Re: [LegacyUG] OverWriting
ronald ferguson wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:23:52 +0100 From: david.macdiar...@snp.org 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 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 2008Can anyone helpme ,i feel so stupid and depressed,David Hi Patti,That is exactly what i have done.I backup every time i exit Legacy but i do not give backup a name,to be honest i do not know what to call it,but i just think it will be saved somewhere.I do get a prompt that no multimedia files were found ,but again i presume that is ok.I probably backed up sometime last week.I will take your advice on what to do next but i am very aprehensive to say the least.I still cannot believe my stupidity,thanks for your help,David David, There are a number of us who can help but I would think that most, like me, are pretty confused about what has happened. so let us start with your back-ups which you say above, you create every time you close. What version of Legacy are you using? If you don't know you will find it under the General Info Icon on the Toolbar. I ask this question because in Version7 you do not have to give the back-up a name Legacy will give it one by default and the file name ends with the date and time of creation. These back-ups are zip files (ie. .zip extension) and are usually stored in the C:\Legacy\Data folder. If you are transferring data from your PC to a flash drive you cannot overwrite what is on your PC, only what is on your Flash drive. So have you looked in the Legacy Folder I gave above to see what is in it? Please let us know. 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/ _ _ With Windows Live, you can organise, edit, and share your photos. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Hi Ron, I am using Legacy 7 Deluxe.My computer is Windows xp Professional, which i was advised to purchase,as it suited the Legacy Programme better and it is only just over a year old.Unfortunately my pc is not idiot proof.I have tried retracing my steps to make it easier for you to understand what happened,but to be honest i do not know how i reached the overwrite stage.Can you run me through how i get to the exact Legacy folder you want me to look in,i seem to have lots and lots of Legacy on my pc.Thanks for your time and help,Ron,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] OverWriting
Jenny M Benson wrote: David MacDiarmid wrote I presumed this was ok because i do not have a clue what a multimedia file is.My anger and frustration is not only at myself,because i know my limits on my pc,but also at the boffins who write this stuff without much consideration for the people who do not have the pc skills they do. That's a bit unfair on the Legacy programmers. I do think they have the right to presume that someone using a computer programme will acquire a certain amount of basic computer knowledge first. However, if you had looked up Multimedia in the Help files you would have found: Multimedia files - These are the picture files, sound files, video files, and other documents that you have linked to the people, events, sources, and locations in your family file. Hi Jenny,My apologies if you think i was having a go at the Legacy Programmers.That was never my intention.I am angry and frustrated at myself for not understanding what was being asked of me.My interpretation of the question do you want to overwrite this filewas simple,i thought that it meant that my pc legacy data would be transferred onto my flashdrive.Hands up i was wrong.But i still think that what could be potentially years of work can be lost by pressing a key on your pc without being given a warning or two as to what the outcome of this action will be.I know this reply sounds simplistic Jenny,but i do struggle sometimes trying to understand what my machine is asking me to do.Maybe i should e-mail Bill Gates, maybe he could manufacture a pc for numpties,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] 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 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Hi Patti,That is exactly what i have done.I backup every time i exit Legacy but i do not give backup a name,to be honest i do not know what to call it,but i just think it will be saved somewhere.I do get a prompt that no multimedia files were found ,but again i presume that is ok.I probably backed up sometime last week.I will take your advice on what to do next but i am very aprehensive to say the least.I still cannot believe my stupidity,thanks for your help,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
[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] OverWriting
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:47:03 +0100, David MacDiarmid david.macdiar...@snp.org wrote: The flashdrive has now taken all my Legacy History back to Nov 2008 Not sure what you mean by taken? Don't try anything else until we figure out exactly what you did. Hi Dennis,When i have finished working on Legacy i am prompted to backup this i do.I do not fill in a name for backup as i automatically think the backup is being made into the pc.I am then told that no multimedia files were found.I presumed this was ok because i do not have a clue what a multimedia file is.My anger and frustration is not only at myself,because i know my limits on my pc,but also at the boffins who write this stuff without much consideration for the people who do not have the pc skills they do.I personally think pc jargon is sometimes alien to me.Dennis,i have done almost nothing with my pc since last night apart from e-mails,if this can be sorted i would be eternally gratefull.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] sudden crash - RESOLVED
Thanks to all of you knowledgeable folks that have helped me with this issue. It has been resolved. Sherry from Support got back with me very quickly (Thanks Sherry) and suggested an uninstall and reinstall. I did that, and still had the same problem. Then went to the site link provided by Dennis Kowallek (see below). There I found a little diagnostic program for HTML help issues. It was called MJ's Diagnostics. After running this little application, which only took about 5 seconds, everything was working fine. My Legacy help windows now work great! So this was a Windows issue after all. Thanks again Dennis. Dave -- From: Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:14 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] sudden crash On Thu, 7 May 2009 19:50:06 -0400, David Dearth deart...@hotmail.com wrote: Yes, Legacy7.chm does run on its own, however, when I close it I get an error Microsoft HTML Help Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close. This is starting to sound more like a Windows issue. Yes it does. Googling for Microsoft HTML Help Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close I found this one: http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-615867.php Good luck! -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] sudden crash
Thanks Ron. I have since discovered that every time I use the help button, (or even use help from the drop-down menu) Legacy crashes the same way. It doesn't seem to matter where in the program I am, the result is the same. I have rebooted and all is up to date as far as I know. Perhaps after future updates with Legacy and Windows the problem will go away. I will just try to avoid using these help buttons. Dave -- From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:21 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] sudden crash Dave, I have seen this and similar problems with numerous programs and have rarely managed to sus out the reason. Legacy gives some good tips at: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpGPF.asp Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: deart...@hotmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] sudden crash Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 17:45:48 -0400 I just had an issue occur several times in a row. It repeats itself every time I try it. I am using Legacy Deluxe v.7.0.0.90. When in the family tab view and bringing up the individual's information, I clicked the help button to bring up the associated help topics. When I close the help window, Legacy crashes with the message Legacy Genealogy Software for Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close at which time the only option is to close the program. I am using Windows XP Home, SP3 on a Dell Dimension. Thanks for any insight. Dave Dearth _ Beyond Hotmail — see what else you can do with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665375/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] sudden crash
Thanks Tim. Will do! -- From: Tim Rosenlof spa...@xmission.com Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:15 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] sudden crash David, I have tried and tried to reproduce the same problem with no luck. Avoiding the help button is not a option. Report it as a bug from the Home Tab on the right. (Possibility you have done so) It will be read quickly and put in the tracking system. I say that because the developers nor the folks that track may not see it on the LUG Tim Rosenlof Thanks Ron. I have since discovered that every time I use the help button, (or even use help from the drop-down menu) Legacy crashes the same way. It doesn't seem to matter where in the program I am, the result is the same. I have rebooted and all is up to date as far as I know. Perhaps after future updates with Legacy and Windows the problem will go away. I will just try to avoid using these help buttons. Dave -- From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:21 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] sudden crash Dave, I have seen this and similar problems with numerous programs and have rarely managed to sus out the reason. Legacy gives some good tips at: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpGPF.asp Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: deart...@hotmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] sudden crash Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 17:45:48 -0400 I just had an issue occur several times in a row. It repeats itself every time I try it. I am using Legacy Deluxe v.7.0.0.90. When in the family tab view and bringing up the individual's information, I clicked the help button to bring up the associated help topics. When I close the help window, Legacy crashes with the message Legacy Genealogy Software for Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close at which time the only option is to close the program. I am using Windows XP Home, SP3 on a Dell Dimension. Thanks for any insight. Dave Dearth Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] sudden crash
Hi Dennis. Yes, Legacy7.chm does run on its own, however, when I close it I get an error Microsoft HTML Help Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close. This is starting to sound more like a Windows issue. Dave -- From: Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 4:58 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] sudden crash On Thu, 7 May 2009 15:13:57 -0400, David Dearth deart...@hotmail.com wrote: I have since discovered that every time I use the help button, (or even use help from the drop-down menu) Legacy crashes the same way. It doesn't seem to matter where in the program I am, the result is the same. I have rebooted and all is up to date as far as I know. Perhaps after future updates with Legacy and Windows the problem will go away. I will just try to avoid using these help buttons. Does the Legacy help file work on its own? Find Legacy7.chm and double-click it to see if works. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] charting re-install
At 01:22 AM 5/6/2009, ronald ferguson wrote: If you must install from the Disc you *must* uninstall first. And that's another Legacy bug. If the program won't install cleanly on top of an older version, any decent installer program will check for pre-existing installations and either offer to uninstall them automatically, or will halt and tell the user to manually uninstall them before restarting the installer. /dave Dave Damouth mailto:d...@damouth.com www.damouth.com Legacy User Group guidelines:http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.aspArchived messages:http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.aspTo unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] charting re-install
At 07:00 AM 5/6/2009, Syble Glasscock wrote: I am on high speed, but I'm confused, why would the original Legacy 7 go into Drive E as I specified and then Charting go into a different drive C? The assumption is that your Charting program on C: is left over from some earlier installation of an older version. In this type of situation, it pays to be fairly thorough and heavy-handed in cleaning up the leftovers from the past and from botched installation attempts *before* doing a new clean installation. a: Use the Window Control Panel Add or Remove Programs utility to remove any Legacy programs that appear in its list. This isn't perfect - sometimes old programs still exist without having an entry in this list. b: Then do a global search for any files with Legacy in the name. If any of these found files are in a program installation folder, go to that folder and see if it contains a program name something like uninstall.exe. If you find such any such Legacy-related uninstall programs, try to run them (double-click on the file name). c: Then using the results from the above search, manually move any Legacy data files to a safe location where you can find them again if needed, and delete any other files and folders with Legacy in the name. d: After all the above is done, run a good Registry cleanup program. I like the one in JV16 http://www.macecraft.com/ but there are other good ones too. This will remove, among other things, all the orphaned Registry entries concerning the (now non-existent) Legacy program. It's a good idea to run a registry cleaner a couple times year in any case. It can help avoid all sorts of obscure and hard-to-diagnose problems. e: Now you can download and install Legacy 7 with some assurance that all will go well. When the installer shows you *where* it will install the new program, stop and think about where you really want it installed, and change the install location if appropriate. You won't be asked separately abut Legacy Charting - that's all predetermined and automatic. And of course, before you do any of the above, make sure you have a recent complete backup of everything on your computer that you care about. /dave Dave Damouth mailto:d...@damouth.com www.damouth.com Legacy User Group guidelines:http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.aspArchived messages:http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.aspTo unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] sudden crash
I just had an issue occur several times in a row. It repeats itself every time I try it. I am using Legacy Deluxe v.7.0.0.90. When in the family tab view and bringing up the individual's information, I clicked the help button to bring up the associated help topics. When I close the help window, Legacy crashes with the message Legacy Genealogy Software for Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close at which time the only option is to close the program. I am using Windows XP Home, SP3 on a Dell Dimension. Thanks for any insight. Dave Dearth Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Bulk sourcing
How is it done in Deluxe please? Dave ronald ferguson wrote: Marilyn, Advanced Sourcing is only available in the Delux Version, so I'm afraid that you will have to use the Source Clipboard for each individual entry. Ron Ferguson _ *New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CSS Pedigree web pages http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:11:09 -0700 From: paddypeppe...@yahoo.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Bulk sourcing To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Newbie working with Free Legacy7 here: I just began a new Family File with about a dozen people. I'd like to put a single master source on each bit of information (name, dob, dod, etc) that is identical. For example: the Master Source name would be Recollections of John Doe and it's from an email from John Doe to me. I tried tagging all the individuals in the Family File, but now I don't know how to proceed to bulk-add the identical Master Source to each person and his various fields. Any suggestions? Marilyn _ Beyond Hotmail — see what else you can do with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665375/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson
Hello JLB, Monday, April 20, 2009, 12:09:24 PM, you wrote: I heard you talking about me so I resubscribed. I got a new job so I've been away from this for what seems like months and I'm a bit rusty. I put all documents for unmarried children with their parents. For children who marry I put all their documents, including childhood ones, under their own MRIN. Anything that's an individual record like a birth certificate, but not the census records that would be filed under one of the parents. Maybe this is the wrong way to do it? If a person remarries, obviously they would have a second MRIN and all documents pertaining to the marriage and events after the marriage go there. So apparently there's a difference in our methods but I don't know if it matters. What happens with children where they might have been married but I don't have that information yet? Well, for starters I regard them as unmarried and all their information goes with the parents. If later I find out they were married, I have to move some things. At least I don't have to go far to find them. I used to put MRIN's in the Individual Information User ID fields as a kind of backup and also because I could sort the Name List by User ID, i.e. MRIN's. Then I moved them all to the Marriage Information Screen which has also has a box for User ID and all things considered, that one makes more sense, but it doesn't work in the Name List, at least didn't the last I looked. - JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- David Cripps, Tasmania cri...@netspace.net.au Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Travelling with Legacy
