Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Wow! I never tried to do that. That would help me to know what the most popular names used by ancestors were by half century, something I was trying to figure out. Or I could use that to figure out who was living in what area at the same time. Or I could let my imagination go on that one a bit for some other little benefits. Ellen Kramer Researching and loving Dorman, Kramer, Mirarchi, Procopio, Renninger and Staudt-Stoudt-Stout families On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: What is the advantage of being able to sort the name list by birthdate? michele - Original Message - From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:35 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Chick: I'm with you on sorting names by dob; it's one of the two relatively small FTM features that I miss. For now I send a GEDCOM from Legacy to an old copy of FTM and sort there, but it would certainly be handy to be able to do it within Legacy. Seems it would be easy enough to add. I don't understand the lack of a dob sort for names. Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features - #2
You can actually divide a large screen into two smaller ones using the free Acer Gridvista http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Acer-Gridvista.shtml This allows you to run two applications 'maximised' without juggling the overlaps. But you do need to have a large screen to start with Alastair Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features - #2
Alastair Lack wrote: You can actually divide a large screen into two smaller ones using the free Acer Gridvista http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Acer-Gridvista.shtml This allows you to run two applications 'maximised' without juggling the overlaps. But you do need to have a large screen to start with But only on XP or Vista! -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
Sherry, just save the web picture to where you keep photos you link to in Legacy (I have a picture and documents folder labeled My Family and put everything in there using sub folders for organization). Then you can link to that picture in Legacy. Michael Sherry wrote: I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Sherry - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:38:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features - #2
Dawn, what works bettter than that is hooking up a 2nd monitor to your computer. You can have a census record on one monitor and Legacy on the other. It is VERY VERY VERY nice :) michele - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Arnold Sprague wrote: The original intent of this good post has been hijacked. I would like to get back to what Kirsten Bowman wanted for this thread, so have renamed it from Favorite Features to Favorite Features - #2. As Kirsten asked, please share with new Legacy users the features and shortcuts of Legacy you find most helpful. Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.27/2453 - Release Date: 10/23/09 06:56:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
I just open four windows and shrink them down to fill 1/4 of the screen each. I will look at the Acer page next. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Alastair Lack alastairl...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:46:01 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 You can actually divide a large screen into two smaller ones using the free Acer Gridvista http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Acer-Gridvista.shtml This allows you to run two applications 'maximised' without juggling the overlaps. But you do need to have a large screen to start with Alastair Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features - #2
The original intent of this good post has been hijacked. I would like to get back to what Kirsten Bowman wanted for this thread, so have renamed it from Favorite Features to Favorite Features - #2. As Kirsten asked, please share with new Legacy users the features and shortcuts of Legacy you find most helpful. Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Sorting Index on DOB was Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Not everybody is as computer savy as others. Some have no idea what a spreadsheet is, and some do not have Access. Of course I don't know the code behind Legacy, but as a programmer sorting is normally a simple procedure. I used it extensively when I used FTM, and It is one of the features that I really miss in Legacy. Anne - Original Message - From: Ron Taylor To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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: Sorting Index on DOB was Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
It has to do with the grid controls the programmers use. Being able to sort by any column is on the enhancement request list. In the meantime, Ron's suggestion of GenViewer hit the nail on the head. It's a great little program sold on the Legacy website (Look under Add-Ons) Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Anne Hildrum Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 7:10 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Sorting Index on DOB was Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Not everybody is as computer savy as others. Some have no idea what a spreadsheet is, and some do not have Access. Of course I don't know the code behind Legacy, but as a programmer sorting is normally a simple procedure. I used it extensively when I used FTM, and It is one of the features that I really miss in Legacy. 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] Favorite Features
The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Does. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Art Seddon Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features I've often wished I could sort DOB when looking for duplicates. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features : : I'm not sure what the purpose of sorting by birthdate would be. Are you : aware that Legacy has a calendar creator under reports - all reports? : Perhaps that would meet your needs. : : Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Excel does not recognize dates 1900 and earlier and does a horrid job of sorting by dates unless dates are formatted all the same. I love GenViewer! It has some great sorts and searches! Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Ron Taylor Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:45 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Does. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Heather Stovold wrote: Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. And dates taken from the GRO are definitely non-standard, being entered as month Q year, where month is Mar or Jun or Sep or Dec. A standard can not be used for this since the month Q combination is shorthand for 1 month - 2 to last day month. Definitely *not* a trivial exercise for the programmers :-) -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Ron Taylor wrote: Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Another available option is to download GEDxlate from http://www.gedmagic.com/GEDxlate.htm === quote from site = What is GEDxlate? GEDxlate quickly and easily translates genealogy data from standard GEDCOM format into MS Access dB (*.mdb), MS Excel Worksheet (*.xls), comma delimited (*.csv), and text file (*.txt) formats. Pick a GEDCOM file to translate; select which fields you want to include in your dB, spreadsheet, csv, or txt file; choose an output format and file name to save the translated data in; and you're there! end quote = It is free and I use it extensively for analyzing data. Once you convert your info to excel or access format you can manipulate it as you wish. It is a perfect companion to Legacy and it is free. There is no single genealogy program that will do everything that everyone desires, although Legacy comes closest. The use of these external programs will probably be necessary for the foreseeable future and I will take advantage of them as needed. This is by no means a criticism of Legacy, which remains the finest program of its type ever created. -- Gene Y. http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features - #2
