I also use Genelines for Legacy, and I just tried a comparative
biographical chart for three people, it worked with timelines etc.
Genelines for Legacy is one of the add on programs you could use, but
it is also an added cost to purchase if you don't already have it.
Cheers
Tracy
Legacy User Gro
Any information I get from other people, I put as coming from that
person, without further ado. Unless, they list their specific sources
that I can verify, or have complete trust in the person I'm receiving
from who lists their sources for me. An example of that would be a
cousin who I co-res
Hi Listers
How do you deal with others sharing your research and using you as a
source? Especially when they aren't picking up on the fact that
you've used this or that book, certificate, database etc as your
source.
They are in effect adding your research to their file and crediting
you not your
Ok then, I'll add the source picture to my source, include the text
from it in my source information, but I'll stop adding picture details
for each source picture (I'm only repeating the source details, so I
won't miss anything about the source).
Each element of sourcing is time consuming and to m
Jan,
IE will still be upgraded OK even if you never use it. I had't connected it
with Vista though, as mentioned by a previous correspondant.
Ron Ferguson
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I am wondering if anyone would be interested in creating/joining a Sydney
group.
I would be very happy to have this at my place at Cabarita on any day at
Any time that would suit the most people. There is plenty of bus/train
Transport and a ferry as well.
I would not be a very good convener as
Awhile ago I tagged a group number 7. I'd like to print the list, but
cannot figure out how to do it. Any suggestions?
Name list>Search (right next to options) >Show all tagged>#
Now only the tagged ones are listed, total number given at the top. There
are many ways of structuring the Name Li
Looked at the link you provided Robert - deleted the contents of Windows /
Temp. as suggested. No change. Ironically the info page also suggests
updating Legacy!! However, I have done that just via the Legacy Homepage
(not from within Legacy) and it still made no difference.
Cheers,
Jan
As far as I am aware my Windows updates are installed regularly. I am
always prompted to install, but I always say yes. However, could it be that
Explorer updates are not happening, as I use Firefox as a matter of course?
Cheers,
Jan
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Hi,
Having successfully updated to 7.0.0.53 (despite still not being able to
access the Home Page via the tab) I can report that there is something weird
with the numbering of the source citations in the Descendant Narrative
Report when created as an rtf file. I have only two sources correctly
num
I created a new Legacy file from a PAF 5 database using Legacy standard.
I notice that no Master Repository Address List was created (though the
addresses appear in each Master Source definition in the Repository tab). Is
this a 'feature' or did I miss a step? Can a master repository list be
ge
Jan-
I think that error is listed on Millennia's self help page.
Take a look at Millennia's help on their page at:
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpError13.asp
(You may have to copy that link, we are not supposed to use HTML here.)
If that doesn't work, write back. We will help.
Robert
At
You might rename it to MyRelationships, or similar, so
the computer isn't confused. And you can change it
ONCE, and at the saving the new name, choose 'change
all'.
Good Luck.
Rich in LA CA
--- Elsie Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see that I cannot choose any event name to appear
> on the fam
Search for Individual>Tag #?> Tagged
Show List
Print
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
- Original Message -
From: "Dawn Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Legacy User Group"
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:14 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] V6 print
Jan,
It doesn't matter how you download the update, it's the same from wherever, but
you do not need to download the full program (I'm not clear whether you know
this) the URL is: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/DownloadUpdate.asp
RE Error 13 - have you been installing your Windows Updates reg
Any search lists will show themselves in the Name List. At the bottom
under Print are lots of options for setting up columns and content the
way you want.
JL
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html
Dawn Crowley wrote:
Awhile ago I tagged a grou
Many thanks to Jenny, Tracy, and Linda for setting me straight. Didn't
think to look for Event first!
Elsie
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From: "Elsie Saar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:34 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationships
I have an event I call Relationship w
At the moment I have Legacy Deluxe 7.0.0.45. I have just tried to access
the Legacy Home Page tab in order to download the latest 7.0.0.53 version. I
get the following message and can go no further.
Error displaying Legacy Home page.
Error 13: Type mismatch
Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN?
Hi Listers,
We are headed to Texas for more eye surgery for my husband so I
am going to unsubscribe again. Hope to see (hear) all of you
shortly. Maybe you can work out all the bugs on V7 while I am
gone, Please!!! {:-)))
-- Myrna J
If you use this link you can download a FREE version of Legac
Dear list members,
While I appreciate all of the information shared on this list; I would
prefer to have 2 lists. Is that possible? When I am really busy I just
cannot keep up. Presently I have over 800 unread messages.
