Re: [LegacyUG] living again

Yes, according to the Help Legacy will only look at ancestors to determine if someone is dead when you use the Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. So if you have a descendant who died 100 years ago all of his ancestors will have Living set to No as well. If someone was married 150 years ago he

Re: [LegacyUG] How would you add this event?

This was a case of finalizing a grant. Military land, and all US land was awarded in a four part process. First a person would recieve a warrant which allowed him to request a surveyor to go out and define/set boundaries for a piece of land the size of the grant (or he would pay for it). The Su

Re: [LegacyUG] living again

But you also have to click the Apply... button otherwise Legacy will only do this for new entered individuals. Evert 2009/10/9 Kramer > Michele, go to Tools>Advanced Set Living. It will mark everyone who could > possibly be dead as dead depending on what you have set such as the 120 > years. >

RE: [LegacyUG] Publishing Center - Maintaining Selected Font and including sources

That's because the Source options have now been moved to the "Additional" tab->Source Options for the Book (it's the second tab after Contents). All of the items in your book will use the Source settings selected from the "Additional" tab ->Source Options. Valerie -Original Message- From:

RE: [LegacyUG] MRIN troubles

Try Tools->Renumber RIN's and then the Marriage RIN options. Valerie -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:21 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] MRIN troubles

Re: [LegacyUG] no name people

Jane: For some people for whom I have no name I have put their relationship to known people within privacy brackets[[]]. That way they print as a blank on any reports but I can still tell who they are. i wind up with a record that says(for example) Joe Blow m [[mother of Mary Blow]]. Once I disc

Re: [LegacyUG] living again

Michele, go to Tools>Advanced Set Living. It will mark everyone who could possibly be dead as dead depending on what you have set such as the 120 years. Legacy marks it already so you don't have to go through all the trouble. Ellen Kramer Researching and loving Dorman, Kramer, Mirarchi, Pro

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging people question

<> I have noticed the same thing, except that I just put up with the aggravation without checking the cause. That should be easy to fix. I vote to put it on the list of things to be done. (There are several other things with a higher priority, however.) Carl Legacy User Group guidelines

Re: [LegacyUG] Here is a good example

Michele Lewis wrote: I have a married couple that are both marked as living. Their son was born in 1847. I think that Legacy should be able to say that his parents are dead. michele Michele, The method which I have previously described *does* work for everybody in the database, why it i

Re: [LegacyUG] Here is a good example

Jim, I don't understand what you are saying here. If somebody has a date in the death, no matter what their age at death then the living flag will already be set to "No". Advanced set living only sets this flag. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: E

Re: [LegacyUG] MRIN troubles

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:21:17 -0400, "Nancy" wrote: >Awhile ago I imported a gedcom from somewhere (I think FamilySearch). It >wasn't until recently that I discovered that the MRIN's imported were 8 >digit numbers and all subsequent MRINs generated by Legacy were 8 digits. >I've corrected all th

Re: [LegacyUG] Here is a good example

When you go to Options->Customize->Data Entry to set the age you want them to be presumed dead, you must then hit the Apply button. This will go through your database and mark everyone over the selected age as dead unless they have a date in the death field. So, if you decide to mark everyone over

[LegacyUG] MRIN troubles

Hello all, Awhile ago I imported a gedcom from somewhere (I think FamilySearch). It wasn't until recently that I discovered that the MRIN's imported were 8 digit numbers and all subsequent MRINs generated by Legacy were 8 digits. I've corrected all those so that they are in sequence with the re

Re: [LegacyUG] living again

I have already done that. michele - Original Message - From: "CE Wood" To: Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] living again Assuming these are people without a death date, Click Options>Customize>Data Entry. In the section Presumed Dead, Set as dead

RE: [LegacyUG] living again

Assuming these are people without a death date, Click Options>Customize>Data Entry. In the section Presumed Dead, Set as dead if over, enter the age at which you want Legacy to mark people as dead CE -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] O

RE: [LegacyUG] living again

When I had that problem, I went to the Index view and added the column entitled "Living". While I had to re-adjust the columnar widths so that I could see more columns for each person, I found it a lot easier to see those who were marked as either "No" for not living or "Yes" for living. This

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy unable to "lock file"

See page: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpPDFerrors.asp. PDF File Errors Can't Create PDF file or PDF files missing pages/pictures (Legacy Deluxe only) 8. There is a limit to how large a PDF file can be. We have experienced problems where pages and pictures and are dropped with PDF files c

[LegacyUG] living again

I did everything y'all to do but the program is still killing people that are long dead. If someone married in 1821 there is no way they could be alive but Legacy is marking them as living unless I manually kill them off. I have tagged everyone in my file that is marked as living that doesn't h

[LegacyUG] Here is a good example

I have a married couple that are both marked as living. Their son was born in 1847. I think that Legacy should be able to say that his parents are dead. michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.c

Re: [LegacyUG] Master l Source is messing up

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:53:38 -0500, "Eileen" wrote: >Pleae help as soon as possible If you decide to take me up on the offer to help, make sure you send the requested items OFF-LIST! -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy Us

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy unable to "lock file"

Thanks, so much, Dan; your message was very helpful, and I changed the virtual memory as you suggested -- to 8500mb -- it was previously set at c6500mb. However, when I again attempted to create the .pdf I got the Error 3050 message again. So I came down a few generations and tried again and th

[LegacyUG] Tagging people question

If I tag a group of people that I need to check or fix something on If I use the arrows at the bottom of screen to go through the list... As long as I don't change anything on the person it will go to the next person. If I make a change to the person then when I hit the arrow it will say

Re: [LegacyUG] Master l Source is messing up

Eileen: If you want to send me a copy of your database as well as screen shots (with explanations for each) that describe what you are doing, I would be happy to look at your problem. As you guessed, your explanation is confusing. Dennis -- On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:53:38 -0500, "Eileen" wrote:

RE: [LegacyUG] no name people

I just do Mr. or Mrs. and whatever the surname is and tell Legacy to ignore it for that person. Legacy has unknowns married to unknowns in my data file which is a mystery to me. Unknown children who died before they were named or in childbirth are just listed as Child or Baby, or something like t

Re: [LegacyUG] How would you add this event?

Silas appeared in front of the Magistrate with witnesses who stated under oath that they could swear that this Silas Simmons was the one that served in the War of 1812. There was a hold out on the issuance of his bounty land because there were TWO Silas Simmons', He had to come to court and pr

RE: [LegacyUG] Master l Source is messing up

Well I just hate to write again about anything to do with Legacy, I have not done anymore updates for fear of some unknown happening. I'm on version 7.0.090 and have used the program since version 4. I have been updating all my families with their 1850 census, I go to the Master Source List, go t

[LegacyUG] Publishing Center - Maintaining Selected Font and including sources

Is anyone else having a problem with customizing the font in a book created in the Publishing Center? I have a specific font selected in the Descendant/Ancestor individual Report Options, and for a Multiple Lines of Descent Report, but it will not "transfer" to the settings in the Publishing C

Re: [LegacyUG] How would you add this event? Part II

I am trying to remember the word I would use and as a note but so far Testimony is the closest I can get or Witness in Court. Eliz On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Michele Lewis wrote: > Actually, I am not even sure how to add this as a source.  I guess just as a > generic court document? > >

Re: [LegacyUG] What to cite?

Thanks for the replies everyone! What I think I'll do is just cite everything. I understand it'll be worthwhile in the long run and make my research more credible. Now I just have to find the time to cite it all. On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Kramer wrote: > Eric, I would do exactly as Ron

Re: [LegacyUG] How would you add this event?

Michele Lewis wrote: My ggg grandfather appeared in court on 08 Nov 1851. He was there to prove that he was the Silas Simmons that fought in the War of 1812 and was at the Battle of New Orleans so that he would be entitled to bounty land (there was another Silas Simmons in the area so he went to

[LegacyUG] How would you add this event? Part II

Actually, I am not even sure how to add this as a source. I guess just as a generic court document? michele My ggg grandfather appeared in court on 08 Nov 1851. He was there to prove that he was the Silas Simmons that fought in the War of 1812 and was at the Battle of New Orleans so that he

[LegacyUG] How would you add this event?

My ggg grandfather appeared in court on 08 Nov 1851. He was there to prove that he was the Silas Simmons that fought in the War of 1812 and was at the Battle of New Orleans so that he would be entitled to bounty land (there was another Silas Simmons in the area so he went to court to prove he w

Re: [LegacyUG] no name people

For temporary purposes, make his wife Mrs. Mayo.  add the siblings in. Then you can unlink her from the group, then delete her.  This will hold them together (in a band-aid style). Rich in LA CA From: Jane Sarles To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent:

Re: [LegacyUG] no name people

Step one Add father with just last name of Mayo. Step two... Add (or link) all of his children to him. Step three... Legacy will automatically add "unknown" in the wife's name michele - Original Message - From: Jane Sarles To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Some report problems

The first problem rings a bell. Is this the same or related to the thread "Numbering source citations and end notes" from June? Ward - Original Message - From: "Jan Roberts" To: "Legacy Users Group" Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:21 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Some report problems

Re: [LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)?

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:30:48 -0400, "William H. Boswell" wrote: >For >instance, when I imported a GEDCOM from Family Tree Maker into Legacy, all >of the Detail Text was put into Detail Comments. Something like... UPDATE tblSX SET tblSX.SrcDetText=tblSX.SrcDetNote,tblSX.SrcDetNote="" WHERE ((tblS

Re: [LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)?

There is a problem which causes an error 6 under certain conditions. It has been fixed and the fix will be in the next release of Legacy. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying

Re: [LegacyUG] no name people

you can leave the wife as unknown and I would personally just have the last name for the father - no unknown, or mystery, or anything like it for the first name. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jane Sarles wrote: > I need to put parents, whose names I do not yet know, into my Legacy > prog

[LegacyUG] no name people

I need to put parents, whose names I do not yet know, into my Legacy program, so that I can get my ancestor and all her siblings together as a family. I have put in "Mystery Mayo" for the unknown father, but, since I don't know either the surname or given name of his wife, I can't think how to inp

RE: [LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)?

Thanks. I'll try that. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Brian/Support Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:22 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)

Re: [LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)?

Randoph, I don't doubt that you are unfortunately getting this error, but I don't. Error 6 is probably the ms Access overflow error, usually due to trying to fit something into a data field which is too big for that field. So the obvious question is what do you have in your database which is r

RE: [LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)?

William, There might be an easier way. Can you email me some screen shots of what you are doing? If you are just moving the Master source record "comments" field to the "Text" field; and it needs to be done for everyone linked to that person; it should give you that option. Otherwise, if you ar

Re: [LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)?

Only the you get Error 6 which is not listed among Solutions by Error. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brian/Support wrote: > There is no central place to access all the details linked to a single > master source and amend them, en mass. > There is a report you can prepare to help you with findin

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

I think that Jan is certainly correct in saying that for the technical reasons she gave, one cannot have an index in a TXT file. And as I stated earlier, two files would be needed in HTML since it is not possible to have 2 pages in one file as can be done in a PDF. Ron Ferguson ___

Re: [LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)?

There is no central place to access all the details linked to a single master source and amend them, en mass. There is a report you can prepare to help you with finding where those details are used however. Go to View > Master Lists > Source Click on options and select Print There is an option t

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

I have input a problem report on this issue. My suggestion to the programmer is that when the Text or HTML format is selected the Index Options be greyed out and become unavailable. I believe there has been sufficient discussion of the inability of these formats to support creating indexes of n

RE: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

RTF format is not offered for the reports in question. It is both the Text and HTML formats that do not include either Index when selected and when they DO show in Preview and PDF. CE -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Jan

RE: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

OK, that's it. We're just going to have to go over and free France all over again just so we can feel good about ourselves. Brian in CA via County Tyrone Wondering how long Sherry will let this continue before she says "Enough" I guess this proves Legacy is truly an international product with

[LegacyUG] Central Place for All Source Details (Citations)?

I am still reorganizing my data in Legacy 7 and am finding it real time consuming for the Source Details that are linked to many people. For instance, when I imported a GEDCOM from Family Tree Maker into Legacy, all of the Detail Text was put into Detail Comments. I've been moving them manually,

[LegacyUG] Hotmail Strikes Again! [Was :how to print Event Address Coordinates]

leo macdonald wrote: <72497bc90910080238m432a0982m2e6190c5db2c7...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Dede=2C =20 In my example I used the word "Cemetery" for my searches because I have use= d this word i

RE: [LegacyUG] how to print Event Address Coordinates

<72497bc90910080238m432a0982m2e6190c5db2c7...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Dede=2C =20 In my example I used the word "Cemetery" for my searches because I have use= d this word in all my cemetery loca

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

Mike Fry wrote: D MG wrote: Just don't rely on the Irish this time around! ;-) I think the Ulstermen might help, and what about the native peoples? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Oh dear: while America sleeps the world moves on . ;-) Ron Ferguson

Re: [LegacyUG] how to print Event Address Coordinates

Bruce and Leo, This is what I was trying to avoid. I have chosen to show only city, county, state in the burial location. (Because that's what the Tutorials taught, and I always wanted to be the teacher's pet!) I may have to change, but that will require that I figure out how to use Dennis' wond

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

D MG wrote: Just don't rely on the Irish this time around! ;-) I think the Ulstermen might help, and what about the native peoples? -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

Mike Fry wrote: Ron Ferguson wrote: Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: You people drive on the wrong side of the street anyhow. :-) Brian in CA Please see my comment in response to Dennis - an INDICES over here is used as a superscripted number referencing another place, or a power to which a number

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

Just don't rely on the Irish this time around! ;-) Dermot. -- Sent from Dublin, Ireland Stephen Leacock - "I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so." 2009/10/8 Mike Fry > Ron

Re: [LegacyUG] Some report problems

Jan Roberts wrote: In trying to test some report behaviour in order to respond to the index problems experienced by CE I discovered a couple of other problems in .rtf reports. After the lines giving instructions about creating your own index I get a short second set of source citations, numbered

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

Ron Ferguson wrote: Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: You people drive on the wrong side of the street anyhow. :-) Brian in CA Please see my comment in response to Dennis - an INDICES over here is used as a superscripted number referencing another place, or a power to which a number may be raised. x

Re: [LegacyUG] No report indices in text format, & other bugs in reports

Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: You people drive on the wrong side of the street anyhow. :-) Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:32 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] No report