I must admit, I would like it if the standard windows open files dialog
was available, even as an option, rather than the bespoke one.
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> Darlene & Don Hicks
> Sent: 11 February 2008 04:30
> To: LegacyUs
Barbara,
The RTF format is a generic word processing document that you can open
in MS Word.
To produce this type of report output format, click the option near the
bottom-right corner of the reports that support this output type. When
you do, the Print icon turns into Save icon. Clicking this i
And the important part in your story is that you had a natural inclination and
interest. If her grandson has expressed a desire or shown a spark of interest,
then she can help nurture it. If he is not interested already then it is
difficult to create such interest.
If he does have an interest,
Thanks Teresa
But it still is not what I want.
What I did before is just type a sequence of keys (EXAMPLE) such as "lsssc" and
then it would display "Louise Street, Saskatoon, SK, Canada" or what ever you
wanted it to type in and what ever sequence of keys you want to use. In this
case I used th
On 11 Feb 2008 Jan Roberts wrote:
> Still doesn't remove the fact that having 5 tabs in the Source
> Clipboard is probably superfluous unless one can opt to attach a
> specific source.
You are so correct!! The 5 tabs make it appear that these are the
feature to select different clipboard sour
ronald ferguson wrote
But why can you not save all of these - you can save up to 10 sources -
and load them in as and when required?
I'm sorry, I think I am being dense but I'm not sure what you mean.
Once I have saved all the Master Sources, I can put one or more on the
clipboard, together w
I beg to disagree!
Birth location does indeed determine country of origin for ANY individual as
well as the nationality thereof.
It is true, however, that it does not determine the country of origin of the
surname... but since the same surname can arise in several countries
independent of other
Momalot66,
My 7 (and three-quarters) year old daughter is interested in our family
tree, and in knowing what it was like in "the old days" (i.e., "did you have
TV when you were growing up in the 70s?", sheesh!!!), so there are younger
people interested out there. I haven't moved on to showing he
I'm not young but I became interested in genealogy (but I didn't know that
was what it was called) at a young age, about 8 yrs old. My grandfather had
a notebook that his mother had put down the info on her family. It
fascinated me esp since one woman had married twice and both husbands had
t
Our 6 year old granddaughter has recently asked about her origins, so I'm
also interested in this. She's aware that a family can be big (in time,
as well as people) as she knew her great-grandmother - we have pictures of
her helping make a banana pudding (family tradition) - and has met much of
my
Yes, I know that, but my sequence of keys works for me out here and typing
in a sequence of keys is much faster, that's why I wanted to know how I
could set it up.
I have done it before but I just can't remember how I did it and it worked
very well for me.
Ray
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ronald ferguson wrote
I may be misunderstanding you here, but I cannot see the difference
between clicking a tab at the top of the clip board and bringing up a
new census by clicking the Load button.
Should you wish you could save each of the 5 census (or whatever) and
just load the appropr
Elizabeth,
One thing which I have found easy to overlook is to check whether a woman has
multiple marriages: in which case she will have multiple AKAs.
Ron Ferguson
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Ray Campbell wrote:
Hi
Entering the same location in Legacy 6 gets pretty tiresome.
Is there a way I can enter key letters in the location area such as
"NWT" for birth location and have it enter "Northwest Territories" or
enter "RRS" for "Red River Settlement, MB, Canada".
I would like to make
Many thanks - that is much quicker than any other way I could come up with.
Elizabeth
Jan Roberts wrote:
Sorry I’m not replying to the thread – but I deleted the message and
then actually emptied my rubbish bin before realising that I had a
comment to make.
Whilst it won’t create married
Jan,
I do agree with your comments regarding the tabs. I can only think of one
occasion when I used 2. Unfortunately when I continued work I had forgotten to
delete the contents of the 2nd tab and had to redo a heap of entries!
Ron Ferguson
__
Ronald,
I have my pictures in sveral folders, too and I use the picture center. To find
the correct picture, click on the Browse button (about center-top of the
screen) and go to which ever folder you need.
Nancy
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Nope, not exactly. American miltary children are born all over the world
yet their citizenship is the United States.
michele
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To:
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Report - Country of orgin
I
Pdf's usually are read-only unless you have a pdf editor that will allow
to get into it and make changes. I use PDF Plus, which costs about $80
or there's Adobe Acrobat for about 300 or 500.
