We don't /have/ Legacy 7.
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Cathy wrote:
I used to do that to find people with no sources.
However rendered unnecessary in Legacy 7 which has special searches to
find people with no sources or no source
Dick,
As I understand it, the underlying database used to develop Legacy doesn't
support Unicode, so some Eastern European characters cannot be accommodated.
(PAF v5 included Unicode support so these characters were not an issue.) To
support Unicode in Legacy, either the underlying database
Hi Dawn,
Future generations would probably want a different starting point so
they'd have different numbers anyway - if they used the Ahnentafel
system at all.
So enter them for yourself if having the relationship of the person
to you on the screen and all the other tracking systems in
Janis Gilmore wrote:
Sometimes it's fast - sometimes it's slow. You can only tell by looking at
the time of your own posting and seeing when it appears. When we had the
What is TMG controversy (tons of e-mails answering the same question),
each reply was taking several hours to post (including
I was hoping version 7 would give the option to either use Degrees Minutes
or Decimal Degrees.
I see it is still Degrees Minutes, seconds, with the ability to convert.
What say the group?
Larry
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Maybe it's me but I've found the conversion tool to be rather
user-unfriendly.
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Larry Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was hoping version 7 would give the option to either use Degrees Minutes
or Decimal Degrees.
I see it is still Degrees Minutes, seconds, with
Not seeing version 7 yet I may be jumping the gun but I am hoping for a two
space conversion with the ability to copy and paste both lat and long in one
process instead of separately.
I don't mind the conversion but dislike the back and forth.
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:15:15 -0400, Allison Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis, I just checked this out and your method does work beautifully,
provided you have your pictures nicely organized (which I do!) within
the Legacy folders, and NOT spread all over creation on your hard
drive and
Hmm.. Both Cathy and Wynthner have good points... I guess I could just label
my e-files and paper files according to RINs...
I guess it's my obsessive need for orderly numbering that makes me resist
the seemingly disorderly numbering of whoever gets entered first.. But
then I guess the point of
Thanks Bill. I doubt that the latter will happen, so I guess I'll have to hope
for the former. I knew PAF was one of the few products that supported Unicode,
but since some of the characters are already in Legacy and can be added to the
ribbon, I thought perhaps they could just add a few more
Thanks Cathy. But I am sure the original item was General as I extracted
all my todo list to a csv file last year and I've finally found it to
confirm the type. When I noticed the problem yesterday the same thought
occurred and so that is why I created a new one very carefully. I had a
filtered
I do that too for years.
Bert
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: ahnentafal numbering in User ID
Hi Dawn,
One of my friends does ;-)
Cathy
At 08:55 PM
Hi Dawn,
One of my friends does ;-)
Cathy
At 08:55 PM 3/06/2008, you wrote:
Hmm.. Both Cathy and Wynthner have good points... I guess I could
just label my e-files and paper files according to RINs...
I guess it's my obsessive need for orderly numbering that makes me
resist the seemingly
Hi Elizabeth,
As Kristen stated there is no magic way to organize your list. That being
said one thing that many people overlook is that the Source List Name and
the Title of the source can be two different things. The 2nd is the
actual title of your source - and thus would be used in the
Yes, it would.
Penny
From: Elizabeth Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My sources are currently organized:
Birth certificates -- a
Birth certificates -- b
E-mails -a
E-mails b
Personal letter - a dated y/yy/yy
Personal letter - b dated x/xx/xx
Censuses by
Cathy,
Have you told your friend how silly she is to use such a system when Legacy
gives you everything you need with their system? LOL :D What's her
excuse?
Dawn
On 6/3/08, Cathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dawn,
One of my friends does ;-)
Cathy
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From the Legacy 7 manual, about the Picture List:
The U column . . . The + means that picture in that folder has been assigned
to someone. The - means that filename has been assigned to someone but from
a different picture folder. For example, you may be looking at
grandpa.bmp in the
The source list name is where I would put information like that instead of
the title.nbsp; For correspondence I would put Dunhaupt-letters-5: letter from
Donald Dunhaupt 2008.nbsp; Then the title would read: Letter from Donald
Dunhaupt to Susan Dunhaupt 15 May 2008.
Dunhaupt-letters-5 is how I
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Angela Gabbard wrote
One caution though if you sort everything by an individual's name
you will inevitably run into the case where the source is referring to
2 or more people. Are you going to have the source twice under each
person's name or somehow remember that one source is for
To expand on Jenny's post just a little, Elizabeth Shown Mills (_EE_, p 67)
discusses the quagmire that can be created if there's no sound
organization to your Master Source List. She recommends organizing sources
into groups, and since Legacy 7 is apparently giving the option to use her
methods,
I, too, try to use the EE organizational method. Since I am a splitter,
however, I also have some under surname, given name - item: Walker, Helton
Rutherford - personal correspondence.
