Re: [LegacyUG] County without city

2007-08-15 Thread Gene Young
Dee Whiting wrote: I am interested in a way to write this without Co. ,Bell Co is not necessarily recognizable, and it makes it look like we haven't done our research to get the name of the city when in fact there is no city. Any further comments? Thank you, In this instance, when I am

Re: [LegacyUG] Eastern European Font in Legacy 6?

2007-08-10 Thread Gene Young
Gene Wheeler wrote: When I paste a word into Legacy 6 that contains diacritical marks in an Eastern European town name, I get a spurious character with certain letters. Is there a way to make Legacy accept the correct diacritical marks? Thanks! Gene I use Open Office and it has a

Re: [LegacyUG] Sneak Peek of Legacy 7

2007-08-01 Thread Gene Young
Debbie Freeman wrote: Hello All, Question: (off topic) Could someone explain, or point me to a web site so that I can learn about the hyphen hyphen space for signatures item mentioned. Two what is the rule? my reply on top or my reply on the bottom? Answered off list. -- Gene Y.

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Sneak Peek of Legacy 7 - should be Bottom Posting

2007-08-01 Thread Gene Young
Dave Naylor wrote: If bottom posting is done correctly the stuff you hate has gone. Oh, did I mention . . . I'm using bottom posting (and always have). Cheers, -- Dave N. Actually, you are using interspersed posting. That is even better and easier to follow but just getting everyone to

Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures

2007-07-29 Thread Gene Young
leo macdonald wrote: I have another question that I hope someone can help me out with, some of the BMP files that I have in my program are scanned images of death notices that I found in local newspapers, what I would like to be able to do is to highlight the write-up on these BMP or JPG

Re: [LegacyUG] Is there a program to use with Legacy like a reminder?

2007-07-24 Thread Gene Young
Kim Jones wrote: Hi there to everyone on this beautiful day I was just wondering if there is a program that one can use in conjunction with Legacy that reminds you of what you were doing the last time you were useing Legacy. I use a program called stickies. You can get it at this url:

Re: [LegacyUG] ? Living Relatives

2007-07-08 Thread Gene Young
Karl Plenge wrote: One other consideration on this is legal issues. In the US, a dead person has no legal right to privacy, but I suppose the websites would be opening themselves up to lawsuits if someone published someone's name who did not wish to be published. Bingo! Give that man a

[LegacyUG] Forms Menu

2007-07-05 Thread Gene Young
I have just noticed a problem with Legacy Deluxe, v. 6.0.0.133. I can no longer access the forms. I wanted to print an 1800 Census form but when I go to Forms Center there are no forms visible. It is completely blank. I have tried maintenance and re-install, same thing. Anyone else

Re: [LegacyUG] Forms Menu

2007-07-05 Thread Gene Young
Evert van Dijken wrote: Click on the Browse button in the Forms Center and browse to the folder were the forms are installed (c:\legacy\forms?). Evert Already tried that, didn't work. Gene Y. Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox. Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe

Re: [LegacyUG] Forms Menu

2007-07-05 Thread Gene Young
Sherry/Support wrote: Gene, Using Windows Explorer, go to the Legacy folder on your hard drive and look for a Forms sub-folder. Is there anything in it? There should be 66 files in that folder. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LegacyUG] Forms Menu

2007-07-05 Thread Gene Young
Sherry/Support wrote: Gene, Then if you click on the Forms Center under Reports Books/Other, then click on Browse, you should be able to navigate to that folder. Once you've selected that folder, click OK and you should see the forms in the Forms Center. Note that by default, the Census

Re: [LegacyUG] A question about the IGI file

2007-06-27 Thread Gene Young
G. Ballard wrote: It is an MS Access file. You might try to find a friend with Access 2000 or try the free OpenOffice.org product and see if Base will work and compress the file for you. Glen It is not neceesary, or advisable, to use another program to accomplish what Legacy will already

Re: [LegacyUG] Suggestion for mailing list protocol

2007-06-14 Thread Gene Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When one is receiving a high volume of emails a day, and they all have to be opened to read the contents, it does get frustrating when 30% of them consist of a single line such as Thanks or That worked!. copies of email thank you cards usually do not need to go to

Re: [LegacyUG] Search String again

2007-06-09 Thread Gene Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning listers, Has anyone figured out the search string for Footnote.com yet? I would like to add this one to my search string since I recently subscribed to it. Thanks, Myrna Myrna, Try this. It searches on given name, last name and DOB.

