RE: [LegacyUG] Listserv spam/HTML issues (Was: Legacy Question)

2008-12-03 Thread John B. Lisle
the Mailman Mailing List program which is a commercial program and has, in fact, restricted a lot of the bells and whistles it allows. --- On Wed, 12/3/08, John B. Lisle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: John B. Lisle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Listserv spam/HTML issues (Was: Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy's integration with The Next Generation of Genealogy Website

2008-07-09 Thread John B. Lisle
Allen, I have been using Legacy and TNG now for almost 4 years and quite agree. These programs work very well together. In fact, a survey of TNG users done a few months ago showed that more TNG users use Legacy as their principal database (I think it was something like 30%) than any other

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy's integration with The Next Generation of Genealogy Website

2008-07-09 Thread John B. Lisle
Tim, This may sound a lot like advertising. But I treat it as making Legacy Users aware of this tool. I know I do not make a dime making this knowledge available. In fact, I end up spending a lot of time helping people with it. Yes, you do use a Gedcom file for importing the data. At some

RE: [LegacyUG] The new Invisible in Legacy 7

2008-07-03 Thread John B. Lisle
Martin, This situation is where you use private marriage and private child-parent relationship. The relationship between your male family member (father) and the mother should be marked as private. Mark his relationship with child as private. As the mother is visible to the family, she

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Mapping

2008-06-09 Thread John B. Lisle
Leo, I am copying this message to your personal address due to the delays in the list mail. (We should all be glad that Legacy is so popular...) Yes, the tool that finds a location is prone to a numerous miscues. This is because the locations we enter in our Master Location Lists are

Re: [LegacyUG] Married names

2008-06-07 Thread John B. Lisle
Art, You need to go to the options menu for both of the tools and request that married name be displayed. john. At 04:24 PM 6/5/2008, Art Seddon wrote: I just installed version 7 and selecter the married name option on installation and also from the Options drop-down, but I find many wives

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7 - Maiden Names and Married Names

2008-06-06 Thread John B. Lisle
Bill, What you are asking is more going to get handled with custom sentences for reports and events. However, an additional married name rule has been requested that would be a variation of the current second married name rule that would include, for wives, her birth name after her given

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7 - Maiden Names and Married Names

2008-06-04 Thread John B. Lisle
Belinda, Don't worry. Legacy 7 has you covered! You can set a default rule for your data : currently, either no married names or use the traditional anglo-centric married name structure. Then for each relationship, you can override the default rule OR you can change the name of either or

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM Problem with V6 and MyFamily.com

2008-06-01 Thread John B. Lisle
Mary, In my opinion, the preferred user option to contribute your tree to Ancestry is to upload the tree through the RootsWeb WorldConnect database. It uses the same database as the trees in the Ancestry World Tree database. A tree uploaded through RootsWeb gives the user more control over

Re: [LegacyUG] Conversion FTM to Legacy

2008-06-01 Thread John B. Lisle
Chick, Let me try to answer your questions. I also was a long time FTM user. And now am a long time Legacy User and am much happier. Please see answers below... john. At 06:37 PM 6/1/2008, Chambro wrote: II am a long time user of FTM but I am thinking of converting to Legacy. I downloaded Legacy