Candis,
I have version 6.0.0.168, which I guess is what you meant.
The children's information is included in the Descendant Book Report but not in
the Descendant Narrative Report. I cannot remember whether it was included in
the Descendant Narrative Report previously and I have no hard copy
Valerie
It's not the Invididual's Information screen. The fields you can alter are
on the Family View
Jack
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Valerie,
The Family View includes 5 lines. Normally these are the 4 main lines
from the Individual Screen plus something else of your choice. By
default it is Cause of Death from the Medicatl Notes page. I usually
have Event: Occupation. Sometimes I make it Event: Immigration etc.
If you
Has anyone heard if this will be included in version 7?
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.
Give
Hi Mary,
Do you mean tag everyone in a Search list or a Show list at one time?
For Search list - Options Advanced Tagging - Tag Search list
For Show List
see the buttons at the bottom of the screen.
If you mean some other sort of list, please get back to us.
Cathy
At 01:57 AM 10/12/2007, you
I had four colours for ancestor lines set - through: Options - Views -
Ancestor Colour Coding and I've ticked 'Display Custom Generation line
colours on screen' but they've disappeared. I've looked at the option
to change the colours used and they are still set as the colours I want
but they
Have you used Tools Apply Ancestor Colours?
You have to tell Legacy where to start.
Or do you mean that the boxes for the colours aren't showing despite
clicking the option on Options Customise View tab?
Cathy
At 09:03 PM 10/12/2007, you wrote:
I had four colours for ancestor lines set -
Yes, the colours aren't showing despite Legacy telling me they are.
Elizabeth H
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Where is it that they're not showing?
At 07:03 AM 12/10/2007, you wrote:
I had four colours for ancestor lines set - through: Options - Views
- Ancestor Colour Coding and I've ticked 'Display Custom Generation
line colours on screen' but they've disappeared. I've looked at the
option to
On the Family view page on the rectangle just left of the Tag number spot.
Randy wrote:
Where is it that they're not showing?
At 07:03 AM 12/10/2007, you wrote:
I had four colours for ancestor lines set - through: Options - Views
- Ancestor Colour Coding and I've ticked 'Display Custom
Hi Jim,
I used to use Reunion when I had a Mac, they had an option on their report menu
so that you could first select the relationship of a particular person to all
others in the file. Once done, when you printed your family group sheets they
would come out John Jones 2nd Gr.Grandfather etc.
There's a Family Group Sheet and an Individual View but not a Family
View. Can you clarify?
At 08:17 AM 12/10/2007, you wrote:
On the Family view page on the rectangle just left of the Tag number spot.
Randy wrote:
Where is it that they're not showing?
At 07:03 AM 12/10/2007, you wrote:
I
My heartfelt thanks to all who replied and wishing everyone a great ,safe and
happy holiday.
Leslie
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From: Geoff Rasmussen
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:46 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship designation
When you open your file, (not your reports) typically, you open to a FAMILY
VIEW page. It has the husband on the left and wife on the right with their
children listed underneath.
When you have one of these people highlighted while on this page, have you
gone to the toolbar at the top and hit
Thank you for your reply Ron Ferguson,
You wrote:
The children's information is included in the Descendant Book Report but not
in the Descendant Narrative Report. I cannot remember whether it was included
in the Descendant Narrative Report previously and I have no hard copy to check
with, but
Well, I mean the opening page. If you open at Legacy Home, the tab to
the right is called Family - and it's on that page.
Randy wrote:
There's a Family Group Sheet and an Individual View but not a Family
View. Can you clarify?
At 08:17 AM 12/10/2007, you wrote:
On the Family view page on
Brilliant! That does it - thanks.
Nancy wrote:
When you open your file, (not your reports) typically, you open to a FAMILY
VIEW page. It has the husband on the left and wife on the right with their
children listed underneath.
When you have one of these people highlighted while on this page,
; ; George 'do' [Dykes] ; Son ; ; 8 ; Male ; 'do'
[Scholar] ; ; ; 'do' 'do' [Hamilton, Lanarkshire] ;
; ; ;
Above is an example of how I transcribe a census line
into Legacy's Source Text (only one line for this
example).
Do others include the editorial brackets beside the
'do's and
Ralph wrote:
; ; George 'do' [Dykes] ; Son ; ; 8 ; Male ; 'do'
[Scholar] ; ; ; 'do' 'do' [Hamilton, Lanarkshire] ;
; ; ;
Above is an example of how I transcribe a census line
into Legacy's Source Text (only one line for this
example).
