Thanks.
I have another question. I notice that the searches done by legacy are
mostly concentrated in US. My ancestry is from the Netherlands and Germany
and I need to research these country's archives. How would I do that
through legacy?
Vriendelike Groete
Ursulah
Maputo
Groenkop Genealoog
Please start a new thread for a new topic with a new subject otherwise many
people who may be aable to answer your question may miss it - not to mention
the annoyance to those who are following this thread..
Ron Ferguson
I have another question. I notice that the searches done by legacy are
mostly concentrated in US. My ancestry is from the Netherlands and Germany
and I need to research these country's archives. How would I do that
through legacy?
Vriendelike Groete
Ursulah
Maputo
Groenkop Genealoog en
Student
kb wrote
The Index View is useless, because I get only slightly more than one
column displayed per page.
You can re-size the columnsMove your mouse pointer over the vertical
bar between each column heading and when the cursor becomes a cross
shape, hold the left button down and move the
Jack Earnshaw wrote
With regard to Index View, I agree there are problems. In particular
that the initial width of the columns is far too great and it is quite
a slog to get them back to a sensible size. It's the same with
Descendant View. Each column seems to be the width of the screen and so
I suspect it is lack of specific knowledge of the
areas. For myself, I need info on the Wuertemberg and
Sax-Coberg-Gotha sections of Germany, but do not know
what censuses or tax lists exist. More is being found
daily, so they can be added to the general database.
As with the user created
Hello again listers,
In reference to my last message about my user files: My
monthly backup is a full backup of the program to an external
drive. The Legacy program is on my D drive so it looks like this:
D:\leg usr files
D:\Legacy
All of these files are backed up along with the data -
If I am reading correctly, you wish to utilize a
backup other than the most recent? did you save them
with a different name (ie. adding the date to the full
file name) I suspect that you have been coping on top
of the older versions, (replacing). I do not create
multiple versions of backup, but
Hi Myrna,
I'm not exactly sure what you are saying.
Do you have a folder D:\leg usr files where you've been copying your
usr files as a backup?
Then you that up monthly to G drive?
The active usr files are in D:\Legacy
They only work in the same folder as the program.
If I've understood you
Myrna,
Sorry to hear you lost your settings. Once you do get your Index View
set up the way you like it, right-click over the headings and select
Customize. On the right, select Save. I have two settings saved. One
is called Tight which is where the three tag columns and RIN are all
very narrow
Jenny,
I have problems with my column widths remaining fixed in Index View,
so I right-clicked over the column headings, then clicked on Customize
and Save to save the widths, calling it Tight. I need to restore to
Tight every few weeks. (Shows up when I right-click again.)
Susan
On 6/25/07,
Susan Daily wrote:
I have problems with my column widths remaining fixed in Index View,
so I right-clicked over the column headings, then clicked on Customize
and Save to save the widths, calling it Tight. I need to restore to
Tight every few weeks. (Shows up when I right-click again.)
I beg
It works for me! Seriously. When I put the cursor at the place where the
two arrows show up and right click, the name of the current Index View
shows up (mine is called First) and under it the word Customize. -- Alice
[Original Message]
From: Mike Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Hi Mike,
I'm not sure what the problem is. I have 6.0.0.133, too. But I've been
doing it at least since version 6 was released. Click on the Index
tab, so that you are in the Index View. Now instead of right-clicking
over Full Name for example, you can click on the Options button at
the right.
Mike, I just reread your message, sorry for misunderstanding. Perhaps
you don't get that intermediate Customize menu because you haven't
saved any settings yet. Try saving the settings and see if that
changes the right-click result. (It has been so long since I saved
mine, that I can't remember
Thanks Cathy Richard,
Undoubtedly I have not been backing up the correct files in
Legacy (to my external backup drive). I uninstalled the current
Legacy program and reinstalled from my backup (which was done
before I screwed up my settings). They still don't work - it goes
to the default
As the situation I had was not resolved (persisted after rebooting), I
deleted all 47 .usr files and restarted Legacy. Correct operation was
restored, including invoking the Customize Columns window with a right
click in the title area, and I couldn't provoke further malfunction.
Dumping
I am Sorry about your losses. When you first close
down Legacy, make it always ask DO YOU WANT A BACKUP?
The next time create a file name that is to be saved.
Make it simple, like mine is MyDB. If you want to save
multiple versions then make a name like MyDB20070625,
which saves on 'today's date',
I have seen others talk about the user files and I just now went
back and checked the program. I have NO .usr files anywhere. No
wonder I haven't been able to back them up. Where did they go???
Myrna
Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features
not found in
Thanks for the info Rich. Yes, I ALWAYS do a backup on exit. This
only saves the data and not the settings for the program. Once a
week I backup the Legacy program and all data/media to a
different hard drive and at least once a month I backup the
Legacy program and data/media to an external
YEA!!! I found them. Now, someone please tell me why they are
listed as PerfectExpert database files? I have been looking at
these not knowing they were .usr files until I did a search of
all my hard drives and they showed up as the PE db files. I never
would have figured that one out.
Myrna
Myrna,
The USR files are in the program directory that it is installed in.
Mark
cannot find any .usr files on my computer. I have also looked in
the archives and cannot find anything that tells me where they
are - just that they are. PLEASE, where are they?
Myrna
Have you unlocked the
Hi Myra,
Do you have WordPerfect on your computer? I do, and WordPerfect always
steals my .usr files. It just puts it little PerfectExpert pen thingee
icon on the .usr files. -- Alice
[Original Message]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date: 6/25/2007
Myrna,
I thought I remembered Sherry saying something about this awhile back in
relation to some other problem, so I just looked it up in the Archives.
Sherry/Support
Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:43:19 -0800
Doug,
It sounds like you have the suite with Word Perfect installed. It steals
our usr files
Alice,
Yes, that must be it! I do use WordPerfect instead of Word. I
sure did miss that msg in the archives but never would have
noticed it anyway if it was talking about WP. Now I do remember
that I told the program to use WP for a word processing program.
DU! I guess senility has gotten
Hi, I have a question on the IGI file. I have been searching many people on
the list and the file is getting quite large. I have been trying to clear out
searches on the list but that increases the size of the file instead of
decreasing it.
Example:
I checked the size of the file
771,236
It is not uncommon for totally different files types to have the same file
extension name. Some times the association may be important, as the association
determines the default program that will *open* the file. As an example, the
.jpg file association determines the default program that
Thank you Gary. I have known for 2 years that WordPerfect had stolen my .usr
files but there was never a problem and I knew where the .usr files were, so I
simply let it be. I have been considering Susan's post for the last little
while, and even tried to find Tools, Folder Options, File
I want to ensure my Master Sources are formatted consistently. For
example I want my census entries to have the source list name, author,
title to be the same format. Is there a way to set up a template for
this. Sort of like Endnotes for Legacy. Otherwise I find myself
opening one master source
I set up templates for myself for various source citations. It makes it a
lot easier. Mine are mostly UK records so I don't haev examples to follow.
If you work with US records, I am sure the Legacy web site has some
examples. It is worth a look around there anyway IMO. Cheers, Mitch
On
Hello,
Mitch, I'm using UK records is it possible to get a copy of your
source templates?
Also does anyone know how to to set up witness information in
Legacy? In TMG it's a built in event for every person that is
added. Would be nice if something like that was built into Legacy or
I googled the Legacy site and can't find any reference to templates
for master sources.
On 6/25/07, Mitch Mackrory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I set up templates for myself for various source citations. It makes it a
lot easier. Mine are mostly UK records so I don't haev examples to follow.
If
Bill,
If you have MS Access 2000, you can open the .IGI file in Access and compact
the file.
When you save entries and then delete them, the database doesn't
automatically release the place holder for that data.
Glen Ballard
Jim,
A year or so ago, I mentioned how I keep a Legacy sources file saved
on my PC as a text file, and to date, I have emailed out about 40
copies of the file to those who saw my original message and requested
it. I will be happy to send you mine. Please look for it, with an
attachment. It is not
Hi Philip,
Legacy currently doesn't have the equivalent of the TMG witness.
It's something on the wish list.
Having never had it, I don't miss it but maybe I'll find a use for it
when it is added.
In Legacy to record the information, you need to set up an Event and
then copy that Event using
There are examples, but not actual templates.
Go to Help Centre on top menu bar
Tips
Source Citation
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsSourceSamples.asp
Jennifer
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Liddil
Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Hi . . . I must admit I'm a bit of a lurker with this group but have been
using Legacy Deluxe for a few years now . . . last year I came across a
document online on 'Organising your paper files usingLegacy Family Tree'
(which I cut pasted into a word document) and I have begun trying out the
I have a Witness event that I then add to the person who is a witness to
a marriage, etc.
Mary
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 9:35 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]
Hi Ursulah,
The Legacy internet searches can be customised.
First you need a relevant searchable online database.
Then follow the instructions in the Legacy Help file.
The example used is Ellis Island, which again is a US database, but
the instructions are very detailed.
If you click on the
Please send email requests to me directly, and not to the list, if you
are interested in the file I mentioned. It is a US list, but you can
follow it to work it out for yourself. And by no means is it perfect.
It is really just my amateurish way of being consistent for myself.
Susan
On 6/25/07,
Hi Shirley
When you are in the Name List, click on Print at the bottom and
you will have those options.
Jennifer
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Shirley Fyfe
Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:53 AM
To: Legacy
Subject: [LegacyUG] Printing Name List
Hi
Thanks Jennifer - I have done that but in my options area I don't get a MRIN
option to check ONLY the names of spouses parents?
Shirley
On 26/06/07, Jennifer Crockett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Shirley
When you are in the Name List, click on Print at the bottom and you will
have those
Is there a way to format columnar form information entered in in
Notes so that the informtion will hold to those columns? I've
not found any information indicating it can be done in any
reading of help or the archives.
Pat in Oklahoma
Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0
Marilyn:
I didn't see any response to your posting.
The only thing I can think of is to ask your cousin if she/he would be
willing (and able) to give you a copy of the sources (and maybe the links into
the book, as in the reverse of the superscripts on data that point to a
specific
Yes! Thank-you so much Jennifer :) I didn't think to see if there were
options I could 'Customise' in that tab . . . silly me . . . it all works
perfectly now . . . thank-you . . . thank-you . . . thank-you :)
Kind regards,
Shirley
On 26/06/07, Jennifer Crockett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am glad you are set now - don't apologise about not finding it
as I probably had to click here and there to find it myself the
first time.
Also, if you haven't seen this article by JL, be sure to check it
out. It expands on the MRIN filing method.
Pat in Oklahoma wrote Is there a way to format columnar form information
entered in in
Notes so that the informtion will hold to those columns?
The only way I have found to do this Pat, is to make an Event of the info.
As an Event, the formatted columns will hold, but will not do so when
Hi Pat,
Legacy supports very limited tabs. These however don't convert if you
are wanting to make web pages.
To enter a tab you need to use CTRL + Tab.
I have found that if I use spaces and a Tab rather than two tabs
where more than one is necessary I can get things to line up in
reports
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