. The cousin's gr dau is marked with an * to indicate a younger generation. Grandpa's cousin has no *. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: Mitch Mackrory To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family View: * next to relationship From the Help File ... Preferred Child The Preferred child is generally a direct line ancestor. This child is shown in the child list with a leading asterisk (*). You can change the Preferred child by right-clicking any child name and choosing the Set to Preferred Child option. Cheers, Mitch On 9/12/07, RICHARD SCHULTHIES [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What it means the * person is the prefered descendant and/or direct line for RIN #1. I forgot where the options to set these are, but there are a few choices there. Rich in LA CA --- Wendy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upon entering the new generation, I noticed that both my first cousin once removed (the baby's mother) and my first cousin twice removed (the baby) have an asterisk (*) next to their relationship to me above the names. 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] further to the 93-page pension file
Janis, I have 4 CW Pension files obtained from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). They range in size from 56 to 160 pages and all are on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets. I haven't considered putting them in sheet protectors because they are photocopies, not original documents. However, I might reconsider since NARA has recently increased their fees, so if my copies should fade or be damaged, the replacement cost would be significant. I store each file in a separate legal size hanging folder. I have the sheets in each folder sorted by date of creation (as best I could determine). Each file is a Master Source. While reviewing my sources, I find I have, as usual, been inconsistent in my sourcing formats. However, an example of a Master Source would be: Name: Auld, A. T.: CW Pension File TITLE: Federal Pension File: Auld, Alexander T. WC 427516 (Elizabeth A. Auld), Claim No. 1097258 TYPE: Military AUTHOR: U. S. National Archives PUBL. FACTS: Created 1892-1906, copied 9 August 2002; Washington, DC RECORDED: 15 Aug 2002 REPOSITORY: National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), Washington, DC COMMENTS: Alexander T. Auld's Pension Application File (Civil War), Claim No. 1097258 Photocopy of Full Pension File received by John S. Adams from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, DC, on 15 August 2002. This file consists of 100 legal size pages. File includes affadavits testifying to his character and disabilities from, among others, the minister of the Kansas City, KS, Washington Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, the Post Master and Assistant Post Master of Kansas City, the Mayor of Kansas City, and a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. [In another CW Pension Master Source, under Comments, I summarized the contents by writing an extract of each document that had genealogical significance. This ran to 43 paragraphs and nearly 3 pages. This was perhaps overkill.] The Source Detail might be entered like this: DETAIL INFORMATION: Certified copy dated 17 Sep 1895 of Marriage License, Jackson Co, MO, Recorder COMMENTS: Marriage of A. T. Auld and Mrs. E. A. Wilson on 6 Dec 1883 performed by W. A. Crawford, minister, M. E. Church, in Jackson Co, MO. The resulting Source Output on a report would then be: U. S. National Archives, Federal Pension File: Auld, Alexander T. WC 427516 (Elizabeth A. Auld) Claim No. 1097258 (Created 1892-1906, copied 9 August 2002; Washington, DC), Certified copy dated 17 Sep 1895 of Marriage License, Jackson Co, MO, Recorder. Hope this helps, John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: Janis Gilmore To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:03 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] further to the 93-page pension file In fact, how do you handle the whole file, start to finish? I plan not to transcribe the whole file, nor to scan it. I will scan key pages, and attach them to the appropriate events. I also plan to lightly number, in pen, each of the pages for my own reference. Normally, I would print a label that contains the full sourcing and document number, and attach one to the front of each sheet, when possible, or to the back of sheets where it is not possible. Again, however, I do not plan to do that with this enormous file. Would you take a page inventory, listing each sheet and the essence of what each contains? Not a full abstraction, more of an inventory summary? I should clarify that I have worked with big files like this before, but I have never had them well organized. As I clean up my sourcing, I am trying to give document numbers to each and put them in 3-ring binders. Janis 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] WAS: Chapman Codes, Now: List of Chapman codes
Or just look in Legacy Help. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Drew Smith To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] WAS: Chapman Codes, Now: List of Chapman codes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_code Drew Smith On 9/3/07, Robert Carneal USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This discussion about Chapman codes got me to thinking- Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of Chapman codes I can save and use as a reference? Perhaps even a book I can buy? Currently, I go by whatever the United Nations has as a code for a country. I figure they are as recent as I can get. But I have been wanting something I can put in a briefcase and take with me, if possible. 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] How to print a location list please ?