Do others include the editorial brackets beside the
Candis,
In which case you have an error in the Descend.usr file. This is stored in
C:\Legacy (assuming you used Legacy's default installation - otherwise you will
know where it is).
Close Legacy and delete this file then Legacy will rebuild it when opened and
you should be OK. If you are
Just a thought
I've found it very handy to have an estimated birthdate for everyone.
It helps keep people of similar names straight, and of course helps
with the automatic setting of living/dead.
I just go through my index and look for people that don't have a
birthdate (would be easier
I try to estimate birthdates as well because it helps when you use the
timeline and the research guidance feature. I just put abt. 1810
michele
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From: Heather Stovold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007
Valerie -
All of the posts on this subject are 5 lines of text on FAMILY VIEW.
The help files I quoted below state There are up to five lines on both the
Husband and Wife box of the FAMILY VIEW . Instructions have been provided
for addressing this issue in Family View. It appears from your
In doing some research on my wife's side of the family I noticed that the
srteet her father was born on has long since been taken over by either a
freeway or food terminal (street's name is Tustin in the area around
Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio). Does anyone know where I
could get
Hi Candis,
As my next suggestion would have been deleting the usr files,
uninstalling/reinstalling and since this didn't work I'm afraid I am at a
loss. Hopefully support can help.
Ron Ferguson
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Ralph,
I do not use a Census Event, but a would find a line with all those semi colons
and do fairly unintelligible.
WRT out of county locations from the British 1841 censuses I use . I chose
this method originally because it seemed to me that it might not always be
clear as to out of
Hi John,
That question is beyond the scope of this mailing list, as it does not
have a relation to using Legacy.
You may like to find a mailing list or message board where your question
is on-topic, and ask there to receive advice from people who have the
knowledge of that area.
I
I keep a census event and Master Source for each
census.
The Master Source Text is what I have typed below
(exactly as the census illustrates), but in the Census
Event I write a more story-like (friendlier) version
of the census.
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Ralph,
I do
Try the Sanborn insurance maps, if you are able to access them through
either a state genealogy source, or a local library that subscribes.
Best,
Janis
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I don't know if it works, but a idea is change the event name to
christening, export as a GEDCOM and then import the file to a new legacy
family file.
Regards,
Ricardo Veloso
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Well, thanks, but it still leaves them in the Events field and
I hope I can explain this well enough...I have a situation where a person's
relationships have been like this: marriage with a child, spouseless
relationship with a child, marriage with no children, and another marriage
with no children. This person is my brother. I believe I have everything
Thanks Janis, went to the Cleveland public Library and found the info. The
street was taken over by the freeway and food terminal.
Thanks again
John V
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Somewhere along the line a server/email program stripped out what it thought
was an html instruction. The blank within the quotes should read (open angle
bracket) Not Lanarkshire (close angle bracket).
Ron Ferguson
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Tom, I live in Melbourne, but am originally of Scottish birth. I used the
Personal Historian for the demo period. I did not buy it. I thought that it
did not offer much in the way of help that I could not already do in Word.
Also, I visited the forums and there was precious few entries. It
Darren Embry should be able to help you.
He's at:
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At 02:12 PM 12/10/2007, you wrote:
In doing some research on my wife's side of the family I noticed
that the srteet her father was born on has long since been taken
over by either a freeway or food terminal (street's name is
Thanks for the info Randy, but I found the info at the Cleveland Public
Library online.
Thanks again
John V
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Yes, that might have been a good try but now I've finished the task
manually. Hopefully someone else might benefit from the knowledge.
Ricardo Veloso wrote:
I don't know if it works, but a idea is change the event name to
christening, export as a GEDCOM and then import the file to a new
Hi Barbara;
It sounds like you may have his marriages/relationships out of order...
On the family view, click on the first little icon on the bottom of his view
(spouses) and make sure they are all in the right order.
This is the order it will come out one the reports...
Use the Order arrows to
Hi Wendy,
Thanks for your concerns.
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Hi
Thanks for your comments, Richard. I might go back to the web site see if
they still have a demo period. I didn’t notice before if that had that.
Yet from what you say, it may not be a valuable asset. I’m planning to
create Legacy web pages on a CD but with just stories about the
For some reason my user group emails are not coming into my email account;
however, on the archive list, I see that Clancy has responded with a
suggestion. I did have the spouses in the wrong order, and so I changed
that. Now, in the report, it does have the right order, but it now says each
Barbara, just a hunch, make sure you have include other spouses checked
under Report Options Include
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For some reason my user group emails are not coming into my email account;
however,
If I want a report to be about all my ancestors AND include not only my
children but my grandchildren AND include my siblings' children and
grandchildren, what do I need to do? Is it some report other than ancestor
report, because I'm checking everything I think I should check in the
include tab
Is there any one out there who could help me with a Reunion not Mac
question please ?
