Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems behaviour
Jenny, I found this thread in the archives and I notice there was no response that covered the points below. 1. There is an edit parents button on the potential problems screen, that opens the parents marriage information in case you need to edit the marriage info and that marriage screen has buttons to edit the husband or wife if you need to edit the personal information on one of the parents. Using those buttons/screens you do not need to exit the potential problems list to fix problems with the parent's information. 2. The potential problem check is a check from the person to the dates for their parents, that is why the report lists each child and not about the parent. Checking from a child to data on a parent is easier because of the structure of the database. If you think that a reverse check from the parent to the children which would report a problem with the parents dates related to dates for their children we are happy to consider suggestions for improvement. In Legacy 6.0 and 7.0 you can suggest a new feature by clicking on the link on the Legacy Home Tab Support Section Other users can make a suggestion here: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Suggest.asp Use the drop down list in the first box to select a category, Legacy 7 or Legacy Charting. Before submitting a suggestion consider the existing checks made about parent dates from the viewpoint of the child and make specific suggestions on what to check on children's dates from the viewpoint of the parent. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 11/08/2011 7:15 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: I have just run a Potential Problems report and found several people listed as having errors in some of their dates, such as a misspelling of abt and lack of space between the month and the year, etc. All these were quickly corrected by clicking on the Edit Individual button, or in a couple of cases clicking on the Edit Marriage button. However there was one entry which said that an Individual's Father's death date was wrong and a group of entries for a set of siblings where it said that their Mother's death date was wrong. I am curious why these entries were in the names of the children, not the Individuals concerned. It meant that instead of being able to use the Edit button, I had to lose the list, go to one of the named people and then select their parent in order to make the correction. 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] Potential Problems behaviour
I have just run a Potential Problems report and found several people listed as having errors in some of their dates, such as a misspelling of abt and lack of space between the month and the year, etc. All these were quickly corrected by clicking on the Edit Individual button, or in a couple of cases clicking on the Edit Marriage button. However there was one entry which said that an Individual's Father's death date was wrong and a group of entries for a set of siblings where it said that their Mother's death date was wrong. I am curious why these entries were in the names of the children, not the Individuals concerned. It meant that instead of being able to use the Edit button, I had to lose the list, go to one of the named people and then select their parent in order to make the correction. -- Jenny M Benson 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] Potential Problems behaviour
Jenny, I have often wondered this myself, and am unsure whether it is better to identify the error as being in the mother's death date or (usually) the child's birth date. The only advantage that I have been able to see is that if one has mistyped the death date by say, 10 or 100 years then it can affect all the kids in that family, and a hint that it may be the mother's date can help finding the problem. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:15 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems behaviour I have just run a Potential Problems report and found several people listed as having errors in some of their dates, such as a misspelling of abt and lack of space between the month and the year, etc. All these were quickly corrected by clicking on the Edit Individual button, or in a couple of cases clicking on the Edit Marriage button. However there was one entry which said that an Individual's Father's death date was wrong and a group of entries for a set of siblings where it said that their Mother's death date was wrong. I am curious why these entries were in the names of the children, not the Individuals concerned. It meant that instead of being able to use the Edit button, I had to lose the list, go to one of the named people and then select their parent in order to make the correction. -- Jenny M Benson 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 25 Clipart.lnk Description: Binary data
Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems behaviour
On 11/08/2011 12:53, Ron Ferguson wrote: I have often wondered this myself, and am unsure whether it is better to identify the error as being in the mother's death date or (usually) the child's birth date. The only advantage that I have been able to see is that if one has mistyped the death date by say, 10 or 100 years then it can affect all the kids in that family, and a hint that it may be the mother's date can help finding the problem. That wasn't the case with me. I think on both occasions it was because I had the death dates as something like December Q 1873 or 1874 which is pefectly acceptable to me, but Legacy didn't like it. But from what you say, I am no guessing that if the mother has no death date Legacy doesn't bother about when the children were born, but *anything* in the death date field that isn't a valid date prior to the eldest child's birth is treated as a death too late. Even so, it would be better to report death possibly before child's birth next to the mother's name, rather than problem with mother's death date next to the child's name. -- Jenny M Benson 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] Potential Problems behaviour
Just for advice I haven't a clue what the .exe file was that was attached to my last email in this thread. As it was removed before it hit the list there is no risk to anybody. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:15 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems behaviour I have just run a Potential Problems report and found several people listed as having errors in some of their dates, such as a misspelling of abt and lack of space between the month and the year, etc. All these were quickly corrected by clicking on the Edit Individual button, or in a couple of cases clicking on the Edit Marriage button. However there was one entry which said that an Individual's Father's death date was wrong and a group of entries for a set of siblings where it said that their Mother's death date was wrong. I am curious why these entries were in the names of the children, not the Individuals concerned. It meant that instead of being able to use the Edit button, I had to lose the list, go to one of the named people and then select their parent in order to make the correction. -- Jenny M Benson 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] Potential Problems behaviour
.lnk I just ignore them. Tim On 8/11/2011 7:06 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: Just for advice I haven't a clue what the .exe file was that was attached to my last email in this thread. As it was removed before it hit the list there is no risk to anybody. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:15 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems behaviour I have just run a Potential Problems report and found several people listed as having errors in some of their dates, such as a misspelling of abt and lack of space between the month and the year, etc. All these were quickly corrected by clicking on the Edit Individual button, or in a couple of cases clicking on the Edit Marriage button. However there was one entry which said that an Individual's Father's death date was wrong and a group of entries for a set of siblings where it said that their Mother's death date was wrong. I am curious why these entries were in the names of the children, not the Individuals concerned. It meant that instead of being able to use the Edit button, I had to lose the list, go to one of the named people and then select their parent in order to make the correction. 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] Potential Problems behaviour
What I do is run the potential problems list to print (with no printer attached), then I copy the file to a word document and as I finish each task delete that from the list. Rich in LA CA --- On Thu, 8/11/11, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk Subject: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems behaviour To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 4:15 AM I have just run a Potential Problems report and found several people listed as having errors in some of their dates, such as a misspelling of abt and lack of space between the month and the year, etc. All these were quickly corrected by clicking on the Edit Individual button, or in a couple of cases clicking on the Edit Marriage button. However there was one entry which said that an Individual's Father's death date was wrong and a group of entries for a set of siblings where it said that their Mother's death date was wrong. I am curious why these entries were in the names of the children, not the Individuals concerned. It meant that instead of being able to use the Edit button, I had to lose the list, go to one of the named people and then select their parent in order to make the correction. -- Jenny M Benson 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
