Just do a search of the LUG archives on this, and you will discover that
this problem is an very old one.
FOLLOW-UP EMAIL TO BRIAN THAT WAS NOT RESPONDED TO AND WAS A FOLLOW-UP TO AN
EMAIL THAT BRIAN DID NOT RESPOND TO:
It is not just one family where this occurs, but ALL families where the
asce
Mike,
It is quite simple for you to discover whether you can delete the unwanted
source link.
Back up your file and then delete it. If it does affect others then restore
your back up. I am not being funny here, but is is very difficult, nay
impossible, for anyone to predict what will happen w
I always gedcom into a new file, fix the locations and sources MY way, then add
it into my main DB, then do a merge. The group taught me that when I was a
Newbie, and we try to repeat it regularly for the next batch of newbies to hear.
Rich in LA CA
From: Kirs
Thanks, Dennis. This worked perfectly. --P
- Original Message
From: Dennis M. Kowallek
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:42:48 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dash "-" in Picture Center picture list
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:12:21 -0700 (PDT), Paul
Last I heard they were considering/awaiting permission from DAR.
Not an official thing but discussed at a convention.
Rich in LA CA
- Original Message
From: Paula Ryburn
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:05:03 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Creatin
George:
When you import a GEDCOM from FTM into Legacy you'll probably be shocked at
the data entry inconsistencies you'll find. I know I was, and many others
have said the same thing. For this reason I think it would be best to
handle the GEDCOMs separately. Open them in separate Legacy files a
Thanks, Jenny. I'm with you now. I guess I had never thought of there being a
name for "gallery". ;)
- Original Message
From: Jenny M Benson
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:40:55 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Gallery default?
Paula
It has always worked for me. It is to show the path between two people. If
there are multiple paths, the computer uses a sort technique judging which
should come first. When I have used it to show my son's connection to
Charlemange, it came up with over fifty diffferent paths. I neither confirme
Rich,
I use Deluxe, too.
There is a Lineage report, that shows the spouse and siblings of each MALE in a
direct line. You specify where to start, and it works back from there.
What I suggested was the same CONTENT (spouses and siblings of each PERSON in a
direct line), but allow us to select t
It is already there. I was asking what was wanted, that wasn't in the
Tools\Relationship Calculator, and did not understand the answer. Unless this
is for Deluxe only. I have always had Deluxe so never new what might be missing.
Rich in LA CA
- Original Message
From: CE Wood
To: Legac
Fair enough.
Have you looked at the Chronology Report? I have barely used it, but it seems
popular with others to show events during a person's life.
Best of luck!
--P
From: michael barberi
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15,
Paula:
I understand you can enter the residence address for the created Events for
individuals (e.g., birth, marriage, death, naturalization). I have not. For
one thing, there are more residence addresses for most ancestors than events.
Immigrants frequently moved, sometimes every few years.
I am just getting started with legacy and have a bunch of related (but
poorly) FTM files I am converting to GEDCOM. I then want to combine the
essence of these files into a single Legacy file.
Can anyone suggest an orderly procedure for doing this ?
I see different things that the legacy manual c
Mike,
Forgive my misunderstanding. I thought I had read that you were moving away
from the one master source per fact approach.
I understand what you're doing, but I would not do it that way. You seem to be
recording the source of the data twice. But, to each his own.
(And I could suggest tha
Nope. There's no way for users to track their submitted suggestions. They
get passed to the programmers and logged and the ultimate decision whether
or not it's workable is up to them.
In fact, due to the sheer volume of emails, we only respond to suggestions
if the feature is already available i
Paula:
I am new to Legacy so forgive me if my descriptions are not completely clear.
I will try again using Death as an example.
1. First I enter the date of death in the field "Died" on the individual's
screen.
2. Then I create an EVENT called DEATH below under Event/Facts. In the
"Notes"
I thought the Picture Center was perfect for attaching group pictures to each
individual in that picture--especially upon our return from visiting cousins in
Ireland and England. Lots of groups photos, both old and new to scan & load!
From threads I've read here, I think some expected to be abl
Maybe I will refresh my memory on the issues with RC, but I've never had a
problem with it.
--Paula
- Original Message
From: CE Wood
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:49:36 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Creating Books--direct descendent chart
I did enter a suggestion.
Sherry, How do I track it? Can I?
Thanks,
--Paula
- Original Message
From: CE Wood
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:49:36 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Creating Books--direct descendent chart
That would be fine for
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:02:10 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn
wrote:
>it loaded the MRINs that were in the GEDCOM into my DB?
If you let it.
>Then my Legacy just picked up with the next MRIN after THAT?
Yes.
>am not sure it will do what I want (leave other MRINs unaffected & not fill in
>gaps)
It
I wasn't intending to have a report from Legacy duplicate the form DAR (or
another organization) requires. Just wanted a more flexible worksheet. I will
make the suggestion and see where that takes us! ;)
Thanks,
--Paula
- Original Message
From: CE Wood
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacy
First, let me apologize for my appalling grammer in the Subject line!