Gayle wrote: I am planning a research trip and would like to have my Legacy information with me but I will not be able to take a laptop. Is it possible to put the program and my information on a USB port and use it on someone else's computer? You might consider using Legacy to create one or more websites with all your information. You could upload the site to the Internet and access it from any computer that has a browser. Rootsweb has free accounts if you don't have your own site somewhere else. Or you could put the folder of website files on a USB flash drive and access that from a browser on any computer with a USB port. I find it useful to make and save several websites of different types (ancestor, descendant, etc), starting with different people. Depending on the type of research you are doing, one or another of these sites will be more convenient to use. At the top level of Legacy, click the Internet tab, then click Create Web Pages and follow the instructions. The built-in Help document is indeed helpful. You wouldn't be able to add to or change your information. But at least you could view it all, and make notes for entry into Legacy when you get back home. /daveDave Damouth mailto:d...@damouth.com www.damouth.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM Issue
I you're using SourceWriter, each master source has a check box at the bottom of its edit window labeled Exclude from Reports. Perhaps the one's you are missing have that box checked? At 08:21 PM 4/17/2009, s...@cox.net wrote: Anyone have an idea what I have done wrong and a suggested solution to have all 299 sources get pulled into the GEDCOM. /dave Dave Damouth mailto:d...@damouth.com www.damouth.com Legacy User Group guidelines:http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.aspArchived messages:http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.aspTo unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Error 508
John, Before you do anything else, copy your database file to, say, your flash/thumb drive. It will have the name of your family file and the '.fdb' extension. So, for example, mine is called 'miller.fdb'. It's probably in the 'Legacy' folder (I don't use standard paths so don't recall where it should be). That file will contain all your entered data to date and you will have something to fall back on should it all go wrong. Regards, Dave (NZ). From: John Roose Sent: Tue 31/03/2009 08:34 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Error 508 Please tell me I won't lose the data I entered yesterday if I go the uninstall/reinstall route as you outlined below. Regards, John -- Genealogy - - - - - it's in my blood! Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Displaying Occupation
Nick, Go to 'Customise' columns, as you said, and choose 'Event' from the list. In the next window choose 'Occupation'. Dave (NZ) From: Nick n Dale Sent: Thu 26/03/2009 16:20 To: Legacy User Group Subject: [LegacyUG] Displaying Occupation Hi, I would like to display the occupation of individuals in Index view. I have clicked on OptionsCustomize columns but can't see Occupations as one of the possible fields to display. How can I do this? thanks Nick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Exporting to a new Family File
The choice of resetting or retaining these dates should be a user option when exporting to a new family file. At 07:03 AM 3/9/2009, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: There is a way around it ... have the programmers change the code to copy these dates to the new database. Is there any advantage to *NOT* copying these dates? I hope you submitted this suggestion. /daveDave Damouth mailto:d...@damouth.com www.damouth.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Obituaries, Newspapers, File ID
At 01:34 PM 3/7/2009, Frances wrote: I am trying to reduce my paper files. I was thinking about tossing out those things that I have transcribed e.g. Obituaries, newspaper articles and census recordings. ie those things that are easily accessible these days (but not birth, marriage and death certs). Any thoughts on this. I see no reason to save *any* paper documents, unless you are the custodian of a one-of-a-kind public archive. On the rare occasions when you need the paper in the future, you can print another copy. (Those few contemporary documents needed for legal purposes are an exception, of course). Transcriptions are fine for me *if* the actual form of the original doesn't convey any information. Transcriptions are important because they are computer searchable. But in many cases, the form matters too - handwriting where the transcription accuracy is uncertain, signatures vs a witnessed X, marginal notations in a different handwriting, etc. For such documents, I scan the original in grey scale (and color if appropriate) at sufficient resolution to encode all the visible information, and then save the scanned image as well as the transcription. The transcription should contain a reference to the scanned image. Computer hard disks now have so much capacity and are so cheap that there's no longer any reason to compromise on resolution. (a one terrabyte hard drive is now under $100. That's a million megabytes!) For this reason, it's also easy and cheap to keep multiple copies of everything on multiple disks, removing any concern about losing the data when disks fail. Archival copies on DVD's provide yet another redundant level of safety. Another factor is that for the old, faded, documents we often see, a good grey-scale scanned image can be enhanced to be far more readable than the original. In such cases, I save the raw scanned image as well as the enhanced image, because I might someday want to use a different type of enhancement. For my own purposes, copies of documents that are available from a large commercial database such as ancestry.com need not be saved locally. These databases are reliably backed up, and sufficiently valuable so that in the unlikely event that ancestry.com abruptly went bankrupt and shut down its websites, some other company would arrange to rescue the data. Electronic images or transcriptions of documents stored only on small private websites can *not* be assumed to be permanently available. These sites can disappear overnight and never be seen again. I will keep local copies of such documents in my own computer files. /daveDave Damouth mailto:d...@damouth.com www.damouth.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Is there a listing of websites created using Legacy
Here's mine: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~damouth/ Still rather simple at the moment. The top page is hand coded, but most of the rest is Legacy 7. I'm working now to completely redo the whole thing, add photo albums, add reports for individuals, etc., and will move it off rootsweb onto my own domain, www.damouth.com. /dave Dave Damouth mailto:d...@damouth.com www.damouth.com Legacy User Group guidelines:http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.aspArchived messages:http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.aspTo unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Importing Gedcoms from FTL GenCircles
I have just purchased Legacy.and then read some where that files from FTL/GenCircles will not export to Legacy. Is this true? If so, since Legacy merged with FTL, should not there be some way that this could be corrected? Thanks 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
[LegacyUG] How to record same-sex couples?
I'm a new user of Legacy 7, so perhaps I'm missing something obvious. I can't figure out how to properly enter same-sex couples. I could add a new entry to the status list in the Marriage Information Window, but is there some relatively standard way of doing this? /daveDave Damouth mailto:d...@damouth.com www.damouth.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Editing names
Listers, Has anyone else experienced a problem with editing an individual with the latest update? I have new information about one of my names in my list and regardless of how I try I cannot change the information. I have run the maintenance on the database, closed and re-opened the program, and rebooted my computer, all without success. I am able to maneuver through the program without difficulty; I simply cannot edit the information on someone. I am running Legacy Deluxe Edition 7.0.0.85 on a Dell Studio 540S with Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit). Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Editing names
Well, the gremlins are running loose for sure! Somewhere between my posting and your reply Legacy decided to allow the change. Basically, I would right-click or choose Edit from the Edit Menu and Legacy would simply blink at me and allow no changes; now, the information box opens and allows me to change the person's name. Sorry to be such a nuisance and thanks for the quick response. Dave -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:54 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Editing names On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:24:00 -0500, David Keown keown2...@gmail.com wrote: I simply cannot edit the information on someone. Can you be specific about what you mean by cannot edit? What window are you trying to edit on? What happens when you type your changes? -- 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
[LegacyUG] Legacy User Group in NYC (The Big Apple!)
Folks, I just want to take this opportunity let folks know that there is a Legacy User Group in the New York City/New Jersey area The NYC Metro Area Computers and Genealogy Special Interest Group meets the first Tuesday of each month from 6:00pm-8:00 (except July Aug or where noted in advance on our calendar) in the offices of: NYPC User Group New Yorker Hotel - Room 550 34th Street 8th Avenue (NW corner) 5th Floor (look on the floor directory for NYPC) Meetings are open to everyone and we are free to the public although membership in NYPC is suggested. We're been around since 1985/86 and cover all topics of interest around genealogy and technology for both PC and MAC users. And although we have members using just about every major genealogy package, there is no question that Legacy leads the pack. Feel free to join us. Here is some additional information on our meeting notice mailing list and our upcoming meeting this month. Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 6:00-8:00 pm Main Topic: First Looks! New Software Releases Tips Tricks: Digital Photography in Cemeteries An amazing list of technology and genealogy announcements happened over this Summer of 2008. Here's our chance to get a look at the new software releases, features, and benefits of Legacy v7, Family Tree Maker 2009, and The Master Genealogist v7. This should be a meeting jam packed with something for everyone. Also, we'll be trying out a slightly new meeting format. From now on: 6:00-6:30 Open Q A - Bring your genealogy and technology questions, news, and tidbits to share. 6:20-6:40 Genealogy Tips and Tricks - by request we are devoting a small segment each month to address the how-to or tips tricks on various issues. 6:45-8:00 Main Meeting Topic 8:15 - whenever - there is usually a group that adjourns for dinner at a local diner. Would you like to receive our meeting notices? Send an email directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll make sure that you get on the list. Visit our web pages at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~metrony/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Geo Location Database Standards - Round 2
Thanks for your thoughts on methodology. I've actually got my own system pretty well working. Sorry to be so technical but perhaps I should clarify my query. What I am trying to get answered is: what GIS standards and metadata are the folks at Millenium using in setting up their Geo Location Database for use with Legacy? Since I research and publish to a high academic standard, I need to track the accuracy level of all of my sources and cite them correctly. If I use the Legacy GLdb (a very convenient thing) I've got to know about the standards used in creating it. For example, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a Federal agency created back in the late 1800's to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the nation's government. To this day they continue their work (as the world get's more complex, so does their task) and the US Geological Survey office makes downloadable text files available free at http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html. The BGN currently maintains domestic info and the overseas data is served by the Geographic Names Server (GNS) of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)? Many commercial software systems make use of this standardized data set as the basis for constructing their own proprietary metadata and application specific databases. Is Legacy amongst these users of the BGN/GNS/NGA info? Or is there some other standard that has been implemented? Are there different core data sets used for the various regions of the world? If the Legacy GLdb is based on these government issue datasets how recent is the dataset used in the current Legacy release (V7)? Thanks again for any insights and forthcoming assistance on this. David M. Kleiman Heritage Muse, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RICHARD SCHULTHIES Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:59 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards You must first decide which location system you will use, and then the questions become easy. 1. Use the location name as it existed at the time of the 'event'. I have some towns with as many as eight different names. 2. Use the location as it exists 'today'. Then when governments change the various boundaries, you must re-edit the wole country. Sweden 2 times in 20th century. England, Scotland in the 1990s, US states and counties (see AniMap). I use choice 1, because once the research is done, the past doesn't re-do itself. Rich in LA CA --- On Sat, 9/27/08, David Kleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Kleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 9:43 AM Couple of questions to the informed crowd here I am working to reconcile a large number of European place name citations in a fairly large Legacy file (30,000+ individuals) between currently accepted naming conventions and older or alternate spelling and language differences. A simple clear example is the old American spelling of the Ukrainian town Lvov which on most current maps is Lviv or L'viv. Question: Can anyone tell me what the source was for the Legacy Geo Location Database names? Is there an standard academic source(s) against which that list is published? For example: The US Geological Survey database, or some other world atlas(es)? If the spelling standardization is a Millenium Corp. construct, is there a listing of the transliteration guidelines used in building these lists? Thanks for any insights David M. Kleiman Heritage Muse, Inc. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Geo Location Database Standards - Round 2
Mary, Thanks. I guess I wasn't clear as to who exactly reads through this forum. I appreciate your suggestion. David Kleiman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Young Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 2:43 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards - Round 2 David Kleiman wrote: What I am trying to get answered is: what GIS standards and metadata are the folks at Millenium using in setting up their Geo Location Database for use with Legacy? Aren't you asking the wrong people? The is the Legacy Users Group. If indeed the Geo Location Database is controlled by the folks at Millenium (or better yet, the folks at Millennia) why not direct the question to them? They're more likely to know the answer! 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 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Geo Location Database Standards
Couple of questions to the informed crowd here I am working to reconcile a large number of European place name citations in a fairly large Legacy file (30,000+ individuals) between currently accepted naming conventions and older or alternate spelling and language differences. A simple clear example is the old American spelling of the Ukrainian town Lvov which on most current maps is Lviv or L'viv. Question: Can anyone tell me what the source was for the Legacy Geo Location Database names? Is there an standard academic source(s) against which that list is published? For example: The US Geological Survey database, or some other world atlas(es)? If the spelling standardization is a Millenium Corp. construct, is there a listing of the transliteration guidelines used in building these lists? Thanks for any insights David M. Kleiman Heritage Muse, Inc. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Alternative Place Names Suggestion
Forgive me if this has been suggested previously: Is there anyone else out there who would like to see sourcable Alternative Place Name capabilities for Locations as we already have for Given and Surnames? This would be useful for anyone working across time and geography. Especially for those of us working in areas of the world where the language, alphabets, controlling nations, and other geopolitical boundary names changed frequently. Maintaining a master (or Preferred) place name on an event with the ability to search across alternate spellings and the ability to source each variant would be tremendous. David M. Kleiman Heritage Muse, Inc. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Re: [LegacyUG] List Archives
Something tells me that this person is also receiving messages from the spoof address and not necessarily the LUG. Thomas Herson wrote: Look at the bottom of this e-mail for a link that will unsubscribe you. No human can do it for you ;-) - Original Message - From: Hunterius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:37 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: [LegacyUG] List Archives i dont want send emails from you Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] 29 February 1894 - What's wrong with this date?
