RE: [LegacyUG] unknown surnames

2009-11-11 Thread Boyd Miller
Jennifer, I just leave the field blank. This doesn't cause any problems on screen or in reports, and in the normal Name List, all the people without surnames show at the top of the list. Boyd -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf

RE: [LegacyUG] bug in a hove lable

2009-11-08 Thread Boyd Miller
Yes, on 12 July, and it has a ticket [061-11EBF083-F3DB] Acknowledged 14 July as being sent to the programmers Boyd -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Richard Van Wasshnova Sent: Monday, 9 November 2009 2:09 p.m. To:

RE: [LegacyUG] how to obtain a multiple page pdf file showing a big family tree?

2009-10-13 Thread Boyd Miller
Hi Viola, I presume you are meaning a Descendant chart from Legacy Charting. Try this. Download the free program pdf995 (Google it) and set it up as a printer ie so you can print anything to .pdf files. When you have your chart go to the symbol in the top left hand corner and to Print. In

[LegacyUG] Birth certificate as a master source

2009-09-16 Thread Boyd Miller
I treat each birth, marriage and death certificate as a master source because information from each certificate relates to a number of different people. A birth certificate can give father's and mothers full names, ages (hence approximate birth date), occupations and birthplaces, parents marriage

RE: [LegacyUG] Birth certificate as a master source

2009-09-16 Thread Boyd Miller
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:39:03 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Birth certificate as a master source Boyd Miller wrote I treat each birth, marriage and death certificate as a master source because information from each certificate relates to a number

RE: [LegacyUG] Importing legacy file and sources

2009-09-03 Thread Boyd Miller
On the master sources screen, make sure the Show only Tagged box is not ticked. Boyd -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Ruth Silver Sent: Monday, 31 August 2009 1:07 a.m. To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject:

RE: [LegacyUG] Can't Recover Functionality from Crash

2009-08-31 Thread Boyd Miller
I had the same sort of problem and this was my solution. Make sure your data is not under C:/Legacy/Data folder. If it is, copy the data and pictures etc to somewhere else, and don't put them back in the C:/Legacy/Data folder when you get the program running again. (General principal is to always

RE: [LegacyUG] Can't Recover Functionality from Crash

2009-08-31 Thread Boyd Miller
Functionality from Crash Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:51:10 +0100 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Can't Recover Functionality from Crash From: m...@cmy.org.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com 2009/8/31 Boyd Miller advised Make sure your

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.0.0.103 crashing

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Miller
I had the same problem and it is easily fixed. Make sure your data is not under C:/Legacy/Data folder. If it is, copy the data and pictures etc to somewhere else, and don't put them back in the C:/Legacy/Data folder when you get the program running again. Uninstall Legacy. Have a look at

RE: [LegacyUG] copy master sources to new family file

2009-08-13 Thread Boyd Miller
Try this. Go to File New family file, and give it a name. In the new blank family go to View Master lists Sources Options Import Lists. Browse to the family file with all the sources and other lists you want and open it (this puts the file path into the top box). Check the boxes for the

RE: [LegacyUG] Search for unsourced data

2009-07-16 Thread Boyd Miller
and reopened the program, and rebooted with no different response to the searches. This is a very useful search if it can be made to work. Has anyone else had found this problem, have we got a bug, or am I missing something? Boyd Miller

RE: [LegacyUG] Search for unsourced data

2009-07-16 Thread Boyd Miller
, and rebooted with no different response to the searches. This is a very useful search if it can be made to work. Has anyone else had found this problem, have we got a bug, or am I missing something? Boyd Miller _ MSN straight to your

RE: [LegacyUG] Search for unsourced data

2009-07-16 Thread Boyd Miller
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:03:03 +0100 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Search for unsourced data Boyd Miller wrote I am working on a family that was entered under version 7.0.0.90 but had most

[LegacyUG] Search for unsourced data

2009-07-15 Thread Boyd Miller
had expected. I have run file maintenance, closed and reopened the program, and rebooted with no different response to the searches. This is a very useful search if it can be made to work. Has anyone else had found this problem, have we got a bug, or am I missing something? Boyd Miller

RE: [LegacyUG] How to block sources, note, events in GEDCOMs

2009-06-23 Thread Boyd Miller
Go to File Export to GEDCOM file. In Produce file for: box, scroll down to Basic. Click on the Customise box and it will show you what fields you will be exporting. Include or remove as you wish. Click OK, select the names to export and continue with making a Gedcom in the usual way. Have a

RE: [LegacyUG] Saved searches

2009-06-21 Thread Boyd Miller
suggestions? Boyd Miller Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http

[LegacyUG] Saved searches

2009-06-20 Thread Boyd Miller
all the searches created before Legacy7? Has anyone else been able to use .sc0 searches created with versions before version 7? Any suggestions? Boyd Miller No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.79/2186 - Release

RE: [LegacyUG] the word 'someone' stuck in sentence

2009-06-11 Thread Boyd Miller
First, where it comes from? See Options Customise View Edit default marriage wording. If there is a marriage but the spouse is unknown you get the someone put in the spouse position in the reports. This someone should disappear when a spouse is added but it sometimes doesn't. In this case

RE: [LegacyUG] Dave - Small changes to the help file

2009-05-28 Thread Boyd Miller
The question mark is out of place but AKAs should not have an apostrophe - it is plural not possessive. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Tim Rosenlof Sent: Friday, 29 May 2009 6:59 a.m. To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems Report

2009-05-20 Thread Boyd Miller
Bill, If it is listing the same error twice, perhaps there are two separate parts of the entry that are in error. For the uppercase issue go to Potential problems standardisation tab and untick the last box. Boyd -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy charting

2009-05-16 Thread Boyd Miller
Create your chart in the normal way, and then Publish Export to file PDF (or other as you choose), define the folder and file name and save the chart. It can then be printed from the .pdf file to whatever size your printer or print shop can provide. Boyd -Original Message- From:

[LegacyUG] Quoted given names in charts

2009-02-28 Thread Boyd Miller
. Is it possible to Remove quoted given names in Legacy Charting so that the given names and the commonly used name are not both shown in the chart boxes? Boyd Miller No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.4/1976 - Release Date

RE: [LegacyUG] STRIP HTML

2009-02-05 Thread Boyd Miller
John, Dennis, The strip HTML function works in most of the notes fields in the deluxe version but not in the Sources Text/comments fields (and there may be others). This function used to work in version 6 and I have requested that it be reinstated. Sherry's response This has been previously

RE: [LegacyUG] Bug or Problem with Search Alt Names

2009-01-14 Thread Boyd Miller
You can also use the Search and Replace tab which gives access to most of the fields including alternative name. Just be sure to put the same data in both the search and the replace fields, or use the skip button. It would be helpful if this Search and Replace function had find only and a find

[LegacyUG] Searching Location notes field

2008-11-18 Thread Boyd Miller
It is common practice to record the location of an event as it was at the time of that event. The Location Notes field can then be used to annotate this location with any changes in name, boundary amendments, the current name of the place, or historical notes. Many of the notes fields, and

RE: [LegacyUG] Searching Location notes field

2008-11-18 Thread Boyd Miller
Hi folks, This string has gone totally off the course of my original question relating to Location Notes. It is clear that most respondents have never even noticed the Notes field that is associated with each Location! If you bring up the Master Location list and edit any location you will see

RE: [LegacyUG] Searching Location notes field

2008-11-18 Thread Boyd Miller
to search and not to replace anything just enter the same text in the search and in the replace field. Evert 2008/11/19 Boyd Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, This string has gone totally off the course of my original question relating to Location Notes. It is clear that most respondents

RE: [LegacyUG] Pros and Cons of Notes vs. Events Usage

2008-10-13 Thread Boyd Miller
This thread has turned up some very interesting uses of the program's fields. I use the Events and Notes for two totally different purposes. The Events are for the Chronology screen, (or in a printout that doesn't have any Notes included), primarily as a research tool. This way the sentence

RE: [LegacyUG] Index - Ron, Richard, Boyd

2008-09-10 Thread Boyd Miller
If you delete all the usr files you will loose all the settings you have change from the default in Options Customise. I have tried deleting all the usr files as requested by the suggested remedy for Run-time error '9' Subscript out of range which I encountered entering a source via the

RE: [LegacyUG] Index

2008-09-09 Thread Boyd Miller
Have a look in the Help files under usr files. Boyd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruth Nerud Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2008 4:50 a.m. To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Index And wouldn't I just love

[LegacyUG] Exporting to a Legacy file

2008-09-06 Thread Boyd Miller
Part way through the process of exporting a family to a Legacy file (FileExport toLegacy file), the screen titles Combine event definition shows, with the name and sentence settings for an event. The headings on this screen, Event in current family file and Event being imported, are not relevant

RE: [LegacyUG] A strange problem

2008-08-26 Thread Boyd Miller
I sometimes have a similar type of problem with font size. Occasionally in the Picture gallery edit mode the text becomes too small to read and the font changes from Verdana to something like Times New Roman. If I close the screen and reopen, sometimes it comes right but not always. Similarly

RE: [LegacyUG] pictures and scanned documents

2008-08-24 Thread Boyd Miller
File names for such a diverse collection of information is always going to be a matter of personal preference and the degree of organisation we want to go to. I only have a couple of hundred images so far but this is growing rapidly. I generally label them this way, but with more or less

RE: [LegacyUG] Problem: Noted events in Descendant reports

2008-08-20 Thread Boyd Miller
I don't get the problem with either of these reports. Check the Wording 1 tab for the report. It should show Noted events in [HisHer] life were: and Noted events in their marriage were: Yours may be reading Noted events in [His] life were: Boyd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] Global Sorting of Children and Spouses

2007-09-30 Thread Boyd Miller
Thad and Ron, The suggestion to go to FileFile MaintenanceCheck/RepairProceed and check the box Sort all events by date will reorder the events but it does not reorder the children by birth date. Boyd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of