Re: [LegacyUG] Adoptions

2023-11-30 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 

Ian,

FYI you can then put the parents in the family view and then on the 
child list you can show the relationships to the parents ie biological, 
adopted, etc. Then you can source the relationship. I didn't know if you 
knew that feature as well more info in the help file on child list 
display by right or left clicking on the left margin of the list to get 
the popups. Hope that makes sense.


On 11/28/2023 5:11 PM, Ian Thomas wrote:


Thanks to both – that was my thought as well, so I have made birth 
parents the first/preferred.


I.L. Thomas, Western Australia

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Behalf Of *Roberta Schwalm

*Sent:* Wednesday, November 29, 2023 5:42 AM
*To:* Legacy User Group 
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Adoptions

I agree with Kathy since the bloodline is from the biological parents 
and not the adoptive parents.


Roberta Schwalm

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 9:59 AM Ms Mary K. Lund via LegacyUserGroup 
 wrote:


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:



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Re: [LegacyUG] transfer to new computor

2023-08-31 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 

Kim,

On your new computer in Legacy go to Options>Customize>6. Locations and 
see what paths show those are where you need to put copies of your zip files


6.1 My family files are in the C:\Users\username\Documents\Legacy Family 
Tree\Data\  this is global for all family files(gbl)


6.2 and my media files are in C:\Roots\  this is a (ff) for family file 
can be different from other family files.


6.3 is for temp folder which is a global setting.

For more info check the help files for transferring files and options.

Now from your old computer just copy the Legacy Family Tree\Data\ folder 
and save it to a portable usb device


On your new computer open explorer and paste the contents of the Data 
folder into the same folder on new computer.


Now Open Legacy and if old file is open close it or use Tools>Restore 
family file window opens to select your family file with the latest date.


or if not open then launch Legacy then File>Restore family file.

then

to restore your media then unzip it to the root drive letter where you 
want your media kept. It will restore all directory paths to the media 
and place them in the same folders as old one had.


or use media linker to find all your media.

Hope this helps


On 8/31/2023 12:03 AM, Kim Jones wrote:


Just got a new desktop and wanting to transfer my Legcacy file to the 
new one.. Iv'e downloaded the program and opened it from what i 
thought was the latest file but its not the latest version. In the one 
that was opened i only have 1750 something people but in the version 
that is on my old computer it has 2500 odd people. Can you tell me 
what I've done wrong? please.

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Re: [LegacyUG] Adding Legacy to a Flash Drive

2020-09-14 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 

Robert,

I don't think the program will run from a flash drive, however, you can 
place the family file on the flashdrive you just have to tell Legacy 
where your family file is located. You can have the Legacy Program on 
both a laptop and a pc as long as only one is open at one time. There 
are help files on how to do this both in program and the Legacy website.


On 9/14/2020 10:57 AM, Robert Sutton via LegacyUserGroup wrote:

I would like to add my Legacy 8.0.0.604 Program to a Flash Drive.

If this is possible would I be able to work my Family File from this 
Flash Drive?


Thanks in advance.

Robert A. Sutton
ras1...@verizon.net





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Re: [LegacyUG] Picture caption same as file name

2020-07-20 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 

Mo,

I have never seen this option and would not want to do it either.

On 7/17/2020 8:20 PM, M Sonnier via LegacyUserGroup wrote:

Hi all,

There used to be the option to click a setting and automatically make 
all picture captions the same as the file name.  Does this setting 
still applicable and where is it located?


Thanks,

Mo


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Re: [LegacyUG] file copying.

2020-06-11 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 
On the source computer use Backup family file then copy the file created 
to your Legacy backup folder on the destination computer. From the 
destination computer open Legacy and use Restore family file from local 
backup and use the backed up file that you copied from your source 
computer. When you backup a family file all the necessary files are 
backed up with it so you only need to know the name of the family file 
backup file which is usually saved as name of family file - date.zip and 
the media files will have media in the name of the file.


