Jess,
Salop is the abbreviation and former official name (1972–80) of Shropshire,
England. (See
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0017017.html.)
Jim Terry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
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HOWDY -
I am just an ole Texas Granny, born, bred bruised (not from people, but from
horses cattle) with ancestors coming into this wild frontier in 1834
(exactly100 years ago on of my own dd - mm - yy! Am newby to Legacy,
but not to family history or this one-eyed monster in front
Dear Jess
Why would you need a pdf add-on for Legacy when pdf printing is
included in the program?
Regards,
Mary Young
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Toni
I have no objection to the Mormon Church etc. being mentioned in
context. But what is the relevance to this User Group? We are here to
help one another use LEGACY FAMILY TREE SOFTWARE, not explain brick
walls or search for missing data. Many recent discussions would be
better on another
Why am I so pleased about Legacy? Why am I so excited - Why did I go into such
suggestions for research? Why did I throw in the clues given?
Because of the additional software designed for Legacy and other available
software programs available as suggested by Legacy on their Homepage:
1 - Map
Hope I am in the correct place for this question.
Legacy handles individual pictures great. My question is for a group
picture...how does Legacy suggest we handle multiple people in a picture? Have
I
missed this topic in the manual?
One thing I would like to see in upcoming editions of
Mary Young wrote:
Dear Jess
Why would you need a pdf add-on for Legacy when pdf printing is
included in the program?
Regards,
Mary Young
Unless you have the full Adobe program you can not edit these reports. By creating your reports as
RTF or text files, you can edit them and then, when you
G'day Granny,
Your positive postings today will take you a long way. A joy to read. What is
more, I concur with your comments.
I am sure you will be even more excited when Version 7 is released and,
hopefiully, that is imminent.
I wish you every good fortune in your venture.
Paul in sunny
IMHO, as the Legacy source template is now set up, I would consider
the author to be the transcriber (Jane Doe, trans.); the title is, e.g., Doe
Family Bible, 1787-1945, (i.e., date of earliest data-- latest), the
publishing info should include both publication info in re the Bible as a
Bible
Well, if I have a source for, e.g., the birth field, the word Born on the
individual Individual Edit Screen is red. If you really want it to show up
you need to choose, e.g., red and not, e.g., blue or green as the latter two
look too much like black.
Pat
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From:
That sounds very interesting and I expect to be at the LHSL in a few days.
Would you mind giving me the name of the author and book title so I can take
a look at it??
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Pat
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From: Alice Hawrilenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent:
I had an aunt,born around 1900, who continually talked about when I
first went out to board --meaning live somewhere not at home. Her
mother had died and the family broke up when she was a teenager.
Boarding houses seem to have been much more common around that period
than they are now.
In my case I use group pictures for events. So group pic taken at a
family reunion is attached to an Event of Reunion, which is attached to
the people at the event. For individuals I either trim to a head shot or
use the group for one person's event such as Harry's graduation or Mary
John's
Pat Hickin wrote
I think it's interesting that the census refers to people as boarders
instead of roomers. I'm sure they really mean people who live/sleep
there -- not people who live elsewhere and eat there!
Are you talking about English Censuses or others?
In England, the Censuses differ
I wasn't the one looking for Salop, but whomever was,
I'm sure will appreciate this!
Jess M
--- Jim Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jess,
Salop is the abbreviation and former official name
(197280) of Shropshire,
England. (See
Oh but you can title it that way... there's a way to over-ride the
title... it's on one of the tabs at the top of the ancestor book report.
Allen
La Nell Shores wrote:
I have an unrelated family such as yours. It is a pair of twins who never
married but were close family friends for
Jan,
The LUG automatically adds [LegacyUG] to every email that gets
posted to the list, so no need to enter it yourself.
Kindly,
Susan Daily
On 10/8/07, Jan Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apologies if this has been submitted twice. Just realised I didn't
put the [LegacyUG] in the subject
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And be sure to leaf through the bible to see if there are any
additions such as newspaper clippings, photos, etc.
Myrna
I found a lot of good obituaries and family history articles by simply
thumbing through the bibles of my elderly family members... some really
Not for Legacy, but for printing web pages and from
any software of any sort, for the purposes of
retaining hard copy files.
Jess M
--- Mary Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Jess
Why would you need a pdf add-on for Legacy when pdf
printing is
included in the program?
Regards,
Mary Young
Christine,
I am currently in the finishing stages of publishing a family history
book using Legacy. What I have done is used the Descendants Narrative
book to output to a RTF file, which I will then go through page by
page to make the text more fun to read than a long list of events.
I begin the
La Nell,
All you have to do is replace Ancestry Chart of [FullName] with
Ancestor Chart of Miriam and Marjorie Haire in the Title section of
Ancestor Chart. Or does this not work with Publishing Center?
