Re: [LegacyUG] font sizes

2006-08-02 Thread Support/Brian
Legacy will, by default, change the size of your fonts depending on the size of the screen being displayed. To set the fonts use Options > Customize > Fonts. The top three settings apply to your on-screen fonts. If you remove the check mark beside Stretch fonts when resizing then Legacy should

Re: [LegacyUG] Time run error #390

2006-08-02 Thread Kathy Shiell-Stokes
Tish: Legacy.lng file is located in the same directory that your legacy program is installed. Delete that file and then try updating the Legacy program. KathyAt 10:51 PM 8/2/2006, you wrote: You were so right! I deleted all the usr files, but could not find any Legacy Lingfile. It is still t

Re: [LegacyUG] Time run error #390

2006-08-02 Thread Tish
You were so right! I deleted all the usr files, but could not find any Legacy Lingfile. It is still the 380 error - do you have time for any other suggestions? Thanks, tish - Original Message - From: "Cathy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:24 P

Re: [LegacyUG] Setting up a fake family---

2006-08-02 Thread Cathy
Hi Bill, You can delete any individual or family group in Legacy without affecting your other data. The exception is deleting a spouse where, depending on how you do it, you may lose the marriage information entered. To be sure you are only deleting the people you intend to delete, tag them

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Cathy
You can enter these types of indications when for your own use only in double square privacy brackets and then they are not included in any report unless you choose to print private notes. Cathy At 08:00 AM 3/08/2006, you wrote: I use the Title Prefix and Title Suffix fields on the Individual

Re: [LegacyUG] Setting up a fake family---

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Rhodes
Susan, Sounds good, I think it will work for me - but does this mean I unlink each person I put in my family file as I enter him or her, or just the first one? The first one would be my GGGF, who I would add as my GGF's father, then his wife and children, etc. And if they turn out to be the w

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread John S. Adams
I use the Title Prefix and Title Suffix fields on the Individual's Information screen to enter info I want to see displayed on the Family View screen. For example, for people who I have not verified as being in my line, I enter "[nv]" in the Prefix field. You could enter an asterisk or any ot

Re: [LegacyUG] Time run error #390

2006-08-02 Thread Cathy
Hi Tish, Perhaps you have solved your dilemma by returning to the web page and working out what your handwriting was meant to be as you're looking for the wrong extension. The website says: Runtime Error '380' Invalid Property Value Please delete from the Legacy folder on your hard drive all

[LegacyUG] font sizes

2006-08-02 Thread Jmccall93
I use Holly Sans for my font currently within my Legacy program, but the size is not to my liking.  I've tried to figure out how to change the size for the Family View page, but I can't seem to get it to yet.       Thanks, Jill   p.s.  As a note, when Legacy first comes up the font is smaller (do

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Winfrey
The software I referred to lets you sign off either on events or for all the data you have for a person or a relationship. You can see at a glance the people you know you aren't going to find any new information on and keeps you from revisiting. In Legacy, I use many, many to-dos to do the same

Re: [LegacyUG] Time run error #390

2006-08-02 Thread Tish
I have gone into the Legacy site, and brought up time run error #380 - it says to delete all USR ext. files and also Legacy--can't read my own writing!I went into the Legacy on my computer in the C drive, and I have a lot of user files, but not with the ext. on them.   And I c

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Cathy Flamholtz
Thanks guys. Sounds like that's exactly what I'm looking for. I'm going to look up tags in the index now. On 8/2/06, Dan Bateham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Cathy, The "Tagging" options of Legacy come to mind. Might these work for you to "flag" this type of information on individuals for you?

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Gail Rich Nestor
I use a fairly low-tech option to evaluate my evidence on a fact or on my research as a whole on a person. First, I cite all my sources and type the relevant data into an event. Then I use the event notes to transcribe the relevant data and to make comments about the general reliability of the d

Re: [LegacyUG] changed married / maiden names

2006-08-02 Thread Ruth Ann Larson
Please, please make this a global option if it is added. My file is mostly Scandinavia, and before 1900 or so there are *no* such things as married names (women - and men - kept their patronymic names for life). That's probably 90% or more of my file.

