Re: [LegacyUG] Apple

2009-01-14 Thread Gene Young
Bill Wilson wrote: Exactly my sentiments! There are some helpful people here but there are also many on this list who will berate anyone for any small infraction or the slightest mistake. I must disagree with your assessment that there are many on this list who will berate anyone. It is an

Re: [LegacyUG] Why are we using this mailing list?

2009-01-14 Thread Gene Young
Dave Naylor wrote: Hello folks The recent insults, etc. have shown that Millennia are unable to run a mailing list correctly. In my opinion this is the last straw for a list that has had more than its share of upsets and angry members. Not only is there inadequate moderation of this list,

Re: [LegacyUG] Phantom file - Leave it alone?

2009-01-13 Thread Gene Young
Roy Ferguson wrote: Because it is MRIN 2, not phantom 35, that is then deleted. Working on a back up copy of course, I would print out all information on the corrupted individual (Not to imply your wife is corrupt) then I would delete the individual. I would then run a check/repair and

Re: [LegacyUG] Physical Description - event missing form Legacy provided list

2009-01-11 Thread Gene Young
Belinda wrote: Thanks Ron and Jane, Ron I was being lazy I suppose. As I tend to use narratives I was hoping to utilize the pre-defined sentences. Oh well, best come up with my own not that that is too difficult but I would have been interested to see what sentence the output would have been

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing a Birth Announcement

2009-01-10 Thread Gene Young
Alan Jones wrote: Sourcing a Birth Announcement I was wondering how one would source a Birth Announcement card one gets in the mail from the parents announcing a child's birth? They usually I create a source with: Source List Name - Birth Announcement - [person's name here] Type - Written

Re: [LegacyUG] Tips Window on Startt up

2009-01-10 Thread Gene Young
momalo...@aol.com wrote: On start up, I use the Tips Window, so I can continue to learn about Legacy BUT the print is so small, it is hard to read. How can I change this to say a 20 point . . . or even less would be better. Grab a corner of the window and drag it to enlarge the window.

Re: [LegacyUG] Page Numbers in Family Pedigree Report

2009-01-10 Thread Gene Young
momalo...@aol.com wrote: Just now, I got my FIRST Family Pedigree Report to print (38) pages, BUT, it printed in reverse (GOOD) BUT the Printer ran out of paper. I still need Pages 1, 2, 3. How should I go about this??? By following the directions that came with your printer describing

Re: [LegacyUG] UK Geography

2009-01-09 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Keith, Milltown, Bannocburn, Scotland is perfectly correct. I understand you to mean that it does not work in the Geo Location Database, and you are correct (although I haven't tried this one). This is because it is an American designed Database for American locations.

Re: [LegacyUG] Reference list of contacts

2009-01-04 Thread Gene Young
MKO wrote: Ok I found the address button. Unless I don’t understand something here I have never liked this much as it is only for the current address and has no history. I prefer to use events to keep track of where people have lived. Anyway, the only way I can find to access the address

Re: [LegacyUG] updates for Legacy 7.0

2008-12-30 Thread Gene Young
Kathy Westlake wrote: Good AM I purchased Legacy 7.0 in May at the Ontario Genealogy Conference in London, ON. I loaded on my home pc and my laptop. I take my laptop to do research with. Everything worked great for me until I upgraded the laptop with the latest updates for 7.0

Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file

2008-12-28 Thread Gene Young
jmglover wrote: Hello Dennis, Yes, I did copy it to the hard drive, and it works perfectly there, jut wont open from the flash drive. I'll copy it from the hard drive to the flash later this evening, and see if it works then. Thanks for replying, Cheers, Jill Brisbane

Re: [LegacyUG] flash drives (was error opening database)

2008-12-28 Thread Gene Young
myrn...@prodigy.net.mx wrote: Gene, I have several flash drives of varying sizes and none of them have a slide anywhere. We also have two MP3 players and they both have slides to lock them. Is there something I am missing? Not all USB Drives have the lock-out switch. If it does, it is

