Hi Jessica,
Before using Legacy, I used an event driven genealogy program so I'm
comfortable creating and using events.
Even though I did at first place some items in the general notes, I've since
begun replacing all my note content with events. For general notes, I just
created an event calle
Yes, Barbara, it is a bit outrageous but until other users put in a request for
better media handling, it will probably remain low on the priority list.
I create my own events so I can control how they are presented in my reports so
attaching photos to events works OK for me. I don't use any of
Barbara,
Please try this URL for earlier versions of Legacy.
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpDownloadVersion6.asp
This should be the most up to date version of Legacy 6.
Download Legacy 6 and install on your new computer, then use Restore to open
your most recent family data file on your n
sent earlier to the list by :Leon Chapman
Try this search string (remember, no spaces):
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=1;toYear=[DeathYear];searchType=standard;year=[BirthYear];surname=[SurName];givenName=[GivenNames]
Use default Data Prep field:
[ ]=[%20]
Leon
Is it possible there are notes in the marriage notes, not the individual
general notes and that might be the notes being seen in the Chronology
report?
Mary
- Original Message -
From: "Jenny M Benson"
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fwd: BOOK B
Is there a way to indicate the generation as a sub heading on each page of a
Descendant Book Report?
When a new generation is begun, the first page of that section indicates the
generation but on subsequent pages the Report title is the only thing that
is printed. In a long report, it makes it imp
Michele,
When you set up your design choices for your web pages, you need to tick the
box under the Web Page Creation>Formatting Tab to create an Index and choose
the variables for how you wish for it to look. Perhaps this is unchecked and
no index was created?
Since you've already uploaded
a surname index
michele
From: "Mary Fowler Leek"
Michele,
When you set up your design choices for your web pages, you need to tick
the
box under the Web Page Creation>Formatting Tab to create an Index and
choose
the variables for how you wish for it to look. Perhaps this
Brandon,
I still have FTM v3.0 on CD, which was published in 1995. I began with your
version but no longer have it. If you want to send me your file attached to
an email, I'll try to get it moved up to version 3. I still have several
versions of the program but no longer have them installed. T
Jane,
Try adding a carriage return [CR] at the end of your sentence definition
fields and see if that will do what you want. If one doesn't do it, try
adding two. They are easy to remove if they don't give the desired result.
As an example, for my notes event, I use the following so I get a
Lucy,
On the menu bar:
Go to Options>Customize>General Tab and look down in the lower left hand
corner. Tick the box "Enable Tagging" and you should see your three tag
boxes on the family view. This is where you can also change the tag numbers
that are being shown by clicking on "Tags to Show
Helen,
Just a thought but are you setting the first picture in the row of photos as
your preferred photo. The little asterisk needs to be showing on the photo
you wish to have displayed on your family view. Moving a photo to the first
slot doesn't automatically make it the preferred photo. Rig
Isn't this a great feature?
Mary
From: "John Magyari"
I figured it out.
Using Clipboard
john
John Magyari wrote:
How Can I copy a generic Census Event from 1 person to
others?
I created a Census Event generic enough that I want 20 other people to
have the same exact events assigned to
Lucy,
The following is the reply I sent you on Feb 18. I guess it never made it to
the list.
--
Lucy,
On the menu bar:
Go to Options>Customize>General Tab and look down in the lower left hand
corner. Tick the box "Enable Tagging"
Gene,
I don't know why the sample file omits "the daughter of so and so". Mine does
the same thing, yet my personal files do insert the daughter of so and so? I
can't see any difference in the settings so I don't understand why the sample
file omits it? This is a bit strange.
Mary
- Orig
Excellent catch, Marg.
I would think, since this is the family that the sample database opens to by
default, that those particular parents would not be set as private. A potential
new user opens the sample file to take a look around and look what happens; an
immediate issue crops up. A helpful
Dolly,
Go to search and set two (or three) conditions
the first condition:
individual .. birth place .. contains ... " fill in whatever location
you're interested in"
second conditon >OR
individual .. death place .. contains ... " fill in whatever location
you're interested in"
third c
Ron,
You might consider creating an event named AKA, where you have the choice to do
anything you want with the wording. I'm moving to use named events for
everything I enter, other than the basic vitals. This way, I have total control
over the formatting and how they're placed in my reports.
Hi Colin,
I'm not Penny but can pass along the following advice, which I saved from
earlier discussions and recently shared with a cousin. Thank you, Leon. It
should be helpful in moving your data by GEDCOM from FTM to Legacy:
On 8/28/07, Leon Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You should
Tom,
Boyd may have changed around some of the Event sentence structures to read as
he would like and these changes are what he might have shared with you. We are
not locked into the default Event sentence structures. Legacy provides a broad
range of options to use to personalize the events in o
Just to let Luc know ... my update did display correctly in Legacy Charting,
indicating a new update was available and the update link in the Charting
program worked properly.
