Hi Wayne,
When I first started, I sent a copy of my Legacy file (with the program
file for installation) around the family members who were interested.
But they weren't so interested in learning to use Legacy, just wanted to
know what I'd discovered about our family.
What I eventually found
Mike,
Not in RIN or MRIN orders.
Nor alphabetical order by family or given names.
Nor by Added or Modified Dates.
Peter
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Well, as Professor Felten said, "the best way to protect a computer was to
shut it down fully several minutes before going into any situation in which
the machine's physical security could be compromised." IOW, the person who
want to get that data has to be present.
If you are rebooting to rec
Hi Wayne,
You can do a backup of your Family file and a backup of the
Multimedia attached and distribute those files together with the
Legacy installation file.
If you want more ideas see:
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Tips.asp
Note that the Legacy fdb file cannot be used from a CD. It must
Depends how computer-illiterate your family is. Mine is pretty bad. In
regards to the photos: If your recipient can follow this, they can put
the folder of photos on their own hard-drive and then re-link them using
"View Current List of Multimedia Locations" under
Options/Customize/Locations
It was only as long as 10 minutes if the computer had been super
cooled. No where near that long in ordinary usage - but the cuppa is
a good idea as it's not just the computer that needs to reset but our
own brain. ;-)
Cathy
PS I'm getting responses to Legacy emails I sent several hours ago
Thanks to all. I guess the question may have been basic, but the
answers are not so basic and are all good suggestions. I do have a
better understanding now. The main new thought for me was not to
overwrite the file every time.
I do back up in several ways. I backup to two different external hard
Barbara,
Close but not exactly. The assumptions are not really correct.
The save you do at the end of the program creates a Back-Up of the current
file so if anything goes wrong with the current file you still have.well
a backup.
The save on the fly is only to the current program so if dat
For Geoff Rasmussen please.
Thanks for letting us have a play around pre-release.
Under Appearance tab>Box Items>Select Items to Include>Available Items,
could Cremated date/location be added? At the moment, a person entered on
the database as cremated reproduces on a chart as Bur: [date] in
Hi Anne,
If there is no birth or death date but there is a
baptism or burial date, Charting uses those for the birth or death date.
Legacy does the same thing when calculating ages etc.
Cathy
At 07:02 AM 8/03/2008, you wrote:
Hello
I have been using the appearance box to identify
data I w
Hi MagnoliaSouth
The problem is not in the Master Source but in the Source Detail.
If there was any difference at all - even just a space - in the
Source Detail (I mean all the Source Detail tabs) of the Sources you
merged, then there will be two copies now attached to each individual
where t
It's not the hard drive you are waiting for but for the power to
drain out of all the circuits. That takes at least 30 seconds if not longer.
There was a news article this week about the possibility of even
breaking encryption because of this fact that it takes time for power
to be lost and th
How can I easily give family members a complete copy of my legacy files with
all sources and photo's. I don't think a gencom file will transfer the photos
and the legacy file does not include the photos. Would it be best to just copy
the legacy fdb file to a CD and also copy the complete subdire
I've had pretty good success with the charting - except for one minor problem.
If I use a background, say on a 14 page print, when I print pages 7-14 they
turn out with half the page colored black. Works jsut fine if I don't select a
background and print in white.
bob
ronald ferguson <[E
Greetings!
I have a problem with Legacy's photo album. I am unable to creat photo pages
in landscape format. Legacy is creating borders in portrait format and
superimposing them onto a landscape format. Can anyonw else confirm that
this is a bug or am I doing something wrong.
Thanks for any hel
Thanks for this article, Cathy. Very interesting reading, and I note
they indicate that 10 minutes may not be sufficient time for all memory
to be cleared.
If you are having problems with your computer where a reboot may be
indicated but does not have the desired effect, it may be worth your
Hi Elizabeth,
The To Dos are not stored in usr files. Only settings are in the usr
files. All data is in the .xxx files and all vital data
is in .fdb. The other .xxx carry specific
clipboards and then the IGI and RGD search data.
Check that you are not working with different files - same nam
Hi,
We are working on this bug that a few of you are having in exporting
your chart to a PDF or JPG file. (ie., the far right and bottom is
missing in the exported file).
Thanks,
Luc Comeau
Legacy Family Tree
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:18 PM, ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Janis,
Hello
I have been using the appearance box to identify data I want included in
charts. I like to include a burial and christening where I cannot identify
a birth or death date which usually applies to pre 1837 family. When I add
the burial field to the chart it then includes the burials for
Luc,
If it is any help, I have had a long play with the Page Set up funtion and what
I have found is that my printer settings are not flexible enough to allow a
quality reproduction.
