Thank you Ron, for that, I for one am so tired of having LARGE mail come
through from Legacy (not stripped of previous messages) that take an age to
download.
Yvonne..in a Cold South Africa
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Hi David,
Welcome to the 21st century. Humans are more diverse and complex creatures
than we could comprehend or understand. In the past we had binary brains,
and as we mature as a species our understanding becomes more multifaceted
and hopefully tolerant of diversity which is part of evolution
This topic was covered some time ago. But a friend I went to high school
with (at my request) sent the following. If anyone needs to follow up
beyond this - let me know- OFF LIST.
Keith
--
She said:
In reply to your question, most of my relatives are buried in that cemetery.
It is small and woul
It depends on how the administrator sets the group up.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
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When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence.
Than
But then people who are on dial-up or have limited time on the internet
won't be able to view the messages. Forums can run slow enough on broadband
and I'd hate to try to try to read some of my forums while on dial-up!
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL
If you ever want to know what program someone is using, simply look at the
full header. The x-mailer will state the program. Pat is using Microsoft
Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138.
Gary Templeman
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I don't know which email program you're
using and how it works, but
As far as I know attachments aren't allowed in Yahoo groups either - a
matter of computer 'security".
My thought would be if someone wanted an attachment sent to them - then it
should be sent to their "actual" e-mail address instead of through the legacy
group
Pami Taylor
Linda,
Attachments are *not* allowed on the list. PLEASE do not send attachments
to this list. If you have a website, you may place your files on the
website and then send a link to that site on the list, but NO ATTACHMENTS,
***Please
We have a lot of users who are on dial-up, have a limite
I have just downloaded and run the full program version of the new Legacy
version 155. Awesome! Wow, Legacy, thank you! -- Alice
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I've had good OCR results both with OCR programs that come with my
scanner and the Document Imager that comes with Microsoft Office.
The Microsoft Office one can convert to text from TIFF images. Not
sure about other image types so you may need to convert to TIFF first.
As you can see - neither
Well I can do this in Oracle. :-) Why can't I open Master Sources and
also A single persons info file? I agree there can be issues but the
lack of the list view make it difficult to edit consistently. I think
it is a hassle to have to open the db in Access to get this list view
to check things. Ge
You are so right! Anytime people are dealt with, their will be problems.
Maybe that is why we should practice courtesy instead of flaming when
someone makes an accident.
Paul
"What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and
ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gif
Paul,
That is not very helpful advice where somebody lives in a country which is
not well equiped with broadband when they also have to use dial-up for
business - this I understand is the situation in much of South Africa.
Ron Ferguson
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It appears to me that if this were set up as a forum on a bulletin board you
could avoid all this hassle with HTML or plain text...
Just my 2¢ though
John Valencic
On 7/30/07, C.G. Ouimet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> It's our nature as human beings.
>
> We get bent out of shape when others do
There is no need for attachments on Yahoo Groups as there is a facility for
files to be placed on the groups' sites.
Ron Ferguson
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Helen,
You have already received some good advice but I would also advise that you
treat such information with care. It is secondary information and one never
knows whether there are some skeletons which have been covered up and,
indeed, it's accuracy. Names used may be those a person was kno
It's our nature as human beings.
We get bent out of shape when others do things we don't and we get out of
shape when we want to do something noone else approves of.
Me, me, me ...
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston, ON
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beha
I would also like to have the census templates if possible. Thanks you!
Beverly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Janis
Gilmore
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 5:28 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.
Jim Liddil ...
One Open dialog per open application is not an application (Legacy) issue,
it's an operating system issue.
Try opening more than one dialog in Word or Excel ...
Allowing multiple instances of a single application raises complicated
issues. Particularly when all instances are work
Does anyone know if there is a yahoo group for legacy users? That would allow
users with network capacity to share attacments .
John P.
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From: "Gary Crull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: 7/30/2007 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Atta
If someone has to pay for the time online or the amount of data downloaded,
then limit the size of emails you can download. Some of the software
clients have that capability. Then you won't have to get so upset when a
newbie or even a "not so newbie" accidentally forgets. Take actions into
your
Hey All;
I am on vacation this week. However, for all of you who want to see my
census templates, I will upload them to this list when I return to
civilization on Monday, Aug. 6.