Melody, 1894 is not divisible by 4 and therefore not a leap year. Regards, Dave (NZ). From: Melody B Sent: Wed 23/07/2008 05:51 To: Legacy User Group Subject: [LegacyUG] 29 February 1894 - What's wrong with this date? I don't know if this is a bug or not. I have a date for something or other that is 29 Feb 1894. To me, that sure looks like a valid date. 1894 should have been a leap year. Unless of course it wasn't. But if not, then I don't know why. And if the date is correct, then Legacy 7 is having a problem with it - it flags it as a bad date Every single time. -- Take care, Melody If not now, when? : 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] Pictures Documents
On 18 Jul 2008 at 20:28, Bill Bienia wrote: Thinking of these two options as Digital Image and Document, rather than Picture and File, might help in deciding where to load a particular type of file. This leads me to a question regarding a possible bug I was going to report. When I am in the picture gallery of Legacy (latest version) and try to rearrange individual photos by dragging dropping as the help file says can be done, I see the cursor change to a hand with a picture in it, but the photos will not rearrange. I can't figure out why they will not. A second symptom occurs when I use the dropdown box to change from Individual to All Pictures. Now I have more 'pictures' on display but when I try to drag drop, the cursor stays as an arrow rather than changing to the hand icon. And of course I still can't drag drop pictures to rearrange them. So, first problem is that I can't drag drop to rearrange photos, but could the 2nd problem be caused by the fact that I store my scanned documents in my documents folder but bring them into the photo gallery along with the normal photos from the photo gallery? Is it not possible to do this? Thanks, Dave -- GEDtoKL version 1.1 at http://www.jodael.com/GED2KML.htm Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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 Charting error
Thanks Sherry, I would be interested to know what their solution was, as mine disables some memory card slots (not a problem for me since I don't use them). David Sherry/Support wrote: David, One of our support persons did discover the solution and we've been reporting the solution to those who have reported it to us since we discovered what was going on. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Wilkinson Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 6:35 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting error Well, after all this time waiting for the folks at Legacy to solve the problem, I think I may have solved it myself. Previously (months ago) I had Googled the error message and came up with a great many hits. Many involved a USB drive that had been removed or had the letter re-assigned. I have some USB drives and I played with them trying to stop the error. I had no luck. After I posted my original message below, I Googled the error message again and found a result that I hadn't seen before. This led me to try something I hadn't done before. My HP printer has two slots for memory cards that show up as drives on my PC. I don't ever use them so I went to Device Manager and disabled them. Problem solved - so far. I still don't know why Legacy Charting was the only program to cause the error to appear. Anyway, if you have a problem like the one described below try playing with any USB drives and don't forget the memory card slots. Happy Hunting, David David Wilkinson wrote: Back when Legacy Charting was in beta I kept getting an error whenever I used it. I corresponded some with Sherry and she forwarded my issue to the programing people. I never heard anything more. Eventually Legacy 7 was released with the new charting capabilities and I was hoping that the problem had been solved. Alas, no. The same issue. I waited for several updates hoping that the problem would be corrected. Still no joy. My guess is that I am one of few people having this problem so it was placed low in priority. I believe it is actually Windows issuing the error but it is caused by something that Legacy Charting is doing. Previously, I had gotten this identical error in another unrelated piece of software. When I inquired about the problem on their forum, I found that there were indeed a few others getting the same error. The software authors eventually eliminated the error but offered no reason why it had occurred. Here's what happens. When ever I try to create a new chart or make changes to an existing chart that involves adding people the error is created. Clicking on any of the 3 buttons numerous times will eventually clear the error and Legacy Charting will continue to run as if nothing had happened - until the next time I try to add someone to the chart. Here is a link to show you what the error looks like: http://www.judivad.com/lc/ChartingError.jpg Has anyone else seen this error, either in Legacy Charting or another piece of software? David Wilkinson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Legacy Charting error
Back when Legacy Charting was in beta I kept getting an error whenever I used it. I corresponded some with Sherry and she forwarded my issue to the programing people. I never heard anything more. Eventually Legacy 7 was released with the new charting capabilities and I was hoping that the problem had been solved. Alas, no. The same issue. I waited for several updates hoping that the problem would be corrected. Still no joy. My guess is that I am one of few people having this problem so it was placed low in priority. I believe it is actually Windows issuing the error but it is caused by something that Legacy Charting is doing. Previously, I had gotten this identical error in another unrelated piece of software. When I inquired about the problem on their forum, I found that there were indeed a few others getting the same error. The software authors eventually eliminated the error but offered no reason why it had occurred. Here's what happens. When ever I try to create a new chart or make changes to an existing chart that involves adding people the error is created. Clicking on any of the 3 buttons numerous times will eventually clear the error and Legacy Charting will continue to run as if nothing had happened - until the next time I try to add someone to the chart. Here is a link to show you what the error looks like: http://www.judivad.com/lc/ChartingError.jpg Has anyone else seen this error, either in Legacy Charting or another piece of software? David Wilkinson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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 Charting error
By adding people I meant something like increasing the number of generations being displayed or switching to a parent or spouse as the primary person. This would cause the need to add different people to the chart. I don't think you can simply insert an individual. David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you can add (insert) text or a picture, but how do you add a person? I tried to duplicate what you found but did not find how one adds a person to a chart. 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] Legacy Charting error
Well, after all this time waiting for the folks at Legacy to solve the problem, I think I may have solved it myself. Previously (months ago) I had Googled the error message and came up with a great many hits. Many involved a USB drive that had been removed or had the letter re-assigned. I have some USB drives and I played with them trying to stop the error. I had no luck. After I posted my original message below, I Googled the error message again and found a result that I hadn't seen before. This led me to try something I hadn't done before. My HP printer has two slots for memory cards that show up as drives on my PC. I don't ever use them so I went to Device Manager and disabled them. Problem solved - so far. I still don't know why Legacy Charting was the only program to cause the error to appear. Anyway, if you have a problem like the one described below try playing with any USB drives and don't forget the memory card slots. Happy Hunting, David David Wilkinson wrote: Back when Legacy Charting was in beta I kept getting an error whenever I used it. I corresponded some with Sherry and she forwarded my issue to the programing people. I never heard anything more. Eventually Legacy 7 was released with the new charting capabilities and I was hoping that the problem had been solved. Alas, no. The same issue. I waited for several updates hoping that the problem would be corrected. Still no joy. My guess is that I am one of few people having this problem so it was placed low in priority. I believe it is actually Windows issuing the error but it is caused by something that Legacy Charting is doing. Previously, I had gotten this identical error in another unrelated piece of software. When I inquired about the problem on their forum, I found that there were indeed a few others getting the same error. The software authors eventually eliminated the error but offered no reason why it had occurred. Here's what happens. When ever I try to create a new chart or make changes to an existing chart that involves adding people the error is created. Clicking on any of the 3 buttons numerous times will eventually clear the error and Legacy Charting will continue to run as if nothing had happened - until the next time I try to add someone to the chart. Here is a link to show you what the error looks like: http://www.judivad.com/lc/ChartingError.jpg Has anyone else seen this error, either in Legacy Charting or another piece of software? David Wilkinson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Same people, multiple marriages
How does one add extra marriages to a husband wife? Around this side of the world, multiple marriages are common - I've had 4: Australian High Commission in Malaysia - the one I see as legal. Customary Chinese wedding - the one the wife's parent's see as the only one that matters. Church wedding - because my wife wanted one - not legal in Malaysia because both parties aren't Christian, though tolerated. Malaysian Registry Office (6 years later!) - only one recognised as legal by the Malaysian government. I had never bothered to input the last 3 into Legacy for myself before, but I just got a bunch of certificates found my wife's parents were legally married in Singapore then legally married again in Malaysia 6 years later. Not to mention the customary marriage I'd like to record all this information but can't see a way to do multiple marriages. I guess add in custom events is the only choice? Also, anyone else got lots of Chinese relatives? If so, how do you get around the 2 name problems: a) Chinese names have the surname first. b) Chinese forenames are both used. For example Ho Chi Minh: Ho is his family name Friends would call him Chi Minh (not Chi). Reports for Chinese presumably Vietnamese ( maybe 1/4 of the world's population) look completely wrong to anyone reading them. Thanks, Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Mapping - helper application
On 1 Jul 2008 at 23:00, ronald ferguson LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: One should also note that the accuracy does vary quite a lot with resolution of the map - the higher the resolution the more accurate. For anyone that is interested in getting their mapping side done as best as possible, I wrote a small application have put it on my website at: http://www.jodael.com/gedtokml.exe To use it, all you need to do is Export a gedcom file in Legacy 7 format to your computer, run my application pointed to the .GED file it will create a .KML file. This kml file can be opened in Google Earth (just double-click on the kml if you have Google Earth installed) and creates a red cross for all the mapped locations in your gedcom. This makes it easy to spot places where the geocoding has gone crazy - I've found places that should be in Scotland ending up in the Sinai and places that should be in South Australia ending up in Africa. The app is free only tested on my own gedcom so far so may very well have bugs. Also, first time I am using Visual Studio 2008 to compile an application - it seems to run ok on the 4 computers I have here without requiring an installation package but this may be because all the computers I have here already have the correct .Net framework installed. Others may not so let me know if it doesn't work you want to help me find out why. Sorry if some say that it is not on topic for the forum, but I think it is - it's a helper app using the Legacy output to allow easier viewing of the data. There is currently no way to get the data back from Google Earth to Legacy if an error is found - that still needs to be done manually. I am hoping that a future version of Legacy will have a feature like this built in. Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Relationship Calculator
I think it's reasonable in that Legacy is showing non-blood people who are married to a blood relative. The older man is married to your aunt, the nephew is not married to a blood relative. Looks to me like that's where they've drawn the line. Regards, Dave (NZ). From: Elizabeth Richardson Sent: Tue 1/07/2008 10:04 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Calculator Actually, it doesn't return uncle-in-law. It returns husband of aunt. The discussion centers on the fact that v7 can find that husband of aunt relationship, but can't find nephew of wife relationship. The two people involved are the same, so why not either relationship? Elizabeth researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson - Original Message - From: Anne Hildrum Uncle-in-law what is that? Guess we have less relationships or non relationship names than you do in english. Personally I would expect Legacy to handle mother-father-brother and sister-in laws as that is relationship names that we do have and use. Are we also going to have 7C 6R in-law? Anne Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Locations Order Input
On 29 Jun 2008 at 21:17, RICHARD SCHULTHIES LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: The present setup is to reccommend to enter the country in loc4, state in loc3, county in loc2 and city in loc1. Those who have bascally European locations, put the country in loc3, the province/county in loc2, and city in loc1. There are no ROCK HARD rules at this time. The most important thing is to be consistent in your own DB. Choose one of the two above, and you should have o problems. I have just been tidying these up - mostly British locations but used country in Loc4 had trouble deciding what to put for loc3 sometimes. However, mostly I have been putting 4=country,3=county,2=city,1=address including house number. Which leads me to the question - is there any rule/convention about what constitutes a Location what constitutes an Address? These days with high resolution aerial photography once can get down to individual houses quite often. Seems locations are more general then addresses as far as Legacy is concerned? But will addresses show up in the maps? Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Dealing with unknown names
In the 'Individual's Information' screen click on 'Exclude from Potential Problems...' , then select the 'Standardisation' tab. Is this what you mean? Regards, Dave (NZ). From: La Nell Shores Sent: Fri 27/06/2008 02:02 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names From the amount of chatter on this subject, there must be a bunch of us who use , [--?--], or some other form of notation to indicate Unknown names. If we all would submit a suggest a new feature to support, indicating that we would like to be able to turn off the standardization warnings individually, maybe they would hear us and fix it to our liking. I just submitted one. The rest is up to you. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Version 7 Lat/Long format
Larry, I see your point. I guess I'm just *too* traditional but I hate Lat/Long being decimalised. Having said that, we do use degrees, minutes and decimals of minutes so I haven't really got a leg to stand on have I? Since degrees and decimals of degrees are being used in the world I'll get over it and agree with you, the choice between degrees/decimals and the present system would be very nice to have and would suit everyone. Regards, Dave. From: Larry Wilson Sent: Tue 17/06/2008 02:14 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Version 7 Lat/Long format Hi David, You may have missed my point I recognize degrees, minutes and decimals of minutes is a good form of GPS. My point is that when gathering GPS locations, from the Internet and books, most are in decimals of degrees format. Thus, converting them to Legacy format is a pain in the a--. I use these GPS locations for all my rural cemeteries and farm locations, in my family they mostly farmers and all were buried in small local (family)cemeteries. With decimals of degrees I can get down the feet of finding any thing. I hope you understand my concern It's just the converting. When Legacy was gathering input for the new version 7, I suggested having the choice (option) of either degrees, minutes and decimals of minutes or decimals of degrees, Geoff liked the idea and e-mail me to say so. But it never happened. I was just wondering why. I have copied Geoff on this matter, but he has not to responded. Best, Larry Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] V7: Accessed date for lumped US Census Entries - for Geoff
Scroll down and it's there. See Geoff's right hand red arrow in the screenshot Regards, Dave (NZ). From: Janis Gilmore Sent: Tue 17/06/2008 14:34 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] V7: Accessed date for lumped US Census Entries - for Geoff Gail, You are not going crazy. I have had so little time to play with this - just got v7 before going to IGHR, and am now on a family trip. When I saw your earlier message, I did remember that some other source that I entered DID have an accessed date, but I had to scroll down to it. I thought perhaps I had missed something in the census entry. But no. There is not an accessed date available for census entry (Federal, at any rate). I'm sure this is an oversight which will be corrected. In the meantime, I am using the usual work-arounds. Janis Walker Gilmore -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gail Nestor Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:23 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] V7: Accessed date for lumped US Census Entries - for Geoff OK, now I think I see the issue here. Either you are selecting a different master source type or somehow you are in possession of a different/better version of this same template. My template (when I select census records as the source type, followed by 1) United States 2) Federal Census Records 3) 1850 population schedule 4) online images) for the master source pops up and I fill it in. Then, my Step 3: Add Source Detail screen reads: Jurisdiction City Roll Page Dwelling No. Family No. ID of Person Surety Level Recorded Date File ID Am I going crazy here or am I missing something obvious? Gail Rich Nestor Smyrna, Georgia www.roots2buds.net Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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 Biological Parent Not Showing
