I think the Legacy trees only go up from one person, not down from 2.
However, you could cut and paste pictures in FastStone Viewer, or Adobe
or what have you, to create your own. Pick a tree picture for a
background and then layer people on top of it. Pretty easy to do.
JLB
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Hi Ron,
In the short term, use the Edit Left to edit the name on the left to
what you want and then merge.
For the long term, submit a bug report.
Cathy
At 12:14 PM 8/12/2007, you wrote:
When merging two records where the given names and surname are the
same except the case, the difference
I am trying to do a photo family tree for my parents depicting all of
their children and grandchildren. Is this possible.?
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When I type addresses, I normally type the name of the country not
America in caps -- as GERMANY. When I was entering an zncestor who is
from Germany, (and about whom I know little else) the autofill part
came up with "Germantown", which is where I live had have addresses.
Continuting to typ
The charting that will be in V7 will be able to do this. I don't
think you really can in V6
>
> Kathy Shiell-Stokes wrote:
> > I am trying to do a photo family tree for my parents depicting all of
> > their children and grandchildren. Is this possible.?
> >
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Elizabeth,
Take a look at your Master List - Locations and see if there are two
Germanys on your list, one in title case and the other in all caps. If so,
merge the two, so that the one in all caps becomes the only version.
If this is not the case, then I offer sympathies, because I know how
annoy
Kathy,
The photo family tree in Legacy is just for ancestors. You have a few other
options. You can do is a Family Group Sheet that includes just the pictures,
making sure you uncheck everything else in the report. It will not include
grandchildren though.
Or do a Descendants Chart. Be sure to in
I have a large number of Baptisms in the Events field. When dealing
with each individual I can swap the information for the Christening
field, but this involves a lot of mouse work as I then have to delete
the baptism event. I have a long list where there is a baptism in the
events field, but
Elizabeth,
Have you tried Options>Customise>Data Format and check "Don't change what I
enter" for the first option "Letter Case of Given Names and Locations".
If that doesn't work please come back as there may be an alternative way of
doing this.
Ron Ferguson
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Elizabeth,
I'm sorry but I may be having an aged persons day today but I cannot work out
what you are trying to do. Please see below.:
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Elizabeth,
Take a look at your Master List - Locations and see if there are two
Germanys on your list, one in title case and the other in all caps. If
so, merge the two, so that the one in all caps becomes the only version.
If this is not the case, then I offer sympathies,
What's the difference between Christening and Baptism? Thought that
they were the same, just different names used by different religions.
Mary
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Not exactly the same. A Christening is seen in Roman Catholism (and related
denominations) and is done when the child is an infant. Baptism is seen in
protestant faiths and can occur either when you are a infant/child or
sometime after the age of accountability (depends on the denomination).
Sorry, after I wrote it I wondered if I would confuse people! On the
Individual's Information page if there is a blank field for Chr but in
the events/facts field there is a baptism event, it is possible, by
right clicking the options tab to be given the suggestion to swap the
baptism event to
Do you mean that it merged them automatically to the
left one, or that it left the two unmatched as
different and went past them? The first is real bad,
and the second is only annoying(IMHO). I had about two
hundred of the second, and had to FIND them using the
merge the Manual Merge style. I do th
In the Master Location List, you can click on the one you don't like and
go to Edit, and change it. Since I use city/state/ country format,
Germany by itself is preceded by two commas, such as
", , Germany" therefore it would not be confused by "Germantown,
county, state".
JLB
http://www3.t
Why? Why is the IGI any different than a family member saying that
something happened on such-and-such date? List the event as you would
any other bit of information and put the IGI as a source. If this is a
birth record, then when you get true information from a birth record (if
possible) then
I have to say I was actually using the terms as synonymous in my (almost
entirely) Protestant database. The problem is that I have both terms
following an imported file.
