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] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson
Welcome back!!! I think I'm pretty much doing it as you do. If I have sources/records for a child and I don't know if that child ever got married then I treat him/her as unmarried and use the parents MRIN. If I latter find out the child did marry then any records after the marriage I put with the child's MRIN. However, I have not been going back and re-numbering the child's records from the parents' MRIN to the child's MRIN. I'm a little nervous about how the linking works with Legacy. If you rename a document do you have to go and find all the places in Legacy where it was used and change the name? Or, does Legacy somehow track when we rename a file? Thanks for the feedback and advice, Brian -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of JLB Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson 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 The information contained in this message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, dissemination or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete the message from your system. Thank 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] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson
If you do the rename in the Picture Center within Legacy, all links to that file should be updated. If you do the rename outside of Legacy, you would need to relink every occurrence. Hope this helps. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Brian Beddor bbed...@japsolson.com wrote: Welcome back!!! I think I'm pretty much doing it as you do. If I have sources/records for a child and I don't know if that child ever got married then I treat him/her as unmarried and use the parents MRIN. If I latter find out the child did marry then any records after the marriage I put with the child's MRIN. However, I have not been going back and re-numbering the child's records from the parents' MRIN to the child's MRIN. I'm a little nervous about how the linking works with Legacy. If you rename a document do you have to go and find all the places in Legacy where it was used and change the name? Or, does Legacy somehow track when we rename a file? Thanks for the feedback and advice, Brian -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of JLB Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson 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 The information contained in this message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, dissemination or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete the message from your system. Thank 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson
Now you're making me think! I keep all my source documents in one folder called Source Library so I don't have to work so hard wondering where they are. If they're scattered all over your computer it's the same process. Renaming linked files can be a challenge but fortunately alot of genealogists are Virgos so if you're so blessed the agonizing detail of this will be right up your alley. After re-naming a file in the Picture Center, it automatically updates the link to the re-named file, but the Source Detail File ID stays as the original name. This is a major pain to deal with because your numbering will be off all the way through and you will have to go through them one by one updating. If you're very careful, you can use Search Replace for this. Make sure you're very organized before you begin. Go down to Citation-File ID and then put in your Find What and Replacement Text. eg. 0593-04 going to 0593-07. If you re-name files outside of the Picture Center, which you will be forced to do with pdf's and other text documents (because they don't show up in the Picture Center list) they will become unlinked for sure. After you've unlinked a file or a thousand of them, you go to Options/Customize/Location/Test All Multimedia Paths. Untick the two boxes up top, and click on Proceed. It goes through the list of unlinked files one by one and on each one you browse to the new file and link it up again. It's a tedious process but it could be worse. If there are shortcuts for this I'm sure someone will jump in and tell us. - JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog Brian Beddor wrote: Welcome back!!! I think I'm pretty much doing it as you do. If I have sources/records for a child and I don't know if that child ever got married then I treat him/her as unmarried and use the parents MRIN. If I latter find out the child did marry then any records after the marriage I put with the child's MRIN. However, I have not been going back and re-numbering the child's records from the parents' MRIN to the child's MRIN. I'm a little nervous about how the linking works with Legacy. If you rename a document do you have to go and find all the places in Legacy where it was used and change the name? Or, does Legacy somehow track when we rename a file? Thanks for the feedback and advice, Brian -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of JLB Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Attn: Brian Beddor Laurence E. Stephenson 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 The information contained in this message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, dissemination or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete the message from your system. Thank 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
