RE: [LegacyUG] adding pictures to a report
You can add as many as you like, but Legacy will only print one picture per event. (Note Marriage pictures don’t print in reports, even though you can add them into Legacy – only pictures attached to events will print). The individuals preferred picture will print, plus one picture for each event. So, if you have a picture that you want to print in a report create an event related to the picture and attach it to that. If you just want to create a scrapbook of pictures you can include all pictures in that. Cheers Jan From: Beatrice Norrie [mailto:norri...@shaw.ca] Sent: Saturday, 28 May 2011 14:56 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] adding pictures to a report Hello users ! Is it possible to insert many pictures into any one individual’s record, or does Legacy only allow one picture per record? Thank you, Beatrice Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking about this. Right now I don't have any scans in my file and I have been working in Legacy for 6 years (FTM before that). Since census records are readily available, I just cite them. I do copy marriage, death, military, land records etc. and I keep those in binders (I have a binder for each type of source and then I file them alphabetically). I am trying to figure out the wisdom of scanning everything into Legacy. I would love to hear your opinions. I must say thinking about going back and scanning everything is rather daunting. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
Michele, Just because one can do something in Legacy, and/or somebody uses a certain facility, does not mean that we all should adopt that method. As it happens I do link images to all my sources, but I do not also keep hard copies. I use this method so that I can rapidly check a census without having to find a piece of paper when I wish to check a source, and I do not have shelves of paper files. Others prefer to do both, or like yourself, just have the paper copy. At the end of the day it is your choice. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 12:51 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking about this. Right now I don't have any scans in my file and I have been working in Legacy for 6 years (FTM before that). Since census records are readily available, I just cite them. I do copy marriage, death, military, land records etc. and I keep those in binders (I have a binder for each type of source and then I file them alphabetically). I am trying to figure out the wisdom of scanning everything into Legacy. I would love to hear your opinions. I must say thinking about going back and scanning everything is rather daunting. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
Thanks, Ron. I appreciate your thoughts. If I were to ever do a book I wouldn't print EVERY document anyway, only selected ones, so I wouldn't need all of the documents in Legacy for that. I will continue using Legacy just as my facts database :) michele -Original Message- From: Ron Ferguson Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:53 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Michele, Just because one can do something in Legacy, and/or somebody uses a certain facility, does not mean that we all should adopt that method. As it happens I do link images to all my sources, but I do not also keep hard copies. I use this method so that I can rapidly check a census without having to find a piece of paper when I wish to check a source, and I do not have shelves of paper files. Others prefer to do both, or like yourself, just have the paper copy. At the end of the day it is your choice. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
I, like Ron, attach a copy of the source document to each source. This way when I am at a library or otherwise on the road I have access to the document even when my files are at home or I don't have access to the internet. Sometimes a web site may be taken down and you will be unable to locate the source. There are probably other reasons why it is a good idea to attach these documents and have them available with a few clicks of the mouse. bgj -Original Message- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:54 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Michele, Just because one can do something in Legacy, and/or somebody uses a certain facility, does not mean that we all should adopt that method. As it happens I do link images to all my sources, but I do not also keep hard copies. I use this method so that I can rapidly check a census without having to find a piece of paper when I wish to check a source, and I do not have shelves of paper files. Others prefer to do both, or like yourself, just have the paper copy. At the end of the day it is your choice. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 12:51 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking about this. Right now I don't have any scans in my file and I have been working in Legacy for 6 years (FTM before that). Since census records are readily available, I just cite them. I do copy marriage, death, military, land records etc. and I keep those in binders (I have a binder for each type of source and then I file them alphabetically). I am trying to figure out the wisdom of scanning everything into Legacy. I would love to hear your opinions. I must say thinking about going back and scanning everything is rather daunting. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
Michele: I understand the daunting feeling. That's why I scanned all my documents and photos years ago. I keep very few documents unless they are originals or have some historic value. All copies get scanned then tossed out. Even old negatives and photographs are scanned at the highest resolution and tossed. Negatives, especially color, do not hold up very long. Black and white negatives seem to last forever even ones that are about 100 years old. I still have several hundred negatives that need scanning so I know that daunting feeling because I keep putting it off. Scanning negatives is very boring and time consuming because you can't do much else while you're doing it. Also, if you have any old audio recordings I suggest converting all of them to digital. I did that for a collection of about 50 hours of audio interviews done back in the 1970's and noticed that the tapes were starting to degrade. They lasted nearly 30 years so I guess I can't complain. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv [mailto:cranberryf...@cobridge.tv] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking about this. Right now I don't have any scans in my file and I have been working in Legacy for 6 years (FTM before that). Since census records are readily available, I just cite them. I do copy marriage, death, military, land records etc. and I keep those in binders (I have a binder for each type of source and then I file them alphabetically). I am trying to figure out the wisdom of scanning everything into Legacy. I would love to hear your opinions. I must say thinking about going back and scanning everything is rather daunting. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Importing files
On Sat, 28 May 2011 09:36:17 -0400, cranberryf...@cobridge.tv wrote: Is there anyway to move information from 1 file to the other when you are on that screen like a drag and drop? Maybe look in the Help file under Drag and drop? -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools NOTE TO LUG USERS: Use plain text if you want me to read your post. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Importing files
Is there anyway to move information from 1 file to the other when you are on that screen like a drag and drop? I only want to move selected individuals. Using the Split View, you can drag and drop easily. There are selections so you can decide just what to drag and drop. I have combined many files. The merge process in Legacy is great, and easy to use. When I have the same people in 2 different files, often there are differences, and I find if I merge I come out with a combined product better than either one. Also, if the two are identical, Legacy will merge them automatically so it goes quickly. Carl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] adding pictures to a report