I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Arnold Sprague wrote: The original intent of this good post has been hijacked. I would like to get back to what Kirsten Bowman wanted for this thread, so have renamed it from Favorite Features to Favorite Features - #2. As Kirsten asked, please share with new Legacy users the features and shortcuts of Legacy you find most helpful. Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features - #2
I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Sherry - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:38:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
You can cut and paste text but not pictures. Legacy does not store pictures. It links to the location on your computer where you have saved the picture. CE -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:47 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Sherry - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:38:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.20/2444 - Release Date: 10/22/09 18:44:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Sherry/Support wrote: snip The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Doe's.snip Yes Sherry, but it would be much simpler and more helpful to tag a group of ancestors and sort by DOB regardless of name variations. Art Seddon : : : Thanks for using Legacy. : : Sherry : Customer Support : Millennia Corporation : supp...@legacyfamilytree.com : http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.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] Favorite Features
Why have to pay for an add-on to do a simple sort? Art Seddon - Original Message - From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 7:56 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Excel does not recognize dates 1900 and earlier and does a horrid job of sorting by dates unless dates are formatted all the same. I love GenViewer! It has some great sorts and searches! Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Ron Taylor Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:45 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Export data to a CSV file and then use a spreadsheet to sort it however you wish. Another possibility is to use GenViewer as it can sort on any column. These are great features of Legacy. With some experience you could use Access to manipulate the data any way you can imagine. Ron Taylor Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features - #2
Yes. I frequently have Legacy visible on 1/2 screen, the Swedish online pages on the other, and the program Paint, and the 'photos subdirectory' hiding on the bottom, to check which pages I already have, then copy new pages using the Swedish copy numbering system. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Sherry daughterofmyfat...@comcast.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:47:29 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Sherry - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:38:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only 1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
Art- Let me reword what I think you said-- You want to be able to open a family file, any family file, and select several people. Their names may, or may not, be similar. Then, using the list of people you selected or tagged, and just those people only, you want to sort by birthdate, perhaps oldest to youngest, or youngest to oldest. Have I got it? Thanks. Robert At 2009-10-23 03:55 PM, you wrote: Sherry/Support wrote: snip The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Doe's.snip Yes Sherry, but it would be much simpler and more helpful to tag a group of ancestors and sort by DOB regardless of name variations. Art Seddon : : : Thanks for using Legacy. : : Sherry Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
Why have to pay for an add-on to do a simple sort? Because it's the only option for now? Duh... -- 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
I have used Legacy for 3 years now ( switched from FTM) and cannot imagine using any other type of software program (as of today anyways). I have been extracting records from some parishes in Germany and would have been utterly lost without the Search tools. There are all sorts of problems with these old church records but with the Search tools I can get around many obstacles. Also, being able to identify locales has been simplified with the Geo Loacation Database. My latest discovery has been being able to utilize ALL 9 tags instead of only 3. In the Index view I have altered the columns and it can include all of my tags which is important to me as I use them all. Regards Robert On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:21 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.netwrote: Yes. I frequently have Legacy visible on 1/2 screen, the Swedish online pages on the other, and the program Paint, and the 'photos subdirectory' hiding on the bottom, to check which pages I already have, then copy new pages using the Swedish copy numbering system. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Sherry daughterofmyfat...@comcast.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:47:29 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Sherry - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:38:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 I like being able to choose the size font type that I prefer. I also like being able to make Legacy fit only1/2 of the screen still be legible while I look @ digitized records on the other 1/2 of the screen. Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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Yes, it is more dificult I recognized that. However - if the programmers are already doing a secondary sort on dob (the primary sort being on Name - and Sherry from Legacy said that Legacy does the secondary automatically when you are sorting by name for all names that are the same) - they obviously have the code available to sort the dates (even the non-standard ones) so that makes it pretty trivial to this programmer mind. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote: Heather Stovold wrote: Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. And dates taken from the GRO are definitely non-standard, being entered as month Q year, where month is Mar or Jun or Sep or Dec. A standard can not be used for this since the month Q combination is shorthand for 1 month - 2 to last day month. Definitely *not* a trivial exercise for the programmers :-)
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