When I clicked on the update link, it connected, downloaded and the update
installed smoothly.
Mary
English
XP Pro w/
Mr. Howell,
Before doing anything else, please go to on your menu bar and click on:
View> Master Lists> Source and on this screen, look at the right hand side,
about midway down. Under "Show Only", are any of those four items checked?
If so, uncheck them and see if your master sources now show
Did you enter your new registration number that came with Legacy 7 to upgrade
it to the deluxe version? This is the only thing I can think of that might
help. If you've already done this have to wait for someone with other
suggestions.
Mary
- Original Message -
From: Lisa Davi
Not certain which master lists you're referring to ...
In Legacy 6 deluxe, from the tabbed Index list, which contains every name in
your database and which I use a lot, you can double-click on a name and it will
open to the Individual Information screen/window.
>From this screen, you have acc
JL,
Many are blessed with superior intellect and I sort of drag up the rear.:-)
Sorry I pulled you out of retirement so soon but it's not all it's cracked up
to be, anyway, so please stick around.
I wouldn't bet the house on it but the following are my cursory observations.
Mary
> On Tue,
:From: Debbie Freeman
:How do you make a simple location list which includes basically only the
:physical locations and the longitude and latitude?
In Legacy Deluxe,
go to View> Master Lists> Location> Options> Print> Location List
Please see if this is what you're looking for.
Mary
Leg
Hi Alice,
If all else fails, go through the Ancestry upload option, then download your
gedcom from that upload and then delete your ancestry tree. Might this work
to get a gedcom that myfamily.com would read correctly? I've no working
knowledge of either version of upload but I have read some
Just to clarify.
You CAN do away with the default sentences altogether for a particular
event, if you wish to write up your own narrative each time.
For many of my events, I've deleted the default sentence structures for all
combinations and replaced with [notes][sources] Then I write what I
Bob,
In Legacy 7, I have a sound file that does show up at the _end_ of the list
created using your instructions.
My printed list shows the file path where the file is located on my
harddrive and using the RIN in the Legacy INDEX list, I can quickly jump to
the person with the attached sound
Lloyd,
The beefed up search options are one of my favorite and most used new features.
Far more robust than V6.
Mary
From: Lloyd
Subject: [LegacyUG] Improvements in Legacy7
What are some of the improvements in Legacy7 over Legacy6?
My money is tight due to the ecomony and I do not w
From: Larry Wilson
Subject: [LegacyUG] Twins
What is the best way to handle twins so they show on reports, especially
"Descendant Narrative"?
-
Larry,
I use the children's setting to show them as a twin. It then prints like the
example below:
2-Dyla
Jenny,
I'm not able to duplicate your problem. Are you certain you're inserting the
batch number in the source details?
Is anyone else able to get results like Jenny?
Mary
From: Jenny M Benson
Subject: [LegacyUG] Search failure
The extended Search capabilities in version 7 are great,
No, it's ok. I don't know what on earth I was doing before, but I have
since found that it *does* work.
Jenny M Benson
Jenny,
Glad to hear all is well and just happy to see someone else can get
discombobulated, too! I'm forever getting myse
Jeff,
Click on Mapping> then Options at the lower part of the screen> push pins ...
there you can select from a list of markers.
Mary
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] LG7 and Virtual Earth
You say it shows up with pins. On mine it shows up with balloons. I wonder
and size for me. Doesn't change it from a
balloon to a pin (even though the text says "push pin", all I get are
balloons).
Bob
- Original Message -
From: Mary Fowler Leek
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:09 PM
This is what I now enter for my unknowns (_). Please see example at
end of message. It will lose a bit of formatting because of sending this
message
as plain text but you can get the idea.
I used to enter just a __ but noticed, with Legacy 7, my entered
underlines don't carry
Ron, It's in the Descendant Narrative Book Report where the lines no longer
show or print. I'm talking about lines I've actually typed into the name field
in Legacy, like this . not the option we can tick in Legacy to
include lines for missing info in the reports.
Ironically, i
Jane,
Are you referring to 4000 locations or 4000 people with locations?
Just work through the Master location list, and do a few at a time. It won't
take as long as it seems (maybe :-)
On the off chance you don't know this, changing through the master location
list will automatically change t
I would hope you would consider sharing, at some later date, your research with
Ancestry or Rootsweb or your local library genealogical research dept. and or
your county Genealogical Society. Also please consider printing and leaving a
copy or two for your family. Sometimes young family members
Chuck,
I use the research notes to save copies of records I come across that help
me see very quickly what I've found in the way of records and what is
missing. I don't print them in my reports. They're helpful to copy and paste
into an email when working with someone to resolve a question. Th
Dave,
THANK you for this very informative post. I've been doing (hi-jacking) forever
and never knew it was a bad thing to do. I use Outlook Express so was totally
unaware of the effect of my action.
