Hi Listers
I'm about to start using source pictures in my file and would like to
know if I should continue transcribing the information from the source
or leave it for the source picture to display?
I can't seem to use the Picture Gallery to add a source picture, I
seem to have to add the picture
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
Lennis,
My apologies, I gave you the wrong report it should have read ReportsAll
ReportsName Tags - you need to use !customise! to put the birth dates etc on
it.
Ron Ferguson
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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 ReportsAll
ReportsName Tags - you need to use !customise! to put the birth dates etc on
it.
Ron Ferguson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. They
Elizabeth,
On the Individual Screen just check the F radio button
Ron Ferguson
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http://www.fergys.co.uk
View the Grimshaw Family Tree at:
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
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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[mailto:[EMAIL
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
http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/
Legacy User Group guidelines:
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
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 known
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Original Message -
From: Art Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Sunday, July 06,
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 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
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
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:
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 question,
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
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
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 MRIN
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
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
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
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
Hi Al,
Try the Windows Install Cleanup Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
Use with care!
Regards
Les
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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
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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jenny M
Benson
Sent: Thursday,
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Legacy User Group guidelines:
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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
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
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
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
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?
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: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:34 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationships
I
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
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
Search for IndividualTag #? 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 LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:14 PM
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 family
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
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
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 listSearch (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 List
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
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