Sherry wrote I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? Yes. It's possible to do that with pretty much any program - you just reduce the size of the 2 (or more! - I know someone who habitually works with about 4 windows open at the same time!) windows and position them as you want. I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Certainly if the website allows copying of text you can paste it into a field in Legacy, but you can't do that with pictures. With pictures you have to save them to your hard drive or some other local storage device from where Legacy can access them. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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Now, just sort the name list... (the name index) - then I don't need to know who to select or tag beforehand. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.netwrote: Art- Let me reword what I think you said-- You want to be able to open a family file, any family file, and select several people. Their names may, or may not, be similar. Then, using the list of people you selected or tagged, and just those people only, you want to sort by birthdate, perhaps oldest to youngest, or youngest to oldest. Have I got it? Thanks. Robert At 2009-10-23 03:55 PM, you wrote: Sherry/Support wrote: snip The Name List is automatically sorted by DOB *if* the names are exactly the same. All John Does in the list will be ordered by birth date. If you have a John X. Doe, that's not alphabetized, obviously, in the string of John Doe's.snip Yes Sherry, but it would be much simpler and more helpful to tag a group of ancestors and sort by DOB regardless of name variations. Art Seddon : : : Thanks for using Legacy. : : Sherry Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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You got it, Robert. Just like you can tag any group of names and then show just the tagged names and sort by Given name or Surname or RIN. Art - Original Message - From: Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features : Art- : : Let me reword what I think you said-- : : You want to be able to open a family file, any family file, and : select several people. Their names may, or may not, be : similar. Then, using the list of people you selected or tagged, and : just those people only, you want to sort by birthdate, perhaps oldest : to youngest, or youngest to oldest. : : Have I got it? : : Thanks. : : Robert : Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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Actually the Legacy database ALREADY contains the sorted birth dates in a field called BIRTHSD in the Indivdual's record in the tblIR. There is also the sorted Death date in DeathSD and BurialSD for sorted burials. From: Heather Stovold Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:53 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Yes, it is more dificult I recognized that. However - if the programmers are already doing a secondary sort on dob (the primary sort being on Name - and Sherry from Legacy said that Legacy does the secondary automatically when you are sorting by name for all names that are the same) - they obviously have the code available to sort the dates (even the non-standard ones) so that makes it pretty trivial to this programmer mind. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote: Heather Stovold wrote: Thanks Sherry - the problem is we would rather be able to sort by the DOB column (or potentially any column shown) so that we can look for people with the same or similar birth dates that don't have the same name. I know if it was a standard date field it would probably be trivial code - but I do recognize that genealogy dates are not in a standard date field. And dates taken from the GRO are definitely non-standard, being entered as month Q year, where month is Mar or Jun or Sep or Dec. A standard can not be used for this since the month Q combination is shorthand for 1 month - 2 to last day month. Definitely *not* a trivial exercise for the programmers :-) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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I do this for cemeteries. Several cemeteries are interred by date. That is, they start in one corner or one spot, and from there spiraled outwards. I know Sherry already said this, but what I do here is enter everyone I have for that cemetery. Since I need it sorted by BURIAL date, I open it up in GenViewer and make a copy for the spreadsheet. Then in Excel (or whatever spreadsheet I am using), I make my burial date my primary sort, secondary sort is the name, and ternary sort based on the birth date. I don't know what I would do without GenViewer! I have the full version of GenViewer, but don't forget GenViewer Lite is free; though I don't know what features are deactivated for the Lite version. Basically, what you are asking for is a fourth way to sort the names. You can suggest it by going to the Legacy Home Tab, and on the left side under Support, there is a line there to Suggest a new feature. That is not a guarantee the developers will put it in, though, but they will see the suggestion. Thanks. Robert At 2009-10-23 05:57 PM, you wrote: You got it, Robert. Just like you can tag any group of names and then show just the tagged names and sort by Given name or Surname or RIN. Art - Original Message - From: Robert Carneal USA carnea...@adelphia.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features : Art- : : Let me reword what I think you said-- : : You want to be able to open a family file, any family file, and : select several people. Their names may, or may not, be : similar. Then, using the list of people you selected or tagged, and : just those people only, you want to sort by birthdate, perhaps oldest : to youngest, or youngest to oldest. : : Have I got it? : : Thanks. : : Robert : Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features - #2
Thanks everyone for such a quick response to my questions. This group is great. Sherry - Original Message - From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:57:59 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 Sherry wrote I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? Yes. It's possible to do that with pretty much any program - you just reduce the size of the 2 (or more! - I know someone who habitually works with about 4 windows open at the same time!) windows and position them as you want. I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Certainly if the website allows copying of text you can paste it into a field in Legacy, but you can't do that with pictures. With pictures you have to save them to your hard drive or some other local storage device from where Legacy can access them. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2
As I said in my previous sending, the fourth screen is the 'photo directory', which I have subdivded as such: E:photos/ pictures/ photos1 through photos9-locations-censusUS-censusSwedish-documents-graves under each category I have further 'split' by location or year. In some cases I have over 50 in a category. This way I can copy a 'photo' from a print screen, save with paint, then add that to the new event screen, changing windows back and forth. It took me a while to formalize the process and simplify it. I no longer use my written instructions, but reccomend creating something to assist your process until learned. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:57:59 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features - #2 Sherry wrote I am fairly new to Legacy and am wondering if you mean that you can look at a Legacy record of a family or individual at the same time you are looking at an on-line digitized record of a census or information on a website? Yes. It's possible to do that with pretty much any program - you just reduce the size of the 2 (or more! - I know someone who habitually works with about 4 windows open at the same time!) windows and position them as you want. I wonder, too, if that is possible, then is it possible to cut and paste a paragraph or picture from a website to my individual or family record? Certainly if the website allows copying of text you can paste it into a field in Legacy, but you can't do that with pictures. With pictures you have to save them to your hard drive or some other local storage device from where Legacy can access them. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
