Re: [LegacyUG] Repository Question

2007-08-24 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
An interesting new wrinkle on repositories. I recently extracted from GoogleBooks pages from the 1883 Transactions of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama which was filmed from that source in the Library of the City of New York. I got all the credits reported but it certainly doesn't

Re: [LegacyUG] What size pictures are too big, when I need to think about space

2007-06-10 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I think pictures can be too big and I read about this somewhere and have experienced it. If a very large picture is forced down to, say a thumbnail as would be along side a name, it becomes wavy and indistinct since Legacy has now way, of which I am aware, to scale them down. Agree,

RE: [LegacyUG] To open a file

2007-03-02 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I think the response was vulgar. The user obviously doesnt understand the terms and perhaps even the language. I am glad someone has taken him under wing for help. I was very disappointed with the statement from a member of Legacy's team. This is out of character. I guess anyone can have a bad

RE: [LegacyUG] Line on Individual report

2007-02-24 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I believe it would do so with me except, on the relatively few that I have a cause of death, I almost always have an Event which would follow that line. Nick --- Roxanne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little late jumping in here, but mine does, the same thing, with one exception: my bisecting

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Source Detail

2007-02-22 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *New Blog* - Improve Colour Photos with The GIMP Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: Nicholas Cirillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Source Detail

2007-02-21 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I know this has been covered in other answers but this is what I do: If I want to pickup a source and detail entered anytime in the past, I go to that item, highlight it, and push the Clipboard symbol (those things that look like two papers on top of each other in the lower left screen.) This will

[LegacyUG] Line on Individual report

2007-02-19 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
If I have a cause of death stated in the medical notes section, on the Individual report the line after the Cause of Death has a line bisecting it. Any thoughts? Nick Cirillo Fairfax VA Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard

Re: [LegacyUG] Changing event and verification

2007-02-16 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
as far as what to do with newer information, I think it would be unwise to delete forever some information you have. I think you need to decide which is likely to most valid. I don't think you said what data is in question, but I would put all the information in different ALT,Imm events and

Re: [LegacyUG] need help in correcting notes printed out in book format

2007-02-14 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Kathy, I think I know what you are referring to. What I have done successfully although it's a pain to have to do it, is insert a carriage return before the first item of the notes. Nick Cirillo --- Kathy Townsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping someone knows how to correct this. When I

Re: [LegacyUG] need help in correcting notes printed out in book format

2007-02-14 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
people not mind the way it looks? On 2/14/07, Nicholas Cirillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kathy, I think I know what you are referring to. What I have done successfully although it's a pain to have to do it, is insert a carriage return before the first item of the notes. Nick

Re: [LegacyUG] acid-free ink

2007-02-08 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
At the risk of pushing further off topic and off Legacy focus, I'm concerned that the scenario of one of us passing and a grandchild, perhaps 10 to 15 years in the future coming upon our work and trying to use it.. Looking back 10 to 15 years is suspect any electronic media or software to read the

Re: [LegacyUG] acid-free ink

2007-02-07 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Jeff, There must be more to Archival vs Acid Free Paper. For one, they claim it lack lignums Don't know the answer re inkjet ink but I suspect it is acid free just considering the havoc acid ink would play on nozzle etc.(even recognizing the acidity is very mild.) A note about laser

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy and pictures

2007-01-22 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Another reason for keeping the thumbnail pictures in low pixel count is that the High Resolution pictures get distorted when reduced to the size used in Legacy. Nick Cirillo --- Paul C. Abell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Susan, I am glad to see that some others do it the same way I do. I use the

[LegacyUG] Unlinked individuals and lines

2007-01-14 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I thought that if one entered an unlinked individual with or without a related line that a new tree was established and could be visualized by entering viewtree. I did not experience this on a recent group of entries. Am I not doing something I shoul be doing? I do have other trees on the list and

Re: [LegacyUG] Unlinked individuals and lines

2007-01-14 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Dave, Thanks, that I did not do. I saw the button but was not familiar with it's use. I guess I could have tried the Help button. Nick --- Dave Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Jan 2007 Nicholas Cirillo wrote: I thought that if one entered an unlinked individual with or without

RE: [LegacyUG] To-Do List Ideas?

