RE: [LegacyUG] importing from Ancestry
The owner of the online tree only has the options of downloading to FTM or a GEDCOM file. The GEDCOM you can download directly from within your tree. If you want all the images, you'll have to purchase a copy of FTM for that. Once the images are saved locally to your hard drive you should be able to export to a GEDCOM and save the image paths. I know this works from Legacy to FTM because I do it all the time, but from FTM to Legacy I'm not sure. I'll have to try it sometime. I only use FTM to find records at Ancestry because Legacy is a better program. Bill Boswell From: Ann Brown [mailto:cookiebrow...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 10:53 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] importing from Ancestry thank you both for that information. I was just about to download all that info. Yuck... I wish I could use this program On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Ron Bernier ronaldbern...@bernfrin.net wrote: Ann, Other than Family Tree Maker (owned by Ancestry.com) you wont find a program that can accept a download from Ancestry. Regardless of which program you use, you will only be able to import a GEDCOM from Ancestry. Ron Bernier Woonsocket, RI On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Ann Brown cookiebrow...@gmail.com wrote: Good Morning everyone, I am brand new to Legacy, having just downloaded the free version to practice with. I have been using RootsMagic for 10 years. I want to import my Ancestry tree to my computer with the photos and copies of the documents that I have attached to my people. Is that possible with Legacy? I have read most of the info but nothing is mentioned about Ancestry ...just FamilyTree and familysearch. Can someone give some advice. I am in the market for a product that will do this and since Legacy is #1 I would hope it would do this. I have also thought about another product as well. Thanking you in advance. Ann Brown 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 -- Ann BrownCookie Researching NY for Cook, Ogden, Drake, Wallace; Brooklyn, NY ...Cash, Benedicks, Lynch Dilton O'Brien Corona, Stella, NJ for Cook, Wallace, Stinson, Bennett, Rusling, Berry, MD. for Smith, Owens, Crew; Pa and Ct. for Wallace, Newman, Sanford, Dimmick, Cross 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] duplicate marriages
This is why most people will NOT merge data into their data files. If one is to look at Page 234 of the book and then step 4 at the bottom of the page. It states “merges those that have EXACTLY the same information.” Since there was something different in these marriages information a duplicated was made. Aren’t these lovey new tools just GREAT. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Kathy Meyer [mailto:kmeyer2...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 7:20 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] duplicate marriages I posted this before and didn't get any responses, so I'll try again :-) Somehow during a merge (Intellimerge) I ended up with every single marriage related to the merged file duplicated. Male #1 is married to Female #2 twice; the 2nd marriage is separate and does not link to the children of the 1st marriage, which I am grateful for. So as I've tried to figure this out on my own, I have found the quickest way to remove these marriages is to go to the marriage list and go down the list one by one, visually noting the duplicates, highlighting the bogus marriage (it has a much higher RIN) and then making the 3 or 4 clicks to unlink each marriage. This has been very time consuming but at least it's better than trying to browse through the file or having to be in family view to remove each link. I would like to be able to see a list of these duplicate marriages that may still exist so I can see where I am on it and what needs to be done and ones I've overlooked. Is there a way to create such a list? I browsed through the search criteria for marriages but it didn't seem to fit. I haven't done a lot of searches though and definitely nothing this specific. Thanks to anyone who can help! If it can't be done, I hope a legacy moderator will at least just tell me that I simply have to continue going one by one through the marriage list. At least then I'd know :-) Kathy Meyer 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] Pictures on Pedigree view
That “White area” is because the image is NOT the same size and/or ratio (height x width) as the thumbnail area is. One needs to find out what this ratio is and only use images that are of this ratio. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Barb Weed [mailto:bweed66...@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 10:53 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Pictures on Pedigree view Hello, I don't care for the boxes with the male and female figures in them so I have turned them off. But when there is a picture to go with the name on the pedigree, it prints in a box with white space edgeing it. That does not look good. I would prefer to see the pictures without the box or at least make the box transparent. It would even look better is the pictures would fill the box. Is there a way to do that? Barb 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] duplicate marriages
Kathy, Did you happen to stop the merge process, then start it again? That can cause some problems. Also, there could be a glitch in the Legacy software, so you need to report it to Support. I had some sources duplicated by Legacy inserting normally hidden formatting code into text in notes and other places. It appeared to happen with only one revision of Legacy 7.5. A soon as the source notes are opened, the rogue formatting code disappears, so it is only visible in the preview. It was a lot of work to open all the duplicate sources, which removed the visible formatting code, and then use the new option to merge duplicate sources. Jay Ingalls == On 4/6/2014 10:10 AM, David Abernathy wrote: This is why most people will NOT merge data into their data files. If one is to look at Page 234 of the book and then step 4 at the bottom of the page. It states “merges those that have EXACTLY the same information.†Since there was something different in these marriages information a duplicated was made. Aren’t these lovey new tools just GREAT. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == *From:*Kathy Meyer [mailto:kmeyer2...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Saturday, April 05, 2014 7:20 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] duplicate marriages I posted this before and didn't get any responses, so I'll try again :-) Somehow during a merge (Intellimerge) I ended up with every single marriage related to the merged file duplicated. Male #1 is married to Female #2 twice; the 2nd marriage is separate and does not link to the children of the 1st marriage, which I am grateful for. So as I've tried to figure this out on my own, I have found the quickest way to remove these marriages is to go to the marriage list and go down the list one by one, visually noting the duplicates, highlighting the bogus marriage (it has a much higher RIN) and then making the 3 or 4 clicks to unlink each marriage. This has been very time consuming but at least it's better than trying to browse through the file or having to be in family view to remove each link. I would like to be able to see a list of these duplicate marriages that may still exist so I can see where I am on it and what needs to be done and ones I've overlooked. Is there a way to create such a list? I browsed through the search criteria for marriages but it didn't seem to fit. I haven't done a lot of searches though and definitely nothing this specific. Thanks to anyone who can help! If it can't be done, I hope a legacy moderator will at least just tell me that I simply have to continue going one by one through the marriage list. At least then I'd know :-) Kathy Meyer 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
