Re: [LegacyUG] Entering a Move

2008-05-20 Thread Pauline B. Cramer
Georgia, I have used the Place event in this situation: Event: Place: Description: Moved from Mississippi to Texas Date: by 12 Sep 1918 Notes: Evidence for this is the Draft Registration Card filled out by Clarence C Bond on 12 Sep 1918. He listed his occupation as farmer and his employer

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering a Move

2008-05-20 Thread Steve Ayres
Pauline, Do you use the General Notes area to repeat any of this information or to expand on detail or do you just enter it all in the Event Regards Steve Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:19:49 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 6 - 19/22 generations report pedigree chart in Legacy problem

2008-05-20 Thread Dermot McGlone
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Re: [LegacyUG] Cemeteries and Legacy: How do you do it?

2008-05-20 Thread Jenny M Benson
JLB wrote As much as one might imagine that a gravestone 16 or 100 feet high was an Event, I don't use it that way. I wouldn't regard it as an Event, no matter how tall, but the fact of having a gravestone is just that, a Fact, and I see no reason not to record it as one *if one wishes*.

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering a Move

2008-05-20 Thread Janis Gilmore
If using a letter, I will often pull a quote or paragraph to enter in the notes section. It gives a human face to the move, and reads nicely in reports. Janis From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Ayres Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:02 AM To:

[LegacyUG] Re: Sales

2008-05-20 Thread Scrapcat2
I thought this group concentrated on genealogy issues rather than business consulting. I think they are doing a wonderful job, keeping the price of their software within reason and answering our questions. Remember, every new staff member means added expense which will necessitate an

RE: [LegacyUG] Sales - Sorry I asked

2008-05-20 Thread Roberta Wunder
I just thought someone might know what the turn around time would be for sales. I don't want them to send my upgrade to a dead address. It serves no purpose to anyone if they waste time with a product that does not reach the consumer. I did not intend to start another argument. Having Trouble in

[LegacyUG] Eastman blog from NGS conference in KC

2008-05-20 Thread Janis Gilmore
I am disappointed to see that Dick Eastman's genealogy blog this morning wraps up his week at the NGS conference in Kansas City, but mentions only the new version of Ancestral Quest genealogy software which was introduced at the conference - no mention of Legacy. The blog can be seen at

RE: [LegacyUG] Eastman blog from NGS conference in KC

2008-05-20 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
Janis, NGS was very successful for us. One of the most successful conferences ever. In fact, it was so successful that every time we hoped to talk with Dick Eastman about it, more attendees showed up for a demonstration. We really didn't ever have a chance to leave the booth. Thanks, Geoff

RE: [LegacyUG] Eastman blog from NGS conference in KC

2008-05-20 Thread Janis Gilmore
Lovely! I'm so glad to hear it, Geoff. I just heard from someone off-list, who said he had seen Dick Eastman carrying a copy, and believed that he would probably blog on it in a few days. Looking forward to seeing it, and am in high hopes that it will lure a few dedicated TMG-ers over! Janis

Re: [LegacyUG] Eastman blog from NGS conference in KC

2008-05-20 Thread Lincoln Mulkey
Kudos Millennia! I hope your new customer base increases ten fold which means more profit which means your greater capability to give us more bells and whistles to our excellent Legacy product. Lincoln - Original Message - From: Geoff Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Sales

2008-05-20 Thread Sherry/Support
In this day and age with spam and spam filters, emails to support, sales or anywhere else could very easily be filtered out and never received. Not all filters give you a bounce message, as we here at Legacy know only too well! In many cases, the person leaving a phone message will speak too

RE: [LegacyUG] Sales

2008-05-20 Thread Sherry/Support
Roberta and John I brought your posts to the attention of Sales - hopefully they can track your original contacts down and get you squared away. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world

RE: [LegacyUG] Cemeteries and Legacy: How do you do it?

2008-05-20 Thread Sherry/Support
And I would enter it as a source with a low surety level, especially for birth date. My great-grandfather's tombstone has the wrong birth year on it and my 2nd great grandmother's is crumbling - the age at death is not readable and from what the transcriber entered, she would have been 62 when

Re: [LegacyUG] Cemeteries and Legacy: How do you do it?

2008-05-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jenny M Benson wrote: JLB wrote As much as one might imagine that a gravestone 16 or 100 feet high was an Event, I don't use it that way. I wouldn't regard it as an Event, no matter how tall, but the fact of having a gravestone is just that, a Fact, and I see no reason not to record it as

Re: [LegacyUG] Cemeteries and Legacy: How do you do it?

2008-05-20 Thread JLB
As it was discussed recently, photos don't print in reports with the vital events: birth, christening, death and burial. So if one wanted to print a gravestone photo in a report a separate event would have to be made of Burial. I don't see the point since Burial is already there. I could

Re: [LegacyUG] Cemeteries and Legacy: How do you do it?

2008-05-20 Thread Jenny M Benson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I would think that the size of tombstones would be connected somewhere with the deaths. I think the stone photos should be in the photos within an event of burial But maybe I'm missing some important things but I try to keep things organized so that when

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Sales

2008-05-20 Thread Bill
Hi I wouldn't normally let all this bother me but I had add my two pennorth, it is very easy to criticise but a lot harder to do any better. Patience ! Bill Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages:

[LegacyUG] Error 62 past end of file

2008-05-20 Thread Ann Parsons
I am having trouble with one individual. I cannot do print preview his individual or family report. I get either error reading report or error 62 past end of file. I have done file maintenance - check repair, it goes ok. Still cannot do print preview. Did check repair again, exited Legacy and

RE: [LegacyUG] Error 62 past end of file

2008-05-20 Thread ronald ferguson
Ann, This is a Visual Basic Error the description of the error 62 meaning exactly what it says, ie. it is trying to read a file which past the end of file, or one from which all data has been read. Just out of interest is it the last file added or can you print the reports of a file which has

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 62 past end of file

2008-05-20 Thread Ann Parsons
Ron, Bless your heart!! I have not done any data entry on this person since 2005. I haven't done any data entry since 23 March 2008. I can print reports for this person (Byron Watson). I tried the problem person's (Charles Huddleston) wife (Minnie Munson) individual report. No problem printing

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering a Move

2008-05-20 Thread M. Brenzel
I have created an Event/Fact called Residential Move where I note a move, whether from one address to another in the same city or to another state. Mary -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Georgia Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:23 AM To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering a Move

2008-05-20 Thread Hugh Busey
Georgia, I have settled on using the Address event and make a note from where - to where, with as close a date as I can get. That way it shows up in the Chronology Report which is an important tool for putting together a family or personal history. Hugh Busey On Tue, May 20, 2008 at

RE: [LegacyUG] Cemeteries and Legacy: How do you do it?

2008-05-20 Thread Claire Spinelli
I agree with you. I've been trying to organize Legacy so that it's of interest to my children - not a genealogist. I'm sure that at some point they might look at the sources, but they would be far more likely to read the events of their ancestors' lives. Therefore, I include as events everything I