What is the advantage of being able to sort the name list by birthdate? michele - Original Message - From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:35 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Chick: I'm with you on sorting names by dob; it's one of the two relatively small FTM features that I miss. For now I send a GEDCOM from Legacy to an old copy of FTM and sort there, but it would certainly be handy to be able to do it within Legacy. Seems it would be easy enough to add. I don't understand the lack of a dob sort for names. Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
I'm not sure what the purpose of sorting by birthdate would be. Are you aware that Legacy has a calendar creator under reports - all reports? Perhaps that would meet your needs. Dawn Chick Lewis wrote: No, that is not what I meant. I know the children can by sorted by birth date. I am talking about the ability to sort the index by birth date as well as by name or RIN. This has been discussed before on the list but there does not seem to be enough interest for Legacy to add this feature. Chick On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Arnold Sprague aspra...@chicagobooth.edu wrote: Chick, One way is to go to the children, if this is what you are writing about, right-click on them, left-click on Children's Settings..., and move the kids up/down with the up/down arrows found in the lower right-hand corner. All features are there in Legacy. Arnold Sprague At 02:21 PM 10/21/2009, you wrote: I too am a convertee from FTM16, although I did try FTM 2008 and 2009. Needless to say I was disappointed with both. I am very happy with Legacy 7 and learning new things every day. This is a great thread, and although I love all the features already mentioned, my favorite has to be the wonderful support from the Legacy staff. Sherry, Brian, et all are great. I would like to see the ability to sort on birth date though. That is the ONLY feature I miss from FTM. Chick Lewis On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net wrote: In response to the question 'what I don't like about Legacy', I used to have a long list, but most have been fixed (submitted by me and others), some are still pending, and I tried for a while to come up with a new list and couldn't. My favorite part is the flexibility of Events. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:47:13 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Brian L. Lightfoot wrote But I've often wondered if we dared to start a new thread called The least liked features of Legacy. I've come close to that in the past and a few jumped all over me with nasty words to the effect that if I didn't like it here, I should go elsewhere. Well, those people have come and gone but even at this time, I remain a little gun-shy about posting a laundry list of those items. I'll just wait for them to eventually pop up one at a time and add my sentiments then. Unless somebody else wants to test the waters.? Off-hand, I can't think of any features that really peeve me, just a few things I'd like to see which have been aired here before - and often submitted by me or others as enhancement suggestions. There are probably quite a few features I never use, but just because I personally have no need of them doesn't mean I am not very happy for them to be there for others. I *do* like the way the LDS features can all be tucked away out of site so they don't clutter the screen up for those who don't use them, but the generosity of the LDS towards *all* genealogists is incredible and I begrudge them nothing. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Michele: A dob sort is one other way to view the Name List and check for duplicates. I have a spider web of several hundred Acadians and it's easy to miss common ancestors in all that. It's a quick way to check for blank dob fields (which can also be done with a search), it's one more way to scan for odd-looking entries, and I like to open and sort a GEDCOM by dob before posting online to make sure I haven't accidentally included someone I shouldn't have. None are big deals, and wild horses couldn't drag me back to FTM for data entry, but it would be handy to have a dob sort capability within Legacy. Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:06 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features What is the advantage of being able to sort the name list by birthdate? michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
This has been discussed before, (Things I Would Like to See thread) however, I will recap for those interested. Comparing individuals by birth date rather than name will sometimes reveal the existence of an un-connected individual with a different name or name change. The ability to sort on birth date is a proven tool that is available in most genealogy programs. Rebecca Williams gave a good example: Suppose you have a Thomas Hughes b. 16 Jan 1725 and a T. Wilson Hewes b. 16 Jan 1725. You would see at once the possibility they may be the same person. If there were many names in a family that began with the letters Ha, He, Hi, Ho, or Hu, the Hewes and Hughes surnames might not sort close enough together to see this connection. In another example, I had a David Kerido and a floater Dave Crudo in my data base, both with close, but not exactly the same birth dates. When I sorted the index on birth date, the two names were in close proximity and the similarity was evident. Upon further investigation they turned out to be the same person. Someone suggested using the wildcard search for the name Querido. That would never turn up either Kerido or Crudo. However, those two names with similar birth dates stood out when the index was sorted on birth date. On one occasion I came across a name that wasn't even close to the one I was looking for, but I recognized it as a family name. Further investigation found that person was living with a relative and using their name. Subsequent records proved that person was the missing ancestor. Some cultures use the mother's maiden name as the family name and as you trace back in time you will find that they are sometimes interchanged. Surnames can also change from country to country and in many places didn't even exist before 1800. When tracing Jewish ancestry it gets even more complicated and multiple surnames may be found in the same family. I have seen cases where two brothers had different surnames. The birth date sort in FTM is a simple click of a button. Legacy sorts on RIN, First or Surname. Why not add birth date? Someone suggested it can be done in Legacy using the search function, but this is terribly time consuming. Someone else suggested using the Legacy add-on, GenViewer. That may work but why use an add-on to perform a simple task that could easily be part of the program? For now, I am doing the same thing that Kirsten does. I gedcom back to FTM when I need to sort on birth date. Chick Lewis -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:06 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features What is the advantage of being able to sort the name list by birthdate? michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