Re: [LegacyUG] Need a Gedcom from Ver 7

2008-12-26 Thread Gene Young
Elizabeth Richardson wrote: Ruth - a gedcom works anywhere. It's the Legacy file itself that can't be opened in a previous version. Go ahead and try it! What she said is that all she has is a V. 7 LEGACY File. Apparently she had V.7 loaded, opened her file (thus converting it) then

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendants Book Report fonts

2008-12-25 Thread Gene Young
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:00:46 -0800, JLB j...@telus.net wrote: Has it ever been possible to set fonts for the Descendants Book report for html output, or am I expecting too much? Use CSS style sheets. Very easy and you can change the fonts for the entire web site by

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendants Book Report fonts

2008-12-25 Thread Gene Young
JLB wrote: This is not for a website. I'm just trying to output dozens of Descendant Book reports one at a time using a specific font. I can change the font after the fact using Kompozer but I'd rather, of course, be able to set it to what I want before producing each report. - JL JLiki

Re: [LegacyUG] IntelliShare disaster

2008-12-24 Thread Gene Young
Michael Harnois wrote: I tried today to use IntelliShare and have no idea what went wrong. I had given my wife a copy of the file and she had made changes to maybe a dozen entries out of about 4000. Imported the file with no problem. Ran IntelliShare and it came up with 9067783 duplicates

Re: [LegacyUG] New Family Search

2008-12-18 Thread Gene Young
GeoSci wrote: ELIZ Said: The beta site is now the pilot site and can be accessed thru familysearch.org NOW - has anyone come up with the Customized Search String needed to use the Search Internet for Current Person option?

Re: [LegacyUG] Windows Task Manager

2008-12-17 Thread Gene Young
momalo...@aol.com wrote: Some one sent me a HORRIBLE email to download about Christmas, graphics, homepage changes, etc. and I can't even find the name of it now. Before you do anything else, run a good antivirus program. When you can, have your computer guy clean out your hard drive.

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-11 Thread Gene Young
Elizabeth Richardson wrote: JL, I don't usually work from the Name List (I prefer Family View), but I just checked and I can cite a new source from there if I wish. However, the buttons available were New and Cite only. If you select a souce, the Edit Detail and Del buttons become active.

Re: [LegacyUG] [LegacyUserGroup] List Posting Error Notification

2008-12-04 Thread Gene Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been a member for three years? Why am I suddenly excluded from posting a message??!!! In as much as your message made it to the list you are obviously NOT excluded. That message was an anomaly to be ignored. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer

[LegacyUG] Latest Update (7.0.0.76)

2008-12-04 Thread Gene Young
I hope that Millenia releases a list of what defaults this latest update changed. It has screwed up a lot of settings that I keep finding, some of which will take me HOURS to correct. This is very poor behavior for any program update. I have just discovered that I have to edit every single

[LegacyUG] push pins not showing

2008-12-01 Thread Gene Young
Has anyone else experienced that the push pins in the master locations maps do not show after updating to 7.0.0.76? -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Historical shifting of national boundaries

2008-11-17 Thread Gene Young
Carolyn Smith wrote: I have ancestors in my database [Legacy 7 (Deluxe)] that emigrated to the US from the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Slovakia). In entering data, I have read I should put the current location in the Location Field (that reflects where the vital records

Re: [LegacyUG] web pages

2008-11-14 Thread Gene Young
Michele Lewis wrote: I am sitting here playing around with the creating web pages function. I do like how you can preview how it will look before it uploads. If y'all have a web site created by Legacy do you mind linking it here so that I can browse some examples? michele This was

Re: [LegacyUG] web pages

2008-11-14 Thread Gene Young
GeoSci wrote: We are not to place LINKS on the list (text only) - but mine is shown in my signature (below). Just copy and paste. Pick the Latest Family Tree. Keith Putting a link in a signature is the same as putting it the message body. There is no difference, it is still in the

