Jane,
This is probably only a minor thing, but I noticed in your first
message you said:
I should like to know if reports in Legacy can be output to MS Word for
editing prior to printing?
while later on you mentioned MS Works. I don't know if this may be
causing some confusion for you, but
Amrit,
Installing over the file which is causing the problem will normally enable you
to uninstall it.
Ron Ferguson
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Trippsibs5 wrote
Although I don't have Ver 7, I did see the What's New in Legacy 7
video. Sure looks like push pins to me in the Mapping demo. There must
be a way to
display the pins.
Don't forget that VirtualEarth is a Microsoft programme, not a a Legacy
one. It's not down to Legacy
Dermot said:
These RTF files can be opened in most word processors,
although, as I don't use MS Works, I can't guarantee that rtf files
will open automatically in MS Works.
Of course rtf files open automatically in MS Works. I do it all the time.
There are few document type files that don't
Hello Georgia
Yes, it is possible to arrange AKA names in the order that you prefer. If you
have already added your AKAs, then click on edit then insert at the beginning
of the surname: [[1]] or [[2]] or [[3]] for every AKA for that person, thereby
arranging them in the desired order.
Regards
Alan -
How ingenious! Thanx.
John
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Alan Eade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Georgia
Yes, it is possible to arrange AKA names in the order that you prefer. If
you have already added your AKAs, then click on edit then insert at the
beginning of the surname:
I've reported this as a possible bug. I did some more tests that show I can
get rid of the problem by unchecking the option include married names.
Similarly there is no problem if the name list is sorted on RIN (with
married names displayed) - but then clicking on Given name or Surname to
change
Has anyone found a way to add pictures of individuals in the fan charts?
Jeff
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I don't think you'll get pictures in fan charts any time soon. That
requires sophisticated image manipulation (rotation of many image types by
X degrees) that isn't (yet) a part of Legacy.
If you can save the fan chart as a very high resolution image, then you
could use a graphics/photo editor
Thank you, Alan. However, does this only affect the order in
printing out reports? I tried this but it does not bring my #1
choice up to the AKA line on the family view. The AKA I first
entered is still the one that shows up there.
Georgia
Yes, it is possible to arrange AKA names in the
Penny,
No, it is not part of Legacy. You can save where you wish, I have mine in the
Program Files.
Ron Ferguson
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Thanks. No harm in asking ... ;-)
Jeff
John Carter wrote:
I don't think you'll get pictures in fan charts any time soon. That
requires sophisticated image manipulation (rotation of many image
types by X degrees) that isn't (yet) a part of Legacy.
If you can save the fan chart as a very
I have been using VE for awhile- I down loaded the beta version about a year
ago. In that beta version, I was allowed to draw a line
around a property. This was really cool when I was able to follow a plat map
from 1873 of my ancestors farm property. Because of the 3D imaging I was able
to
How do genealogists handle the English counties where the county lines have
been redrawn and towns have been moved from one county to another, so that you
have a record (census, birth, etc.) showing one county name and VE don't find
it because it is now in another?
I guess one way would be to
Art,
As you say, over the years British counties have come and gone and boundaries
moved so during the history of a town it is quite possible it has been
encompassed by one or more counties. For recording purposes the county used is
that in which the town was at the time in question. For
Art Seddon wrote
How do genealogists handle the English counties where the county lines
have been redrawn and towns have been moved from one county to another,
so that you have a record (census, birth, etc.) showing one county name
and VE don't find it because it is now in another?
I guess
I watched the tour of the standard program, but did not see answers to
these questions:
I saw on the tour that one should keep the place statements down to
town, county, state. What option allows one to put in the name of a
cemetery, or of a church? I can't locate a screen that allows me
OK, that is a viable work around. But, I don't use the
privacy brackets for that, yet!
Rich in LA CA
--- Alan Eade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Georgia
Yes, it is possible to arrange AKA names in the
order that you prefer. If you have already added
your AKAs, then click on edit then
Hi Jenny,
Thanks for your answer.
If the message didn't come as plain text, I don't know how come. I have the
address ticked send in plain text only, but I did get lazy and just hit
reply to sender on a e:mail on the list, hit 'Control A' - delete, changed
the subject and wrote my question.
Jane,
A number of us, particularly non-Americans, put it in the Location field and
ignore the 4 location details (which don't work for us anyhow). BTW I have just
realised you do not mention the country which is also important - and
preferably do not use abbreviations as they mean different
Jane,
Since I am still a newbie and do to the fact that I still have a lot to
learn, you have picked the right place for help.
Welcome.