Janis
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But what do I do for personal e-mails, letters, interviews? Is the
source type e-mail? or the name of the sender?
Elizabeth C
Kirsten Bowman wrote:
To expand on Jenny's post just a little, Elizabeth Shown Mills (_EE_, p 67)
discusses the quagmire that can be created if there's no
In the case of personal correspondence such as letters or emails, I use
both. Letter: name or Email: name so the source type all line up together.
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Elizabeth Cunningham wrote:
But what do I do for
In the Index Tab I see some names are italicized as well as all other
info on that line, and others are not.
Can someone tell me why this occurs?
john
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On 6/3/08, Elizabeth Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But what do I do for personal e-mails, letters, interviews? Is the source
type e-mail? or the name of the sender?
It seems to me a nonsense to regard emails, letters, interviews and
conversations as separate types. Essentially they are
John Magyari wrote:
In the Index Tab I see some names are italicized as well as all other
info on that line, and others are not.
Can someone tell me why this occurs?
Sex = Unknown
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John,
Usually because they are of unknown sex.
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Kirsten Bowman wrote
Like Jenny, I group most records by source type. For books, however, I
put bk before the title in the short form of the name only and this
forces book titles to all sort together in the Master Source List
without having the bk designation show in the finished product.
OK, why do we care that a particular *type* of source is listed with its
like? Why wouldn't we prefer the sources be grouped by location, or by
family?
e.g.
OHIO - death records
FERGUSON - Our Ferguson Family
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
The format I use:
John Smith 2008-02-09 email re Thomas Mackay, Tongue
John Smith 2008-03-30 letter re James Anderson's death
John Smith 2008-04-02 phone call re miscellaneous Wills
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John, you might look to see if you don't have a gender selected for those
who are italicized. (there are times when a child was born in which I don't
know whether it was a boy or a girl -- you find it when obits say someone
was survived by 5 children or some such thing where you don't know the
I don't if this is the only case, but I have names italicized when the
gender is not specified. This could be a data entry error or an
actual case of unknown gender - e.g. an unnamed stillborn child or a
record with an ambiguous name and no additional information.
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John,
Usually this is an indication that the Male Female option is not checked
resulting in an unknown option for that person.
George
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To:
John Magyari wrote
In the Index Tab I see some names are italicized as well as all other
info on that line, and others are not.
Can someone tell me why this occurs?
It indicates that the person's sex is unknown.
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It sounds like a lot of people put it under e-mail. I put it under the
pertinent family surname, so that when I glance down through the list I can
see the sources for that family name. If it is quite specific to an
individual, I will put it under surname, given name.
I suspect that others do not
I have a few of these and it is because the Sex is undefined.
Don
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From: John Magyari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the Index Tab I see some names are italicized as well as all other
info on that line, and others are not.
Can someone tell me why this
John I don't seem to have any. Could they be individuals who somehow have no
sex determination? (Don't mean to get fresh here ha)
Janis
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Thank u that was it.
thanks,
john
Mike Fry wrote:
John Magyari wrote:
In the Index Tab I see some names are italicized as well as all other
info on that line, and others are not.
Can someone tell me why this occurs?
Sex = Unknown
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Elizabeth:
There are two broad types of correspondence that might be used as sources:
A collection of old family letters, or modern communications with family
members and co-researchers in which they provided information about your
line. I assume you're referring to the latter. In that case,
Well I must confess (yet again) that my Sources are wildly
idiosyncratic, to say the least.
I am a splitter to extremes. Each birth, marriage, death, census
record, email etc. is a separate source. On the Source Info. screen
I rarely fill more than the Source List Name. And count on one hand my
I think italicized indicates unknown gender.
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John Magyari wrote:
In the Index Tab I see some names are italicized as well as all other
info on that line, and others are not.
Can someone tell me why
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote
But what do I do for personal e-mails, letters, interviews? Is the
source type e-mail? or the name of the sender?
Although largely a lumper, I do split in some cases and correspondence
is one of them. I use the title Correspondence - Joe Bloggs,
Correspondence -
We wanted our Legacy user group mailing list to be the very first to hear
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Hi John,
In the Index Tab I see some names are italicized as well as all other
info on that line, and others are not. Can someone tell me why this
occurs?
Those are people of unknown sex. You haven't indicated whether
they're male or female in your database.
Hope this helps :-)
Kind
Jeez, I should have just waited and bought one on release, I would
have got it faster than waiting for the 'free' upgrade!
At least it's out, now I will just sit back and wait for the email, I
thought there would be a download link. I new I shouldn't have taken
the day off and stayed home to
Hi
I was wondering about Legacy 7.