Susan
On 10/8/07, La Nell Shores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My only complaint is not being
Rob,
Count me as one that uses the - but only for locations. Dates have
specific options that are understood by Legacy (Abt, Est, etc).
If RootsWeb or other destinations strip the data, is that any worse
than leaving undocumented fields blank in the first place?
Using the
Jess,
While this does not have to do with Legacy, it is important to trace
the county progression for research purposes. If they were in abc
county in 1850, then you find
them in efg county in 1860, you and fellow researchers might think
they moved. But
they did not. It can either be a new county
Hi Jess and Gene
Thanks for clarifying. I guess I'd lost track of the thread :-)
--
Mary Young
On 10/9/07, Jess M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not for Legacy, but for printing web pages and from
any software of any sort, for the purposes of
retaining hard copy files.
Jess M
Legacy User Group
Hi, Cath,
I think we basically agree that the website is the published source of that
data. However, if it was transcribed online, the very pertinent data of
publication date and provenance should have been included with the
transcription. If it was not included, I would consider it perfectly
Here is a link to the questionnaires and instructions for enumerators from
1790 to 2000. The files are PDF and easily searched for the term boarder.
You will have to repeat the search to find the actual definition of a
boarder. I use these files frequently to understand the intent of some of
Also, I will add that in Adobe Standard 8 you can add,
delete, or replace pages in a PDF with the full
version.
I did this just last week with a set of PDF's from
Legacy. I did an output of the specific reports I
wanted, and then opened the main document I wanted to
work from. I added other PDF
Hi listers,
I am wanting to send information, through an
e-mail, and tag just a certain group of people. I
have never sent information by way of e-mail before,
so can you please give me step by step instructions on
how to accomplish this? Would I create a Gedcom?
What about attached pics and
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From: Susan Daily [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 7:58:41 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] LUG subject headings [was Set Relationships]
Jan,
The LUG automatically adds [LegacyUG] to every email that gets
posted to
You may have raised more questions than you asked. Who are the recipients? What
are they expecting? What do you want to give them?
A simple PDF report is what I send most people. A gedcom requires that they
load (or have) software to read a gedcom. Many reports will print the linked
photos.
Hi Bob,
I have found a person who shares part of my family
tree. She has sent me a lot of information, by
e-mail, and I would like to send her the part of the
family tree that pertains to her. She uses FTM as her
genealogy program. Can a report from the list, within
Legacy, be attached to
Does anyone understand why, only occasionally, during pedigree web page
construction, some are titled, e.g. 49.htm. 49b.htm? The number always
correspond to RIN's, but no RIN's are numbered 49b, etc.
Jonathan
Legacy User Group guidelines:
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Hi Darlene,
In that case, I would send a gedcom - yes, you can use tagging to export the
part of the family that you want. That way it would save her a lot of time
re-entering all the data. You create whatever file you choose [report or
gedcom] and save it to your hard drive then start your
And the US Government in its instructions said to use
the word boarders when 'accurate'.
Rich in LA CA
--- Elizabeth Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I had an aunt,born around 1900, who continually
talked about when I
first went out to board --meaning live somewhere
not at home. Her
Hi Jonathan,
I've seen this when the main person on the particular pedigree web page has
two sets of parents linked to him or her, as when both biological and
adoptive parents are included in your family file. So, in your case, 49.htm
would show with one set of parent's links at the top and
I, Rich , use both, as a reconfirmation they exact
match.Rich in LA CA
--- Claire Spinelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you, Cathy, this is exactly what I needed to
know. It works
especially well for me since - at this time anyway -
I either want the
transcriptions to show or not show.
When inputting, I always turn it off. When done, turn
it on again. But then, I do a lot of mispells because
my fingers have their own plan on what to keypunch.
Rich in LA CA
--- Jess M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes this works, and is what I've been doing. I was
just trying to see if there was
Assuming you have deluxe, go into timeline, add a few
different lines regarding the name changes for your
area. I have added a couple hundred, and haven't even
finish with some states, let alone the world.
If you don't have deluxe, here is a good reason.
Rich in LA CA
If you have it but don't
Hi Bob,
I ended up sending a Descendant Book Report, which
included all the information she needed. All my
documents are saved in JPG. files and I am sending
them separately. It really was a very simple
procedure, but I always hesitate at doing new things.
*Giggle* That doesn't prevent me
I hope you were kidding with your post. Since I can't tell from your
email, I'm going to delete it hope that was the case (because
otherwise you need to keep quiet let those of us who are interested in
the discussion, continue the discussion).