Re: [LegacyUG] Archives

2008-11-05 Thread Gene Young
music-line wrote: Hi Susan, The link you gave me included messages from Feb 2006 - June 2006. Thanks for that. It does seem to me that, in order to encourage people to use the archives, they need to be sorted out a little! Perhaps someone from the Millennia team might be able to help. Best

Re: [LegacyUG] Strip HTML

2008-11-03 Thread Gene Young
SHIRLEY ANDERSON wrote: I just upgraded to 7deluxe so I could strip HTML, only to find that the strip HTML button has disappeared. It is mentioned in Help. I know the workaround to save the information in a text program, but I have over 100 items to strip. They are from the pilot Family

Re: [LegacyUG] Few Messages

2008-10-31 Thread Gene Young
marilyn E B wrote: I need to know if the number of messages on the Legacy User Group has dwindled to almost nothing. If not I am not receiving all the group messages. I have searched my spam and none there. As I use Gmail I will have to figure out where to go to find where my messages are

Re: [LegacyUG] looking for cems

2008-10-29 Thread Gene Young
JLB wrote: It's not way way complicated. This is what I'm after: Person 1/Cemetery A/county/state Person 2/Cemetery A/county/state Person 3/Cemetery A/county/state Person 4/Cemetery B/county/state Person 5/Cemetery B/county/state Person 6/Cemetery C/county/state Person 7/Cemetery C/county/state

Re: [LegacyUG] Question re practicing file

2008-10-29 Thread Gene Young
Tish wrote: I am wondering if I could put into the family files - a fake file just to practice all the different and wonderful things that are in Legacy 7. Would this harm all the info I have in there that is legit? Could I delete it when I am finished without harming the information that I

Re: [LegacyUG] looking for cems

2008-10-28 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Dave, I take it you mean Burial *Addresses*, which is what this thread is about. The problem is, as JLB has drawn to our attention, this field cannot be searched. Ron Ferguson Actually it can be searched. I just tested this. Go to search Query by example and in

Re: [LegacyUG] looking for cems

2008-10-28 Thread Gene Young
such as they exist in my database. I do not put cemetery names anywhere except in the Burial Address field that follows the Burial field by the +sign. - JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog Gene Young wrote: Actually it can be searched. I just tested

Re: [LegacyUG] Importing Picture Negatives into Legacy 7

2008-10-16 Thread Gene Young
Pat wrote: Thanks Bill, I have a HP C4280 scanner/printer and the scanned negative looks real good on the monitor. So far I can't find how to change it to a positive using just my printer. Pat As has been mentioned, download Irfanview (totally free) and open the image in it. On the

Re: [LegacyUG] How to record reburial

2008-10-12 Thread Gene Young
Mary Figgins wrote: I have an interested case that others might have especially with military deaths. Clarence was killed in Central Africa 11 July 1943 and was buried in a small church there on 14 July 1943. He was later reburied in Lake Cemetery, Republic, Republic County, Kansas on 20

Re: [LegacyUG] Source detail craziness

2008-10-07 Thread Gene Young
Mike Fry wrote: Kate Myslinski wrote: Help! I hope your panties are fireproof! What he means is that you sent an attachment to the list. That is a big NO NO. Please read the group guidelines, accessible by the link

Re: [LegacyUG] Web Pages - number of Individuals

2008-09-30 Thread Gene Young
Mary Young wrote: After I generate my Legacy website (Pedigree pages), Legacy tells me it's handled 774 Individuals But the Surname Page in the set says This site contains 650 Individuals ... Why the discrepancy in numbers? Regards Mary Young If you stop and think about it, the program must

Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter

2008-09-26 Thread Gene Young
Kelly Horst wrote: Good Morning, I have just upgraded to Legacy 7.0 (Deluxe) and am trying to convert my Basic Sources. According to the User Manual the Source Template Conversion Tool is reached from the Master Source List by clicking the Options Button and then choosing Source Template