Will cease and desist immediately, unless I intend to reply to the thread (like
now). :-)
Mary
This would be great!
What server address do I use to set it up as a newsgroup? Is it available on
the Legacy website?
Mary
From: ronald ferguson
Mary,
For your information if you had OE set up to receive LUG's mail in the News
function, rather than the Mail, you would see the probl
Jane,
I've been mulling this over, trying to figure out why all of these married
names have been assigned to the Legacy AKA field.
I remember TMG had an option to also display and print the married name in
reports. I'm wondering if TMG places the married name in a field in the gedcom
that Lega
Gail,
My sources are displayed the same way. TNG appears to use the Source Name list
field, rather than the source title field. I create my gedcoms using 5.5 and
the sources are still identified as yours are in my TNG site. I don't think
it's anything you're doing or could do differently, unle
ort Title.
Jennifer
http://colston-wenck.com
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Fowler
Leek
Sent: Saturday, 19 July 2008 6:58 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Translation between Legacy v7 & TNG
Gail,
Melody,
I always check the following site when I have a question about a date. As you
can see, there is no Feb 29 for the year 1894.
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1894&country=1
Mary
From: Melody B
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Melody B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
Patti,
Regenerate the same identical report, click on preview and then look on the
right hand side of the screen.
You will see under Print:
all pages
Range
This Page
Click through the report until you see the correct page on the preview screen,
then click on "This page" and only that page s
Please consider:
for anyone who would like to have the photo options in Legacy updated and
improved, go to the Legacy Home tab of your Legacy program and look on the
right hand side of this screen.
Click on the "Suggest a New Feature" under Support and let the Legacy authors
know the photos a
I like to save jpg or tiff scans of one page documents to a pdf file. That
format is known and used in many countries and almost every computer has Adobe
Reader software on it, as most software manuals and US gov forms are offered in
this format.
The utility, FastStone Image viewer, is free whe
JL,
You can see attached sources in pdf format from within Legacy when they're
linked to a source. You just click on the photo icon to get them to open in
Adobe reader, just as the jpg's open in an image viewer when clicked.
This works in Legacy v6, too, not just in Legacy v7. You just need to
When I travel, I use the backup and restore function in Legacy.
When you leave home, backup your database. Copy it onto your laptop and use
the restore function in your Legacy program on your laptop.
When you get back home, backup your database on your laptop, then copy it to
your desktop and
Jeff,
I was primarily using the Narrative Book Report but have switched to the
Register Book Report for now, due to formatting issues when including photos in
my reports.
I'm in the process of moving material previously entered into notes into an
event I also call notes. If it is a long narrat
Ruth, I ran into this situation, too.
For now, until someone suggests something better that covers both past and
present, I changed mine to read:
Known Children:
I'll be watching this thread to see what other Legacy users do.
Mary
- Original Message -
From: Ruth Nerud
To: Legac
Thank you, John, for providing access to these extremely well written and
helpful utilities. I registered my copies of his software with him and used it
for several years. I'm so pleased to have the chance to archive these helpful
little utilities. Thank you for making them available for this li
Jerry,
Please go to the Legacy Home tab in Legacy and look on the right lower portion
of the screen. Here you will see under _Support_ "Suggest a new feature".
Please send in your request for this feature or option to be added (unless it's
there and I just don't know how to implement it)! :-)
Susan,
Can you import the RTF file into Word? Would that put things right for you,
since Word does format true superscript?
I'm afraid I'm pretty ignorant about working with RTF files. Maybe someone else
will come along with some helpful suggestions.
Mary
- Original Message -
From:
I've been looking at a RTF file in Word 2003. If I set the paragraph format to
"Exactly" - 13 pts), it seems to work while still maintaining the superscript
properly.
12 pts cuts off the top of the superscript just a tad.
Are you doing your editing in Word?
Mary
- Original Message -
Mr. Lorge,
Place your mouse cursor over the little dividing lines in the Index header,
where it says RIN Full Name Birth Date (or whatever your column
headings say)
You notice there are little dividing lines between these index column headings.