On 6/11/2020 10:04 PM, MAIN via LegacyUserGroup wrote:
Hello All, I have two computers each with their own Legacy Deluxe 
license.  I want to copy the Family file from one to the other. I can 
send a copy of the Media folder to the destination computer but need 
to know which of the source files to select of the Family file.  I did 
send a zipped backup file but the selecting of the General link of the 
destination Legacy shows the Family File Information Customer Number 
as being that of the Source Legacy. Having bought the destination 
computer quite a long time after the source one hence the purchase of 
a separate licence.  Thanks




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Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

2019-08-04 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 

James,

Again, if you choose not to use the Genealogical Standard for places 
that is your choice but as was said, don't publish it for those that do. 
It is not policing it is the standard set by the Genealogists!


Russ

P.S this is starting to get old!!

On 8/3/2019 3:14 PM, James G. Hermsen via LegacyUserGroup wrote:
I never had a Gedcom file not accept any location file whether it had 
Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN, or even Indianapolis, IN. not to mention 
Indianapolis, xxx Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States of 
America.  You soon get the point that the latter is the creation of 
someone who thinks that they need to police something totally not 
needed by anyone with common sense, or a tad bit of education.


Hoosierly yours,

James G. Hermsen
8108 Laura Lynne Lane
Indianapolis, IN 46217

317-679-1466 cell
317-881-4600 land line


On ‎Saturday‎, ‎August‎ ‎03‎, ‎2019‎ ‎09‎:‎43‎:‎25‎ ‎AM‎ ‎EDT, 
 wrote:



Christopher

I agree with you.

My suggestion of putting the present name between curly brackets after 
the referenced location name is simply an easy way to translate old 
location name into present day name and it is accepted by the 
different Gedcom programs.


Georges

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part de* Christopher Seward Sr

*Envoyé :* 3 août 2019 09:21
*À :* Legacy User Group 
*Objet :* Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

James, I understand where you're coming from. I just think that 
handling data in a manner that deviates from the standard is inviting 
data integrity issues. As I said,  the choice is yours. Just be aware 
of the lasting issues it will cause for those who come after.


Christopher

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 4:59 AM James G. Hermsen via LegacyUserGroup 
> wrote:


Exactly my point.  Putting historical location in the notes
maintains all the information one needs and still be sensible and
useful to family members.  If people import information without
looking at the notes, then they are not being a good genealogist.
  It tells me that they just copy things for numbers, not for
reliable and useful information to share.

Hoosierly yours,

James G. Hermsen

8108 Laura Lynne Lane

Indianapolis, IN 46217

317-679-1466 cell

317-881-4600 land line

On ‎Friday‎, ‎August‎ ‎02‎, ‎2019‎ ‎08‎:‎51‎:‎50‎ ‎AM‎ ‎EDT, Bill
Hoff mailto:bh...@mchsi.com>> wrote:

Then one cannot find on a map if historic locations used. With
many relatives in West Virginia I have this problem. WV did not
become a state until June 20, 1863.  On top of that many counties
within the state were divided over many years, far too many for me
to recall them all. Then there is the problem of knowing locations
but not dates so one cannot be certain of entries

Bill

Sent from my iPhone


On Aug 1, 2019, at 8:15 PM, Christopher Seward Sr.
mailto:csewar...@gmail.com>> wrote:

You are free to record as you choose, but keep in mind that if you
publish & share this information, your method goes against the
standard, and can cause issues.

An example for me was importing a person's info into my file.  I
kept getting import errors stating the the location (birth place)
did not exist on that date (birth date).  Now I have an issue,
since this place not only didn't exist when this person was born,
but when it did exist, it was in a different country than when he
was born, thus making him appear to be of one heritage, but was
actually another.

I recommend ALWAYS putting the correct location in, and putting
the current name of the location in the notes.

