I am wondering how others record information about a person's death. I've
been entering Cause of Death and using the area just below to record notes
regarding the death. But, I've just discovered that, when you produce a
narrative report (for example), the report only states the cause of death
and
Try right clicking in the blue bar at the top of the screen. It should
give you a resize option. Perhaps that will be of use to you.
Dawn
June wrote:
I have just re-installed Legacy on my computer and suddenly the screen
area is too big for my screen. I cannot see all at the right hand size
Thank you for the help Mitch, I have been able to grap the blue line and
resize the screen but regardless of how small I make the screen I still
can't see all the contents of the Legacy screen - I am still missing out a
section of the boxes on the right hand size and also the bottom. Is it
poss
I have just re-installed Legacy on my computer and suddenly the screen area
is too big for my screen. I cannot see all at the right hand size or at the
bottom. All other programmes are fine and the text size on the legacy
screens are fine.
Could someone please advise how I can change the size
Can someone tell me how to search for a source entitled "DLW Database"?
I have tried to find the answer in Help AND in the Archives but as usual I
can't find how to do that.
I don't know how I have it entered inb the Source List name -- but,
unfortnately, not so that it begins with either 'D
June,
If you can see the top of the window (the big blue line), double click
on that and it should resize to fit the screen. If you can;t see it,
try to move the window down until you can.
Cheers, Mitch
On 9/7/07, June <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just re-installed Legacy on my computer an
Try Search and Replace > Find where: Source-Title - Find what: DLW
Database and if no succes try other Source fields.
(Don't replace anything but to be sure make the Replacement text the
same as the Find what text and choose the option Replace only found
text with replacement text).
Evert
2007/9/
June,
On our website at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Solutions by
Error Description you'll find some things to consider under the section
"Screen Problems"
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We a
I use the area under cause of death for any medical notes, such as illness,
surgery, etc throughout the person's life. Any notes related to the death, I
put in Death Notes.
Nancy
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From: "Christine Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfam
Googling "dlw database" will provide you with the answer.
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From: "Pat Hickin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LegacyUG"
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:12 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Searching Master Sources
Can someone tell me how to search for a source entitled "DLW
Ralf X wrote
Do people create Events for birth, marriage, obits and death
announcements? I've been transcribing them, but not sure where to have
them appear (they look a little goofy as text with sources).
And if yes, are they announcements or notices?
I have created an Event named "Press" a
I really like Family Atlas, it seems to have a very complete list of
locations for Europe, and it a good a good mapping program. I like its
"Nearby Places" feature, where I can enter a place name, radial distance,
get a list of locations, sort them by distance of place name, and save the
list as
Unless I am misunderstanding the question, I would look in View > Master Lists
> Source. . . In the Find: box type dlw and it should be at the top of the list.
If it actually starts with another letter or word, then you would just scroll
through the list until you find it.
Bob Rowe
St. Paul, MN
Ralf, Wendy, Cathy, Jenny:
Thank you all for a very useful and stimulating subject. This is one part
of Legacy that I feel is open to some improvement - at least the user
interface part of sourcing. I have been and still am in a bit of a quandry
as to how to handle the various kinds of sources a
>From the legacy help file "What is Legacy":
"Legacy is a family history computer program ... etc."
Legacy is allready much more then just a genealogy programm (see the
Publishing Center in the report section) and that's how I like it.
Evert
> Should Legacy be developed along the lines of a Fa
If Millenia wants to survive as a company, it must go the Family History
route. A Family History program can be used by everybody, including the
purists; a Genealogy program can only be used by the purists. They would be
foolish to limit their market any way.
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Wa
Wow, that's a hard thing to consider. I would hate to have to see the
program all rewritten over link FTM 2008 just went through. But on the other
hand is it worth it to get the things we want. I would love to have
witnesses but I hear that it a requires a re-write to accomplish that.
What I
Thanks, Evert -- I forgot about trying search AND replace -- it worked like a
charm -- I had listed it as Rootsweb-DLW. It worked like a charm! Many, many
thanks!
Pat
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From: Evert van Dijken
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, September
Wayne,
Your example of a Genealogy Program for purists would be what?
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne
Martell
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:47 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: Legacy: Family History
I use Legacy because I want to trace my blood line
back as far as I can. I could care less about family
history or some odd relationship between two people of
the same sex. So far, I have not found one homosexual
relationship in my family going back to 1800. Maybe
this is because my family is
Renee,
Unfortunately the "it would require a complete program rewrite" has
become the standard mantra for the Millennia folks. They want to stay
competitive, but they refuse to offer any of the features that their
competition does offer. Both TMG and Genbox offer a witness feature.
Genbox
Darlene,
You are too narrow minded. I may not believe in that type of relationship,
but I am also educated enough to know that those relationships are as old as
marriage itself. Just because we don't come across written "confessions"
doesn't mean they didn't exist in our genealogies.
