RE: [LegacyUG] Separating a family for webpages

2008-10-20 Thread Syble Glasscock
I hadn't thought about it being the computer, but yes, it is 6 yrs. old, it was a top of the line at the time Dell 8100 Dimension, but I do use it a lot.  It is slower than it was and I have been concerned that it might be going down, I did buy a laptop, but I'm not comfortable with it, so use i

RE: [LegacyUG] TIF images attached to sources

2008-10-20 Thread Kim Jones
Oh my goodness I cannot believe you are still talking about it. Can we now get on with the Legacy News Group Please. Kim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Smith Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2008 12:45 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.co

Re: [LegacyUG] TIF images attached to sources

2008-10-20 Thread Jim Smith
Obviously you do care or you would not have responded. By responding, you help to clutter up the list. My advice, not that you asked, ignore comments you don't like and you won't exacerbate the problem. Jim - Original Message - From: "Elizabeth Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sen

Re: [LegacyUG] Germany and Czech Locations

2008-10-20 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
There are two choices for location names. 1. The name of the place at that time, or 2. the current name for everyplace. For both American and European locations I have as many as five names for the same place, over different times. The location notes explain the details. Choice 2 means each time

RE: [LegacyUG] Separating a family for webpages

2008-10-20 Thread ronald ferguson
Syble, It's surprising what a good night's sleep can do for a PC! More worrying, though, is the erratic behaviour you are seeing with it shutting down, and the problems you had with the merge. Things like this can have many causes, other than human error, which can include problems with your P

RE: [LegacyUG] UK customisations

2008-10-20 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
even in the USA the software is only set up for generic our country is divided up by ward, city, county, state and if it is rural it is section, township, county, state ... you just have to put comma in so your report looks just fine then even cemeteries had sections in them to t

RE: [LegacyUG] Separating a family for webpages

2008-10-20 Thread Syble Glasscock
I closed Legacy and  shut down the computer last night, this morning I decided to try it again, checked and setting were still as they were, and it worked like it should, I have the Surnames and the Name ListStrange???   I've been having a few weird things happening.  A couple of months

RE: [LegacyUG] Not Permitted to Post?

2008-10-20 Thread marilyn cebrowski
I got the same message, also am seeing some duplicate messages, I thought I had some how gotten into my "deleted" folder, but NO, they are just duplicates !! from marilyn C. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Not Permitted to Post? > Date

Re: [LegacyUG] URL search string

2008-10-20 Thread Christina
Great, That gets me back to the beginning. - C On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Randolph Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try: > > http://www.familysearch.org/Search/ancestorsearchresults.asp?first_name=[givennames]&last_name=[lastname] > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Christina <[EMAIL P

Re: [LegacyUG] URL search string

2008-10-20 Thread Randolph Clark
Try: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/ancestorsearchresults.asp?first_name=[givennames]&last_name=[lastname] On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Christina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I messed up the family search.org search. I was trying to change it > over into the Family search Lab. Now I have

[LegacyUG] URL search string

2008-10-20 Thread Christina
I messed up the family search.org search. I was trying to change it over into the Family search Lab. Now I have neither. Can someone give me the correct string for Family search labs? TIA -- - Christina Hruška --And the Dragon Grins... ** $10 OFF when you spend $50 or more in our store.

[LegacyUG] Germany and Czech Locations

2008-10-20 Thread Christina
I was wondering about entering locations such as, Kingdom of Saxony, Germany and Kingdom of Bohemia, which stood on its own until it changed hand to Austria, but still referred to as a kingdom and then when it was changed to eventually Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. On that would you list: Kingdom of Bo

Re: [LegacyUG] TIF images attached to sources

2008-10-20 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
The point was that his comment regarding Microsoft was unnecessary. JL provided a suggestion for a program which would do what the OP wanted. That should have been enough. I don't really care what any of you think about Microsoft, and your opinion about that company and its programs has nothing

Re: [LegacyUG] Update from 7.0.0.45 to 7.0.0.55

2008-10-20 Thread Lloyd Hite
At 10:18 AM 10/20/2008, you wrote: You get the whole banana when you do a update. I just go to the webpage and download the full program there. Tim Thank you Tim, That is what I wanted to know. I downloaded the whole banana this morning and installed it. It took me about 2.5 hours to downlo

Re: [LegacyUG] entering first-person

2008-10-20 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:05:08 +0100, "Gen Searcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how would you file a married couple I file my marriage records in a binder under the husband's name. I've never had a problem with this method. -- Dennis Kowallek - Genealogy Website Consulting http://consulting.ko

Re: [LegacyUG] entering first-person

2008-10-20 Thread Gen Searcher
Hello Connie I picked up that you file alphabetically, how would you file a married couple I can see that all unmarried people could be done by alphabet but I just wondered do you file the husband and wife separately Regards John - Original Message - From: "Connie Sheets" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [LegacyUG] Update from 7.0.0.45 to 7.0.0.55