On 8/1/2019 4:41 PM, James G. Hermsen via LegacyUserGroup wrote:

Yes, but in the notes.  Most people I share my information with
want to know where the place is now.  They, like Trump, have no
regard for history, and those who know their history, already know
what the original name is. Looking for documents, the current
place will know what jurisdiction they once were governed by.  It
is all about being usable for current people.  Otherwise, we would
all be recording everying in Latin like they once did.

Hoosierly yours,

James G. Hermsen

8108 Laura Lynne Lane

Indianapolis, IN 46217

317-679-1466 cell

317-881-4600 land line

On ‎Thursday‎, ‎August‎ ‎01‎, ‎2019‎ ‎01‎:‎22‎:‎29‎ ‎PM‎ ‎EDT,
sarrazingeor...@gmail.com 
  wrote:

I think one should always the name of a location the way it is
indicated in the documentation.

If the name has change or if two locations have been merge, I use
curly brackets with the new name after the old name.

Ex.  Romorantin {Romorantin-Lanthenay}, 41194, Loir-et-Cher,
Centre-Val de Loire, France

(Note : I use 5 fields)

Georges

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[LegacyUG] Legacy program window not resizing RESOLVED

2019-02-08 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 

Hello,

A few months ago it was discussed about the problem of the Legacy 
program window not being able to resize as it would always snap back to 
the original size that it opened in. Well I have figured out what the 
problem is that causes it! It is because the workspace is maximized in 
the Legacy application window! If you go to the menu bar on the top 
right side next to About is the little window icons which says on mouse 
over "Restore Window" clicking on it will restore the workspace 
application window to its normal size then you can resize the main 
application window to the size you want.


Russ Strong


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Re: [LegacyUG] Hash Tags

2017-05-11 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 

Martha,

Hash Tags can be whatever you want them to be for as long as you want 
them to be.


As for a gedcom it depends on which type of gedcom you create since they 
are proprietary their gedcom tag would start with an underscore _HASHTAG 
and would not be in the 5.5 standard GEDCOM. If you wanted to send it 
then you would have to select a gedcom that includes it or you would 
customize the gedcom and add it.



On 5/11/2017 10:47 AM, Martha Graham wrote:

Good Morning Cathy,
Thank you for the explanation on where the Hash Tag data is located.
If it is 'inside' the fdb file, then they should not have disappeared.
I am curious about one other thing. I am using them as a temporary way 
of marking people.
I use tagging for marking people who fit different requirements with 
regard to my research.


Are the Hash Tags meant to be an alternate permanent identifier or 
just temporary like I am using?


Reason I ask is whether they would be included in a gedcom and if so, 
what happens to them when someone who does not use Legacy opens the 
gedcom?


I hope the question makes sense.

Martha
Los Osos, CA




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Re: [LegacyUG] window opens off screen

2017-05-08 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 
Alt+tab should show you the open windows. When you tab to the Legacy 
open window then do as Gene suggested.



On 5/8/2017 1:14 PM, Cheryl Rothwell wrote:
I have never found an icon for the off screen window in the taskbar. 
There is just the Legacy icon. When I click on it and chose close the 
window the program terminates.


On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Gene Young > wrote:


On 5/8/2017 12:05 PM, Cheryl Rothwell wrote:

I have two monitors. With Legacy 8 when a new window was
opened it often was partially off either screen - but I could
locate it and move it. With Legacy 9 it is often off both
screens and cannot be located. Since Legacy has a window open
I can't do anything. The program is basically locked and I
have to close the Legacy window - not a proper close.

Does anyone know a way to tell Legacy where to open a window?
Since no other program does this I have to think it is Legacy.
Maybe there is a setting I'm missing?

Cheryl Rothwell


It is not Legacy. It is windows.  Windows remembers where a window
was when the program closes and tries to put it back there.
You may have had a window open off screen when you closed Legacy
and windows put it back there

Here's one way to "rescue" such an off-screen window and bring it
back onto the active monitor:

Make the off-screen window the active window by clicking on
its icon in the Windows Taskbar.
Press Alt+Space, and then press the M key. ...
Press any arrow key once.