An html document can be edited with a text editor, although may be too
complicated for some. If you c
H. If your goal is to interest a minor in genealogy, here are some
things that I have done with my children and other people's children:
* Start a new database (just to be safe) and ask the child to start
inputting some typed records. I found that giving them no
directions up
Georgia, I too always have trouble with this - not knowing where or what a
title relates to. The only way I can ever handle it is to choose to put
something (one of those headings or whatever) in a very strange colour - one
that I normally wouldn't use - and see where it shows up. It sometimes t
Hi Nancy,
Note you can edit the Event Sentence Definitions for any Event type
after you've thought about how you are going to use the various fields.
You only use a Sentence Override if there is something unique you
need to say about that particular individual for that event type that
can't
I've just run the Problem Report and it's picked up a couple of items I
need help to solve
The following produced errors with dates.
My grandfather was in the military in the 1930s. At present I do not
know the exact dates so I recorded the date as 1930s.
I have left a couple of dates open-ended
Hi Ray,
I don't think Legacy has ever had the ability you refer to. MS Word
does if you set it up.
It may be in Legacy connected to Autocorrect in the Spell checking -
again if you've set it up. See the Help file and you'll find an auto
correct file in the Dictionaries folder.
Another optio
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Hi Georgia,
The one you want is half way down the screen the button with "Contents" on it.
The Help for this screen is extensive. Click the Help button on the
screen and scroll down to the Colors header and click the link to
Customising Colors.
Cathy
At 07:30 AM 12/02/2008, you wrote:
I kn
Jim,
As a lurker on this LUG list and just starting to look at reports, your
post will help me tremendously. I thank Barbara for asking and you for this
information.
I am at the point where other researchers are asking me to share
information on individuals in my Legacy. I sent them the Individu
I have over 140,000 individuals on my database so when I start typing a
location I get quite a few diferent ones filling in automatically in turn as
a type in characters. But not the right ones. Usually I have to delete part
of one of them if I want to save time and then type more in till I get
Is there a way within ‘picture center’ to use multiple folders for pictures?
I have a folder I call ‘genealogy’ and under it I have folders for 'births',
'cemetery', 'census', 'church records', 'death certificates', etc, etc.
Ronald
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I am looking for suggestions on entering "land" events. I see that there is an
event that is probably a default as I have not dealt with land records before
so I am sure I did not enter it.
When I use that, the sentence reads that John Doe owned land...
If I have a record of a purchase, I want t
I move been sources constantly when working in a family between
censuses and the GRO indexes. I save each Master Source on the
clipboard with prompt for detail so I can change source by right
clicking the Source Clipboard arrow (or opening the Source clipboard
and clicking the Load button - but
One thing to be sure of with .rtf files is that they will look differently
when opened in Word depending on what view is active - Normal, Web Layout,
Print Layout. If the formatting is looking weird, try changing the view.
When I was using PAF, the reports would only look correct in Print Layout
If it's a location you've used before, doesn't it auto-fill? If you
haven't used it before I think you just have to type it in.
JL
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/
Ray Campbell wrote:
I know how to do that but it is not what I want.
I want to enter it by sequence of keys typed. Then I am not restr
Hi Keith,
You can use tabs so long as you're not planning web pages as they
don't convert to web pages properly - but you have to watch the line length.
I use tabs and was thinking of changing them all to "; " but the
output doesn't look anything like as good and is much harder to follow.
If
On 11 Feb 2008 Gene Young wrote:
> Ray Campbell wrote: > Entering the same location in Legacy 6 gets
> pretty tiresome. Is there a way I can enter key letters in the
> location area such as "NWT" for birth location and have it enter
> "Northwest Territories" or enter "RRS" for "Red River Settle
When I am inputting a location that is already in my location list,
the full location will autofill after the first few letters. If I use
your example - Louise Street, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, after I enter it
once all I have to do for any record is to enter "lou" and the
location autofills with Loui
Is it possible to save a report in the format of a Word document
(.doc)? The only choices I see are .pdf and .rtf. With .pdf, it is
read-only (or am I doing something wrong on that?), and with .rtf, the
formatting is terrible. What I am trying to do is to find a format
that I can easily send a repo
I may be wrong but I thought this was one of the changes coming in Legacy 7.
Does anyone else recall reading this is the two summaries to which we have
previously been directed?
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From: "Hope Bagot Bees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:58
Hi Ian,
For situations like this, there is no need to change anything at all.