There seem to be two parts to your question. From the subject line you want to add pictures to a report but in the body you only ask about adding pictures to a person's record. As others have said, the reports will only include one picture for the person and one for each event, if events are allowed in the particular report. You can however add multiple pictures to the person, sources, events etc. if that is your wish, one of those will be marked as the preferred picture. It will have an asterisk (*) when it is displayed in the photo gallery for the person, event, source etc. It is this preferred picture which is included when pictures are included in reports. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 28/05/2011 12:56 AM, Beatrice Norrie wrote: Hello users ! Is it possible to insert many pictures into any one individual’s record, or does Legacy only allow one picture per record? Thank you, Beatrice Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Source Pictures
I added a copy of the marriage certificate to a source detail on my gggrandmother's page. However, I have tried everything I can think of to try to display this in any report. Any help would be appreciated to make this happen. Dennis Sutton Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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Hi I have two christening records for the same person but with differing information. I want to include the text from both on a report pointing to their sources. I added them to the christening notes but on the report there are no numbers indicating their sources. I don't want the text appearing in the source citation itself so I can't add the text to the text/comments in the source detail. Wondering if I'm missing something obvious, could someone point me in the best way to go about this? Many thanks! Charlotte Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures
Hi Dennis, I presume you mean a transcription of the marriage certificate? If so, select 'Notes' next to the button 'Marriage Information' on the Family tab. You can add it there. Next, under Report Options go to the tab 'Include' and make sure you have 'Notes/general' checked. On 28 May 2011 15:36, Dennis Sutton jersey...@bellsouth.net wrote: I added a copy of the marriage certificate to a source detail on my gggrandmother's page. However, I have tried everything I can think of to try to display this in any report. Any help would be appreciated to make this happen. Dennis Sutton Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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Charlotte, I think that you will find that you need to create 2 christening events. The first is, of course one of the defaults, so attach the first to that event and then use the Alt Christening Event for the second (if there isn’t one then just add it) and attach the source to that one. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Charlotte Box Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 4:10 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Hi I have two christening records for the same person but with differing information. I want to include the text from both on a report pointing to their sources. I added them to the christening notes but on the report there are no numbers indicating their sources. I don't want the text appearing in the source citation itself so I can't add the text to the text/comments in the source detail. Wondering if I'm missing something obvious, could someone point me in the best way to go about this? Many thanks! Charlotte Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG]
On 28/05/2011 16:10, Charlotte Box wrote: I have two christening records for the same person but with differing information. I want to include the text from both on a report pointing to their sources. I added them to the christening notes but on the report there are no numbers indicating their sources. I don't want the text appearing in the source citation itself so I can't add the text to the text/comments in the source detail. Wondering if I'm missing something obvious, could someone point me in the best way to go about this? Many thanks! As far as I can see, Legacy doesn't print the Source citations for Birth, Baptism, or Death Notes, although it does for Marriage Notes. Not sure if this is a bug or a design feature! -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures
On 28/05/2011 16:24, Jenny M Benson wrote: Look in Report Options and select the Include tab. Sorry for confusion - I meant select the Sources tab. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures
Jenny, That was it. I had the if any event has multiple citations ... checked. I unchecked and selected the source pictures and it worked. Knew there had to be an easy solution. Thanks. Dennis On 5/28/2011 11:24 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: On 28/05/2011 15:36, Dennis Sutton wrote: I added a copy of the marriage certificate to a source detail on my gggrandmother's page. However, I have tried everything I can think of to try to display this in any report. Any help would be appreciated to make this happen. Look in Report Options and select the Include tab. Make sure you have selected Print Source Citations and have NOT selected If an event had multiple citations, combine them into one paragraph. Now look to the right side of the same tab and select Include master source pictures and/or Include detail source pictures, whichever option is appropriate. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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With any conflicting information, you add an 'event' for 'alt. birth' or 'alt. christening' or 'alt. death', etc. If you use the one that is already shown in the drop down list of events (rather than creating your own, which you can), once you have added the alternate information, if you decide the alternate is more accurate than your original, you can click on 'options' to the right of the event box (have your event highlighted) and click on the option to 'swap with birth [or death, etc]' and then the less accurate information will move down as the 'alt. event' I have no idea about how the text shows up in reports though. You can source this the same way you source any other information. Geoff did two webinars recently that would be a huge help to you. The first was on a death record and the 2nd on marriage records. I would watch the first one because there were a few things on there that weren't covered in the 2nd that you might be interested in (I know I was) and then much of the 2nd webinar will be repeated but it's good because you see how those tools are used for multiple purposes in Legacy and you will see different screens and of course some new information too :-) Hope this helps. I am not the most advanced user and I have been very grateful for others' help on this list. Just this week they answered two or three problems for me! Kathy On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Charlotte Box charlotte.e@googlemail.com wrote: Hi I have two christening records for the same person but with differing information. I want to include the text from both on a report pointing to their sources. I added them to the christening notes but on the report there are no numbers indicating their sources. I don't want the text appearing in the source citation itself so I can't add the text to the text/comments in the source detail. Wondering if I'm missing something obvious, could someone point me in the best way to go about this? Many thanks! Charlotte Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.comhttp://news.legacyfamilytree.com/ ). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- Kathy Meyer STRESS: when your gut says NO WAY and your mouth says NO PROBLEM To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done. --Richard G. Scott, Finding the Way Back, Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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Thanks all! I haven't seen the marriage webinar, I watched the death cerificate webinar but things were hectic so didn't get to take it all in so looks like I need to watch them both! On 28 May 2011 16:41, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: With any conflicting information, you add an 'event' for 'alt. birth' or 'alt. christening' or 'alt. death', etc. If you use the one that is already shown in the drop down list of events (rather than creating your own, which you can), once you have added the alternate information, if you decide the alternate is more accurate than your original, you can click on 'options' to the right of the event box (have your event highlighted) and click on the option to 'swap with birth [or death, etc]' and then the less accurate information will move down as the 'alt. event' I have no idea about how the text shows up in reports though. You can source this the same way you source any other information. Geoff did