Re: [LegacyUG] V 9.0.0.226

2018-05-22 Thread Alan Jones 
Jan,

If you are going to stop with Legacy v9 what are you going to move to? I
have seen issues in most productsQA is something all companies are
struggling with. Not heard any references to V10 anyway have you?

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:20 PM Jan B. Hansson 
wrote:

> Hi Rune
>
> Thanks for the warning. It seems that MH does not know what quality and
> test means.
> I've made my choice and stop with Legacy v9 and will not update to future
> v10
>
> Jan,
>
> -- Original Meddelelse --
> Fra: "Rune Mattsson" 
> Til: "Legacy User Group" 
> Sendt: 22-05-2018 19:11:27
> Emne: [LegacyUG] V 9.0.0.226
>
> A warning and a question:
>
> To those of you who have Windows regional setting set to any country that
> does not use a dot (.) as decimal separator (in Sweden we use a comma).
>
> DO NOT INSTALL V 9.0.0.226!!
>
> There is a high risk that your database will be corrupt, especially if you
> are using geocoding.
>
> And now the question:
>
> How do I return to V 9.0.0.217?
>
> Hopefully with the same database.
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Re: [LegacyUG] Adding USA to Locations

2014-01-08 Thread Alan Jones 
I have often wanted USA but the Master Location List does not seem to
like it seems very US Centric and very odd.


On 1/8/2014 6:29 PM, Gene Wheeler wrote:
 Why is it that when I go to the Master Location List, and select
 Expand/Contract Location Parts, and select Parts to Work On = USA
 State Names, then select Add , USA, it only does so when there are
 three positions filled in the name; i.e. city, county, state won't
 work when all that appears are two positions: county, state?  I seem
 to be missing something here.  Thanks!

 Gene




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Re: [LegacyUG] Is it possible to link one event to multiple persons?

2012-12-25 Thread Alan Jones 
I like that feature however I wish the evens were truly linked so if i
update the event then a the same events would update.



On 12/25/2012 9:42 AM, Cathy-0 wrote:
 When you create an event the first time including source citation,
 then look on the right-hand side of the event window under the Help
 button.  You should see two icons. Click on the left icon which will
 copy the entire event including sources.
 When you open a new event for the next person, then click on the right
 icon in the empty window to past the previous event which you copied
 into the person’s event.  Then save.
 Give it a try.
 *From:* T. A. Halpern mailto:tevy...@hotmail.com
 *Sent:* Tuesday, December 25, 2012 9:59 AM
 *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
 mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
 *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Is it possible to link one event to multiple
 persons?
 I want to be able to create a single event -- a specific residence at
 a particular time -- and then link that residence event to multiple
 persons, such as each member of a family.  Is it possible to do this?
 What I have been doing up to now is to add the event in each person's
 information page, and repeating this process for each person.  It's
 getting tedious!  For example, for a family with ten members, I have
 to add the same residence event ten times, once for each member.
 There's got to be a better way to do this! FYI, I am using Legacy
 version 7.0.0.109.

 Thanks!

 Tevye


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[LegacyUG] Source Name Filing System

2011-07-21 Thread Alan Jones 
I have seen a few recent posts about how people name their actual file
names for source files.  I asked a related question sometime back and
based on some responses I came up with a format.  This format I came up
with I have stared using but am still trying to work though details.

I in the interest of giving back to both those that helped me and others
that may be wanting to see what I did below is the format I have tried
to use.  The format may be hard to read as i stripped the HTML out.

I hope this helps someone and I would love to hear other peoples
thoughts on this style.  Email me on or off list as appropriate.



Source Name Filing System


*Format*
Naming format, will use sub directories to group many like items for
easier searching.  Use __ (underscore) for spaces i.e. between first
and last name and middle name.  Use a dash between fields (name vs
record type).