2008-10-20 Thread Tim Rosenlof
You get the whole banana when you do a update. I just go to the webpage and download the full program there. Tim - Original Message - From: Joyce Herzog To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Update from 7.0.0.45 to 7.0.0

RE: [LegacyUG] Separating a family for webpages

2008-10-20 Thread ronald ferguson
Syble, Since you have already used my suggestion as to what might be the problem, it is necessary to look further. I have created Pedigree web pages using your formatting set up and it worked OK. So, the problem is not with the Web Page Creation function per se. Try deleting the WebPage.usr f

Re: [LegacyUG] Considering purchasing GenSmarts & Personal Historian

2008-10-20 Thread Tracy Skegg
I'm in Australia and use GenSmarts, I like the sandbox feature where you set up your own complex searches of your Legacy file. From that I could gauge which people to look at for military records, indexes etc, because GenSmarts makes guesses at dating for individuals. While the suggested dating i

Re: [LegacyUG] entering first-person

2008-10-20 Thread Melody B
I haven't read much of the other replies. The thing I find most useful is the "Home Person". This can be set on both Ancestry.Com or Legacy Family Tree (where it's actually Home Family). This just gives me a "known" location to get back to for navigation. Take care, Melody On Sat, Oct 18, 2008

Re: [LegacyUG] Considering purchasing GenSmarts & Personal Historian

2008-10-20 Thread Melody B
I use GenSmarts. I am a relative newbie at genealogy so that may be part of it. I find that GenSmarts helps me look at things from a different perspective. I also find that it alerts me to sources that online that I didn't realize were online (such as a website by the state of Missouri where I w

RE: [LegacyUG] Separating a family for webpages

2008-10-20 Thread Syble Glasscock
Under the Formatting tab this is what I have checked: Names:  Surname, Given names Surname Index:Include a surname index    Compact ...     Headers: Center.. Name List: Surname, Given names Surname, Given names What to Include on the

RE: [LegacyUG] Separating a family for webpages

2008-10-20 Thread Syble Glasscock
Under the Formatting tab this is what I have checked: Names:  Surname, Given names Surname Index:Include a surname index    Compact ...     Headers: Center.. Name List: Surname, Given names Surname, Given names What to Include on the

RE: [LegacyUG] Separating a family for webpages

2008-10-20 Thread Syble Glasscock
Under the Formatting tab this is what I have checked: Names:  Surname, Given names Surname Index:Include a surname index    Compact ...     Headers: Center.. Name List: Surname, Given names Surname, Given names What to Include on the

Re: [LegacyUG] TIF images attached to sources

2008-10-20 Thread Mike Fry
JLB wrote: It's the emotional police again. My god, I've never seen a mailing list so friggin' neurotic that way. "Derogatory' is a mild sentiment where MS is concerned. Consider your ears fortunate. I must agree with you. There are far too many politically correct people in the world with

Re: [LegacyUG] UK customisations

2008-10-20 Thread Kaled Sec
Thanks, I wondered how best to enter adresses. Glad I asked the question now. ...Kaled On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM, ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kaled, > > Is any software perfect out of the box? :-0. > > The best peiece of advice I would give you is that when entering lo

RE: [LegacyUG] UK customisations

2008-10-20 Thread ronald ferguson
Kaled, Sorry, the example I gave should have read "England, Lancashire, Salford, Eccles, Winton". Also many locations would not have a city which is used in the 4 field convention - and I hate multiple commas in locations! "Country, County, Parish" is very common in earlier centuries. Ron Fe

RE: [LegacyUG] What's the best way to source a relationship?

2008-10-20 Thread ronald ferguson
Kris, Now that is perfectly clear :-) . I think others have covered all the options! Ron Ferguson _ *New* Insert Pictures Into your Web Pages - Blogs http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys

RE: [LegacyUG] UK customisations

2008-10-20 Thread ronald ferguson
Kaled, Is any software perfect out of the box? :-0. The best peiece of advice I would give you is that when entering locations ignore the 4 field naming convention - they are not suitable for the UK (and much of Europe). Enter in the Location Field what you believe to be the correct location

RE: [LegacyUG] Update from 7.0.0.45 to 7.0.0.55

2008-10-20 Thread ronald ferguson
I repeat, it is also in the drop-down menu for Downloads on the Legacy Home page. If this takes you to the full download then click the drop-down tab again *from that page*. Ron Ferguson _ *New* Insert Pictures Into your Web

Re: [LegacyUG] Update from 7.0.0.45 to 7.0.0.55

2008-10-20 Thread Lhite31
I know all about that. That is where my computer stopped responding at 7% downloaded. I also went to Legacy's Home Page, but there it wants to download the whole program. All I want is the update. That is what I ask for. Can the update be downloaded without downloading the whole program? In R