On 30 Jun 2008 GeoSci wrote:
I KNEW I had read (somewhere) to not place the period after an
initial. Opinions/Ideas?
I totally disagree with this. In the early 1800s it was fairly
common amongst Palatine and other Germanic families in the USA to use
a single letter as a middle name to
Hmm, interesting, Jeff, I have been wondering whether these reports of
intermittent blank maps are related to lack of internet connection at the time,
or as you suggest, possibly variation in signal strength if wireless connected.
I am awaiting delivery of a laptop which will be on my home
Hi Ron
It was no trouble, interesting to see how GE and VE compare.
My own postcode is spot-on in both.
Mary
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I reported this as a bug to Legacy sometime ago, using the Report a
Bug feature. I didn't get a response, and I forgot about it until
seeing this e-mail. I'll forward this to support again.
Regards,
Dermot.
2008/6/28 Chick Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Legacy correctly calculates the relationship
In a message dated 6/30/2008 1:34:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I KNEW I had read (somewhere) to not place the period after an initial.
I had a Father-in-Law who had a middle initial of L - not a middle name,
always without a period, and sometimes required (on
That was my thinking. Unfortunately, no error message appears to help
identify the cause.
Jeff
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From: ronald ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 4:29 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping addresses
IMHO, I have decided that any discernible location is
similar to a town. A good example is Buckingham
Palace, since its permanent employees/residents
constitute a town size population, and it keeps track
of BMD on its own, and some castles have multiple
church records in the various chapels. In
IMHO, since Windows uses periods in file names as
separators, it can confuse the various programs, so
what I would want in that case is rendered out of my
hands. The computersh in LA CA are taking over the
world, and we can be partners or enemies, I give up.
Ric
--- GeoSci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with your assessment and descision. But those
pesky little periods/dots can cause their own
problems. Justr an observation.
Rich in LA CA
--- Dave Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 30 Jun 2008 GeoSci wrote:
I KNEW I had read (somewhere) to not place the
period after an
initial.
Yes, I agree. My adopted children do not share my DNA
pool, they have a better one. I have farmers, they
have kings. :-)
Rich in LA CA
--- Wynthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah.. but here's the thing
*Any* in-law relationship is no genealogical
relationship at all-merely a social one or a
That is what I do. Caveats - my file is currently relatively small - less
than 2000 people. I started doing the higher than next RIN thing when I
was cleaning up the several aborted starts at Legacy I had laying around.
The normal RINs were similar from one file to the next and simply setting
Windows does use a full stop as a deliminator between the file name and
extension but that does not prevent you using additional ones in the
filename.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
MLFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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I don't like the statement Another name for X is XY.I would prefer
it to say: Her married name is... Or no statement at all, for I
fail to see the reason for the statement. It seems self-evident, given
that her husband's name is in full view.
Is it possible to change this
Source Writer in Legacy 7 allows books to be cited with one or two
authors/editors. How do you handle books with more than 2 authors? Stan
_
Find hidden words, unscramble celebrity names, or try the ultimate crossword
puzzle with
Jane,
It need not be a married name and could be anything, and it may not be at all
obvious. Users use AKAs for many different things and perhaps more than one.
Ron Ferguson
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New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use with
Stan,
I'm using the 2-author book template. After the last name of the second
author, I add , et al in place of all additional authors' actual names.
Penny
- Original Message -
From: Stan Megraw
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 8:48 AM
Subject:
The classic way in academic publications is to write the authors of such books
as
first author, et al.
Should be fine for Legacy too.
Jeff
- Original Message -
From: Stan Megraw
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 9:48 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG]
Stan Megraw wrote
Source Writer in Legacy 7 allows books to be cited with one or two
authors/editors. How do you handle books with more than 2 authors?
There is a workaround in this case. If you set up a Master Source with
2 authors you will see that the output is in the form
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:05:11 +0100, ronald ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It need not be a married name and could be anything, and it may not be at all
obvious. Users use AKAs for many different things and perhaps more than one.
Which points out a major shortcoming in the program ... the
But, when it is a married name, can I change the statement that appears
in reports?
Jane
ronald ferguson wrote:
Jane,
It need not be a married name and could be anything, and it may not be at all
obvious. Users use AKAs for many different things and perhaps more than one.
Ron Ferguson
Jeff,
While I believe you are correct, I think only partly so. I'm no
academic, but I believe that the classic way to cite publications with
more than one author is, when first citing the publication to name all
authors, and in second and subsequent citations, to use et al.
Just a minor point,
Ah ... but the other thing is ...
If one is more what might be called a family historian type as opposed to what
might be
called a strict genealogist type, there's no merely about said relationship;
rather, it
is a relationship in all respects. Personally, I'd like my gen program to
reflect
I apologize - I sent this as a reply without changing the subject line.
