Yes, I do that. My g grandmother's maiden name was shown as Sherring on her
son's birth certificate but on various censuses for her family earlier the
family is shown as Sherrin or Sherren so I have Sherren/Sherrin/Sherring in
the surnames progressively down the line. So far it hasn't cause any
Hi Tim. I have a collection of letters and greeting cards (over 60 of them!)
from my great-great-grandmother that she had sent to my great-grandparents.
I have scanned some of the more interesting ones and transcribed others.
Ive created a Word file to house this data and images. Above each image
I use LANE/LANE-HUDSON for myself and similar format for others who
were born with one surname and later changed it for various reasons.
In my case using stepfather's name, deed poll and marriage name
changes, with notes in private brackets [[]] listing dates etc. I use
AKAs for each variation of
I use Legacy with Passage Express to create autorun CD-ROMs. I've
found that PE regularly removes any _ for file names, so all files
with _ aren't found and I see the dratted box with the red cross for
my images etc that have _ in them. I've had to work around this by
changing all of my _ in
Elizabeth,
You could create a Master Source called Announcements, Author Family
Members, Type cards, Repository - self.
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Tim,
If they don't give any other information they do confirm the relationship,
so could be a source for the relationship event.
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Tracy,
I was not aware that PE did not accept _ in file names - that is
absolutely ridiculous and for that reason alone, for me, the program would
be more trouble that it's worth.
Ron Ferguson
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Pete wrote
I have a web site, and when I change the RIN number the photo's or documents
get matched up with the wrong person because the software uses the RIN
number to link.
What software are you using? If you let Legacy create the web pages,
your pictures and documents remain linked to the
Pete,
Legacy also uses the RINs for website names, but you can keep the existing
RINs when importing from a GEDCOM into a new file. I have also found that
with larger sites unchecking Reuse Abandoned RINs (OptionsCustomiseData
Defaults) is helpful should you only wish to update changed pages
ronald ferguson wrote
Elizabeth,
You could create a Master Source called Announcements, Author Family
Members, Type cards, Repository - self.
I'd do something like that, then put the details of each individual card
into the Source Detail fields.
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Phil Hawkins wrote
Could Legacy contain a 'File' notes section that could be printed as a
'forward' in a book, or viewed from legacy?
A section that would enable the family file compiler to explain certain
matters about the entire file, not just individual persons in it?
Excellent idea! I am
Phil,
I don't know if you can do what you want from the individual's picture
gallery, but you can do it from the Picture Center.
When it the Picture Center for the individual in question, go to the tab on
the far right that says Attached Pictures. Then in the box on the bottom
of the center
Nancy Bender wrote:
Phil,
I don't know if you can do what you want from the individual's picture
gallery, but you can do it from the Picture Center.
When it the Picture Center for the individual in question, go to the tab
on the far right that says Attached Pictures. Then in the box on the
Thanks to all who responded. Ron, your response brings up an interesting
question. In some of these letters, a person refers to my gr gr grandmother as
'cousin'. As of yet, I do not know how this person is a cousin, I just have
his name, and the letter. But even if I really did know how he
Let me put it this way, it can strip them sometimes or leave them in.
The inconsistancy annoys me, so I prefer to replace underscores with
hyphens.
Cheers
Tracy
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Tim, for any general sources that just give a name or are very general
(like a mention of an ancestor's name in a book), I just attach that
source to their name field. Then, I type the relevant text of the
book into the source notes so I can re-read it later if needed.
If I have something
Tim,
Personally I wouldn't call it a Witness Feature but a Fact. I suppose
one could create an Event called Relationship for things like this but I
don't. I would add the person as an unlinked individual (NewAdd Unlinked
Individual) with a note in General Notes for both the person and gr gr
Well, that is the reason I do not SPEND any money on Legacy, they claim a
lot of things, but,... there are much better free programs, I use Aldfaer;
it is in my natural language, so much easier,
genealogical greetings, Guido
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Guido,
Legacy is there also in Dutch !
http://www.LegacyNederlands.com
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Rob Hubert
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Zoek naar Aberson, van Brederode, Faure, Heijboer,
Hoogland, Hubert, Schuwer, Westerbeek van Eerten.
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From: Guido
Thanks Rich,
That's a great way to take care of this. I guess I was hoping that Legacy
would renumber from me up the tree, since I was the #1 RIN.
I am curious, are there any that have their RIN numbers organized from the
bottom up in their family tree...is their a program that can do
When I try to enter the event Alt. Birth - the date field disappears from
the screen, leaving only the description and location fields.
