Re: [LegacyUG] Search/Replace
Does this problem show up in reports or on the family view page? Kathy L. On Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 07:51:07 AM CDT, Gloria DeSousa wrote: Hi Everyone, How do you correct given and alternate names that have lost the space? For example, what was once John Charles, _ with a surname or no surname, is now JohnCharles,. I tried variations in the 'How to Find' and 'How to Replace' in the Search & Replace to no avail. Does this mean I have to correct each individual manually? Thank you in advance,Gloria-- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 10- download to 2nd device
Thank you! That worked! Mary K. Lund On Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 08:19:31 AM CDT, Charles Hunt wrote: You need to copy the update file to your laptop then run it. Charles Sent from Gmail Mobile On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 23:03, Ms Mary K. Lund via LegacyUserGroup wrote: My old laptop has been running Legacy 9. I have downloaded Legacy 10 to me desktop but cannot get tp tp download . How can I get Legacy 10 on my laptop? Thank you for your help!Mary K. Lund-- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
[LegacyUG] Legacy 10- download to 2nd device
My old laptop has been running Legacy 9. I have downloaded Legacy 10 to me desktop but cannot get tp tp download . How can I get Legacy 10 on my laptop? Thank you for your help!Mary K. Lund-- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Search/Find
Are you searching in the Name Search Icon? Just use the surname "Horn, James Knox" and it should come up in your name list. Mary K. Lund On Monday, June 3, 2024 at 01:21:29 PM CDT, Gene Wheeler wrote: I have an ancestor named James Knox Horn. When I try to do a search and find on him in order to review his record, I search for the given name of James and the surname of Horn. It returns two individuals named Jame Horn, but no James Knox Horn. Is it supposed to work this way? If so, what is the best way to search and find James Knox Horn? Thanks for some help! Gene Wheeler-- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] A question about FAG numbers {user ID]
To answer the question of "to RIN' or not to "RIN": Copied from Legacy file Help User ID This field is for any reference number you want to record for this individual. You can use any combination of letters, numbers and punctuation marks. There is a tool on the Options > Customize > Other tab where you can automatically fill the User ID fields for all individuals with the RIN numbers and optional text. (See Customize - Other for more information.) Mary K. Lund On Friday, February 2, 2024 at 05:24:08 AM CST, Jenny M Benson wrote: On 02/02/2024 01:12, Ian Macaulay wrote: > Do any of you see why Find a grave numbers should not be made a unique > field. > In order to not allow a duplicate entry. I have for a second time > requested this feature and am hoping that there is not a problem > somewhere else that I have not considered. > > My program crashes often and always has a duplicate or two in the > error report. > It is the only reason I can find for these crashes. It takes three runs > at File maintenance to get up and running again. > > If you have an objection to making this field unique please post it/ > If not and you agree with my poorly stated state of affairs, send a > request for feature to Legacy via the request feature in the "Help/ > request featurte" drop down. Seems a good idea so I have submitted a request. -- Jenny M Benson Wrexham, UK -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] A question about FAG numbers
At some point I think there was a "Reference" field that could be user-defined. Mary K. Lund On Friday, February 2, 2024 at 12:41:07 PM CST, TheyBrokeTheMold wrote: I design databases, and you can never satisfy everyone. So, in my designs, I usually provide a few "User Defined" fields for Text/Number/Date/Binary options. That would be my suggestion. That way, you can use a field for FAG, and someone else can use the same field for some DNA reference, or anything else important to them. This fields would have no specific name other than User1, User2, User3, etc. But you would know what each of those fields are used for. I don't recall seeing any User Defined fields, but it is possible they already exist? Hope this was helpful. Original message From: Jenny M Benson Date: 2/2/24 6:24 AM (GMT-05:00) To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] A question about FAG numbers On 02/02/2024 01:12, Ian Macaulay wrote: > Do any of you see why Find a grave numbers should not be made a unique > field. > In order to not allow a duplicate entry. I have for a second time > requested this feature and am hoping that there is not a problem > somewhere else that I have not considered. > > My program crashes often and always has a duplicate or two in the > error report. > It is the only reason I can find for these crashes. It takes three runs > at File maintenance to get up and running again. > > If you have an objection to making this field unique please post it/ > If not and you agree with my poorly stated state of affairs, send a > request for feature to Legacy via the request feature in the "Help/ > request featurte" drop down. Seems a good idea so I have submitted a request. -- Jenny M Benson Wrexham, UK -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Adoptions
For ancestral purposes, the biological parents should be the preferred parents. Kathy Lund On Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 08:13:53 AM CST, Ian Thomas wrote: I hope I can explain this OK - A question about adoptions: I have a woman, adopted shortly after birth by another couple. Having discovered that she was adopted after assuming her parentage shown at her death was her birth parentage, means that I added them as the "second" parents. Is there a reason that her birth parents should be the FIRST parents, or OK as I have added them? Later, she married and had family - it is now 2+ generations later. I.L. Thomas, Western Australia -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Index
I think you turned on the married names for your females. That is an option in the names list too. Kathy Lund On Thursday, June 9, 2022, 07:48:27 AM CDT, Margaret Gagliardi wrote: I don't know what happened or what I did, but all of a sudden when I look at the Index to find someone, some of my folks have a double "S" (one on top of the other) before their name. Can someone tell me how to get rid of it?Thanks Margaret-- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Birth Event
I try to add an approximate date: Cir 1840 or Est. 1912, etc. If you know about these children then you must have some reference like oral history, a Bible entry, a census, a letter - whatever led you to believe they existed. Kathy L. On Thursday, July 1, 2021, 01:18:54 PM CDT, Margaret Gagliardi wrote: I have a number of children who died young or that I do not have a birth date for. When I run a Descendant Book report, they all come out saying the child's name and then "He was born Birth". How can I remove this from all these people without having to go in and delete it one by one?Thank you.Margaret-- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Cemetery questions
Scott, If people are buried and then moved, I would record the first interment (as usually noted on a death certificate, if any) as the Burial event. If the body is subsequently moved, I would note that in the note section with the place and date, if known. If the body were formally exhumed for some reason, I would make that a separate event with an explanation. This would apply to those you mention being removed from the town commons. In some cases it might depend on which burial has the most information. In the past people were reburied in cases of a second marriage, or person dying young in a different location from subsequent family burials. A cremated person can be buried in multiple locations! Kathy On Sunday, January 10, 2021, 10:05:51 AM CST, Scott Hall wrote: Hey all... Need some advice on how to handle some cemetery relocation issues. First, if a person was buried in Cemetery X, but relocated to Cemetery Y, I've been recording it as follows: Original burial information to Burial DatePlace FieldAttach Cemetery Event Address to Burial Date/Place Field Reinterment information to Reburial Event Fields. Add Cemetery name to "Description"Attach Cemetery Event Address to Event That's pretty straight forward -- record the event as it occurred at the time in the principal field (Burial) and the successive event as an Event. But, I've recently come across a number of ancestors for whom their headstones were relocated to a different cemetery, but their corpses were not disinterred. This is now challenging me as to how to record the location of the headstone. For those who may have New England ancestors, this issue arises in Connecticut where at least two 17th century towns, New Haven and Guilford, relocated the headstones of the dead buried on their town commons to cemeteries established in the early 19th century. In both cases, only the headstones were moved--the corpses remain buried under the town common, the exact site of the graves now lost to history. It seems obvious to record the original burial information as above -- but how to denote the relocation of the headstone? It's important to keep track of, if for no other reason than to explain the plethora of Find a Grave and other memorials that seem to indicate burial occurred in these newer cemeteries (I'm working with Find a Grave in hopes of cleaning this up). I suppose the best way is to record this as a burial note. Your thoughts? If so, then for consistency, should I use Burial notes for actual reinterment of corpses instead of Events? Lastly -- how do you record cemeteries? Do you use Event Addresses like I do, attaching them to the Burial field, do you use Events, or something else? Thanks,Scott-- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Assistance Please
Pete, I believe it is "best practices" in genealogy to avoid "unknown." You are certainly able to simply add the father and leave the mother blank - to be filled in later if that info becomes known. Mary K. Lund On Saturday, November 28, 2020, 08:37:34 AM CST, pete.bea...@gmail.com wrote: I have uncovered a birth (abt 1750) in which the Mother is not identified. The Father is listed on a Church record as the father. The mother is not identified. A couple of years later, the father is also listed on marriage record along with his new wife. Later I find a note that the married wife is not the mother of the child in question. So, How does one record this First Child, with no-known mother and a known father?? Pete -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book
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If you use the Insert>endnotes feature in your Word, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice
program, they will AUTOMATICALLY be created and re-ordered if necessary! It is
marvelous!
Mary K. Lund
From: CE WOOD
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Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 9:44 PM
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{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv8689406190 Okay, I DO use endnotes; I mis
typed.
The problem is, that when you need to change the placement of photos because of
horrendous placement using RTF, you DO have to renumber ALL succeeding
endnotes. There is no way around that. Legacy produces all photos in one size.
