RE: [LegacyUG] Problem with Pedigree Chart

2008-01-06 Thread ronald ferguson
Thomas, Cathy's situation was mine as well. I did have a look at the chart going back 10 generations but there were simply too many entries for me to get a proper picture without an excessive amount of work. Ron Ferguson _

RE: [LegacyUG] Maiden name...

2008-01-06 Thread ronald ferguson
Leon, Welcome to the group. It is the standard practice to record people using their birth names (although this may differ for adoptions) and the methods people use to record married names varies from person to person. Personally I record the birth names and in the prefix box enter Mr/Miss et

Re: [LegacyUG] Maiden name...

2008-01-06 Thread Cathy
Hi Leon, Welcome. I trust you enjoy your new genealogical hobby. Be warned it can become an addiction :-) It is normal to enter women with their birth surname/maiden name. Some enter the married name as an AKA. I don't bother to do that. Reports read fine without it. Where the convention exis

[LegacyUG] Default Dictionary

2008-01-06 Thread Ken Carkeet
G'day Can someone please tell me how to change the default dictionary? I live in Australia and I want to change it so that the default dictionary will always use Australian english all the time instead of US english. Every time I try to use the spell checker it changes back to US english. Thank

RE: [LegacyUG] Default Dictionary

2008-01-06 Thread glove
Hi Ken Have you tried 'Options' - 'Set Language..' from the menue? Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Carkeet Sent: 06 January 2008 10:12 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Default Dictionary G'day Can s

[LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread Lisa Davis
Is there any way to include the burial addresses on my web pages? I'd like to show the cemeteries. I couldn't seem to find this on the web page creation pop-up. Thanks, ~Lisa Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mai

RE: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread ronald ferguson
Lisa, If you are referring to addresses in the Master Address List than I am afraid not through Legacy. This is but one of the resons why I put full addresses in the Events Location field. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Soft

RE: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread Lisa Davis
Thank you for the reply. Sounds like another big project. I am a relatively new Legacy user, coming from FTM, in which the name of the cemetery transferred to the "buried in" field. I've been going through my location list and changing the "buried in" field to show city, county, state, country,

[LegacyUG] Web Site Picture Problem.

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Croteau
Just a note to pass along... I just updated my web site today and noticed a little problem. I have well over 300+ pictures incorporated in the "Family Group" web page creation selection, and normally in the "other" tab, I select "All Preferred" pictures. Over the past month I have been editin

Re: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread Michele Lewis
Oh how I can relate! I too came over from FTM. I had to take the cemetery out of the burial field. The easiest way to do it is to do a search in the burial field for the following words Cemetery Gardens Memorial Acres You will get 99% of them that way. Then just tag the records. You can g

Re: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread Linda McCauley
I'm also a recent convert from FTM. After trying cemetery names in the burial address field and as a separate event, I decided to just leave my cemetery names in the burial field. Entering the cemetery name as an event seemed to be a duplication of info since the date, city, county and state were

RE: [LegacyUG] Banns

2008-01-06 Thread glove
I had a Banns event showing the date of the first reading and the place. I don't see how you could get all three dates even using notes for one of them. Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralf X Sent: 06 January 2008 17:05 To: LegacyUse

[LegacyUG] Stange question

2008-01-06 Thread Glenny
Is there a way of running a report that tells you who all in your database is buried at each cemetery? I would like to get some pics taken and want to make the best use of time and travel ;-) Glenny Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Stange question

2008-01-06 Thread Michele Lewis
It depends on WHERE you have recorded the cemetery info. I have mine in the event field. Here is how I do it... INDIVIDUAL EVENT - NAME EQUAL TO CEMETERY AND INDIVIDUAL EVENT - DESCRIPTION CONTAINS COALTOWN (that would be Coaltown Cemetery in Purvis, MS) It works every time! michele -

RE: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread Lisa Davis
I've already changed a bazillion. LOL! I, just on a whim, tested out the web page feature - actually, I just noticed there was an option to do so. And that's when I discovered there wasn't an option to show the burial addresses. I really haven't entered facts in the events section. As I said,

Re: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread Michele Lewis
I was relatively lucky on that one. I only had 4000 in my database and 2000 in my husband's :) :) michele - Original Message - From: "Lisa Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 4:27 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages I've already chang

Re: [LegacyUG] Stange question

2008-01-06 Thread Brian
If you have entered those cemeteries as addresses for the burial you can use View > Master Lists > Event Address. Select the Cemetery of interest and click show list to everyone recorded as buried there. On the show list screen you can use the Print button to get a quick list of names. For a mo

[LegacyUG] Before and After?