My desire is to have one list that deals specifically with the Legacy
prog
Hi all,
No spaces in file names -
I have it now so that it's just work left.
I duplicated the file structure of \Legacy\Pictures and all sub folders and
renamed it \Legacy\Pictures_wo_spaces and all the sub folder under it with
copies of the pictures.
I found a program with a 30 day free trial c
The source information in Ancestry is what has allowed me to enter sources
pretty much "correctly" into Legacy 6, and, therefore, the Basic Source
method in Legacy 7. No need for the new Source Templates. Also, it is worth
noting that I became aware of this through the Legacy videos. Geoff also
Awhile ago I tagged a group number 7. I'd like to print the list, but
cannot figure out how to do it. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dawn
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I have a cousin who did this.
What he did was to produce his own unpublished manuscript for each ship and
then used the appropriate manuscript as his source.
He used a spreadsheet and had a column for the original source in addition to
the other info. He'd then run a report "Voyages of _", sc
Dede,
That is a really useful suggestion. I have been mining birth, marriage,
death and census data, etc. from Ancestry.com for six years. I
discovered I could copy text from Ancestry.com and paste directly into
Legacy for individual fields and master sources, and forgot all about
the "Prin
I responded privately, however because of the responses to your inquiry perhaps
others have the same interest. Please see
http://www.moss-fritch.com/legacy_7.html for information and instructions on
dealing with this area in Legacy 7. There is a separate page for Legacy 6.
Best,
Denise L.
Maybe so. I don't have my filing system set up to reflect MRINs, but it
seems to me that if you have documents filed under MRIN 12345, and you
change MRIN 12345 so that it is now MRIN 1, your whole filing system is down
the tubes. Frankly, I would think that setting up your filing system to
mat
This thread is getting vaguer and vaguer as it goes. Could 'Bob' please
be more specific? It depends how you format your sources and what
numbers you're attaching to what. In any MRIN filing system I know
about, MRIN's are not assigned to Master Sources. But then I guess that
depends how y
I just noticed how well Legacy works with the new version... No harm
done... it seems like Millennia would (should) sell this much like they
do Gensmarts. It would help TNG and Millenia both.
Allen
Tim Rosenlof wrote:
Allen,
Please accept my apology for being so unthoughtful with my words. A
Albert Johnson wrote:
I have 3-4 problems that I can't seem to get resolved.
I downloaded V7 and installed it.
Because the program was not operating just right I decided to
uninstall/reinstall. Went to all
programs. Clicked on uninstall Legacy and got the message 'unable to
open install.log
The GEDCOM file is the easiest... and when I update information I export
a GEDCOM file and upload it... TNG uses legacies RINs and MRINs and
sorts everything out beautifully.
Tim Rosenlof wrote:
Getting close to advertizing..and OT but you need to read the faqs' on
the webpage.
http://lythgoes
Eileen wrote:
Hi everyone,
Not doing as much as some of you with the new update, I like to look at all
the buttons and see what everything can do. Here is a very helpful screen
that I think many of you will find interesting.
Go to HELP, then NAME LIST, go down to TIPS AND TRICKS, up comes a s
As I understand, there's no support for same-sex marriages in Legacy.
You can change the labels to Partners though instead of Husband and Wife.
JL
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html
Prof. Dr. Alvaro Hernandez wrote:
Hi Folks:
The previous
Thank you so much. I understand it now.! Been fiddling with this for quite
some time. My thick head just did not get it. The sentences now work just
great. Thanks again.
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Benson
Sent: Thursday, J
Ronald,
This may or may not help, but Ancestry.com gives very good source
information along with the records. If you like, you can choose
"Printer Friendly" from the result window, then print the search
result you're going to use, along with the source information. Having
this in front of you wh
Hi Al,
Try the Windows Install Cleanup Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
Use with care!
Regards
Les
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Hi everyone,
Not doing as much as some of you with the new update, I like to look at all
the buttons and see what everything can do. Here is a very helpful screen
that I think many of you will find interesting.
Go to HELP, then NAME LIST, go down to TIPS AND TRICKS, up comes a screen
with pict
Oops.. sent too quick.
First, sources are assigned to people & marriages (RINS & MRINS) not people
to sources.