two webinars recently that would be a huge help to you. The first was on a death record and the 2nd on marriage records. I would watch the first one because there were a few things on there that weren't covered in the 2nd that you might be interested in (I know I was) and then much of the 2nd webinar will be repeated but it's good because you see how those tools are used for multiple purposes in Legacy and you will see different screens and of course some new information too :-) Hope this helps. I am not the most advanced user and I have been very grateful for others' help on this list. Just this week they answered two or three problems for me! Kathy On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Charlotte Box charlotte.e@googlemail.com wrote: Hi I have two christening records for the same person but with differing information. I want to include the text from both on a report pointing to their sources. I added them to the christening notes but on the report there are no numbers indicating their sources. I don't want the text appearing in the source citation itself so I can't add the text to the text/comments in the source detail. Wondering if I'm missing something obvious, could someone point me in the best way to go about this? Many thanks! Charlotte Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.comhttp://news.legacyfamilytree.com/ ). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asphttp://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- Kathy Meyer STRESS: when your gut says NO WAY and your mouth says NO PROBLEM To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done. --Richard G. Scott, Finding the Way Back, Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures
Charlotte No its a copy of the marriage record. I scanned and saved it as .jpg file into the Pictures folder under Legacy. I then selected it, as Geoff showed in his webinar the other day. However, other than having a pretty picture in my database I have no way of displaying it. Dennis On 5/28/2011 11:18 AM, Charlotte Box wrote: Hi Dennis, I presume you mean a transcription of the marriage certificate? If so, select 'Notes' next to the button 'Marriage Information' on the Family tab. You can add it there. Next, under Report Options go to the tab 'Include' and make sure you have 'Notes/general' checked. On 28 May 2011 15:36, Dennis Sutton jersey...@bellsouth.net mailto:jersey...@bellsouth.net wrote: I added a copy of the marriage certificate to a source detail on my gggrandmother's page. However, I have tried everything I can think of to try to display this in any report. Any help would be appreciated to make this happen. Dennis Sutton Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
I've been working on this hobby seriously for about 1 1/2 years now. At the time, I read about organization, and most of the articles I found were how to keep binders. This is the computer age, and I'm a computer guy, so took some ideas from the binder based articles, but scan and organize all my stuff electronically on my computer. I find the thing I like best about it is that if somebody asks me for something, I can just email them the document. However, I user dropbox too, and as others have said, having everything electronically scanned in allows me to access it no matter where I'm at via another computer or even my phone. I do keep any paper copies I collect, and have been wondering about the value of adding a paper based system as well. I've not convinced myself there is enough value in doing that so I've not done it. On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: Michele: I understand the daunting feeling. That's why I scanned all my documents and photos years ago. I keep very few documents unless they are originals or have some historic value. All copies get scanned then tossed out. Even old negatives and photographs are scanned at the highest resolution and tossed. Negatives, especially color, do not hold up very long. Black and white negatives seem to last forever even ones that are about 100 years old. I still have several hundred negatives that need scanning so I know that daunting feeling because I keep putting it off. Scanning negatives is very boring and time consuming because you can't do much else while you're doing it. Also, if you have any old audio recordings I suggest converting all of them to digital. I did that for a collection of about 50 hours of audio interviews done back in the 1970's and noticed that the tapes were starting to degrade. They lasted nearly 30 years so I guess I can't complain. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv [mailto:cranberryf...@cobridge.tv] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking about this. Right now I don't have any scans in my file and I have been working in Legacy for 6 years (FTM before that). Since census records are readily available, I just cite them. I do copy marriage, death, military, land records etc. and I keep those in binders (I have a binder for each type of source and then I file them alphabetically). I am trying to figure out the wisdom of scanning everything into Legacy. I would love to hear your opinions. I must say thinking about going back and scanning everything is rather daunting. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG]
Never noticed that some notes didn't get sourced. Will have to look into that myself. At any rate, I use an MLA trick with my notes where I add my own notations to vairous paragraphs. At the end of para #1 [Jones] and para #2 [Smith] or something like that. That way each bit of info. is sourced accordingly. On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Charlotte Box charlotte.e@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks all! I haven't seen the marriage webinar, I watched the death cerificate webinar but things were hectic so didn't get to take it all in so looks like I need to watch them both! On 28 May 2011 16:41, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: With any conflicting information, you add an 'event' for 'alt. birth' or 'alt. christening' or 'alt. death', etc. If you use the one that is already shown in the drop down list of events (rather than creating your own, which you can), once you have added the alternate information, if you decide the alternate is more accurate than your original, you can click on 'options' to the right of the event box (have your event highlighted) and click on the option to 'swap with birth [or death, etc]' and then the less accurate information will move down as the 'alt. event' I have no idea about how the text shows up in reports though. You can source this the same way you source any other information. Geoff did two webinars recently that would be a huge help to you. The first was on a death record and the 2nd on marriage records. I would watch the first one because there were a few things on there that weren't covered in the 2nd that you might be interested in (I know I was) and then much of the 2nd webinar will be repeated but it's good because you see how those tools are used for multiple purposes in Legacy and you will see different screens and of course some new information too :-) Hope this helps. I am not the most advanced user and I have been very grateful for others' help on this list. Just this week they answered two or three problems for me! Kathy On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Charlotte Box charlotte.e@googlemail.com wrote: Hi I have two christening records for the same person but with differing information. I want to include the text from both on a report pointing to their sources. I added them to the christening notes but on the report there are no numbers indicating their sources. I don't want the text appearing in the source citation itself so I can't add the text to the text/comments in the source detail. Wondering if I'm missing something obvious, could someone point me in the best way to go about this? Many thanks! Charlotte Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- Kathy Meyer STRESS: when your gut says NO WAY and your mouth says NO PROBLEM To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done. --Richard G. Scott, Finding the Way Back, Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages
Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures
I'm glad you mentioned that though Dennis - I haven't added any media files yet so I have all that to come! On 28 May 2011 16:30, Dennis Sutton jersey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Charlotte   No its a copy of the marriage record. I scanned and saved it as .jpg file into the Pictures folder under Legacy. I then selected it, as Geoff showed in his webinar the other day. However, other than having a pretty picture in my database I have no way of displaying it. Dennis On 5/28/2011 11:18 AM, Charlotte Box wrote: Hi Dennis, I presume you mean a transcription of the marriage certificate? If so, select 'Notes' next to the button 'Marriage Information' on the Family tab. You can add it there. Next, under Report Options go to the tab 'Include' and make sure you have 'Notes/general' checked. On 28 May 2011 15:36, Dennis Sutton jersey...@bellsouth.net wrote: I added a copy of the marriage certificate to a source detail on my gggrandmother's page.  However, I have tried everything I can think of to try to display this in any report.  Any help would be appreciated to make this happen. Dennis Sutton Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
I agree with you James. There doesn't seem any real justification for keeping paper documents when it's not eco-friendly to use all that paper and most things now can be stored digitally, unless of course they're originals but even these can be scanned. Just in case anyone wasn't aware, as I recall in one of the recent webinar's it was recommended they be saved as .tif's at 600dpi, 100% scale to preserve the integrity of images they need to be stored. I thought that was a really good tip. On 28 May 2011 17:48, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on this hobby seriously for about 1 1/2 years now. At the time, I read about organization, and most of the articles I found were how to keep binders. This is the computer age, and I'm a computer guy, so took some ideas from the binder based articles, but scan and organize all my stuff electronically on my computer. I find the thing I like best about it is that if somebody asks me for something, I can just email them the document. However, I user dropbox too, and as others have said, having everything electronically scanned in allows me to access it no matter where I'm at via another computer or even my phone. I do keep any paper copies I collect, and have been wondering about the value of adding a paper based system as well. I've not convinced myself there is enough value in doing that so I've not done it. On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: Michele: I understand the daunting feeling. That's why I scanned all my documents and photos years ago. I keep very few documents unless they are originals or have some historic value. All copies get scanned then tossed out. Even old negatives and photographs are scanned at the highest resolution and tossed. Negatives, especially color, do not hold up very long. Black and white negatives seem to last forever even ones that are about 100 years old. I still have several hundred negatives that need scanning so I know that daunting feeling because I keep putting it off. Scanning negatives is very boring and time consuming because you can't do much else while you're doing it. Also, if you have any old audio recordings I suggest converting all of them to digital. I did that for a collection of about 50 hours of audio interviews done back in the 1970's and noticed that the tapes were starting to degrade. They lasted nearly 30 years so I guess I can't complain. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv [mailto:cranberryf...@cobridge.tv] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking about this. Right now I don't have any scans in my file and I have been working in Legacy for 6 years (FTM before that). Since census records are readily available, I just cite them. I do copy marriage, death, military, land records etc. and I keep those in binders (I have a binder for each type of source and then I file them alphabetically). I am trying to figure out the wisdom of scanning everything into Legacy. I would love to hear your opinions. I must say thinking about going back and scanning everything is rather daunting. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009:
[LegacyUG] Drag and Drop
The drag and drop is going well! The only think I wish is that you could drag them into their relationship instead of having to drag them and then attach them to the right people (it would save a step) but other than that, this is saving me a lot of time. Thanks everyone. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
Unless you and your descendants continuously stay current with changes in digital storage technology, your digital data will eventually become inaccessible. Once upon a time, the 8 floppy disk was the commercial standard for digital storage and backup. Do you know anyone who has the equipment to read an 8 floppy disk? Or even a 5 1/4 floppy disk? Eco-friendly is fine (my recycle bin contains more than my garbage bin), but some of the family history I've collected is too valuable to entrust solely to a medium that is guaranteed to become obsolete - it's just not possible to re-interview someone who died 10 years ago. For that reason, I keep all paper originals. Every couple of years, I print appropriate multi-generation documents to have a human-readable copy of the data. (two family lines, 11 generations back in some places) John I agree with you James. There doesn't seem any real justification for keeping paper documents when it's not eco-friendly to use all that paper and most things now can be stored digitally, unless of course they're originals but even these can be scanned. Just in case anyone wasn't aware, as I recall in one of the recent webinar's it was recommended they be saved as .tif's at 600dpi, 100% scale to preserve the integrity of images they need to be stored. I thought that was a really good tip. On 28 May 2011 17:48, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on this hobby seriously for about 1 1/2 years now. At the time, I read about organization, and most of the articles I found were how to keep binders. This is the computer age, and I'm a computer guy, so took some ideas from the binder based articles, but scan and organize all my stuff electronically on my computer. I find the thing I like best about it is that if somebody asks me for something, I can just email them the document. However, I user dropbox too, and as others have said, having everything electronically scanned in allows me to access it no matter where I'm at via another computer or even my phone. I do keep any paper copies I collect, and have been wondering about the value of adding a paper based system as well. I've not convinced myself there is enough value in doing that so I've not done it. On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: Michele: I understand the daunting feeling. That's why I scanned all my documents and photos years ago. I keep very few documents unless they are originals or have some historic value. All copies get scanned then tossed out. Even old negatives and photographs are scanned at the highest resolution and tossed. Negatives, especially color, do not hold up very long. Black and white negatives seem to last forever even ones that are about 100 years old. I still have several hundred negatives that need scanning so I know that daunting feeling because I keep putting it off. Scanning negatives is very boring and time consuming because you can't do much else while you're doing it. Also, if you have any old audio recordings I suggest converting all of them to digital. I did that for a collection of about 50 hours of audio interviews done back in the 1970's and noticed that the tapes were starting to degrade. They lasted nearly 30 years so I guess I can't complain. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv [mailto:cranberryf...@cobridge.tv] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking about this. Right now I don't have any scans in my file and I have been working in Legacy for 6 years (FTM before that). Since census records are readily available, I just cite them. I do copy marriage, death, military, land records etc. and I keep those in binders (I have a binder for each type of source and then I file them alphabetically). I am trying to figure out the wisdom of scanning everything into Legacy. I would love to hear your opinions. I must say thinking about going back and scanning everything is rather daunting. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils
Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