Michele Lewis wrote:
Not exactly the same. A Christening is seen in Roman Catholism (and
related denominations) and is don
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To be honest, I have never really worried about it. I have a few
Christening dates (my mother's German family) and few Baptismal dates. I
left the Christening line on the family group sheet view only because I
couldn't think of anything I really wanted to display there. I enter the
Christeni
It would sure help the usefullness of history list if it could be sorted and
duplicates removed - perhaps automaticlly
Art Seddon
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I am starting off with the IGI as my first Master Source so I cannot
relate it to " any different than a family member saying that something
happened on such-and-such date ".
I appreciate your reply but it did not answer my question. It is very
difficult learning a new program, particularly one as
Good point, JLB! Germany in my file is preceded by three commas, so
definitely would not be confused by the city Germantown.
Susan
On 12/8/07, JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In the Master Location List, you can click on the one you don't like and
> go to Edit, and change it. Since I use cit
Valerie,
I use the IGI as a source and have no problems doing that :) I use it as a
temporary source. I need to know WHERE I got the info. Let's say it is a
marriage. I find it on the IGI. I add it to my file and let Legacy fill
out the source for me (it will do this if you search the IGI
Elizabeth,
Thank you for the clarification - got it in 2 :-)
I've had a close look at this and I am afraid I cannot see a way of doing what
you wish, not even bulk deleting the records after the transfer have been made.
Sorry.
Ron Ferguson
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Thanks for your kind reply Michele.
Un fortunately the IGI information I have is already in Legacy which I
am wanting to tidy this up first.
However I will be adding all the CULLODEN references from India later on
so your help will be very useful - so many thanks again.
Regards from Valerie in s
Ok then! How about adding one IGI source through Legacy and then use that
as a template to go in and reformat the ones you already have. The only
thing that you will need to change is the microfilm number.
michele
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Good idea Michele. That's why we need friends to help us think out of
our own square.
Thanks again.
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast, Dublin, Wicklow
& Wexford
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Well put, Valerie.
Providing that Surety Level (on the Source Detail Page) is used. Legacy
defaults to level 3 "Almost certain conclusion". It is valid to debate this
level eg level 2 or even lower but, in my view, not to completely ignore it as
a source.
If I had a relative show up on the IG
Possibly I should have done it differently but this my situation now:
I have entered 4 generations of my family from a manuscript and put the
full details of this source in my Master list.
I now want to add this source to all of these people.
I can select the MS in my clipboard and then go in to
Secondly where do I go top do this please ?
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast, Dublin, Wicklow
& Wexford
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Thanks, Chris, I've been careless about both dates -- I guess someday I'll
get the official date AND go thru all the census returns I've copied and get
the enumeration dates -- for now I'll just try to include those from now on.
Is there a website that lists the enum dates for ALL the US census
Thank you for pointing out the Surety level which I must confess I have
" not got around to it yet " but will do so straight away.
" Sorry I am not going to Outer Mongolia this week "
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast, Dublin, Wicklow
&
Haven't been picking up email the last few days,
but it seems to me the simplest way to go from screen shot to Legacy
database would be from Prt Scrn (or with Alt), Pasting as .jpg into MS
Paint, and saving to your Legacy picture Folder, and using the crop function
in Legacy.
I hope I'm right
Thanks to all for all the replies - at least I shall now go back to the
manual replacements without wondering if there's an easier way!
Elizabeth
ronald ferguson wrote:
Elizabeth,
Thank you for the clarification - got it in 2 :-)
I've had a close look at this and I am afraid I cannot see a w
Is there some reason Legacy doesn't have an automatic, perhaps temporary,
backup option??
Pat
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:31 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] The problem is fixed
Michele,
5 hours is a long tim
Cathy --
Thanks a million for this -- it took me about 3 minutes to generate a 17
page .pdf file of all my unsouced people --- I am utterly appalled!
ca 600 people out of 4500!!
I think they're primarily from files originally imported a decade or more
ago from my old PAF 2 file, when I had to
When you put so much info into the detail, how do you avoid a lot of
retyping when a week or an hour hence you need to cite the same source with
some minor variations?