The things that I did starting out were the following:
1. create a separate folder in your email to save all future to do's,
comments about the program. I
This is actually a worldwide problem. I use the choice
'location on date of document' instead of 'current
location name'. I have this in USA, France, Norway,
Sweden, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Germany. It
takes diligence to maintain.
Rich in LA CA
--- Art Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jane, we all had to learn these:
For cemeteries and churches, I use the + sign after the burial and
baptism fields that leads to the address list and enter it there.
Don't know if this is how most people do it. For marriages I have to
make an event called Marriage location and then put the
1. Can I do a find and replace for places? For instance, in the past I
have used Co. for County and abbreviations for states. I would like to
change to spelling out the county and state Is there a feature that
will allow me to do that globally?
2. On the Event Screen, what kind of
Next to the field for burial, for instance, there's a + sign. If you
click on that, there's an option for burial address.
To delete an Event, click on Options next to where you enter Events and
click Delete Event.
JL
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
For the Event - what goes into description question - it depends on the
event for a residence event, I put in the street address (if I have it)
- the city etc goes in location. for the religion event, I put in the name
of the religion (ie, Catholic, or Anglican, etc). I only use the
A suggestion I put in (during but near the end of V6) would address
this I'd like to be able to setup a customized timeline of place
locations. This would be something that the genealogist would do for
locations, not a database that would be done by a companyBasically
for a
Jane,
Please see below
Ron Ferguson
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For The Fergusons of N.W. England
Most information in the file tends to be before the present counties
appeared so I find it easiest to stick with the 19th Century counties, there
were a few minor adjustments then but nothing like what was done post-1972.
Many people still don't use the modern county names - my home was in
24 Jun 2008 I posted a leaflet Walking Tour of Nyssa, Oregon
The source detail was building 5.
I did not use the SourceWriter.
I posted this to one person, George.
25 Jun 2008 I posted a Certificate of Baptism
Nothing was entered in the source detail.
I used the SourceWriter.
I posted this to
1. - click VIEW, MASTER LISTS, LOCATIONS
This will give you a listing of all the things you've put in the in (4
main items) or place fields (events). Any changes you make there will
have a global impact, thus fixing them all.
I'm not sure if there is a way to do any global change if you use
Global change on addresses added to events such as marriage, death, and
birth is done through the Master Event Address List. One edit will
affect everyone it's been used for. This is to be distinguished from an
individual's address or the repository addresses used in the Master
Source List.
Art Seddon wrote:
If the message didn't come as plain text, I don't know how come. I have the
address ticked send in plain text only, but I did get lazy and just hit
reply to sender on a e:mail on the list, hit 'Control A' - delete, changed
the subject and wrote my question.
Maybe doing
To globally change locations you can do it through Search Replace - under
Search on the toolbar. In Find Where select Lists - Location and then put
the old and new content in the other two boxes. You obviously have to be
careful that you make the search so it only picks up the items you want.
Question 2., below: You can put anything you want or leave it blank. Look at
the area at the bottom of the Event screen. As you type in the data fields,
the wording that will appear on your reports is displayed. As you enter into
the Description field, if you don't like the way the sentence
I don't usually bother with street addresses, but for Birth, Marriage, Death,
Baptism, Burial, I also enter the name of the hospital, cemetery, church, etc.
in the address field accessed by the + sign. The only problem I have with it
is that when you include the address on a report, it shows
Hi, all -
I have two questions about Legacy's capabilities that I haven't been able to
find an answer to in my searching through various help screens.
(1)Is it possible to control the format that is used for a date when
exporting to a gedcom file? In Legacy, you can view the dates in
I am still using Version 6. I just discovered that the date
calculator will not accept a death date of 29 February. Does Legacy
not believe in leap year? I kept thinking I was entering the data
incorrectly but realized that 29 February was unusual. When I tried
28 February, all was well.
As I mentioned before, for townships, I put it in the description
field of the event. I don't want to have, for example, Saugerties
town, Saugerties village, Saugerties, etc, as 3 locations so in the
desc field I put in the township of, or in the village of, and
then I have only one for
It isn't there directly. There is the reccomended way
which is to use the attached address page, but I don't
use it yet, so have not dealt with it, I am still
using my old method, which is to include a cemetery as
the 'town', and in my location notes for the cemetery
include the address and town
Ann,
This is a known problem that has been reported
Ron Ferguson
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For The
If you have the Deluxe edition, the Chronology view is
the place to do it. I have input the boundary changes
under a grouping for each state or province. Here is
an example of what I have done. I input the county
info for my family, but this quick work all happened
before birth.