Re: [LegacyUG] Events

2006-08-02 Thread Brian
The description line of an event is limited to 255 Characters. The Event Notes would be a better place to write narratives. Notes can be up to 1,000,000 characters. Those are taken from the Version 4 Help file and are the same in 5 and 6. The Event Sentence Definition is also limited to 255 Cha

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Bateham
Hi Cathy, The "Tagging" options of Legacy come to mind. Might these work for you to "flag" this type of information on individuals for you? Legacy Deluxe has nine tags, any three of which can show right on the Individual view, and they can be set up to "flag" or indicate about anything you wan

RE: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Don Brown
Have you considered using the tags in Legacy. You could assign a tag for "unproven" or "pending" and see when you are on the persons information if the tag is there or not. Tags can also be printed on various reports. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [LegacyUG] Detail Source Pictures

2006-08-02 Thread Brian
Lewis, I was able to duplicate the problem. I will submit a bug report to the programmers so it can be fixed. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include a

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report Problem

2006-08-02 Thread Brian
Kay, As Peter suggested, please send me a copy of the PDF file for the report. We do have an outstanding bug report on indexing errors for families that stretch over more than one page so I would like to add your problem to that. It will be easier for the programmer to see if he has a copy of

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Cathy Flamholtz
Hi, just curious. Is it possible to put something like an asterisk or, failing that a capital U followed by a dash (U-) preceeding the surname for people whose information is unproven? They wouldn't be in the proper order in the name list, but then all your unprovens would be together. Haven't tri

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Susan Daily
Hi Ron, Under my generic Master Source designation (which indicates both Records and Certificates), for example, I place things like certificates of birth obtained at USA town halls, births recorded in an index, birth dates mentioned in the baptism entries of church record books, published family

[LegacyUG] Why I need you to ask questions on this list

2006-08-02 Thread Susan Daily
This list is called Legacy Users Group, not Legacy Customer Support. That means people are supposed to write to the other subscribers who are Users themselves and ask questions from the experienced users. I still learn things every week from the list. And I wouldn't learn anything if no one asked

Re: [LegacyUG] Setting up a fake family---

2006-08-02 Thread Dave Naylor
On 2 Aug 2006 Jan Bennett wrote: > This Tree View is the answer to most of my problems. Just be aware that the Tree Finder does not update the view when you make changes. So if you have made any changes to your links and wish to view the resulting trees you need to click on Refresh for them

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Heather Stovold
Actually, I too would like something for me to be able to tell at a glance on printouts and the screen which people I feel the information is quite certain as opposed to people that I am quite uncertain about.  (or other information.)  - probably as an option.   As mentioned in the first post, when

[LegacyUG] Modified Date & Data Loss

2006-08-02 Thread Jan Bennett
Could someone clarify the 'modified date' for entries please. Should the modified date be amended for all records if you for example 'set direct line as preferred' or 'set relationships' ? Reason I'm asking is that I did the 'set direct line as preferred' first thing this morning. I then disc

RE: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Carol
Jim, Could you explain what you mean by "closing" someone's information? What exactly does the program do to denote this? Carol > > I wonder if the overriding question is "How do we know when we have > proved what we set out to prove?". I try to collect as much info as I > can for each pers

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Winfrey
I wonder if the overriding question is "How do we know when we have proved what we set out to prove?". I try to collect as much info as I can for each person and, yes, much of it contradicts. The Linux genealogy program Gramps lets you "close" somebodies information when you believe you're as fa

Re: [LegacyUG] Producing PDFs

2006-08-02 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Alastair, If you have Acrobat installed, you should also have the Acrobat pdf printer program installed. Is it distiller? Anyway, I believe it automatically installs when you install Acrobat. Locate it in your list of printers, print your report to this pdf printer and see if this file is acce

Re: [LegacyUG] Setting up a fake family---

2006-08-02 Thread Jan Bennett
Would just like to say that I find this list invaluable. I don't always have to put any questions I have as usually find someone else is having same problem or someone answers with an alternative suggestion. Many thanks Susan for the below brilliant suggestion ... I really must find the t

RE: [LegacyUG] John Doe married.

2006-08-02 Thread genealogist
Open marriage event, "edit" " "edit event sentence definition" . The last item is "if Desc, Date, and Place are empty." Delete the words in that box. You now have nothing where nothing is known. I have done that with all events. Why say something about nothing, I always say. :) Judie * --

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I indicate information is not proven

2006-08-02 Thread ronald ferguson
Hi Susan, I would just like to concentrate on the verification of sources question. What exactly is this supposed to mean? You mention bmd certificates which over here are compiled, written and held by the Government. So there can be little doubt that the information is an accurate copy of tha