When I had a program that did that, I would sort all births for a parish register search, to simplify 'scrolling' through the document. Since it added in the 'abt' and 'year only', I could find them all in the once pass through. When I moved to L5, I made ToDo forms which printed on the 'same page', which was a 'fix'. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:06:09 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features What is the advantage of being able to sort the name list by birthdate? michele - Original Message - From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:35 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Chick: I'm with you on sorting names by dob; it's one of the two relatively small FTM features that I miss. For now I send a GEDCOM from Legacy to an old copy of FTM and sort there, but it would certainly be handy to be able to do it within Legacy. Seems it would be easy enough to add. I don't understand the lack of a dob sort for names. Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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
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I, too, would love the ability to sort by dob, cd dod. --why not sort on any field shown in your view.. or maybe you'd have to create a view with given fields, and one or two index fields... since access based, could possibly be done, but the database would become gianormous and each person added would increasingly add to the database and indices!! Another thing I'd like to see is the possibility to see *ALL* alternate names from the merge screen, and the possibility to delete said names from the merge screen. However, I realize that this is an option that would serve very few, and only occasionally, so I am plugging away at fixing my database after a large merge from someone who used a program that added surname as well as given/surname as alternate names!! I've been using Legacy since v2, and my database is now rather large. Abt 2 years ago, I had the brainstorm of downloading an online database to which I and others had been adding data (and sources)... as well as another one sent to me by someone using FTM. I have been spending almost all of my genealogy time merging, deleting and cleaning the old databases... I have on my to do list... creating to do lists for individuals, converting and cleaning sources, notes and events.. (and making them uniform by source/event type) Not a big undertaking I may be done by year 2100 Deb - Original Message - From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features When I had a program that did that, I would sort all births for a parish register search, to simplify 'scrolling' through the document. Since it added in the 'abt' and 'year only', I could find them all in the once pass through. When I moved to L5, I made ToDo forms which printed on the 'same page', which was a 'fix'. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:06:09 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features What is the advantage of being able to sort the name list by birthdate? michele - Original Message - From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:35 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Chick: I'm with you on sorting names by dob; it's one of the two relatively small FTM features that I miss. For now I send a GEDCOM from Legacy to an old copy of FTM and sort there, but it would certainly be handy to be able to do it within Legacy. Seems it would be easy enough to add. I don't understand the lack of a dob sort for names. Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
I've often wished I could sort DOB when looking for duplicates. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features : : I'm not sure what the purpose of sorting by birthdate would be. Are you : aware that Legacy has a calendar creator under reports - all reports? : Perhaps that would meet your needs. : : Dawn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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Brian L. Lightfoot wrote But I've often wondered if we dared to start a new thread called The least liked features of Legacy. I've come close to that in the past and a few jumped all over me with nasty words to the effect that if I didn't like it here, I should go elsewhere. Well, those people have come and gone but even at this time, I remain a little gun-shy about posting a laundry list of those items. I'll just wait for them to eventually pop up one at a time and add my sentiments then. Unless somebody else wants to test the waters.? Off-hand, I can't think of any features that really peeve me, just a few things I'd like to see which have been aired here before - and often submitted by me or others as enhancement suggestions. There are probably quite a few features I never use, but just because I personally have no need of them doesn't mean I am not very happy for them to be there for others. I *do* like the way the LDS features can all be tucked away out of site so they don't clutter the screen up for those who don't use them, but the generosity of the LDS towards *all* genealogists is incredible and I begrudge them nothing. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
I didn't know about the event clipboard. That could be very useful instead of having to re-enter the same event for several individuals. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of S. Fry Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 5:45 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features The event clipboard would be a close second to the source clipboard, as far as my favorites go. Both these features are great! Sherry from Bowlegs, Okla. - Original Message - From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net To: LegacyUserGroup LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:25 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
I didn't know about either of these features. Thanks - I'll be using them from now on. Ruth A. (Sconza Testa) Nerud baber...@worldnet.att.net - Original Message - From: Arnold Sprague aspra...@chicagobooth.edu To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Two Legacy features that I especially like are: #1. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has siblings, it is easy to rotate through the brothers/sisters by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin *vertical* space in the *middle* of the Family View. #2. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has more than one spouse, it is easy to rotate through the husbands/wives by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin space in the *left/right* margins of the Family View. #1 and #2 above allow one to quickly go through family members who are in the same census, for example, and add the Census Event to each of them using the Clipboard. (I use a census, please *no* hisses or boos, as an event and thus can quickly add the Census Event, via the Clipboard, to all siblings who are in the same census.) Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
