Re: [LegacyUG] Charting recommendations

2007-04-14 Thread BrannenGA
The charting deficiencies are exasperating. I wish they would team up with AutoCAD to create some software that would allow much more to be done in this area. The charts and trees are probably the most popular keepsakes at family reunions. I think there's a big demand for these. At

RE: [LegacyUG] Charting recommendations

2007-04-14 Thread Mel Morris
I agree, I would like something a little more flexible, that does regular and fan trees, but I'd prefer it to be incorporated with the regular software. I'd be prepared to pay a little extra for it but I don't really want a astand alone program unless I absolutely have to - I'm sure my early gen

[LegacyUG] Another refinement

2007-04-14 Thread Mel Morris
When the developers are looking for enhancements, they might consider adding the option of showing relationships on web generated pedidgree charts. I send a lot of people to check out my web page and they find who our common link is via the index and then have the devil's own job connecting me to

RE: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread John D. Taylor III
Following up on a promise, - I said I would post anything that I found on the census records in the “Records in Research Guidance.” I haven’t been ignoring my promise; it’s just that after searching online, and calling and going to the church libraries, I have still not had any luck. Since

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Dawn Crowley
Would you mind posting a specific example of a census record that you cannot locate? Maybe someone on this list will have some insight. Dawn John D. Taylor III wrote: Following up on a promise, - I said I would post anything that I found on the census records in the “Records in Research

Re: [LegacyUG] Another refinement

2007-04-14 Thread Ruth Nerud
Hurray! Another person that wants this enhancement. I just don't see why everyone wouldn't want it. It's difficult to tell anyone how they are related if it isn't printed next to the names in reports/charts. I know this enhancement is on the list, but could Staff say how soon this may come to

RE: [LegacyUG] Another refinement

2007-04-14 Thread Mel Morris
Yes, I they have to email me back, and I have to check the database and then explain it to them or add a chart (not all of them are familiar with the way some of the charts are laid out) As I have 4000 assorted ancestors going back the 1500s, some are quite distant! Regards Mel Morris

Re: [LegacyUG] Another refinement

2007-04-14 Thread JRAYMOND651
Sherry told me some time ago that this enhancement is on the list, but when we'll see it I just don't know. Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92

RE: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread John D. Taylor III
Sorry, It was at the start of this thread. When using research guidance for a person born about 1699 and died 1756 in the Suggested Sources tab, in Goal; window, among other suggestions are, Virginia State Census, 1699, Virginia State Census, 1701, and Virginia State Census, 1703. I have never

Re: [LegacyUG] Charting recommendations

2007-04-14 Thread David Fretwell
Genbox charting capabilities are second to none.. David (UK) Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Gene Young
John D. Taylor III wrote: Sorry, It was at the start of this thread. When using research guidance for a person born about 1699 and died 1756 in the Suggested Sources tab, in Goal; window, among other suggestions are, Virginia State Census, 1699, Virginia State Census, 1701, and Virginia State

RE: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread John D. Taylor III
Thank you. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gene Young Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance John D. Taylor III wrote: Sorry, It was at the start of this

[LegacyUG] About Pictures

2007-04-14 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Hello Group: I am accumulating a fair number of scans of photos and documents which are scattered all over my computer: in My Pictures, My Scans, attached to e-mails, or stuck in various surname folders under My Documents. It's time to get organized. I have no interest in creating a slide show

[LegacyUG] Overwhelming

2007-04-14 Thread Ted Gail Duffy
As a new user of Legacy I am finding the amount of email is overwhelming. Have the people at Millennia considered hosting a Group site at Yahoo! or some other information sharing portal or tool that the users can modify what information they receive and/or filter on those topics they are

Re: [LegacyUG] Research Guidance Error

2007-04-14 Thread Brian/Support
Mike, Add Marriage Event works to ADD a marriage to the individual, that is why you are seeing the add new wife screen with the option to add a new person or link to an existing. This is exactly as advertised in the Help Add Marriage Event This option displays the Add wife/husband screen, to

RE: [LegacyUG] Overwhelming

2007-04-14 Thread C.G. Ouimet
You could un-subscribe (info below) and then scan the archive (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/) at your leisure. Your call ... C.G. Ouimet Kingston, ON _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Gail Duffy Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007

Re: [LegacyUG] Research Guidance Error #2

2007-04-14 Thread Brian/Support
Mike, Agreed, this is a problem and a problem report has been raised. 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 all previous correspondence. Thanks. Mike

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Gene Young
John D. Taylor III wrote: Thank you. As a follow up you might try to find the following book. The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776: A Survey of Census Data. Princeton University Press, 1975. Robert V. Wells Gene Y. Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox. Have you

