RE: [LegacyUG] Relationships Calculator

2006-09-04 Thread John Groome
Melanie Thanks for the note re this bug. Although I had vague recollections of messages on the subject earlier, I was unable to find the archive site. Looking forward to another great response from support. John Upper Hutt New Zealand Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://w

[LegacyUG] Passage Express & Legacy website creation tools

2006-09-04 Thread Tracy Skegg
Hi Listers Is there any news if the web pages created through Legacy can be easily added to Passage Express? I think at the moment we have to choose one or the other, else I'm doing it wrong. I'm still learning how to create web pages, specifically for an autorun CD and learning Passage Express.

Re: [LegacyUG] Fonts on Family View

2006-09-04 Thread John Murray
God Morning list Thank you to Cathy and Peter for advice about changing Font However when I switched on this morning everything was back to what I wanted and I had not touched anything since I switched off last night Great this Legacy ... reads my mind overnight Thanks again for all your assistanc

Re: [LegacyUG] Passage Express & Legacy website creation tools

2006-09-04 Thread Bob Janice
Hi Tracy, I have the "Deluxe" version of Passage Express and have been able to incorporate the web pages created by Legacy into it with no problems. The only change I had to make from my "normal" procedure was to tell Legacy not to put any pictures into a different directory than the HTML pa

[LegacyUG] Adding Pictures

2006-09-04 Thread pph929
I have used Legacy (I have the latest -110- build) for some time but am just getting around to adding pictures. I have added a picture (made in 1878) without too much difficulty, but I have one question. At one point it said something about there being embedded info or script in the picture and a

Re: [LegacyUG] Fonts on Family View

2006-09-04 Thread Myrna Jorgensen
Hi John, The same thing happened to me yesterday. I did not do any entries to Legacy but had gone to my 'family' page checking data. Did not understand why the fonts were so large but did not want to mess with it at the time so forgot about. I just now went to my working file and it is back to

RE: [LegacyUG] Adding Pictures

2006-09-04 Thread Connie
So what it put into the description field was "LEAD Technologies, Inc.VI.01" So my question is -- Is that information something I should keep for some reason? And do you know where it came from?? Hi Pat, The "LEAD Technologies, Inc.VI.01" information is actually referring to the scanner/photo p

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding Pictures

2006-09-04 Thread Jenny M Benson
wrote So what it put into the description field was "LEAD Technologies, Inc.VI.01" I have no idea where that info came from -- that doesn't sound like something from 1878! So my question is -- Is that information something I should keep for some reason? And do you know where it came from?

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship to Father/Relationship to Mother

2006-09-04 Thread Ron Taylor
The relationship of a child to his biological father and mother is obvious and is therefore usually left blank. When a child is not the biological offspring of a parent, the Legacy database can record the status of their relationship which is not the same as child status. Child status should

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship to Father/Relationship to Mother

2006-09-04 Thread Heather Stovold
That option exists on a lot of the reports and charts.   Heather  On 9/4/06, Ron Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only thing that is needed is to have an option that will show therelationship to father and relationship to mother when they are not blank on the various output screens, report

[LegacyUG] OT response to Fonts on Family View

2006-09-04 Thread genealogist
Advice that has turned into my golden rule through years of computer glitches: "Before you try to fix any problem, reboot, then reboot into safe mode, then turn the computer off and leave it for 45 minutes...if the problem persists, try something else." The reboot or rest cures the problem 50% of t

RE: [LegacyUG] Adding Pictures

2006-09-04 Thread genealogist
Hi Pat, As others have said, embedded information comes from programs you have used to scan or edit the photo. I always make copies of my photos for the Legacy folder in jpg with a slightly reduced quality/size. This saves time and space, and preserves the original, with its embedded information,

[LegacyUG] Adopted Children

2006-09-04 Thread Ron Carter
Hi,   I have a sister who has adopted five children and I would like to record the information about the adoption, but have no idea as to where that information should be recorded.  Would appreciate all help with this.   Ron Carter  Legacy User Group guidelines can be found

[LegacyUG] Adopted Children

2006-09-04 Thread Ron Carter
Hi,   I have a sister who has adopted five children and I would like to record the information about the adoption, but have no idea as to where that information should be recorded.  Would appreciate all help with this.   Ron Carter  Legacy User Group guidelines can be found