Here is it properly done:
Sorry to pepper the list with questions, but if I don't submit them when
I come across the (during trying to clean up my just imported file) I
will not remember the problems. I do think the day
By the way, before the pedants come chiming in, I meant to type Far
be it FROM me, but a slip of the keyboard mangled the phrase.
Regards,
Dermot.
2008/6/30 Dermot McGlone [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think what Ronald and Dennis are talking about (and far be it for me
to put words in their mouths!!)
This would seem to be a moot discussion because while swapping did change
the relationship shown at the top the one via marriage is mentioned.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah ... but the other thing is ...
If one is more what might be called a family
Sorry to pepper the list with questions, but if I don't submit them when
I come across the (during trying to clean up my just imported file) I
will not remember the problems. I do think the day will come (perhaps
when my manual arrives in the mail) when I don't have such basic
question to
Jenny
Thanks for that tip. An excellent work around!
Stan
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:11:34 +0100 To:
LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:
[LegacyUG] Books with more than 2 authors Stan Megraw wrote Source
Writer in Legacy 7 allows books to be
Legacy has imported some of my names in strange ways, such as:
Sicard_srfor Sicard, Sr. and Van_cleave for Van Cleave.
Can this be corrected globally?
Jane S.
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I think what Ronald and Dennis are talking about (and far be it for me
to put words in their mouths!!) is that there is no way for Legacy to
know that an AKA you have entered for a particluar person is their
married name, or is it just another name by which they are Also Known
As. It would
Off the top of my head I would say No. Don't forget that in version7 you can
have the married name set on the Marriage Information screen and have them
print in the Report Indexes, but not in the body of the report (actually I
cannot see why one would want them there). They can also be printed
Many of the people in my imported data base have strange characters
after their name in the children view. Some have a +. Some have a
(_). I don't understand this at all. I have tried to change some
things globally, using search and replace, but it doesn't seem to work.
It did correct 1
Jane Sarles wrote
I apologize - I sent this as a reply without changing the subject line.
Here is it properly done:
If you want to start a new topic you should *not* just hit Reply and
change the subject line but should start a new thread with a new e-mail.
Now that the preamble is done
Hi,
That feature of non repeating individuals is not available yet. It
will be available in a future update.
Thanks,
Luc Comeau
Legacy Family Tree
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:10, Cliff Ruemmler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good morning/afternoon:
I'm using Legacy 7 with Legacy Charting. I want
Does anyone have a search string for Rootsweb's SSDI site?
Matt
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I am not sure what you mean. Do they have marrying of
cousins? (I do). I have not made charts with the
program, but in the past there was a checkbox which
when doing similar, that put under a duplicate of the
same person saying a note about 'this line is shown
elsewhere'.
If not as above please
Never mind about the symbols and the blank space for unknown names. I
finally found the answers in the customize section. It wasn't easy,
however, under data entry rather than names or something obvious.
Jane
Jane Sarles wrote:
I apologize - I sent this as a reply without changing the
Hi All Listers:
The scenario:
After creating a tag list, I use the Rotate Feature on the Family View
the scan the tag list.
As you scan from one person to the next, the program maintains a pointer
to the current person
to go forward and backwards from this point in the list.
If I turn off
As in the case of: Harry S Truman. His whole middle name was S ,
not an abbreviation. Should his family simply add a period
arbitrarily, as needed, so as to not upset the software?
GB
On Jun 30, 2008, at 2:02 AM, Dave Naylor wrote:
On 30 Jun 2008 GeoSci wrote:
I KNEW I had read
I just wanted to let everyone know that my problem has been solved. I
called customer support and found that I was given the wrong customer
number. Now I too can play in my sandbox.
Thank all of you. :)
Donna Roach
Forest City, NC
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From: Sherry/Support [EMAIL
Jane Sarles wrote:
Sorry to pepper the list with questions, but if I don't submit them when
I come across the (during trying to clean up my just imported file) I
will not remember the problems. I do think the day will come (perhaps
when my manual arrives in the mail) when I don't have such
Playing around with my new Legacy 7 I am exploring adding images of scans to
Events. Adding photos to individuals is a no-brainer and they appear right
in the Legacy Individual, pedigree, etc. screens, but I was wondering if
adding document scans to events print out in any of the reports, and
Uncle-in-law what is that? Guess we have less relationships or
non relationship names than you do in english.
Personally I would expect Legacy to handle mother-father-brother and sister-in
laws
as that is relationship names that we do have and use. Are we also going to
have
7C 6R in-law?
Anne
Matt~
Try:
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
Data Prep Pattern = [ ]=[+]
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From: Evan Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] SSDI Search String
Does anyone
I have just downloaded Legacy 7.0 Family Tree Standard Edition.