RE: [LegacyUG] About Pictures

2007-04-14 Thread ronald ferguson
Kirsten, A lot of what you ask is very much personal choice. You should, however, be clear that Legacy only stores the paths to the pictures and not the pictures themselves excepting that the multimedia back-up contains both the paths and the pictures. If you are thinking that in future

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Ann Dunlap
Since this book is out of print now, where would you suggest I look for it? Thanks Ann California Gene Young wrote: John D. Taylor III wrote: Thank you. As a follow up you might try to find the following book. The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776: A Survey of

RE: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread David Wild
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Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Jim Byram
Ann Dunlap wrote: Since this book is out of print now, where would you suggest I look for it? The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776: A Survey of Census Data. Princeton University Press, 1975. Robert V. Wells Try this website: http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/ The

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Dawn Crowley
Go to www.worldcat.org and cut paste the title. (Sometimes it works best to do a portion of a title or use key words.) Then type in your city state or zipcode. (I'm not sure how that works for folks outside of the US.) Worldcat provides a list of libraries by distance from your zipcode

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Ann Dunlap
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Re: [LegacyUG] Another refinement

2007-04-14 Thread Elsie Saar
That would be great. I now have an event I call relationship and enter it for all people, either how they relate to me or how they related to my husband. If I don't, I'll be chasing people who have no connection to our lines. I would love to be able to automatically tract relationships for my

[LegacyUG] Font Size for Legacy Home

2007-04-14 Thread Ted Gail Duffy
As a brand new user I’m still trying to figure out how to increase the font size of the characters on the Legacy Home tab such as the Legacy News and To Do Items. I can adjust font sizes on other windows per the Help menu. For those of us over 50 the printing on the Legacy Home window pane is

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Ann Dunlap
Thaanks Dawn. I wanted to own it since most of my husbands family came to the US before 1776. I want to take my time reading it and maybe get him to read about the US then. Ann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dawn Crowley wrote: Go to www.worldcat.org and cut paste the title. (Sometimes it works best

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Gene Young
Ann Dunlap wrote: Since this book is out of print now, where would you suggest I look for it? Thanks Ann California Google Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at

Re: [LegacyUG] Overwhelming

2007-04-14 Thread Wendy Howard
Another option is to use a filter or rule to direct the list posts to a folder away from your other mail. Then the list mail is separate from your other mail, and can be ignored until such time as you're ready to concentrate on it. This has been discussed many times in the past, so you can

RE: [LegacyUG] About Pictures

2007-04-14 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Thanks Ron. I've pondered and decided, and now spring cleaning is underway. Kirsten -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] About Pictures

RE: [LegacyUG] About Pictures

2007-04-14 Thread Brenda Van Dyke
As Ron said below, it is very much a personal choice. Since I work in computers and have a lot of files, I made a Genealogy folder under the My Documents folder. I keep all files genealogy-related in that folder, including pictures. Then, when I move to a new computer, hopefully(!) all data

RE: [LegacyUG] Font Size for Legacy Home

2007-04-14 Thread ronald ferguson
Hi Ted, If you go to Options on the Legacy Home Tab you can select zoom from there and change the font size. Unfortunately this does not increase the font size for the newsletter itself as Legacy is acting as a browser. For that I can only suggest that you copy the path at the top and paste

[LegacyUG] About Picture Filing

2007-04-14 Thread Sally Macias
I'm trying to figure out how to organize the pictures. With an HP scanner the image goes to the HP Solutions Center which apparently stores the scans by date. I've been opening them and doing some modest editing, then saving them in TIFF format to an external hard drive. Then I open the tiff

RE: [LegacyUG] About Picture Filing

2007-04-14 Thread Olds-Wills-Anderson-Simonson Hodges-Harris-Liikala-Jukkara
Sally Saving your images as a .tiff file is the commonly accepted 'best way' to keep digital copies of your original. This would then become your 'master copy'. From that you could make .jpgs to whatever file size you deem appropriate for use (website, email atch, Legacy image, etc). As for

[LegacyUG] Entering generic information

2007-04-14 Thread Richard Heckman
Hi LUGgies, A few days ago, I found some interesting newspaper articles that were written about my family's earliest reunions in 1903 and 1904. I would like to include these articles in my family's genealogy, but I have no clue were to enter the information into Legacy. Any suggestions as to

RE: [LegacyUG] Font Size for Legacy Home

2007-04-14 Thread Ted Gail Duffy
Ron, Excellent advice. Now I can easily read the News Items. Thank you for pointing these out. From the ease of use I'm guessing these adjustments could have been found in the Owners Manual, but there wasn't anything listed in the index (and I haven't read it from cover to cover yet). Thanks