RE: [LegacyUG] ?? easy way to upload Legacy web pages to 'freepages' ??

2007-10-06 Thread Paul A.
J B, I am on dial up and can't possible sit and wait on 3,000 pages to upload other than through an FTP program. Sometime back I downloaded "SmartFTP" and used it to upload my Legacy webpages. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how

RE: [LegacyUG] Hand held PC and program

2007-07-22 Thread Paul A.
I feel I must reply as I have been through this same thing with another list. I owned a Dell Axim and recently bought a Palm TX. There are two main things you need to decide. First, is genealogy going to be your primary use and function. Second, is whether money is an osbstacle. If m

RE: [LegacyUG] Attached Files

2007-07-30 Thread Paul A.
If someone has to pay for the time online or the amount of data downloaded, then limit the size of emails you can download. Some of the software clients have that capability. Then you won't have to get so upset when a newbie or even a "not so newbie" accidentally forgets. Take actions into your

RE: [LegacyUG] Attached Files

2007-07-30 Thread Paul A.
You are so right! Anytime people are dealt with, their will be problems. Maybe that is why we should practice courtesy instead of flaming when someone makes an accident. Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gif

RE: [LegacyUG] Please truncate your mail

2007-08-02 Thread Paul A.
Krisjan, Yes, you are getting what you paid for and MUCH MUCH more. At least they are providing the list which they certainly do not have to do and it has provided people with far more than what it would have been worth if we had to pay for it. People get things for nothing and still find a reas

RE: [LegacyUG] Pasting with Microsoft Onenote 2007

2007-08-08 Thread Paul A.
I, too use One Note. After you have your notes in One Note, click on File and "Sent To..." You can send it to Microsoft Word and then copy and paste -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Ge

RE: [LegacyUG] New General Release Build - 28 Jul 2007 - ver 6.0.0.155

2007-08-08 Thread Paul A.
Same here. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heather Stovold Sent: Monday, August 06,

RE: [LegacyUG] Pasting with Microsoft Onenote 2007

2007-08-09 Thread Paul A.
Thank you Still annoys me that one can't do it directly Gus Ferguson On 8/8/07, Paul A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: I, too use One Note. After you have your notes in One Note, click on File and "Sent To..." You can send it to Microsoft

RE: [LegacyUG] Download time for Legacy.

2007-08-09 Thread Paul A.
Valerie, I, too, produce my own electricity. I have never had a problem with the computer drawing too much juice. I know that some of the older ones might. I live in the States and my computer is on about 12 hours per day. I would do as Bill suggested and put it onto a CD or small drive and sen

RE: [LegacyUG] Error in relationship chart

2007-08-14 Thread Paul A.
That was fun!!! I am the 31st gggrandfather of Hugh the Great, King of the Francs. He died in 956! Go figure. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA > -Original M

RE: [LegacyUG] Cemetary and Headstone data in Legacy

2007-08-14 Thread Paul A.
If it is a picture of a headstone, I put in the picture gallery. Otherwise, I put it in the burial notes. I don't know if that is the best way or not. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts

RE: [LegacyUG] County without city

2007-08-14 Thread Paul A.
That is still the way it had traditionally been. But, in the US you normally don't use the word "county" or "co". In many places, you could use the township. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~

RE: [LegacyUG] County without city

2007-08-15 Thread Paul A.
I live in the country and have all my life and in different places. It doesn't matter, the address in the US is still listed with a town. My parents were born at home in the country, but their birth certificates still list the town of their address as the place of birth. -- Paul "What a g

RE: [LegacyUG] County without city

2007-08-15 Thread Paul A.
-Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:54 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] County without city > > That is still the way it had tradition

RE: [LegacyUG] County without city

2007-08-16 Thread Paul A.
Mary, "Places should be recorded by smallest jurisdiction to largest, starting with the town. U.S. citizens should list the town, then the county, then the state, then the nation, like so: "Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, U.S.A.". If you know the hospital where someone was born, do not record it

RE: [LegacyUG] County without city

2007-08-16 Thread Paul A.
I replied offline as I do not think this tone of the messages should be on here. However, the older genealogists should be teaching the newer ones the correct way to do things so that they become historians and genealogists rather than name collectors with no regard for standards. The wonderful t

RE: [LegacyUG] Where to put age at death

2007-08-17 Thread Paul A.
Christine, You don't have to "add" or "override anything. Just go to the reports options and check the tick box to include ages. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA >

RE: [LegacyUG] Where to put age at death

2007-08-17 Thread Paul A.
Oops. I meant to say check the tick box where it says "age at death" under things to include. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA > > Hi Cathy. I guess I don't understand

RE: [LegacyUG] Where to put age at death

2007-08-17 Thread Paul A.
st 17, 2007 11:08 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put age at death Paul, I just tried this and the Age at Death option is always greyed out for me. How do I make it come "alive"? Cheers, Mitch On 8/17/07, Paul A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

RE: [LegacyUG] Test

2007-08-17 Thread Paul A.
Mitch, There was discussion a couple days ago about gmail suddenly "spamming" the LUG messages. When I checked, I had 109 LUG messages in the spam folder. I would read a reply and think my memory was really bad because I couldn't remember the original question or comment being posted. I found t

RE: [LegacyUG] OT but pertinent IMHO

2007-08-18 Thread Paul A.
Yvonne, Sadly, one of the items that gets people more “worked up” on this list is when people send in HTML. The list rules say that all messages need to be in plain text and no attachments. I have mine set to "plain text" yet when I reply to one that is HTML, it sends the reply in HTML. If you c