Thank you, I have learned something. I didn't know about #2 Family View: If the highlighted individual has more than one spouse... Janet On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Arnold Sprague aspra...@chicagobooth.eduwrote: Two Legacy features that I especially like are: #1. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has siblings, it is easy to rotate through the brothers/sisters by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin *vertical* space in the *middle* of the Family View. #2. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has more than one spouse, it is easy to rotate through the husbands/wives by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin space in the *left/right* margins of the Family View. #1 and #2 above allow one to quickly go through family members who are in the same census, for example, and add the Census Event to each of them using the Clipboard. (I use a census, please *no* hisses or boos, as an event and thus can quickly add the Census Event, via the Clipboard, to all siblings who are in the same census.) Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
In response to the question 'what I don't like about Legacy', I used to have a long list, but most have been fixed (submitted by me and others), some are still pending, and I tried for a while to come up with a new list and couldn't. My favorite part is the flexibility of Events. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:47:13 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Brian L. Lightfoot wrote But I've often wondered if we dared to start a new thread called The least liked features of Legacy. I've come close to that in the past and a few jumped all over me with nasty words to the effect that if I didn't like it here, I should go elsewhere. Well, those people have come and gone but even at this time, I remain a little gun-shy about posting a laundry list of those items. I'll just wait for them to eventually pop up one at a time and add my sentiments then. Unless somebody else wants to test the waters.? Off-hand, I can't think of any features that really peeve me, just a few things I'd like to see which have been aired here before - and often submitted by me or others as enhancement suggestions. There are probably quite a few features I never use, but just because I personally have no need of them doesn't mean I am not very happy for them to be there for others. I *do* like the way the LDS features can all be tucked away out of site so they don't clutter the screen up for those who don't use them, but the generosity of the LDS towards *all* genealogists is incredible and I begrudge them nothing. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
I too am a convertee from FTM16, although I did try FTM 2008 and 2009. Needless to say I was disappointed with both. I am very happy with Legacy 7 and learning new things every day. This is a great thread, and although I love all the features already mentioned, my favorite has to be the wonderful support from the Legacy staff. Sherry, Brian, et all are great. I would like to see the ability to sort on birth date though. That is the ONLY feature I miss from FTM. Chick Lewis On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net wrote: In response to the question 'what I don't like about Legacy', I used to have a long list, but most have been fixed (submitted by me and others), some are still pending, and I tried for a while to come up with a new list and couldn't. My favorite part is the flexibility of Events. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:47:13 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Brian L. Lightfoot wrote But I've often wondered if we dared to start a new thread called The least liked features of Legacy. I've come close to that in the past and a few jumped all over me with nasty words to the effect that if I didn't like it here, I should go elsewhere. Well, those people have come and gone but even at this time, I remain a little gun-shy about posting a laundry list of those items. I'll just wait for them to eventually pop up one at a time and add my sentiments then. Unless somebody else wants to test the waters.? Off-hand, I can't think of any features that really peeve me, just a few things I'd like to see which have been aired here before - and often submitted by me or others as enhancement suggestions. There are probably quite a few features I never use, but just because I personally have no need of them doesn't mean I am not very happy for them to be there for others. I *do* like the way the LDS features can all be tucked away out of site so they don't clutter the screen up for those who don't use them, but the generosity of the LDS towards *all* genealogists is incredible and I begrudge them nothing. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Chick, One way is to go to the children, if this is what you are writing about, right-click on them, left-click on Children's Settings..., and move the kids up/down with the up/down arrows found in the lower right-hand corner. All features are there in Legacy. Arnold Sprague At 02:21 PM 10/21/2009, you wrote: I too am a convertee from FTM16, although I did try FTM 2008 and 2009. Needless to say I was disappointed with both. I am very happy with Legacy 7 and learning new things every day. This is a great thread, and although I love all the features already mentioned, my favorite has to be the wonderful support from the Legacy staff. Sherry, Brian, et all are great. I would like to see the ability to sort on birth date though. That is the ONLY feature I miss from FTM. Chick Lewis On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net wrote: In response to the question 'what I don't like about Legacy', I used to have a long list, but most have been fixed (submitted by me and others), some are still pending, and I tried for a while to come up with a new list and couldn't. My favorite part is the flexibility of Events. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:47:13 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Brian L. Lightfoot wrote But I've often wondered if we dared to start a new thread called The least liked features of Legacy. I've come close to that in the past and a few jumped all over me with nasty words to the effect that if I didn't like it here, I should go elsewhere. Well, those people have come and gone but even at this time, I remain a little gun-shy about posting a laundry list of those items. I'll just wait for them to eventually pop up one at a time and add my sentiments then. Unless somebody else wants to test the waters.? Off-hand, I can't think of any features that really peeve me, just a few things I'd like to see which have been aired here before - and often submitted by me or others as enhancement suggestions. There are probably quite a few features I never use, but just because I personally have no need of them doesn't mean I am not very happy for them to be there for others. I *do* like the way the LDS features can all be tucked away out of site so they don't clutter the screen up for those who don't use them, but the generosity of the LDS towards *all* genealogists is incredible and I begrudge them nothing. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Chick: I'm with you on sorting names by dob; it's one of the two relatively small FTM features that I miss. For now I send a GEDCOM from Legacy to an old copy of FTM and sort there, but it would certainly be handy to be able to do it within Legacy. Seems it would be easy enough to add. I don't understand the lack of a dob sort for names. Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Chick Lewis Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:21 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features I too am a convertee from FTM16, although I did try FTM 2008 and 2009. Needless to say I was disappointed with both. I am very happy with Legacy 7 and learning new things every day. This is a great thread, and although I love all the features already mentioned, my favorite has to be the wonderful support from the Legacy staff. Sherry, Brian, et all are great. I would like to see the ability to sort on birth date though. That is the ONLY feature I miss from FTM. Chick Lewis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