2007-01-11 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I have so cluttered and fouled my To Do List that it has been useless. A lot of what I did was before I knew much about Legacy, or genealogy for that matter. Now I would like to purge the entire To Do list and try again. How would one do this? Nick Cirillo Fairfax VA --- Nancy Bender [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] To-Do List Ideas?

2007-01-11 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Cathy, Thanks. As I feared there is no simple way. I'll try your process but if it is too time consuming I may abandon the To Do process and do something else, possibly use paper!! Nick --- Cathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nick, To delete To Dos You can go to the To Dos from the icon on the

Re: [LegacyUG] Linking a document based filing system to individuals in Legacy

2007-01-04 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
it, system and find one person using that source, do a show list, tag and correct and untag, go to the next source you have and do again. Jean - Original Message - From: Nicholas Cirillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007

[LegacyUG] Linking a document based filing system to individuals in Legacy

2007-01-03 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I finally agree that my system of filing documents under people names will not stand the test of time. If I want to migrate to a document based system, ala Clooz, how do I go back to the individual file in Legacy and indicate what the code number is for the appropriate document? My file is now two

RE: [LegacyUG] Linking a document based filing system to individuals in Legacy

2007-01-03 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I think you miss the point. I already have hundreds of entries and documents, I would now need to go back and put an appropiate id on the database. What is the best way to make this connection other than going through by trial and error? There must be a computer way to identify the person(s) a

Re: [LegacyUG] Standard Usage?

2006-12-16 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I was so excited to see the option [[wife of john doe]] mentioned that I went and changed all my unknown given or surnames to variations of this. The it dawned on me...I can't ever make a report and opt to show the private information since I have used this double bracket for really private things

Re: [LegacyUG] Standard Usage?

2006-12-16 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Kathy, That's an excellent idea. It will take some legwork and I fear missing something, particually a SS number but will try it. Nick --- Kathy Shiell-Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP. Any thought other than to go back and eliminate the double brackets on names? Nick Cirillo

Re: [LegacyUG] 8MB attachments

2006-12-03 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I have been following this and other lists for awhile. I'm convinced that most users have no idea how to trim their replies. I suggest you highlight the parts you donot want to repeat, like anything beyond the immediate message you are responding to. Do this by holding the mouse over the first

RE: [LegacyUG] Did the list go to sleep?

2006-11-13 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Yahoo mail has screened the list as spam to the Bulk folder in my case. Nick Cirillo"M. Brenzel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:So what happened to the list? I haven’t gotten any messages since Saturday until just a few minutes ago.Mary-Original Message-From: [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] IE7

2006-11-07 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
In the Washington Post's technology section this past Sunday someone wrote in complaining of a problem with the drivers for HP printers which HP confirmed and said they were working on with Microsoft. I can't believe this problem is widespread or we would have been hearing a lot of complaints. I

Re: [LegacyUG] IE7

2006-11-07 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Tish, According to the Washington Post columnist, help is on the way.Tish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had a dreadful problem with HP printer drivers. After about 20 e-mails, they have decided they cannothelp me. I have never had problems with HP before - and use it with my Legacy, for

Re: [LegacyUG] primary scource and pedigree charts

2006-11-06 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Naomi, I have no suggestions on the second part of your question. However, regarding self as a primary source, I use this when I know from having been present or have on good information that an event occurred, for example, I just attended a nephew's wedding. I don't feel I need to ask the couple

Re: [LegacyUG] Best place to attach photos

2006-10-22 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Cathy, Am I to take from your response to Teri that you donot imbed photos in the text of a report but print them and insert them separately and "manually?" If so, do you not allow printing of pictures and then have the report generator leave pages for these? Do you download to a word processing