Re: [LegacyUG] Editing a source

2008-09-26 Thread Gene Young
GeoSci wrote: Recently discovered an ODD twist - that REALLY messes things up! In the past - I could go to Cite a Source - pick on (say 1910 Lancaster County, PA Census) - choose EDIT and make a new one for 1920 - then HAD AN OPTION TO SAVE AS A NEW SOURCE or REPLACE THE OLD ONE. Lately -

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem Changing RINs

2008-09-26 Thread Gene Young
Wynthner wrote: AMEN! Luckily, the program I use has an ID number for each individual you can change.. but thankfully that does *not* change the internal record number Carol, It puzzles me why Legacy even has this feature. Since Legacy is a relational database, an RIN is nothing

Re: Fw: [LegacyUG] set relationships

2008-09-23 Thread Gene Young
Dick Davis wrote: In response to Richard's posting, I would like to know if the new version of Legacy calculates all the relationships in the tree? I know that in Version 6, the tree stopped at a lower level, but did not do all the relationships. With this limitation in the earlier version, it

Re: Fw: [LegacyUG] set relationships

2008-09-23 Thread Gene Young
Mary Young wrote: On 9/23/08, *RICHARD SCHULTHIES* wrote: That is accurate. The program calculates the new relationships only when asked. I don't think this is the case in v.6. I Set Relationships for myself, then created a new son for my parents. _Without resetting relationships_

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: customizing reports

2008-09-21 Thread Gene Young
Lavern Hall wrote: Greetings! Is there a way to make a report that would take all the names in my database and group them by date? An example of what I'd like to generate is a list of names that would reflect all the births for a given year. Is that possible? Thanks for the help,

Re: [LegacyUG] Not Duplicate List

2008-09-20 Thread Gene Young
Roger Jarrett wrote: Does anyone know how to quickly clear the Not Duplicate List without having to remove each entry one at the time. I have over one thousand entries :( Roger FIRST!!! Make a fresh back-up of your family file and then make a copy of your file and do all your work on the

Re: [LegacyUG] Tag problem again

2008-09-19 Thread Gene Young
Michele Lewis wrote: On the Family View Screen I have tags 1, 2, 3 displayed. I taged everyone on Tag 1. michele I have several people tagged as #1. None of these tags show up on the Family view screen. Only the Marriage tags display there. The individual tags only show up on the

Re: [LegacyUG] Tag problem again

2008-09-19 Thread Gene Young
Lill Ann Parry wrote: In your original post, I believe that you said that you tagged them as 9. If you have 1,2,3 dispalyed on the initial family view screen, you need to open each individual to see all nine tags and verify that the 9 tag is marked. Lill Ann Michele Lewis wrote: NOTE: On

Re: [LegacyUG] Tag problem again

2008-09-19 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:39:13 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tag problem again Michele Lewis wrote: On the Family View Screen I have tags 1, 2, 3 displayed. I taged everyone on Tag 1. michele I have

Re: [LegacyUG] Tag problem again

2008-09-19 Thread Gene Young
Elizabeth Richardson wrote: - Original Message - From: Gene Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tag problem again All nine tags show on the bottom of the individual screen and all nine

Re: [LegacyUG] Why is LugacyUG sending ads to buy watches..

2008-09-17 Thread Gene Young
Richard and Evita Piepho wrote: Myrna...well I didn't get those messages until I joined the legacyusergroup so I know it is coming from legacy... And I have anti virus but being let through because it is from legacy... Richard No, it is not coming from Legacy. It is coming from someone who

Re: [LegacyUG] List Archives

2008-09-16 Thread Gene Young
Evert van Dijken wrote: No problem with the Archive now. Evert At 11:59 AM Eastern Daylight Saving Time this is what displays on the archive page when viewing sorted by thread. # KlikRupiah lviant # CARA GRATIS VERIFIKASI Paypal lviant # Langkah Baru lviant # INVESTASI MURAH PASTI.!!