 Document Type (abbreviation)
 - (dash)
 Last name of person (as listed in document married if applicable)
 _ (underscore)
 First Name
 _
 Middle initial (or full name if others are similar)
 - dash
 RIN (Record Identification Number) use minimum of 4 numbers for RIN
 - dash

 [rest optional]
 -- (two dashes if naming a 2nd person like a marriage document)
 repeat Last, First, Middle name and RIN section if needed

 optional - dash and letter (a-z) if there is more than one
 document of a type use consecutive letters.
 If documents are variations of the same document in some
 cases use the same letter then a consecutive number
  




*Examples:*
OBIT-Doe_John_B-1234-a.pdf
OBIT-Doe_John_B-1234-b.pdf

MAR-Doe_John_B-1234--Smith_Sally_J-9876-a.pdf

AWD-Jones_Jerry_G-0002-a.jpg
AWD-Jones_Jerry_G-0002-b.jpg
AWD-Jones_Jerry_G-0002-b1.jpg


*Source Abbreviations Used*

AWD -- Awards and Special Recognitions
BIB -- Family Bible
BR -- Birth Record including Birth Certificate, Birth Announcement, etc
CHUR -- Church Related Document
CEN -- Census Related document (not sure on naming as it may have
multiple people
DIP -- Diploma or related document for High School, Collage (undergrad
or graduate), etc
SCH -- School Related document if not a Diploma
FB -- Facebook Related Source Document
MAR -- Marriage Related Source Document
OBIT -- Obituary from Newspaper, Funeral Home, or related source
PIC -- Picture, used for the 1-5 select pictures of a person stored as
source material.  Some pictures may have witting on them.


RIN -- Record Identification Number, when typing RIN for source
documents enter minimum of 4 numbers and proceed with 0 if the RIN is
smaller.



*Document Format and Manipulation*
Most documents should be storied in PDF Format.

To Reduce the number of documents in some cases one may want to combine
2 or more PDF Documents into one document.  Tools like PDFsam
http://www.pdfsam.org/ and jPdf Tweak http://jpdftweak.sourceforge.net/
can be use to combine/split PDFs.


If needed use a tool like PDFCreator from http://www.pdfforge.org/ to
convert a document convert a document/web page to PDF.


*Additional Notes*
Still working out how to deal with documents where multiple family
members are mentioned in a single document.  EX: Census documents,
family bibles, etc.
Use Just a last name and something else?





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Re: [LegacyUG] Source Name Filing System

2011-07-21 Thread Alan Jones 
Jerry,

Please forgive me as I am a little confused by your comment.  If I
understand your comment correctly let me go into some detail

This naming scheme is for file names of scanned source documents like
birth certificates, marriage documents, obituaries, diplomas and school
related documents etc where the focus of the source is 1 or 2 people.
So I find an obituary and i make it a PDF and name it:

OBIT-Doe_John_B-1234-a.pdf

I would not make multiple copies of the file with different names if multiple 
people were listed in the source.  In fact my note at the end indicate I am 
still trying to find a solution to that problem of a source that covers many 
people.

Also note based on past posts to the list and I am not trying to link every 
source to every person.  I wanted a system so that I could find sources later 
if I was browsing to them in my file system not just link to them in Legacy.  
In the old days of paper files it was almost easier than with electronic files.

If you have another naming scheme for sources that is logical and helps
you keep them organized on your computer  for future needs, sharing and
later retrieval i would love to see it.   I am not stuck on my format
yet as I am still experimenting.

If I did not understand your idea or you have additional thoughts please
feel free to share.

thanks for the comment.



On 7/21/2011 6:39 PM, Jerry wrote:
 Hi Alan.  Your naming scheme is interesting.  However, if I am understanding 
 correctly, wouldn't you use thousands of separate sources if you used each 
 person's name in your source?  Just wondering what I am missing since the 
 source is already linked to the person without having their name as part of 
 the source name.  Thanks, Jerry /MerriamFamilyTree.org

 Alan Jonesa...@ajsquared.us  wrote:

 I have seen a few recent posts about how people name their actual file
 names for source files.  I asked a related question sometime back and
 based on some responses I came up with a format.  This format I came up
 with I have stared using but am still trying to work though details.