So, when you renumber MRIN 12345 to MRIN 1 any sources assigned to MRIN
12345 are automatically changed to be assigned to MRIN 1.
I have done this many times with no problems.
Hope this he
I am gradually combining sources. Has anybody successfully combined
ship manifests? So I don't wind up with one source per ship? I am
accumulating a lot of these, and would like to simplify if possible. I
want to record the ship's name, captain's name, date of arrival, ports
of leaving and
I think it would depend on whether the record you found was an image of the
actual record or a transcription. BTW, if it is a transcription, I would try
to get a copy of the original. Along with confirming the accuracy of the
transcription, there may be additional information that was not transc
If I understand your question (which I may not), when you renumber MRIN
12345 to 1 any sources assigned to MRIN 12345 are automatically changed to
be assigned to
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:15 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm confused about 'renumbering' the MRIN's. What happens to the old MR
Jenny:
Thanks for this clarification. I think Ruth and I were feeling a little
persecuted that we were the only ones with a scrambled RTF problem. There
seem to be a number of different symptoms, including the one that Belinda
posted this morning, and I'm not sure how to describe them all in a b
Al,
Under Edit, children settings, you can make your choice of how you are going
to list the child, then you can set the relationship to Father and other, or
Mother. In most cases I believe adopted would be the choice for the
children of a same sex marrige, unless one of the couples had been marr
Ronald,
there are so many choices that you really have to look all of them over very
closely. This one:Marriage Records > Found in Governmental Records >
Marriage Certificate > Country > Created at local/county level, this Online
image that was sent is good, but it does not ask the state questio
Me too. Pictures are often small in reports & therefore hard to read.
Captions/notes for pictures tend to be harder than source text/comments as
picture info is in a smaller column under each picture rather than across
the whole page
Cary
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From: [EMAI
Does your edited event info include the Notes? They would show as [Notes]
at the place in the event description where you want them to appear.
However, if there are any Notes, by definition more than date & place are
filled.
Below is a sample. Each bracketed item is filled by Legacy from th
I really have to say, though, even with this problem I'm having with the
Descendant Report, Legacy is fun to work with and better than any genealogy
program I've used. Now if the Descendant Report gets fixed, and if sometime
the Relationship indicator could be printed in reports, I'd be on cloud
I have 3-4 problems that I can't seem to get resolved.
I downloaded V7 and installed it.
Because the program was not operating just right I decided to
uninstall/reinstall. Went to all
programs. Clicked on uninstall Legacy and got the message 'unable to open
install.log'.
I have seen no respons from the Support team on this topic? Could they
kindly respond to this and deny or confirm that there may be a problem
please?
Barend Venter
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From: "Art Seddon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Lega
I do not use the Source Writer, but even so I can see a problem with sources
in the Descendant Book report, at least with rtf. I get Roman Numeral
references for BMD information, but Arabic numbered references for Events.
The Roman Numeral citations are included in the endnotes, while none of th
I have a situation where an ancestor married a third wife. He was not
with her 5 years after their marriage, but with his first wife. The
third wife, in the meantime, has a one year old child 5 years after
their marriage. The child may be his, or it may not. It may be
illegitmate.
How on
What Master source, using SourceWriter, would be used for a marriage record
found on the internet through www.ancestry.com? I am using the deluxe
version of Legacy v7. It is not a church record but a State/County record.
Thanks and I appreciate your help in advance,
Ronald E Howell
[EMAIL PROTEC
Ronald,
Seems like this one would match:
Marriage Records > Found in Governmental Records > Marriage
Certificate > Country > Created at local/county level > Online image
If it's just a database, this one always works:
Add a Generic Source Here > Online database
Thanks,
Geoff R
Carol Costa wrote
I do not understand how to edit the event definition sentences. Each
time I try to do this, my event notes disappear and I only get my
edited sentence showing. I type my notes in. Go to sentence override
tab, click edit sentence definition,
and then type from the fourth o
I do not understand how to edit the event definition sentences. Each time I
try to do this, my event notes disappear and I only get my edited sentence
showing. I type my notes in. Go to sentence override tab, click edit
sentence definition,
and then type from the fourth option down (if only date
Johnny V wrote
Has anyone had a "Run-time error '9': subscript out of range" when
previewing a report from a detailed search. This only happens when
using versions of Legacy above 7.0.0.40. I have tried this from both my
desktop and laptop and have the same results.