Re: [LegacyUG] New user about child's unknown sex

2008-09-16 Thread Gene Young
v pedersen wrote: I am using the standard Legacy 7 as a trial right now. I am looking for an alternative to FTM. I have several questions, but will ask one at a time and hope to get at least a few people's ideas or comments on each. My first question is how does one enter a child when the

Re: [LegacyUG] another bug

2008-09-12 Thread Gene Young
Gary Templeman wrote: Ruth, Did you check out any of the solutions I posted yesterday? The entire series of messages on this topic today seems to indicate *no one* has considered what I posted as viable options. I listed three PDF converters and you can Google for more. Personally, if I had

Re: [LegacyUG] fake messages from Geoff

2008-09-12 Thread Gene Young
Michael A. Palmieri wrote: Sherry, To ignore something you assume we have control. It is your organization that has control of the issue and the barking from fellow listers should let you know we do not want you to ignore it. Block the address (your statement tells us you can) until you

Re: [LegacyUG] ... Whom to address 'kudos/gripes' re: Legacy 7 Customer service ... Jim Hughes

2008-09-09 Thread Gene Young
Jim Hughes wrote: Good Day ... ... your direction is appreciated ... I searched but, could not find a 'person, and/or, title' to direct 'kudos/gripes' correspondence within Legacy 7, re: Customer Service. ... I appreciate a job well done and, I do not appreciate a job not well done.

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

2008-09-09 Thread Gene Young
Ruth Nerud wrote: Ron - with due respect - I referred to Descendent Book Report in my original e-mail - bottom of this e-mail and YOU also referred to Descendent Book Report in one of your e-mails to me - also below - so it was not left out. I would be so appreciative if you could tell me

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Question

2008-09-08 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: A highly intelligent, senior lecturer in English at my old university was what you would appear to call spastic. You may care to remember this when thinking of using the word in such an ignorant, insulting and derogatory fashion. Ron Ferguson In the UK it can be

Re: [LegacyUG]

2008-09-07 Thread Gene Young
kozar wrote: Can you please help me with following Is there a greek version of legacy? This is from the Legacy web site: International Versions of Legacy 1. Dansk (Danish) - Released on 28 August 2006. 2. Deutsch (German) - Released on 3 June 2008. 3. Nederlands (Dutch) - Released

Re: [LegacyUG]

2008-09-07 Thread Gene Young
M Stowe wrote: Is someone working on a French version? Marielle If you would like to help test one of our new International versions of Legacy, please Click Here. ( http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/InternationalLegacyVersions.asp ) Try clicking on the link and see. --

Re: [LegacyUG]

2008-09-07 Thread Gene Young
M Stowe wrote: Merci Gene Marielle Vous êtes les bienvenus. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages:

Re: [LegacyUG] re: appending ?

2008-09-06 Thread Gene Young
Margaret Wilkinson wrote: ''you're the only person who has taken time to write that they miss it!'' Not so Sherry. I used the 'Suggest a new feature' in Legacy itself to write about this issue some weeks ago. I did not have a reply. I used the append multiple sources frequently in Version 6,

Re: [LegacyUG] re: appending ?

2008-09-06 Thread Gene Young
Ron Bernier wrote: Gene, I could not disagree with you more. No software company, be it Millenia, Microsoft, or any other company has any obligation to let the customers decide how the software should be developed. You, me, and all of the other folks who purchased Legacy purchased the

Re: [LegacyUG] appending?

2008-09-05 Thread Gene Young
Michele Lewis wrote: No, not the tab things. I am having a hard time explaining this. Ok Let's say I pull up a person and I am looking at their list of sources. I can highlight a source and hit that copy button on the left hand side at the bottom and a box will come up that says, Copy

Re: [LegacyUG] New and Question on Ver 7

2008-09-04 Thread Gene Young
Nancy Burgardt wrote: Hi, I'm new here. I bought ver. 5 years ago. Then upgraded to ver. 6 and later to ver. 7. I want to install this on my laptop. Can I just install ver 7 or do I need to do ver. 5 6 first? Just install V7 by itself. It does not need prior versions as it is a