Cary, I think I see what you mean. When you've got the child in question in the main Family View as, 'Wife'/'Female' or 'Husband'/'Male' then the parents shown above the child are the true father and wrong mother. This happens even when you have the true mother and father in the main view and click on the child. I think you'll find you have the child linked to both couples. To fix it put the true father and wrong mother in Family View and right click on the child. Then click on Unlink from Parents. If the child is even there in that view then they must be linked. Regards, Dave (NZ) - Original Message - From: Cary Jay Vaughn To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family View Biological Parent Not Showing Yes. I think you understand my dilemma/issue. Not to belabor the point, but I don't understand why this isn't an issue for others. I thought exactly the same thing as you have suggested. Consequently, I unlinked the parents and relinked them to the correct ones. Still the same problem. Here is what I see: In family view, the mother shown above is incorrect. I know he is linked to the correct parents because I can hover my mouse over the little mother/father icon and the correct parents appear. The mother just doesn't appear above making it look like his mother is someone other than who it actually is. I think the computer ought to know this because the mother who is shown above (on top) is not connected to him in any way. When I am viewing his family view screen, there is no reason for this other woman (parent) to appear at all. I mark a person as preferred because when I am viewing an individual, that is the preferred SPOUSE. This should not be a factor in seeing one's real PARENT. I think that whenever I am in family view, I will always have to have the question in my mind of whether I am viewing the actual parents?! I don't remember this being an issue in version 6 or maybe I just didn't notice. Thanks for all your responses. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Version 7 Lat/Long format
Larry, As a mariner/navigator my opinion is that Millennia are doing it exactly right. We use degrees, minutes and decimals of minutes. One minute of Lat. = 1 nautical mile so when we talk in minutes we are talking in miles, as it always has been. The Lat. scale on the side of nautical charts is in degrees and minutes therefore, when we measure off that scale we get miles. It's just one area where decimalisation doesn't work. Using decimals of degrees is, to me, all wrong. I don't know why some people do it. I'd like to think that Millennia are doing it right for my reasons but I honestly don't know. Regards, Dave (NZ). From: Larry Wilson Sent: Mon 16/06/2008 02:05 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Version 7 Lat/Long format Since most of the Internet sites use decimal GPS locations (Latitude: 37 59778 : Longitude: -92.9), I was wondering why Legacy is locked into (DDMMSS.xxx) GPS? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] zooming to pins in maps
On 11 Jun 2008 at 9:16, Gene Young LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: The other problem is once you are zoomed into a point want to look at a different point for the same person. The logical method would be to just click or double-click on the desired item in the list on the left side, which should result in the map on the right side moving to place the new location in the centre - no need to change the zoom width - just pan to the new location. And how would the program know which of the next ten locations you want to view? If you are viewing a location on the east coast how can it possibly know you want to look at the west coast location next? Oops - forgot to answer this in my reply, though I thought it was clear from my original posting. It doesn't have to know or guess what you want to look at next - as I said above - click or double-click on the desired item on the list on the left side. This is on the map of places for individual page. If you go to the Master Location List and click on any location you will see the map changes to show the clicked location. Do the same click on any location in the Map of places for page the map doesn't change. Obviously it can do it as it does it in the Master list. Instead it makes me zoom out 14 times then zoom in 14 times. Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Mapping specific locations that are in the same town in Version 7
On 13 Jun 2008 at 11:12, Jenny M Benson LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: I think it might be rather confusing to have some pins indicating precise locations (down to street address) but others which are intended only to indicate the general area. The way TNG (web-based geneology coupled with Google Maps) manages it is to have a different colour pin for: Address, Location, City/Town, County/Shire, State/Province, Country, Not Set Seems to work pretty well. I don't want to bring anyone's site down by providing a link to an example, but if you Google on: tng pin legend you will find a lot of examples. Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] zooming to pins in maps
On 13 Jun 2008 at 8:42, Gene Young LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: You are the one being negative. I was pointing out an obvious useful solution to an obvious problem. Your opinion of my state of mind is subjective detracts from the problem at hand. I was pointing out solutions to the situation as it exists. You were offering no help at all - this is Legacy they have the opportunity to fix a problem based on feedback which I was giving. Just because you happen to be in a place where the product works doesn't mean the rest of us do - there have been literally dozens of reported problems on this list from people in the UK basically anywhere outside the USA. You were also being a smart-arse with you how can it possibly know comment - if you bothered to read the feedback you would see that my suggestion is in fact already done in half the software so there is no reason why it couldn't be done in the other half. I'm not asking for the software to become a mind-reader, just consistent. Anyway, someone let me know (off-list) that GE connectivity is in the to-do list so that will solve the problems for those where GE is offering better product than VE. Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] zooming to pins in maps
On 11 Jun 2008 at 9:16, Gene Young LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: When the point gets near the edge again, stop zooming and double click the point again. Zoom again until the point is again near the edge and repeat. Not achieving much - still requires an enormous amount of clicking dragging when a simple box zoom would achieve the same end. Not Millenia's Mapping Program. They can not fix what they do not own. Sure they can - chuck it put a decent GIS in - Google Earth for instance. At the moment to go from my great-grandfather's birth place to his death place requires 14 single zoom out clicks (or hold hope) then 14 zoom in double-clicks (or hold hope continually re-adjust). I can't see any reason for this amount of work for what should be a double-click maximum. Again see above. Not Millenia's Mapping Program. Millenia chose to put it in there. I'm giving honest feedback - you are being defensive for some unknown reason - maybe you have stocks in a company that sells switches to mouse manufacturers? :-) Is there a place for reporting suggestions officially? As I write mapping applications for a living I guess I am a bit pedantic about usability, but definitely there is room for improvement. Contact Microsoft. Thankfully everyone isn't as negative as you - Cathy has given the good news that GE is planned - that will be of immense help. Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] zooming to pins in maps
On 11 Jun 2008 at 6:21, ronald ferguson LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Why don't you complain to Microsoft? VE is their product. I have no plans to use VE in any product except that in which I am currently forced to use, when there was a choice of GIS products to connect to. However, as Cathy has mentioned, GE is planned so that should help probably 80% of the world's population that has better GE coverage than VE coverage. Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] zooming to pins in maps
On 9 Jun 2008 at 18:36, Robert Silverwood LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: To Zoom continuously, click and hold the cursor over the + or - buttons. It doesn't really work - most of my relatives have points in UK Australia so the map starts off showing most of the world. If I just click hold on the + button I end up half way between Australia the UK. If I double-click on a point first it centres it - apparently. However, if I then click hold on the + button I find my desired point wasn't centred exactly so it soon disappears off the edge before I get down to street level, meaning a lot of manual mucking around. A simple zoom box would fix all of this. It is normally achieved by starting at 1 corner of where you want to look, then drag to the other corner, with the display zooming to suit once the button is released. The other problem is once you are zoomed into a point want to look at a different point for the same person. The logical method would be to just click or double-click on the desired item in the list on the left side, which should result in the map on the right side moving to place the new location in the centre - no need to change the zoom width - just pan to the new location. At the moment to go from my great-grandfather's birth place to his death place requires 14 single zoom out clicks (or hold hope) then 14 zoom in double-clicks (or hold hope continually re-adjust). I can't see any reason for this amount of work for what should be a double-click maximum. Is there a place for reporting suggestions officially? As I write mapping applications for a living I guess I am a bit pedantic about usability, but definitely there is room for improvement. (Having Google Earth instead of Virtual Earth would be the best start - Kuala Lumpur - where my daughter was born - in Virtual Earth shows up with a dot on the map for Ampang which is the suburb of several hundred thousand people where we live. Actually it appears as 2 different dots about 3kms from each other, both saying Ampang. In Google Earth Ampang shows up with street level mapping very clear detail of my house and the nearby hospital. Is there anywhere in the world where Virtual Earth has better maps than Google Earth?) Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Evidence explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills
On 8 Jun 2008 at 14:54, Gen Searcher LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Does that mean that UK bookshops do not think it will sell as it is to USA centric Has any UK lister read the book and is it worth getting I am also interested in this question as I am contemplating buying it. FYI - there is a website something like footnotes.com which is selling the pdf version for US$24 which is a lot cheaper than having to pay US$50 for the paper copy plus shipping to the other side of the world. Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] zooming to pins in maps
On 7 Jun 2008 at 18:38, Jennifer Crockett LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Hi Elaine Zooming did that to me as well. The way I do it now is to keep double clicking on the pin. 14 double-clicks to get from the default map to street view. It would be nice to be able to click on any point in the list have the map pan to the pin point on the map instead. Being able to zoom to a box would also be a good idea - draw the box on the map it will resize rather than having to pan zoom separately. Dave Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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 Locations
I had a similar situation where I wanted to get rid of the USA and change my full state names to the two letter abbreviations instead, as most of my database was already that way. The answer has already been addressed in previous messages on this group, as I found out. The solution worked great for me. It requires copying and changing a few things in a txt file. See the following message in this usergroup:Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Database, Clarence Mundt, Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:49:50 -0800 Dave Dearth -- From: Larry Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 2:32 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help with Locations Hi Kris, This is what happened to me, I set my Legacy to do this and have forgotten how. I was going to help a friend set his up the same way and got stumped. Cathy showed how to do one state, but the way that I did it before did all states. Maybe some kind soul will help us out. Larry ---Original Message--- From: Kris Date: 06/01/08 11:28:23 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.Com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help with Locations Larry Wilson wrote: I would like my locations not to have , USA and add County to County name. I would like this change to be permanent on all locations. Examples: Before: Buffalo, Dallas, Missouri, USA After: Buffalo, Dallas County, Missouri Thank you in-advance, Larry Okay -- now I'm feeling really stupid. I found a way to have County Automatically added -- was just digging around one day -- and now I Can't find it again! I've looked through Help and the options for Both the Master Locations list and the Geo Location Database, and I Can't find it. But I know I didn't imagine it, because it's working. Hopefully, someone else will know where this is. As far as removing USA, as far as I can tell you just have to do that Periodically. I haven't found a way to make that change permanent. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://WWW.LegacyFamilyTree.Com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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
[LegacyUG] Short Locations
Is it possible to create a GEDCOM on LEGACY FILE using only short location name? Dave Broom Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Repeated emails.
Marilyn wrote: I would guess the system hicupped and agree it may have to do with getting ready for the release of version 7. Goodness me, does that mean every time a company updates their software, we'll all be inundated with blank emails? What a load of twaddle... - version 7 is probably months away yet. 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] Geo database bug??
Thanks Sherry and everyone for the information and feedback on this Geo Database issue. In my 9 years of researching, this is the first time I've come across this independent city thing. If it wasn't for Legacy and this group, I would not have even known about it, since my previous software would accept anything I put into it. Thanks again Dave -- From: Sherry/Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:03 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Geo database bug?? Dave, The Geo Location Database was created by another company and it includes independent cities. The USA County Verifier does not include independent cities for the most part (I think there are a couple in there). I hope to have time one of these days to be able to get the independent cities entered. There are some errors in Geo and Geo covers only current locations - it doesn't cover historical locations - so the two may never match exactly. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dearth Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:55 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Geo database bug?? I've been using Legacy for about four months now. I am constantly being amazed at how packed full of features this program is. I can do so much more with it than my previous software. One of those things is using the Geo Database. Many of my entries for places only have city and state. I have been using the search feature of the Geo Database, filling in the city and state, thereby finding the proper county. Yesterday, I did this like I have dozens of times before: searched for Danville, Virginia. The returned result was Danville, Danville (city), Virginia, USA. When I try to select and use this location, Legacy says There was never a county by the name of Danville (city) in the state of Virginia.. I have had to bypass this with a double comma (,,) to eliminate the county in this case. Shouldn't Legacy be able to accept its own search result? (there was only this one result from the search). A possible bug? I am using 6.0.0.190 Deluxe. Any suggestions? Thanks Dave Dearth Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Geo database bug??
I've been using Legacy for about four months now. I am constantly being amazed at how packed full of features this program is. I can do so much more with it than my previous software. One of those things is using the Geo Database. Many of my entries for places only have city and state. I have been using the search feature of the Geo Database, filling in the city and state, thereby finding the proper county. Yesterday, I did this like I have dozens of times before: searched for Danville, Virginia. The returned result was Danville, Danville (city), Virginia, USA. When I try to select and use this location, Legacy says There was never a county by the name of Danville (city) in the state of Virginia.. I have had to bypass this with a double comma (,,) to eliminate the county in this case. Shouldn't Legacy be able to accept its own search result? (there was only this one result from the search). A possible bug? I am using 6.0.0.190 Deluxe. Any suggestions? Thanks Dave Dearth Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Possible to search sources
Hi Mary Beth. I am new to Legacy and have needed to search sources also. I have come to the conclusion that you cannot directly search the Master Source List. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. But you can do this... Go to Reports. Under the Books/Other tab, there is listed a report for Source Citations. Produce a PDF report of you sources and once you open that, you can search for anything with the Acrobat Reader. Dave Dearth From: Mary Figgins Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 4:45 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Possible to search sources It is possible to search sources? I remembering seeing a census that mentioned a John Jackson as nephew. Now I need to find that source. Mary Beth Figgins Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it 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] Locations (Registration Districts)
Cathy If I know the address for an event such as a BMD certificate or known Census address I use the location full e.g. St. Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London If I am recording and event such as the St Catherine Index Ref: then I use the location as Shoreditch R.D. or an unknown location found in a Census as Shoreditch C.D. This is a short hand way of knowing to what the location refers. - Original Message - From: Cathy Redish To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:22 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Locations (Registration Districts) LUG: When you record locations esp. english ones, and a location could be a church and/or a registration district and/or a census parish, do you record them as distinct locations eg.. St. Leonards Church, London; St. Leonards Registration District, London and St. Leonards Parish, London or do you lump them? A related question wherre St. xxx and Saint xxx refer to the same location what do you record? Many thanks Cathy (Dundas, Ontario) 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.1/1182 - Release Date: 12/12/2007 11:29 a.m. 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] Am I still on the list?