Kirstin
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George Quinn
Actually, the docs aren't even sure what to do with that one! I've been
in on several cases where all the experts get together with the parents
try to decide what to do with the baby (some are obvious from birth).
Some give the baby an androgynous name decide later!
--
Kirstin
[EMAIL
Well said!!!
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Kirstin
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Allen Prunty wrote:
Arnie,
This is the kind of message that gets our serious requests swept under
the rug and our voices silenced. This is not the type of mature
discussion that I am trying to foster on how to enter these
relationships into
If you don't like the subject, delete the email. Same sex (or don't know
what sex) is a fact of life. Get over it.
--
Kirstin
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George Quinn wrote:
I've held my tongue long enough. I mostly just lurk in this group and don't
send messages. It's plain there are a lot of
What do people do when they have several different repositories for the
same information. For example: I have Cemeteries Churches list under
one master list (yes, I'm a lumper). But some of the cemetery
information is from on-line databases (with or without picture) some
is from me
Speaking of access date, I notice there is 2 places to add a date. I use
the Master Source date for when I first added the source. Then I use the
detail date for when I added that particular information. I use the
repository also in the detail, so I know if it was verified ( I would
check)
Hi Susan,
I think you're asking that Legacy become a full featured Picture
Editor. I wouldn't want to see that happen. I don't do any picture
editing in Legacy but am happy to see basic editing features
available for those who do want to do minor adjustments. However, the
program needs
I have used a neat little program called FotoTagger for such images. Since
you are labeling a copy (not the original) image - if it is not what you
want you can easily start over again. Look at: http://www.fototagger.com/
Keith
On 10/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hope I
I was referring to the U.S. Census. You're certainly right about boarding
schools probably all those people in the census took their meals where
they lived, in which case the term boarder is not a problem.
--
Pat
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From: Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Hi La Nell,
For an Ancestor Chart, you can add a person called Miriam and
Marjorie and have the chart start with that person.
Since they are twins you can even include birth date and place though
no doubt they died at different times.
I do that for my mother's family occasionally. I have a
Hi Kirstin,
Well I don't lump to the extent that you do.
Different publisher, different Master Source.
Repositories is a more troubling category I think. The same book or
microfiche indexes or images etc can be found in many different
repositories. Repositories usually contain heaps of
In many US localities the birth certificate is
reissued reflecting the parent(s) and the original
birth certificate reflecting biological parent(s)
is placed under judicial lock and key (in camera).
Elaine
I have a question about adoption. I don't know
how long it's been going
on, but I
I have noticed that people are replying off list (like I tried to do
recently) both Reply Reply All (I use Thunderbird) both go back to
the list. If I want to reply to a specific person I have to click their
email address in the header. I'm assuming that's just the list. Just an
observation.
You may want to send both a GEDCOM and a report(s) (PDF or RTF?). That way
they can use the report to see which pictures go with what.
They would use your GEDCOM to load the main data into FTM initially, and then
use your report to add pictures.
Bob
Legacy v6 Deluxe (just changed from ver 5
Ooops! Gotta list them all!
Actually, the truth is, we all choose what we put in what we leave
out. If I ever publish, I expect to get complaints no matter what I do!
--
Kirstin
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Allen Prunty wrote:
Or what about the Great Great Great Grandfather who liked to make
Kirstin asked
What do people do when they have several different repositories for the
same information.
Well, I'm a splitter and e.g. Census info.
Source list names would look something like this
VA 1850 Census Botetourt Fincastle PO --HerQu [HeritageQuestOnline]
VA 1850 Census Botetourt
Kirstin,
I am adopted. I live in California and am 41 years old. My birth
certificate shows my adoptive parents only. As Elaine mentioned, my birth
certificate is a re-issue. I know the date when my adoption was final, but
I have not seen the actual adoption papers.
Glen Ballard
I have the same situation with many of the families I work with
(multiple fathers). If I were to do their genogram (strictly for genetic
purposes) there is actually a way to indicate adopted, ect, so you can
track a gene through a family. Just a thought.
--
Kirstin
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Thanks for the link to fototagger, Keith. That is a very practical program.
Jim
On 10/9/07, GeoSci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have used a neat little program called FotoTagger for such images.
Since you are labeling a copy (not the original) image - if it is not what
you want you can
Hi Bob,
I will certainly do that! You have been very
helpful and I really appreciate it! :-D
Darlene
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--- Robert57P via Gmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You may want to send both a GEDCOM and a report(s)
(PDF or RTF?). That way they can use the report to
see which
It is a very common situation. I was also adopted at birth and my adoption
was not finalized in the court for two years. When the adoption was
finalized, my name was legally changed from Baby Boy Johnson and my birth
certificate was re-issued with the names of my adoptive parents as my mother
and
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