Hi Darlene,
Is it possible that you have two Legacy installations on the second
computer - one that is updated to the latest build and one that
isn't? This could happen if you shifted program files after
installation or if for some other reason the Registry was corrupted.
If you cancel out o
Well, Cathy has said something that I have wanted to say for some
time. I have been on a number of genealogy lists for about ten years,
and this list has more harshness and rudeness than any list I have
ever been on. I am surprised that it is tolerated.
Sara
.
>
>
> Cathy Champion wrote:
>
> >
I think that sometimes we forget that American English is not the first
language of many subscribers to this list. The variety of Legacy users
increases spelling and grammar differences, which may be the root of
some misunderstandings. That said, there has been an uptick in whining
lately. A
To the group:
I am new to this group and am wondering why so many people on this list are
so cranky.
It makes me hesitate to ask questions for fear of getting a rude reply.
For instance, I was interested in the posts about trimming emails and the
difference about top and botto
Hi everyone,
Today I installed Legacy 6 using my purchased cd on
a second computer. I then went to the Legacy website
and downloaded the updates. When I make a copy of my
fdb. file and try to open it on second computer, it
says, "cannot open family file, you are trying to open
a file that requi
June,
That's *not* what I said. My response was:
"I would not expect the option you're looking for to be in v7. I haven't
had any other requests for this and it's not on the enhancement request list
so it doesn't appear to be something that others have looked for. The
programmers aren't looking
Since it is often more convenient to follow a thread if the prior messages
are left on a reply and it seams to be the multiple stuff that Legacy adds
to the bottom of every e:mail that bothers people why don't Legacy add the
'dash dash space' ahead of their footer?
I know that to reduce clutte
Cathy, as you will see, I said that I was very thankful for the Chronology
report. I have explored it fully for getting various views of reports from
it, but at this point it is not a report that I am after. It certainly is
better than nothing at all but it is not as helpful as having them along
You can have the age at each event on the Chronology Report - have
you explored that?
Cathy
At 09:40 AM 18/08/2007, you wrote:
Well, June - you are not the only one. I also miss this from
RootsMagic. I was a long time Legacy user who jumped ship a year
or so ago and tried RootsMagic. I had to
Well, June - you are not the only one. I also miss this from
RootsMagic. I was a long time Legacy user who jumped ship a year
or so ago and tried RootsMagic. I had to return to Legacy mainly
because in RootsMagic there was no way of excluding parts of the
Source detail from export, and I need that
I would dearly like to have ages at events showing alongside each event (as
they do in RootsMagic). I have put in a request for this a couple of times but
have been told by Sherry that as I am the only one who has asked for it there
is no likelihood of it coming.
I know the ages are there in va
Sorry to say but libraries using AACR2 (now revised) rules when
cataloguing have two treatments - Dutch names get alphabetised by
first capital letter while English names using van Helsing etc get
alphabetised by van. When I did cataloguing I had to check with the
author on which treatment to use.
That was definitely news to me, Renee.
My tip isn't even mine - I am thrilled with Linda Altman's idea about source
templates, and have created a number of them. In addition to census, I have
the online Missouri Death certif's, Civil War Pension files, Land Entry
files and a number of others.
Wow. I didn't know that Dave. Guess I've got some new materials for Legacy
News. :)
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
Millennia Corporation
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www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
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Sent: Friday, August
On 17 Aug 2007 Renee Zamora wrote:
> If you have the husband or wife highlighted and then click in the
> middle between them on the background it will rotate through the
> highlighted person's siblings. If you click on the background to
> left of the husband or right of the wife, depending on wh
I was surprised when I read that people didn't know about typing the surname,
given name in the index to go quickly to that name. It gave me the idea to
send everyone in the group my favorite legacy tip.
In the family view
If you have the husband or wife highlighted and then click in the middle
Ok, but I think the code should be at the beginning of the file called:
GeoStateCodes-Alt.txt
The 1st 20 or so lines will then look like this:
* ===
* Legacy GeoDB State/Province List.