I have managed to get a full but poor quality jpeg by setting the User Defined
paper size to the maximum the p
Hi Barbara,
As Dave says - the Save on exit is a Backup.
I encourage you to not overwrite a backup - or at least not every
time you exit.
I add the date to the family file name for the backup.
One backup is a help but more are better.
Also, if you are backing up to the same hard drive, make s
Barbara,
Your assumptions are not entirely correct. On closing you are only asked "to
save" on leaving the program if you have changed something. In fact you are not
saving as such but creating a back-up (.zip) file. Your ordinary file which as
you say is amended on the fly has the extension .
Hmmm. But if the problem is due to overheating then the longer the better.
Ron Ferguson
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I don't think that it will be easy from from within Legacy, although it may be
possible using Access. The replacement behaved as expected btw but providing
that you still have the backup from before you merged the sources it should be
possible to work something out. There is no direct global wa
Barbara,
All correct except when you exit it's not a 'save but a 'backup'.
Dave.
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Basic S
Janis,
I wonder if you would be good enough to tell me exactly how you managed to make
a jpg of your chart. Mine is still loosing the right side no matter what I have
done, including uninstalling, deleting every file connected with the charting
program and redownloading/installing, all to no a
Elizabeth,
When you restore a back-up none of your settings are lost.
Ron Ferguson
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Keith:
Enumeration district boundaries changed with each census and, further, not
every location was divided into enumeration districts in every census. ED's
are a method of dividing a heavily populated area into sections that could
be covered by a designated enumerator. The reason they're impor
Jeremy,
I don't think there is an option to make boxes the same size but there is an
option which says "make all boxes the same". This refers to the borders though
and not the size.
Ron Ferguson
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"My boxes for each individual did adjust to the amount of information I had
for that individual."
Mine didn't, they were uniform size whether there was 6 lines or one.
Walt Conner
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To:
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Basic Save Question
This should be so obvious to me, but I'm afraid to act on the obvious,
just in case I'm wrong. I know that if my program suddenly shuts down
Christina:
If you're "really new" to family history and already thinking about
sourcing, you're a giant step ahead of the game. The thing many of us
regret the most is the failure to properly document sources when we started.
So congratulations!
The next painful lesson that we learn is that reco
"He can print about 293 inches "
My Family Chart is 1-1/2 ft. wide and 67 ft., yes, ft. long.
Walt Conner
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Perhaps, it might be just a case of trying get to get software that is ready
out for general testing while other parts are being refined.
Imagine the traffic on this list if the charting software and the main
program were released at the same time!
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Mike Fry <[EMAIL
This should be so obvious to me, but I'm afraid to act on the obvious,
just in case I'm wrong. I know that if my program suddenly shuts down,
it has already saved (on the fly, I would say), so that when I go back
in, no data was lost. But I also know that every time I go out of the
program, it prom
Christina, while Gary provides valuable insight into the pitfalls of relying
solely on this gedcom, your question is how to show that this is the source of
the information you are recording.
Source List Name - FAMILY NAME - gedcom of Larry Wheeler
Type - gedcom (or electronic)
Author - Larry Wh
Yes, nothing fancy.
Marilyn
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Leroy Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did you run a Standard ancestor chart?
> LeRoy
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> > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 07:46:13 -0500
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> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] N
A full power down is often helpful, but I don't believe it is necessary to
wait 5 minutes. Once the hard drive has spun down completely you can power
on again. That is probably less than 30 seconds. And I don't know if that is
even necessary with modern hard drives since there is not that wait w
Thanks to both 'Magnoliasouth' and Cathy. Both suggestions worked well.
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Hi, Jeremy
Thanks for the link - but I'm chickening out on changing drivenames,
uninstalling QuickTime etc.etc. just to get rid of this error message
which only appears with Legacy Charting.
Far easier to uninstall Legacy Charting, I can live without it
Regards
Mary Young
Legacy User Group guid
Debbie,
I've noticed one potential problem with your solution, namely, that
you don't necessarily know that the person concerned was in that
particular occupation for all the time between those two dates, s/he
may have moved jobs a bit, may have been unemployed for some of the
time, Etc. So, this
Did you run a Standard ancestor chart?
LeRoy
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 07:46:13 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New Legacy wall
> charts - A few observations> > Leroy,> > While I am not very experienced in
> this field, I did run
Yes, the Enumeration Districts are different for each census. As the
population of the US grew, more and more EDs were needed in each census.