 I in the interest of giving back to both those that helped me and others
 that may be wanting to see what I did below is the format I have tried
 to use.  The format may be hard to read as i stripped the HTML out.

 I hope this helps someone and I would love to hear other peoples
 thoughts on this style.  Email me on or off list as appropriate.



 Source Name Filing System


 *Format*
 Naming format, will use sub directories to group many like items for
 easier searching.  Use __ (underscore) for spaces i.e. between first
 and last name and middle name.  Use a dash between fields (name vs
 record type).


  Document Type (abbreviation)
  - (dash)
  Last name of person (as listed in document married if applicable)
  _ (underscore)
  First Name
  _
  Middle initial (or full name if others are similar)
  - dash
  RIN (Record Identification Number) use minimum of 4 numbers for RIN
  - dash

  [rest optional]
  -- (two dashes if naming a 2nd person like a marriage document)
  repeat Last, First, Middle name and RIN section if needed

  optional - dash and letter (a-z) if there is more than one
  document of a type use consecutive letters.
  If documents are variations of the same document in some
  cases use the same letter then a consecutive number
   




 *Examples:*
 OBIT-Doe_John_B-1234-a.pdf
 OBIT-Doe_John_B-1234-b.pdf

 MAR-Doe_John_B-1234--Smith_Sally_J-9876-a.pdf

 AWD-Jones_Jerry_G-0002-a.jpg
 AWD-Jones_Jerry_G-0002-b.jpg
 AWD-Jones_Jerry_G-0002-b1.jpg


 *Source Abbreviations Used*

 AWD -- Awards and Special Recognitions
 BIB -- Family Bible
 BR -- Birth Record including Birth Certificate, Birth Announcement, etc
 CHUR -- Church Related Document
 CEN -- Census Related document (not sure on naming as it may have
 multiple people
 DIP -- Diploma or related document for High School, Collage (undergrad
 or graduate), etc
 SCH -- School Related document if not a Diploma
 FB -- Facebook Related Source Document
 MAR -- Marriage Related Source Document
 OBIT -- Obituary from Newspaper, Funeral Home, or related source
 PIC -- Picture, used for the 1-5 select pictures of a person stored as
 source material.  Some pictures may have witting on them.


 RIN -- Record Identification Number, when typing RIN for source
 documents enter minimum of 4 numbers and proceed with 0 if the RIN is
 smaller.



 *Document Format and Manipulation*
 Most documents should be storied in PDF Format.

 To Reduce the number of documents in some cases one may want to combine
 2 or more PDF Documents into one document.  Tools like PDFsam
 http://www.pdfsam.org/ and jPdf Tweak http://jpdftweak.sourceforge.net/
 can be use to combine/split PDFs.


 If needed use a tool like PDFCreator from http://www.pdfforge.org/ to
 convert a document convert a document/web page to PDF.


 *Additional Notes*
 Still working

[LegacyUG] Legacy Charting and Adopted Children

2010-11-21 Thread Alan Jones 
I was doing a Descendant chat with Legacy Charting and saw that a solid
line went from one couple to their adopted son.  I vaguely remember
seeing seen some systems that would optionally put a dotted line if both
parents adopted a child thus no natural relationship.

I know that could be sensitive in some cases but in other cases it might
be nice to have.

Is this something that Legacy charting can do and I am just missing?  I
have it set that the person's relationship to both the father and mother
is Adopted.

thanks

Alan




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Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy charting 7

2010-09-26 Thread Alan Jones 
  Syble,

Not sure what you can do inside of legacy, but with a free 3rd party
program called PDFCreator you can shrink the PDF.  I personally have
used that in some other applications successfully.