I think
Could we please get on with genealogy and away from the same sex
discussions. I don't see it as a necessity so let it go.
Ann
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I use Legacy because I want to trace my blood line
back as far as I can. I could care less about family
history or some odd relationship between two people of
the same sex. So far, I have not found one homosexual
relationship in my family going back to 1800. Maybe
this is because my family
Homosexual relationships are not a factor in geneology but then neither are
re-marriages, adoptions, orpans, step relationships.
>
> From: Dave Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2007/09/07 Fri PM 08:46:15 EDT
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: Re: Legacy: Family History or Ge
Joe:
By developing a program for genealogists only, as was recommended/advocated
by Bill Anderson, Millenia would be catering to the people who have a very
restricted view of what should be included - no adopted children, no gays,
etc. These are the people I call the purists.
However, I beli
Hi everyone,
I politely asked that there be no more discussion of this topic (homosexual
relationships). Apparently some people either didn't see that post by me or
have chosen to ignore it. (See my post of Thurs. 9/6/2007, 8:28 AM, subject:
RE: [LegacyUG] Homosexual Entries.)
Please review http:
What kind of record do you think you could find, going back to 1800,
indicating the sexual preferences of your ancestors?
If you are going to exclude homosexual couples because they don't have
children, you need to exclude childless couples.
I presume this list is moderated? It is inexcusable f
Now that was a very logical and excellent point. You have made me re-think
my position. I would think that should settle the matter. Now we should
leave it up to Legacy to decide how it should be placed on the priority
list. They know how it would affect programming issues and do-ability.
Ren
Well they are in the middle of one thing innovative. The ability for Legacy
to work with the New FamilySearch program. This is going to change they way
everyone finds and collaborates their research with others. Who knows what
is planned for version 10, 11 or 12. Sure would love to be fly list
I have been trying to clean up discrepancies and duplications in my
Master Lists.
When I find two addresses that are spelled slightly differently, and
edit them so they are spelled the same, the addresses merge and I have
one address. When I do that with Source Lists, (like birth
announcemen
Not a discussion- just a comment.
Any genealogical/family historian program offered to the general public
should not be biased toward or against any one particular culture or
religion. Since in some contries and at least one state homosexuals can
legally marry and are thus LEGAL spouses such s
I hope I'm wrong but it seems to me that Legacy may be going down the
same road Ultimate Fasmily Tree went down.
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From: Ron Bernier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 6:53 pm
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family His
I have currently have the scans of my documents named in a manner similar to
below. Windows recognizes that 2 comes after 1, 3 after 2, etc. So all is
well.
MS1 - file name.tif
MS2 - file name.tif
MS3 - file name.tif
MS100 - file name.tif
MS200 - file name.tif
MS300 - file name.tif
MS1000 - file
Based on what I have been reading here, am I correct in assuming that
step-children, adopted children, and 2 or more marriages, etc. are things
that Legacy can't handle? I hope I won't be unsubscribed for asking the
question, but I'm beginning to wonder how realistic this program really is.
Thanks
Rob-
This is not an ideal answer, but it might be your most "workable" one.
Consider what your highest number might be. Let's assume for this
purpose it will be 45819 at the very, very most.
To get it to sort correctly, pad it. That number is five digits, so make
sure each number is five di
Rob Miller, Hello
I don't know that you can tweak Legacy but what I do is always 4 digit
numbers. That is 0001, 0002, 0010, 0020, 0100, 0200 etc. This always keeps them
in order
Laurence E Stephenson, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
08-09-07
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From: Rob Miller
R
Is there a way to tweak Legacy to get the Load Picture window to "sort
Number Portion numerically" like the File ID Assistant window does with
File ID's?
Rob, Sort or file your number by:
ms1
ms2
ms3
This will keep everything numerically. Just start with enough zeros in
front my
I think your only way will be to renumber them as:
MS0001 - file name.tif
MS0002 - file name.tif
MS0003 - file name.tif
MS0100 - file name.tif
MS0200 - file name.tif
MS0300 - file name.tif
MS1000 - file name.tif
MS2000 - file name.tif
MS3000 - file name.tif
___
Wayne
Hey Robert:
Yeah, that will work, but unfortunately I am far enough into the mission,
I'm not really looking forward to having to change a whack of file names,
and then reattach them all back to their Master Source. I should have done
it a long time ago!
It may turn out to be the only way, but I
Legacy can handle all blood relationships including step without a problem. I
wish everyone would please remember that genealogy and family history are two
very different things. A scholarly genealogy is literally a list of "begats."
The "begats" with which most of us are familiar occur in the B
Thanks Laurence!
That is probably the route I will have to go.
Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurence E
Stephenson
Sent: September 7, 2007 10:26 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sort Number Portion Numerically?