2008-01-06 Thread Rob Miller
For my great grandaunt I only know she died "After 27 Jun 1978" (no location yet). I have two sources listed for this date. However, when I create an "Individual Report" for her, no source numbers appear beside the date. I played with this, and changed "After" to "Before" (Legacy then changed it

[LegacyUG] Pop up of connect window

2008-01-06 Thread Valerie Garton
I must have changed something somewhere as now every time I open Legacy I get a popup window asking me to connect which is very irritating. I always work off line but I did not have this problem before. Any suggestions please. Also [very quietly - whisper] can anyone tell me how to stop the popu

RE: [LegacyUG] Adoption Question

2008-01-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I do not know what aded poll is, don't need to, but you should describe what it is in your explanation of the name change. Must be an Aussie thing. ;-) Rich in LA CA --- Jan Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a two-names-required situation (because of > deed poll, not adoption). > My late

Re: [LegacyUG] Paragraph formatting in Notes - to GEDCOM

2008-01-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Since some of the old versions included various problems that one sounds familiar, and the current version 6.0.0.168 6 Nov 2007, has a documented problem with an update not yet scheduled, You will probably need to wait with myself and others, until that happens. Sorry. Rich in LA CA --- Jennifer Cr

Re: [LegacyUG] Pop up of connect window

2008-01-06 Thread Susan Daily
>From the Home Tab - look at the upper right of the window. Do you see an Options button with an icon of a ruler, etc. on it? Click on that. Then Click on Options. Under Internet Options tab, select the second choice. "Never". Took me a while to find that button!! Susan [And I don't know the answe

RE: [LegacyUG] Banns

2008-01-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
What I did was, for the Event Banns, put the first date in the normal place, and the other dates in the description. Rich in LA CA --- glove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a Banns event showing the date of the first > reading and the place. I > don't see how you could get all three dates even

Re: [LegacyUG] Adoption Question

2008-01-06 Thread Maureen Chambers
Rich in LA CA wrote: "I do not know what a deed poll is" A deed poll is a legal document which shows a person's intention to change his/her name. It's not just an "Aussie thing". I don't know what it's called in other parts of the world. Maureen Legacy User Group guidelines: htt

RE: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
You do not need to make a cemetery Event. Create a Source for the cemetery. see my previous e-mail how to use them. Rich in LA CA --- Lisa Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've already changed a bazillion. LOL! I, just on > a whim, tested out the > web page feature - actually, I just noticed t

RE: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread ronald ferguson
It is not even necessary to do that. I just put the full address in the Burial Field. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk *New Blog* Protect Your PC View the Grimshaw Family Tree a

RE: [LegacyUG] Adoption Question

2008-01-06 Thread ronald ferguson
Maureen, It is exactly the same in the UK. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk *New Blog* Protect Your PC View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For Th

Re: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread Wendy Howard
Hi Lisa, "I really haven't entered facts in the events section... I wouldn't have thought of entering "cemetery" in the event section... Guess I need to look outside the box on that one. I think of an event as something that occurs, not a place. And certainly not an occupation, as I found as a

RE: [LegacyUG] burial addresses on web pages

2008-01-06 Thread Lisa Davis
Thank you, Wendy. That helps me a great deal. I appreciate your explanation and will try your suggestions using the events section. Makes more sense to think of it as facts instead of actual events. Very helpful! ~Lisa :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [LegacyUG] Pop up of connect window

2008-01-06 Thread Valerie Garton
That is great thank you Susan. Thank you also for giving such explicit instructions. Once more I have learnt some more things. Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast, Dublin, Wicklow & Wexford GOON member No: 4825 for CULLODEN & HIGGINSON -

Re: [LegacyUG] search string for NEHGS

2008-01-06 Thread steven perkins
Was this question ever answered? The website is http://www.newenglandancestors.org/ Thanks, Steven C. Perkins On Jun 10, 2007 8:45 AM, Gail Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > All the good advice is surely appreciated. I added the Footnote search > string to Legacy and it is helpful.

RE: [LegacyUG] Maiden name...

2008-01-06 Thread Frederick H. Whitley, Jr
Hi Leaon, You are ahead of me with Legacy already. However, I find the chatter and teaching interesting. Welcome, and Stay Well. FRED in PA _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:14 AM To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Before and After?

2008-01-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
If you go to Customize; Dates; Prefixes. You can change them, but you only get 1 'spelling' per word. I am not sure what you mean, if not having a second one ie: abt AND ~ both. Rich in LA CA --- Rob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my great grandaunt I only know she died "After > 27 Jun 19