You know the situation. If you can't think of a clearer way of
putting it then the way you have it is fine - eg you've used the
Editorial comment square brackets in the names because of the
uncertainty. You don't wa
Hello Everyone,
Thank You for the input.
I did not think it was possible to create such a report.
But I decided to ask just in case.
I will create a 2 page letter instead for the relative.
Great Grandmother had an ancestor from, etc.
Thanks,
Debbie Freeman
Legacy User Group guidel
Ron Bernier wrote
I must have received a different email from momalot66. In the message
I received, I read that she was trying to interest her Grandson in
using Legacy, and she was wondering if there were any younger members
on the list who were using Legacy. I surmised that she wanted to let
Barbara Ford wrote
Am I missing something? Or is there a way to create a .pdf document
that is not read-only?
The problem is not that the .pdf document is read-only but that you
don't have a program in which to edit it.
The best-known of such programs is Adobe Acrobat - *not* the free
Acr
I had a look at the legacy tables in MS Access.
Table tbIMR includes the following fields
WifeSurname
WifeGivenName
WifeMarrSurname
It's the last of the fields which interests me. I have nothing in that field (I
don't show the married name as an AKA in any case), but I d
-Emphasis-
Are there any younger members of LUG out there? I'm trying to interest
my grandson. He's 13. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@aol.com wrote:
-End-
How about baseball or hockey cards? Kids love cards. He could trade with
you for them. Please see:
http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2007/07/ance
I know how to do that but it is not what I want.
I want to enter it by sequence of keys typed. Then I am not restricted to
just 10 locations
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From: "Tim Rosenlof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:04 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations
I know we have the option to change colors of various screens but I
find the options/customize/color screen very difficult to
navigate. I guess I am not clear what part of which screen each of
the names refer to. I play around but can't remember from one time
to the next because they are not
John,
Thank you for reposting instructions on how to switch between multiple sources
on the clipboard. I have often wondered how to load and use more than one
source.
Patricia
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To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sun
Getting a younger generation interested is a concern to all of us I'm
sure. I know it is for me. We don't want 30, 40, 50, 60 years worth of
work tossed in a landfill when we're gone. And I know of a couple cases
where that's exactly what happened as no one in the family had any
interest in all tha
Hello Barbara,
Saving a report in pdf format and read or printing the report should not be
a problem.
I do save reports in pdf and send them to other people and they, or I, have
never had a problem printing it.
However, you do need to install Adobe Reader on your computer to be able to
read o
Jan,
I may be misunderstanding you here, but I cannot see the difference between
clicking a tab at the top of the clip board and bringing up a new census by
clicking the Load button.
Should you wish you could save each of the 5 census (or whatever) and just load
the appropriate one as require
I agree - I NEVER use more than one source on the clipboard as is - but
would dearly love to have the option of 'loading' several sources but opting
to attach only one. For instance, when I am searching UK Census records on
Ancestry.com.au I often find myself switching backwards and forwards betwe
A long time ago I also wished there had been. I'm afraid I never found it!
Ron Ferguson
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I haven't entered many AKAs although I would now like to put *ALL*
married surnames into the AKA field for the married women on the
database - there are over 1300 marriages. Can anyone suggest if there
is any way I could do this except one-by-one?
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http:
wrote
Are there any younger members of LUG out there? I'm trying to
interest my grandson. He's 13.
Do you really mean you are trying to interest him in LUG or that you are
trying to interest him in genealogy and using Legacy?
I would think that having to read all the LUG messages would g
Nancy,
I use the following Sentence Definition for Land envents:
[HeShe] [Desc] [onDate] [inPlace]. ([Notes]) [Sources]
I enter the following info into the Event fields:
Event: Land
Description: description of land, to/from whom land sold, price
Date: date of land transaction document
Place:
Hi Germaine
At the bottom of every email (the very last line) there is a link to
unsubscribe yourself. No one on the LUG can do this for you. If you follow
the link it will take you through the process.
Maureen
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> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:10:12 +
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Comment about the Source Clipboard
>
> ronald ferguson wrote
>>
>>I may be misunderstanding you here, but I cannot see the difference
>>between clicking a tab a
Yes, thanks - using the suggested method of organising the columns in
Index view, I included Married name Spouse 1 and 2 and 3 which took care
of that - I don't think I've got more than three marriages for anyone!
ronald ferguson wrote:
Elizabeth,
One thing which I have found easy to overlook
Hi Bill,
I never noticed that before. It also has a field HusbMarrSurname. Both
MarrSurname fields are all bland on mine also. I copied, (on a copy of my
db), HusbSurname field and pasted it to WifeMarrSurname field. When I went
into this db in Legacy I could not see anything new. there are no
I don't know of any. (btw, I started genealogy at age 16)
I do have various links and resources for young genealogists, from about age
8 to teenage appropriate links (depending on the link) if any of that
would help.