Pat
Extreme? splitter
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Hi Pat,
How to record census data in Legacy is on-topic for this list. Finding
the data itself isn't.
Try joining a Rootsweb list (http://lists.rootsweb.com/) for a state or
country where you might expect to find your people listed in census
data, and ask there. Finding the answer for one
Isn't there already a 'sourcing option' for pictures? Do you mean
linking pictures to sources? It's there. Master Sources or Source
Detail. Accessible from the Master Source List or Individual Assigned
Sources window.
JLB
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/
Pat Hickin wrote:
Haven't been picking
Hi Pat,
"When you put so much info into the detail, how do you avoid a lot of
retyping when a week or an hour hence you need to cite the same source
with some minor variations?"
I would copy the source back into the Source Clipboard, make the desired
changes, then attach the "new" source to
There were not two Germanys - Germany and GERMANY. I could not find the
Options menu that Ronald Ferugson described. What actually did work was
going to the Master Location list and correcting the Germany by hand.
Thanks to everyone who responded.
Elizabeth C
Gene Young wrote:
Su
I know I did it before but now can not work out how to fix this problem
My Source Citations are printing on an extra last page - how do I get
them to print at the end of the Family Record Report please ?
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfas
Elizabeth,
Glad you now have it sorted. The Options menu is a Tab at the top right of the
Legacy Screen.
Ron Ferguson
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Valerie,
There has been a very recent discussion on this which wull be in the LUG
Archives. If I remember correctly it is a bug which went but came back after
the last update.
Ron Ferguson
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Oh that could be right as I have just updated to-day - what a nuisance.
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
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& Wexford
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I know the field names are supposed to be turned blue when there is a source
entered for that field, but I just noticed that my field names are now
black, regardless of whether there is a source listed for the event or not.
I've searched through my manual and online help files and I can't figure ou
Ron,
Actually it was a bug that came out when another bug related to sources
that I found on Individual Report creation was fixed. It must use
similar program code for the Family Group Sheet.
Mary
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At the very top of the screen on the address bar (the same line where FILE
EDIT ADD VIEW are) Click SEARCH then at the very bottom you will see SEARCH
THE IGI WEBSITE.
The first time you do this it will pop up a box about logging with your name
and password but you can bypass that. It is a f
Thanks Michele. I did not think to look in help.
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast, Dublin, Wicklow
& Wexford
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Jim,
I had this problem quite a while ago and if I remember
correctly I think I fixed it by changing the color scheme
back to the Legacy default. Not sure which scheme I had
changed to that seemed to have caused the problem.
George
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If you mean in the Individual Box, it's under Customize/Colors. Next to
Text Colors, pick Contents and then choose the color you want.
JLB
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/
George/Kathy wrote:
Jim,
I had this problem quite a while ago and if I remember
correctly I think I fixed it by changing the
It is NO different, but some researchers, a lot of
them NEWBIES, find the IGI and give it as much or more
credability than hearsay or undocumented notes. By the
time they understand what IGI actually is, they have
wasted a lot of time and money. SO I and others here
will continue to mention this fo
I don't know if this helps, but, if you don't want ANY of the
"Baptism" events, edit the event from the master lists and change the
event name to "Christening". Would that help?
On Dec 8, 2007 2:38 PM, Hope Bagot Bees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks to all for all the replies - at least I sh
Yes there is, but I forgot where it is. I have created
a template for each of the US Census years, with the
official date ranges added into the Publication Facts.
I then take the actual date (when shown) as the Event
date. SO I show both dates somwhere, and compare those
with a large difference.
It
Yes, IMHO very few people want it. For myself, when
adding continuously for an hour, I run a backup. But I
might be working to do lists, or transcribing a bunch
of wills (slow typer) so not need to backup until a
five or ten hour stint. Creating a running backup
would be done with a time range in p
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