June,
This choice rather depends on the outputs which you intend to use. My main use
is for web pages and on these the Marriage Events are displayed for each
individual when using the Pedigree View or for the Family View. I, therefore
use Marriage Events as I feel this best descibes the situat
Mark Wilson wrote:
Legacy *does* run very slowly via MojoPac, however, it also requires
installation of the MojoPac software on the host computer. This, too,
would not work on a host computer where installation of software is not
permitted.
No, MoJoPac does not have to be installed on the
What I do is make the events individual, and also change them a bit for each
person (I've changed the default Census event wording to fit this). For the
head of family the event description reads "the whoever family". In the
notes it has how that particular person appeared, including misspelled n
- Original Message -
From: "Gene Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 6.0 and a USB Flash Drive
Mark Wilson wrote:
Legacy *does* run very slowly via MojoPac, however, it also requires
installation of the MojoPac softwa
I also have several charts that need to be larger a few about 15% and one
about 20%, currertly the chart image doesn't fill the page.
Everything is layed out just right but to small.
Maria
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:49 PM, ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dee,
>
> Glad your first
You could also include a scan of the documents and attach them to the
individuals.
Deb
- Original Message -
From: John S. Adams
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] V6 - Adding Correspondence to Legacy
Ste
My sister was adopted before I was born.
When I create a mtDNA chart for my grandmother, my adopted sister is showing
up.
We all recently had the mtDNA tests and my adopted sister has completly
different markers.
Am I doing something wrong in Legacy Charting or Legacy that is producing
the wrong
Steve, on using old letters as sources. . . I have the same situation and am
handling it in this way.
I treat the letters as part of the Family Papers. These are filed and stored
together, not mixed in with my other research or documents. I purchased
archival folders, one per letter. Because I am
Maria,
Have you tried "Page Set-up"?
It can be found by clicking the tree in the top left-hand corner of the tool
bar and gives access to your printer settings which should enable you to do
this.
Ron Ferguson
_
New Blog: F
I created a Ancestor Book in Legacy and saved as PDF.
I then created several charts in Legacy Charting as PDFs.
I'd like to send out PDFs for family members to print themselves.
When I inserted the Charts into my Ancestor Book PDF, I noticed that the
size of the chart PDF pages were 8 x 10.67 inc
Gary Templeman wrote:
- Original Message - From: "Gene Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 6.0 and a USB Flash Drive
Mark Wilson wrote:
Legacy *does* run very slowly via MojoPac, however, it also requires
installation
John S. Adams wrote
I would record the letters as sources, transcribing the contents in the
text field or scanning them and attaching them as pictures, or both.
The letters probably contain information about various family members
which you would enter for those individuals and use the letter(
Maria,
Have you checked that you have the latest version of Legacy Charting
(7.0.094.645) and that your charts were made using this version? It was a known
problem but I understood that this problem had been resolved, otherwise it
hasn't!Ron Ferguson
_
I would do as John suggests.
Erik
_
Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af John S.
Adams
Sendt: 15. maj 2008 06:31
Til: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Emne: Re: [LegacyUG] V6 - Adding Correspondence to Legacy
Steve,
I would record the letters as sou
Looking at the PDF properties from both Legacy and Legacy Charting for the
PDFs produced.
Legacy
PDF Producer ComponentOne
PDF Version 1.2
Page Size 8.46 x 10.99
Legacy Charting
PDF Producer wPDF3
PDF Version 1.4
Page Size 8.00 x 10.67
For both Legacy and Legacy Charting
the page setup is set t
Gene,
I respectfully disagree. I also run MojoPac Usher v1.8.0.0 [Beta]. MojoPac
does require
administrative privileges, however, the software does provide a way to log
on as a "guest
with administrative privileges." Try this: While MojoPac is running in host
mode (not MojoPac
mode), look in th
Can someone advise me of this problem? My son has a son, and a daughter and a
grandaughter. On the charting, it shows only the son. I cannot figure out why
this is. I will be most appreciative if someone can advise me of the fixing
this problem and what to do to make it correct.