Maybe this hint will help others.  Below are some instructions i wrote
for someone else

Compressing/Shrinking a PDF Document with PDFCreator
Original Created by Alan Jones
2009-12-08


Sometimes PDF Document can be very large and hard to email or share.
This is especially true with PDFs that were created from a scanning or
have many pictures embedded in them. Compressing a PDF is useful however
the graphic quality in the PDF may not be needed for some levels of
printing or sharing. So it is advisable to always keep a copy of the
original file.


To shrink a PDF using the free PDFCreator tool do the following:

   1. Install the latest PDFCreator from pddfforge http://www.pdfforge.org/
   2. Open the PDF document.
   3. Print the PDF document to the PDFCreator printer that you have
  installed.
   4. After the document printing processing is complete a new window
  will pop up that say PDFCreator and the version number. It will
  have information on the Document Title, Creation Date, etc. At the
  bottom is a button labeled Options. Select the Options button.
   5. In the Options window on the left side open the Formats group.
  Then select PDF in the Formats group.
   6. The first tab General has some over all PDF format options.
  *Note* however shrinking the resolution on this page has generally
  not shrunk the size of the PDF.
   7. The next tab Compression has several items to configure.
 1. Make sure Compress Text Objects is selected.
 2. Under *both* sections Color Images *and* Greyscale Images
make sure Compress is selected and the drop down compression
type from Automatic to JPG-Maximum.
 3. After the previous change Resample will no longer be
grayed out. Select the check box for Resample.
 4. Make sure the box below Resample says Downsample then
change the Resolution from 300 to to 150. Note one can
change the resolution to a lower Resolution like 96 but
the quality will continue to degrade. A resolution of 150 is
often a good middle ground.
 5. For the next section Monochrome Images make sure
Compress is checked and that CCITT Fax Compression is
selected and Resample and Downsample as above are selected.
Extensive testing of this resolution has not occurred but
changing the Resolution from 1200 to 600 would be advisable
for shrinking file size.
   8. Select any other configuration options that are desired.
   9. Select Save for the Options Window and then save for the
  original PDFCreator window. Select your file name and location and
  safe the file. For the compressed version of the file one might
  use the same file name as the original, but add the  -
  Compressed to the end of the file name so you know it is the
  compressed version.
  10. View the PDF and check the file size to make sure the are acceptable.

After you have compressed the file(s) as desired it is best to go back
and reset the setting to the default unless you want them to be kept for
future documents. Go back to the above mentioned Options section and
click on the button at the bottom of the window that says Reset all
settings.









On 9/26/2010 7:40 PM, Syble Glasscock wrote:


 I created a chart with 8 generations, it has 13 small size photos,
 but I ended up with a 15MB pdf file, what can I do to make it a
 smaller size to put on my website.
 Thanks,
 Syble Glasscock




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[LegacyUG] Legacy and County Names

2010-08-01 Thread Alan Jones 
  The previous genealogy program I used had you put Co. after the
county name so you had place location of
Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA

However in the Legacy training and the Geo Database it does not use or
seam to like the Co. on the end.Thus output was: Little Rock,
Pulaski, Arkansas, USA

When I moved to Legacy I pulled Co. off of everything as I found it
trying to follow the convention.  Now in some of my reports and other
things I look back and think it might have been nice to have had the Co.
for the County.

So my questions are:

What is the reasoning Legacy does not put them on?

Are there reasons not to have the Co. on the end?

I did note in some reading that if you just have the county name then
your are supposed to put Co. or something on the end so people don't
get confused and think it was a City.  So why not allow it all the time.

Anyone else just force it on?  It means you can't use the default lookup
in the Geo Database.  It certainly would be something easy to fix and
add as a feature to Legacy to have it put Co. on county names on if it
did not cause problems.

Is there a research/genealogical reason not to do this?