No, that is not what I meant. I know the children can by sorted by birth date. I am talking about the ability to sort the index by birth date as well as by name or RIN. This has been discussed before on the list but there does not seem to be enough interest for Legacy to add this feature. Chick On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Arnold Sprague aspra...@chicagobooth.edu wrote: Chick, One way is to go to the children, if this is what you are writing about, right-click on them, left-click on Children's Settings..., and move the kids up/down with the up/down arrows found in the lower right-hand corner. All features are there in Legacy. Arnold Sprague At 02:21 PM 10/21/2009, you wrote: I too am a convertee from FTM16, although I did try FTM 2008 and 2009. Needless to say I was disappointed with both. I am very happy with Legacy 7 and learning new things every day. This is a great thread, and although I love all the features already mentioned, my favorite has to be the wonderful support from the Legacy staff. Sherry, Brian, et all are great. I would like to see the ability to sort on birth date though. That is the ONLY feature I miss from FTM. Chick Lewis On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net wrote: In response to the question 'what I don't like about Legacy', I used to have a long list, but most have been fixed (submitted by me and others), some are still pending, and I tried for a while to come up with a new list and couldn't. My favorite part is the flexibility of Events. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:47:13 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Brian L. Lightfoot wrote But I've often wondered if we dared to start a new thread called The least liked features of Legacy. I've come close to that in the past and a few jumped all over me with nasty words to the effect that if I didn't like it here, I should go elsewhere. Well, those people have come and gone but even at this time, I remain a little gun-shy about posting a laundry list of those items. I'll just wait for them to eventually pop up one at a time and add my sentiments then. Unless somebody else wants to test the waters.? Off-hand, I can't think of any features that really peeve me, just a few things I'd like to see which have been aired here before - and often submitted by me or others as enhancement suggestions. There are probably quite a few features I never use, but just because I personally have no need of them doesn't mean I am not very happy for them to be there for others. I *do* like the way the LDS features can all be tucked away out of site so they don't clutter the screen up for those who don't use them, but the generosity of the LDS towards *all* genealogists is incredible and I begrudge them nothing. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Arnold: I don't know about Chick, but I'm missing the ability to sort the entire Name List by dob. That's an option within FTM and you can choose to have oldest first or youngest first. Either way, those with no dob sort alphabetically at the top of the list followed by the others in date order. It's pretty handy, but certainly not a deal-maker. Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Arnold Sprague Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:22 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Chick, One way is to go to the children, if this is what you are writing about, right-click on them, left-click on Children's Settings..., and move the kids up/down with the up/down arrows found in the lower right-hand corner. All features are there in Legacy. Arnold Sprague At 02:21 PM 10/21/2009, you wrote: I too am a convertee from FTM16, although I did try FTM 2008 and 2009. Needless to say I was disappointed with both. I am very happy with Legacy 7 and learning new things every day. This is a great thread, and although I love all the features already mentioned, my favorite has to be the wonderful support from the Legacy staff. Sherry, Brian, et all are great. I would like to see the ability to sort on birth date though. That is the ONLY feature I miss from FTM. Chick Lewis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
Kirsten Bowman wrote Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Not exactly a favourite feature, but something well worth pointing out to the new users of Legacy is the Tutorial included in the Help system. This takes you through everything you need to know to get up and running in Legacy and as it is broken down into bit-size lessons and demos you can take it stage by stage and run through it again when you need to revise a particular topic. I know other LUGgers speak highly of the training videos - I have only seen the free ones and previews available on the Legacy site and I agree they are excellent, too but the Tutorial is all free! -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
My fav are the searches and tags. My 2nd fav are the event clipboard and the source clipboards. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Another favorite of mine is the Tree Finder (View Tree Finder [Refresh]). It's an excellent way to check for those individuals that you might have accidentally unlinked from your main tree. Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features My fav are the searches and tags. My 2nd fav are the event clipboard and the source clipboards. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
Two Legacy features that I especially like are: #1. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has siblings, it is easy to rotate through the brothers/sisters by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin *vertical* space in the *middle* of the Family View. #2. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has more than one spouse, it is easy to rotate through the husbands/wives by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin space in the *left/right* margins of the Family View. #1 and #2 above allow one to quickly go through family members who are in the same census, for example, and add the Census Event to each of them using the Clipboard. (I use a census, please *no* hisses or boos, as an event and thus can quickly add the Census Event, via the Clipboard, to all siblings who are in the same census.) Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
Arnold: Thanks for that. I knew about rotating through siblings but somehow I had missed the trick about rotating through spouses. That's very handy. Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Arnold Sprague Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:17 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Two Legacy features that I especially like are: #1. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has siblings, it is easy to rotate through the brothers/sisters by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin *vertical* space in the *middle* of the Family View. #2. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has more than one spouse, it is easy to rotate through the husbands/wives by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin space in the *left/right* margins of the Family View. #1 and #2 above allow one to quickly go through family members who are in the same census, for example, and add the Census Event to each of them using the Clipboard. (I use a census, please *no* hisses or boos, as an event and thus can quickly add the Census Event, via the Clipboard, to all siblings who are in the same census.) Arnold Sprague Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