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Re: [LegacyUG] Media V 9

2017-04-25 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 

Jennifer,

You don't have to move your media files! Just goto 
Options>Customize>6.Locations and on option 6.2 click on change and 
navigate to C:\Legacy and then click on Test All Media Folders to see if 
it missed any.



On 4/25/2017 9:34 AM, Jennifer Crockett wrote:


I upgraded from Legacy 7.5 straight to V 9 without using V 8.

In V 7.5 my pictures were in a folder under C:Legacy. All the pictures 
are visible on my Family pages in Legacy 9. However, when I go to add 
a picture now it looks in the default My Documents/Legacy Family 
Tree/Media. If I move my Picture folder from where it is now to the 
default, what will I have to do to get Legacy to find them all again?


Jennifer





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Re: [LegacyUG] mystery or being space cadet?

2017-03-20 Thread R G Strong Genealogy 
This was the build that removed the Research Guidance from a tab to a 
sub menu. The family view icon for it must have been added recently but 
was not published in the revision history.



   2 March 2014 - Version 8.0.0.412- Build

   *New Items*

   *FamilySearch*- Added the feature to be able to skip the "Possible
   Duplicates" task for an individual.

   *FamilySearch*- Added the option to auto download descendants of an
   individual in FamilyTree. So now, you can download ancestors and
   descendants of an individual.

   *Pedigree View*- Added back the Spouse/Children and Siblings Lists.
   To turn on the two lists Right Click on Pedigree View background
   area and from the popup menu select "Show Spouse/Child and Siblings
   Lists"

   *Media Gallery*- Added "Scan a Picture" to the menu of the Add Media
   button.

   *Media Gallery*- From the Media Gallery there is a new button to add
   the current picture as the Windows Desktop Background.

   *Changed Items*

   *Research Guidance*- There is no longer a Research tab on the main
   views. Research Guidance is now requested by clicking the Research
   Guidance button on Tools > Other Tools or by clicking the Research
   button that can now be added to the My Toolbar tab. This generates
   guidance for the current person. (You can now select a current
   person on the Pedigree, Descendant, and Index Views. On the Family
   View, guidance is requested by right-clicking on the desired person
   and choosing Research Guidance from the submenu. (The Husband and
   Wife can still have a Research Guidance button on their toolbars.)
   This can also be done on the Pedigree, Descendant, and Index Views
   by right-clicking on a person and choosing Research Guidance.


On 3/19/2017 10:56 PM, Sharon Blair wrote:


Linda, I am just looking at it a little more - It is kind of 
fascinating. It uses all the info you have entered for a person & has 
places to look for more info. But I think it is way more info than we 
had before or it could be I 've just not delved into it.  But 
fascinating 😊


Sharon




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*Sent:* Sunday, March 19, 2017 9:43 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] mystery or being space cadet?

Hi Linda I was hoping you would be on.  I did figure out that line of 
objects turns color when there is info in it.  I did click on the 
research guidance & it does look like something useful - kind of a 
shortcut for one of the things have taught us - making a research 
list. but I think before it was in a different function - this one is 
now right up front .  Hoping we are getting closer to #9 with these 
little hints happening,


Thanks so much, I really am not getting more wacky after all.

Sharon



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behalf of Linda Greethurst 

*Sent:* Sunday, March 19, 2017 9:35 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] mystery or being space cadet?
I have no idea how long it has been there!  It's a direct link to 
Research Guidance.  I guess I never noticed it before - or maybe it 
wasn't in color before.  But the last build date was almost a month 
ago (25 Feb), so it's been there and colored at least that long. There 
is so much to see on every page - I miss a lot of it.


On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Sharon Blair > wrote:


Just wondering if I am going crazy or what.  I just now noticed in
the line under a persons info box  the line has A spouse figure/
parents / siblings/notes/media gallery/source/AKA/mail Address/to
do/ figure with magnifying glass


My question is the last figure with mag. glass & it is in color  I
don't remember seeing it before ???  Has it always been there or
just appeared?


Thank you

Sharon B



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