Depending on the resolution of the photo and how much detail is needed, photos
may need to be resized.
Even more difficult is having the pages of your book or report not have
enormous amounts of blank space. Moving some photos to the next page and moving
other photos to the previous page is often the only solution. THAT is where the
endnote numbering becomes a total mess. Remember, you do have descriptions and
event details to fit on the same page!
Half or more of blank space is because the next photo is very large, or because
the descriptions, event details, and photos fit just right on one page, but are
terrible when spread over several. That is important when you are creating a
report or book.
There is absolutely NO WAY around renumbering endnotes when you are trying to
create a "good-looking" report or a book for publishing. But then, maybe not
everyone cares how it looks.
CE
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Cathy Pinner
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 7:12 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book CE
Use endnotes with RTF - I don't think there is the choice to use
footnotes anyway.
And you won't have the problem.
Yes the pictures embedded in an RTF are all over the place. On
reflection I'm not sure how much that matters as the reason to go via
RTF is to be able to make thorough revisions and add more pictures and
have pictures at different sizes etc.
Indexes and Tables of Content are generated after you've finished
editing so that their page numbers are right.
Cathy
> CE WOOD
> Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:14 AM
>
> One major problem with producing a book with Word is pictures. The
> easiest way to input data into Word is by creating an HTML file and
> copying that into Word. Whwther you do that, create a PDF and copy in,
> or and RTF file, the footnotes are the REAL problem.
>
>
> The problem is, that pictures are not always the right size or
> placement in the document. Changing their placement ruins the
> footnotes! Then, you have to go through the whole document and
> renumber the footnotes, which can take weeks, if you have nothing else
> to do.
>
>
> Huge blank spaces in your book are not usually what you want. Photos
> on separate pages are not always what you want. A simple one person
> report on an architect involved 1500 footnote sources for just the photos!
>
>
> I know Legacy is not a publishing program, but producing an acceptable
> document/book/report with appropriately sized photos in the best
> placement is a daunting task!
>
>
> It has nothing to do with my system, which is better than those of
> most computer experts.
>
>
>
> CE
>
>
> *From:* LegacyUserGroup on
> behalf of Brian Lightfoot
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 8, 2017 5:45 PM
> *To:* 'Legacy User Group'
> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book
>
> I suspect that the reason many people have had problems with creating
> Book from Legacy using MSWord is that they are using it on a computer
> system with only minimal RAM and processing speed. Couple that with a
> Windows swapfile that exists on an older and slower hard disk drive is
> a sure-fire recipe for long waits for a simple edit or a system crash.
>
> The idea of creating separate chapters and editing them one at a time
> is a great idea that will take a lot of the burden off the limited
> resource system.
>
> Brian in CA
>
> *From:*LegacyUserGroup
> [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Carol
> Boswell
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 8, 2017 12:50 PM
> *To:* Legacy User Group
> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book
>
> I had prob
Re: [LegacyUG] census entry for indian territory
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Re: [LegacyUG] Sources
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You can add a photo for ANY of the standard events in the upper or lower
windows on the individual's page in Legacy.
Click on the square Media Gallery icon. When the media window opens, use the
drop-down box on the left to specify the event linked to the picture.
Kathy L.
From: June
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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources
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led everyone astray when I said I put a lot of information in Notes.. What I
have been doing is to create new events, for example – ‘About Birth’ and then
putting the information in there which has also allowed me to add an additional
photograph of the birth record or church. I found the addition of more
photographs – particularly old ones – makes it more interesting. Yes, it does
add a lot of events for everyone, with many of them being just a line or two
long, I’m not sure how I would add extra photographs if I don’t add an extra
event. I do keep the general notes for interesting facts and stories. Thanks
– June From: LegacyUserGroup
[mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Ward Walker
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2016 12:10 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources I was the ‘victim’ of such a practice when I
received a large GEDCOM file from a fellow researcher. I really don’t like it.
Any report or web page that you produce that shows notes is hugely bloated by a
lot of census and other detail that your target reader really does not want to
see. Their eyes glaze over and they lose interest. I believe that the general
notes, especially, should state interesting facts and stories (together with
any events). Certainly some of these stories can mention where they came from,
in a narrative way. But most source information should be in citation
footnotes/endnotes, further backed up with text notes in the underlying detail
source citations. In research notes, sources may be part of the discussion, but
even there, the verbose details are clutter. A second reason is redundancy.
Source details that are in note fields often need to be placed in the notes for
multiple individuals/marriages. Again, more clutter/verbosity that kills the
readability of the report or web page. Ward
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