I have recently become a convert to Legacy but am having trouble with
searching for a string of text globally (ie in several or all fields)
The reason I want to do this is that I often use abbreviations when I
enter data (such as Mcr for Manchester) and would then like to
globally replace
Edward,
I don't think that this can be done globally from within Legacy. It can be
changed in all the Location fields using SearchSearch and
ReplaceLists-Location (there is also another for Lists-Location-Short) but I'm
afraid that you will have to repeat for each type of not etc.
Ron
Edward,
My last post should have read note etc. at the very end (it's too early :-) ).
Ron Ferguson
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Edward
As Ron has already stated, it can't be done directly in Legacy. However,
there is one possible way to do such a search. Export the file to a GEDCOM
and search the .ged file with a text editor such as Notepad
Jack
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Ron,
Where is this search/replace function? I don't see it.
Mary
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Searching
M. Brenzel wrote:
Where is this search/replace function? I don't see it.
Time to wake up! You have a Search entry on the main menu. That drops
down to give several Search-based options.
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Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg.
Legacy User Group guidelines:
Click Search in your toolbar.
Ron Ferguson
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For The Fergusons of N.W. England See:
There are eight note fields. The seven 'Notes-X', and 'Event-Notes'. Example:
Using the Search tool Individual - 'Notes-Birth Place' - 'Not equal to' - ' '
(leave blank), will show you, on eight searches, all your notes with something
in them. Looking through them each, if needed.
Then go to
Gee, thanks, Mike! When I first read your response, I took your tone to be
that of someone who was tired of seeing questions from ignorant members of the
Legacy user community. You told me to wake up as if I was blind or stupid.
Am I wrong? You've never responded like that before, have you?
I was looking at the Search function that results from the Toolbar
button.
Funny, how we all use things differently. I rarely use the toolbar with the
icons, but instead use the bar across the top with words. Guess I'm just not
a picture person.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of
Mary,
I think he was being friendly. Did you say something about a first cup of
coffee?
Janis
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Gee, thanks, Mike! When I first read your response, I took your tone to be
that of someone who was tired of seeing questions from
I know this has been discussed in the past, but was wondering if there are
any plans in the future to be able to sort search results by date? I did a
search for twins in our family file and the results, when printed, come out
alphabetically rather than chronologically. This may make sense to some,
Thanks Ron and Gene for your detailed instructions. And Gene, that Gedxlate
Lite
is one nifty little program! :-)
Lavern
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM, ronald ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lavern,
Go to SearchFindDetailed Search:
eg born in 1850
Search for:
1st row:
Individual;
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Gee, thanks, Mike! When I first read your response, I took your tone
to be that of someone who was tired of seeing questions from ignorant
members of the Legacy user community. You told me to wake up as if
I was blind or stupid. Am I wrong? You've never responded
Would it be possible to attach to each template description an
indication of where in the Evidence Explained book, it is described? A
simple section reference would suffice. Better still - allow us to enter
the section reference and see what matches!
I'm convinced that this would help to
A great idea, Mike.
Tom Herson
Ithaca, NY
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 5:37 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Suggestion for SourceWriter
Would it be possible to attach to each
When I used the Research Guidance it entered that I had searched Ancestry
Archive which I did not. Is there a way to remove this erroneous entry?
Here is what I did: I clicked on the Research Guidance tab. Then Preliminary
Survey. Then Ancestry Archive. I entered the person (John Wheeler) and
I second the request.
Yesterday I spent quite some time trying to get the 1910 U.S. Census template
to appear the same as in EE. I never did figure out he 1910 template could get
ProQuest not in italics. EE pages 269, 270, 282.
Ann
New Mexico, USA
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Mike,
Good idea. We've actually already done this, but haven't opened it up for
display yet. We'll talk about it some more.
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
Millennia Corporation
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Ann Parsons wrote:
When I used the Research Guidance it entered that I had searched
Ancestry Archive which I did not. Is there a way to remove this
erroneous entry?
Here is what I did: I clicked on the Research Guidance tab. Then
Preliminary Survey. Then Ancestry Archive. I entered the
When I clicked the Search button on the toolbar and tried to search it comes
back:
The designated program file could not be found or was not an executable
file. Please use the Change button to search for the program again. invalid
procedure call or argument
What Change button/ What program
Joyce,
To clarify, I was referring to the Search tab (on the top row on the task bar)
not the Icon - if that is what you mean by button. In any event you still
have a problem.
I have seen a reference to this problem before but cannot remember the details,
nor can I find them, and would
My question doesn't seem to be getting to the list. Here it is again.
Thanks for any help.
Elsie
I didn't see an answer to my question: I went to Tools, Set
Relationships, chose myself as the starting person, blood
relationships to 15, and clicked Set Relationships and set them.
However, it
Thanks, Ron,
I'm running check/repair right now. Will let you kno, probably tomorrow, how
it turns out.
Thanks again
Joyce
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM, ronald ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joyce,
To clarify, I was referring to the Search tab (on the top row on the task
bar) not
Elsie,
I was certain that I had seen an answer to this, however, it's a WYSIWYG, that
is to say you do have reset after adding a new person (or at least I have to as
well).
Ron Ferguson
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Actually, I had been up since 4:00 AM, almost 3 hours before I read your email.
I hadn't had my caffeine yet either! Sorry!
Mary
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Ditto! That is a great suggestion!
Mary
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A great idea,
I am in the process of moving from Windows to Linux. I installed Wine
and other programs are running just fine with it, but I am having
trouble getting Legacy 7 to run with it. If someone has experience with
it, could you please contact me... offline, if this is considered off
topic?
Thank
Thanks for all the input on my question as to whether Legacy has a truly
global Search (and Replace).
The answer seems to be No.which I find quite astounding in such a
good program...and which is up to Version 7!
As I mentioned previously, the reason I would like to search globally is
The response I saw was re the gibberish at the LUG Archives. Re the
set relationships, it used to stay set with v6. Thanks, Ron, as always
you come thru for us.
Elsie
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Sent: Monday,
That is accurate. The program calculates the new relationships only when asked.
With 25K names on my laptop it takes 15 seconds to calculate. A person with
more names, or slower computer might take a minute or two each time waiting
while the computer to automatically relate each new to the old.
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