[LegacyUG] e: 2nd computer

2007-10-16 Thread Tish
Hi, am I able to put Genviewer and Legacy 6 Deluxe onto my second computer? How do I do this? Tish Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical

Re: [LegacyUG] Move Files To External Drive

2007-10-16 Thread DianeLeMasson
What I usually do with other programs I have is, I tell it to make a 'copy' send it to the drive the external drive is in. Keeping the original on my hard drive periodically update it. Could you please explain what you mean by 'settings' this .usr? I basically just started using Legacy (free)

[LegacyUG] Copying an individual?

2007-10-16 Thread Melody B
I am building my own database (within Legacy) of folks I find with a particular surname. Currently I'm working on census data so I'm going through each census to which I have access and entering each individual I find. Because of the way I'm doing this, there is great repetition in the

RE: [LegacyUG] e: 2nd computer

2007-10-16 Thread Bob Rowe
Using a zip drive is absolutely the easiest and most convenient. This assumes you have the install package you downloaded from the web or the cd if you bought that. This has also been addressed in the archives. Bob _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [LegacyUG] restoring legacy after pc rebuild

2007-10-16 Thread Harold Watson
thanks, its been years since i paid attention to what folder the reports were saving too, those were restored ok. my probelm remains with the legacy settings. i restored the full /program files/legacy folder. the settings still come up with the new installation settings. i checked the folders

Re: [LegacyUG] restoring legacy after pc rebuild

2007-10-16 Thread Cathy
Hi Harold, You need the .usr files you had before. I don't know how you are restoring. You need to close Legacy and then copy the .usr files from wherever you saved your old folders into the new Legacy program folder and allow the new .usr files to be overwritten. It's possible you're using a

Re: [LegacyUG] restoring legacy after pc rebuild

2007-10-16 Thread Harold Watson
i am using acronis and i did restore after exiting legacy. used acronis to create a complete backup of the computer before formatting the harddrive. all files seem to be over written from the restore as the date/time stamps reflected the time of the restore. will go back and restore just the

[LegacyUG] picctures

2007-10-16 Thread familyjesse
I spent forever taking all my photos off the computer and putting them on disks to declutter my computer. Then when I wanted photos in Legacy I had to put them all back on the computer. The minute I move a photo from a folder then Legacy can’t find it. Do I have to keep every last photo and

Re: [LegacyUG] restoring legacy after pc rebuild

2007-10-16 Thread Kathy Shiell-Stokes
Harold: Make sure you restore ALL .usr fileslegacy creates more than just legacy.usrCheck their website for a complete listing of usr files. Kathy At 09:17 AM 10/16/2007, you wrote: i am using acronis and i did restore after exiting legacy. used acronis to create a complete backup of

Re: [LegacyUG] restoring legacy after pc rebuild

2007-10-16 Thread Harold Watson
i restored the folder, that would cover those but does legacy create any files in other places? On 10/16/07, Kathy Shiell-Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harold: Make sure you restore ALL .usr fileslegacy creates more than just legacy.usrCheck their website for a complete listing of

[LegacyUG] Legacy workshop in Ontario, Canada

2007-10-16 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
For those of you in the Ontario, Canada area, you might be interested in the full-day Legacy workshop held on Saturday, October 27. See http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2007/10/legacy-workshop.html for more information. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [LegacyUG] Children out of Wedlock

2007-10-16 Thread ronald ferguson
Richard. I have been away for a while hence my lateness in commenting on your email and usually I don't comment until I see if anybody else has answered but with 600+ to work through. illegitimate is still the official British word, previously it was bastard. WRT a prolific relation

[LegacyUG] Legacy 7.0 - GPS Locations

2007-10-16 Thread Larry Wilson
Back in June of 2006 I ask you this question: I use Legacy to store GPS Locations. I wish Legacy would give the choice of weather to store Lat and Long in Decimal or Deg/min/sec. I know there is a conversion routine, but it would be nice to be given a Choice. Geoff liked

RE: [LegacyUG] Copying an individual? - CULLODEN world wide

2007-10-16 Thread Valerie Garton
Hi Melody. I am also entering all the references that I find for CULLODEN and would be interested to know how you are doing this entering. Unfortunately you do not say what the name is nor do you give reference to the census you mention. Can you tell mw which is the census you are referring to

RE: [LegacyUG] Pedigree web pages and a, b.htm files

2007-10-16 Thread ronald ferguson
Jonathon, Still wading through the 600+ emails and have now arrived at yours! At least I'm far enough through to check if they have already been answered and your's does not yet appear to have been. I have only come across this numbering in Pedigree Webpages where a person has two sets of

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying an individual?

2007-10-16 Thread Carl Cox
Is there any way to copy one individual completely into a new person? The last person you saved can be repeated one field at a time by just clicking on the title of the field. Click 'given' to repeat the name, 'born' to repeat the date, 'in' to repeat the place. This takes several clicks, but

RE: [LegacyUG] Grandaugher without parents?

2007-10-16 Thread ronald ferguson
Richard, If others have replied then my aplogies. The article which you read was incorrect if it meant normally in the sense in which it reads in your email. The position with English and Welsh (and, as far as I know, Irish and Scottish) censuses is that a person can only be recorded at a

RE: [LegacyUG] Grandaugher without parents?

2007-10-16 Thread ronald ferguson
Mary, Many thanks for the laugh - I'm still chuckling! Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk *Over 650 Surnames from 11 Countries* View the Grimshaw Family Tree at:

RE: [LegacyUG] Restore multimedia files

2007-10-16 Thread ronald ferguson
Richard, Rather than break your multimedia file up, have you considered using Pando it's a free download and you both will need it. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk *Over 650

[LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated???

