Kathy,
This is difficult. We have this position with the English 1846 census in that
for the place of residence it only gives information as to whether the place of
birth was within the county in which the person resided at that date (Y), out
of county (N), Ireland, Scotland, Wales or
Cathy wrote:
Robert,
This would find Individuals that have a Death Place, not a list of those
locations.
Like Ron, I don't think it can be done in Legacy.
The closest would be to export people with a death place to a new file
and do a location report but that would be messy picking out the
Hello Listers
I am just starting to go over my files to put ID numbers in for each source
I have lots of handwritten (by me) documents mainly transcripts of Census
(before Ancestry)
I intend to copy the census etc into Legacy then give them an ID number
I file my families by MRIN number so I
I have a question about sourcing differences in a date. I have a source for a
death that says the child died young or soon. Later, after more research, I
found the actual date. If I put the date in and attach my new source, in
addition to the first source, it looks like both sources had the
I also file by MRIN numbers. Have a look here - this is the
system I use.
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/2006-10-20-mrin_digital_filing.shtml
This appeared in Legacy News
http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/organization/index.html
Jennifer
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Nancy,
How about putting a note in the Source Detail Comments?
Ron Ferguson
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Hello Jennifer
I've never seen that site before, quite good really
Regards
John
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:11 PM
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I also file
In the Rootsweb Newsletter just received, was the following bit of news
snip?
Want to spice up your WorldConnect tree?
How about adding some photographs?
Follow these quick steps and you'll soon have your relatives' photos
alongside their facts. Caution:
A little bit of HTML savvy
Is there any way to totally renumber the RINS starting from scratch? I
imported two seperate files from two FTM files and they are now in Legacy.
The problem is, the RIN numbers are sort of scattered all around. I would
expect my closest relatives to have the lowest number RIN (direct line)
Michele,
There is no way to quickly/automatically renumber all your RINs in the
manner you want (closest relatives, lowest RINs). You will have to do
it one RIN at a time. (To renumber RINs, click on Tools on the menu bar
and select Renumber RINs.)
Jim Terry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
As I'm not registered for Rootsweb Newsletter I haven't seen this but I would
be interested to know where/how a Gedom comes into loading pictures into World
Connect. BTW Gedom Standards have nothing to do with Legacy other than the fact
that they use it.
Ron Ferguson
I realize this is a tad off topic but if you do use the filing system
recommended by Geoff R. and lets say you have 5 binders... When you find
more things on someone in the first binder how much trouble is it to shove
stuff from binder to binder to make room for the new stuff in the binders
Yowser! That really isn't an option since I have 3000 total in my file :(
michele
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:05 PM
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Michele,
I was wondering about the file ID number. I was wondering how I could make
use of that.
missy
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Renumbering RINS
Missy,
Just to add to Jim's comments, RINs and MRINs aren't as random as you
think. They're assigned in sequential order as you enter individuals and
marriages in the program.
The first import you did most likely retained the RINs and MRINs that were
in the original file, possibly filling in
I would bet no plans.
Legacy already has a facility for the export of gedcoms that can be uploaded
to WorldConnect. However, the gedcom spec, which is beyond Legacy's control,
concerns itself only with data, not images.
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To:
If you are mostly concerned about the closest two or three generations, one way
is to start a new file beginning with yourself, which will be saved as RIN #1
Then do a few sequential exports from the original file and import into the new
file, for example export your parents (with or without
Since I last replied, Mark Lang kindly sent me the article from Rootsweb.
It seems to me that no changes to Legacy are necessary, although I do have a
couple of points. Firstly, the picture must already be on a web server for
Rootsweb to access it and the full URL (ie. commencing http://; )
Ron mentioned about not receiving the RootsWeb newsletter, so I have copied
the specific article below . Legacy is even mentioned. This prompted the
question to the group.
Roger mentioned about the Legacy gedcom feature. It works great and I use
it on regular basis.
It appears that there
Thanks Ron for the comments.
UGH! is correct. It seems like too much to handle for WorldConnectTree
and the gedcom feature. A couple pictures maybe, but not for a large
volume.
I do also use the Freepages for the same file created by using Legacy Web
Pages creating feature. Pictures are
Missy,
This didn't become an issue for me as I already had most of the
documents for the key families and so just divided the binders up
by what would fit in them - so some have 10 MRINS and later ones
might have 20 MRINS. I am not sure how you could avoid having to
move things.
