Re: [LegacyUG] signatures & names
Having found my 4th greatgrandfather's signature (ca 1800-1805), I am planning on placing it on the cover of the book I am writing regarding our FERGUS family! And, if I can afford the extra cost, I would like it to be in metallic gold, though not 14K, just a gold imprint! Cynthia N. Russell Diane Murach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings! > > I saw an interesting "CT award winning" family history, which used the > signature in the introduction paragraph about individual. It was used as we > normally would place a photograph in Legacy. In a time period where photos > were not available, it added something personal of the individual. > > Diane > - Original Message - > From: SKL 1750 > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 2:01 AM > Subject: [LegacyUG] signatures & names > > > Hello everyone, > > I have a few questions and would love to hear your suggestions: > > 1. When researching various records - marriage certificates, court papers, > etc. - I would like to capture the fact that the person has signed the > document (as an indicator for literacy). Does anyone of you capture this > information and how do you think it's best done. > > I guess I should create an event but I'm not sure how to name it or how word > it: "[HeShe] signed the document"... or "the document is signed by [Name]". > > 2. Also how is best to capture veriations of the name - for example, the > person is recorded on the document as THIJS, but he has signed THYS > (presuming he's literate). So far, I'm just added both as AKAs with the > details of where the version appears and by whom. In that case, who do you > think know better - the official (who often seem to make a complete hash of > even simple name) or the person? I can relate to the last one, because my > first name is spelled HRISTINA, without C in front, and very often people > just don't listen to me ;) > > 3. What do you consider the official name esp. in 17th and 18th century? I'm > researching Belgium and of course in a short period of 30 years, I can have > the same person with a Latin name (Birth certificate; say "Petrus" or > "Joannes"), then French (for the Marriage, "Pierre" or "Jean") and then > Dutch (for the death certificate, "Pieter" or "Jan")... All those are > technically official because they were recorded by the authorities. > > Any thoughts? > thanks! > nina > > > > *** 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] Dilbert
Dilbert found! Try: http://www.trever.org/module-Feeds-view-option-viewfeed-fid-10.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For those in the US with access, I strongly recommend the Friday, 12/08/06, > "Dilbert" cartoon strip. If you don't know it or can't access it, don't ask. *** 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] Re: [LEGACY] Got bumped off LegacyUserGroup
Hello Lloyd, What is you are asking for? I read your e-mail yesterday that was written in very large bold letters saying you were receiving too much mail and wanted off the list. You cannot be on the list and off the list at the same time. Perhaps you need to be more specific about your request. Do you want to be on the list, but know how to unsubscribe, yet stay subscribed? I have been on the LUG list for a long time. Sometimes I subscribe for a bit, receive too many posts, then I unsubscribe. And, of course, I then miss all the wonderful suggestions and I resubscribe. Now I have been subscribed for perhaps 6 months or longer. I do not have time to read each post, so, I read only the messages that have a subject line of interest to me. I delete the rest. On a few ocassions I have posted a query, a how do I do this - and, I do not receive a reply when I think I should have one. I just wait a week or so an repost, noting that I have not yet received a reply. It just depends on who is reading the messages. I suspect that a lot of the subscribers will have just deleted your subject line since we all saw your post yesterday. I read it that you did NOT wish to be on the mailing list. What is it you want? On? Off? There is no middle road. There is no reason at all to threaten to remove the very BEST user friendly genealogy program with a user friendly mailing list. But, please be exact in what you are asking. It appeared to me that you certainly did want OFF the list. This morning I was so surprised to see your complaining post. Yes, it is difficult sometimes to communicate via the written word on the Internet, but give us another try. Just another LUG subscriber, C.N. Russell in Traverse City, Michigan, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 11/6/2006 6:01:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > In case I am already unsubscribed from LUG, I am sending this to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) also. Yesterday I > replied to an e-mail > wanting to know how to stop getting mail from LUG. For that, I received an > e-mail from LUG that I had been unsubscribed from the list. This e-mail is > to > let the List Managers know that if I am unsubscribed, then I am deleting my > Legacy data from my computer and start back to using RootsMagic. I like > Legacy > but, if I cannot get help from the list when I ask for it and get booted > off > for replying to a request for help, then I do not need this list or the > software. > Lloyd > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > For online technical support, please visit > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Citing Family books