You got my personal favorites! Arnold Sprague wrote: Two Legacy features that I especially like are: #1. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has siblings, it is easy to rotate through the brothers/sisters by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin *vertical* space in the *middle* of the Family View. #2. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has more than one spouse, it is easy to rotate through the husbands/wives by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin space in the *left/right* margins of the Family View. #1 and #2 above allow one to quickly go through family members who are in the same census, for example, and add the Census Event to each of them using the Clipboard. (I use a census, please *no* hisses or boos, as an event and thus can quickly add the Census Event, via the Clipboard, to all siblings who are in the same census.) Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
OK, just thought that I'd chime in here and list some of my favorite features. I like how this thread is going and certainly hope that the programmers are aware of what we are all listing. In other words, if the public likes it and it ain't broke, please don't fix it. I switched from FTM to Legacy because of the HTML generating capabilities. I liked the report-like sentence structure that Legacy would generate. And yes, I'm aware of the dozens of GEDCOM-to-HTML shareware programs that are out there. I've tried most of them, paid for a few, but was mostly disappointed in the long run. Most had a tendency to create thousands of small files that carried the note and source info. Now here is something else I found out by not reading the fine print. The host for my web site advertised 10 gigs of storage space but I found out the hard way that there was also a finite limit on the total number of files. Go figure! I was only half-way through FTPing my files up to the server when I got an out of storage space error even though I had moved less than 5 megs of files. And while Legacy's HTML capabilities are pretty basic, its been said many times over that this is a genealogy program and not a HTML editor. I generally use Front Page (now called Microsoft Expression Web) to add the additional bells and whistles to the HTML. And like most others, I discovered that the clipboard for events and sources is an absolute plus for this program. The minute I discovered its uses, I was really sold on the program and haven't looked back since. There are many other outstanding features but this one is the clincher. Brian in CA PS - I'm sure those at Millennia are taking note of this thread, or at least probably already know what's on our mind (or at the very least SHOULD know what's on our minds.) But I've often wondered if we dared to start a new thread called The least liked features of Legacy. I've come close to that in the past and a few jumped all over me with nasty words to the effect that if I didn't like it here, I should go elsewhere. Well, those people have come and gone but even at this time, I remain a little gun-shy about posting a laundry list of those items. I'll just wait for them to eventually pop up one at a time and add my sentiments then. Unless somebody else wants to test the waters.? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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] Favorite Features
Besides the rotating through spouses (and thanks, I didn't know about the rotating through siblings!) I love the view 1/2 kids. In Family view - right-click on a child (any), and then from the menu that comes up, select Vies - Show 1/2 kids. You will now see any kids that have one parent from the family (and a parent not in the family being viewed) - along with the name of the other parent in brackets. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Dawn Crowley sc...@relatively-speaking.org wrote: You got my personal favorites! Arnold Sprague wrote: Two Legacy features that I especially like are: #1. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has siblings, it is easy to rotate through the brothers/sisters by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin *vertical* space in the *middle* of the Family View. #2. Family View: If the *highlighted* individual has more than one spouse, it is easy to rotate through the husbands/wives by merely left-clicking on the adjacent thin space in the *left/right* margins of the Family View. #1 and #2 above allow one to quickly go through family members who are in the same census, for example, and add the Census Event to each of them using the Clipboard. (I use a census, please *no* hisses or boos, as an event and thus can quickly add the Census Event, via the Clipboard, to all siblings who are in the same census.) Arnold Sprague At 03:25 PM 10/19/2009, you wrote: Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
hm - that might go down better with people if you did both at once that is What I really love about Legacy is. What I don't like about Legacy is (or I really wish Legacy could do this. - so that people would see both at once, and not get thinking it was a bad programmer. As a programmer (not from Legacy) it can definately be helpful knowing what people would like, or what they find complicated about a program, or improvements and although there is a way to put in suggestions (which I have) - sometimes a discussion can bring out a better way to do something on the other hand, I could see how a negative thread could upset people, or could give new people the wrong impression about a great program. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: PS - I'm sure those at Millennia are taking note of this thread, or at least probably already know what's on our mind (or at the very least SHOULD know what's on our minds.) But I've often wondered if we dared to start a new thread called The least liked features of Legacy. I've come close to that in the past and a few jumped all over me with nasty words to the effect that if I didn't like it here, I should go elsewhere. Well, those people have come and gone but even at this time, I remain a little gun-shy about posting a laundry list of those items. I'll just wait for them to eventually pop up one at a time and add my sentiments then. Unless somebody else wants to test the waters.?
Re: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features
The event clipboard would be a close second to the source clipboard, as far as my favorites go. Both these features are great! Sherry from Bowlegs, Okla. - Original Message - From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net To: LegacyUserGroup LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:25 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Favorite Features Mary's Lost post reminded me of how many great tips and shortcuts I picked up from the LUG when I first started using Legacy. Unfortunately new users sometimes don't even know the question to ask in order to find some of these, and LUG discussions lately seem to be far from basic. My personal favorite is the Source Clipboard, and anyone who isn't using it should drop everything and read Legacy's Help Index Clipboard Source. Would others like to mention their favorite feature or shortcut? Kirsten Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://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