Sometimes I wonder where my brain went.
I don't know how the 8-digit MRINs happened, but it started happening on March
30th. That's the earliest modification date on the affected marriages. (What
I did was search marriages
In the past, this happened to me. At the time the program was doing weird
things. That was in L6, but I recently found the ?last? of them still hiding
in my DB. You do not mention if you are XP or Vista.
Rich in LA CA
From: michael barberi
To: LegacyUserGr
' the Picture Gallery is straightforward, easy to handle and hard to go wrong
with; the Picture Gallery, on' Did you mean Picture Center on the second one.
I am guessing.
Rich in LA CA
- Original Message
From: Jenny M Benson
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Sent: Tuesday, Sep
That would be fine for collecting the data, IF ONLY RELATIOSHIP CALCULATOR
WORKED! My many requests and emails to Brian have elicited neither an
explanation for this long-standing problem with Relationship Calculator, nor
a solution. Old LUG posts attest to this being unresolved for many years
I used that tool to help me fill in lineage group forms. (In L5?) I printed out
the Relationship Calcualtor for my family member on one side and the ancestor
on the other. Then hand copying the details. Some of the organizations are in
process of getting a gedcom - based download system, but eac
Paula, I had a similar problem a few years ago. I had to merge five backups
together and made #2 start at 11, #3 at 21, etc. Athough I had merged
into one database again, when I added new people, did not notice the numbers
continued from 5023456. It had also done the same to MRINS. I eve
Let's each make that suggestion to Legacy! It IS an important aspect to
genealogy, after all, and since FTM has had such a capability for umpteen
years, I am sure Legacy programmers can do likewise
CE
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.c
My apologies for 2 or 3 posts in HTML - I changed my way of posting and have
only just noticed!
Robert,
I'm afraid that I haven't found a way to do it either - in fact there is no
reference to MRINs in the Help Files either, so it looks as though it is not.
Ron Ferguson
_
Aha! You're saying the "last MRIN used" somehow got a huge number in it. I am
not using the MRIN filing system, so I can renumber. I will take a look at
that today.
Thanks,
--Paula
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:22:58 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn
wrote:
>I've just discovered that the MRIN's (whic
Back when I was on dialup and a slow desktop, I would start a download at
bedtime and wake up with it waiting with the 'finish' parts in the morning.
Then my area finally got DSL. Hooray. ( I still remember the pain of waiting.)
Rich in LA CA
From: Linda Bisch
I don't know about anyone else but I could use a lineage report like you
described. I noticed the same results trying to run lineage reports for
Mayflower Society and other lineage society applications. I ended up tagging
each individual and running some report (don't remember which) from there.
I used the Relationship Chart from the Relationship Calculator as a
worksheet. Of course, DAR won't accept that because they have their own
forms for you to fill out.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
supp...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTr
When you go to the Master Location List and select a location, you can
Geo-code that location. If you're in the Map of Places for... window, click
on the Resolve button to bring up the Master Location List where you can
code the location.
The Geo-code feature in the Master Location List codes acc
Robert,
Just to put your mind (and everyone else's) to rest, it's fine to ask
questions about the Legacy add-ons on the LUG list.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
supp...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
We are changing the world of gene
This is pretty much off topic, but seeing there is no activity on the
GenViewer board, I decided to ask here.
To anyone who has and uses GenViewer, can you get GenViewer to
display MRINs from a Legacy family file? I don't see a way to do that.
Thanks.
Robert
Legacy User Group guidelines:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:22:58 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn
wrote:
>I've just discovered that the MRIN's (which I haven't had displayed for a
>while) are 8 digits long on most (probably all) the marriages I've entered
>this year.
>
>Well, they are AT LEAST 8 digits long. I can't see the whole num
I've just discovered that the MRIN's (which I haven't had displayed for a
while) are 8 digits long on most (probably all) the marriages I've entered this
year.
Well, they are AT LEAST 8 digits long. I can't see the whole number in the
little window at the bottom, and for the life of me I can
Sherry,
What is the live mapping that you referred to.
When I Map My Family the only way that I know of to get coordinate
information is to use the Geo Location Database. Did I miss an option
setting somewhere?
- Original Message -
From: "Sherry/Support"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, Septembe
Thanks, Sherry!!
- Original Message
From: Sherry/Support
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:12:02 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database - Updates
There have never been any updates to the Geo Location Database and I don't
know of an
Paula Ryburn wrote
Is the Picture Gallery the same as the Picture Center? Because I don't
see these 'private' tabs.
No, two different things.
If you have an Individual's Information screen open and you click on the
Picture icon, you open that Indidivudal's Picture Gallery.
The Picture Cent
There have never been any updates to the Geo Location Database and I don't
know of any future plans to update it. Besides we have live mapping now
which has much better coordinate information - just not the county
information (which are current counties in Geo anyway)
Thanks for using Legacy.
S
Sherry,
Thanks for getting rid of that trouble-maker!
Looking back through my old legacy e-mails (and given that hindsight
is always 20-20 vision) we should all have guessed that anything from
this e-mail address would be suspect. The only times this e-mail
address came up it was giving out an e
This reminds me of a need I had a while back, when working on a DAR
application. I needed the Lineage report, but I needed it to "know" the
lineage between me and my Patriot. The Lineage report now just starts at one
end and goes through the male line. I my lineage went through my mother and
Angela,
Thanks! This is the way I have been doing it. I use the book reports the
most, and I like the narrative rather than a list of facts. I also enter the
census events on the marriage while they are married.
--Paula in Texas
- Original Message
From: Angela Gabbard
To: LegacyUs
I know I'm late to this thread, but did anyone receive an answer from the
programmers? Is there an update plan? I am thinking of implementing this
functionality, but has its data maintenance been put on a back burner?
Thanks,
--Paula in Texas
- Original Message
From: Dennis M. Kowal
Jenny,
Great idea! For census data, especially down through a lineage, I've usually
done a hand-drawn chronology of sorts. But just recently I've been trying to
get a handle on which documents I need to search for and request... not just my
4 branches, but also on my husband's side.
Thanks!!
-
Michele, I've been doing my entries a couple of different ways over the years,
and read these threads with great interest.
Two questions:
1. Do you enter all of that detail (the whole household) for EVERY individual
in the household?
2. Which Legacy reports do you use the most?
Thanks,
--Pa
Sherry,
Would it be possible to get some sort of statement from the developers as to
what's in the work regarding the Event Addresses, Address Notes, Location
Notes, etc., especially vs. printing the information we've entered? (discussed
extensively in other threads)
This particular thread has
Oh so right! "been there, done that"
Thanks, Ron, for all your valuable posts here. I enjoy reading the reality you
inject into each thread.
--Paula in Texas
From: ronald ferguson
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:
Mark,
Which reports do you use? And do you include Notes?
Thanks,
--Paula in Texas
- Original Message
From: Mark Wilson
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 6:28:02 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information
For my US Census events
Ellen, I think what you're looking for is already there. Open a marriage.
Click on the house icon above the Place field.
(I'm reading this thread in order, so forgive me if someone has already
answered.)
--Paula
- Original Message
From: Kramer
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytre
Dede,
Which reports do you use the most?
Thanks,
--Paula in Texas
- Original Message
From: Dede Holden
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:56:15 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information
Alan,
I'm not quite sure what you meant b
Mike,
I have read your posts about "Residence History" and remain puzzled. I use the
"Residence" event and enter the address (if I know the house # and street) in
the "Description" field, while putting the town/county/state in the Place
field. (I can look up the sentence structure I use for yo
Thanks, Dennis. I will add this to my "not so urgent" to-do list. ;)
--Paula
- Original Message
From: Dennis M. Kowallek
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:42:48 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dash "-" in Picture Center picture list
On Mon, 14
Thanks Ron. Maybe that's what is happening, although the "wait" has been
over 5 minutes. Will try it again.
Linda
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of ronald ferguson
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:13 AM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.c
Sorry if I offended anyone.
I'll just have to find somewhere else to answer this question.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:00 AM, ronald ferguson wrote:
> Bernard,
>
> I think that you have posted this to the wrong group. LUG is concerned only
> with Legacy and its add-ons.
>
> Ron Ferguson
>
>
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:12:21 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn
wrote:
>What does "View Current List of Multimedia Locations" show?
>
>--
>
>
>C:\Legacy
>C:\Legacy\Data
>C:\Legacy\Pictures
>I've just checked and the 3 files in question only exist in the Pictures
>folder.
>Is this something I should worr
Ron,
I agree and that is how all my programs are installed, Legacy included.
Colin.
---
- Original Message -
From: ronald ferguson
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:25 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Icons on individual screen
Colin,
The main thing is, that for ease of use, it is better if Legacy is installed in
the root of any drive. I have mine in the E drive, which on my set-up happens
to be an external HD disk.
Ron Ferguson
_
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I never put any program on C:, all my programs are installed on another
partition (in my case D:) and I never have any problems.
Legacy installed there without a hitch.
Colin.
- Original Message -
From: Sherry/Support
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 1
Linda,
When you say it quits in the middle of updating do you mean it stalls and you
think it has finished and exit and you then get the message?
When there is an update Legacy will appear to stall when in fact it is actually
updating a section of your program, the delay will vary depending on
Michael,
I cannot be sure from your description, but I think you will be OK to delete.
However, I strongly suggest that you first make a back-up and then delete to
see what happens.
The common way for this to happen is not ensuring that Source Clipboard has the
correct information when linkin
Bernard,
I think that you have posted this to the wrong group. LUG is concerned only
with Legacy and its add-ons.
Ron Ferguson
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