Darlene wrote: haven't received one message since...last evening Same here Darlene (in Australia). I haven't had any messages either - perhaps the List is just quiet at the moment. Same here (New Zealand). Dave. 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] which web page format?
Jay, I like Pedigree and Ancestor personally. Member Ron Ferguson has a lot to do with web pages and is very helpful, I'm sure he'll reply later (He's UK I'm NZ). I don't think he'll mind my using his name. Regards, Dave. From: Jay Leach Sent: Tue 30/10/2007 12:28 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] which web page format? Which web page style seems to work best with you ( anyone) when created from Legacy? Family group? Pedigree? Planning to upload to freepages at rootsweb and then edit the pages from there. Is that the best way to get started--get my information up there on a server or is starting from scratch advised? Web page newbie. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Test
Please delete. This is a test. I have received several empty emails from the LUG this morning. 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
[LegacyUG] Re: A True Beginner
Diane: I, too, began using Legacy about 7 or 8 months ago. I, like you, was totally baffled by the source documentation of Legacy, especially how to decide what was a Master Source. I have seen so many different ideas on what to do it was confusing. I decided the most important thing to do was to: 1.) satisfy myself 2.) make the record so someone else could find the source of my findings by reading what I wrote. That's it. For a birth record that contains name, date, place, parents names, etc I do the following: Master Source: Master Source Name and the Title: Birth Record Surname, Given Name (when I add more birth records, they are all under Birth Record with surname and given name following), Publication Facts: Under Publication Facts: Here I list all the data necessary for some to find the same document which would include, the City, Township, County, State, the Government Office, (Church), the book number, and the page number, Then under Text of the source I type in the actual wording Under Comments: I type in what my thoughts are about this record. Under Repository: I type in the name of where the document is located. Under Picture: I always try to get a digital picture of the record (my camera) or a scanned copy of the record. I add the picture of the record here. (NO TRANSPOSITION ERRORS in a picture!) Now that you have the Master Source documented, the Detail Source is next. Under the Individual data input screen you can use this Birth Record for the persons name, his birthdate, his birthplace, his parents names documentation. You just put your cursor in the Given Name data entry line, click on the Books Icon (for sources) and click. When the Source data entry window comes up, Click on Cite a Master Source, select the Master Birth Record for that person, click to select, and now the Detail Screen appears. Now since ALL the necessary data in already in the Master Source, I just type in the following, John Edward Surname is the name listed on the Birth Record. And I am done for the Name Detail Source, Now you can do that for the birthdate, his birthplace, his parents names Detail Source. Clipboard: The Clipboard is a name given to that mysterious cyberland place that holds data you send copy to the Clipboard from one place, and you want the same words, picture, etc, in another place. Once you have sent or copied an item, you go to where you want it to be placed. Once there, put your curser there and Paste from the Clipboard, and a copy of the item should appear where you want it. I use the Clipboard mostly in Editing Events in the life of a person, or a family group. When you are editing an event (you need to be in the edit event window), on the lower right side of buttons, under the Help Button are two little squares. Run your cursor over them and you will see one is paste to the clipboard, and the other is a paste from the clipboard. Like all things in life, it is simple when you know how to do it! 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] Error Message
Hear, hear. We're here to help each other, not show off. Dave. I wish the regulars on here didn't have to be so snide. People aren't going to put up with that kind of behavior. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Repository Question
Nancy: Until you Santa might bring you a laptop, look into a Flash Drive to take on those library trips. many libraries now have computers that allow viewing of microfilm in digital picture format that can be downloaded onto your flash drive! You can transfer the picture to you desktop at home, and paste the picture into Legacy in the Master Source, into Events, etc. Pictures of the actual document really improve the quality of your work. It is there for future reference. Also there is no transcription errors! David - Original Message - From: Nancy Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Repository Question I recently discovered doing that, too. Now I am gradually going back and scanning documents and adding them to either sources or events, where ever is appropriate for what the document is. I have learned so much from this list that I am finally realizing all that I can do and enter into Legacy. Now I just wish I had a laptop to make it more portable! It's on my Christmas list this year ;-) Original Message Follows From: Dave Eastham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Repository Question Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:37:02 -0400 I could 'lose' all my hard-copy material Bill, Consider scanning your hard-copies and storing them in Legacy. It not only assures that you will not totally lose the information I have found documents much easier to find if they are on the computer. I put a copy of the document in the master or detail source depending on how they are set up. Regards, Dave 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 _ Tease your brain--play Clink! Win cool prizes! http://club.live.com/clink.aspx?icid=clink_hotmailtextlink2 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
[LegacyUG] Misc Papers Sourcing
Julie: This is what I do: Most misc papers can be scanned and saved as pictures added to Events of a person or a group of persons. (The record is preserved for the future and can be shared with all who care.) Example: A Last Will and Trust Make a Master Source citing the Title (Last Will and Testament Person, Joe). In the Master Source file: List the Last W T of Joe Person, dated xx/xx/, filed in This Office, in Certain City, This County. This State. (Box Nbr, File Name, Pages, Etc.) Add your comments, where it is currently, and add a copy of the scanned picture in the picture section. Now add this Master Source as an Event to Joe Person's file, AND add it to Every Individual's File that is named in the Will, an Event to their files using the Last Will of Joe Person Master Source. David 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: New Version of Legacy/FTM 2008
Hi Alan, I know this is a little off topic, but I thought my brief experience might be useful to Legacy users who might vaguely be considering moving to the new FTM. Just out of interest, I downloaded the beta version of Family Tree Maker 2008. It took me ages ( my broadband isn't that bad). It didn't import the GEDCOM file sufficiently well - lots of errors. I quite liked the map feature (it incorporates Microsoft virtual world, I think it's called). The programme wanted to keep closing. In the end I let it, uninstalled it and binned it. Now, I know it's only the beta version I probably didn't give it a good enough chance, but the import situation was a good enough reason in itself why I will not be wasting my money on this. If other programmes can import accurately why not FTM. (I'm not inviting a discussion!) So thank you for the opportunity of confirming that Legacy is still the best of the bunch, closely followed by Roots magic (for charts etc). I look forward to the new Legacy release. It WILL be better than the new FTM 2008 - it is already. Best wishes David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie Freeman Sent: 07 July 2007 16:47 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: New Version of Legacy Alan, What features are you looking for? Maybe if you mentioned them in the list the programmers will hear about it. Or someone will mention an obscure program that you have not heard about that does that. Debbie Freeman - Alan wrote: Ultimately some features I am after I have not found in any genealogy program and I have looked and asked around. 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] Documents
Cyndi Under Master Sources, there is a pictures tab on the Master Source. Click on the tab. Once there, look for picture off to the right, click on it. Then find and add your pic. Once it is in the Master Source, you can enlarge it to read the data. I keep pictures of any source I can as there is no transcribing errors on my part! David - Original Message - From: Cyndi To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 9:47 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Documents Is there a way to attach a document to a person, for example a death cert, marriage license, census page. I have tried scanning but they come out so small you can't read them. All help appreciated. 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] Documents
Cyndi: Go to the Master Source, click on the picture, that takes you to the picture gallery, then find and click on zoom. There is a + and - sign button for making the pic even larger or smaller. On another notewhen you are putting pics in your Source Documentation, the picture should be in the file Legacy/Pictures. When you back up the Legacy/Data files (Legacy/Data backs up only the pathname to the pictures, not the actual pictures) you will be asked if you want to back up the pictures, audio, and video files? You should do that too. BUT the pics have to be in the Legacy/Pictures file to be backed up. David - Original Message - From: Cyndi To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:54 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Documents I can add it but how do I enlarge it From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Bonnett Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:08 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Documents Cyndi Under Master Sources, there is a pictures tab on the Master Source. Click on the tab. Once there, look for picture off to the right, click on it. Then find and add your pic. Once it is in the Master Source, you can enlarge it to read the data. I keep pictures of any source I can as there is no transcribing errors on my part! David - Original Message - From: Cyndi To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 9:47 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Documents Is there a way to attach a document to a person, for example a death cert, marriage license, census page. I have tried scanning but they come out so small you can't read them. All help appreciated. 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://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://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] Charting recommendations
Genbox charting capabilities are second to none.. David (UK) 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance
Hi Ann, Try Amazon Books at: http://www.amazon.com/population-British-colonies-America-before/dp/06910461 66/ref=sr_1_1/102-1214344-9801758?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1176583868sr=8-1 David Wild -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ann Dunlap Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance Since this book is out of print now, where would you suggest I look for it? Thanks Ann California Gene Young wrote: John D. Taylor III wrote: Thank you. As a follow up you might try to find the following book. The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776: A Survey of Census Data. Princeton University Press, 1975. Robert V. Wells Gene Y. Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox. 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp __ NOD32 2188 (20070414) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Receiving Wrong emails
I've often wondered why Legacy doesn't use Yahoo Groups. I subscribe to other mailing lists via Yahoo Groups and have been very pleased. The user can select whether to receive HTML or plain text, whether to receive individual messages or to receive a digest. If they would rather they can choose to receive nothing at all and just log into the Yahoo Group website and review the messages online. If the user chooses the digest mode, the messages are grouped and sorted so the reader doesn't have to wade through a lot mail that they may have no interest in. When using the HTML/digest mode, each grouping is indexed with the message header, you can jump directly the message of interest. I believe the group moderator can either allow or prohibit attachments. Yes, there is some advertising attached, but to me it is very unobtrusive. Now that I've said all this, I'm sure someone will offer a reason NOT to use Yahoo Groups. Just something too consider. David Wilkinson Ron Bernier wrote: I have to honestly say, of all the mailing lists that I subscribe to, and there a quite a few, I have never seen any list other than the Legacy have so many people subscribe who have no clue as to what a mailing list is, or even that they are subscribing. I really think Legacy needs to put a new subscription method in place. After you initially subscribe, you receive a message describing the purpose of the list. If you want to receive mail from the list, you have to respond. If you don't respond, you are not subscribed. I also wish people would take a few minutes to try to learn what a mailing list is and how it works. That also would help to eliminate some of these messages. Bottom line, if you don't want to receive email from the list, don't subscribe. -- Regards, Ron Bernier Hello I am receiving your customers inquiries at my E-Mail address. So far this morning I have received 15 different E mail. Could you please rectify this situation. Thank You Carmel. 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
[LegacyUG] RTFM usage
Hi everyone, Not meaning to BADH (meaning, beat a dead horse), in reality RTFM is common and polite, and is used by many folks in the field of Technical Information. See the following site (Acronym Finder Search): http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=rtfmFind=findstring=exac t David Wild -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherry/Support Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:50 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] To open a file Donna, RTFM is a commonly used acronym (snip) 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
[LegacyUG] Adding a Husband as Unknown
I have one female already with 2 husbands, but I now discover that one of the children whilst still having the same biological mother had an Unknown father. Yes I can unlink the son, but is there a way to ADD an Unknown Husband to the wife (as a third spouse), so that I may then in turn add the unlinked son back again? I've had a look through the list archives, but can't seem to lob onto exactly what I want, and the Help file in legacy doesn't exactly help either. Hope I've explained this in an understandable formatg. Thanks Dave Cripps in Tasmania David Cripps [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hobart, Tasmania 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] Using a Relevant Subject
Hi David Thank you for that suggestion. You make a jolly good point here. Many of us are guilty here, especially of piggy-backing, where the discussion changes somewhat during the course of discussion. The only problem I can see is if a person has been following a thread and suddenly the name changes and they don't pick up on the change. Perhaps the person making the change might use something like: Piggybacking (previously: Using a Relevant Subject), the next contributor would then have the option of replying to Piggybacking or Using a Relevant Subject and would drop the bracketed section. Just an extra suggestion, but perhaps this may be getting unnecessarily complicated. Best wishes and thanks for the post. David Polesworth N.Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Wild Sent: 01 February 2007 08:21 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Using a Relevant Subject Just a few suggestions that might be helpful for many of us... When asking a question by way of the LegacyUG, could everyone please summarize the intent of your question in the Subject, rather than using a vague Subject as a question (see the Original Message below)? Using a more specific Subject might help those of us who want to go back over time and search for answers to questions that might arise - using the Subject as a point of reference. Also, please avoid piggy-backing on someone else's question/Subject by assuring that your Subject is relevant to your question, and is not simply a Subject heading that has been used by someone else for a different purpose. Thank you, David Wild -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (SNIP) Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:18 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] a question (SNIP) 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] Searching locations