Re: [LegacyUG] CSV format

2007-06-06 Thread Gene Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good night Ron Thank you very much. It seems I'm giving to much work because of a little thing. I choose Legacy, after trying several programs, all with Access compatibility, after several years with PAF and I still don't regret the selection. The main thing to me

Re: [LegacyUG] CSV format

2007-06-05 Thread Gene Young
Gene Young wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ron, To build the page the first time I used EXCEL and a program that cleaned the HTML generated, but after that, I update the new elements directly in HTML. Now I'm using an ACCESS database to produce the code directly and these are the steps

Re: [LegacyUG] PRINTING LABLES, CUT AND PASTE FEATURE?

2007-05-30 Thread Gene Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MR. BROWN, I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO. IF YOU ARE REFERRING TO MY USING CAPITALS, I USE THEM ALL THE TIME. I SUGGEST YOU CALM DOWN. I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT THINGS. He WAS referring to your use of capital letters. It is considered shouting and also

Re: [LegacyUG] Deleting Sources from Selected Individuals

2007-05-11 Thread Gene Young
Cathy wrote: Hi Gene, Doing what you suggest would save the Master Source but would lose all the Source Details. Cathy At 08:26 PM 10/05/2007, you wrote: 1. First go to the master source list and locate the source in question. 2. Record the RIN's of the people who you wish to have this

Re: [LegacyUG] Deleting Sources from Selected Individuals

2007-05-10 Thread Gene Young
- Original Message - From: Dick Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:37 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Deleting Sources from Selected Individuals I have somehow gotten a valid master source attached, as unspecified, to 100s of

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom - Family Historian programme

2007-05-03 Thread Gene Young
carolyn williams wrote: I am determined to master this! But when I go thru the Windows XP procedure, it tells me the content is blocked. So I click on how to unblock and follow the very simple steps until the last one, that says 'click unblock near bottom of dialog box'. There is no such word in

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing a chronology report

2007-05-01 Thread Gene Young
Gail Anderson wrote: Hi, I am new to the group and have been watching the training CD's. My question is not related to the printing problems being discussed; so I hope it is okay if I ask it here. Can anyone direct me to information that will give examples of the generational numbering systems

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about PDF readers: Nitro

2007-04-30 Thread Gene Young
kb wrote: When it finished, my default browser (previously shut down) was invoked with connection to a NitroPDF web page. My Firewall should have trapped and reported that - but did not. FYI - Your browser is what access the internet and your firewall is set to allow it to connect. The

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about PDF readers: Nitro

2007-04-30 Thread Gene Young
Ron Bernier wrote: And this has what to do with Legacy??? The thread started as a question about Legacy PDF generated files. The question specific to Nitro was whether it would read a Legacy generated PDF file. kb was trying to answer the question. As far as I am able to tell it is

Re: [LegacyUG] In search of a Legacy Bulletin Board

2007-04-26 Thread Gene Young
Richard Yardley wrote: Thanks to you all for your encouragement but is this the way this forum operates by sending and receiving e-mails. My inbox had 45 replies! I was hoping to browse comments on a web-based board - Am I missing something? This is a mailing list. You will receive all

Re: [LegacyUG] Learning how to create a web site for our data

2007-04-20 Thread Gene Young
ronald ferguson wrote: Thank you to all who have expressed an interest in establishing a group specifically aimed at both potential and current web users. At present I am 99.99% of the way to creating a Yahoo Web Group and will have it up and running by Sunday at the latest. I have kept a

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Gene Young
John D. Taylor III wrote: Sorry, It was at the start of this thread. When using research guidance for a person born about 1699 and died 1756 in the Suggested Sources tab, in Goal; window, among other suggestions are, Virginia State Census, 1699, Virginia State Census, 1701, and Virginia State

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Gene Young
John D. Taylor III wrote: Thank you. As a follow up you might try to find the following book. The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776: A Survey of Census Data. Princeton University Press, 1975. Robert V. Wells Gene Y. Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox. Have you

Re: [LegacyUG] Records in Research Guidance

2007-04-14 Thread Gene Young
Ann Dunlap wrote: Since this book is out of print now, where would you suggest I look for it? Thanks Ann California Google Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at

Re: [LegacyUG] search

2007-03-23 Thread Gene Young
From: Randolph Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] search Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:38:08 -0400 Yes, I registered but US commerce being what it is the ISP was purchased, a new email address

Re: [LegacyUG] UNscribing!