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem launching V6

2008-09-03 Thread Gene Young
Gene Wheeler wrote: Gene Y: Thanks!! That did the trick. It also fixed the non-sticking font settings. Thanks much! Gene W. == No problem. This was a known problem that was discussed a couple of times previously. It was quite a while ago, though, and I don't know if the

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem launching V6

2008-09-02 Thread Gene Young
Gene Wheeler wrote: I'm using V6 and when I start it up this evening, instead of seeing the splash screen and then opening in the Family View with the last used family (as I specified in Customize), it opens the splash screen then opens up the Set Report Fonts window. When I close this

Re: [LegacyUG] flash drive for Legacy

2008-09-02 Thread Gene Young
Sherry/Support wrote: Syble, Legacy will not run from a flash drive. It needs to be installed on the hard drive of the computer you wish to run it from. You can save the Family Files, pictures, etc on the flash drive and access them from there. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer

Re: [LegacyUG] report run-time error

2008-09-02 Thread Gene Young
Bernard Doddema wrote: I've been trying to preview the interview report and get the following error: Run-time error '339': Component 'MSCOMCTL.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered; a file is missing or invalid Once I click on OK, Legacy shuts down. Is there

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.com

2008-08-27 Thread Gene Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sherry: Please explain something. If the setting up of a second monitor is off topic even though Legacy apparently posted a tip on how to do it (before I joined), then why is this thread on the pros and cons of Ancestry.com not off topic? Shouldn't it be found

Re: [LegacyUG] Childrens' place of birth on family view?

2008-08-25 Thread Gene Young
DimJim wrote: Another nice little feature, but does NOT perform as advertised. After checking Popup Automatically, it allows you to set the number of seconds to delay the automatic popup. Doesn't matter whether the delay is set to 10 seconds or 30 seconds, the popup is almost immediate, which

Re: [LegacyUG] Saving a Gedcom

2008-08-23 Thread Gene Young
JLB wrote: Isn't a gedcom just a gedcom? There might be some setting in FTM where it claims precedence to open all ged files but it isn't necessary. Maybe there's a setting there you can turn off. You can just as well import it back into Legacy instead. JL JLog - simple computer technology

Re: [LegacyUG] Portable genealogy

2008-08-15 Thread Gene Young
aplebary wrote: Sorry if this question has been addressed before. Will Legacy and Pocket PC work on an iphone? I tried to find the answer on Legacy's website (since they sell Pocket PC) but could not find the answer. Pocket PC is a device. Pocket Genealogist is the program and it runs on

Re: [LegacyUG] Ignore my question

2008-08-05 Thread Gene Young
Pat Jones wrote: I found the archives. If anyone else is wondering where they are go to the Legacy Home tab, then click on the Help Center button, go down the list to Email Lists and just under the title of the page (Legacy Mailing Lists) is Archives. Click on that and you can read to your

[LegacyUG] Run-time error '3167':

2008-08-03 Thread Gene Young
Can someone check if this is a bug or just a problem on my box. Go to an individuals assigned sources screen and select Add a New Source Next select Cancel Then select Cite a Master Source... When I do this I always get the message: Run-time error '3167': Record is deleted. When selecting

Re: [LegacyUG] Off Topic Posts - was GPS for Individual Graves locations

2008-08-03 Thread Gene Young
Jackie King wrote: Good lord ... They are not based on what you decide either. Until you are employed by the folks at legacy you have no more basis than anyone else. I agree wholeheartedly, however, please delete his messages when responding to him. I kill filed him so I wouldn't have to

Re: [LegacyUG] 29 February 1894 - What's wrong with this date?