2007-10-16 Thread Jerry Marilea Reinke
I am new to Legacy and subscribed to the emails (tons of them) and after reading all of this stuff I'm beginning to wonder if Legacy is to complicated for me. WOW...never heard of some of this stuff. Should I revert back to Family Tree Maker while I still have a chance, meaning I haven't

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated???

2007-10-16 Thread KathyB
Marlea: Truthfully, you probably don't need all the bells and whistles in the program - unless you want to use them. I use the basic portions of the program and haven't gotten into a tenth of the stuff that everyone else uses in the program. It's a great program, easy to use for the basics.

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated???

2007-10-16 Thread Cathy
Hi Marilea, Legacy has a lot of features. If you try to learn all the features of a big program all at once, every program is too complicated. Most people find the basics of Legacy easy to use. It's a good idea to take the time to look at the Tutorials in the Help and watch the beginning

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated???

2007-10-16 Thread John Carter
Hold on - it's not that difficult ;-) Entering data in Legacy is easy, it's just the details that get complex - and part of the complexity comes from the flexibility in Legacy that allows each person to structure things in a way that works for their research/documenting style. I've been using

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy workshop in Ontario, Canada

2007-10-16 Thread Toni Sano
Thanks, I am sending my registration in now. I live about 80 km from the workshop site. Cathy - Original Message - From: Geoff Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:34 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy workshop in Ontario,

Re: [LegacyUG] picctures

2007-10-16 Thread Cathy
Hi Carol, Put small copies of your pictures on your hard drive and have those linked to Legacy. You don't have to redo the linking if the small copies have the same names as the large archive copies. For most uses in Legacy, a picture only has to be a maximum of 800 pixels wide. I have 2,500

[LegacyUG] Ancestry bought by Spectrum Equity Investors

2007-10-16 Thread Tom Kemp
TechCrunch is reporting that Spectrum Equity Investors has bought a majority interest in Ancestry's parent company: The Generations Network and is almost certainly preparing for an IPO or other larger liquidity event. It reports that they paid $300 Million and that Ancestry has annual earnings of

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated???

2007-10-16 Thread Kirsten Bowman
Marilea: The more times you hear it the better: Don't go back! I was an FTM user for years before switching to Legacy a couple of years ago. I've never regretted it for a minute. There are folks on the list who can make the software do everything but dance (and maybe that, too). Their posts

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated???

2007-10-16 Thread Jerry Marilea Reinke
Thanks...because lots of these discussions are way over my head. - Original Message - From: KathyB To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated??? Marlea: Truthfully, you probably don't

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated???

2007-10-16 Thread Jerry Marilea Reinke
Thanks...Marilea - Original Message - From: Bob Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated??? I think you should give Legacy a chance. Any program you use will have a

Re: [LegacyUG] e: 2nd computer

2007-10-16 Thread Cathy
Hi Tish, The licence for Legacy allows you to use it on two different computers, I don't know about GenViewer. You need to install the programs on the second computer so you need the program installation files. If your second computer isn't online, you need to copy the installation file to

RE: [LegacyUG] picctures

2007-10-16 Thread familyjesse
Thank you, Carol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:27 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] picctures Hi Carol, Put small copies of your pictures on your hard drive and

[LegacyUG] World Vital Records Legacy

2007-10-16 Thread marilyn E B
Are any of you aware of the specials available to the subscribers to World Vital Records. If you subscribe to World Vital Records you might want to check the specials they have available for their members. Legacy Software at $19.95 and Legacy Charting Companion at $19.95. There are other specials

[LegacyUG] Thanks!

2007-10-16 Thread Tish
Thanks to all who have written with help to my query. I now have Legacey 6 Deluxe on both computers, and will look into the possibilities to do the same with Genviewer. This is a great list, and I do thank you all for your patience. Tish Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] World Vital Records Legacy

2007-10-16 Thread Cathy
Hi Marilyn, I'd hold off on charting programs until Legacy 7 comes out which we've been told includes charting. I have Legacy Charting Companion - it creates some pretty charts but you have no control over placement apart from playing with box size and scaling. Cathy At 09:16 AM

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy workshop in Ontario, Canada

2007-10-16 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
Good catch. It's $30. I've updated the article. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hwedhlor Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:17 PM To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated???

2007-10-16 Thread Jerry Marilea Reinke
Thanks - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated??? Marilea, I would be very surprised if you find it too difficult after using

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy workshop in Ontario, Canada

2007-10-16 Thread Marion McCall
I must be blind - how much does it cost? Thanks, Marion On 10/16/07, Toni Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I am sending my registration in now. I live about 80 km from the workshop site. Cathy - Original Message - From: Geoff Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Too Complicated???

2007-10-16 Thread Robert57P via Gmail
Marilea, I've been using Legacy off and on over several years. (Part of the off was because my computer crashed and it took me a LLOOONNNGGG while to get back to having time for the fun stuff.) Even after that break, I can still handle Legacy. This is unlike other programs where you may

[LegacyUG] ? Something to do with Legacy

2007-10-16 Thread Valerie Garton
Recently I have some how obtained a program I think, which appears to be running in the background, as when I try to close down the computer I am asked to end SMax4PNP and then to end SynTPEnh.exe Does anyone recognise either of these two programs as I would love to delete them but hesitate to

Re: [LegacyUG] ? Something to do with Legacy

2007-10-16 Thread Ed Walsh
Try googling for these files these links tell abit about them. SynTPEnh.exe http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/syntpenh/ SMax4PNP http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/smax4pnp.exe.html ED - Original Message - From: Valerie Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LegacyUG] ? Something to do with Legacy

2007-10-16 Thread aseddon.com
I suggest a Google search - they both pop up with many hits - you may or may not want what they do but there are a lot of links. Art Seddon - Original Message - From: Valerie Garton To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:16 PM Subject: