[LegacyUG] Religious texts

2007-07-11 Thread Jack Earnshaw
Paul Do we have to have such texts at the end of emails? Not all of us have your beliefs, or any beliefs Jack -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Abell Sent: 11 July 2007 07:35 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG

Re: [LegacyUG] Embracing Change

2007-07-11 Thread Jenny M Benson
Phil Hawkins wrote When CQ Quimet sent his message on the above topic it came with an attachement WINMAIL.DAT So did Paul Abel's response. No attachments here. I suggest it might be something Thunderbird attached when the posts reached you. -- Jenny M Benson Have you unlocked the real po

Re: [LegacyUG] Religious texts

2007-07-11 Thread Jenny M Benson
Jack Earnshaw wrote Do we have to have such texts at the end of emails? Not all of us have your beliefs, or any beliefs It is very common for people to include a "sig line" with their posts and e-mails. I do it myself in most e-mails and messages (but not within this particular list) and I s

[LegacyUG] For the attn Legacy Support - re HTML

2007-07-11 Thread Jenny M Benson
I for one welcome that you require that LUG posters use HTML and deplore the fact that so many people either ignore your requests or don't bother to check out your requirements in the first place. There are far too many HTML posts coming in all the time. I appreciate that you have many demand

RE: [LegacyUG] For the attn Legacy Support - re HTML

2007-07-11 Thread ronald ferguson
Jenny, If you remember at the time of the change many people (myself included) were unable to post via the previous server. It was absolutely necessary for that situation to be corrected. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, So

RE: [LegacyUG] ERROR: 339

2007-07-11 Thread Valeris Garton
Thanks for this Ron. I will set to it. Cheers Valerie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2007 11:02 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] ERROR: 339 Valerie, Please see

Re: [LegacyUG] Embracing Change

2007-07-11 Thread Mike Fry
C.G. Ouimet wrote: The email from "CQ Quimet" aka CG Ouimet did not include an attachment. Ahem! Yes it did! A file called winmail.dat. That is the way certain MS mailing programs wrap emails. The file itself is *not* inherently dangerous - just annoying. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg.

Re: [LegacyUG] Religious texts

2007-07-11 Thread Evert van Dijken
The guidelines are very clear about this (see the link at the bottom of every mail): 5. Please keep to the topic of Legacy and its add-on programs. Please don't send jokes, advertisements, political messages, religious opinion, etc. Evert 2007/7/11, Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Jack Ear

Re: [LegacyUG] Embracing Change

2007-07-11 Thread Mike Fry
Paul Abell wrote: Mike, Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I will do a virus scan immediately. Paul Abell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Hawkins Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:30 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.co

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources in Family Tree

2007-07-11 Thread Mike Fry
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: Everything I get from any LDS website I use a Source named 'IGI', which tells me that I NEED to reverify it, but gives me clues where to look. I do much the same. But surely there is a distinct difference between 'patron submissions' and 'extracts'. Here, the Surety

Re: [LegacyUG] For the attn Legacy Support - re HTML

2007-07-11 Thread Ron Bernier
Jenny, I totally agree with you. There are two categories of individuals who send messages to the list in HTML. In the first group (the minority) are those who are new to the list and are unaware that HTML messages are not allowed. In the second group are the repeat offenders who know that HTM

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 530

2007-07-11 Thread Rsmcsoo
In a message dated 7/9/2007 12:11:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shirley, Please reinstall Legacy. Make sure you have all other program shut down and your anti-virus and spyware scanning software disabled when you install Legacy Thanks for using Legacy.

RE: [LegacyUG] Sources in Family Tree

2007-07-11 Thread Linda Altman
Mike: The IGI is a source not a repository. The repository for IGI is either the website http://www.familysearch.org or Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. A source is the record or set of records that you view and obtain data from. A repository is the place or facility where those record

RE: [LegacyUG] Embracing Change

2007-07-11 Thread Paul Abell
Mike My apologies. Paul Abell "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Editio

RE: [LegacyUG] Religious texts

2007-07-11 Thread Paul Abell
For those that can't see past the word God. This sig line is not a religious statement. Both sides of my family are southern people and I am a 30 year member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. This sig line is about what war does to a land. ANY land, especially what it does to destroy a way of

RE: [LegacyUG] "Non-standard" locations

2007-07-11 Thread Linda Bischoff
I have the same problem with Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Canada East and Canada West prior to the modern use. I would be interested to know how people give the information for early Canada and also for the colonies, ie Massachusetts Bay etc. Thanks! Linda B. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] "Non-standard" locations

2007-07-11 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Linda: I was using "British North America" in the country position for these situations but it created a very long location name and became tedious reading in reports. Then someone pointed out to me that British North America wasn't used as a designation until much later. Now I use the official

RE: [LegacyUG] "Non-standard" locations

2007-07-11 Thread Alice McVearry
Marcellyn, George G. Morgan, an internationally recognized author, speaker and authority on genealogy, recently had this to say about recording locations: Record Precise Information: For each of your ancestors' vital dates (birth, marriage, and death), always record the precise location as it exi

RE: [LegacyUG] "Non-standard" locations

2007-07-11 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
Alice, Thanks so much for your response. I hadn't read George's article. I, too, agree with this position. Not understanding the historical jurisdiction of the event causes so many researchers to look in the wrong place. Fortunately, for the U.S., there are two great tools to assist in locating t

RE: [LegacyUG] "Non-standard" locations

2007-07-11 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I use British NA, it is shorter. --- Kirsten Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linda: > > I was using "British North America" in the country > position for these > situations but it created a very long location name > and became tedious > reading in reports. Then someone pointed out to me > th

RE: [LegacyUG] Embracing Change

2007-07-11 Thread C.G. Ouimet
What's interesting is that it was sent from Outlook, according to Outlook, in plain text. C.G. Ouimet Kingston, ON -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Fry Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 07:22 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com S

Re: [LegacyUG] "Non-standard" locations

2007-07-11 Thread Phil Hawkins
"If you decide to follow George G. Morgan's advice, it might be a good idea to record somewhere within Legacy the approximate location according to today's maps. -- Alice" I use Google maps to find the location as accurately as possible, even down to he street name if it still exists. I th

Re: [LegacyUG] "Non-standard" locations

2007-07-11 Thread Wendy Howard
Hi Marcellyn, There have been some excellent posts on this subject in response to yours already. What I wanted to add is in relation to your question "what data do I put in which of the four parts of the location". I'd say don't sweat over the "four parts", and enter the location as it was.