ot;website" the
program stops when reaching anyone who is Invisible so I have to make a note
of who it is, edit their settings and start again. If someone is Invisible
then they should just be invisible.)
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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I am often annoyed to find that I forgot to date the source when adding
something in the past. Would it be possible to have an option to insert
today's date into a new source - it can always be overtyped if required.
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Fort William
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rest. I tried repeatedly CRTL-A to mark
everything then Strip HTML but it did not clean it up.
As I said I usually open a blank Email, set to Plain Text then paste there,
CTRL-A, CTRL-C and copy over to where I want it and works every time. But
wondered if there was an easier way.
Martin Briscoe
HTML code?
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paste from
there
I can't see any reason to use the "correct" form as this has served me well
for many years.
For the more important members of the family I attach the image of the page.
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is
really annoying because there is plenty of empty space in the middle of the
screen. Reducing the font size does not help because you get some strange
effects so have put to put the font back to default size.
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the Legacy file being updated automatically.
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Fort William
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> From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com
> [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson
> Sent: 16 February 2009 11:15
>
Thanks, I thought must be a way somehow.
My reports will be a bit bigger now!
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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> [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek
> Sent: 02
I have found that many sources in my file (mostly censuses) do not have "Add
this Text to the Source Citation on Reports" ticked.
Is there any way that I can retrospectively globally change these, except
opening every single source for every person?
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ports. I sometimes export a couple of charts from that area
and include them in the PDF file.
I could probably give the same information with a series of Ancestor and
Descendant Reports but there would be a lot of duplication.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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report that
might be a couple of hundred KB can be much bigger.
UPDATE
The foreign language part only appears in the dates for parents and
children, not the dates for the particularly individual.
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might be a couple of hundred KB can be much bigger.
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don't remember seeing this happen previously.
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I tend to use Individual Reports on a selection of people selected by
Tagging quite often and have never had this problem previously.
I tried both settings but it did not seem to make any difference.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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he endnotes for each person were
shown after their section. Normally I have them all at the end of the
report.
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I agree that I miss strip HTML. I quite often paste information from
websites that has HTML code embedded. I usually open a new message in
OUTLOOK and use that as somewhere to paste the information then copy again
once the HTML has been lost.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd
rents and siblings of spouses to be included so the
easiest way to use some Advanced Tagging to mark the people who I want to
include.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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check
the Surety Level for every single detail of a report.
Martin Briscoe
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was doubtful whether this was true. I
could unlink but I would probably forget about them. I could use the Surety
Level but people don't always check that when reading a report.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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private
information and not just personal.
I have to be careful when exporting any information from Legacy so that it
does not become public even though the people concerned do not have problem
about the relationship, it is just courtesy to not make public.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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report,
make a note of the person who it stopped at then go and edit them, run again
and make a note of the next person that it stops at etc. It would be easier
if the report just ignored anyone marked as Invisible.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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mple x2x4xxx to show which tags are set for the
person.
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Fort William
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I know that the pictures folders that I use are a complete mess.
It would be good if I could open something like Windows Explorer within
Legacy and drag pictures from folder to another and have Legacy update its
paths.
Could perhaps then put them into some sort of logical order.
Martin
Apologies, they do disappear from the chart if the privacy option is set on
the chart. But it still would not help lose a stepchild from their
stepparents line but not their natural parents line.
Invisible does not work when exporting to a GEDCOM so I tend to be
suspicious of it.
Martin Briscoe
if every time you have to exit the chart, copy the file, delete
some people, reopen the chart and try again.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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the links to the person then replace afterwards but makes a lot more
work.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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send them a copy
because there is nothing to show the relationship displayed on the chart.
It might not be "correct" but helps identify them later when I find some
more information.
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Fort William
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dex Number is the same as the
Reference Number.
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d the relationship not to appear at all in the GEDCOM.
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of my Irish ancestors I often only know they were from Ireland with no
more information about them.
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Fort William
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the
past but not as drastically as in the last 50 years.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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Wales - Bangor, Caernarfonshire (Sir Gaernarfon in Welsh) now in Gwynedd
Also Bangor-on-Dee / Bangor-is-y-Coed in Flintshire or Denbighshire (not
sure which).
Northern Ireland- Bangor, County Down
I think there is also a Bangor, County Mayo in Southern Ireland
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
iends even more!).
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&g
" but can often can have
more fields and these might not be official names of administrative areas
but locally used names for districts of a town.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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units I use so see nothing wrong with a A4 paper size quoted in inches.
Martin Briscoe
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the future. If a 50K file is perfectly readable then why use a 50MB
file?
Just don't overwrite the original high resolution copy of the file with a
lower resolution copy.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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I had previously just left out the relationship but decided it is better to
record everything accurately in my personal copy then use Invisible to hide
in copies exported.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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s how
relationships can get quite complicated!
Martin Briscoe
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.
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Fort William
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> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] The ne
Windows does use a full stop as a deliminator between the file name and
extension but that does not prevent you using additional ones in the
filename.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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nge - changing
the county boundaries is always a good excuse for a pay rise of all the
senior officials. But most of the old county names have been around for
many hundreds of years though my home county of Lancashire is relatively new
having only appeared in 1182.
Martin Briscoe
Fort Wil
sband's name
in their country or they were feminists who would not dream of using their
husband's name. They obviously did not understand the concept of an
"option".
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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> From: [EMA
that can't be found, is always
given 10 Downing Street as a suggestion!
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Fort William
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> Of Art Seddon
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f you could set a default country for mapping so if it is
looking for "1 Any Street, Anytown, Anyshire" then it would not offer me
every "1 Any Street" in the world. It would be more logical if it centred
on the right town or at least the right country.