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Et
I have heard that in L7 there will be a tool which
sounds like it will work using the WifeMarrSurname
field. I have no details, but am concerned if Legacy
loads it, how does it pick the 'correct' one from
multiple marriages. That may be why we don't have it
yet.
Rich in LA CA
--- William Anderson
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> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:36:55 +
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Comment about the Source Clipboard
>
> ronald ferguson wrote
>>But why can you not save all of these - you can save up to 10 sources -
>>and load them in as and
Well, she didn't say the report was to give him, but so the report could tell
*her* the countries or ethnic background. Besides, she knows her relative
better than we, and whether he would run or not.
Gary Templeman
-- Original message --
From: Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL P
Hi
Entering the same location in Legacy 6 gets pretty tiresome.
Is there a way I can enter key letters in the location area such as "NWT" for
birth location and have it enter "Northwest Territories" or enter "RRS" for
"Red River Settlement, MB, Canada".
I would like to make a few of these for ent
Sorry I’m not replying to the thread – but I deleted the message and then
actually emptied my rubbish bin before realising that I had a comment to
make.
Whilst it won’t create married name AKAs automatically I have thought of a
way to make the task a little easier. Go to Index View. Make sure
I must have received a different email from momalot66. In the message
I received, I read that she was trying to interest her Grandson in
using Legacy, and she was wondering if there were any younger members
on the list who were using Legacy. I surmised that she wanted to let
her grandson know tha
Debbie Freeman wrote
I have a relative who is not interested in genealogy at all who now has
requested to know where our ancestors came from.
Example: the Countries, ethnic backgrounds, etc
Could someone suggest how I could create a simple report in Legacy
which could tell me the countries of
While in the INDEX TAB, click Options/Include AKAs in List
--
Mary
On 2/11/08, Walter Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I had thought that a change was implemented long ago in Legacy to
> automatically include all alternate names in the INDEX tab's list.
>
Legacy User Group guidelines:
All pictures in Legacy are linked, so you can have as many folders as
you want at the locations you're linking to...
JL
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/
Ronald E Howell wrote:
Is there a way within ‘picture center’ to use multiple folders for pictures?
I have a folder I call ‘genealogy’ and under i
I think the confusion is the tabs. Ignore them! Taking the sources one at a
time to Clipboard (from the assigned sources window). Make sure you click
prompt for detail. Save them, give them a name. When you have those you
require (up to 10) all you need to do is RIGHT CLICK the clipboard icon in
Or right clicking just to the left of the location, and it will show the
last 10 locations used. Right click on the "in".
-Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald
ferguson
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 6:49 AM
To: legacyusergroup@leg
Hmm! Hadn't thought of that!
Still doesn't remove the fact that having 5 tabs in the Source Clipboard is
probably superfluous unless one can opt to attach a specific source.
Cheers,
Jan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald
ferguson
S
Ray,
Your request makes an awful lot of assumptions. such as there being nowhere
else in the rest of the world which uses the abreviations "NWT" and "RRS" (over
here NWT is a television station btw).
You can repeat the last entry of a field by clicking the name of the field in
both the Indivi
Love to get your younger links. Are you listening Goeff? Just kidding.
But there have been some GREAT ideas. School Group, Books for younger
genealogists, etc. My husband's link is to "Kit Carson," and I think that may
have
been an intest. He did a report a couple years ago in his cla
Getting a younger generation interested is a concern to all of us I'm
sure. I know it is for me. We don't want 30, 40, 50, 60 years worth of
work tossed in a landfill when we're gone. And I know of a couple cases
where that's exactly what happened as no one in the family had any
interest in all tha
>From the Tips and Tricks section of Legacy Manual (p. 381), "To memorize a
>field make sure the cursor is anywhere within the field and press Shift-F9.
>To play back the value, place the cursor in the desired field and press F9. "
>This also works for two additional keys, Shift-F11 and Shift-
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 7:17 PM
I am looking for suggestions on entering "land" events. I see that there is
an event that is probably a default as I have not dealt with land records
before so I am sure I did not enter it.
When I use that, the sentence reads that J
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