[LegacyUG] including a table in Notes; OR attaching a file

2006-09-04 Thread Carlos Sa
Hello, I am trying to find the best way of including some tabular information in Legacy. I would like to include under the tab Notes for Baptism, Marriage, etc., the data I found in Church Records. I would also like to include the label for each fiel in three languages. A table would be the idea

RE: [LegacyUG] including a table in Notes; OR attaching a file

2006-09-04 Thread ronald ferguson
HI Carlos, I do not have MS Excel but do have Open Office.org and from it saved a tabular form, containing five columns of parish register details, as an Excel .xls file. I then attached this as a video to an event and on "playing" back it opened perfectly. So, attach your tables as a video,

[LegacyUG] Media Files

2006-09-04 Thread John Kaufmann
Keep getting on exit "do you want to back up media files". What are these and where located? Jack This e-mail has been scanned by McAfee Antivirus John C. Kaufmann 1805 Beverly Drive Lancaster, PA 17601 717-569-2298 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://w

RE: [LegacyUG] Media Files

2006-09-04 Thread Robert Carneal
They are pictures. Generally speaking, they are in the C:\Legacy\Pictures folder. However, if you are like me, you probably have pictures all over the hard drive. I break my photos up by dividing them into main families. "Carneal" photos go in the C:\Legacy\Pictures\Carneal folder. "Thrawley" goe

RE: [LegacyUG] Media Files

2006-09-04 Thread ronald ferguson
These are your multimedia files comprising, pictures, videos and sound which you have attached to events etc. in Legacy. They are where you put them when you associated them with Legacy. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Softw

Re: [LegacyUG] including a table in Notes; OR attaching a file

2006-09-04 Thread Carlos Sa
Hello, Ron Works beautifuly! Thanks, Ron Carlos On 04/09/06, ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HI Carlos, I do not have MS Excel but do have Open Office.org and from it saved a tabular form, containing five columns of parish register details, as an Excel .xls file. I then attached

Re: [LegacyUG] Adopted Children

2006-09-04 Thread Cathy
Hi Ron, You can add the children normally and then right click on one when in the Children Position and choose Children's Settings From there you can add Child Status, Relationship to Father, Relationship to Mother for each child. If you know the natural parents, you can add them as a second s

Re: [LegacyUG] including a table in Notes; OR attaching a file

2006-09-04 Thread Cathy
Hi, You can cut and paste data with tabs into Legacy Notes and the tabs remain. If you are typing in any Legacy notes you need to use CTRL+Tab to enter a tab space. If you have the data in a table, you need to change it to text with tabs separating the columns in order to include it in notes

Re: [LegacyUG] MRIN

2006-09-04 Thread ArnieAbr
Thank you Sue, looks like it works.\ Arnie in Forth Worth, TX     In a message dated 9/3/2006 9:03:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Laura, ArnieGo to File, file maintenance, check/repair and it should solve this problem.For more information on error solutio

Re: [LegacyUG] Can not search IGI on www.familysearch.org

2006-09-04 Thread Mary E. V. Hill
Thanks for all the suggestions! I must have done something right - I did re-log-in under Options, as Geof suggested. I am now being able to search the IGI via Legacy. I do find that oftimes when the Legacy seach does not find a person, if I will search on www.familysearch.org I find that person. A

Re: [LegacyUG] including a table in Notes; OR attaching a file

2006-09-04 Thread Carlos Sa
Hello, Cathy That sort of works, getting the format right is painful The strange thing is that when you paste the text (tabbed or a complete table), you get everything necely formated. After you save, close and open again, all the formatting is lost. I suspect this may be a bug... Thanks for th

Re: [LegacyUG] AKA woding in Book

2006-09-04 Thread sue klein
Thank you for replying, it would be nice to have the field, but until then I will probably use Graham's suggestion Thanks again,. Sue On 9/4/06, Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Sue, I think we need Surname notes rather than AKA to do what you are wanting. Surname Notes could also be used f

Re: [LegacyUG] Media Files

2006-09-04 Thread John Kaufmann
Thats what I thought. I have my files on an external hard drive, will fix path. Many thanks...Jack This e-mail has been scanned by McAfee Antivirus John C. Kaufmann 1805 Beverly Drive Lancaster, PA 17601 717-569-2298 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Robert Carneal" <[E