RE: [LegacyUG] OT but pertinent IMHO

2007-08-18 Thread Paul A.
Renee, I have respectfully disagree. I think the Legacy list is much better than the gen-newbie. In the past people would get just as ugly on there as on here! I remember one person that was mean and nasty to most people on there and if you defended yourself, the admin would instantly unsubscr

RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Legacy Tip

2007-08-18 Thread Paul A.
Renee, Thanks for that tip. It was something I never knew about and a handy time saving one at that. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA   __

RE: [LegacyUG] OT but pertinent IMHO

2007-08-18 Thread Paul A.
Yvonne, Maybe I responded to the wrong email. Either way, I apologize. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA Paul my mail IS set to plain textif it still appears as htm

RE: [LegacyUG] Where to put age at death

2007-08-18 Thread Paul A.
Phil, I learned two new tips today. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA -Original Message- > Kirstin Have you tried the "Control+A" tactic? In most views hitt

RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Legacy Tip

2007-08-20 Thread Paul A.
Heather, I am interested where you get the years that women marry at about 21 and men at about 25. Are you basing the past on today's estimates? Men and women used to get married at much earlier ages than they do now. It was nothing for men and women to marry at 14 and 16. It was probably mo

RE: [LegacyUG] Plain text - was OT but pertinent IMHO

2007-08-21 Thread Paul A.
I made one reference to it several days ago and in the very next email apologized that I may have mistaken her email for someone else. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA

RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Legacy Tip

2007-08-21 Thread Paul A.
Mitch, Thanks for sending that. I didn't see it. I guess I need to go check my spam in gmail again. :( -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts." ~ Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA -Original Message- From

[LegacyUG] Mike

2007-08-21 Thread Paul A.
Mike, How dare you even consider jumping on and complaining about so many people not sticking to the topic in the subject when you posted the following under the subject of family name history. "I don't and never will use a web-based mailing product. To me, email in a mailing list like this one

RE: [LegacyUG] Dates-estimating and guessing

2007-08-21 Thread Paul A.
Phil, I'm glad to see that message. Yesterday I ran a potential problems report and was amazed at 11 pages of people born before the marriage date. Some of them I have corrected and some I am still sorting out, but it amazes me how many are accurate. I had no idea and now I know why. Thanks. -

RE: [LegacyUG] Family Name History

2007-08-23 Thread Paul A.
Mike, That is a good point to be taken. I have been reading with interest about signifying the end of a line. But, How many times in our research have we turned up children that no one ever knew existed? Thanks for the thought. -- Paul You might wan

RE: [LegacyUG] Family Name History

2007-08-23 Thread Paul A.
One point is that one of my own brother's is 61 this year. He found out about two years ago that he had a daughter he never knew about and through her he had a granddaughter and a grandson. The grandson turned 15 last week. Just goes to show that we never know for sure. DNA proved it and also

RE: [LegacyUG] Estimated Locations

2007-08-23 Thread Paul A.
Until you have proven the location, you could always leave it blank and add a note for that event. Or, if it is the city, leave the commas but leave the part of the location blank that you are not certain of. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful

RE: [LegacyUG] Linage - Linked Databases

2007-08-24 Thread Paul A.
Debbie, This really is a great group. But there is a difference between "support" and the "users group". You really will benefit from this group, given the chance. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar His gifts.

RE: [LegacyUG] RE: Scan File Formats

2007-08-24 Thread Paul A.
Denise, If your scanner won't scan several pages of a letter into one pdf file, you can always scan it in as individual pdfs. Then use a free pdf editor such as 995 (software995.c0km) and "combine several pdf's into one pdf file. -- Paul "What a glorious world God Almighty has given

RE: [LegacyUG] Keeping two databases and their media files in sync

2007-08-25 Thread Paul A.
I will start by saying that I have never used it, but isn't this what the Intelli-Share is for? You could always copy your media files to another folder outside Legacy, split it into several folders and then only share the changes. Otherwise, and ftp would be the simplest, I think. I would be i

RE: [LegacyUG] A suggestion

2007-08-31 Thread Paul A.
If people don’t see it the way it is, they won’t see it when it is in all caps. The fact is that they just don’t look at the footers. By the way, your messages are in HTML and LUG rules require all emails to be in plain text. (Even though I prefer HTML. LOL) -- Paul   "What a glorious world Go

RE: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? - was Re: [LegacyUG] Homosexual Entries

2007-09-07 Thread Paul A.
Darlene, You are too narrow minded. I may not believe in that type of relationship, but I am also educated enough to know that those relationships are as old as marriage itself. Just because we don't come across written "confessions" doesn't mean they didn't exist in our genealogies. I think

RE: [LegacyUG] Pocket Genealogist 3.0

2007-09-14 Thread Paul A.
Jim, I had a DELL Axim with Pocket Genealogist. I now have a Palm TX with Gedstar Pro. I think the Palm beats the heck out of the Axim, hands down. However, I don't like the Gedstar Pro compared to Pocket Genealogist. I would still use my Axim just for that reason if it hadn't wore out. lol --

RE: [LegacyUG] Pocket Genealogist 3.0

2007-09-15 Thread Paul A.
Kevin, Then I guess it's time for you to duplicate Pocket Genealogist for Palm, huh? LOL -- Paul Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: