Linda,
I agree with you. The only way I could give anyone directions to where my
sister is burried is by finding it manually on a map, going to mapping and
finding it and entering an address like this:
Washington Creek Cemetary, Douglas, Kansas, USA
Since it has the 384936.824 N Lat
Kirsten Bowman wrote
_Getting It Right_ by Mary H. Slawson recommends leaving a space.
I am amazed, I would have said that inserting a space between Mc or Mac
and the rest of the name was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
--
Jenny M Benson
Legacy User Group guidelines:
Alan,
I'm not quite sure what you meant by you don't use the default Census
event but instead use an event for each Census? I use the default
Census event, but the description, date, and place tailor it to each
particular census.
I started out putting the census details in the Source Detail
Alan Jones wrote
1. In Legacy you have an event called Census. What others enter do and
find works best and why for the related event fields?
-Description:
-Date:
-Place:
-Notes:
It has taken me ages to decide how to handle Censuses and I have changed
my method a few times, but this is how
_Getting It Right_ by Mary H. Slawson recommends leaving a space.
SHE GOT IT WRONG!!
Mary Young
Edinburgh, Scotland
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online
I have the pictures in the pictures folder in the Legacy folder (the default).
michele
- Original Message -
From: Amy
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Why are my pictures disappearing!
Happened to
Thank you, Mary. I have been waiting for you to come in with a definitive
answer from Scotland!
Ron Ferguson
_
New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
View the Grimshaw Family Tree
This is how I've been doing mine. It would be nice if genealogy programs
would provide a real template for enter the information. I haven't checked
to see if Legacy has anything like that.
This isn't the greatest, but I just transcribe the more important things,
but also attach the image if I
I disagree with Mary Slawson on this one (I have her book and I like it).
People who have a Mc last name do not put a space when they write it.
michele
- Original Message -
From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Sent: Friday, September 11,
Alan, I have answered all of your questions below
Interesting so you don't use the default Census event but instead use an
event for each Census? I had not thought about that. I guess that
works better with the sentence structure and wording?
I have a separate event for every federal
I left the a out when I TYPED it in there. I was only COPYING the error
message on the screen and it had the a. It is fixed now (after a reboot).
michele
- Original Message -
From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday,
For my US Census events, I have created events named Census, US
Federal, Census, US Federal Slave Schedule, and Census, US State.
(The US State part may seem redundant, however, it differentiates the
census event from a state within another country.)
Most of my census entries are the Census, US
Mary Ron:
It looks like I have some work to do. Our local genealogical group
(Summit County, Ohio, USA) has put together an Excel spreadsheet of all known
veterans buried in Summit County cemeteries. I took on the task of
keeping it up-to-date and going through all of the entries
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:37:06 -0400, Kramer kramer...@comcast.net
wrote:
Easton, Lehigh Co, PA, USA
Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA, USA
St. Luke's Cemetery/867 Mervin Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, USA
You will have the Cemetery or Street address in the place of the city
and everything else moved
Howland,
It should be easy enough for you to change, using SearchSearch and Replace.
Search for Mc Donald and replace with McDonald - I guess that you may have
to do something similar for MacDonald as well btw.
Use the settings to ensure the criteria is exactly as you wish eg. I think it
In the description field, I enter, for example, page 15C (362); roll
T9_1322; enumeration district 135.
Mark, I put that as part of the source sitation.
Also...
In the place field, I obviously enter the place where the census
enumeration was taken, such as: Precinct 1, Parker County,
Question: If you name the census image something other than the name of the
primary person sought then how do you (easily) know whether you've
found/saved that person's census location?
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Mark Wilson dmwil...@dishmail.net wrote:
For my US Census events, I have
Randolph Clark wrote
Question: If you name the census image something other than the name of
the primary person sought then how do you (easily) know whether you've
found/saved that person's census location?
I decided long ago that I needed a simple way of keeping track of what
information or
Thank you everyone for your opinions, especially from Scotlan! I believe I've
always entered them without a space, so was surprised to see any WITH a space.
They may have come in an import, though. I'm going with NO space.
--Paula in Texas
--- On Fri, 9/11/09, RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Thanks to everyone who shared their opinion on converting old Basid sources to
Source Write format. I am especially comforted to know there are other
everything must match people out there! ;)
I think I will not launch a massive change them over project, but will work
at it as I work on a
I enter my census as follows:
Census
Description blank (I got started a long time ago not using this field and
never have... not sure what my original reason was.)
Date - year of census only
Location - town/city, county, state, usa
Notes
He is living with his wife of 6 years and 4 children,
I thought you could order charts from right within the charting program but
when I tried it it says not available, future update.
michele
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
Of course, there will be other Mc's besides McDonalds. So maybe you want to
search and replace Mc with Mc and Mac with Mac. (But I'd want to
check that process one by one probably.)
Works fine for me. Have already ordered several of them directly
through the program. Maybe you need to upgrade to the latest version.
Michele Lewis wrote:
I thought you could order charts from right within the charting
program but when I tried it it says not available, future update.
On 11 Sep 2009 Paul Ramshaw wrote:
Of course, there will be other Mc's besides McDonalds. So maybe you
want to search and replace Mc with Mc and Mac with Mac. (But
I'd want to check that process one by one probably.)
Why is Search Replace even being suggested!?
It is so simple to go to
Don't forget another technique that many LUGers have recommended in the
past:
Harrisburg - St. Luke's Cemetery/867 Mervin Street, Dauphin Co, PA, USA
This sorts better, unless you prefer to reverse the sort direction from the
default.
You can get the Geo database to find Harrisburg, then
Legacy Charting has a separate update from Legacy. Open Legacy Charting and
check the Tips Updates tab to make sure you have 7.0.120
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
supp...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are changing the world of
Dave,
Nobody is stopping anyone from from doing it maunually, it rather depends on
how may you have to replace doesn't it?
Ron Ferguson
_
New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
Because they're talking about a spreadsheet, not a Legacy database. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy
- Original Message -
*From:* Dave Naylor dcnay...@bell.net
*To:* LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
*Sent:* 09/12/2009 6:41:34 AM +1200
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] Surnames With Mc Standard?
On
I seem to remember from English classes (back in the dark ages) that the way
a person spells their name and pronounces their name is the is the correct
way to spell and pronounce that individual's name.
Using a space after Mc will, of course, affect the way the name sorts. Other
than sorting,
I have an issue with the Ancestor Report Book that I please want some help
on. When I preview the report, the children of couples are numbered
starting from ii instead of i. This is an example of what appears:
18. John Smith, son of James Smith and Keturah Jones.
John married Mary Williams on
Hi Paula,
If you will be using ltools it may be best to convert one basic at a
time completely.
I have been doing census conversions and am 70% done with them.
Start with a smaller one. From Master Source list select a basic and
click on show list. Next tag everyone on the list. Create a
Could someone tell me how to do this correctly? Here is the problem:
GGM Mary Hinton married Joseph Brown.
In Legacy I entered Wife's name as Mary Hinton.
Joseph died five years later.
Marriage #2 was to George Miller.
I entered Wife's name as Mary Hinton Brown.
Problem: When I do the above,
Thank you Paula. I think you are right. I transferred my FTM data to
Legacy7 about a year ago and am still cleaning up data. I have to say
that I am very pleased with Legacy and the way it handles data;
especially sources. I learn something new every day and believe I can
now Live Happily ever
Kirsten,
Thanks for the reply! I realize I asked a lot in one email. I want my file
organized with the mentally of do it best and do it right so that when
others view my research the see the organization and will see exactly where
I found what without having to interpret my system and redo
I'm having a sudden problem (didn't happen until last week): when legacy is
open (either in full screen or in a small window), both the right side and
the bottom buttons are not visible. It's as if the window frame is skewed
so that some sections of the open window don't show.
So far, I've
Michaele, thanks for the clarification
Michele Lewis wrote:
Alan, I have answered all of your questions below
Interesting so you don't use the default Census event but instead use an
event for each Census? I had not thought about that. I guess that
works better with the sentence
William H. Boswell wrote:
This is how I've been doing mine. It would be nice if genealogy programs
would provide a real template for enter the information. I haven't checked
to see if Legacy has anything like that.
William, I agree they have source templates it would be really nice to
I regret that I had forgotten about the Surname Master List.
Thank you for the reminder - I'm sure they heard you in Asia.
Ron Ferguson
_
New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
View
Ron;
If you are wanting to change all of the Mc with Mc---, would it not be
simpler to do a search for Mc and replace with Mc?
That's how I did it a couple of years ago and it had no problem searching for
the space.
Art Seddon
- Original Message -
From: ronald ferguson
To:
To: Jim Smith,
Actually, after sending that message, I recalled that when I was teaching
probability as related to quality control (in a manufacturing enviroment), that
before printed the certificates for the graduates I gave form to each student
having the print their name as they wanted it
Bill,
I would enter her as Mary Hinton and create spouse #1 as Joseph Brown.
Change the Marital status of this marriage to Death of one spouse. Create
spouse #2 as George Miller.
This way on your reports it will show both marriages.
Doris
_
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com
Kate,
Firstly what is your operating system and do programs other than Legacy run OK?
Sherry mentioned recently that Legacy does not behave well with none standard
screen resolutions, so I would check that you are not using a custom setting.
If your system restore and the above doesn't
Options Customize Data Entry: Go to Rule for generating default
married names, at the bottom. Choose 0-None - don't generate married names.
Bert
- Original Message -
From: Bill Rhodes wlrho...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday 11 September 2009
Bill Rhodes wrote
GGM Mary Hinton married Joseph Brown.
In Legacy I entered Wife's name as Mary Hinton.
Joseph died five years later.
Marriage #2 was to George Miller.
I entered Wife's name as Mary Hinton Brown.
Problem: When I do the above, Legacy automatically changes her (Wife's)
name to
I'm not sure if my message went through (I haven't received the message I
sent), so here it is again:
I have an issue with the Ancestor Report Book that I please want some help
on. When I preview the report, the children of couples are numbered
starting from ii instead of i. This is an example
Bill R.:
In a message dated 9/11/2009 4:52:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wlrho...@gmail.com writes:
GGM Mary Hinton married Joseph Brown. In Legacy I entered Wife's name as
Mary Hinton. Joseph died five years later.
Marriage #2 was to George Miller. I entered Wife's name as Mary Hinton
Eric,
I cannot replicate this. I would suggest that you try FileFile
Maintencecheck/Repair and run until you don't get any reported changes.
If that doesn't do the job, then try using the Reset button on the bottom right
of the Ancestor Book Screen. Failing that delete the Ances.usr file in
This is an old trick but sometimes works - seems to shock Legacy into
conforming.
(in Vista) Click on an empty part of the TaskBar, then Cascade Windows.
I can't remember the exact sequence in XP and earlier, but iit's similar.
Hope this helps.
Mary Young
2009/9/11 k...@heritagemuse.com:
I'm
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:13:23 +0100
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to retain wife's married name as entered
Bill Rhodes wrote
GGM Mary Hinton married Joseph Brown.
In Legacy I
Trying to decide this one here. I have a family who gave their kids
the maiden name of the mother.
Like this for example:
John Brown marries Jane Monroe. They have five children.
Their names are:
Kathy Monroe,
David Monrow,
Melissa Monroe,
Amy Monroe
Edy Monroe.
Legacy want to give the kids
I wonder if there might not be a child marked invisible?
--
Dennis Kowallek (LTools)
http://zippersoftware.com/ltools
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools
***
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:09:50 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com
wrote:
Eric,
I cannot replicate this. I would suggest that
Robert,
I would override Legacy, afterall their second names would be Monroe.
I only know of one real life incidence of this, someone I know took his wife's
maiden name on marriage (this is legal in England) hence his kids had their
mother's name, could that have happened with yours?
BTW
I would just change the surname for each of the children to Monroe / Monrow
as listed below. You don't have to keep the name that automatically appears
from the father. My late first husband changed his surname by deed poll to
his mother's maiden name, so his father is WARD, his mother and his
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:55:12 -0500, Robert Carneal USA
carnea...@adelphia.net wrote:
Legacy want to give the kids the fathers name, which it should
99.99 percent of the time. This is the exception. How would
you handle it?
By default, Legacy will fill in the surname with the father's.
I hadn't tried that Dennis, so I have just done so using two different people,
one the child of the start person and the other an aunty.
In both cases the invisibles did not appear and the numbers were adjusted
accordingly.
Ron Ferguson
This happened to me once - and it was my mistake because I had the husband and
wife switched - once I swapped the position the names Legacy automatically
corrected itself
Mary
-Original Message-
From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent:
I agree, Dennis, but isn't city/county/state/country the accepted way
of doing the location? That's the way that I've done it for many
years. Also what is the purpose of the event address if you used your
option? It should be consistent. I still would like Legacy to have
an even
Ronald-
Thank you for your help. Resetting the report settings did work initially,
but I think I found the source of the problem. After experimenting with the
report options, I found that the problem only occurs when I click Report
Options and then on the sources tab Print source citations as
By default, Legacy will fill in the surname with the father's.
This is a setting that you can change if you would like...
Optionscustomizedata entry
See the box add/edit in the upper left hand corner. One of the selections
is to add the father's surname to any child or father added
Angela
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:32:16 +0100, ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com
wrote:
I hadn't tried that Dennis, so I have just done so using two different people,
one the child of the start person and the other an aunty.
In both cases the invisibles did not appear and the numbers were adjusted
I agree with you that marriages should have an address field equivalent to
other events.
I use the convention street/city/(state or county)/country rather than
city/county/state/country. In the street position I may put eg a hospital
or cemetery title. In Australia we do not have counties and
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:57:10 -0400, Kramer kramer...@comcast.net
wrote:
I agree, Dennis, but isn't city/county/state/country the accepted way
of doing the location?
I'm not sure it's accepted everywhere. Anyway, I was just pointing out
one option. If one wanted to, I don't think having
Doris,
Regarding using tags: When I am trying to change a master source (from basic
to SW being one reason), I will use tags. Maybe you already know these steps,
but just in case...
View Master Lists Source
Click on the Source you want to get rid of
Show List brings up all the individuals
Eric said I'm not sure if my message went through (I haven't received
the message I sent)...
Gmail does not show you the list copy of your posts - this is something
you will get used to in time. If you have any doubts that your post
reached the list and was distributed, check the archives; a
Make sure that your Windows system fonts are either 90 or 120 dpi. Custom
fonts don't work well with Legacy.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
supp...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are changing the world of genealogy!
When
66 matches
Mail list logo