This happened the other day, and I didn't think too much of it; odd things
happen with computers sometimes, and are usually cured with the next closing
and
On 10 Sep 2007 Janis Gilmore wrote:
When I try to enter the event Alt. Birth - the date field disappears
from the screen, leaving only the description and location fields.
Start to add an Alt. Birth event then click on Edit Event Sentence
Definition. You'll likely find that the checkmark
The computer adds the people with the next number as
it finds them. If you really want to, you can add each
person in your order. Takes a long time, but everyone
is exactly where you want them. After the job is done,
it stays the way you wanted. Not great, but it works.
Rich in LA CA
--- Pete
That was it - thanks so much, Dave.
Janis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Naylor
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:40 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Alt. Birth - date field missing
On 10 Sep
The computer adds the people with the next number as
it finds them. If you really want to, you can add each
person in your order. Takes a long time, but everyone
is exactly where you want them. After the job is done,
it stays the way you wanted.
--- Pete McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mean from the Add Event screen? If so, the date field still appears
for me.
Robert
Janis Gilmore wrote:
When I try to enter the event “Alt. Birth” – the date field disappears
from the screen, leaving only the description and location fields.
This happened the other day, and I didn’t
Do you mean Alt Birth or Alt. Birth. Scroll the
choices to find how you have it set. Choose 'Edit
Event Sentence Description', Check the choices that
are 'missing' that you want.
Rich in LA CA
--- Janis Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I try to enter the event Alt. Birth - the
date field
ronald ferguson wrote
Personally I wouldn't call it a Witness Feature but a Fact. I
suppose one could create an Event called Relationship for things like
this but I don't. I would add the person as an unlinked individual
(NewAdd Unlinked Individual) with a note in General Notes for both the
No problem Jenny, You are welcome do the same for me sometime ;-)
Ron Ferguson
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Hi Robert, Have you considered Just going up your family line to your
earliest ancester and saving a descendant report, include embedded pictures,
and save it as a PDF file. You could go up each of the different branches
like your mother's side, your grandmother's, etc. Place each file in a
Thank you all for your ideas. For that letter with the cousin I will probrbaly
create the unlinked individual. And I have another 200 letters from a Civil
War ancestor, all part of the big collection. I will think of something about
those as well.
Tim
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From:
How do others on the list handle the filing of a 93 page complete pension
file? I am trying to put everything in notebooks, with sheet protectors.
This is obviously not going to fit that format. Although none of the
original sheets appear to have been legal size, the person at NARA who
copied the
In fact, how do you handle the whole file, start to finish? I plan not to
transcribe the whole file, nor to scan it. I will scan key pages, and attach
them to the appropriate events. I also plan to lightly number, in pen, each
of the pages for my own reference. Normally, I would print a label
Actually , I would and have used close to 45 page protectors for some large
hard-copies as a safty measure to protect the papers. Infact, I only put
one page per sheet protector. Then I have scanned all the documents so I
have a copy in case the original sheets become old and hard to read,
Janis,
I'll be interested to see what responses you receive on this query. I have
3 Civil War pension files on 8-1/2 x 14 paper. The Revolutionary War
pension file is on 11 X 17. I used the MRIN filing system in notebooks and
currently have a piece of paper in the appropriate sections
The more I try to work with Legacy, the more frustrated I become.
Today I printed 2 Individual Reports from my family file. One appears to be
fine and the other has a line through the column headings in the Event Name
line. It appears both in preview and when printed. I have closed out Legacy
and
AKA Names well here we go:
Kiblinger / Kopplinger / Caplinger / Kleplinger / Keplinger / Kublinger
/ Kepplinger / Koepplinger / and Keblinger
The above nine names were found searching for my ancestors. The correct
spelling came from a signature on a document. Keplinger. which was the
way
Wow, Marilyn. I am impressed! I do have a lot of sheet protectors (but, oh
gee!)
Janis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of marilyn
cebrowski
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 3:14 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE:
I would use sheet protectors, one page to a sheet. Not only that, I
would use legal size sheet protectors. Yes, you can get them, but
sometimes they are a pitr to find!
Robert
Janis Gilmore wrote:
How do others on the list handle the filing of a 93 page complete
pension file? I am trying
Okay - you are putting me to shame! Time to ratchet up a notch. (Again.)