I believe there is a know
This was reported shortly after 7.0.0.53 was released. The error will be
fixed in the next update.
Brian
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John,
Reported on LUG many times (see the archives - address below). Last report was
that it had been resolved to be included in the next update.
Ron Ferguson
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Johnny V wrote:
Has anyone had a "Run-time error '9': subscript out of range" when
This is a known error and Millenia is working on it.
--
Gene Y.
n2kvs
Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with
Legacy Family Tree
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I renumbered a few. Generally, the MRIN doesn't matter. When I renumbered, I
temporarily renumbered one to a high number, leaving the low number unused.
Then I moved whatever marriage I wanted to that low number. It went slowly!
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Yeah! it's not just Kirsten and me. It must be Legacy. I submitted a bug
report Tuesday (this is Thursday) but haven't heard from them yet. Maybe
they are fixing the problem. I can only hope. I did the report again last
night in .txt and the Sources came out just fine in Word except of course
t
Elizabeth,
On the Individual Screen just check the "F" radio button
Ron Ferguson
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Elizabeth Cunningham wrote:
I could find no way to fix it, so I eventually deleted
the person and re-entered it correctly, Is there anyway for me to have
just changed the sex?
on the "Individual's Information" screen, just to the right of the "Title Suf." box are three radio
buttons. The
Chick Lewis wrote:
I did search for the answer myself. I looked in the Help files and
read the manual. There was nothing there about error messages. I
didn't think to look on line.
You would be amazed at the number of people who don't think to use the link in the Email. Now you
know its th
Is it possible to change the sex of a person you entered? A great-aunt
had 4 children, one of whom survived to 1900. So I entered 3 "unknown"
children - 2 boys and a girl. Got the death certificates and one of the
boys was a girl, and without thinking I just entered her. Now I had a
boy nam
wrote
I'm confused about 'renumbering' the MRIN's. What happens to the old
MRIN if I have already assigned some to sources? i.e., if I renumber
MRIN 12345 to 1 what becomes of 12345 if it is already assigned to a
source? Will this 'scramble' the MRIN system and make it unworkable?
If you r
Elsie Saar wrote
I see that I cannot choose any event name to appear on the family page
so changing the event name in 6 won't help me. What can I do?
You can! You select Event... from the list it then gives you the list
of Event Names to choose from.
Thinking about it, it isn't essential t
Elsie Saar wrote
How can I tell Legacy to use my event "Relationship" for this field
instead of its relationship calculator?
Do I have to rename this event before I bring the database over to 7? I
Legacy is confused between its own use of the word Relationship (which
shows relationships of o
I'm confused about 'renumbering' the MRIN's. What happens to the old MRIN if I
have already assigned some to sources? i.e., if I renumber MRIN 12345 to 1 what
becomes of 12345 if it is already assigned to a source? Will this 'scramble'
the MRIN system and make it unworkable?
Bob
Kim Aust
Ruth Nerud wrote
Can I ask you, were the Sources at the end of the report formatted
correctly? By any chance did you end up with more sources in the .rtf
file than in the preview or .pdf file?
Sorry if I have caused some confusion. I hadn't looked at both the
on-screen and the RTF version o
Kirsten Bowman wrote
At this point I don't even know where to begin troubleshooting. Do you
have any suggestions?
I've just tried an RTF report again, this time with footnotes instead of
endnotes and it was still ok.
Are you using Word? What version? Mine is Word 2000. Do you have
probl
Thank You
Lennis
In a message dated 7/10/2008 3:56:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lennis,
My apologies, I gave you the wrong report it should have read Reports>All
Reports>Name Tags - you need to use !customise! to put the birth dates etc on
it.
Ron Ferguso
Lennis,
My apologies, I gave you the wrong report it should have read Reports>All
Reports>Name Tags - you need to use !customise! to put the birth dates etc on
it.
Ron Ferguson
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Lennis,
As someone else has said it is the printing of this list (View>Names) that is
not working. You can get a name list, however, using Reports>All
Reports>Address Labels and using approriate settingd of the items and format
Ron Ferguson
Thought I might experiment to see if I have a similar bug as I've
occasionally used the conversion to RTF. I generally use the Descendant
Narrative and have never had any problems in the past - it has always been
formatted correctly.
However today it is all weird and wacky. Most of the formatting
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