I was lead to believe this version was not available yet?
Kind regards
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Land of the long white cloud - New Zealand
On 2/06/2008, at 5:41 PM, Robert57P via Gmail wrote:
Different versions of Legacy seem to play nice with each other.
I've got Legacy 5,
Go to Options Customize Other, and check the Message Boxes. I
think this is what you want. If not, let us know.
Robert
Debbie Medeiros wrote:
Hi
For some reason I lost those helpful hints at startup and can not
figure out how to get them back. Can someone please help?
Thanks
Debbie
Main menu last item under View.
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Debbie Medeiros wrote:
Hi
For some reason I lost those helpful hints at startup and can not
figure out how to get them back. Can someone please help?
Thanks
Debbie
Italics show the person's GENDER is UNKNOWN.
In the Index, select the person and click the Family Tab. Above
their name, where you usually see Husband or Wife you will see
Unknown.
Click on the person to reach the Individual's Information screen.
Near top right, there are three radio buttons, M F
Click on the View menu in Legacy and select Tips Window
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Geoff Rasmussen wrote:
We wanted our Legacy user group mailing list to be
The last I looked there was no way to search the list of Master
Sources. So, when I got to having about 800 I couldn't find anything
without an excessive amount of scrolling and time. That's why I care.
I don't know why anyone else would care/not care about this method or
other methods.
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I've just finished watching the video online for some of the new features of
Legacy 7 and I love the inclusion of the married names in indexes etc which
is relevant for the vast majority of marriages in my file. But haven't been
able to download the program yet so I'm not able to check this out
Where'd everybody go? :-D
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Hi Debbie,
View - Tips Window
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Jenny wrote:
I use the title Correspondence - Joe Bloggs,
Correspondence - Jane Doe etc for *all* correspondence with an individual
or organisation and specify in the Source Details whether it is e-mail,
letter or whatever, the date, subject (if applicable) and the relevant page
number.
In my
Debbie Medeiros wrote:
Hi
For some reason I lost those helpful hints at startup and can not figure
out how to get them back. Can someone please help?
Thanks
Debbie
Select View Tips Window Check Show this Welcome Screen next time you start
Legacy.
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Mary,
I have no doubt at all that you find a way! Although at the opposite end of the
sourcing spectrum to yourself (an unreformed lumper) I am also looking to find
a way of using the new system and misbehaving myself.
To cheer you up, you can always switch between the old (in v7 called
Noddie, Hello
Just downloaded it from the web site
Laurence E Stephenson, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
04-06-2008
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Time: 2008-06-04, 08:18:47
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] V7 Install
Hi
I was wondering about Legacy 7.
I was
Elizabeth:
Grouping by location is a fine way to handle certain records. Most people
handle census records just that way and many others group vital records by
location.
As Angela pointed out, grouping by family is problematic when you run into
an extended family in a census. And what do you
Hi Mary,
I too have tons of sources and have never used the source detail. To manage
my source list I have (my own strange but..) logical way of entering source
names. I was hoping that the source writer in ver. 7 would help me in
completing the publication details (which I never manage to do
Thanks for letting us know Geoff. I know I can't wait to get it downloaded.
However, I don't know if it is just me (in my excitement) or if there is a
problem... (If it is just me please forgive this email.) However on the
upgrade page on the web there is no button to 'add to cart' as there is
://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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Mary,
I'm intrigued - what's this about Thomas Mackay's tongue? :-)
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Hi Debbie,
Yes it's not in the usual place in the Help Menu.
Try View Tips Window and then make sure the checkbox to show at
startup is ticked.
Cathy
At 05:33 AM 4/06/2008, you wrote:
Hi
For some reason I lost those helpful hints at startup and can not
figure out how to get them back.
I do use it, but the ribbon allows ten characters, (at my last checking), that
leaves me 5 capital letters and 5 smalls, So I am constantly changing the
contents of it. Although the various languages only use three or four extra
characters each, they are different between Swedish, Norwegian,
Legacy v7 was designed to install directly over the Legacy v6 folder.
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Mary:
You can still use the original sourcing just like you are doing in
Legacy 6 if you like.
In Legacy 7 you can choose as an option to use the new Source writer or not.
I do not believe I will be using the Source writer until the user can
edit some of the templates.
For now, the templates are
I have downloaed version 7 and was wondering if it is best to uninstall version
6, install to a new directory or simply install over the existing program?
Thanks
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Noddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I was wondering about Legacy 7.
I was lead to believe this version was not available yet?
Kind regards
Gwen
Land of the
Am still waiting for my free upgrade too. Wonder how many of those
who downloaded
their version 6 have gotten their upgrade already?
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