I do think the matter is often difficult to fit to rules. I live in Polesworth which is in Warwickshire, England but my postal address is Polesworth, Tamworth, Staffordshire. Now if I were recording this, would I use my postal address or the address which shows my administrative county? I live in England, but how do I record my country? Do I record it as England or UK, or indeed England, UK. Do we record Postcodes (zip codes)? I understand that the correct 'protocol' in the USA is: Village/Town/City, County, State, Country and to leave commas as place holders. What is it in the UK? I've never really got to the bottom of this. I've always taken the line that my database is for me, so I do what is convenient for me. Best wishes David Polesworth N. Warks (or Staffs??!) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Briscoe Sent: 01 February 2007 12:07 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Searching locations Rules are there to be broken. I just find it much more convenient to know the exact address where possible. If I had not used the full address in that field I would probably have never noticed that two completely different lines from my family (one Welsh and one Yorkshire) lived in exactly the same house about twenty years apart. I did request last year that there should be an option to use the short version of the address when exporting to a GEDCOM etc. Martin Briscoe Fort William MLFHS | Gwynedd FHS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: 01 February 2007 11:40 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Searching locations Martin Briscoe wrote I like to store as a complete an address as I can in the location field, I know that some say that you should only put the village or town there but I find it more convenient as it identifies where people are living at the same address or neighbouring houses. There are often times when I really want to put the complete address in the Location field, too, but I really can't bring myself to do it! I have this real fixation about doing things the right way and obeying the rules so having been trained in the lower levels of database design I know that certain things are wrong and it would really go against the grain to do them! -- Jenny M Benson 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
[LegacyUG] Legacy and pictures
Hi I am a newby to Legacy. Have a question about pictures in Legacy. In the Help section under pictures, we are informed that Legacy stores the picture file address only and not the actual picture. From that I assume: The Legacy program stores only the picture's file address, not the actual jpeg (whatever), and goes out to the C drive to find and import that picture? Is it reasonable to assume that when I replace my computer, and transfer the active data Legacy file to the new computer, I will NOT have any pictures appear in Legacy on the new computer (Because they are only in some file on the old computer, not actually in the Legacy file?) Is it reasonable to assume that I must have a Legacy Picture File Folder that actually contains all the actual photos on the old computer that I can transfer to the new computer also? David L. Bonnett Treasurer and Board Member, Wabash Valley Genealogy Society Member, Indiana Genealogical Society Indiana County Genealogist for Vigo County Researching: BALFE, BONNETT, OSBORNE, SPARKS, STRAMMER, and TICHENOR in Vigo County IN. 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] Legacy and pictures
Thanks Ron. Currently using FTM. Have imported many jpg pics of US Census, City Directory pages, Birth Certs, Cemetery maps and plats, etc. into the source records. The FTW file size is growing at alarming rate, but having the documentation there is desirable. The way Legacy handling this aspect is better way to do it, but we needed to know from the start that we need a separate Legacy Picture File out there on C drive to store the pics. David - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:46 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy and pictures David, Yes and No!! Legacy remembers the path to the picture. So if the path is the same on your new computer then it will find them. Otherwise it will not. However, iwhen Legacy cannot find a picture it asks if you want Legacy to find it or do it yourself. Since I know where they are I always opt for the latter and once directed to a folder it will look there for the rest. Personally, I find it better to store all my Legacy pics in the same folder although this is in My Documents rather than in C:\Legacy but this really is a matter of choice. BTW it has been reported that Legacy is not over keen on the jpeg extension and jpg is preferred. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *Use Legacy Search - see My Blogs* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:21:47 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy and pictures To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Hi I am a newby to Legacy. Have a question about pictures in Legacy. In the Help section under pictures, we are informed that Legacy stores the picture file address only and not the actual picture. From that I assume: The Legacy program stores only the picture's file address, not the actual jpeg (whatever), and goes out to the C drive to find and import that picture? Is it reasonable to assume that when I replace my computer, and transfer the active data Legacy file to the new computer, I will NOT have any pictures appear in Legacy on the new computer (Because they are only in some file on the old computer, not actually in the Legacy file?) Is it reasonable to assume that I must have a Legacy Picture File Folder that actually contains all the actual photos on the old computer that I can transfer to the new computer also? David L. Bonnett Treasurer and Board Member, Wabash Valley Genealogy Society Member, Indiana Genealogical Society Indiana County Genealogist for Vigo County Researching: BALFE, BONNETT, OSBORNE, SPARKS, STRAMMER, and TICHENOR in Vigo County IN. _ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d 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] Legacy and pictures
Thanks for all the answers. Seems like I have a lot to learn. David Bonnett - Original Message - From: R G Strong Genealogy To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:40 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and pictures David, Another thing to keep in mind is that when Legacy closes it asks you if you would like to backup your file, it now also asks if you would like to backup your media files as well, so if you answer yes to the backup media files it will put all the photos that you have linked and the path to them in a zipped file (it has the extension .zip with whatever file name you choose). So when ever you move to another computer if you unzip this file and keep the same folder names, then your Legacy file will still find all the pictures it is linked to. Hope this helps, Russ - Original Message - From: David Bonnett To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:21 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy and pictures Hi I am a newby to Legacy. Have a question about pictures in Legacy. In the Help section under pictures, we are informed that Legacy stores the picture file address only and not the actual picture. From that I assume: The Legacy program stores only the picture's file address, not the actual jpeg (whatever), and goes out to the C drive to find and import that picture? Is it reasonable to assume that when I replace my computer, and transfer the active data Legacy file to the new computer, I will NOT have any pictures appear in Legacy on the new computer (Because they are only in some file on the old computer, not actually in the Legacy file?) Is it reasonable to assume that I must have a Legacy Picture File Folder that actually contains all the actual photos on the old computer that I can transfer to the new computer also? David L. Bonnett Treasurer and Board Member, Wabash Valley Genealogy Society Member, Indiana Genealogical Society Indiana County Genealogist for Vigo County Researching: BALFE, BONNETT, OSBORNE, SPARKS, STRAMMER, and TICHENOR in Vigo County IN. 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://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] source question
Apologies, Jenny. I think I should have addressed my reply to Randolph. Best wishes David Polesworth England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolph Clark Sent: 16 January 2007 18:57 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] source question Which source details do you attach the image to---that of the event or that of the individual? On 1/16/07, Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randolph Clark wrote Is there a great deal of difference between putting the census details with the individual's source and the census event course? I would say not. It makes some sense if you are using the Census information as a source for an individual's details in addition to making it an Event. I use the Census both ways, but I actually include all the details from the Census in the Event Notes rather than in the Source Details. I attach an image of the Census to the Source Details. -- Jenny M Benson 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 . +OK 32318 octets Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from aamtain10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtain06-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] .ntl.com for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:16:44 + Received: from mail1033.rm04.net ([129.41.76.225]) by aamtain10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:16:44 + Received: by mail1033.rm04.net id hlpcvg0beocf for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:11:51 -0500 (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:11:51 -0500 (EST) From: Handango Champion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shape up in 2007 with Diet Exercise Assistant 7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_Part_47173_32656610.1169053873274 x-mid: 721805 --=_Part_47173_32656610.1169053873274 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To view this mail in a browser, copy http://sdm3.rm04.net/servlet/MailView?= ms=3DNzIxODA1S0r=3DNTc0MjI0MTQyNAS2j=3DMjQ1NjEzMzES1mt=3D1 into your bro= wser. Dear Handango Pocket PC customer, We are pleased to bring you the Handango Champion Newsletter for January 17= , 2007. In this issue you'll find 7 great applications as well as special = features including New Years Apps, Software Bundles on sale for 25-45% off,= Club Handango more... Enjoy! *** Bundle Up Save 25-25% on these apps! *** Happy New Year from Handango! http://sdm3.rm04.net/ctt?kn=3D27m=3D721805r=3DNTc0MjI0MTQyNAS2b=3D2j=3D= MjQ1NjEzMzES1mt=3D1 =20 *** Champion's Choice Feature *** Diet Exercise Assistant 7.0=20 Tired of not getting the weight loss results you work so hard for? Download= the latest version of Diet Exercise Assistant! New features include:=20 - Larger food database of almost 10,000 items with nutrient info food lis= tings for hundreds of restaurants. =20 - Create recipes from a list of food items to speed up daily food logging. = =20 - Favorites folder now added to enter your common foods. =20 - 15 new charts graphs to monitor visualize diet progress. =20 - Daily journal to input personal notes keep track of good bad diet day= s. =20 - Own Diet Exercise Assistant? Upgrade here for $14.95: http://sdm3.rm04.= net/ctt?kn=3D34m=3D721805r=3DNTc0MjI0MTQyNAS2b=3D2j=3DMjQ1NjEzMzES1mt= =3D1 - Check out the Desktop Bundle version here: http://sdm3.rm04.net/ctt?kn=3D= 33m=3D721805r=3DNTc0MjI0MTQyNAS2b=3D2j=3DMjQ1NjEzMzES1mt=3D1 5-Star Review: V7
RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files
Hi Cheryl, Welcome to the group and to using Legacy. I'm sure you will find folk on this user group very helpful. I think most people would probably save everything in one file, but it would be really safe if you kept backup copies. When you exit Legacy it should offer you the option of backup - I always take up the offer. You can save photo's, documents to open within the programme too. I always find it easier to put all these in one file, but they can actually be kept anywhere, in different places on your computer. You also have the option of backing up multimedia - I take up this offer too. Best of luck in using Legacy and welcome once more. David Polesworth N Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cheryl Sent: 13 January 2007 17:15 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file have everyone - husband wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl 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] saving family files
Hi Cheryl, I forgot to say - If your Legacy file gets so large it is unmanageable, it is possible to split the file up. I personally would only consider this at a much later stage. If you want to read about it, go to the drop down Help menu at the top, when you are in the Legacy programme. Click on Contents and there is a section on Using Legacy. If you click on the Tips and Trick link, there are a number of helpful articles. Towards the bottom there is an article on Splitting Files. This will not only tell you how to do it, but will tell you you don't need to do it right at the start - it discuses the issue a little. Hope this will help. Best wishes David Polesworth N.Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David S Brookes Sent: 13 January 2007 17:32 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi Cheryl, Welcome to the group and to using Legacy. I'm sure you will find folk on this user group very helpful. I think most people would probably save everything in one file, but it would be really safe if you kept backup copies. When you exit Legacy it should offer you the option of backup - I always take up the offer. You can save photo's, documents to open within the programme too. I always find it easier to put all these in one file, but they can actually be kept anywhere, in different places on your computer. You also have the option of backing up multimedia - I take up this offer too. Best of luck in using Legacy and welcome once more. David Polesworth N Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cheryl Sent: 13 January 2007 17:15 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] saving family files Hi all, I am new user wondering about how people save family files. Do you have one file have everyone - husband wife (starting couple)with families all in one file or... do you break the files save by surname. Example my Husband parents surnames are Clifton, VanDyke(dads side), Unruh Hopkins (mom's side)So would you save a file for each one build the family from there. Doing it the second way, you wouldn't have a complete picture of all of the family (then how do you create a web site with everyone). I don't want to over complicate this, but also want to have a good complete file, if you share how you save your family groups I would appriciate... Thanks in advance! Cheryl 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] Picture Center Updates to Individual Records--and Source Detail
Hi everyone, Interesting discussion here but mainly agree with Gary. (Many apologies, Ron.) As the 'suggest a feature' is available to everyone it may or may not be statistically significant (we don't know this), but if the option is there I would use it if I feel inclined to do so, in the same way as others have the option of using it if they find they would like a feature added? I don't thing it I would call it spamming - I always understood spamming as 'sending unsolicited commercial messages to many recipients', but I stand to be corrected by those with more knowledge about the subject than I. We are individuals sending individual e-mails after being given the option of doing this by Legacy. I guess Ron is probably right about the statistically significant bit, but it wouldn't stop me having my say. Although I see a need for a change in the programme, I usually get around it, by organizing sources in a different way. I'm sure someone will see problems with this, but I tend to use lots of sources and use the source details for minor adjustments or comments. For example, I do not have just one source for the 1881 England Census, but one source for each 'place of residence'. I attach the source to each individual person who lived in this place, adding comments or 'appropriate extracts of the master source' to the Detail Source. Therefore, if I add a picture of the place of residence and a copy of the original census form, it is easier as once you have attached the picture to the Master source, adding the source to the individual being much easier than lots of separate pictures. This is the only way I know of adding pictures to sources, and to attach them to individuals rather than individually. This is why I use many master sources. This doesn't help those who have a large data file already set up in a different way. If you add an individual photo which is 'just a photo' and not really part of a source as such, but needs to be shared amongst a number of people, I tend to do it via the picture centre, by finding the picture on the computer by using 'browse', then adding all the details to the 'Picture List' on the right hand 'third of the page'. It is then an easy process to add the same picture and comments to each individual, by placing them in the individual, Birth, Christening, Death, Buried, sections. If you have events you can add the to events in the same way. If you do this the written details you have added to the 'Picture List', is then attached with the picture. I suspect most know all this, but just thought I'd write it on the off chance, there is someone who doesn't. Sorry, this e-mail is a little rushed and apologies once more to Ron, who I feel has more knowledge about the Legacy programme than I'll ever have. Have a good week everybody - I have a busy one so may not get chance to defend myself until later! Best wishes David Polesworth N. Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: 07 January 2007 15:20 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Picture Center Updates to Individual Records--and Source Detail My guess is that this group's membership comprises only a very small proportion of the number of users of Legacy and in my view it would be extremely presumptious to make the assumption that even if a significant number of group members submitted such a request it would be statistically significant. It is quite likely that for some nations translation into their own language would have a much higher priority and I can think of other illustrations of priorities - not forgetting my continual gripe about the bugs in the pedigree web page program. I agree completely that spamming is not the way ahead - it merely wastes time that can be better spent. The debate has taken place, the suggestion has been made and no doubt the powers that be are aware of it. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *Use Legacy Search - see My Blogs* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Picture Center Updates to Individual Records--and Source Detail Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 08:45:31 -0600 Sorry Bob. Wish I could agree with you. There are times it is appropriate to have many voices to be heard. Fact of the matter is suggesting a new Legacy feature is no different than anything else. Far more emphasis will be placed on an issue if many are interested than if only one. It's common sense, it's life. Attend a city council meeting sometime and see what I mean. Personally I wouldn't want
