I thoroughly endorse these comments. It seems to me we have some listers
that prefer to ask the easy way - contact this group - whereas some of us
only do it after we've exhausted looking through the archives, clicking on
Help in Legacy, and Googling. All these options would reduce such
questions.
Some listers are new to the list and/or new to computers and don't know
their way around yet. I think they stand out clearly by their type and
manner of questioning. They just need to be pointed in the right direction.
There may be a thrill in letting hundreds of people at once know how mad
Thank you so much for answering my querie. Cathy, that was exactly the
problem. To all of you, thank you for writing, such a simple mistake and it
sure had me puzzled.
Tish
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I, and several others, have Legacy installed on both my desktop and my
laptop with my Legacy DATA file on a USB drive. I simply plug that
USB drive into whichever computer I am using and I always have the
current data available. Any changes I make will be available on
either compute without the
From bitter experience, ensure it is easy to see a date created for the backup
file so you know which is the most recent.
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Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 8:33 AM
To:
Reg SHERLOCK wrote
Hello Jenny
You could have found this yourself by searching :TIFF but anyway
follow this url
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF
Just a minor niggle, but in fact you should have addressed your post to
Shirl, although you needn't have bothered as you will see that *mine*
Right. I agree with Ron on this. Also png is the best format, in my
opinion, because you don't lose resolution like you do in jpg and gif
is just a waste.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:57 AM, ronald ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christina,
I believe Photoshop Elements is pretty good for photo
I'm afraid that I don't agree with your comments on the gif format, although I
do view it from the perspective of website creation. GIFs are small in size and
are fine for using with web-safe colours, Additionally they accept
transparency. This is not true of other formats except png. Until
My legacy program will not accept tiff pictures.
Bill
You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total
Access, No Cost.
Bill wrote:
My legacy program will not accept tiff pictures.
First of all, your message has nothing whatsoever to do with with the
subject of the message to which is was supposedly related - Tish's reply
to Cathy's reply to Tish's original problem concerning the opening of
the Notes window.
I'll leave your second paragraph alone. But as far as the new listers who
need help with computers or genealogy in general. There are plenty of other
lists intended to be an resource for those people. They would get all of
the help they want and need there. But I totally disagree that this
Hi Cathy,
Before I go any further, I thought I'd better check to make sure I do the
right thing in the first paragraph. Do you mean that I should be opening
the Legacy that is on my desktop and going to FileRestore rather than
trying to use the Legacy back up that is on my flash drive? I
I've looked all over the Legacy Manual 6.0 and in the Help files, but can not
find how to start each generation on a new page. Is that option available and
if so, would someone be so kind as to steer me to it?
--
Bob
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C.G. Ouimet
Kingston, ON
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Print Setup
I've looked all over the Legacy Manual
Please tell us what you are trying to print.
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've looked all over the Legacy Manual 6.0 and in the Help files, but can not
find how to start each generation on a new page. Is that option available and
if so, would someone be so kind as to steer me to it?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've looked all over the Legacy Manual 6.0 and in the Help
files, but can not find how to start each generation on a new
page. Is that option available and if so, would someone be so
kind as to steer me to it?
That rather depends on which of the multitude of possible
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've looked all over the Legacy Manual 6.0 and in the Help files, but can not
find how to start each generation on a new page. Is that option available and
if so, would someone be so kind as to steer me to it?
--
Bob
In which report? You must be specific in
Unless I'm mistaken, there are three reports where you can specifiy to start
a new page after each generation: Ancestor Book, Descendant Book and
Multiple Lines of Descent.
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston, ON
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It probably will, but they have to be uncompressed tiff's. If you open
a tiff in a graphics program and go to re-save it, it will first bring
you to a box of compression options. If it's set at LZW (probably) you
have to switch it to None and continue through Saving. Then try linking
it to
All I meant is that some people are so new to computers they don't even
know they're in the wrong place. If they read a discussion here about
linking pdf's into Legacy, as has been going on lately, and come back
with a question like 'what is a pdf?' isn't that to be expected? At
least the
ROTFLMAO
Well put
Sally
and on and on that belongs in a different
mailing list called Emotional Release for People Who Join Mailing
Lists and whoever wants a ring-side seat can go over there.
JL
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Does anyone have any ideas on how to handle the information for a person
who was cremated and then buried?
Thanks,
Kris
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I have a question which may actually not be answerable, but I'm asking it
anyway. (and yes, I know sources have been done-to-death on LUG, but
sources/citations are where the rubber-meets-the-road in genealogy, aren't
they!?)
Without asking that anyone who's had the privilege of actually
Penny wrote:
In your opinion, is it possible to enter sources in Legacy v6 in such a way
as to create the least amount of problems when we switch to v7? In
otherwords, is there any advice on how to enter sources **now** in such a
way as to ensure the greatest conformity between these
I agree with the question about linking a pdf to Legacy. But I don't agree
when it goes farther than that. If they want to learn about pdf's or Adobe
then do that elsewhere. My opinion is that if it isn't directly about
Legacy (or its add-on programs) then take it offline or to another list.
Hello,
I agree this list is for Legacy.
On this (off topic subject) I have often wondered why there is no link
area on the Legacy Web site for beginners listing Rootsweb, etc.
My two cents question or suggestion to staff.
Debbie Freeman
Dave wrote:
I'll leave your second paragraph alone.
I have shown them as Cremated in the Burial + dropdown and then added
a Cemetery event with date and location.
Don
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Does anyone have any ideas on how to handle the information for a
person who was cremated and then buried?
Hello Penny,
I too have been thinking along these lines. Thanks for asking the question.
Debbie Freeman
Penny wrote,
I have a question which may actually not be answerable, but I'm asking it
anyway. (and yes, I know sources have been done-to-death on LUG,
but sources/citations are where the
Thanks for your reply, Elizabeth.
But, of course, that's the point: I **do** want both the sources I enter
now in v6 and the ones I'll enter in v7 to be formatted identically. Sorry,
if I wasn't clear enough earlier. I was not talking about conformity to
the standard of what all should be
There is a so-simple solution to all this. If some-one writes an
inappropriate-to-the-LUG question, they should be answered off-list by
as many people as want to answer it. This could include a statement
that it's inappropriate, a list of reasons why and a list of appropriate
alternatives.
I guess my reply wasn't as clear as I thought. There is no reason to think
Legacy, the gold standard in genealogy programs, would make any part of your
database unable to conform to an upgrade. (If it does, it could not possibly
be considered a very good genealogy program, let alone the best,
AMEN
Art Seddon
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To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: asking questions associated with Legacy
There is a so-simple solution to all this. If some-one writes an
I'd like to know how those of you on this group handle secondary sources.
I have a printed family history, self-published by one of my great
uncles, that is well-documented. I am using it as a source for LOTS
of my relatives. He provides enough information about the sources to
enabIe me to
I attended the Sacramento Root Cellar seminar a week ago and we got a
tiny preview of the Source Writer and how it works. The best I can
remember, when you are beginning to site a source, you choose what
kind (vital, book, census, etc) and a box appears appropriate to that
source. You still
Georgia,
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We are changing the world of
There's a difference between Source Detail and Master Source Detail.
If you put the paragraph under Master Source Detail, then the Source
Detail might be the specific quote for a particular bit of information.
But maybe that's not what you're asking.
JL
JLog - simple computer technology
Hi Kris, I wasn't sure how to deal with that one either, so I've entered
the date of the cremation in the burial date field, with Cremated
at. in the location field then created a cremation event detailing
the cremation again but adding when and where the interment of the ashes
which was 3
IMHO, the mention of templates for sources would indicate an output of a
certain format. This raises certain questions:
1). Will users be required to use the new templates?
I believe this has been answered as No. Users may either use the new
templates or continue to do as they do now.
2).
Hi Dede,
I have a printed family history, self-published by one of my great
uncles, that is well-documented. I am using it as a source for LOTS of
my relatives. He provides enough information about the sources to enabIe
me to locate them for verification. I think I'd like to have them
I've got a couple of people who were cremated and later buried or
ashes interred. For those people, I used the burial details for where
they are finally located, and put in the burial note information on
the cremation and burial plot. If I have more information on the
cremation, I'll add a
Thank you, Elizabeth! You have voiced my sentiments about the entire matter
exactly. It's as if I had written your post myself. I expect we'll all be
quite pleased when v7 finally reaches our hard-drives and I anxiously await
the day.
In the meantime, having been given reason to believe
JL wrote:
There's a difference between Source Detail and Master Source Detail.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Could you explain, please?
Claire
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Thank you to everyone who helped with these great ideas.
Kris
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:06:27 -0500, Don Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have shown them as Cremated in the Burial + dropdown and then added
a Cemetery event with date and location.
Don
- Original Message - From: Kris
If you look you'll see there's are several tabs available for each
Master Source. Text of Source, Comments, Repository and Pictures.
After you enter a Master Source, there's Source Detail which has tabs
for Detail Information, Text, Comments and Pictures.
Master Source detail (Text,
I agree with all those who made two events, and suggest also that if you
have pictures remember that the main burial/cremation event pics won't
show up in reports, so I put pics (as of ceremonies gravestones) in the
secondary event rather than in the main one.
Cary
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All those *if's* are still dependent on the list members cooperation with
following *your* suggestions, which is just another version of the same
problem of people not reading/understanding/following the list guidelines.
In reality the only time this stuff gets controlled is in fully moderated
Not every list member would have to send an email back to an
'offender'. Anybody who wants to be on the bit could have a form letter
ready to be sent the second an inappropriate question hits their LUG
folder. If the questioner got 10 or 20 or 50 or 100 of those in 5
minutes I'd think they'd
Sorry. It's me again. I have this problem:
I somehow changed the field in family view on one person. It's the field that
used to default to Burial. It now reads Cremation. I don't know how I
changed it to that, but apparently I did do it and now can't remember what I
did. Problem is
Huh?
john wrote:
/How do I email a page and print off a page. I cant find any controls
on the Legacy page./
//
/John/
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I have just been reading all the emails regarding what is ?? and some of the
replys the lady has received, from straight out rudness to very helpful and in
between. I have a neighbour who has recently bought his first computer and is
constantly asking questions and going on the level of
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