Martin Briscoe
Fort Wil
centred on Edenkoben or
Pfalz which make it easy to adjust if the exact location is known.
It might well be the mapping system at fault rather than Legacy.
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Fort William
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with a similar name.
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I can't see one sent at 1:41 pm Pacific Time.
I sent a message earlier this morning and it has not appeared either.
(All times are UK time)
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I have not done this particularly search but it is sometimes possible to do
something like that using a series of tags - tag everyone not born in the
USA and tag everyone dying in the USA then you might be able select those
with both tags set.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd
e too" messages are more
of a nuisance than the original problem.
I have just been deleting the messages, it's not the end of the world and
will probably be sorted out eventually by whoever controls the list.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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even though you set some to living their
names can still be revealed if the wife's parents have died, a child died as
an infant etc.
I find that it is best to just delete them then you know that no trace will
show.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
> -Orig
ld
be good to be able to send a chart explaining the exact relationship.
Some might say that they don't matter if not in the direct line of descent
but I have got some quite valuable information in the past from people who
were quite distantly related to me.
Martin Briscoe
Fort Will
relationship.
I would like to be able select two people in Legacy Charting then get a
chart showing the path between them (which could be through several
marriages).
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M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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ancestry back to Adam and
Eve. I like to see the whole picture and have often got very valuable
information from people connected to distant branches of my family as well
as being to help out others.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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> Fr
I tend to do the same and hope that if I will identify his parents later
then I can just move him across to the correct place.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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Another feature for wish-list, not to display step-children twice.
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how much extra
information to add on the chart.
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Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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as large a page format as I can
manage then send to someone for them to view.
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One thing that you have to be aware of when marking people private is that
only they are marked private so you can have their parents still visible
which obviously reveals their surname.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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> -Original Message-
> Fr
do
that so I have to remember to put it in Notes.
But I would not worry too much about standards because there are not any,
just find a personal "standard" that suits you and that should be OK
provided you record all the information and source it.
Martin Briscoe
For
some
countries don't have a married name, some wives don't use their husbands
name etc. But I did quite clearly say that I wanted an option which could
be ignored by those not wanting to use it.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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I presume it was because "county" boundaries have changed in England,
Scotland and Wales. I always use the "traditional" county names except for
modern events when I might use the modern name but not always - as far as I
cam concerned my home town of Bolton is still in
I agree with that, the one to avoid is the American style of writing
Walworth, Surrey County, England or Walworth, County Surrey, England. With
a couple of exceptions (as always), the word "county" is not written in the
address.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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that a TIFF file can be produced for storage.
There are some links here to some further information.
http://www.archive-skills.com/links/links4.php
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/creating/creating.html
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/creating/format.html
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&
I suspect that the point was that if detail has been lost in conversion to
JPG then it is gone forever.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Of hwedhlor
> Sent
I usually export my LEGACY file to a new temporary file, perhaps doing some
filtering as I export.
Then go through a series of tagging groups of people by ancestors of one
person usually or by date. Then delete those tagged.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd
number of individuals or images that can be
added to a Passage Express file?
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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It would be useful if there were some options on blocking exporting
information on Living people so that deceased spouses and deceased children
of anyone still living would not be exported or published. Some might wish
their deceased parents information also not to be published.
Martin Briscoe
As described below, ancestors and other relatives of a Private individual
are still exported. I usually go through a few stages of exporting to new
temporary files and deleting ancestors etc until I just have left the people
who I want to put online.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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That is why I make a copy and work on that, removing those bits that I don't
want for privacy reasons or just to reduce the size.
You could argue though that if someone is made private then there should be
a way of quickly removing everyone related through them.
Martin Briscoe
Fort Will
passed through all their ancestors.
The only way to be sure of removing them from the report is to delete them
from a temporary copy of the file.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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rate as it could be the end of December
the previous year but it suits my purposes.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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> Sent: 11 March 200
Not on the Source Clipboard.
There is one on the Master Source detail.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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> Sent: 04 March 2007 11:23
>
epad has a "Strip HTML" button but it also removes the carriage return /
line. So I still tend to paste via a text file.
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M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS
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GEDCOM uploaded OK.
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Fort William
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Sent: 18 February 2007 22:45
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Subject: [LegacyUG] GEDCOMs got Ancestry
Hello listers,
A few weeks ago someone wrote
IE7!
Martin Briscoe
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> Sent: 29 January 2007 09:29
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> Subject: [LegacyUG] My
Of course, it would be even better if you could do a search of the whole
database for a word or group of words.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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> Of ronald fer
same house about twenty years apart.
I did request last year that there should be an option to use the short
version of the address when exporting to a GEDCOM etc.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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nties in different periods.
Much easier if I could just do a text search for the appearance of the name
of a town or village anywhere in the location name then tag them.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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associated with a particular town so it be
very useful if I could search all the locations for an embedded word. At
the moment I have to search place of birth, place of marriage, place of
death, event location etc and tag any matches in each search then list all
with that tag.
Martin Briscoe
Fort
That is my conclusion but thought I might have more chance of a solution
here!
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very helpful.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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> Subject: [
No just the one and neither have any other spouse - I only know the names
with no dates or place of birth so I put in dummy ones in case that confused
it.
There is a star to indicate Preferred Parents though only ones.
Neither is Living.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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pport also confirm that the two people have been imported and
show when you list all people in the tree, then when selected their children
are show but they don't show as parent.
I wonder if anyone has had any similar problems with Online Family Tree and
has found a proper solution.
Mart
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