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast, Dublin, Wicklow
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Ralf:
I'm afraid an entry like your example would make my eyes glaze over. I
don't see that the semicolons and do's really add any helpful information
to the citation. Like you, I record census listings in the Source Detail
Text, but I format them as transcriptions and shorten them to avoid
Since we have been talking a bit about entering census data I have a
question of my own.
On the training video Geoff shows how to enter the census data as an event
and shows some shortcuts (clipboard) on how to streamline entering the data
on multiple persons. I tried doing that today with
Unless there is a specific reason why the mother's name should remain
hidden, I would be inclined to not use unknown. The fact that they did not
marry is already recorded, but the child was born to a real mother who
really is not unknown. If necessary, consider using a name easily discerned
as
Don't forget that when you color code, you set the color coding to
yourself, usually. If you want the colors to appear based on someone
else, you need to set them as the person to base color coding on. You
can do this, print the reports, etc., and then reset the color coding to
yourself.
Kathy wrote: pedigree reportancestor colours
Kathy I think you would have to change the Set Direct Line as Preferred option
(under Tools) from yourself to each of your siblings for each of the reports.
Maureen
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At the risk of possibly bringing up old news, I'll let everyone know
I've had great success getting Legacy 6.0 to run under Linux (sort of).
Originally, I had hoped to get it to run under Crossover Office and/or
Wine, but that was never to be.
The good news though is that
Michele wrote: ...curious how you show census data.
Michele I do much the same as you have done. I transcribe the census sheet,
including all the reference bits and pieces, and copy and paste it in each
person's notes. I like the idea of being able to see all the census data in
Larry,
I asked this same question a couple of years ago. I don't remember
receiving a response at that time, but it sure would be nice. I only use
Dec. I have only been putting the Lat / Long data in the notes field until I
can add it in the format I want.
Glen Ballard
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Hi Mary
Have you tried increasing the bottom margin under Report Options button. I
don't know what the default was but I have mine set at 1 because otherwise
my inkjet printer does not print the bottom of each page.
Cheers
Pam
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From: Mary Sedlacek
Ancesters
Barbara,
It is unclear what you are trying to do.
An Ancestor report is looking backward, e.g. from you to your parents to
your g-parents, etc.
A Descendent report is looking forward, e.g. from parents to children to
g-children, etc.
I do not know any way to both simultaneously.
It
I use the color coded filing system that is recommended by the Family
History Library...
Blue for my paternal grandfather's line
Green for my paternal grandmother's line
Red for my maternal grandfather's line
Yellow for my maternal grandmother's line
Is there some way to color code my file
Have you gone to the primary person (your sibling, etc) and gone to Tools to
Apply Ancestor Colors?
Nancy
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Eastham, MA 02642
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I enter them as Events, and put the details in Source Detail Text. It's
very easy to click through looking at them all in order by using the
Assigned Sources window, with the Details tab on.
JLB
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Michele Lewis wrote:
Since we have been talking a bit about entering
Michele,
Go to Options, Customize, View, and check box that say's
Display custom generation line colors on screen in the
Ancestor Color Coding box. Then when you are in family view
you'll see a corresponding colored box to the left of the
tag boxes.
George
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Thank you Pam,
The bottom was set at 1 inch but Ichanged it to 1.5 and it printed
correctly. then I changed it back to 1 and it seems to print fine again.
Just a quirk I think as the books have always printed correctly before.
Thanks again cause I wouldn't have thought of changing it if you
Yes - select the person you want it to start from - and then go to
Tools - then select Apply Ancestral Colours
I think there might be somewhere to change which colours are which
(maybe not. can't remember) - but it defaults to the colours you
listed.
On Dec 10, 2007 9:18 PM, Michele Lewis
oh - and to see it everywhere, go to
Options-Customize- View
then - Mark the checkbox Display custom generation line colors on screen
On Dec 10, 2007 11:21 PM, Heather Stovold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes - select the person you want it to start from - and then go to
Tools - then select
How many generations is the report set to. Sounds like
you have 2, you might want 3 or 4.
Rich in LA CA
--- Barbara Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, in the report, it does have the right
order, but it now says each
spouse (no mention of children), and then at the
chronological point of the
Most reports have a place to pick number of
generations. You might want to increase it to 3 or 4.
Rich in LA CA
--- Barbara Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I want a report to be about all my ancestors AND
include not only my
children but my grandchildren AND include my
siblings' children and
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