*
* Comment lines can be added to this file by placing an
Like Mitch, Age at Death is greyed out. But at any rate, this is not exactly
what I was thinking of. I would like to include an individual's age for a
variety of events: age at marriage, immigration, and other important
milestones/achievements in a person's life. I figured sentence definition
field
Just use my text on my 1st email - it will add Co to the end of county
and USA to the end which you may not want to do.
Chap
On 8/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Leon,
>
> ps, sorry bout the HTML. My address for the list is set to
> send plain text. I told you my 'sen
The problem is that the email doesn't come in from LUG, it comes in
from each person's personal email address. I am guessing that is why
when new people send an email, it goes right into the spam folder.
GMAIL hasn't read their email addresses before.
Susan
On 8/17/07, Cricket Hackmann <[EMAIL PR
Hi Again Leon,
I took a chance and did it. So, the change was made to
"GeoExtraCodes-Alt"
and not to the County or State file. It is done. AND yes - I did
make an "Alt" file for each one so if/when I mess it up I can fix
it again. Now I just have to try it out.
Thanks,
Myrna
Have you unlo
I find a hard copy is much better for me as I can not sit up for very
long so the hard copy allows me to read the message in a much more
comfortable position.
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Dublin, Wicklow &
Wexford - please ???
-Ori
To Mike FRY.
I find a hard copy is much better for me as I find it hard to see the
screen and I can not sit up for very long so the hard copy allows me to
read the message in a much more comfortable position.
I hope you are feeling better after your lack of compassion - obviously
NO BREEDING
Reg
Note that you need both the regular LUG address, plus the LegacyChart
address. I've made sure I have both and things are looking better for
me now.
Mitch
On 8/17/07, Elaine O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This group is already in my list of contacts and I'm still getting a
> lot of LUG mail
Jim and Sherry,
I too use gmail and for the most part like it. I have found that it has a
pretty effective spam filter so every once in a while I have to go rescue
some responses from commercial companies that gmail thinks might be spam. I
just tell it it's not spam and thereafter they get right
Hi Leon,
ps, sorry bout the HTML. My address for the list is set to
send plain text. I told you my 'senior moments' were at work
today. Sometimes I cheat and do a "reply" to someone else's
message and then change the subject. Guess I better stop doing
that or pay more attention to the message
ps, sorry bout the HTML. My address for the list is set to
send plain text. I told you my 'senior moments' were at work
today.
Thanks for the info on changing the geo codes. I will do that.
Guess I better wait until tomorrow - maybe a good nights sleep
will help. And the change is to be do
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 7:30 AM
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Citation Style
>
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I have been following the discussion on sourcing citations with great
> interest. It seems that E.S. Mills' new book has ins
This group is already in my list of contacts and I'm still getting a
lot of LUG mail going to my SPAM folder. I'm just checking it two or
three times a day and dealing with it that way.
Elaine in the Beautiful Missouri Ozarks
> On 8/17/07, Paul A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Mitch,
> >
> >
I have LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com in my gmail Contact List, and I
still get about 20-25% of my LUG messages sent automatically to the Spam
folder. I've even set up a filter to give the LUG messages their own
"label," but that isn't enough of a clue to gmail. I'd sure like to figure
this
following the discussion on sourcing citations with great
> interest. It seems that E.S. Mills' new book has inspired people to think
> about updating their Legacy citations to match her style guide. Some people
> want to wait, some are revising sources, some are using their own person
I'm sorry, but we are all llisted under D, not under B. "Bruyne, de" looks just
wrong, and so does a listing:
Bruyne
Debruyne
Buysse
All I meant was that how people spell them and how people _regard_ their
surnames is personal. And I firmly believe that your correct name and spelling
is what yo
Myrna:
Here are the code names that appear in file:
GeoExtraCodes.txt
* APPLY TO SELECTED LOCATION
* ==
* When a user selects a location in a specific country, Legacy can
* perform the following commands when assembling the parts
*110 = (not functional at this time.
Messages sent from gmail to Lists go into Sent mail. They don't show
up until someone replies. Then the new thread appears in your Inbox.