Thanks so
June,
I'm struggling making the same choice. At first I put all such family events
on the marriage as I do think this is the proper place, in order not to have
the final report filled up with repetitive and redundant information. Then I
discovered that marriage event was not included in some repor
Carol, is it possible you are typing in your own MARRIED name and you have
yourself actually entered with your MAIDEN name? Just a thought.
Kris S in Texas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I click on the Index button and type in my own name, it brings up a
totally different person. If I ty
It's so cool when you figure out how to fix your own problem (see my
question of yesterday to the group). Being a new user of Legacy, there's been a
lot
to learn. I went into "File" and then clicked on "File Maintenance", then
clicked on "Check/Repair" and ran a report. What a load of "goodi
Hi,
Check the privacy display options. If the option "Suppress private
individuals" is checked, private individuals do not get displayed in your
chart.
Thanks,
Luc Comeau
Legacy Family Tree
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Tish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Can someone advise me of this pro
Using version
Legacy Version 6.0.0.190
Legacy Chart 7.0.094
I went back and created PDFs again in both applications saw different
dimensions for PDFs, the Legacy Chart being smaller with the right and
bottom border/margin missing.
Maria
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:41 AM, ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PRO
I was just working with the charting program today and had a similar
problem. Found mine, anyway, was solved by increasing the number of
generations displayed.
You might see if that helps your situation.
gc
On Thu, 15 May 2008 12:12:49 -0700 "Luc Comeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
Hi,
Check t
Short of creating a pdf file and modifying from there, is there a way to
print name tags with preferred spouses and not divorced spouses??
--
Thanks
John Valencic
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
http://www.mail-archive.com
Maria,
I have now checked the PDFs from both a Legacy Descendant Chart and Legacy
Charting. In the case of the latter I only created enough generations for it to
fit on one page (one as it happens). In the Legacy Charting Set-up I set it to
"fit page" (A4) and similarly set the Legacy Descenda
Thank you so much for trying to help. I increased the generations, but nothing
happened. I checked "suppressed private individuals" I did not have that
checked, put in my granddaughter as the selected person, and up she came, but
with no daughter, and my grandson disappeared. Oh Well, it is
What kind of chart are you trying to generate that would start with your
granddaughter and that you think would include an aunt (or uncle)?
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
- Original Message -
From: Tish
Thank you so much for trying to
It is one of the box charts, 10 generations, from my granddaughter or
grandson to my 2nd gr. grandparents. All the older ones come through fine,
just not the newest ones. Of course not all the children of the different
couples, I am sure that is not possible.
Thanks,
Tish
What kind of c
Well, if you are creating an ancestor chart, no, her aunt and cousin won't
be on there because they aren't ancestors. You need to create a descendant
chart and start with the 2nd great grandparents. Then all of the descendants
will come through, including both of your children and both of your
Thank you so much!!
Tish
Well, if you are creating an ancestor chart, no, her aunt and cousin won't
be on there because they aren't ancestors. You need to create a descendant
chart and start with the 2nd great grandparents. Then all of the
descendants will come through, including both of yo
I played with all the answers provided and found one that worked for
me. Ron it may
have been yours. But whichever it was I thank all of you for your
prompt answers.
I did my list and got just what I wanted on the list.
Thank you again,
Marilyn
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:11 PM, ronald ferguson <[
From: "JLB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The way I see this is each person is born alone, and dies alone, and
everything that happens in between happens to each person individually.
Ring any bells?
No, because I consider I am doing a FAMILY history and therefore I would
prefer to be able to see what h
Many tks Erik - you have expressed my dilemma exactly - it seems there
really is no 'happy' method.
- Original Message -
From: "Erik Pilgaard Vinther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 3:34 AM
Subject: SV: [LegacyUG] events - married or individual??
June,
I'm strug
Tks for thoughts. I can see I need to try the various reports output and
that it is not going to do what I really would like it to do!! Choices,
choices, choices!!
June
- Original Message -
From: "Cary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What I do is make the events individual, and also change th
I have been backing up my files at the end of every day and retained
numerous versions. I tried to extract one of the zipped folders and
was told that it was password protected. I can't extract it.
