RE: [LegacyUG] What to cite?

2009-10-03 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Eric...include all sources...What I do for the so called obscure is place the source information in the notes of the event...I also include the wrong data I have found and explain why it is wrong or why I think it is wrong so others who read your data understand when they run across this

RE: [LegacyUG] Name Change

2009-05-25 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Eileen you want to write notes on the adoptions... us the event screen and click on adoption and write all you want to explain the adoption and name changes... Richard From: macdonald...@hotmail.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name Change Date:

RE: [LegacyUG] How to convert Family Tree to Legacy

2009-01-01 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Let me put in my 2 cents worth As I advise in my classthere is a way to gedcom the data in ...but I myself am doing it manually... now I have 18,000 names to move from FTM to Legacy and it will take me a year to finish this move but it is well worth it because I have in FTM some very

RE: [LegacyUG] New User: How to clean up files, standardize sources, etc.

2008-10-28 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
I have had to bite the bullet... with 17,000 names because the clean up takes me longer than the manual entry... set FTM beside the legacy and just type away... at same time find things need to further work on that person also because I started many years ago with FTM and didn't at first put

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Writer Question

2008-10-25 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Let me give you all a way to list the source...using Rootsweb as an example and using their sub topic metasearch for say henry pedersen..and you found some data use the following Rootsweb Meta Search (On line: The Generations Network, Inc, 2005),

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Writer Question

2008-10-24 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Source info... if gotten from Ancestry that is you source... it is a database name the source, name the owner of the site, URL, date last verified by the site. While the source isn't the real document it still is your source means you then need to go to their source yourself

RE: [LegacyUG] UK customisations

2008-10-20 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
even in the USA the software is only set up for generic our country is divided up by ward, city, county, state and if it is rural it is section, township, county, state ... you just have to put comma in so your report looks just fine then even cemeteries had sections in them to

RE: [LegacyUG] merge

2008-10-03 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
- *From:* Richard and Evita Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com *Sent:* 10/03/2008 11:48:10 AM +1300 *Subject:* [LegacyUG] mergeplease cannot figure out how to merge Charles Hildebrandt marriage to Minnie Hildebrandt I have them married twice to each other

[LegacyUG] merge

2008-10-02 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
please cannot figure out how to merge Charles Hildebrandt marriage to Minnie Hildebrandt I have them married twice to each other... one has children and the other has no children the file number for charles is 1015 in both cases and file number for minnie is 1184 in both cases but they

RE: [LegacyUG] merge

2008-10-02 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
No there are not two Charles Hildebrandt and there are not two Minnie Hildebrandt in the tree. It is only duplicate marriages. if I cancel them they are gone from the tree because the 2 husbands have the same file number and the 2 wives have the same file number... they show each one has 2

RE: [LegacyUG] Why is LugacyUG sending ads to buy watches..

2008-09-17 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Myrna...well I didn't get those messages until I joined the legacyusergroup so I know it is coming from legacy... And I have anti virus but being let through because it is from legacy... Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [LegacyUG] Why is LugacyUG sending ads to buy

RE: [LegacyUG] Why is LugacyUG sending ads to buy watches..

2008-09-17 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
your connection to Legacy), so just delete it in the way you delete messages read and removed. He and Legacy are pursuing what they can do to recover damages. Rich in LA CA--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Richard and Evita Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Richard and Evita Piepho [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] Why is LugacyUG sending ads to buy watches..

2008-09-17 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
and removed. He and Legacy are pursuing what they can do to recover damages. Rich in LA CA--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Richard and Evita Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Richard and Evita Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LegacyUG] Why is LugacyUG sending ads to buy watches

[LegacyUG] Why is LugacyUG sending ads to buy watches..

2008-09-16 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Why is legacyUG sending ads to buy watches I have now recd 6 such ads and legacyUG is the sender... Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [LegacyUG] New user about child's unknown sexDate: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:18:34 -0400 Go to the person's edit screen. On the edit

RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Individual Information screen Event display

2008-09-14 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
AH..but in 1900 the date of the census is 1 June 1900 and the census in 1910 is the 15 April 1910 and 1920 is 1 January 1920 and 1930 is 1 April 1930 therefore the date is important because if they moved one month later you now would have a different event date. Maybe in a high percentage of

RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Individual Information screen Event display

2008-09-14 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
. Rich in LA CA --- On Sat, 9/13/08, Richard and Evita Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Richard and Evita Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Individual Information screen Event display To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 11:57

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Question

2008-09-09 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
The sourcing part of the program is spasmodic, lacking continuity, intermittent in that it doesn't stay with the source your are working on at all times but jumps back to a previous source. and the best word to use is spasmodic because it is not doing it all the time. Richard Subject: RE:

RE: [LegacyUG] Source Question

2008-09-08 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Good question mine is SPASTIC - sometimes it goes back to the same source for long time and other times it jumps to anotherIt happens after I have changed to a different source and seems to like to remember the previous source used and then other times it works just fine I have

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering New Zealand Locations

2008-09-02 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
This discusion about putting in the region is interesting but folks remember it may look like repetition but here in USA we have cities that have grown to be in more than one township so you need to be sure you are placing the locations in the correct township as well as the city. Thanks

RE: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names

2008-09-02 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
11:19 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names Richard and Evita Piepho wrote: Ron .. in other words Legacy limits one in giving clear information the address of a cemetery may have the county city as mailing address

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy bugs

2008-09-02 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Reading with interest the problems people have with the software...but what I have done is use the software so entered but have created 2 encyclopedia in Word by surname and position in the family to handle items that do not fit into the software program well, thereby when issuing a report

RE: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names

2008-08-31 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery NamesRichard and Evita Piepho wrote: Ron .. in other words Legacy limits one in giving clear information the address of a cemetery may have the county city as mailing address but it is located on the other end of the county

RE: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names

2008-08-25 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
ok guys. I want to put the location of the grave and the township, the county, state and USA ... the address is good information but how do you make it appear as buried G-61, Maple Lawn Cemetery, Wells Township, Rice County, Minnesota, USA Richard Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:23:15 +0100 To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names

2008-08-25 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Ron ...does this mean I have to enter scant info in the burial field and then go to the notes a write again so as to give correct info for the burial of each and every person... Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery

RE: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names

2008-08-25 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Ron .. in other words Legacy limits one in giving clear information the address of a cemetery may have the county city as mailing address but it is located on the other end of the county and there isnt any city close by the cemetery your location field does not have a place for townships

RE: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names

2008-08-25 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names Richard and Evita Piepho wrote: Ron .. in other words Legacy limits one in giving clear information the address of a cemetery may have the county city as mailing address but it is located on the other end

RE: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names

2008-08-25 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
and Evita Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron .. in other words Legacy limits one in giving clear information the address of a cemetery may have the county city as mailing address but it is located on the other end of the county and there isnt any city close by the cemetery your location

RE: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names

2008-08-25 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Robert...Yep it does Richard Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:18:04 -0500 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Input of Cemetery Names I know what you are talking about having found a cemetery in Kentucky where some of my ancestors are, but