2008-07-22 Thread Gene Young
Melody B wrote: I don't know if this is a bug or not. I have a date for something or other that is 29 Feb 1894. To me, that sure looks like a valid date. 1894 should have been a leap year. 1894/4= 473.5 Not divisible by 4, therefor not a leap year. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young,

Re: [LegacyUG] Event order

2008-07-12 Thread Gene Young
Dave Naylor wrote: On 11 Jul 2008 Bill wrote: Dave Naylor Wrote; If you can come up with program code that will sort records by date and still keep records with blank dates in their correct place then you'll make a fortune! ;-)) Cheers, -- Dave TMG already has this. They have a place to

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Legacy Home Page Tab

2008-07-11 Thread Gene Young
Jan Roberts wrote: Looked at the link you provided Robert - deleted the contents of Windows / Temp. as suggested. No change. Ironically the info page also suggests updating Legacy!! However, I have done that just via the Legacy Homepage (not from within Legacy) and it still made no

Re: [LegacyUG] 7.0.0.53 Plagued by Bugs

2008-07-11 Thread Gene Young
Jan Roberts wrote: Hi, Having successfully updated to 7.0.0.53 (despite still not being able to access the Home Page via the tab) I can report that there is something weird with the numbering of the source citations in the Descendant Narrative Report when created as an rtf file. I have only two

Re: [LegacyUG] Run Time Error 3167

2008-07-10 Thread Gene Young
Chick Lewis wrote: I did search for the answer myself. I looked in the Help files and read the manual. There was nothing there about error messages. I didn't think to look on line. You would be amazed at the number of people who don't think to use the link in the Email. Now you know its

Re: [LegacyUG] Changing sex of an individual

2008-07-10 Thread Gene Young
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote: I could find no way to fix it, so I eventually deleted the person and re-entered it correctly, Is there anyway for me to have just changed the sex? on the Individual's Information screen, just to the right of the Title Suf. box are three radio buttons. They

Re: [LegacyUG] Run-time Error '9'

2008-07-10 Thread Gene Young
Johnny V wrote: Has anyone had a Run-time error '9': subscript out of range when This is a known error and Millenia is working on it. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Timelines

2008-07-09 Thread Gene Young
Dede Holden wrote: Sherry, I read the help file to learn how to access this list. The Help file states The USA County Verification List can be reached from the message box reporting a questionable county entry in a location field or by clicking the USA County Verifier button on the Master

Re: [LegacyUG] Run Time Error 3167

2008-07-09 Thread Gene Young
Chick Lewis wrote: I have had several instances where I have clicked on View - Master List - Source - and got a pop-up that said Run Time Error 3167 Record is Deleted The Legacy Program then closes. When I reboot Legacy, everything appears and works normal. What record was deleted ? Any one

Re: [LegacyUG] Making a gedcom

2008-07-05 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: The information can be found by selecting the search item on the top tool bar. Select the Detailed Search tab. Choose individual living equal to yes create list. If you then select print you may direct the output to the screen, a printer, a CSV file or a PDF file.

Re: [LegacyUG] Making a gedcom

2008-07-04 Thread Gene Young
Jane Sarles wrote: Can anyone suggest the correct report to use in order to get a list of all people in my entire data base that are given as living? There shouldn't be many. I can't figure out from the names of the reports. Jane Sarles The information can be found by selecting the search

Re: [LegacyUG] Timelines

2008-07-04 Thread Gene Young
Jane Sarles wrote: I just meant states that had their counties put in a timeline that indicates their lineage (if that is the proper word) formed from so and so county with year, etc. I am looking particularly for VA NC TN and KY. I guess, upon reflection, what is want is county timelines for

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping - helper application

2008-07-03 Thread Gene Young
David Baker wrote: For anyone that is interested in getting their mapping side done as best as possible, I wrote a small application have put it on my website at: http://www.jodael.com/gedtokml.exe To use it, all you need to do is Export a gedcom file in Legacy 7 format to your computer,

Re: [LegacyUG] Followup to Discussion about Periods after Initials.