Anyone else ever run into this question?

thoughts?

thanks

Alan





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Re: [LegacyUG] New Person Gender

2010-07-31 Thread Alan Jones 


On 7/31/2010 8:03 AM, Bob wrote:
 On 2010-07-31 02:22, roy_delos_re...@comcast.net wrote:
 Might I suggest that, considering such unions are legal in various
 jurisdictions worldwide, it is well past time for that oft mentioned
 re-writing to begin.
 I couldn't agree more!  A number of enhancements requested by users the
 past few years are not even being considered for implementation because
 we were told they would require a rewrite of the program.  However, a
 week or two ago one of the Millennia staff said that a rewrite would
 force the developers of all those Legacy add-on programs to do some
 updating of their own.  As long as Millennia considers the convenience
 of other companies to be a higher priority than the needs of their
 customers, I fear that we will never see that rewrite happen no matter
 how badly it is needed.


I DO NOT WANT THIS TO BECOME A BASH LEGACY THREAD.  I LOVE LEGACY AND
KEEP WANTING TO GET MORE OUT OF IT.

There are many programs out there on the market that work with 3rd party
plug-ins.  Almost every major revision of the program requires the
plug-in writers to update their stuff.  Some companies even privately
give the API early on in the development process.   This should not be
an issue for Legacy.

At the same time as a program grows many companies will take many
plug-ins features and integrate them directly so so they are not needed.
   (I don't want to buy a plug-in just to get a list if death dates
correct like was mentioned in the other thread.)

Hopefully we will see this and other needed improvements in future
version 8.  As someone in the IT industry I can say it is not uncommon
to have to rewrite major portions of code to take a product to the next
level.  This is common unless you don't want to go to the next level.

I just checked and Legacy 7.0  was announced in the blog on June 4, 2008
and prerelease copies of 7.0 were being given out the week of May 12 at
NGS.  It also looks like Legacy 6 came out in 2005 but not sure when.

Legacy 7.5 seams like it is has taken much longer than expected and
unfortunately the features won't benefit many of us for a while.

Originally I had heard/read that there is a new major release of Legacy
about every 2 years. I have not followed Legacy that close to know for
sure, but I wonder if we will see any time soon any major new features
and capabilities in the near future for those of us where the 7.4/7.5
stuff is not applicable.


Again I love Legacy and don't want to switch.  Don't kick me off the
list because someone thinks I am bashing Legacy.



Alan





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Re: [LegacyUG] New Person Gender

2010-07-31 Thread Alan Jones 


On 7/31/2010 12:42 PM, Bob wrote:

 I was simply noting that every time a new feature was requested that was
 not easy to implement, we were told that we would have to wait for a
 total rewrite of the program in order to get that feature.  The definite
 implication was that that rewrite would happen someday.  Now I'm not so
 sure that it will.


I am scared to say I may have to agree with the last sentence.




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[LegacyUG] Source Names

2010-07-24 Thread Alan Jones 
  Sometime back I asked on the list about the advantages/disadvantages
of attaching sources Images (PDF/JPG) to Legacy.  The responses I got
indicated there was not a huge advantage and much was more for do it
because it seemed like the right thing to do.

I have realized that as I capture more and more sources electronically
that I don't have a good naming scheme or file folder organization
system to find the files later.  I may have an image of  source document
that has information on several people or I may 5 or 6 source documents
for 1 person.

Has anyone come up with a good system of folder names/file names?

I had also thought about using some numbering source info from Legacy.
That might work but then how best do I handle looking for files if not
in Legacy (or maybe that is not an option).

I have not found a web site with any good details.  How do other Legacy
users handle this?

thanks

Alan





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Re: [LegacyUG] Source Names

2010-07-24 Thread Alan Jones 
  Richard,

thanks for the reply i am primarily interested in electronic filing
and not paper filing.  Anything that i keep on paper would be the one
off type things that i might still try and scan but there is something
unique or special and I had a physical copy.


