I am a new Legacy user, and have just begun to input some aliases. Should I be
using the Surname field when it is not different? Ex: Joseph Wiley Embry is the
main name, alias is J Wiley. Should I include Embry again?
Marilyn
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamily
Ward & Ron,
Okay, I did some testing.
I wanted to see if I had this "second endnote" problem if I entered something
in the Text field AS I was adding the master source (since I couldn't remember
exactly what I had done).
So, I added a new master source, put it on the clipboard and cited it on on
I think I've pretty well exhausted my powers of deduction on this thread.
Well, except for one more longshot. What about Don Montague's recent thread
"Numbering source citations and end notes", where he was seeing 2 extra
endnotes below the 10 expected ones? But your unwanted endnote presumably
Ward,
Yes, I am only getting the one reference. WRT it printing, I don't know, I am
out of ink - yet again. I tend to use my printer mainly for photos so it's not
unusual!!
I would expect it to print the change - a major bug if it doesn't.
The important point in all of this is that if the c
Ward,
And additional note on the second endnote:
I tend to cite a source for an individual using the clipboard and citing for
each field this source has provided information on. (hope that made sense) On
the report, the first endnote # is used just the first time on the first
individual in th
Ward,
Regarding second endnote:
I have this happening on two master sources. For the first one, I don't
remember if I entered something in the Text field when I added the master
source or not--the problem occurs in a printed report from Jun 1st. For the
second one, I did not enter anything in
Hey, Ward, where can I find the issues log?
Thanks,
--Paula
--- On Sat, 6/13/09, Ward Walker wrote:
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> Hi mbstx,
>
> Re: short
> forms:
> I can't seem to enable
> any source printing for the
> Descendant Report. Did you mean the Descendant Book report?
> This is one of
> the known bu
Paula,
(I am reply to you through Ron's message, because I can only see yours in
the archive. The issue between the Legacy mail server and the Yahoo! mail
server continues to cause the occasional message to not make it to my
inbox.)
I now see how I got off on one of my tangents. Your origina
Rush,
Aha! I see your dilemma. I don't have relatives wanting webpages... yet. Do
you really have a lot of these documents? for the individuals your relatives
are most interested in looking at? I just shudder a bit whenever I read about
changing things directly in the database... and I'm e
Thanks for verifying Ron.
Tagging the deceased and then exporting that tab# seems to work OK, but I'm
still checking.
- Original Message -
From: "ronald ferguson"
To:
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:40 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Export to new Legacy file ONLY deceased individuals
Don, What I'm about to type may or may not help, but I use exclusively
ENDnotes, and what you have as the 1.-10. is how I see my source citations.
However, it looks to me like the 1. and 2. at the bottom are sort of summary
notes...? That is, each of 1.-10. are from one of the two bottom sour
What I don't understand is the Find First option. It doesn't find what I
would call my first Direct Line Ancestor with No Parent.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote:
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> This one intrigued me, so I tried it. What I liked better was the choice
> higher up on the Search screen "di
Marianne, Been there, done that & got the t-shirt! LOL In fact, I'm still
working on reconciling things. Hence, my one bug report on the two citations
where there should only be one (when I have entered something in the master's
Text field). Anyway, just wanted you to know you are not the
If I'm following this thread correctly, how you're saying websites "do"
citation numbers is exactly how endnotes work. Further, that's how I remember
endnotes working 2 years ago, even when I saw "Ibid." show in reports, that was
only when the detail was different so the same number could not
Are you really wanting the birth certificate to print alongside an individual's
information in reports? If not, then I think it's just one click more from the
individual's screen to see it via the source detail anyway. Just food for
thought.
I tend to link documents to the sources and pictur
I currently enter my cemeteries in the event address file, which also has a
notes field, where you could type in all the names, maybe with year ranges?
Although this approach does go against the posting about always entering the
location name used at the time of the event you're recording.
--P
This one intrigued me, so I tried it. What I liked better was the choice
higher up on the Search screen "direct-line ancestors with no parents".
Thanks for introducing me to a new part of the software (to me).
--Paula
--- On Sun, 6/14/09, ronald ferguson wrote:
> From: ronald ferguson
> Subj
Ward & Ron,
First, thanks for all your diligence!! ;)
I think I'm following what you both have been saying, and I agree with the
results obtained concerning the differences in DETAIL citations.
However, just to clarify: When I originally stated the problem, all my detail
citations were the sa
Ward,
Please see below
Ron Ferguson
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http://www.fergys.co.uk/
View the Grimshaw Family Tree at:
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For The Fergusons of N.W. E
Oh boy. So many factors. A brain twister. You are correct -- I overlooked
that the original enquiry mentioned end notes rather than footnotes. And now
I think I understand what you meant by your own test references. Thanks.
So the original enquiry is for a condition where the 'subsequent citati
JIm,
I can confirm your result. Not having wished to not export the living I had not
noticed this before.
The way round it for you seems to be as you described.
Ron Ferguson
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*New Tutorial* Create Standards Compliant CS
I have tried exporting my Legacy file to a new file but do NOT want to
include any living individuals.
On the Options tab of the Legacy Export screen I have selected "All records
in the entire family file".
Then on the Privacy tab I have ticked "Exclude living people totally (as if
they do not e
Paula,
The results I obtained by changing the Master Source are as I expected. I added
"Change A" to the text in the text box of a Master Source and checked "each
time". I was then asked if I wanted to apply this to all or just new uses of
this Master Source, I selected "All".
The output us
Marlene,
I sympathise with your problem, as in my one-name file I have over 1400
Fergusons, many of whom also have the same first name.
I have never needed to identify them with their own "mark", however, since for
most I have their date and place of birth. If it were needed I think I would
Marlene Williamson wrote:
> Does anyone know how to manage many individuals (more than 70) of the same
> name in order to find the one you want easily? Most do not have birth
> dates,
> only baptism or burial dates and the name list only sorts in alphabetical
> order of name, then in birth date or
Sudsy,
I'm a bit confused. Export my family file to a pdf. ? How are you
wanting to exporting your family to a pdf ? Do you mean make a report ?.
Or do you mean Charting ? A tad more information would help.
Thanks,
Tim Rosenlof
B&L Sudsy wrote:
On June 11th I export my family file to a pdf.
Cathy Vallevieni wrote:
I have the records of an Undertaker in an area a lot of my ancestors
lived (and died). I am citing the record as a "source" for the death
and/or burial. My question is, would you also make it an event such as
"Vail's Undertakers was the undertaker on May 10,1800 in Mad
Marlene -
I share your frustration! What I have done that goes a long (for me) is to
use a "date convention." For the "birth date" I enter the actual date when
I have a source such as a birth certificate or a bible record, for example 3
October 1863. When I have a census record that gives only th
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