If you want the Sent message to show straight away, you can cc to
yourself. But you end up with the duplicated message at the start of
the thread.
Relax - 99% of
FYI: I have never found a setting for that, it is just something we
GMAIL users have to get used to. When we get a reply, or we reply to
another message and don't change the subject, our sent email shows up
in the thread.
Susan
On 8/17/07, Sherry/Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I ju
Myrna:
Just a note:
The list standard is for everyone to use plain text and not HTML email
like you have submitted to the list.
Answer to you question:
Add the following text in from on the USA Geo State information in the
file called GeoStateCodes.txt and then save the file with a new name
of:
G
Yep, you fixed that one as well. Thanks again, Paul! Mitch
On 8/17/07, Paul A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mitch,
>
>
>
> I don't do many reports other than the Books type of reports. Until I just
> checked things out, I didn't realize that you could only tick the "Age at
> Death" on the "Bo
At 18:53 17/08/2007, Bert van Kootwijk wrote:
Its not "all Personal"
Look in the Dutch phonebook. Sorting is without
"de" , "van de", "van" aso. Thats just the
reason why the translation teams strongly
request this type of sorting. Look for instance
at Brothers Keeper which has this feature
t. It seems that E.S. Mills' new book has inspired people to think
about updating their Legacy citations to match her style guide. Some people
want to wait, some are revising sources, some are using their own personal
systems.
__ NOD32 2468 (20070817) Information __
This m
Thanks Paul. I just did that and will see what happens. Mitch
On 8/17/07, Paul A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mitch,
>
> There was discussion a couple days ago about gmail suddenly "spamming" the
> LUG messages. When I checked, I had 109 LUG messages in the spam folder. I
> would read a re
Mitch,
There was discussion a couple days ago about gmail suddenly "spamming" the
LUG messages. When I checked, I had 109 LUG messages in the spam folder. I
would read a reply and think my memory was really bad because I couldn't
remember the original question or comment being posted. I found t
Mitch,
I don't do many reports other than the Books type of reports. Until I just
checked things out, I didn't realize that you could only tick the "Age at
Death" on the "Books/Other" reports. Maybe that option should be available
on the other reports as well?
--
Paul
"What a glorious
I think that is also standard library usage, at least when I was working
in libraries.
Elizabeth C
Bert van Kootwijk wrote:
This may be correct in some countries, but in most European countries
the sorting is done on the main part of the surname. So my surname
"van Kootwijk" is sorted
Jim,
I just responded to you personally - the messages are getting through. The
problem is that gmail doesn't return messages that you send to lists. There
may be a setting in gmail to get them, I don't know, but they're being received
on the lists.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer
I respectfully disagree. We file great composers under the major part of
their name: Beethoven, not von Beethoven; Falla, not de Falla.
Tom
On 8/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If I'm not mistaken... the "de", "von", "van" are part of the surname and
> should be treate
Hello Listers,
A while back there were instructions on how to make the word 'County' stick
to the geo information. I have just been to the archives and cannot find it.
Also checked the tips but did not find it there either. I am really having
'senior moments' today. Can someone please tell m
Its not "all Personal"
Look in the Dutch phonebook. Sorting is without "de" , "van de", "van" aso.
Thats just the reason why the translation teams strongly request this type of
sorting. Look for instance at Brothers Keeper which has this feature for years.
Bert
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Janis,
I am glad to hear about the online version of Mills' book; the computer does
make searches much easier. And I like your strategy for cleaning up your
source file. Legacy makes it easier, but there is still a lot of hard work
there. I am going to try your method on my own files. It is a good
Jim,
Your emails are getting there. Two of us have responded to you from that
list. Mitch
On 8/17/07, Jim Liddil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Legacy support my e-mail is not getting to the chart list server. Can
> someone investigate as I am not even sure my mail is getting to
> support whic
Hello all,
I think it's all personal. You have to accept that no matter how you sort it,
you'll never have them all together, because some people divide the suffix and
others don't. My mother-in-law is Vande Walle, her brother's family are all Van
De Walles, while their father was Vandewalle.
Legacy support my e-mail is not getting to the chart list server. Can
someone investigate as I am not even sure my mail is getting to
support which I sent directly.
Jim
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It got to me; much of my Legacy is going to the Spam folder. Mitch
On 8/17/07, Jim Liddil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am testing if e-mail gets to this list.
>
> Jim
>
>
> Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92
> features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn
Well said, Denise.
Elizabeth Shown Mills' new book, is available as a pdf download, for $29. I
have the book on my shelf already, but immediately downloaded it when I
heard it was available in that form. It makes it really easy to enter a
search term ("land entry" or whatever) and go directly t
Sorry - I sent this to the wrong group!
On 8/17/07, Heather Stovold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Just got started today (it has been a crazy week) -
>
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Just got started today (it has been a crazy week) - I'm still running
the search wizard to find my databases. I know it says it will take several
minutes (and believe me, it is) - just wondering - it is currently
searching all my temporary internet files. Couldn't it skip those
directori
It came though here so working OK.
Glenrose
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This may be correct in some countries, but in most European countries the
sorting is done on the main part of the surname. So my surname "van Kootwijk"
is sorted under "K" .
Bert
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Hello Jenny,
Friday, August 17, 2007, 6:12:25 AM, you wrote:
> Maureen Chambers wrote
>>I use Outlook Express. I just highlighted text from your message, then
>>>File>Print>Selection and Print and it worked for me.
> Thanks for correcting me Maureen. It was that extra step of selecting
> Sele
And as a software developer (not of Legacy) I have another point.
I used to work on manufacturing software. One day, while working on a new
feature in one of our software packages, I discovered a gigantic bug in
another programmer's work. I realized immediately, that the bug could,
under the rig
I am testing if e-mail gets to this list.
Jim
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Paul,
I just tried this and the Age at Death option is always greyed out for me.
How do I make it come "alive"?
Cheers, Mitch
On 8/17/07, Paul A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Oops. I meant to say check the tick box where it says "age at death"
> under
> things to include.
>
> --
> Paul
>
> "
If I'm not mistaken... the "de", "von", "van" are part of the surname and
should be treated as such (despite the fact that the translation is as simple
as
"of".
If a person is named Wilhelm Von Friesburg - his surname is Von Friesburg...
Friesburg (supposition) is the name of the place his
Wow! A high school that teaches documentation of sources! I AM
impressed. That skillset has dropped from the curriculum of many
schools. As a result, I find three trains of thought when I cover
documenting in genealogy classes: 1) those who document in some fashion;
2) those who understand
Thanks for the quick response, Sherry. There wasn't a PPL file in the data
folder, but I deleted the RptProbs.usr and the ProbsList.usr files, and that
did the trick.
Christine
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Sherry/Support
Sent: 17 Augus
Oops. I meant to say check the tick box where it says "age at death" under
things to include.
--
Paul
"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
>
> Hi Cathy. I guess I don't understand
Christine,
You don't have to "add" or "override anything. Just go to the reports
options and check the tick box to include ages.
--
Paul
"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
>
Excellent, practical comments. Thanks, Denise! Mitch
On 8/17/07, Denise Levenick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I have been following the discussion on sourcing citations with great
> interest. It seems that E.S. Mills' new book has inspired people to think
> about updating their
Hello All,
I have been following the discussion on sourcing citations with great
interest. It seems that E.S. Mills' new book has inspired people to think
about updating their Legacy citations to match her style guide. Some people
want to wait, some are revising sources, some are using their own p
Thank you Jenny & Maureen, I have learned something new, let's face it you
are NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN!!
Yvonne
www.buxtonairedales.com
"Never look for a worm
in the apple of your eye"
Langston Hughes
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Hi list;
This also works on the Marriage list, and the Index view.
Sure helps in getting to whom you looking for very fast.