One of my male relatives has been married twice.
First wife - Married, had two children and divorced.
Second wife - Married, no children, still married.
How do you enter this data.
Larry
Los Angeles, CA
[EMAIL
Maybe so, but Legacy does return in-law relationships, so it should
return the so-called uncle-in-law relationship. I still think that
no relationship is wrong.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Wynthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah.. but here's the thing
*Any* in-law relationship is no
Jane,
In the Help file, do a search for Symbols. One of the titles is What
do the symbols mean? This should help answer your question.
Dede Holden
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Jane Sarles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many of the people in my imported data base have strange characters after
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
which I got by googling rootsweb ssdi
Ruth
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From: Evan Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 11:01 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] SSDI Search String
Does anyone
Jane Sarles wrote:
Many of the people in my imported data base have strange characters
after their name in the children view. Some have a +. Some have a
(_). I don't understand this at all. I have tried to change some
things globally, using search and replace, but it doesn't seem to work.
My Great Grandfather's name was M L McDonald... and yes it was a
nightmare in the Army in WWI as he told us the story many times. When
Legacy tells me to put the periods in I just ignore it and select the
option not to be warned about future problems on that record.
Allen
John Clare wrote:
I seem to have heard of someone called Ulysses S Grant as well
John
2008/6/30 Art Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Of course the best known American example would be Harry S Truman, who made
it vary plain that the S was his middle name, not an initial, He said what
the S stood for was S and nothing
Beth Gay wrote:
Hi Don,
It does not matter to me what somewhat else recommends. The website
URLs are here today and gone tomorrow. I agree with you. I cite the
URL for the website only and from the additional information that I
enter any person should be able to find the detail if the
Oh how I wish I could play in my sandbox. I had to resintall my XP and
foolishly hadn't made a note of my new V7 number. I have the receipt for
it, but not the customer number. I have emailed them (Sales) FOUR times
over **two weeks** and have had no response whatsoever. Sherry has
responded
I am using the Legacy Charting Standard 7.0.097
I need to show 10 generations. The help area says:
Changing the Generations - When first displayed, your chart is built out to
five generations. If you want more or fewer generations, you can change the
setting by using the up and down
I would expect that they would exclude Harry S Truman, and similarily
named people from finding that potential error - same as I have to
exclude my ancestor that married someone with the same last name.
That is why Legacy is flexible!
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Gary Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, guys, but that won't enter the selected name.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Judy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt~
Try:
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
Data Prep Pattern = [ ]=[+]
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To:
Does Legacy save my data input every few minutes, or do I have to do a
manual save of my data input.
Larry
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Actually, it doesn't return uncle-in-law. It returns husband of aunt. The
discussion centers on the fact that v7 can find that husband of aunt
relationship, but can't find nephew of wife relationship. The two people
involved are the same, so why not either relationship?
Elizabeth
researching
Maybe you should telephone them?
-C
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:23 PM, June McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh how I wish I could play in my sandbox. I had to resintall my XP and
foolishly hadn't made a note of my new V7 number. I have the receipt for it,
but not the customer number. I have
I have just downloaded Legacy 7.0 Family Tree Standard Edition.
One of my male relatives has been married twice.
First wife - Married, had two children and divorced.
Second wife - Married, no children, still married.
How do you enter this data.
Larry
Los Angeles, CA
[EMAIL
Gary Brown wrote
As in the case of: Harry S Truman. His whole middle name was S ,
not an abbreviation. Should his family simply add a period
arbitrarily, as needed, so as to not upset the software?
I think that is an excellent example of why one should, in *most*
instances, put a full
Larry Binenbaum wrote
Does Legacy save my data input every few minutes, or do I have to do a
manual save of my data input.
You need to save your changes as you leave each screen where you have
done data entry - if you want to leave the screen without saving your
changes you click Close
Does Legacy save my data input every few minutes, or do I have to do a
manual save of my data input.
Larry
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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One problem I'm running into when trying to convert my Mom's data into
Legacy
She did not use the 4 location fields and did NOT include city, county,
etc in the name. So I've run into some of her entries that have some
ambiguity. For example,
Butler, Ohio - is that actually:
Butler,
Thank you most kindly for an excellent overview. That cleared it up nicely.
Jane Sarles
Gene Young wrote:
Jane Sarles wrote:
Many of the people in my imported data base have strange characters
after their name in the children view. Some have a +. Some have a
(_). I don't understand this
Add the first wife, add the children, mark the status of marriage as
divorced. Add the second wife. You can add/link a person to any individual
by right-clicking in the person's individual screen.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
- Original
Larry Binenbaum wrote
I have just downloaded Legacy 7.0 Family Tree Standard Edition.