Janis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert
Carneal USA
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 4:25 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re:
This has been previously reported to the programmers. The line only shows up
if you have Death Cause selected. If you deselect that option, the line
will go away.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
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http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are
When storing large documents of this type, I went to my local ARC (Area
Resource Center) archive and spoke to the archivist, she sold me an archive
(acid free) box and acid free folders to store the info, they were the same
boxes that they used for all of the naturalization papers. It works well
Well, I also put spelling variations for each individual in the AKA's
Basically, the main name I'm using goes in the appropriate name fields
and any variation or typo is put in as an AKA as found in the source (or
sources if more than one uses the same variation.) I then attach the
Thank you very much. I hope it's fixed in version 7.0
On 9/10/07, Sherry/Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has been previously reported to the programmers. The line only shows
up
if you have Death Cause selected. If you deselect that option, the line
will go away.
Thanks for using
Does anyone have a sitable format for event addresses that will allow
them to be printed out correctly?
If,for example, I put an event address for my birth I need to mark it as
different to an event address for a residence two years later, so that I
(and others) can distinguish the use for
I have a woman that never married but legally adopted a daughter. The
biological parents are unknown but I know that they could be entered as
another set of parents with their own marriage record. There is not a
marriage record to tie the adopted daughter to her single adopted mother.
If a
You do not have to have a marriage for this. 1 - Add the child to the
mother. 2 - In the marriage screen change the mother to just that mother
or whatever else you would care to use. 3 - In children settings/child
status show the child as adopted. Tom..
-Original
I don't use 3-ring binders for storing my records. I use boxes which
can easily be used for either letter or legal size documents in hanging
files. This allows me to have 1 box in which I can store my Civil War
pension files.
Mary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for your reply Tom. I am very familiar with the underlying structure
of the Microsoft Access database used by Legacy. The only way a child can
be linked to a parent is by way of a marriage record even if there is no
actual marriage. The marriage record has links to 2 spouses even if
Carl...it is a pre-definited search option already built-in to Legacy. Look at
Search then Miscellaneous Searches where you should see the radio button
Individuals with multiple parents to produce your list. I use it often to
check those in my database who are linked to multiple parents.
One
Error getting next deleted MRIN.
Error 3021: No current record.
Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN?
I get this message when I try to add a new person. I am unsure why or why
to click. If I click quit it quits the program if I click no or yes it
doesn't go away so I can't add a new person.
I think I'll search around and see what other people do to organize their
files. Seems like a lot of extra work to renumber RIN and MRIN files...And not
sure it is worth all the time and effort. Maybe it would be better to just let
the numbers stay as they are. Pete
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Well, I'd either have the marriage record setup for her to be linked up to
either an unknown person - or make a fake no person person set the
marriage status to NOT MARRIED. and then have the child linked to them
with the child status of adopted. And yeah, I'd add a bunch of notes.I
Judy Hampton wrote:
Error getting next deleted MRIN.
Error 3021: No current record.
Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN?
I get this message when I try to add a new person. I am unsure why or why
to click. If I click quit it quits the program if I click no or yes it
doesn't go away so I can't
Will excuse me! Please excuse my question and I will no longer bother
you'll again.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Young
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:45 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]
I wish the regulars on here didn't have to be so snide. People aren't going
to put up with that kind of behavior.
Thad Evotee
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On 9/10/07, Judy Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will excuse me! Please excuse my question and I will no longer bother
you'll again.
I have just upgraded my computer, and before this was done, everything was
saved from the old one into various folders etc.
Now I cannot get Legacy to open etc., am I going to have to download the
whole thing again and be online for over an hour??
Thanks
Yvonne
Legacy User Group
Janis,
I have 4 CW Pension files obtained from the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA). They range in size from 56 to 160 pages and all are
on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets. I haven't considered putting them in sheet
protectors because they are photocopies, not original documents.
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I've selected the following menu choices and still do not get the alternate
names to appear in the index. They do appear in the report.
Here's my sequence of selections in the drop-down
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Hear, hear.
We're here to help each other, not show off.
Dave.
I wish the regulars on here didn't have to be so snide. People aren't going to
put up with that kind of behavior.
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I agree. But I delete unread all e-mail in HTML, but
leave the policing to the staff.
Rich in LA CA
--- TH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish the regulars on here didn't have to be so
snide. People aren't going
to put up with that kind of behavior.
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What does 'various folders' mean? It is much better,
(in hindsight), to backup from the old computer, and
restore to a clean, fresh copy of Legacy. If this
doesn't work, we will need to get more specific, But I
am pretty sure it will. It is too easy to mistype file
names, and you may never find
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