And when documents are that valuable, it is important they are handled as little as possible. You may have only one original, but once they are digitised they can be viewed time and time again. Hence why most repositories are trying to digitise as much as possible. It's almost impossible for the storage of data images digitally to become obsolete because there will always be the means of storing them and it can only improve. It's all in bits and bytes so it's easy to transfer into storage, what medium it's stored on is irrelevant because it can be changed easily and moved from one to the other. This is why large businesses spend vast sums of money storing digital copies often in different locations, if they had a fire it could potentially mean the loss of the business. On 28 May 2011 19:28, John Carter a...@wizardanswers.com wrote: Unless you and your descendants continuously stay current with changes in digital storage technology, your digital data will eventually become inaccessible. Once upon a time, the 8 floppy disk was the commercial standard for digital storage and backup. Do you know anyone who has the equipment to read an 8 floppy disk? Or even a 5 1/4 floppy disk? Eco-friendly is fine (my recycle bin contains more than my garbage bin), but some of the family history I've collected is too valuable to entrust solely to a medium that is guaranteed to become obsolete - it's just not possible to re-interview someone who died 10 years ago. For that reason, I keep all paper originals. Every couple of years, I print appropriate multi-generation documents to have a human-readable copy of the data. (two family lines, 11 generations back in some places) John I agree with you James. There doesn't seem any real justification for keeping paper documents when it's not eco-friendly to use all that paper and most things now can be stored digitally, unless of course they're originals but even these can be scanned. Just in case anyone wasn't aware, as I recall in one of the recent webinar's it was recommended they be saved as .tif's at 600dpi, 100% scale to preserve the integrity of images they need to be stored. I thought that was a really good tip. On 28 May 2011 17:48, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on this hobby seriously for about 1 1/2 years now. At the time, I read about organization, and most of the articles I found were how to keep binders. This is the computer age, and I'm a computer guy, so took some ideas from the binder based articles, but scan and organize all my stuff electronically on my computer. I find the thing I like best about it is that if somebody asks me for something, I can just email them the document. However, I user dropbox too, and as others have said, having everything electronically scanned in allows me to access it no matter where I'm at via another computer or even my phone. I do keep any paper copies I collect, and have been wondering about the value of adding a paper based system as well. I've not convinced myself there is enough value in doing that so I've not done it. On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: Michele: I understand the daunting feeling. That's why I scanned all my documents and photos years ago. I keep very few documents unless they are originals or have some historic value. All copies get scanned then tossed out. Even old negatives and photographs are scanned at the highest resolution and tossed. Negatives, especially color, do not hold up very long. Black and white negatives seem to last forever even ones that are about 100 years old. I still have several hundred negatives that need scanning so I know that daunting feeling because I keep putting it off. Scanning negatives is very boring and time consuming because you can't do much else while you're doing it. Also, if you have any old audio recordings I suggest converting all of them to digital. I did that for a collection of about 50 hours of audio interviews done back in the 1970's and noticed that the tapes were starting to degrade. They lasted nearly 30 years so I guess I can't complain. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv [mailto:cranberryf...@cobridge.tv] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking about this. Right now I don't have any scans in my file and I have been working in Legacy for 6 years (FTM before that). Since census records are readily available, I just cite them. I do copy marriage, death, military, land records etc. and I keep those in
RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
John, While I agree that digital technologies do become obsolete, I don't see paper as a particularly good alternative either. Paper deteriorates, inks fade. And, fire and flood is all too common. I attended a Dick Eastman presentation, and his advice was 'multiple copies, multiple media types, multiple locations. That is the only way to protect yourself from the failure of any one backup. Digital media do become obsolete, absolutely. One needs to periodically copy data from old media to new media, one to keep up with technology and simply to ensure that the original media is still readable. And, even new hard drives, DVD's, USB sticks, and whatever is coming in the future will fail. Hence, multiple copies. I keep data on my hard drive, backup to USB and DVD held at my home frequently, use Dropbox for on-line backup, and periodically take DVD backups to friends and family that live far away. Certainly, paper can be one of those multiple backups, but I'm not sure it's the most secure. Paul -Original Message- From: John Carter [mailto:a...@wizardanswers.com] Sent: May-28-11 12:29 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Unless you and your descendants continuously stay current with changes in digital storage technology, your digital data will eventually become inaccessible. Once upon a time, the 8 floppy disk was the commercial standard for digital storage and backup. Do you know anyone who has the equipment to read an 8 floppy disk? Or even a 5 1/4 floppy disk? Eco-friendly is fine (my recycle bin contains more than my garbage bin), but some of the family history I've collected is too valuable to entrust solely to a medium that is guaranteed to become obsolete - it's just not possible to re-interview someone who died 10 years ago. For that reason, I keep all paper originals. Every couple of years, I print appropriate multi-generation documents to have a human-readable copy of the data. (two family lines, 11 generations back in some places) John I agree with you James. There doesn't seem any real justification for keeping paper documents when it's not eco-friendly to use all that paper and most things now can be stored digitally, unless of course they're originals but even these can be scanned. Just in case anyone wasn't aware, as I recall in one of the recent webinar's it was recommended they be saved as .tif's at 600dpi, 100% scale to preserve the integrity of images they need to be stored. I thought that was a really good tip. On 28 May 2011 17:48, James Cook jc1...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on this hobby seriously for about 1 1/2 years now. At the time, I read about organization, and most of the articles I found were how to keep binders. This is the computer age, and I'm a computer guy, so took some ideas from the binder based articles, but scan and organize all my stuff electronically on my computer. I find the thing I like best about it is that if somebody asks me for something, I can just email them the document. However, I user dropbox too, and as others have said, having everything electronically scanned in allows me to access it no matter where I'm at via another computer or even my phone. I do keep any paper copies I collect, and have been wondering about the value of adding a paper based system as well. I've not convinced myself there is enough value in doing that so I've not done it. On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: Michele: I understand the daunting feeling. That's why I scanned all my documents and photos years ago. I keep very few documents unless they are originals or have some historic value. All copies get scanned then tossed out. Even old negatives and photographs are scanned at the highest resolution and tossed. Negatives, especially color, do not hold up very long. Black and white negatives seem to last forever even ones that are about 100 years old. I still have several hundred negatives that need scanning so I know that daunting feeling because I keep putting it off. Scanning negatives is very boring and time consuming because you can't do much else while you're doing it. Also, if you have any old audio recordings I suggest converting all of them to digital. I did that for a collection of about 50 hours of audio interviews done back in the 1970's and noticed that the tapes were starting to degrade. They lasted nearly 30 years so I guess I can't complain. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv [mailto:cranberryf...@cobridge.tv] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Speaking of pictures... In the Marriage Record Webinar, Geoff pretty much said that he attaches a photo (scan of a document) to every source he does. I have been thinking
RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
I remember those 8 floppies as well as tape-based formats. Paper also has issues as well. It tends to fade over the years and is easier to destroy. If I had a choice between the two I'd take digital. I used to received fax transmissions from a cemetery for burial information, but unfortunately I only had a thermal paper fax machine. I copied these to Xerox paper and was glad I did because the original thermal paper copies faded so badly within the first year I couldn't read them anymore. Regular copy paper will last much longer, but it also burns or can be destroyed much easier than electronic copies. I move too much so having to move many boxes of paper just wasn't economical anymore. I scanned my genealogy reference books too (marriage records) and threw out the books. I digitize everything only because it takes up a lot less space than all that paper. I wish I could keep all the paper copies, but nobody in my direct family is interested in genealogy and it would just end up in the garbage anyway. My distant lines have most of my digital copies so hopefully it will live on. Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: John Carter [mailto:a...@wizardanswers.com] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:29 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures Unless you and your descendants continuously stay current with changes in digital storage technology, your digital data will eventually become inaccessible. Once upon a time, the 8 floppy disk was the commercial standard for digital storage and backup. Do you know anyone who has the equipment to read an 8 floppy disk? Or even a 5 1/4 floppy disk? Eco-friendly is fine (my recycle bin contains more than my garbage bin), but some of the family history I've collected is too valuable to entrust solely to a medium that is guaranteed to become obsolete - it's just not possible to re-interview someone who died 10 years ago. For that reason, I keep all paper originals. Every couple of years, I print appropriate multi-generation documents to have a human-readable copy of the data. (two family lines, 11 generations back in some places) John Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
There has to be someone in the family that will continue to preserve the information we have compiled through the years. I have data from the 1980's that started out on 5 1/4 diskettes up to current times and if I hadn't preserved them by upgrading their formats it would be gone for good. Some originally came from paper that I had to retype because PC's didn't exist them (1970's). In that sense paper was the best media for that time. What about old 8mm and 16mm films? Try to get them converted these days. I have a bunch of them deteriorating. -Original Message- From: Paul Gray [mailto:grayp...@telus.net] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 3:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures John, While I agree that digital technologies do become obsolete, I don't see paper as a particularly good alternative either. Paper deteriorates, inks fade. And, fire and flood is all too common. I attended a Dick Eastman presentation, and his advice was 'multiple copies, multiple media types, multiple locations. That is the only way to protect yourself from the failure of any one backup. Digital media do become obsolete, absolutely. One needs to periodically copy data from old media to new media, one to keep up with technology and simply to ensure that the original media is still readable. And, even new hard drives, DVD's, USB sticks, and whatever is coming in the future will fail. Hence, multiple copies. I keep data on my hard drive, backup to USB and DVD held at my home frequently, use Dropbox for on-line backup, and periodically take DVD backups to friends and family that live far away. Certainly, paper can be one of those multiple backups, but I'm not sure it's the most secure. Paul Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
It's interesting Bill you mentioning about family members probably throwing stuff in the garbage. I had some distant family members that literally threw an entire collection of photo's on a bonfire because they weren't remembered in a will!! Horrifying! Charlotte On 28 May 2011 21:08, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: There has to be someone in the family that will continue to preserve the information we have compiled through the years. I have data from the 1980's that started out on 5 1/4 diskettes up to current times and if I hadn't preserved them by upgrading their formats it would be gone for good. Some originally came from paper that I had to retype because PC's didn't exist them (1970's). In that sense paper was the best media for that time. What about old 8mm and 16mm films? Try to get them converted these days. I have a bunch of them deteriorating. -Original Message- From: Paul Gray [mailto:grayp...@telus.net] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 3:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures John, While I agree that digital technologies do become obsolete, I don't see paper as a particularly good alternative either. Paper deteriorates, inks fade. And, fire and flood is all too common. I attended a Dick Eastman presentation, and his advice was 'multiple copies, multiple media types, multiple locations. That is the only way to protect yourself from the failure of any one backup. Digital media do become obsolete, absolutely. One needs to periodically copy data from old media to new media, one to keep up with technology and simply to ensure that the original media is still readable. And, even new hard drives, DVD's, USB sticks, and whatever is coming in the future will fail. Hence, multiple copies. I keep data on my hard drive, backup to USB and DVD held at my home frequently, use Dropbox for on-line backup, and periodically take DVD backups to friends and family that live far away. Certainly, paper can be one of those multiple backups, but I'm not sure it's the most secure. Paul Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
How interesting all of these opinions are! I am spending today going through my digital files on my computer, in my dropbox and on my most recent external backup hard drive. I don't have an automatic backup that automatically saves any changes or additions that I make to my hard drive so this is something I have to do every once in awhile to make sure I have everything saved in the 'right place'. I know how to organize, backup, copy files and all of that but being as human as I am, I sometimes mess up (imagine that!) For instance, if I am saving something I've scanned, my scanning software automatically saves it to the last place that I used unless I change the settings. If I'm not paying attention, I could go crazy in a couple of months trying to find it and 'knowing that I scanned that!'. Mostly though, it's because I want all of my family history information backed up in multiple places and I want it to be consistent in all of those places. Since I do not have software to automatically backup only the changes, I go through them manually. I don't mind much because I find this will bring things to my attention and I'll write notes to myself to take care of this and that. I'm doing this now with the intent of getting all of my images and documents added to my Legacy file but I know they all need to be in a good, understandable order so that I can always file them that way and so Legacy will always be able to find those images. If my computer crashes, my dropbox and external hard drive backup would be in the exact same order, which would help Legacy to find those new files in those new places. So this is bringing my mind to all of the things that can go wrong (that I can do wrong) with my filing system. It also makes me think about how someone else would be able to follow my research should I not be able to do it any longer (or as I pass it down to future generations) It makes me uncomfortable to store all of the research only in a digital way, although my plan is to scan everything that is in my paper files and source them, etc; the stuff that I didn't do way back in the beginning :-) I'm not ready to recycle all of that 'paper research' and I still