Re: [LegacyUG] location Tamer
Hi Terry This is awesome, thanks you so much kim On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Terry Foster tfost...@kc.rr.com wrote: I'm a developer by trade and am fairly adept at Microsoft Access. I love Legacy but I have found all genealogy software sorely lacking in the ability to manage locations and do research on locations in the database. Since Legacy uses MS Access as a back-end I decided to add a form and some code to do what I have always felt all genealogy software should do. I would like someone to vet this work before I submit it to Legacy as a suggested enhancement. Please let me know if you are interested. Here's a few things this form does: Displays all location data. ( http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen1.jpghttp://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen4.jpg ) Show all events tied to a location ( http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen2.jpghttp://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen4.jpg ) List all child locations in a parent (All cities in a county) ( http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen3.jpghttp://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen4.jpg ) Browse to google maps for each location ( http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen4.jpg) I have made a user guide, of sorts: http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/LocationTamer.pdf These features, coupled with the ability to quickly edit and standardize locations in a database, are essential to me. I'm just so happy I can make it work in Legacy. I thought I would share. You will need to know how to import a form and a VBA module into an Access database in order to use this. Please don't attempt this unless you know your way around an Access database and please, always back up your data before trying something like this. I just may not be as good as I think I am! Terry 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 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
Hi Mary If you add a pdf to Legacy does it display when you create a book or the descendant narrative? Kim On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Mary Fowler Leek ml...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Joan, If you have a ton of these attached as graphic images, then my suggestion might not have value but if you have only a limited number, I would suggest using the free graphic viewer from Faststone to convert your graphic images of certificates into PDF files, then reattach as a file. This will avoid attached documents being displayed on your family view as a photo. I've used this utility for several years and convert all of my genealogy certificate images to PDF files before attaching. After this, one click in Legacy and the PDF file will open into Adobe Reader, where you can easily study the document. About the only images I regularly attach in Legacy that are graphic files are people photos and tombstone photos. One image this works beautifully with are the Texas Death Certificates, offered online as a graphic file. I just convert them to PDF files and attach. So easy to go back and review them, or email a copy to another researcher. In Adobe Reader, you can increase the size on screen, to bring up close, details on the certificate. To convert, just open your image in the viewer, do a 'save as' and select PDF. Your original image is untouched, leaving you with the graphic image of the document plus the same document in PDF format. http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm ~Mary -Original Message- From: Joan Kemp [mailto:jk...@yahoo.com] Is there any way to prevent pictures showing in miniature on the main Legacy tree? Many of my pictures are of certificates... Joan 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 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