Good luck
Rich in
Hi Ann,
I don't think you are doing anything wrong... but instead have run into a
glitch we've been seeing since Jun 8th...
The saving grace is the 'ghost text' apparently doesn't print on reports...
and for me goes away once Legacy has been restarted.
I'll try posting again to the Beta Test List.
What year? 29 Feb occurs in years divisible by 4, except century years
(1800, 1900), unless the century year is divisible by 400 (2000 was a leap
year and had a 29 Feb).
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
- Original Message -
From: Georgia
1. No. The date system is universally used globally
for whan date is coded to a 'date-number'. The Gedcom
does not care what style you are sending, just the
date. The person recieving the Gedcom should be asked
( by their program) do they want them recieved in the
date system they are using or
Is the year divisible by 4? except for the 00's, 1800, 1900, etc.
Elsie
- Original Message -
From: Georgia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:39 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Date Calculator
I am still using Version 6. I just
The same way you send an e-mail to your friends/family. Start a new message
and in the To space (whatever it is called in the mail program you use)
enter the LUG address. I put the Legacy Users Group
(LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com) in my address book so I don't have to
type it every
IMHO, it needs to be a leap year to recognize it as
good. You did not mention the year in your note. If
you are working in the pre-1776 years, there were leap
years that were used in only some of the countries in
Europe. The Catholic countries started having LY a
couple of decades before the
Although I rarely put the township in the location field, I do if the
town or village is unknown (or undocumented). That way it's possible
at a glance to know what geographical part of the county a person
lived in.
To my way of thinking, knowing that a person died in Cedar Township,
Boone
You did fine. Next time take out the English counties,
unless your question is a new one related to the prior
place.
We all learned how to do it, with we hope, a quick
learning curve. :-)
Rich in LA CA
--- Kris Strotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm afraid I'm guilty of doing this. PLEASE tell
I have not used this feature before ever. But in reading the help
section and manual after I have two different family files open in split
view; I then drag and drop one male person to the box that I want him to
be in. However the box is still empty. He is however now in the index of
the
Thank goodness this has come up again!
We have been gone for two months (eye surgeries for my hubby) and
I had cancelled my e-mail list. When we got back yesterday I
immediately signed up again and then went to the archives --
HA -- I sorted by subject but after reading about 50
Yes, I'm aware of making timelines for Chronological views, and have
made a couple that were sent (by request) to Legacy. I have used it a
lot.
But my request has a lot more potential other than just showing the
changes on a printout or screen (and only if the right one turned
on...)
Imagine
Ann:
You're probably not doing anything wrong; this is a programming glitch that
is making me rather crazy but hopefully will be fixed before long. In some
instances the old details will clear themselves after you shut down and then
re-start Legacy. Also in some cases (but not all), the detail
True except if the year is divisible by 400 it is a leap year, as was 2000.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elsie Saar
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:51 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Calculator
Just write it as you would a regular email, addressed to
LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com, and put a subject in the subject bar.
JL
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
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Kris Strotman wrote:
I'm afraid I'm guilty of doing this. PLEASE tell
Hi Jane,
I have any number of location entries with 5 or more fields, such as:
Oakwood Memorial Cemetery, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
I've also found that http://lat-long.com/ is very good for finding Latitude
and Longitude for locations such as above and then open the location for
OK Mike,
I may be 80, but I'm not too old to learn. No more hit reply. To include
your text I cut and paste, so now I know that this e:mail is clean.
Obviously, with all of the small font, color text, etc., etc., there is a
ton of HTML on the list, but I try to not add to it.
No offense
At 07:39 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote:
True except if the year is divisible by 400 it is a leap year, as was 2000.
Sorry, I failed to give all the pertinent information. The year was
1882, clearly not divisible by 4. So, Legacy is correct in not
recognizing it and I guess the transcriber made
Hi Kirsty,
If these things can’t be done, how do I get to have these put on a
“wish list” for Legacy?
Go to the Home tab in your Legacy program. On the right, near the end of
the third column, is Suggest a new feature - this is what you're
looking for.
Or go straight to
It might have been written incorrectly on the original. Original
records were also created by fallible human beings.
Dawn
Georgia wrote:
At 07:39 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote:
True except if the year is divisible by 400 it is a leap year, as was
2000.
Sorry, I failed to give all the
I have a church record that the priest had done
baptisms on February 30, then the next day was March
1. He obviously thought the whole day that year had
extra days in February. So if he ever found his
mistake, he did not tell anyone?
Rich in LA CA
--- Georgia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:39 PM
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