Another point -
There is no way to quickly/automatically renumber all your RINs in the
manner you want (closest relatives, lowest RINs). You will have to do
it one RIN at a time. (To renumber RINs, click on Tools on the menu bar
and select Renumber RINs.)
You can export the close relatives to another file,
JB,
Legacy can't do this automatically. First off, you need to upload your
photos to the internet. Legacy won't know where those files are
located or what they are named.
So even though you don't want to, you would have to take each of those
individuals for whom you have photographs and load
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Renumbering RINS
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:56:21 -0600
There is no way to quickly/automatically renumber all your RINs in the
manner you want (closest relatives, lowest RINs). You will have to do
it
Ron wrote:
You say However, RIN numbers are entirely reference for the
computer, so why
bother?
Thanks for that extra information. I did not know how Legacy handled the RIN
numbers.
I also use the RIN numbers from time to time, and my web site requires that
those numbers do not
Carl,
No worry there - unless Legacy changes its way of working and I am sure the
potential outcry would be far too great for them to risk that!
I, and I expect yourself also, have set the option never to reuse abandoned
RINs to ensure that no problems arise and to ease updating. It does mean
Just want to say that I personally would never use a filing system that uses
MRIN's or RIN's as the basis.
The reason? Several years ago, I did (MRINs) - and then something
happened, and all my MRINs got changed. Fortunately, I had on all my file
folders the Surname, Firstname, so was able to
Hi Missy, I switched to the MRIN filing system about 8 months ago.and
really like it. If you have say MRIN 1 through 10 in one binder and 11 to 19
in another binderwhen 1-10 get too full, I split it up to a binder of 1-5
and another binder of 6-10binder 11-19 stays the same. I
Marilyn,
How big are your binders? 3”? 4” thick? I am just starting this process,
and I’d like to avoid re-doing something a year from now. (I’m jumping in
here without the benefit of previous exchanges as I just signed up for this
listserve.) Do I understand that you use the Legacy MRINs
I, and I expect yourself also, have set the option never to reuse
abandoned RINs to ensure that no problems arise and to ease updating. It
does mean that I have a load of gaps. But who cares?
On the contrary, I try to keep all gaps filled. I often import GEDCOMs from
cousins, then merge like
Hi Marilyn
After you absorb the useful ideas people have offered you might like to go to
the Legacy web site and you will find a place that describes in detail this
type of filing. I changed to it (so far) it's good for me. Lecacy even has
an on-line demonstration video which is
I am considering using Darrin Lythgoe's
TNG (The Next Generation) software for placing my database of 245,000
people on the net.
However, I am asking -
1) are there other similar programs out there
2) what are some of your likes and dislikes of TNG
Thanks so much.
--
James A. McKane
192
Hi Mary, I just use the 2 D ring binders. They work great for me. I have
just under 1,000 people thusfar in my research. I have read online that people
have many thousands of peopleso I am not sure how well it would work for
such huge number of individuals.but for mine it's great. I
Jim,
I think there are several of us on this list that are on the TNG list
also. I really like TNG, but I don't know of any alternatives other
than the non-database driven web pages created by the genealogy
software (like Legacy)
My site is at http://hobbits8.net
I really like being
Mary,
Filing cabinets also work just fine. The binder aspect of this system
is not critical. I actually use boxes as I rarely have to access the
documents again after I've extracted all the information into my
database. Granted I would prefer binders or filing cabinets if I had
the
Hear. Hear. I would never consider a filing system other than document
(item) numbered. Any other way is fraught with problems and extra work. I
am surprised by the number of people who follow an MRIN filing system.
Perhaps because an expert genealogist suggested itbut not an expert
To quote Sherry precisely:
I know our users like to rely on RINs and MRINs, but we have had instances
where an error crops up that requires renumbering the RINs and MRINs. If
you have the Deluxe, you can chose to renumber one or the other but if you
have Standard, then you have to renumber a
We use the MRIN Filing System because we LOVE it. It takes about 5
seconds to print a report from the marriage list showing all names and
MRIN's in whatever order you'd like. Granted, having to re-insert them
into a database gone awry could be a real pain. I guess we trust Legacy
to not
A numbering system by document has been addressed several times in the past.
A key word search on 'file system' or 'organizing files' should bring up a
number of comments. Suffice to say, visit a library in your local
city/town---the cataloging/numbering system by document (item) has been in
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