Go to Reports, choose Location Report. Choose the options you want, be sure to check Include specific events and Include event date. If you do not want all locations listed, tag the desired locations first and select to include only tagged locations in the report. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to print a location list please ? Is there a way to create a list that is sorted by location, rather than person? For example: CA, Contra Costa, Antioch Martin, Althea Ann d. 11 Nov 1908 Sneade, Sarah Jeffries m. 19 Nov 1934 Wightman, Bessie Bresse b. 1 Apr 1888 m. 20 Jul 1920 Wightman, Carleton Eugene b. 2 Aug 1880 CA, Contra Costa, Brentwood Lindsey, Lillian m. 18 Aug 1901 Wightman, Carleton Eugene m. 18 Aug 1901 etc. Thanks, Dawn 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] Multimedia Backup (was Keeping two databases ... )
i only receive messages in English - Original Message - From: isabel cavalcanti To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Multimedia Backup (was Keeping two databases .. ) NO ENVIEN MAS MENSAJES - Mensaje original De: RICHARD SCHULTHIES [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Enviado: domingo 26 de agosto de 2007, 19:12:44 Asunto: Re: [LegacyUG] Multimedia Backup (was Keeping two databases .. ) I think this is a wake up call to include Source photos, etc. in the backup list for the future, if not current. For myself, I add the documents to both the source and an individual or two. For the present, I have created a person named Fake Name, and he would be perfect to add ALL photo/documents into until this situation is resolved. This is not a quick fix, depending on quantity. Rich in LA CA --- aseddon.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- ¡Sé un mejor besador! Compartí todo lo que sabés sobre besos en http://ar.yahoo.com/promos/mejorbesador.html Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] County Didn't Exist Then
While there was some disagreement at the time about what country North Carolina was in, that disagreement was resolved at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865. - Original Message - From: Sharon Perdue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:16 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] County Didn't Exist Then . Is anyone putting a different country (CSA?) than USA for states that seceded during the Civil War? ex: born 25 Sep 1861 Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, CSA (USA/Jul 1868) Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] [Fwd: Report/GED How-To or Wishlist Item]
Kirk, I think you can accomplish what you want to do by tagging the individuals you want in the lineage and exporting the tagged individuals to a new Legacy file. You can then create any report you want or a GEDCOM from the new file. Hope this helps. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: Admkirkb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 9:42 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] [Fwd: Report/GED How-To or Wishlist Item] Since I finally bothered to find this list (something I should have done years ago when I started using Legacy), here is a HUGE item I find that I can not do today and have really needed to do on many occasion: 1) I want a report of all the direct lineage between any two given people (assuming of course that the lineage exists) ... I don't want this report in the form of boxes, I want a textual narrative report that I can share easily with others. The report should allow me to include spouses and children (of just those people on the direct line). 2) substitute REPORT above with GED-export (i.e. to be able to take the folks that would be in the report above and export them to a GED file). I have a few other reporting packages outside of Legacy and have not found this (as I describe) in those either. Thanks, - Kirk Beaty Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Report/GED How-To or Wishlist Item
Correction to last post: First, Untag all Tag 1, or whatever Tag you wish to use. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: John S. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Report/GED How-To or Wishlist Item I apologize to the group for not trimming my last post. Kirk, Try this: 1. Select the earliest individual. 2. Open the Descendants tab. 3. Select Options from right hand side. 4. Select Cutomize Columns. 5. Choose to display a column for (for example) Tag 1. 6. Now, rather than UNTAG the people you don't want, go down the list and TAG all the people you want to keep. This should be easier than untagging, depending on how big this line is. 7. Export all Tag 1 individuals to a new Legacy file. Not very direct, but it should do what you want. Good luck, John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: Admkirkb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 1:58 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: Report/GED How-To or Wishlist Item Hi John, Thank you for the response. I actually tried to do this .. I found (unless I am doing it wrong) that using this tagging method with the lineage focus group, included more than the line (at least when including spouse/children) .. i.e. it included the spouses descendants beyond the immediate line of interest.So this left me with much more than I wanted. And it took way too much manual untagging to make this practical for any but simple cases. It could still be a matter that I am not aware of something here, but I found with quite a bit of trying that I could not do what I described. Thanks, - Kirk Beaty Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Problems with date
There was no year 0 A. D. (or 0 B.C., for that matter). John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. 66ºF., clear skies, calm sea - Original Message - From: Rob Vader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:14 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Problems with date I triedbut it did not do the trick. Something to do with dates being on 'both sides of 0 A.D.??? I am not sure. Anyone from Legacy can shed some light? Thanks, Rob Vader On 2/14/07, Rob Vader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will see what I can do there, haven't look at that possibility yet. Thanks, Rob On 2/14/07, glove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rob Have you tried setting the format in the 'dates' tab on the customise screen? You can set the format of 'BC' at the bottom on the right. Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Vader Sent: 14 February 2007 08:10 To: Legacy Subject: [LegacyUG] Problems with date Hi, I am having a problem with entering a specific date period for an event. The period is 1 B.C. till 11 A.D. I am using the Dutch version of Legacy6 De Luxe (pre-release). I have tried entering in all concievable combinations B.C. before, after, etc. with, or without dots, 4 digit years. Every time I get an indication that the date period is not recognised. Any suggestions? Rob Vader Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Automatic sentences for events in reports
In the Report Options menu, under Event Format, select Use List Style formatting instead of Use envent sentencing formatting. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: Pat Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 2:28 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Automatic sentences for events in reports I see that the Deluxe Edition, which I have, automatically forms the events into sentences when printed. How about if I don't want to use them in sentences, is there a way to shut off that option? I had hoped the 'sentence override' would do it, but it doesn't. I really hate to just delete all the options under sentence override. Any suggestions? What do others think about the automatic sentences and their useage - the pros and cons. *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Legacy.asp or call 1-800-753-3453. *** Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Legacy.asp or call 1-800-753-3453. *** Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Place name punctuation in reports
Just another example of two peoples separated by a common language. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 3:18 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place name punctuation in reports And English is *our* language so. ;-) Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *New Blogs: The Murder of Adam Mather; Legacy Searches* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place name punctuation in reports Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 10:46:57 +0100 Judy wrote One Source for Comma Rules http://www.northland.cc.mn.us/owl/comma_rules.htm I think that just goes to prove that there is one law for the UK and one for the USA! Not only does it cite the example of using a comma after an address such as the OP was referring to, but it also includes it before the and in a list (eg Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins) which I was taught *never* to do and is not generally done in this country. -- Jenny M Benson _ Windows LiveT Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Entry of uncertain data
I have often seen place names and dates entered in angle brackets,, to indicate probabale, but not proven info, as in the examples given. I don't know if this is an accepted genealogical convention, but it is used often in the IGI and other databases. I use it in those situations so that when I see the brackets, I know the information is based on assumption rather than hard data. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - 3) Where a person dies is not usually so important as where he was living at the time of his death, and just because he was living in County X doesn't mean that he died in County X. How do you handle that kind of info? 5) Since his parents lived their entire lives in County X, it's reasonable to assume he was born there, but his mother could have gone to visit her mother in County Y for the delivery. How do you handle info that is PROBABLY true but you don't really have any way of KNOWING? It's disconcerting not to have ANY idea where someone was living. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Internet Accessable LEgacy Database
Camron, Have you explored the "Intellishare" feature of Legacy? I have never used it, but I understand it is designed specifically for situations like yours. John S. AdamsHermosa Beach, CA"Just another day in paradise." - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:05 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Internet Accessable LEgacy Database Hi, I am with a team of Legacy users who aresharing, combining and collecting genealogyinformationspecific surname. Does Legacy offer space on the Internet where we can upload our database from which we can all share, add and monitor? If not, is it possible to point Legacy's "OPEN FILE" to an Internet address of which we could hold our database? Another method maybe to install 'remote access' software. Has anyone tried 'remote access' software to enable theirgroup to gain access to a common PC? If not, how else is it possible for a group to be able to combine talents, research time and information? Thanks, Cameron D. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] entering death certificates into events
Add PDF files and most other non-picture files just as you would picture files except that you check the Sound icon. On the Load Sound File screen, change the Files of type: entry from Sound Files to All Files then select your PDF file and click Open. Your PDF file will then be attached to the source (or the event or the individual). This has been discussed on the LUG recently. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: LAURA Taylor-Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 9:47 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] entering death certificates into events I forgot to mention that my death certs are pdf documents on my hard drive and saved to a disk. So how do I add a picture of the death cert to the source? Is there a way to change the pdf document? I understand about scanning pictures, but I don't know about what documents I can scan. Do I have to print all of my death certs in PDF and then scan them into the computer? Help! From: La Nell Shores [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] entering death certificates into events Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:09:00 -0500 I abstract the contents of the death certificate and put it into notes. I also use it as a source but so much of the information is pertinent to other information about the person, I want to see it in the notes. Abstract of Oklahoma Death Certificate: Mrs. Nancy Johnson died 23 June 1923 State University Hospital, Oklahoma City at age 63; Father, Joe Looper; Mother Don't know; cause, abdominal malignancy; usual residence, Britton, OK; Cemetery Rose Hill; no informant was listed; Ed Hahn, undertaker; place of birth - Arkansas From this I have learned to look for the old Hahn Cook Street and Draper Funeral Home for records, census info in Britton, OK, her mother probably (she did) died at an early age, no husband listed so probably a widow or separated (she was separated), etc. If I only used it as a source I might miss some of the other clues to her life. La Nell -Original Message- Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] entering death certificates into events I would use the certificate as a source not as an event putting all the relevant info in the various field used for sources in the appropriate fields used in entering sources Lee C Nashua NH USA - Original Message - Does anyone have a good way to enter death certificate info into the events? I have quite a few death certificates that I need to enter into Legacy and have not a clue how to do it. Sincerely, Laura Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp _ Windows Live Spaces is here! It's easy to create your own personal Web site. http://spaces.live.com/signup.aspx Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Alternate name icon
Right click in the Family View Toolbar and select the icons you want to appear. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:25 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Alternate name icon I have the new .108 update -- I don't know whether that's the problem -- anyway on the edit screen beside the person's name there used to be an icon you could click on to enter an alternate name --now it is suddenly gone and there a To Do icon instead.!!! How do I get the alternate name icon back?? (I've checked Options, Customize and Help, but no luck. Pat H Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Relationships Calculator
Jim,, Half-siblings properly show in the children section in the lower half of the Family View screen. This is not the problem I'm talking about. The relationship setting is more busted than I thought. In trying to more clearly explain the problems I've encountered, I set someone other than myself as the starting person for relationships. I then looked at a half-sibling of the starting person. The relationship shown above the name of the half-sister reads, Half Source. What does that mean? Her spouse is Husband of Half Source. But what is more alarming is that the son of the half-sister is identified as Half Son. That's not any relationship that I'm familiar with. This person is a half-nephew of the starting person. The problems in the Relationship Calculator do occur when I have more than one relationship. For example, I select the relationship between myself and a distant cousin. I get the following relationships: 1/2 2C1R 5C3R 6C3R When I hit the Swap button, I get: 1/2 2C1R 5C3R 1/2 6C3R There is no reason that swapping the 2 individuals should change these relationships. Obviously, if one is Uncle and the other Nephew, the relationships will change, but that's not the case here. There are other problems in the RC, and I will try to document them all sometime and report them to Support. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. - Original Message - From: Jim Winfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Relationships Calculator John, Have you selected to show 1/2 siblings on the Family screen. I have the latest build and this part works correctly for me. On the relationships issue, is it possible you're seeing the relationships that you are seeing changing when you swap the names is because there are more than one relationship between the two people? Look at the top of the screen - if there is more than one line, each line is a different relationship. I have one where a gggrandmother is also my 2nd cousin 4x removed. That was hard to find. Jim Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Fam. Members by Generation
- Original Message - From: Stuart Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fam. Members by Generation It is only recently that I have been giving thought to statistics and I am disappointed that Legacy does not provide reports such as this. The above is simple math and Legacy should be able to produce a report such as you have described, easily. I don't know why you should be disappointed with Legacy. Not matter how simple it would be to program such a report, do many people want it? Would a significant number use it? There are thousands of simple to include features that Legacy or any other gen program COULD include, even if only 1/10 of 1% of users wanted them, but at the cost of a bloated, more difficult to use program. We already suffer from feature inflation and options glut as it is. IMHO John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Just another day in paradise. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