Clancy
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McGlone
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 6:52 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyf
Hi Cathy. I guess I don't understand how to add the "...at age n..." in the
Event Sentence Override screen. I know how to modify the sentences but don't
see an option for inserting the age like you can with, for example,
[CoupleFirstNames].
By the way, it's funny the example you used...I happen to
Well, you live and learn!! I never knew that. Thanks, Jim.
On 16/08/07, Jimquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When you open the "Name List", type the surname in the surname box, then a
> comma, and then start to type the first name that you desire. That should
> go quickly...
>
Have you unloc
I second Maureen. I am also over 70, was programming computers in
1955, and have also been involved in personal computers since 1980, and
have installed a couple of systems in places I worked I am not set in
my ways either, but I also prefer to watch how things go and the
problems that arise
Yvonne Murgatroyd wrote
I also use Outlook Express, and although I did the highlight bit, I do
not have "File-Print-Selection!! Where would one find this??
You select Print from the File menu and get a dialog box where you
select how many copies to print, which pages, etc. In the area headed
Yvonne Murgatroyd wrote: "I did the highlight bit, I do not
have "File-Print-Selection!! Where would one find this??"
After you've highlighted the part/s of the message you want to print, click
on File, click on Print, click on Selection (shown as an option at the left
in the body of the pr
> > I use Outlook Express. I just highlighted text from your message, then
> >File>Print>Selection and Print and it worked for me.
I also use Outlook Express, and although I did the highlight bit, I do not
have "File-Print-Selection!! Where would one find this??
Yvonne
Have you unlocked t
Same here, Maureen!!! I've taught many a younger person how to use a
computer. My hearing may be a bit weak, but my brain isn't!! I purposely
didn't trim the entire message, Mike Fry, just so you'd know I'm responding
to your poorly worded e-mail.
Ruth A. (Sconza Testa) Nerud
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Well I’ll be blowed! What a great tip. I have often wondered if there was
a quicker way to locate a particular person in the surnames with hundreds of
names! Thank you!
Cheers,
Jan
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Sent: Friday
Maureen Chambers wrote
I use Outlook Express. I just highlighted text from your message, then
File>Print>Selection and Print and it worked for me.
Thanks for correcting me Maureen. It was that extra step of selecting
Selection that I missed because I don't have to do that in Turnpike, it
Mike Fry wrote "Secondly, I've been trying for ages to get the old
fuddy-duddys around
here to try this and also to learn to trim messages. No good. They're all
far too set in their ways. Either that or they're scared to touching
anything they don't know about."
Oh, spare us! I might be old (
Valeris Garton wrote:
I am being driven mad by having to go to edit, edit message every time
before I can print anything, so as to delete all the Legacy stuff at the
bottom. I am trying to save another tree !!
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROW
Jenny Benson wrote: "I can print any part of a message just by
highlighting the section I want before clicking the print button, which I
don't think works in Outlook. (It certainly doesn't in Outlook Express.)
I use Outlook Express. I just highlighted text from your message, then
>File>Print
Valeris Garton wrote
I am being driven mad by having to go to edit, edit message every time
before I can print anything, so as to delete all the Legacy stuff at
the bottom. I am trying to save another tree !!
I have to say that it would save a lot more trees if you did not print
the mess
Hi Christine,
Where would you want to put it?
Currently you can choose to have it appear in the basic information sentence.
eg:
Mary Ann was born on 22 Sep 1809 in Harwich, Essex, England, was
baptised on 8 Nov 1811 in St Nicholas', Harwich,
Essex, England, died in 1883 in Melbourn, Cambridg
Karl Plenge wrote
With reading all the problems people have had when they download new
revisions of Legacy, I just wondered if that might not be a prudent
approach to take toward this as well, but I am new to this board and
realize there may be reasons not to follow this logic that I am not
aw
Not sure if this should be a new topic, but does anyone know if the new
Legacy version will have a sentence definition field for age at the time of
the event? That would be a wonderful thing!
Thanks,
Christine
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Not sure if this should be a new topic, but does anyone know if the new
Legacy programme will have a field for a person's age of death to put into
sentence definitions? That would be great!
Christine
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