When you place your mouse cursor o
I think the problem here _might_ be that FTM doesn't have a notes section for
what is their equivalent of Legacy"events". There may be no comparable field in
FTM to place that information when importing a gedcom into FTM. It's been a
while since I've used FTM but in the past, no notes section wa
Hi Sandy,
I think Gene is correct in that you must use the full Adobe Acrobat software to
assign bookmarks. You might consider eBay and search for an older Acrobat
software package. Even though I have more current versions, I still use Acrobat
v5 on my primary computer and it handles my simple
Winifred,
I can't say that I've used the scrapbook/ photo album feature in Legacy since
it doesn't allow me to print different sizes of photos on the same page or
album. I've decided to create my own album using a recent version of
WordPerfect. MS Word would work, too, but, IMHO, WordPerfect ha
I would like to have my notes placed after each person on the FGS and even
sometimes placed differently in my narrative reports. Can anyone think of a
negative reason to handle note type information by placing them in a note
event, rather than using General notes?
The only drawback I can think
I assume you're referring to the Individual's Information window? I don't see
anyway to show it with the existing options available on this particular
screen. If there is, someone will point us to it.
In the meantime, you can use the name list, and keep the tab set on family, and
that informati
Now, how clever is this! I knew if there was a way to do it or an excellent
work-around, someone would post the information. Great suggestion, Dave.
Mary
- Original Message -
From: Dave Naylor
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:53 PM
Su
Tish,
If it is a Legacy backup file you need to use the Restore Family File command.
Is this what you used to install your backed up Legacy data file on the new
computer with Legacy 6?
>From the menu bar ... Look under File>Restore Family File.
Work your way to where you have placed the Legac
Lloyd,
You need to click on Edit Event, then "Edit Event Sentence Definition" and add
the notes (assuming this is where you have the obit text entered) in your Event
Sentence.
This is how mine reads if all of my fields are entered:
[HeShe] was remembered in an obituary, published [onDate],
[
Ruth,
Is Rosaria's birth surname Testini and her birth father's surname Testa?
Does this have something to do with female/male pronunciation of the surname
or a cultural following of the female, rather than the male line? If not,
why would Rosaria's birth surname be different than her father's
Sharon,
I've not been following this thread closely but I do attach PDF files all the
time in Legacy and just click to open them when I need to refer to them. I'm
not certain just where you're attempting to attach them and could be you're
attempting to do something I've not tried in Legacy.
Do
I think, for your purpose, you must use the Picture icon when attaching
anything that is in a graphic format i.e., .jpg .tif, whatever format
Legacy recognizes and will use as a Picture (graphic).
The other files would be attached by clicking on the File icon.
BTW, there is a free program, Fa
Paula,
Other list members have helped you with the status notice on the marriage
information screen but be certain to also place a check mark by the marriage
status in the report options if you haven't already done this.
Mary
- Original Message -
From: Paula Rothstein
To: Legacy
Stan,
Would you consider naming the event Memorial and use the death date to sort it
so it follows the hard coded death event?
Mary
- Original Message -
From: smegraw
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 6:49 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] No
Stan,
Please check your Event sentence definitions and see if there are carriage
returns added at the end.
Mary
--
From: "smegraw"
When printing a Descendant Report, I have the Events (with custom Notes) for
an Individual listed as bullets or numbered. What's odd i
Stan,
I don't know that there is a correct format regarding line spacing.
I suppose it's up to each person to decide how they wish their
reports to look.
Personally, I like a blank line between each event but I don't recall
ever using the sentence override so can't help you there. I just edit
my
Stan,
I'm not terribly familiar with the sample database but it appears to me
there is a blank line between each event when I preview a descendant
narrative report created from this database. This is using Legacy v7 deluxe.
Mary
From: "smegraw"
Thanks
Alastair,
If you have Acrobat installed, you should also have the Acrobat pdf printer
program installed. Is it distiller? Anyway, I believe it automatically installs
when you install Acrobat. Locate it in your list of printers, print your report
to this pdf printer and see if this file is acce
I've really enjoyed this thread. It's interesting to hear how everyone works
with their digital images within Legacy. Photo's add so much interest to the
reports and digital images of sources make such great research tools. I hope
Legacy continues to improve in this area of the program.
For tho
Hi Liz,
I've always had a fairly quick response when I needed to unsubscribe. I don't
think it would take this long.
When you unsubscribe, I believe you'll get a little message pop up that says
the unsubscribe was successful, after you fill in the little box and click on
unsubscribe. The link
Hi Liz,
I've always had a fairly quick response when I needed to unsubscribe. I don't
think it would take this long.
When you unsubscribe, I believe you'll get a little message pop up that says
the unsubscribe was successful, after you fill in the little box and click on
unsubscribe. The link
I'm not certain I'm following this thread correctly. My method of seeing
immediately how or if someone is related to me in my database is by using a
column in the Index to show the relationship to me, if any. Of course, it will
only display the relationship for the focus person set to display re
Mary,
As Mike has already told you, it is possible customize the columns that are
displayed under the Index Tab. Are you using Legacy 6 deluxe? I don't remember
if the Index tab is included on standard Legacy v6.
If you want to try this to see if it's helpful to your work flow,
click on the
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