Also, in 10 years time, governments decide they've learned how to do things
better (whether they have or not), and so things are done differently.
Identi
Patricia,
You didn't just sign up for the newsletter, you also signed up to the
newsgroup. Two very different things. The Legacy newsgroup is a very busy
mailing list, especially the last few days since they released the free (but
time-limited) charting program. If you do not want to participa
I have a question, that I could not find addressed elsewhere.
I had two separate sources that I decided to merge into one. Some
records used both original sources at the same time. After the merge,
much to my dismay, all of those records I had used on both of the
original sources are now sourced t
There is a new update available for Legacy Charting Pre-Release edition.
This update resolves:
- issues with FTM files
- PDFs - when the chart is greater than 200 inches, and you click on the PDF
export option, you'll now receive a message that PDFs cannot be created at
this size
- fixed the prob
Elizabeth,
I'm glad it seems to be working OK now. I would not have thought that your last
few ToDos would have been lost and the fact that you did may also indicate a
problem with that file as well - I hope it's no longer there.
WRT my charting problem, I'm afraid it is not sorted and in fact
Leroy
Some observations:
1.You can edit the b,d,m,c, by going to the appearance tab, click
box items then on one of the 'items to display' (say birth), and click
'Include label', then click 'custom' and enter whatever text you want in
the box.
2.Where is the 'make boxes the same s
Does anyone think it wasn't a coincidence that the new Legacy Charting
program appeared this past week? There had been a noticeable increase in
the clamour by people demanding to be told when they could expect to see
the new version of the main program. This clamour was getting steadily
more st
Peter,
Legacy itself will sort Events (I know we are talking about marriages here) in
date order putting those without a date first so I am not surprised about this.
Is the second sort in alphabetical order by any chance?
Ron Ferguson
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I just came across this today and realized something. If I restore a backup
file I lose those 1/2 siblings settings and have to reset my view. I suppose
backups don't save personal settings (Cathy seems to indicate this), but
that would be a nice feature to consider.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Keith,
The ED (Enumeration District) does not appear until the 1880 census, so you
are on track. Prior to 1880, you use the township.
I suggest that you read through the census chapter of Elizabeth Shown Mills'
_Evidence Explained_ (often referred to on these lists as "EE.") She gives a
thorough
Peter Haughton wrote:
Further investigation shows the surmise below is incorrect.
When one or more spouses do not have a marriage date
the program seems to be using a zero date which sorts
ahead of any given marriage date. But why is it re-ordering
spouses when there is no marriage date for any
Update on the continuing saga of my 300" x 11" chart, loaded with photos. I
tried again this morning, and it converted to jpg beautifully, and is now
off to the printer.
It's a monster chart, and not for home usage. All 27 feet of it will be hung
in tiny Walker Chapel, Howell Co MO, for the Memori
Another way is to click the Index tab.
Click the button on the right that says Options > Customize Columns.
Select the first blank field and click on the ...
Find and select Private then click close.
You can then edit each person you need to from that list.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Cathy <
Thanks, Geoff. (And that subject line should have read 'printing chart to
pdf' - not cart. It was late!)
Janis
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Ron and Cathy
I have now deleted all my .usr files and started again. I hope this
will solve all the problems. I can now set 1/2 siblings fine - I just
hope they are still showing when I next open the file.
I also lost all the to do items that I added within the last week - I
didn't realis
Leroy,
While I am not very experienced in this field, I did run a small chart
just to see what one
would look like. My boxes for each individual did adjust to the amount
of information I
had for that individual.
I did not try to adjust or check or uncheck anything. I just selected
the individual
Patricia,
This is nothing to do with signing up for the Newsletter. You must have also
signed up for this User Group which at present is very busy following the
release of the new software.
You can unregister from this group - see the details at the bottom of every
email.
Ron Ferguson
Jenny M Benson wrote:
In order to save repetition, I wanted to put some information in as an
Event, but with 2 dates - "31 March 1851 and 4 April 1853", but Legacy
didn't like this.
In this case, I had the birth certificates of a man's 2 children, both
of which gave his occupation as "Laboure
Thanks, Al and Elizabeth, Guess that I'll have to have a longer play!
Ron Ferguson
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Further investigation shows the surmise below is incorrect.
When one or more spouses do not have a marriage date
the program seems to be using a zero date which sorts
ahead of any given marriage date. But why is it re-ordering
spouses when there is no marriage date for any of them?