2008-07-01 Thread Gene Young
Art Seddon wrote: Full name: Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant, also called 'Unconitional Surrender Grant. Actually, Hiram Ulysses Grant, Mother maiden name SIMPSON. The official who nominated him to West Point erroneously listed his name as Ulysses S. Grant and the academy would not allow him

Re: [LegacyUG] SSDI Search String

2008-07-01 Thread Gene Young
Jenny M Benson wrote: Ruth Nerud wrote http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi which I got by googling rootsweb ssdi That's not a search string, that is a URL. What the OP was asking for is the search string to create a Customised Search within Legacy's Search the Internet

Re: [LegacyUG] New topic

2008-07-01 Thread Gene Young
Robert57P via Gmail wrote: What e-mail programs allow for threads, even if the board does not? Are any of them free or cheap? Many people on this list have asked about this option (at least in part) for this LUG - if a reader on the PC will do that trick, it could help a lot of us. Bob

Re: [LegacyUG] Followup to Discussion about Periods after Initials.

2008-06-30 Thread Gene Young
Jane Sarles wrote: Sorry to pepper the list with questions, but if I don't submit them when I come across the (during trying to clean up my just imported file) I will not remember the problems. I do think the day will come (perhaps when my manual arrives in the mail) when I don't have such

Re: [LegacyUG] Strange characters after names

2008-06-30 Thread Gene Young
Jane Sarles wrote: Many of the people in my imported data base have strange characters after their name in the children view. Some have a +. Some have a (_). I don't understand this at all. I have tried to change some things globally, using search and replace, but it doesn't seem to work.

Re: [LegacyUG] Saving input data

2008-06-30 Thread Gene Young
Larry Binenbaum wrote: Does Legacy save my data input every few minutes, or do I have to do a manual save of my data input. Every time your course leaves a field the data just entered in that field is automatically saved. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Uploading to the Internet

2008-06-28 Thread Gene Young
Rich Heckman wrote: Dear LUGgies, I would like to upload my family's genealogy to my personal website. Using Legacy, I've created my web pages to appear the way I want but only in my web browser; however, I can't figure out how to take the next step: How do I upload my genealogy that Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] More basic questions

2008-06-27 Thread Gene Young
Jane Sarles wrote: 3. In my practice set, I have Helen Holloway dying in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, USA. I have put in the place, but wish to add the hospital. However, when I click on the plus sign after the place space, nothing happens - no other screen opens up. How do I

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations

2008-06-26 Thread Gene Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems as though each time I review a section of the videos, I wind up having to correct hundreds of records to bring my files into some semblance of standardization. I just ran the 'USA County Verification' and have 27 pages of discrepancies!! The bulk of them have to

Re: [LegacyUG] LG7 and Virtual Earth

2008-06-24 Thread Gene Young
Amrit Yegnanarayan wrote: I purchased the upgrade to LG7 and upgraded. The VE does not work. I get an error message: Error creating Virtual Earth map Error 53: File not found Would you like to try again Yes/No/Quit I have IE7.* on my m/c, but it is not my default browser (FFX3.*

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping and IE7

2008-06-24 Thread Gene Young
Roxanne wrote: Is there a workaround for this? I use Firefox exclusively, and when I attempted to use the mapping feature, I got a popup which stated I had to have IE7. Yes, I HAVE IE, but since I don't use it, I never update it. Wondering, too, if this means I can't use Firefox as my default

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown maiden names

2008-06-23 Thread Gene Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to deal with unknown maiden names? Using Unknown, or ??? creates a lot of individuals named Unknown without any hint of who they are connected to. One idea is to enter ???husb where husb is the husband's surname (as an identifying reference

Re: [LegacyUG] run-time error '6': overflow

2008-06-19 Thread Gene Young
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Young Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:06 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] run-time error '6': overflow Has anyone else had this error message? It occurred when I went to edit a source detail that had been entered in V.6

[LegacyUG] run-time error '6': overflow

2008-06-18 Thread Gene Young
Has anyone else had this error message? It occurred when I went to edit a source detail that had been entered in V.6. The Source text is 680 lines of text and I had about 2 lines of text in comments. When selecting edit detail a pop up box appears with the above error message and upon

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