RE: [LegacyUG] Picture Center Updates to Individual Records--and Source Detail
Hi Ron, I Agree entirely with this (Phew!) I think the 'mass-lobby' was perhaps an 'off-the-cuff' remark, so to speak - speaking as someone who is guilty saying things and in the end wishing I had kept quiet. (I don't have my original e-mail's to check). Not to worry. Have a good week. Best wishes David + David S Brookes Musical Director, Brewood Singers, Staffordshire www.brewoodsingers.co.uk Choirmaster Organist, Polesworth, Abbey N.Warks Head of Music, Cockshut Hill College, B'ham + -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: 07 January 2007 18:27 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Picture Center Updates to Individual Records--and Source Detail David, No problem with you not agreeing with me, we all have our opinions. I only put my fourpennyworth in because of what seemed to be an attempt at organising a mass lobby. (maybe that's a better expression than spamming, although that may be in the eyes of the recepient). Certainly everyone has the right to submit suggestions nor would I try to influence that. I simply had reservations about the organising bit. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *Use Legacy Search - see My Blogs* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Picture Center Updates to Individual Records--and Source Detail Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:34:52 + Hi everyone, Interesting discussion here but mainly agree with Gary. (Many apologies, Ron.) As the 'suggest a feature' is available to everyone it may or may not be statistically significant (we don't know this), but if the option is there I would use it if I feel inclined to do so, in the same way as others have the option of using it if they find they would like a feature added? I don't thing it I would call it spamming - I always understood spamming as 'sending unsolicited commercial messages to many recipients', but I stand to be corrected by those with more knowledge about the subject than I. We are individuals sending individual e-mails after being given the option of doing this by Legacy. I guess Ron is probably right about the statistically significant bit, but it wouldn't stop me having my say. Although I see a need for a change in the programme, I usually get around it, by organizing sources in a different way. I'm sure someone will see problems with this, but I tend to use lots of sources and use the source details for minor adjustments or comments. For example, I do not have just one source for the 1881 England Census, but one source for each 'place of residence'. I attach the source to each individual person who lived in this place, adding comments or 'appropriate extracts of the master source' to the Detail Source. Therefore, if I add a picture of the place of residence and a copy of the original census form, it is easier as once you have attached the picture to the Master source, adding the source to the individual being much easier than lots of separate pictures. This is the only way I know of adding pictures to sources, and to attach them to individuals rather than individually. This is why I use many master sources. This doesn't help those who have a large data file already set up in a different way. If you add an individual photo which is 'just a photo' and not really part of a source as such, but needs to be shared amongst a number of people, I tend to do it via the picture centre, by finding the picture on the computer by using 'browse', then adding all the details to the 'Picture List' on the right hand 'third of the page'. It is then an easy process to add the same picture and comments to each individual, by placing them in the individual, Birth, Christening, Death, Buried, sections. If you have events you can add the to events in the same way. If you do this the written details you have added to the 'Picture List', is then attached with the picture. I suspect most know all this, but just thought I'd write it on the off chance, there is someone who doesn't. Sorry, this e-mail is a little rushed and apologies once more to Ron, who I feel has more knowledge about the Legacy programme than I'll ever have. Have a good week everybody - I have a busy one so may not get chance to defend myself until later! Best wishes David Polesworth N. Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto
RE: [LegacyUG] Picture Center Updates to Individual Records
Hi Gary, Jan, Cathy I have also noticed this and agree entirely with the mails. I did sometime ago make a suggestion to make this change to the software so that there is a global option. If please send an e-mail to 'suggest a new feature', this would then back-up my original suggestion, and perhaps within the fullness of time, we might get this (as far as I'm concerned) much needed change. It would make my use of the software much easier. Best wishes to all David Polesworth N.Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Roberts Sent: 06 January 2007 00:12 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Picture Center Updates to Individual Records I agree - I have often added info to a photo AFTER I have attached it to someone, and it is a pain having to find everyone with the same photo attached so I can individually add the same information. Cheers, Jan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olds-Wills-Anderson-Simonson Hodges-Harris-Liikala-Jukkara [Jan Roberts] -snip - I would prefer seeing a global change option made available when using the Picture List tab so these changes would get made to all records. Much like what happens in other areas of the program. It is not unusual to learn of additional or corrected information for photo captions, dates, and descriptions after the initial linking. These generally apply to every record the photo is attached to. Not having the global option means having to visit every individual record. A tedious process when you have photos with large groups and an extensive photo inventory. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.6/617 - Release Date: 5.01.2007 11:11:AM 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
[LegacyUG] Using
Hi, If I add a picture to the picture gallery of any individual or couple and in the caption use '' for 'and', when you look in picture gallery itself (i.e. once you have added the picture and can see all the pictures in miniature), the caption comes up as an underscore instead of . E.g. 'Iris Ken Smith' comes up as 'Iris _Ken Smith'. I have not noticed this before. Did it happen in a previous version or is it a bug in version .118? I know what the answer is (don't use ''), but I just wondered if anyone else had the same problem for those that use '', and I wanted just to alert people. Perhaps it's just my file but it looks like a bug to me? Perhaps this is one for Sherry? Best wishes David S Brookes Polesworth N.Warks England + David S Brookes Musical Director, Brewood Singers, Staffordshire (brewoodsingers.co.uk) Choirmaster Organist, Polesworth Abbey, N.Warks Head of Music, Cockshut Hill College, B'ham + 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] Learning to Use Legacy
Thank you for your lovely e-mail, Loran and here's wishing you every success in using Legacy and for your research. I look forward to reading your posts. Your post looks a little different - I think you may be sending your e-mails in HTML format. On the Legacy User Group we send e-mail in plain text, for a variety of reasons. Can you change your setting? If you are not sure how to do it, send me an e-mail off-list and I will explain in detail (e-mail address below) I am replying in plain text. Best Wishes David S Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Polesworth N.Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Loran Braught Sent: 05 January 2007 14:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Learning to Use Legacy Regarding learning to use Legacy (or any computer program) now getting some focused attention in Legacy News, etc. I offer the following. Many people (including folks like me over the age of 70) are hesitant to test their computer program functions for fear that they will damage something. I am using a 4 generation copy of my Legacy primary family line data. I call this file copy MyLearningFile. Because MyLearningFile is clearly a copy that can be easily replaced if needed, I feel entirely comfortable to experiment with any Legacy function without fear of damaging the program or my important data. I just received my order of the Legacy training disks that I am anxious to use soon, so I expect to get even more ideas of how to try the many functions in Legacy in MyLearningFile before applying my new skills with my real files. I am encouraged to mention this here because several folks I have encouraged to do this have told me that it really helped them get going with Legacy. Of course, this idea is aimed mostly at people who are just beginning to use Legacy better. I do appreciate watching the ideas and discussions from others about using Legacy more efficiently, so to them I say thanks. Hopefully I can be as helpful to others when I see something I might contribute (always easy to delete it, if not) Loran Ralph Braught [EMAIL PROTECTED] (812) 535-3618 8380 N. Crestwood Pl West Terre Haute, IN 47885 Researching mostly Braught/Braucht, Bruner, Ruggles, Riley 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] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files
Hi Russ, I thought that if you need to reload windows you loose everything on the same drive. In practice I only keep the zipped backups in my documents. My working files (Data and Multimedia) I keep on flash drive. For a matter of interest, I keep most other documents on Zip discs, flash or CD/DVD depending on what they are and how often I need to access or alter them. Best wishes David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R G Strong Genealogy Sent: 30 December 2006 02:55 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files I thought I would let you know that keeping data files in the My Documents folder could be disasterous if your windows program becomes corrupted and you have to reload windows. If you ever have to reload windows then the My Documents folder will be overwritten or erased. I would suggest a safer approch would be to keep the data in a different folder other than My Documents. I only use the My Documents for temporary or working copies and save it to its own folder. Russ Strong - Original Message - From: David S Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 5:44 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files Hi Marielle, I haven't actually lost any data, but have practiced it just in case it happens. Firstly download the Legacy programme from the website and install it. Then you need to copy the zipped data file (I call mine 'My Family') and multimedia zipped file to where you want to keep it on your computer. Many keep them in the Data file of the Legacy Programme folder, I keep mine in a folder called Family History in My Documents. When you have put the zipped files where you want them, unzip them by right clicking on each zipped file in turn and go to 'Extract all' in the menu and left click. The files should then unzip. They will produce folders with the same name as the zipped files but with out the zip picture going through the middle of the file. All your information should be in the 'unzipped' folders and ready to use. Next run the Legacy programme. A box will probably open asking you to load a data file. If you have put your zipped and unzipped folders in the Data file of the Legacy Programme folder you should see your unzipped folder, open it and you should see your family data file. Click on it and it should load. If you have put it elsewhere on your computer you will need to find the file by navigating to it in the oblong at the top of the box. When you run the Legacy programme, if the box asking you to load a data file does not appear, go to the file menu at the top and click on open family file to make the box appear. Your data file should the open, but without any of the multimedia files/ pictures. You need to get Legacy to find the paths for these. Go to OptionsCustomize. Click on the Locations tab and then 'Test all multimedia paths', Proceed. If the multimedia files cannot be found the use the 'find them yourself' option. You will then need to navigate to them yourself. If, however you have put all your multimedia in one file, if you find one, it will find all the others for you. I hope this makes some sense. See you get on. Don't worry - remember you have your backup data on the CD if anything should go wrong. Best of luck David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Stowe Sent: 29 December 2006 23:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church Has anyone ever lost all the data in their Legacy File i.e. I tried to download an update and I don't know what I did but now I have nothing in my Legacy file I do have a CD back-up but since it is zipped I don't know how to open it. Sounds kind of silly I guess but right now I have a mental block about his and am not sure what to do. Marielle - Toronto *** 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
RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files
I agree Ron, but I do rather like keeping data away from the computer, e.g. flash, zip disc (which I still love to use) and CD/DVD (which I tend to use for stuff I need to keep but not access very often). Best wishes David S Brookes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: 30 December 2006 09:59 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files With respect if Windows has to be re-installed anything on the same drive (eg C:) will be lost. The only safe way to avoid this is to partition the hard drive and keep all data in a separate partion (ie. a different drive) to programs. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *Use Legacy Search - see My Blogs* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:55:09 -0700 I thought I would let you know that keeping data files in the My Documents folder could be disasterous if your windows program becomes corrupted and you have to reload windows. If you ever have to reload windows then the My Documents folder will be overwritten or erased. I would suggest a safer approch would be to keep the data in a different folder other than My Documents. I only use the My Documents for temporary or working copies and save it to its own folder. Russ Strong - Original Message - From: David S Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 5:44 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files Hi Marielle, I haven't actually lost any data, but have practiced it just in case it happens. Firstly download the Legacy programme from the website and install it. Then you need to copy the zipped data file (I call mine 'My Family') and multimedia zipped file to where you want to keep it on your computer. Many keep them in the Data file of the Legacy Programme folder, I keep mine in a folder called Family History in My Documents. When you have put the zipped files where you want them, unzip them by right clicking on each zipped file in turn and go to 'Extract all' in the menu and left click. The files should then unzip. They will produce folders with the same name as the zipped files but with out the zip picture going through the middle of the file. All your information should be in the 'unzipped' folders and ready to use. Next run the Legacy programme. A box will probably open asking you to load a data file. If you have put your zipped and unzipped folders in the Data file of the Legacy Programme folder you should see your unzipped folder, open it and you should see your family data file. Click on it and it should load. If you have put it elsewhere on your computer you will need to find the file by navigating to it in the oblong at the top of the box. When you run the Legacy programme, if the box asking you to load a data file does not appear, go to the file menu at the top and click on open family file to make the box appear. Your data file should the open, but without any of the multimedia files/ pictures. You need to get Legacy to find the paths for these. Go to OptionsCustomize. Click on the Locations tab and then 'Test all multimedia paths', Proceed. If the multimedia files cannot be found the use the 'find them yourself' option. You will then need to navigate to them yourself. If, however you have put all your multimedia in one file, if you find one, it will find all the others for you. I hope this makes some sense. See you get on. Don't worry - remember you have your backup data on the CD if anything should go wrong. Best of luck David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Stowe Sent: 29 December 2006 23:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church Has anyone ever lost all the data in their Legacy File i.e. I tried to download an update and I don't know what I did but now I have nothing in my Legacy file I do have a CD back-up but since it is zipped I don't know how to open it. Sounds kind of silly I guess but right now I have a mental block about his and am not sure what to do. Marielle - Toronto *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Legacy.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers.