In the meantime, this is what I do in a nutshell:
1) Under view, Master source, I create a template for eve
But as soon as you open a secondary window in either view you can't
open a window in the other view. For example open an Individuals
Information and you can go to the other view and do anything. So you
still end up having to close the secondary window or if you go another
layer down two windows. I
Thanks for build 155! But should it destroy my carefully set up screen
layout? I see from the notes that you tried to help first-time users.
But I've been using Legacy daily for several years! Naughty Millennia!
Have a smacked wrist!
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg.
Have you unlocked the r
Randolph, I just tried to duplicate Pat's method of using event entry for
census,. The notes box accepted a huge input and did not overflow, and is
all included on the family group sheet, (30 Full Lines ) and all of it was
printed. The Spouse, however was pushed to the next page, but I have never
s
Jim,
I spoke too fast -- the computer went clunk, clunk, because there were
minimized notes on my screen. When I closed those I had no trouble
maneuvering around.
Thanks a million!
Pat
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To:
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 6:0
Jim, I have 1536MB of RAM! That is surely enough!
Any other ideas?
Pat
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From: "Jim Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 6:00 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Research guidance & Legacy entries
Pat,
I have no trouble using Research Guidance in
Gary Crull wrote:
My sentiments exactly!!
More people get bent out of shape over what are mostly honest mistakes by
newbie's or not so new users. Be a little tolerant and cut them some
slack. Repeat offenders should be dealt with accordingly, but to come
down on some of these mistakes gives the
Just another thought, I always add a date, even if it is only the date
I found something. While it may not seem too relevant now, in 25
years time (or longer) it will have gained relevance. I date
everything and always appreciate it years down the line.
Cheers, Mitch
On 7/30/07, Sharon Perdue <
Pat,
I have no trouble using Research Guidance in split screen mode. I can
navigate to people, access them from the Name List, edit them, etc. If your
pc is going "clunk,clunk" when you try these things you might not have
enough RAM.
Jim Terry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
-Original
Well, I hadn't tried it, but I have now. When I got the Split Screen, I had
the same family on both screens. So in the left-hand screen I selected
Research Guidance and did a bit of searching and found a list of children.
In the right-hand screen I attempted to bring up the oldest child but wh
Helen Barton wrote
would like to find out if any one knows how to properly document those
important scraps of paper from family genealogies that aren't e-mails
or letters and are just as important to keep and document.
I have created a Master Source called "Family Records and Research
Materia
I have notes I found in a book that belonged to my great grandmother. Here
is how I sourced it:
Title: Notes - handwritten
Comments: Found in a book that belonged to Ollie BEAN WISECARVER, yellowed
paper, showing death dates of her father's siblings and his parents and her
father. These are
On 30 Jul 2007 Jim Terry wrote:
> Have you tried using Legacy in split screen view? Just click on View
> and select Split Screen View from the pull-down menu. Don't open a
> family file in the new window; but instead select Research Guidance in
> first screen. You can then use the second screen t
My sentiments exactly!!
More people get bent out of shape over what are mostly honest mistakes by
newbie's or not so new users. Be a little tolerant and cut them some
slack. Repeat offenders should be dealt with accordingly, but to come
down on some of these mistakes gives the list a bad rap IMHO!
Hi,
I'm brand new at this. I would like to find out if any one knows how to
properly document those important scraps of paper from family genealogies
that aren't e-mails or letters and are just as important to keep and
document. I've checked Elizabeth Shown Mills book "Evidence" with no
success.
I am not sure what version of MailEnable the listserv uses but it
clearly shows how to set up a filter for attachments on the mailenable
knowledgebase. The same should be able to be done for html.
Jim
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Have you tried using Legacy in split screen view? Just click on View and
select Split Screen View from the pull-down menu. Don't open a family file
in the new window; but instead select Research Guidance in first screen. You
can then use the second screen to get to other people in the family file.