2007-03-15 Thread Gene Young
Sherry/Support wrote: I can't ban him, only the list-owner can, but I did unsubscribe him. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com Thank you. I had started to forward all his messages back to him (off list

Re: [LegacyUG] photos of documents for sources

2007-02-14 Thread Gene Young
Allen Prunty wrote: I wish that legacy would allow you to attach PDF files instead of JPG files... I scan all of my source documents into PDF file and try to transcribe them into text as well. I then merge the text and image PDF's together. Search the archives and you will find several

Re: [LegacyUG] I've married my wife--twice!

2007-02-11 Thread Gene Young
Dennis Davenport wrote: Oops, I apologize to the groupwill not send attachments again. Dennis You may wish to read the one about not posting in HTML format as well. Gene Y. Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox. Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92

Re: [LegacyUG] Excel into Text of Source?

2007-02-09 Thread Gene Young
Rhodes Farris wrote: Gene, I thought your idea was good but I could not make it work. If I copied the whole thing, it was pasted in the first column only. Have I missed something? Rhodes At 05:36 AM 1/22/2007, you wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] Error screen

2007-02-07 Thread Gene Young
Jim Armstrong wrote: Ron, I didn't download it I had here at the house, ie., the original 3.0 disk I purchased several years ago, I'm trying anything. The password for the full version of 4.0 is actually different from the rest. I've never used AFAIK for any version, where did that come from?

Re: [LegacyUG] Exporting to Excel, Outlook

2007-02-05 Thread Gene Young
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: When opening the file in Excel, it will ask how delimited, use the quotarion marks. Actually you need to choose comma as the delimiter and the quotes as the text identifier. It works perfectly then. Even easier, after you save the file from Legacy, rename the file

Re: [LegacyUG] a question

2007-01-31 Thread Gene Young
leo macdonald wrote: Michael, in this instance I would enter that the person was born in the USA, in the notes section I would enter a notation that due to conflicting census records He/She was born in either MS or AL. Leo From: Michele Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re: [LegacyUG] compressing the location database

2007-01-29 Thread Gene Young
Andre Switala wrote: After importing the location databases in legacy I did not compress the database right away (since I had to shut down my computer temporarily). Now I am trying to find the place where I can do it. Does anyone know? Andre, Go to File File Maintenance Compact Family File.

Re: [LegacyUG] Excel into Text of Source?

2007-01-22 Thread Gene Young
Susan Daily wrote: Rich and Rob: I'm sorry I didn't test this first, but have you tried pasting the copied Excel section into Notepad (a text file) and then copying all that and pasting it into notes? Does it automatically save it with spaces or tabs? This has been discussed extensively and

Re: [LegacyUG] HTML-again

2007-01-18 Thread Gene Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This just appeared in Brian Krebs on-line Tech site at the Washington Post: Agood reason to avoid HTML in the LUG. Which of course you sent in HTML. It is obvious that there are many people who are going to send messages in HTML, whether through ignorance or a

Re: [LegacyUG] updates

2007-01-16 Thread Gene Young
R G Strong Genealogy wrote: That question should have been directed at support and the answer should not have been given here Russ If you check the archives you will see that that question has been asked, and answered, several times on this list. No big secret was divulged. Sherry does

Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Locations Database

2007-01-12 Thread Gene Young
Judy wrote: Sherry~ ToolsGeo Location DatabaseCity type any number, perhaps starting with 1. Aren't those dates, perhaps in a language other than English? 9zenic View, , British Columbia, Canada and 30 Decembrie, , , România don't LOOK like places, to me, but perhaps they are? Thanks for

Re: [LegacyUG] Question... Tracking dogs

2006-12-29 Thread Gene Young
Roger Lewis wrote: Not only does this msg have nothing to do with Legacy or related products, but it contains a link to a site that gives Janet a referral fee if you are so silly as to follow thru. And then , Harry Allred complains about all the dog stuff in an html message - after all the

Re: [LegacyUG] FW: Winter Funnies

2006-12-18 Thread Gene Young
Jim Terry wrote: I unsubscribed Otis for the violation of several of our guidelines. Thanks, Jim Terry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree www.legacyfamilytree.com Thank You! Gene Y. *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at

RE: [LegacyUG] LegacyUG problems

2006-11-16 Thread Gene Young
I was subscribed using my Comcast email address. But since Nov 11th I haven't received anything from the list. But I tried it using a Hotmail address and all works well.It looks to me like Legacy is having problems getting their mail sent thru Comcast again.Is anyone else on

RE: [LegacyUG] LegacyUG problems

2006-11-16 Thread Gene Young
How about us Road Runner Users? We're cut off again. Gene Y. From: Sherry/Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] LegacyUG problems Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:10:10 -0800 I have just written to

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