KATHY - ARE YOU SHOUTING? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST WHERE YOU WILL SEE THAT THERE IS A HYPERLINK TO UNSUBSCRIBE YOURSELF - ALL DONE, Come back when you have more time:) C.N. Russell Kathy Shute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST!! I WORK FULL TIME AND HAVEN'T TIME TO DEVOTE TO MY > FAMILY TREE YET!! > > Lesli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stan, > > Thanks for the detail on entering information from a family book. I may > have not been clear in my post about where I entered the text found in the > book into Legacy, I did not put it into the source, but the detail as you > mentioned. So I should be good there. > > I really appreciate how you explained linking the events and source to each > person, that was probably my biggest concern. > > Again thank you for the info. > > Lesli > - Original Message - > From: "Stan Young" > To: > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:27 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Citing Family books > > > > In a word, no. > > > > Your SOURCE is the book...one of many, hopefully. You use it to document > > individual events for individual people. You'll want to put information > > about the book in the master source...who wrote it, publishing details if > > published, and so on. DO NOT PUT THE WHOLE BOOK IN THE SOURCE! That > > might > > well violate copyright laws, and in any event, Legacy isn't the place for > > it. > > Instead, reference where the material may be found, whether at some well > > known genealogical library, or in Aunt Matilda's old trunk at such and > > such a > > location. (And consider donating a copy to the well-known genealogical > > library...) > > > > Then, don't put a general link to the book in for each person. Instead, > > you > > want to document what it says about the person - birthdate, death, > > employment, military service, what have you. Create events/facts as > > needed > > to cover things that Legacy doesn't have a pre-built one for. > > > > For each event/fact, record a detail source that says basically the info > > was > > found in the master source at such and such a page (or entry, SOME means > > for > > another reasearch to easily find it). Record the detail text...and yes, > > I'd > > quote what the book says (Fair Use). Record any comments you may have > > about > > it. (For example, if you are making an estimate of a date based on > > information you found in the book, explain your reasoning. Not only will > > later genealogists be grateful...you may be as well, six month or six > > years > > later.) Be sure and note any revisions here, too. Link in any pictures > > that > > might be available, and record your estimation of the surety. Also, be > > SURE > > TO RECORD THE DATE YOU ENTERED IT. > > > > Also, if needed, enter a research note...and again, be specific as to what > > you > > want to check, where it is, and so on. > > > > You might even end up using multiple detail sources from the book for one > > event. That's ok...just follow the same rules. > > > > Do the same for everything else you enter. Then when you find a conflict > > on > > John Smith's birthday between a couple of different sources...you'll be > > able > > to follow your reasoning as to why you are using one of the dates, or why > > there are alternate birthdays shown. > > > > On Thursday 21 September 2006 17:25, Lesli wrote: > >> I would like to know how others cite information out of family books. Do > >> you use the book as a master source and then assign it under each > >> individual as an Unspecified Event? Or do you use the detail (pg # and > >> possibily typing the actual wording found) to verify all info for an > >> individual such as birth, death, residence, school, immigration, etc.? > >> > >> My dilemma is how to handle this so that it will benefit me the most in > >> the > >> long run. I would like to use Legacy to it's fullest capabilities and > >> reduce the amount of time that I spend shuffling through papers or books > >> to > >> see why I input certain info. > >> > >> I have a large project that I am working on where I am inputting the > >> entire > >> family book into Legacy and then going back to make all the updates to > >> the > >> line with the help of 11 binders that have been kept up from family > >> reunions. There are many in the family that would like to see it happen > >> and they will benefit greatly if I can make this work well so that the > >> final reports are easy to read and understand. So far, I have found a > >> few > >> errors by doing this (some will need researching), so this will be a good > >> thing in the end if I can cite everything properly to begin with. > >> > >> Thanks for your help. > >> > >> Lesli > > > > -- > > Stan Young > > > > > > 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