[LegacyUG] Right way to add essays or excerpts from others to Family File
I have several essays written by others that I would like to include in my family file somewhere, but I'm not certain the best location to put them. Should I put them as sources, general notes, event notes, etc??? Example.. I have a two page essay written by H Caraway titled My Mother Bertie Le Mills Fish 1906-1997. It is basically memories of H from her childhood regarding her mother. So what is best practice to document this? Thanks. -- *Jessica Morgan* Sr Engineering Technologist, Black Stone Minerals Vice Chair, SPE GCS Petro-Tech Study Group Co-Leader, GSSJC Cadette Troop 27109 Adult Leader, Troop 404, Bay Area Council, Northern Star District, BSA 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] Right way to add essays or excerpts from others to Family File
Hi Jessica, They could well be sources for other information in the file - so you would want to record them as a source just as you would an email from someone letting you know of a new arrival in the family. However, so long as I had permission to include them in reports etc, I would put them either in General Notes - eg the General Notes for Bertie Le Mill Fish OR in an Event - maybe make a Memoirs Event. In my experience, few people actually read the sources though more are pleased to know they are there - and if you did put them in as the source text, how often do you include the Master Source text in your output? But it is these writeups that give life to a report. Cathy At 07:07 AM 7/04/2014, you wrote: I have several essays written by others that I would like to include in my family file somewhere, but I'm not certain the best location to put them. Should I put them as sources, general notes, event notes, etc??? Example.. I have a two page essay written by H Caraway titled My Mother Bertie Le Mills Fish 1906-1997. It is basically memories of H from her childhood regarding her mother. So what is best practice to document this? Thanks. -- Jessica Morgan Sr Engineering Technologist, Black Stone Minerals Vice Chair, SPE GCS Petro-Tech Study Group Co-Leader, GSSJC Cadette Troop 27109 Adult Leader, Troop 404, Bay Area Council, Northern Star District, BSA 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] duplicate marriages
The merge shouldn't produce duplicate marriages. If it is, something is going wrong either in the merge itself or the way it is being done. Of course David, the merge enables you to merge people who don't have EXACTLY the same information. Only the automatic bits of merge require EXACT. I don't think there are any new tools in the merge part of Legacy in Legacy 8 apart from a special merge using FamilySearch IDs. The merge isn't trouble free when it comes to sources of events apart from the vital events. I'm not sure of other problems but haven't tested merging for awhile. I have other reasons for not merging data from someone else into my family file as a general rule. Someone else rarely has the same standards for data entry and sourcing that you have. I think it's better to be slow but sure when entering data. However, we all have different reasons for doing family history. Cathy At 12:12 AM 7/04/2014, you wrote: Kathy, Did you happen to stop the merge process, then start it again? That can cause some problems. Also, there could be a glitch in the Legacy software, so you need to report it to Support. I had some sources duplicated by Legacy inserting normally hidden formatting code into text in notes and other places. It appeared to happen with only one revision of Legacy 7.5. A soon as the source notes are opened, the rogue formatting code disappears, so it is only visible in the preview. It was a lot of work to open all the duplicate sources, which removed the visible formatting code, and then use the new option to merge duplicate sources. Jay Ingalls == On 4/6/2014 10:10 AM, David Abernathy wrote: This is why most people will NOT merge data into their data files. àIf one is to look at Page 234 of the book and then step 4 at the bottom of the page. It states âmerges t those that have EXACTLY the same information.â Ã Since there was something different in these marriages information a duplicated was made. àArenât t these lovey new tools just GREAT. ààThanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.comhttp://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirusà== àFrom: Kathy Meyer [mailto:kmeyer2...@gmail.commailto:kmeyer2...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 7:20 PM To: mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.comlegacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] duplicate marriages àI posted this before and didn't get any responses, so I'll try again :-) àSomehow during a merge (Intellimerge) I ended up with every single marriage related to the merged file duplicated. àMale #1 is married to Female #2 twice; the 2nd marriage is separate and does not link to the children of the 1st marriage, which I am grateful for. àSo as I've tried to figure this out on my own, I have found the quickest way to remove these marriages is to go to the marriage list and go down the list one by one, visually noting the duplicates, highlighting the bogus marriage (it has a much higher RIN) and then making the 3 or 4 clicks to unlink each marriage. àThis has been very time consuming but at least it's better than trying to browse through the file or having to be in family view to remove each link. àI would like to be able to see a list of these duplicate marriages that may still exist so I can see where I am on it and what needs to be done and ones I've overlooked. àIs there a way to create such a list? àI browsed through the search criteria for marriages but it didn't seem to fit. àI haven't done a lot of searches though and definitely nothing this specific. àThanks to anyone who can help! àIf it can't be done, I hope a legacy moderator will at least just tell me that I simply have to continue going one by one through the marriage list. At least then I'd know :-) àKathy Meyer àLegacy 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/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/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/LegacyFamilyTreehttp://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