On 7/24/2010 5:03 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote:
 First question. Are you looking for a file system to record your paper copies 
 of downloads, or a diffeent system for only the digital stuff? All my 
 downloads eventually make it to paper, so I am using my system set up in 
 Windows DOS days. So my PDF/JPG are stored on paper and also in hard drives, 
 etc. The paper ones have the file names written on the printout.
 I have also made scrapbooks which contain up to 30 photos per page, including 
 photo name, as an index to all work. Even documents are there, though to 
 small to read.
 Rich in LA CA

 --- On Sat, 7/24/10, Alan Jonesa...@ajsquared.us  wrote:

 From: Alan Jonesa...@ajsquared.us
 Subject: [LegacyUG] Source Names
 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
 Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 12:26 PM
Sometime back I asked on the
 list about the advantages/disadvantages
 of attaching sources Images (PDF/JPG) to Legacy.  The
 responses I got
 indicated there was not a huge advantage and much was more
 for do it
 because it seemed like the right thing to do.

 I have realized that as I capture more and more sources
 electronically
 that I don't have a good naming scheme or file folder
 organization
 system to find the files later.  I may have an image
 of  source document
 that has information on several people or I may 5 or 6
 source documents
 for 1 person.

 Has anyone come up with a good system of folder names/file
 names?

 I had also thought about using some numbering source info
 from Legacy.
 That might work but then how best do I handle looking for
 files if not
 in Legacy (or maybe that is not an option).

 I have not found a web site with any good details.
 How do other Legacy
 users handle this?

 thanks

 Alan





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Re: [LegacyUG] Source Names

2010-07-24 Thread Alan Jones 
  Jenny,

thanks for the reply.   Interesting the way you did it.  That might be
better than the direction I was heading

I was trying to to sub-folders for each last name  and that just fell
apart on some things.

I am curious if you could share your entire folder structure (even
offline if needed)  like Certificates, News Paper Articles, Census
Images (do you have sub folders under Census for the Census year?)

What about obituaries?


Do you have a list of your abbreviations like MC, BC, etc ?

I am just trying to figure out how I might do that while taking out
commas and spaces.

Trying to take your example to the next level ... maybe something like:
MC-Doe_John_Alan-123--Smith_Sara_Jane-987.jpg

thanks for the info.

I would love to hear other ideas.I need to start on a better
standard and Best Practice before I get to far into things.

Alan



On 7/24/2010 4:00 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote:
 I have folders named with a generic title, such as Certificates or
 Newspaper Articles or Census Images.  Within them I have sub-folders
 such as Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates etc.

 Most file names begin with an abbreviation based on the type of document
 and include the name(s) of the people concerned (unless there are too
 many to name them all and the RIN(s), so BC - Bloggs, Joe 123.jpg for
 his Birth Certificate and MC - Bloggs, Joe 123 = Adams, Fanny 987.jpg
 for their Marriage Certificate.

 Newspaper articles, filed in sub-folders named for the newspaper
 concerned, comprise the subject's name and RIN, the name of the
 newspaper and the issue date.

 I should mention that I did not take into account any possibility of
 publishing to web pages when I named my files.  If you might be going to
 do this I believe you should avoid spaces and capital letters in your
 filenames.



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Re: [LegacyUG] Source Names

2010-07-24 Thread Alan Jones 
  Katy, you bring up a good question and a good point ... one that ties
this all back to the Legacy list and why I want to get the names source
names right before I do much with Legacy and attaching images.

I have started using _ underscore for spaces i.e. between first and
last name and middle name.   and a dash between fields.   Not sure why
but it seams right.  Doe_John_B-Obituary.pdf.I am still working out
how and where to put the word Obituary and if i want to include the RIN
and how.

Your 2nd question about if you attach an image to Legacy then reorginize
the file structure or names is a key Legacy question and one reason I
have NOT attached any source files to Legacy except for testing.  If you
move an image Legacy can't find it and will just complain.  If Legacy
had a feature to move or at Least let you rename a file that Legacy was
linked to and you did the move/rename inside Legacy then you would not
have your links messed up.   Nice feature but I am sure it is not on the
top of the Legacy Developer's list of features to even consider.


For those wondering for a naming standard I am leaning to a variation of
something Jenny M Benson was doing.  Off line she offered to send me
more details and filing structure once she had it all together.I am
sure she would be happy to off list forward to others as interested.
Even on list if others would not complain.

Alan

**

On 7/24/2010 11:18 PM, Kathy Meyer wrote:
 One question though, I've noticed many people name their files using a
 dash - to separate fields.  Is there a reason that you use that as
 opposed to say a period . or underline _ or just a space?  I hope
 no one complains about this thread because I am really learning an
 awful lot here.

 Another related question:  If I attach an image to my Legacy file
 (using this filing system or any other) and then later get organized
 and change how I file my images/documents on my hard drive, won't that
 confuse Legacy?  Because won't it go to the original place on the HD
 that I attached it from?  Or is that image now permanently stored in
 the Legacy multi media back up as a separate, copied file?

 Thanks, Kathy

 On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Rick Merrill1eagle...@bellsouth.net  wrote:
 After reading how all ya'll store you images I think I must the only one
 doing it my way.  Let me explain.

 I first started filing them by MRIN, but that only lasted a couple of weeks
 because it was hard to find the families images that I was looking for.  I
 always had to referance back to Legacy.

 First off I made a folder on C drive becasue if you put the images under My
 Documents and later change operating systems the location of My Documents
 keeps changing.  Next I make a folder for each letter of the alphabet: A, B,
 C ect.  Then as I have census images for SSDI for Marriage Certificates I
 make a folder for the family.

 The format is:LastName, FirstName MiddleName  WifeName MadainName.

 I always put the couples full names, I figure there may be serveral George
 Mozingo's.  But there is probably only one George Jackson Mozingo who
 married a Catherine Cox.  But if I ever to come across a second couple with
 exatly the same full names then the second one I find will have a 2 or some
 thing after the name.
 For example:

 C:/Genealogy Records/A
   /B
   /C

  /M/Mozingo_Andrey-Jackson--Angnes-Mae-Smith
  /M/Mozingo_George-Jackson--Catherine-Cox
  
 /Mozingo_George-Washington--Annie-Dunnam

 Then in each folder I lable the images in like manner:

 Mozingo_George-Jackson--Catherine-Cox-census-1880
 Mozingo_George-Jackson--Catherine-Cox-census-1900
 Mozingo_George-Jackson--Catherine-Cox-census-1920
 Mozingo_George-Jackson--Catherine-Cox-marriage-certificate
 Mozingo_George-Jackson-SSDI
 Mozingo_Catherine-Cox-SSDI

 By doing it this way I can go straight to the family I want and see what I
 have on the family and see what I might be missing, such as the 1910 census
 for George and Catherine Mozingo.

 Rick Merrill




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Re: [LegacyUG] Twice Married to Same Person in Legacy

2010-07-05 Thread Alan Jones 
  Richard,

Does Legacy allow for a couple to marry twice with our a divorce or
anything the way you describe below or do you just enter the 2nd
marriage as an event as the other responses mentioned?

thanks to everyone for the responses  if others have other thoughts
not mentioned please share.


On 7/5/2010 12:49 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote:
 The second marriage was a re-marriage and I set my families' up as an Event, 
 as I do for anniversary parties I track. Or you can add 2 marriages for the 
 couple. In the one in my family it was actually the fact they could finally 
 afford a traditional 'big' wedding and celebrate in 'style'.
 It is a personal preference thing.
 Rich in LA CA


 --- On Mon, 7/5/10, Alan Jonesa...@ajsquared.us  wrote:

 From: Alan Jonesa...@ajsquared.us
 Subject: [LegacyUG] Twice Married to Same Person in Legacy
 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
 Date: Monday, July 5, 2010, 8:55 AM
I have a brother about to get
 married for a 2nd time to the same
 woman.  The first marriage was a small civil ceremony
 with close family
 and friends.  The second over a year later will be in
 the bride's home
 town so she can get married in the Catholic Church.

 I want to represent both marriages in Legacy but not sure
 how best to do
 that.

 I have relatives that  have been married, divorced,
 and married other
 people and I know how to represent that in Legacy.
 However this is a
 little different.