One of my male relatives has been married twice.
First wife ? Married, had two children and divorced.
Second wife ? Married, no children, still married.
I presume you know how to add your relative
One thing I learned the hard way (again, from importing my mother's
database):
I suggest you do NOT merge a GEDCOM directly into your own main family file.
Instead, create a NEW Legacy file with the GEDCOM. Then go through the
various different entries to do cleanup and standardization as you
On my location list I usually have something like
Town, County, England.
When the county lines have been redrawn, VE does not find the town. My way
around this has been to rename the location to
Town, England and then VE usually finds the town. The problem I have with
this is that it messes
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:16:39 -0700, Larry Binenbaum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does Legacy save my data input every few minutes, or do I have to do a
manual save of my data input.
Your data is stored in an MS Access database. It gets saved when you
click the Save button on the screen (obvious).
If you spouse has father, mother, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew, niece,
whatever as blood relationships,
Then to you if you are married add -in-law to end and they are
non-blood relationships.
If someone is married to one of your blood relationships and they are
not a blood relationship then
You do not have the deluxe version.
The Standard version only shows 4 generations.
Chap
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Larry Binenbaum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using the Legacy Charting Standard 7.0.097
I need to show 10 generations. The help area says:
Changing the Generations -
One thing I dislike when merging a second file into my primary file is that
all the modified dates on the second file get changed to the date of the merge.
I would like to still be able to see the last time I actually worked on that
individual. Any ideas?
Cathy, Dundas, Ontario
Legacy
Exactly... My point exactly.
If V7 can find husband of aunt, why can't it find nephew of wife ??
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Elizabeth Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, it doesn't return uncle-in-law. It returns husband of aunt. The
discussion centers on the fact that v7 can
Larry,
There are two considerations here. Legacy is based on an Access database so
when you add or amend an entry you are changing the database, and in that sense
Legacy is saving what you do on the fly. This, btw, is your file with the
extension .fdb which is usually stored in C:\Legacy\Data
Except it's Ulysses Simpson Grant.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Clare
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:17 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Followup to Discussion about Periods after Initials.
I seem to have heard of someone
June, I called Legacy this morning and within a half hour I got results.
Try calling 1-800-753-3453. The maybe you will also be playing in your
sandbox. :)
Donna Roach
Forest City, NC
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From: June McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
How can you tell if you are using LOC4 or LOC3 or LOC-whatever? Is that by
doing a GEDCOM export? Or opening a copy of the legacy database in Access?
or ??
Bob
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From: Mary Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sunday, June 29,
Larry Binenbaum wrote:
Does Legacy save my data input every few minutes, or do I have to do a
manual save of my data input.
Every time your course leaves a field the data just entered in that field is
automatically saved.
--
Gene Y.
n2kvs
Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with
Legacy
Why is the below bad? Actually, I try to remember to:
hit reply
change subject
delete unrelated info in body of the msg
If you want to start a new topic you should *not* just hit Reply and
change the subject line but should start a new thread with a new e-mail.
Legacy User Group
I think it's reasonable in that Legacy is showing non-blood people who are
married to a blood relative. The older man is married to your aunt, the nephew
is not married to a blood relative. Looks to me like that's where they've drawn
the line.
Regards,
Dave (NZ).
From: Elizabeth
Worked for me -
Ruth A. (Sconza Testa) Nerud
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From: Randolph Clark
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] SSDI Search String
Sorry, guys, but that won't enter the
Full name: Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant, also called 'Unconitional Surrender
Grant.
Art Seddon
- Original Message -
From: John Clare
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Followup to Discussion about Periods after Initials.
A suggestion just struck me. It would take a lot of rework, but a possible
work-around could be to use the short location name for the location as of
the time of the event and the long location name for the current location.
That would not only help with VE, but also for finding a place for an
On 30 Jun 2008 Toni wrote:
On my location list I usually have something like Town, County,
England.
That's the way I have mine -- and sorted right to left.
When the county lines have been redrawn, VE does not find the town.
The county lines don't need to have been changed for this to
Exactly!
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From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 7:45:54 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship Calculator
I think it's reasonable in that Legacy is showing non-blood people who are
married to a blood
On 30 Jun 2008 Robert57P via Gmail wrote:
Why is the below bad? Actually, I try to remember to: hit reply
change subject delete unrelated info in body of the msg
If you want to start a new topic you should *not* just hit Reply and
change the subject line but should start a new thread
In answer to the question are they caught up yet. As
Geoff and Ken came to Burbank this weekend, and we
sold out Sat afternoon, ALL Sunday was sold to ship
MOn-Tues, I would be surprised if they are back to
normal until the third or 4th week of July (They
probably go somewhere else next weekend.)
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