print out plenty of stuff because I make notes on it, like transcriptions or explanations and source information. I type all of that into Legacy from the paper copy. Why throw it away once it's digitized? At least if I have a question, I can go back to the printed copy. I will love it when I eventually go all digital and can feel comfortable with that. For now, I still like to look at a paper copy for certain things. I know when technology changes, we should all take our old stuff and move it to the new format but not everybody will do that or has the means. Paper copies, like printed photographs, can be viewed and enjoyed by anyone whether they have the newest technology or not, or even if they have no computer at all. I'm not arguing or criticizing, just thought I'd try to explain why I can't give up my paper yet :-) I'm envious of all of you who have gone completely digital and love it. Kathy On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:08 PM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.comwrote: There has to be someone in the family that will continue to preserve the information we have compiled through the years. I have data from the 1980's that started out on 5 1/4 diskettes up to current times and if I hadn't preserved them by upgrading their formats it would be gone for good. Some originally came from paper that I had to retype because PC's didn't exist them (1970's). In that sense paper was the best media for that time. What about old 8mm and 16mm films? Try to get them converted these days. I have a bunch of them deteriorating. -Original Message- From: Paul Gray [mailto:grayp...@telus.net] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 3:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures John, While I agree that digital technologies do become obsolete, I don't see paper as a particularly good alternative either. Paper deteriorates, inks fade. And, fire and flood is all too common. I attended a Dick Eastman presentation, and his advice was 'multiple copies, multiple media types, multiple locations. That is the only way to protect yourself from the failure of any one backup. Digital media do become obsolete, absolutely. One needs to periodically copy data from old media to new media, one to keep up with technology and simply to ensure that the original media is still readable. And, even new hard drives, DVD's, USB sticks, and whatever is coming in the future will fail. Hence, multiple copies. I keep data on my hard drive, backup to USB and DVD held at my home frequently, use Dropbox for on-line backup, and periodically take DVD backups to friends and family that live far away. Certainly, paper can be one of those multiple backups, but I'm not sure it's the most secure. Paul Legacy
Re: [LegacyUG] Drag and Drop
Michele, What do you mean by “drag them into their relationship”? If you have the same person in both files then when you drag him to the other file you should get a merge screen so you can merge the info you want to the new file and he should be where you want him. Russ From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:21 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Drag and Drop The drag and drop is going well! The only think I wish is that you could drag them into their relationship instead of having to drag them and then attach them to the right people (it would save a step) but other than that, this is saving me a lot of time. Thanks everyone. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures
As Jenny Benson said : Look in Report Options and select the Sources tab. Make sure you have selected Print Source Citations and have NOT selected If an event had multiple citations, combine them into one paragraph. Now look to the right side of the same tab and select Include master source pictures and/or Include detail source pictures, whichever option is appropriate. Cheers Jan From: Dennis Sutton [mailto:jersey...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, 29 May 2011 1:30 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures Charlotte   No its a copy of the marriage record. I scanned and saved it as .jpg file into the Pictures folder under Legacy. I then selected it, as Geoff showed in his webinar the other day. However, other than having a pretty picture in my database I have no way of displaying it. Dennis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures
Sorry for repeating Jenny's instructions - I gathered from this message that you were still having problems. But I now see from another message that you had indeed solved it. Cheers Jan From: Dennis Sutton [mailto:jersey...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, 29 May 2011 1:30 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures Charlotte   No its a copy of the marriage record. I scanned and saved it as .jpg file into the Pictures folder under Legacy. I then selected it, as Geoff showed in his webinar the other day. However, other than having a pretty picture in my database I have no way of displaying it. Dennis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Preserving files (was: Speaking of pictures)
I've given a lot of thought to long term preservation of my genealogy files [recorded with Legacy, in order to keep this On Topic] given the rapid obsolescence of digital media. What if I store my files on the currently most advanced medium and I place it in a secure place, e.g. a bank safe deposit box, and tomorrow I get obliterated by a Hellfire missile? My heirs, not otherwise knowing what to do with the contents of my safe deposit box, store everything in a trunk in the attic. Fifty years from now, an as yet unborn descendant discovers these strange, shiny discs and thinking they make wonderful conversation pieces, uses them for drink coasters for his guests. I think the only way to ensure that your files are readable in the distant future is to print them on old fashioned paper even if they are at risk from fire, flood or tornado. As to the question of what to do with your files if your immediate relatives haven't yet been infected by the genie bug, you could always donate them to your local genealogical society or one in an area where your ancestors lived. They may be useful to someone researching in those areas. And keep in mind that your grandchildren who now roll their eyes at any mention of our Hepplefinger line from Transylvania, may someday be saying, I wish I'd asked Grandpa that when he was alive; he knew all about our ancestors. For now I've tried to identify any younger relatives in my major lines who have expressed any interest in genealogy--my son-in-law, my wife's nephew, my cousin's granddaughter, etc.--and intend to provide them with my files of their respective branches. Having said all that, to date I have neither printed everything on paper or distributed files to the younger relatives. Plenty of time for that. I may live forever if that missile misfires. John S. AdamsHermosa Beach, CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Drag and Drop
On 2011/05/29 01:26, cranberryf...@cobridge.tv wrote: I am not getting a merge screen I drag the patient over and I get a box that asks me if I want to include their ancestors/spouses/descendants etc. After I save the person then I have to link them. If you have the same person, from each file, in both halves of the window, you can drag one and drop it on the other. Then you'll be able to merge. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures
I'm glad you repeated it. It took me twice reading it to figure it out. Patty On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Sorry for repeating Jenny's instructions - I gathered from this message that you were still having problems. But I now see from another message that you had indeed solved it. Cheers Jan From: Dennis Sutton [mailto:jersey...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, 29 May 2011 1:30 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures Charlotte   No its a copy of the marriage record. I scanned and saved it as .jpg file into the Pictures folder under Legacy. I then selected it, as Geoff showed in his webinar the other day. However, other than having a pretty picture in my database I have no way of displaying it. Dennis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Drag and Drop
What answer do you pick when that screen asks? Russ From: cranberryf...@cobridge.tv Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:26 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Drag and Drop I am not getting a merge screen I drag the patient over and I get a box that asks me if I want to include their ancestors/spouses/descendants etc. After I save the person then I have to link them. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures
You wouldn’t believe the system I have for digital photographs. I use a numbering system because I have several thousand images and use a spreadsheet to list them all. Names just didn’t work for me and numbers keep the file name short. Without the spreadsheet, nobody would know what it is, where it is, or who’s in it. Not all of them are people pictures, but at least if there’s a date or name to go with it I have it in there. I wish my ancestors had been that meticulous with just a pen or pencil on the back of some of them. I’m a fanatic about accuracy and organization. I think it comes from growing up with insane and/or disorganized family members. From: Kathy Meyer [mailto:kmeyer2...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 4:27 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Speaking of pictures How interesting all of these opinions are! I am spending today going through my digital files on my computer, in my dropbox and on my most recent external backup hard drive. I don't have an automatic backup that automatically saves any changes or additions that I make to my hard drive so this is something I have to do every once in awhile to make sure I have everything saved in the 'right place'. I know how to organize, backup, copy files and all of that but being as human as I am, I sometimes mess up (imagine that!) For instance, if I am saving something I've scanned, my scanning software automatically saves it to the last place that I used unless I change the settings. If I'm not paying attention, I could go crazy in a couple of months trying to find it and 'knowing that I scanned that!'. Mostly though, it's because I want all of my family history information backed up in multiple places and I want it to be consistent in all of those places. Since I do not have software to automatically backup only the changes, I go through them manually. I don't mind much because I find this will bring things to my attention and I'll write notes to myself to take care of this and that. I'm doing this now with the intent of getting all of my images and documents added to my Legacy file but I know they all need to be in a good, understandable order so that I can always file them that way and so Legacy will always be able to find those images. If my computer crashes, my dropbox and external hard drive backup would be in the exact same order, which would help Legacy to find those new files in those new places. So this is bringing my mind to all of the things that can go wrong (that I can do wrong) with my filing system. It also makes me think about how someone else would be able to follow my research should I not be able to do it any longer (or as I pass it down to future generations) It makes me uncomfortable to store all of the research only in a digital way, although my plan is to scan everything that is in my paper files and source them, etc; the stuff that I didn't do way back in the beginning :-) I'm not ready to recycle all of that 'paper research' and I still print out plenty of stuff because I make notes on it, like transcriptions or explanations and source information. I type all of that into Legacy from the paper copy. Why throw it away once it's digitized? At least if I have a question, I can go back to the printed copy. I will love it when I eventually go all digital and can feel comfortable with that. For now, I still like to look at a paper copy for certain things. I know when technology changes, we should all take our old stuff and move it to the new format but not everybody will do that or has the means. Paper copies, like printed photographs, can be viewed and enjoyed by anyone whether they have the newest technology or not, or even if they have no computer at all. I'm not arguing or criticizing, just thought I'd try to explain why I can't give up my paper yet :-) I'm envious of all of you who have gone completely digital and love it. Kathy On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:08 PM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: There has to be someone in the family that will continue to preserve the information we have compiled through the years. I have data from the 1980's that started out on 5 1/4 diskettes up to current times and if I hadn't preserved them by upgrading their formats it would be gone for good. Some originally came from paper that I had to retype because PC's didn't exist them (1970's). In that sense paper was the best media for that time. What about old 8mm and 16mm films? Try to get them converted these days. I have a bunch of them deteriorating. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support:
RE: [LegacyUG] Drag and Drop
I am not getting a merge screen The merge screen is not automatic. The program has no way of knowing what you want to do with the drag and drop, so you have to tell it. If you only drop one individual, that will probably be a child or other relation of those in the file, but not in the file. (At least that is the way I would think.) So you have to tell Legacy what you want it to do. Linking is not the same as merging - a spouse or child of a person in the file would be linked, unless you included that linked individual in the drag and drop. Personally, I would not drag an unlinked individual if I had a choice. I much prefer to include at least one person in the drag who is already in the other file. Carl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Preserving files (was: Speaking of pictures)
Freepages at rootsweb, World connect at rootsweb, they seem to be the most reliable, if you source everything well descendants in the future who do get bit can find their way thru. Eliz On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:18 PM, John S. Adams oldbr...@hotmail.com wrote: I've given a lot of thought to long term preservation of my genealogy files [recorded with Legacy, in order to keep this On Topic] given the rapid obsolescence of digital media. What if I store my files on the currently most advanced medium and I place it in a secure place, e.g. a bank safe deposit box, and tomorrow I get obliterated by a Hellfire missile? My heirs, not otherwise knowing what to do with the contents of my safe deposit box, store everything in a trunk in the attic. Fifty years from now, an as yet unborn descendant discovers these strange, shiny discs and thinking they make wonderful conversation pieces, uses them for drink coasters for his guests. I think the only way to ensure that your files are readable in the distant future is to print them on old fashioned paper even if they are at risk from fire, flood or tornado. As to the question of what to do with your files if your immediate relatives haven't yet been infected by the genie bug, you could always donate them to your local genealogical society or one in an area where your ancestors lived. They may be useful to someone researching in those areas. And keep in mind that your grandchildren who now roll their eyes at any mention of our Hepplefinger line from Transylvania, may someday be saying, I wish I'd asked Grandpa that when he was alive; he knew all about our ancestors. For now I've tried to identify any younger relatives in my major lines who have expressed any interest in genealogy--my son-in-law, my wife's nephew, my cousin's granddaughter, etc.--and intend to provide them with my files of their respective branches. Having said all that, to date I have neither printed everything on paper or distributed files to the younger relatives. Plenty of time for that. I may live forever if that missile misfires. John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Preserving files (was: Speaking of pictures)
How confident are you that Rootsweb will still be in business in 2060? John S. Adams Hermosa Beach, CA From: elizhg...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Preserving files (was: Speaking of picturesþ) Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 22:41:24 -0400 Freepages at rootsweb, World connect at rootsweb, they seem to be the most reliable, if you source everything well descendants in the future who do get bit can find their way thru. Eliz On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:18 PM, John S. Adams oldbr...@hotmail.com wrote: I've given a lot of thought to long term preservation of my genealogy files [recorded with Legacy, in order to keep this On Topic] given the rapid obsolescence of digital media. What if I store my files on the Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