 What do other suggest?

 What are my options?





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[LegacyUG] Attaching Source Images (JPG or PDF) in Legacy... Pros/Cons

2010-07-04 Thread Alan Jones 
  I am trying to go back and better document my sources with Legacy.  On
some sources i am scanning to e a JPG or PDF depending on the item
(PDF's for web pages and other multi-page documents, JPGs for smaller
stuff cards etc).

One thing I have not done is attach the Legacy source entry to the
PDF/JPG.  I have not seen the value of doing so.  Census records would
be hard to read if printed, and not sure about the other items.

What are the advantages/reasons to attach electronic versions of source
material to Legacy?

Disadvantages?

What are others doing?

I search the archives and found a few references to this some saying
they did it others saying they did not, but never found the advantages.

thanks

Alan






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Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy v. RootsMagic

2010-07-01 Thread Alan Jones 
  I just checked the link

http://legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp

and did not see where it says you can't ask about how Legacy compares to
another product.

It did say Stay on the topic of Legacy and its add-on programs, which
is the sole purpose of the LUG User Group..  As long as one is
comparing Legacy to another product and not just selling a competing
product it sounds like is NOT against the etiquette guidelines.

Besides knowing where the strengths and weaknesses of the product you
use (Legacy) can be very helpful.




On 7/1/2010 5:41 PM, Ron Bernier wrote:
 I'm curious why people feel the need to talk about a competitor product on 
 the list?  This is definitely against the rule of etiquette for this list, 
 but then the rules of etiquette for this list have obviously gone out the 
 window.  We have one poster who apparently only read the parts of the rules 
 of etiquette that she felt like reading.  She told us that off topic just 
 meant that you can't talk about recipes.  She has decided (must be a new list 
 administrator) that any genealogy topic is ok.  She as well as many on this 
 list have chosen to ignore the fact that the rules of etiquette say that you 
 can only talk about Legacy and the Legacy add on products.  When did RM 
 become a Legacy or Legacy add on product?  I apparently missed the big 
 announcement from Ken and Dave.

 We need even more new people on this list who make their own decision that 
 the Rules of Etiquette for Legacy don't mean a d..n.

 -Original Message-
 From: David [mailto:davenm...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 3:56 PM
 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy v. RootsMagic

 Mary,
 Try Search  Search and Replace. There are 10 fields you can use to
 globally Search and Replace. You won't have to find each instance and
 replace one instance at a time if this RM function will work for you.

 David

 On 7/1/2010 11:21 AM, Mary Moyer wrote:
 One other difference between Legacy and RootsMagic that is important for me 
 is that Legacy has far more fields that you can search and replace. With 
 RootsMagic you have to find each instance and manually replace.

 Mary


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Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location List 7.4

2010-01-31 Thread Alan Jones 
Dave,

it is my understanding that Legacy has never liked the word County in
there.  I came from a program that actually suggested putting Co. at the
end of every county and I really liked that as it was more specific.

I wish Legacy was nicer about that.





On 1/31/2010 3:54 PM, Pat Patton wrote:
 I have completed the recommended changes to my Master Location List
 (as described by Geoff) but I still have the following comma-delimited
 string question(s):

 Example: Alicia, Lawrence County, Arkansas, United States

 Questions:  1) Should County be removed from Lawrence County?
 i.e. Alicia, Lawrence, Arkansas, United States
 2) Will this help or hinder Legacy 7.4 Geo-Code efforts?

 Dave




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Re: [LegacyUG] Descendants Narrative Report

2010-01-17 Thread Alan Jones 

the original link has a semicolon ; in it instead of a colon :

try
http://www.fergys.co.uk/index.php


On 1/17/2010 10:26 AM, Norma Elliott wrote:
 Ron Ferguson wrote:

 Full instructions on how to use OOo to create reports from Legacy are given
 in the tutorial Section of my website at http;//www.fergys.co.uk/

 I went to the link provided and was redirected to
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol

 Odd.
 Norma



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