You will need both pieces of information if you were to actually find the
record in the National Archives which is the primary source. I list
Ancestry.com as the repository. Ancestry likes to muddy the waters by adding
their name to everything when all they are is a repsitory and not the primary
I think there would be too much information and it would either overflow the
little box/area used for description when printing a FAMILY Group Record or it
might force the little box so far that it would corrupt the date field. I have
had problems (see archives) with the date field when trying
It always fascinates me that someone makes a mistake and people on the list
complain so much that there is far more time and bandwidth wasted chastising
them than the original message took up. Why can't folks just let Sherry
deal with it offline.
Marty McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NOTE: All messa
Hi all. I’m new to Legacy and am having some trouble entering my source
information, despite looking at examples I’ve found on the internet.
For example, I found cemetery records on the Waupaca county, Wisconsin
GenWeb site (http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/). It is part of the
WIGenWeb, which
Why not use the (empty) description field for the Roll, Page & Image info?
On 7/30/07, Pat Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I followed the advice of a very active and knowledgable local
> Legacy user (and member of this group) when I first started using
> Legacy about a year ago. She suggeste
Barb,
You'll probably see more icons if you enlarge Legacy to full screen.
To remove any icon, make sure you drag it to the background of the customize
window - behind the section where you see the available icons, not the same
part of the window where the icons are.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sh
No there is not a difference. An image is interpretted as an
attachment in plain text mail. This is the way the e-mail standard
works. You attached a jpg. You can not include images in plain text
mail. ASCII won't support it.
Jim
On 7/30/07, Pat Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don, and any oth
This IMHO is a big weakness in legacy. You can not change from one
window dialog to another. You have to close them. Thus you have to go
through this additional step of the copy paste/copy paste.
Jim
On 7/28/07, Pat H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Post-It notes as well as word processors, b
Pat,
Graphics cannot be included in plain text messages - it just won't happen.
You can include them in HTML messages, however we do not want users to use
HTML either because the size of an HTML message can be considerably larger
than the same message in plain text, depending on the inclusion of p
Hello Pat,
I can understand you thought were posting in text, but if you include an
image, you are *not* posting in text, but in html. Plain text means just
that - text - and nothing else. Many email clients will add images as an
attachment. It's just a shame that the new Legacy host does not allo
I'm having trouble getting a Temple icon to appear on my family group...I've
followed directions about the right clicking and dragging etc but still
can't get it to appear.also, I can't seem to remove one either, because
I know that only 10 can appear..is there something I'm not doing to
Don, and any other interested parties,
Not to be hard-nosed, but there is a difference between "included
within" a message and an "attachment" to a message. I was able
to cut and paste a picture of the EVENTS screen INSIDE the
message (not as an attachment to). In fact, if you take a good
ha
Don,
Attachments are not allowed, but unfortunately when we switched servers, we
weren't given the option to remove attachments nor can we convert HTML to
plain text (we ask that users not send message in HTML either). We just
have to trust that the listers will follow the LUG guidelines.
It wou
Pat
I was not referring to you alone as last week there were two other postings
with attachments.
Any time you attach anything, picture, text file, html file or anything, it
arrives at everyone's mail box as an attachment.
You could put it on a web page and then include the web address in the
emai
My apologies to Don and the rest of the group. That was not an
attachment that was included with my message but an INCORPORATED
picture of the EVENT screen; incorpirated within the message to
help people understand better what I was trying to describe. I
had no idea that it would come across
What is going on with the Group.
I have always thought that sending attachments was a huge no-no for the
group but lately there seems to be a rash of attachments appearing. I was
under the impression that people that failed to adhere to the guidelines of
etiquette were going to be unsubscribed wit
I am interested in seeing your census templates, if you don't mind sharing
with me also.
I have really been struggling with this one. I find myself putting to much
info in the SOURCE.
thanks
betty looper
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From: "Janis Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECT
I have set up census templates, as Linda suggested, and I like the way it is
working for me.
Linda, I think you are the one who offered to share your census source
templates? Would you mind sending me a copy?
Thanks,
Janis Gilmore
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