This seemed to have happened with a number of backups over the last
few weeks. I've never changed an
And where do you put the census events for your single people? Being able to
maintain consistency throughout the database is an important factor. The
census doesn't record families, per se, but rather individuals in a
household. A few of my people operated hotels and the residents are grouped
i
It was an offhand remark. However, people are still individuals and are
entered into Legacy as individuals. As some-one else already said, I
tend to put events that are strictly marriage related, such as the
marriage itself, into the marriage events and everything else
separately. My mother'
They gave a demo of Legacy 7 at the NGS conference in Kansas City and
have they made Legacy 7 smart. It does a lot of feedback to you in
the way it shows your data back to you. Legacy 7 also has a feature
in it where it went to the web and found a picture of the house he
grew up in and you co
I just wanted to comment that I am a LUGger who was able to purchase a
copy of the new Legacy v7 yesterday at the NGS conference. But this is
a four day conference, so I won't have any time to look at it until
next week anyway! It was actually pretty amusing at the booth - the
sign indicated that v
Valerie,
When we went from Version 5 to version 6, LUGers were asked to put the
VERSION they were asking about in the subject heading, so for example:
"VER 6 Index question".
I hope we will all be good enough to remember to do this again.
Susan Daily
in Kansas City ;-)
On 5/14/08, Valerie Garton
Hi Al,
I assume you are talking about extracting multimedia files that Legacy
created using File / Backup multimedia files.
If you are talking about a backup family file you don't normally
extract it that way.
Are you extracting on the same machine that created it?
When you right click on a ziped
At the risk of being overly obvious, you can't take the history of the
world, or even of one generation, which is multidimensional (to put it
mildly) and make it read straight through in a linear report without
tripping over yourself. Mathematics gets in the way. With more
unabashed self-prom
Hi John,
Yes - when customising what to include, include
Marriage: Preferred, Spouse Name
instead of what you've currently chosen to include.
Cathy
At 05:02 AM 16/05/2008, you wrote:
Short of creating a pdf file and modifying from there, is there a
way to print name tags with preferred spouses
Why are you trying to access the backup file? Are you no longer able to
access the *.fdb Legacy data file?
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
- Original Message -
From: "Al Mallory"
The files were created when closing Legacy and a dialogu
The files were created when closing Legacy and a dialogue asks if you
want to backup family file (I don't have any multimedia files). In the
past it created a zipped folder containing the main family file and 3
others (focus groups etc). I have been able to right click on these
folders and select
Why are you trying to access the backup by extracting the files
rather than using Legacy File > Restore Family File?
Can you access the backup by using this Restore backup option which
is the normal way to use a Legacy backup?
I suspect it is something to do with the program on your computer
tha
Hi Al
Have you tried "restoring" the backup file into Legacy. Open Legacy, File,
Restore Family File (below Backup multimedia files). Then find the zip file
you wish to access.
--
Kind Regards
Margaret
Margaret Couch
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
I have viewed all of the training videosÂ
and as new user of this program, I
really want to start off on the right footÂ
and avoid re-doing something I
messed up after I have entered 1000 relatives. I also donÂt want to reinvent
the wheel if Legacy has provided the tools and I just canÂt figur
Joi:
As I understand the File ID in sourcing and other locations, it
provides a method so you can correlate with your actual source paper
files that you have created in a filing cabinet. As an example, you
might have folders in your filing cabinet labeled by Family, e.g.,
Jones, Smith. In fact y
You just reinvented the MRIN+ digital filing system. People use
different filing systems, some use a File ID number in Legacy, some
don't. You have to find one that suits the way you think. Since you're
already thinking along the MRIN line, check out
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/2007-06-01-mr
Hi Joi,
Welcome and it's great to see that you're
thinking about how to be consistent before you get too far.
Re Events. The major events (birth, death,
baptism and burial) are treated separately on the
Individual Information screen. Anything else can
be added as an Event or Fact. Note that
Ever since I installed the free program Secure Zip, (on desktop which
normally generates my multimedia backups), the extraction on laptop
proceeds part way then asks for a password for 10% of my files. Since
I don't know the password I skip those and then drag and drop from the
zip file to the corr
52 matches
Mail list logo