Sherry, This is basically what I was suggesting to Diane, except I suggested copying the whole of the Legacy folder. Perhaps you could clear up a muddle in my own mind. When we get an update from Legacy does this update provide a new .exe file or does the update alter just the components within the already installed programme? I had assumed the latter but if a minor update does provide an updated .exe file then I can see why you have suggested saving just a copy of Legacy6Setup.exe. If the update alters the components within the already installed programme and not the .exe file then we are probably safer copying the whole folder as I suggested. If updates supply a new .exe file each time I would be very happy just to save the Legacy6Setup.exe to flash. I have in my mind the problem people had a few weeks back when they started to download the update, couldn't do it and in the end ended up with their original software not working and no backup. Best wishes David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherry/Support Sent: 28 December 2006 17:14 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. Diane, 1. Save a copy of the Legacy6Setup.exe file to the flash drive, if you wish to install Legacy on another computer. Make sure that you selected the Download Full Setup option when you downloaded the Legacy setup file. 2. No need to do a gedcom unless you're sharing with a non-Legacy user. You just want to do a backup of the Family File. Go to http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Tips.asp, where you'll find an article under Backing Up and Restoring Family Files. 3. I enter the data into the file on the flash drive and back up to the hard drive. The flash drive is not a good backup medium because they're small, easily lost or stolen and fragile. 4. I have a 256 MB drive which holds my Family Files with no problem. If you have a lot of pictures you're going to put on the flash drive, you'll want one large enough to hold those also. Of course, since the 2 GB drives are so much cheaper now (you can buy one for what I paid for my 256 drive!), might as well get the best bang for your buck. The Legacy6Setup.exe file is only 27 MB in size. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane nault Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:28 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. Well Thank you for all of the answers that I have received about flash drives. Now for the final questions hopefully. 1 I understand that I should download Legacy to this flash drive. 2 Do a gedcom of my info onto this drive. 3 When I enter info on one computer do a backup to the flash drive then do a restore onto the other computer. 4 get at least a 2g drive, and maybe put on family file on each drive. Do this seem to sum it up? You have all been very helpful. Thank you Diane *** 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] Transfer files between computers.
Hi Ron/Sherry, The way I have always understood things is that the Legacy6Setup.exe is the file that installed and built the programme on the computer. Therefore if you save this file, this will enable you to install/build the programme again is for some reason the programme folder was completely deleted from your computer. Am I right? If so, that brings me to updates. If we update for e.g from .117 to .118 and we do so from 'within Legacy', in other words with the programme open (I know it shuts down the programme once the process has started etc) does the update provide a new Legacy6Setup.exe file (which is in any case in the Legacy programme folder) or does it update the individual components of the folder/registry without touching the LegacySetup? If you look at the LegacySetup properties it always shows as File Version 6.0.0.0. I would have expected it to read 6.0.0.118.? If you then save the Legacy6Setup to flash after having 'downloaded' .118 and find you need to reinstall the programme or install on a different computer, will it install 6.0.0.0 or 6.0.0.118 or do you need to copy the whole Legacy folder to get .118? Hope this makes some sense!! Best wishes David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: 29 December 2006 10:32 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. David, I know your email was addressed to Sherry but it is rather more of a general question rather than being specific to Legacy, so please forgive me for jumping in. The point is that if you copy the .exe of any program to another computer that is all you have done. What has not been done is to copy the information regarding where all the component files are stored to the Register. So when the .exe file is run it does not know where the files are. This is why when a program is downloaded it also has to be installed as well. The set-up.exe file of any program tells the Register where on the Hard Drive it has put all the above information so that when you run the .exe file it can check the Register, find the file it wants and then carry out the instructions. This is obviously a simplification but I hope illustrates why the set-up.exe is important. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *Use Legacy Search - see My Blogs* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:09:04 + Sherry, This is basically what I was suggesting to Diane, except I suggested copying the whole of the Legacy folder. Perhaps you could clear up a muddle in my own mind. When we get an update from Legacy does this update provide a new .exe file or does the update alter just the components within the already installed programme? I had assumed the latter but if a minor update does provide an updated .exe file then I can see why you have suggested saving just a copy of Legacy6Setup.exe. If the update alters the components within the already installed programme and not the .exe file then we are probably safer copying the whole folder as I suggested. If updates supply a new .exe file each time I would be very happy just to save the Legacy6Setup.exe to flash. I have in my mind the problem people had a few weeks back when they started to download the update, couldn't do it and in the end ended up with their original software not working and no backup. Best wishes David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherry/Support Sent: 28 December 2006 17:14 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. Diane, 1. Save a copy of the Legacy6Setup.exe file to the flash drive, if you wish to install Legacy on another computer. Make sure that you selected the Download Full Setup option when you downloaded the Legacy setup file. 2. No need to do a gedcom unless you're sharing with a non-Legacy user. You just want to do a backup of the Family File. Go to http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Tips.asp, where you'll find an article under Backing Up and Restoring Family Files. 3. I enter the data into the file on the flash drive and back up to the hard drive. The flash drive is not a good backup medium because they're small, easily lost or stolen and fragile. 4. I have a 256 MB drive which holds my Family Files with no problem. If you have a lot of pictures you're going to put
RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers.
Ron, (and Sherry) Thanks for your reply: Not entirely. It can be used to install on a different computer or another drive. I was aware of this - just didn't write it in. Interesting reply from Sherry. I think in future I will keep only a copy of the latest Download Full Setup file in case we have a problem anything like what we had a few weeks ago. I tend not to use reports very much etc and in any case if you build your genealogy quickly or make lots of alterations, they become out of date and are fairly easy to produce anyway. As regard to colours etc - well it reminds me of the day I went to buy a new mobile 'phone. After deciding upon the model, the salesman proudly announced they had an offer with 5 different coloured changeable covers - my reply, 'Now be honest. Do I look like the sort of person who is going to want to be changing colour according to the occasion'? He quickly looked me up and down, placed the covers back under the counter and quietly completed the sale! Keep up the good work! Happy New Year to you both, and to all our readers. David S Brookes Polesworth N Warks. England _ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: 29 December 2006 13:08 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. David, Please see below Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *Use Legacy Search - see My Blogs* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:00:43 + Hi Ron/Sherry, The way I have always understood things is that the Legacy6Setup.exe is the file that installed and built the programme on the computer. Therefore if you save this file, this will enable you to install/build the programme again is for some reason the programme folder was completely deleted from your computer. Am I right? Not entirely. It can be used to install on a different computer or another drive. If so, that brings me to updates. If we update for e.g from .117 to .118 and we do so from 'within Legacy', in other words with the programme open (I know it shuts down the programme once the process has started etc) does the update provide a new Legacy6Setup.exe file (which is in any case in the Legacy programme folder) or does it update the individual components of the folder/registry without touching the LegacySetup? If you look at the LegacySetup properties it always shows as File Version 6.0.0.0. I would have expected it to read 6.0.0.118.? As I understand it, it does not amend the set-up.exe in one's folder but only alters the files and register entries. However, the version on the Legacy website is always the latest. If you then save the Legacy6Setup to flash after having 'downloaded' .118 and find you need to reinstall the programme or install on a different computer, will it install 6.0.0.0 or 6.0.0.118 or do you need to copy the whole Legacy folder to get .118? You only need to transfer the set-up.exe (and of course the Data files), but in doing so all the user settings will be lost. To retain these I *think* one would have to transfer the Legacy folder and then run the set-up.exe. Sherry would need to clarify this point. Hope this makes some sense!! Best wishes David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: 29 December 2006 10:32 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. David, I know your email was addressed to Sherry but it is rather more of a general question rather than being specific to Legacy, so please forgive me for jumping in. The point is that if you copy the .exe of any program to another computer that is all you have done. What has not been done is to copy the information regarding where all the component files are stored to the Register. So when the .exe file is run it does not know where the files are. This is why when a program is downloaded it also has to be installed as well. The set-up.exe file of any program tells the Register where on the Hard Drive it has put all the above information so that when you run the .exe file it can check the Register, find the file it wants and then carry out the instructions. This is obviously a simplification but I hope illustrates why the set-up.exe is important. Ron Ferguson
RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files
Hi Marielle, I haven't actually lost any data, but have practiced it just in case it happens. Firstly download the Legacy programme from the website and install it. Then you need to copy the zipped data file (I call mine 'My Family') and multimedia zipped file to where you want to keep it on your computer. Many keep them in the Data file of the Legacy Programme folder, I keep mine in a folder called Family History in My Documents. When you have put the zipped files where you want them, unzip them by right clicking on each zipped file in turn and go to 'Extract all' in the menu and left click. The files should then unzip. They will produce folders with the same name as the zipped files but with out the zip picture going through the middle of the file. All your information should be in the 'unzipped' folders and ready to use. Next run the Legacy programme. A box will probably open asking you to load a data file. If you have put your zipped and unzipped folders in the Data file of the Legacy Programme folder you should see your unzipped folder, open it and you should see your family data file. Click on it and it should load. If you have put it elsewhere on your computer you will need to find the file by navigating to it in the oblong at the top of the box. When you run the Legacy programme, if the box asking you to load a data file does not appear, go to the file menu at the top and click on open family file to make the box appear. Your data file should the open, but without any of the multimedia files/ pictures. You need to get Legacy to find the paths for these. Go to OptionsCustomize. Click on the Locations tab and then 'Test all multimedia paths', Proceed. If the multimedia files cannot be found the use the 'find them yourself' option. You will then need to navigate to them yourself. If, however you have put all your multimedia in one file, if you find one, it will find all the others for you. I hope this makes some sense. See you get on. Don't worry - remember you have your backup data on the CD if anything should go wrong. Best of luck David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Stowe Sent: 29 December 2006 23:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church Has anyone ever lost all the data in their Legacy File i.e. I tried to download an update and I don't know what I did but now I have nothing in my Legacy file I do have a CD back-up but since it is zipped I don't know how to open it. Sounds kind of silly I guess but right now I have a mental block about his and am not sure what to do. Marielle - Toronto *** 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] Name of Church
Hi Marielle, Further to my last post. With the information I gave how to unzip the zipped files, I have assumed you are running WindowsXP. Further help is given at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsBackups.asp Best of Luck David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Stowe Sent: 29 December 2006 23:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church Has anyone ever lost all the data in their Legacy File i.e. I tried to download an update and I don't know what I did but now I have nothing in my Legacy file I do have a CD back-up but since it is zipped I don't know how to open it. Sounds kind of silly I guess but right now I have a mental block about his and am not sure what to do. Marielle - Toronto *** 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
[LegacyUG] RE: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Apologies for sending the wrong subject title. Please ignore. Please no complaints!! Having a bad day! David Hi Marielle, Further to my last post. With the information I gave how to unzip the zipped files, I have assumed you are running WindowsXP. Further help is given at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsBackups.asp Best of Luck David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Stowe Sent: 29 December 2006 23:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church Has anyone ever lost all the data in their Legacy File i.e. I tried to download an update and I don't know what I did but now I have nothing in my Legacy file I do have a CD back-up but since it is zipped I don't know how to open it. Sounds kind of silly I guess but right now I have a mental block about his and am not sure what to do. Marielle - Toronto *** 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
[LegacyUG] LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Hi Marielle, Further to my last post. With the information I gave how to unzip the zipped files, I have assumed you are running WindowsXP. Further help is given at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsBackups.asp Best of Luck David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Stowe Sent: 29 December 2006 23:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church Has anyone ever lost all the data in their Legacy File i.e. I tried to download an update and I don't know what I did but now I have nothing in my Legacy file I do have a CD back-up but since it is zipped I don't know how to open it. Sounds kind of silly I guess but right now I have a mental block about his and am not sure what to do. Marielle - Toronto *** 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] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files
Hi Marielle, Further to my last post. With the information I gave how to unzip the zipped files, I have assumed you are running WindowsXP. Further help is given at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsBackups.asp Best of Luck David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks. England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Stowe Sent: 29 December 2006 23:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church Has anyone ever lost all the data in their Legacy File i.e. I tried to download an update and I don't know what I did but now I have nothing in my Legacy file I do have a CD back-up but since it is zipped I don't know how to open it. Sounds kind of silly I guess but right now I have a mental block about his and am not sure what to do. Marielle - Toronto *** 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] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files
It appears my last 2 posts to Marielle came through in reverse order. I don't thing this was my fault, but in case it was, so sorry. Now very tired - going to bed. Goodnight from England David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David S Brookes Sent: 30 December 2006 00:44 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church - should be Restoring Zipped Files Hi Marielle, I haven't actually lost any data, but have practiced it just in case it happens. Firstly download the Legacy programme from the website and install it. Then you need to copy the zipped data file (I call mine 'My Family') and multimedia zipped file to where you want to keep it on your computer. Many keep them in the Data file of the Legacy Programme folder, I keep mine in a folder called Family History in My Documents. When you have put the zipped files where you want them, unzip them by right clicking on each zipped file in turn and go to 'Extract all' in the menu and left click. The files should then unzip. They will produce folders with the same name as the zipped files but with out the zip picture going through the middle of the file. All your information should be in the 'unzipped' folders and ready to use. Next run the Legacy programme. A box will probably open asking you to load a data file. If you have put your zipped and unzipped folders in the Data file of the Legacy Programme folder you should see your unzipped folder, open it and you should see your family data file. Click on it and it should load. If you have put it elsewhere on your computer you will need to find the file by navigating to it in the oblong at the top of the box. When you run the Legacy programme, if the box asking you to load a data file does not appear, go to the file menu at the top and click on open family file to make the box appear. Your data file should the open, but without any of the multimedia files/ pictures. You need to get Legacy to find the paths for these. Go to OptionsCustomize. Click on the Locations tab and then 'Test all multimedia paths', Proceed. If the multimedia files cannot be found the use the 'find them yourself' option. You will then need to navigate to them yourself. If, however you have put all your multimedia in one file, if you find one, it will find all the others for you. I hope this makes some sense. See you get on. Don't worry - remember you have your backup data on the CD if anything should go wrong. Best of luck David S Brookes Polesworth N. Warks England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Stowe Sent: 29 December 2006 23:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church Has anyone ever lost all the data in their Legacy File i.e. I tried to download an update and I don't know what I did but now I have nothing in my Legacy file I do have a CD back-up but since it is zipped I don't know how to open it. Sounds kind of silly I guess but right now I have a mental block about his and am not sure what to do. Marielle - Toronto *** 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 *** 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