Rob Miller, Hello
Thanks Bill, looks like this is the route I'll be going. :(
But I do like your example with small letters instead of capitals. The small
letters let the numbers stand out more.
Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill
Daniels
Sent: Septe
Well, that's it, I can't take anymore. I've been reading this negative
stuff for two days now. I've been doing genealogy for 17 years and I don't
think any of the other programs come even close to Legacy in what the
software offers for the price we pay for the product. What in the world do
you e
Hi Elizabeth,
If in your Master Source List you find you have two copies of the one
source, then use the bar at the bottom of the list to combine one
with the other. The source details will remain untouched.
If both copies of the source happened to be attached to the same
event for an indivi
Rob:
Sorry I don't know the answer, but I am curious what
other information you include in the file name. I am
just starting to file my documents using the MRIN
system, and need to come up with a good electronic
file naming system.
Ralf
--- Robert Carneal USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rob-
>
Elizabeth C,
If you want to combine sources, go to Sources and then check the
button in the bottom right hand corner called, "Combine Highlighted
Source with Another in List". Legacy allows you to have two
identically named sources. You can use this tool to combine them.
Cheers, Mitch
On 9/7/0
Rob:
This is not a Legacy problem. It is a Windows / computer feature.
If you want the files to sort correctly you will need to use something like
this:
MS0001 - file name.tif
MS0010 - file name.tif
MS0100 - file name.tif
MS0002 - file name.tif
MS0020 - file name.tif
MS0200 - file name.tif
MS0003
Hi Rob,
That's the way Windows sorts isn't it?
I always put in the zeros.
To add zeros without doing a heap of reattaching, you'd need to
change the filenames and then find them in Access and change them
there as well.
There are batch filename renaming programs. Some are more complex than ot
Legacy handles step-children, adopted children, multiple marriages, etc.
just fine. Better than some other programs I've used. No worries. (The
person was saying if a person wanted a program that only dealt with
basically what I'll call genetic genealogy) - that there would be no need
for these
Hi Cathy:
Yeah, the land of zero's here I come. Thanks for the idea about the batch
filename changing programs and working in Access. That will definitely help
reduce the rewrite time.
Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy
Sent: Sept
Just one quibble with the first sentence... blood relationships do
*not* include step; that is a social relationship having nothing to do
with blood.
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From: Alice Hawrilenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 9:32 pm
S
Hi Ralf:
My naming system is pretty simple (too simple apparently - OW!). But a "new
and improved" example of a file description is below:
ms00175 - SMITH, John (1884-1919) baptism registration [RIN9].tif
ms00200 - SMITH, John (1884-1919), DOE, Jane (1886-1930) marriage
registration [RIN9], [RIN
I'd venture to guess that most current Legacy owners use only a fraction
of the features available. Legacy owners are no more obligated to use
every single feature now, then they will be in the future--regardless of
the changes to the program.
Dawn
Darlene & Don Hicks wrote:
s
Hi Leon:
Yeah, I certainly goofed on that one! I guess I never expected to have so
many files, and it slowly got out of control.
But I've received some great ideas (thanks everyone!), so will work on
cleaning things up this weekend.
Thanks!
Rob
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[mailto:[E
Sorry Ralf, for some reason Outlook shoved the two file names together. It
should have read:
ms00175 - SMITH, John (1884-1919) baptism registration [RIN9].tif
ms00200 - SMITH, John (1884-1919), DOE, Jane (1886-1930) marriage
registration [RIN9], [RIN43].tif
Apparently not my night!
Rob
-O
Legacy can handle these relationships. It is quite flexible. For example:
On the family, pedigree, descendant, or index tab:
right click to add a spouse (even if one is already listed)
right click to view the spouse list, children list, parents list, &
siblings list
On the family tab i
Wayne,
What prevents a Legacy user from utilizing Legacy's current features to
construct a family history including Homosexual relatives?
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne
Martell
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 6:02 PM
To: Lega
What was the route that Ultimate Fasmily Tree went down?
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 6:37 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History
I've tried to send this through 3 seperate addresses. Perhaps one of you can
understand my frustration after 6 months and can forward this to the correct
email address to get my email address from your groups list. Although it is
most beneficial to someone who uses the Legacy program, it serve
No one can remove you from the list except yourself. The instructions for
doing so are on the very last line of every email, including this one.
Maureen
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email? Merely writing to the list will do no good. You have to do
this yourself.
Elaine in Missouri
On 9/8/07, patmacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've tried to send this through 3 seperate addresses. Perhaps one of you can
Despite checking on the Error Description on the website it still hasn't
changed things. I still can't see the bottom of the screen or the right hand
side. When I went to change a colour background (just in the hope that that
would help) I couldn't see the bottom of the screen so couldn't even s
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