Peter
Bob,
I assume that you mean when Legacy is running and probably has been for some
time. This does happen to me occasionally and I think Legacy must disappear
off screen. I use ctrl+alt+Delete and usually find in the Processes that Legacy
*is* running. I close it down and then restart it.
Ro
Hi Patricia,
"Since signing up this afternoon for the legacy news letter, I have been
receiving so many emails to you and from you. how do I stop this?"
This is what mailing lists are all about. You subscribe, and then you
receive the mail that is sent to the list.
If you want to unsubscr
Patricia
It tells you at the bottom of every e-mail! - To unsubscribe:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
It is particularly busy at the moment because of the excitement due to
the recent release of the new charting program, but I have a rule setup
that puts all these group messages
Hello.
I have to apologise as I have not been following any threads on anything lately.
A couple of issues I saw. When I used the chart wizard, I didn't select a file
and still went to the next step where I couldn't select anyone. I probably
shouldn't have got past stage 1.
I made an ances
I believe EDs did not come into use until 1880.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:53 PM, GeoSci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The previous discussions have lead me to continue sourcing the Film
> numbers, etc.and (in addition) the Enumeration District, Dwelling and
> Family. For some of my family - I am l
Do a Detailed Search
Look for whom? Individual
Where to look? Private
How ... ? equal to
What ...? Private
Cathy
At 09:59 AM 7/03/2008, you wrote:
Is there a way to create a list in Legacy 6.0 Deluxe of all individuals
marked as 'Private'? I have discovered using the new Legacy Charting
Saying it's not a Legacy problem is only part of the story. I suspect
what's happening is Legacy Charting is looking at all your disks for
files, and is being told by Windows that a particular drive is available
for searching, and when it tries this error is appearing*. If the
developers can reprod
That's what I do for a lot of Occupation information particularly. I guess
the only real problem is if I later find and earlier instance of an
occupation - but in that case I just change the date and the subsequent
notes. I put the date of the earliest known instance of an occupation in
the sente
I am very impressed with the new Legacy wall charts, especially the Standard
Ancestor. But I am also disappointed that the program, at least in Beta form,
doesn't allow us to edit individual texts on screen (I don't mean the
specially-created text boxes). This option, as I imagine it, would mea
In the new programme I can't see an undo function or an automatic update of
the file. If I change my data there is no option to reflect this in the
chart without redoing the chart. Any plans on these two?
Graham
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Hi Cathy
That's my problem - I thought that was how to restore it but when I
right-clicked on the children, the option wasn't there. I then went
back to a family where I know there are lots of half-siblings to try
there and still, the option doesn't appear. I'm using version 6.0.0.190.
Thi
I'd be sending them a PDF or JPG not a saved chart.
Cathy
At 09:08 AM 7/03/2008, you wrote:
I sent my Legacy Charting creation to ancestryprinting.com - he downloaded
the software, but apparently they also need my full database in order to
print the chart?
Can that be right? Apparently the fi
I think many here would suggest that the Pedigree Resource File itself is
not a real source. Within the PRF are individual records, and *sometimes*
there is source information included for some of those records. Simply the
fact that someone uploaded a GEDCOM of names to the FamilySearch web site
Since signing up this afternoon for the legacy news letter, I have been
receiving so many emails to you and from you. how do I stop this?
Patricia
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To:
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:42 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy
Ron wrote
The way I have done this is to go to the Home page and adjust the size of
the chart so that I can see all the pages. My objective was to stop
splitting a box or marriage over a page break and by using the options on
the bar on the left it was reasonably easy to move the boxes around
Hi Geoff,
YES, it works. But I need to do a bit of fine tuning of setting the
pages up and centralising
the chart.
Many thanks - program looking good
At 02:42 AM 6/03/2008, you wrote:
Susan,
Short answer - no idea. :) It's been so long since I've seen a dotmatrix
printer that I don't remem
Hi,
Yes the DPI can be changed for a PDF file. The information provided
by the PDF component that we use in Legacy Charting recommends staying
at 72 DPI. There are other methods that we are looking into to allow
you to print very large charts.
Thanks,
Luc Comeau
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:39 PM,
Hi,
If you take the charting file (extension .LWC), to a different
computer WITHOUT the Legacy database, Legacy Charting will warn you
when you open the charting file that the source of the charting can
not be found and that you will have limited editing ability. However,
you will be able to open
Hi Bob,
Did you try rebooting your computer? And if that didn't work, did you
shut it down and leave it off for five minutes or so before starting it
up again?
Sometimes things get a little confused, and this helps to reset the
memory and stuff.
If you're still having difficulties, please
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