RE: [LegacyUG] Please Stop Sending HTML messages to the List

2006-10-18 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I'm not so sure Roots Web lists block HTML messages as I have no problem with them and as you can tell, I transmit HTML. Using Yahoo it is very inconvenient to switch back and forth and I suspect many don't know how to do it. The editing and formating capabilities of this mode in Yahoo mail are

Re: [LegacyUG] Paid Genealogy Search Sites

2006-10-18 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Laura, I could not function without Ancestry.com. It is true, if you are near a public library that subscribes and they have enough computers you could do without buying it yourself. However, if you like going from Legacy's Resource module directly to Ancestry, it obviously needs to be available

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-17 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
From: Nicholas Cirillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.comSent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:01:03 AMSubject: Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Laura, This is not in the thread but I'm very interested in how you exported your family file to Excel. Did you send the entire file

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Laura, This is not in the thread but I'm very interested in how you exported your family file to Excel. Did you send the entire file or just the name? Could you give a step-by-step instruction for this. I have done similar but strictly by hand. Thanks, Nick Cirillo, Fairfax VALaura Schumacker

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I cancel all of my to do list

2006-10-14 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I think this is a great topic and would like to see some thoughts from the Legacy gurus. I too experimented with ToDo list and it is so fouled now as to be unuseable. Nick Cirillo\ Fairfax VARICHARD SCHULTHIES [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not found one, but why delete any 'so that I can now

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering source details

2006-10-12 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I feel I need to weigh in here. I suspect 40% of the entries on this list are, in one way or another, related to recording sources. As a relatively new genealogist, I picked up Legacy on recommendations. I did not know the importance of formatting sources and how there were standards to meet

RE: [LegacyUG] Place name punctuation in reports

2006-10-07 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I disagree. I believe the comma after California is not proper punctuation. Nick Cirillo Fairfax VARobert Carneal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version are you using? -Robert-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lisa YoungSent: 2006-10-07 17:54To:

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Folder

2006-09-19 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Along these lines, I have, from the beginning had a folder callled Genealogy Images. If a picture from my personal collection is needed for Legacy, I make a copy in there with subtle change in name. My question is: Now this folder is quite large and I would like to break it down to the 4 family

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Pat, Yes it can. It had a few problems but they upgraded out of them Nick Patricia Hickin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't Adobe Reader version 7 be downloaded free?? I've got it and I've certainly not paid for it.Pat- Original Message - From: "Alastair Lack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-10 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Doesn't Acrobat Reader version 7 have an option for the creator to allow alterations. It seems I use fill in forms more and more that allow some alterations to the basic form. I certainly donot pretend to be an expert, just an observation.Nick CirilloAlastair Lack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We

RE: [LegacyUG] Sourcing cemetery headstone photos transcriptions from history societies

2006-08-03 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
I think this and similar threads overlook the main purpose of "Sourcing" that is to allow someone else to get to the same item. I know there are needs for some to format their sources to fit guidelines (eg. "Evidence") but the final proof is someone else finding it. Nick Cirillo, Fairfax VACary

Re: [LegacyUG] Using USB drives and making backups

2006-07-20 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Jim, Where was this review published? Nick CirilloJim Winfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dick Eastman wrote about a great backup program several months ago.It is called NTI Shadow. I bought a 300GB Maxtor USB drive and setupNTI Shadow to back up every file on my hard drive when I modify them.It

Re: [LegacyUG] Please

2006-07-04 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
By now I think we can agree that for many the change in server by LegacyUserGroup has caused alot of problems. I am sure Support is aware of these and will attempt to repair them if possible. It seems time to set these comments aside. I opened to a page of similar complaint this morning that I

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - Citation

2006-06-23 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
All, I absolutely need to chime in here. I have studied Mills' *Evidence* and *Quicksheet*. They very much follow the tenents of *Chicago Manual of Style* and as a result are very stilted. I have tried to massage my source references in Legacy to come close to this standard but have, to date,