Re: [LegacyUG] Cremation and Burial

2008-04-05 Thread Wendy Lavender
Hi Kris, I wasn't sure how to deal with that one either, so I've entered the date of the cremation in the burial date field, with "Cremated at." in the location field then created a cremation event detailing the cremation again but adding when and where the interment of the ashes which was

Re: [LegacyUG] Can I add marriage date to the individual page?

2008-03-27 Thread Wendy Lavender
Hi Dawn, in Family View you could customise the fields to give you a Marriage field by clicking anywhere to the left of husband's or wife's information where born, died, buried labels are and a Customise Display box will come up. If you click on the box with the 3 dots in it, it will let you ch

Re: [LegacyUG] Two files at once

2008-03-24 Thread Wendy Lavender
Hello Elsie, this is copied and pasted from the Help files . You can customise your toolbar to include the Split Screen icon to make is easier and add other icons that you might like to use regularly. Wendy [AU] To open another Family/Pedigree View of the same family file: 1. From the View m

Re: [LegacyUG] Help regarding how many in the family trees do I keep.

2008-03-24 Thread Wendy Lavender
Morning Valerie, you've probably already answered your own question but not certain if it's the right one. I don't think there is a right answer but as your Culloden name is a One Name Study then I'm guessing that you don't want to stray too far from the "trunk" of the name. In your main Cullo

Re: [LegacyUG] Moving info

2008-03-23 Thread Wendy Lavender
I'm sure you won't be able to open it in Adobe Reader, Gail. If you want to checkand edit the information in it before adding it to an existing file (good idea) open Legacy and import it as a new family file. If you want to open it in a text editor, then Notepad will do the job.. Wendy [A

Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Info from Ancestry to Legacy

2008-03-22 Thread Wendy Lavender
Hi Gail, you'll have to bear with me and my instructions because I've only done it once and still not sure what I did :o) At the home page of your Ancestry account at the top you'll see *find all your family tree here* Click on *here*. Then under the tree that you want to gedcom (you might only

Re: [LegacyUG] Backing Up Legacy Files

2008-03-20 Thread Wendy Lavender
I'm going OT here, but for anyone who has experienced a corrupted operating system and not a physical failure to their hard drives but still been unable to retrieve their files, there's boot disk software on the internet free to download called The Ultimate Boot CD. You can boot to this little

Re: [LegacyUG] To-Do Report - Date

2008-03-18 Thread Wendy Lavender
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] To-Do Report - Date After re-reading your message, and looking furthur into the matter, on the right side of Report options page, go to Page set up, footers, Compiler information. Rich in LA CA --- Wendy Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[LegacyUG] To-Do Report - Date

2008-03-18 Thread Wendy Lavender
I've just recently begun to use the To-Do Report as an exercise. Mainly to see which is better, software or paper for keeping track. I've printed out the To-Do Report from the Master List Menu and I can't seem to find anywhere I can enable a date to be printed on the pages to tell me when the r

Re: [LegacyUG] Back With A Question....

2008-03-08 Thread Wendy Lavender
Hello Roxanne, I have a 320GB Maxtor Ext. HD I operate from and keep all my genealogy on including all my Legacy files. This is so when I go off to visit I just unplug it and all my genealogy travels with me. The only problem I have is if I've forgotten to plug it back in when I come back home

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding Illegitimate Children

2008-03-03 Thread Wendy Lavender
My GGrandmother had two children illegitimately before she "took up" with my GGrandfather. I created a "family" with the husband named "unkown" for my GGrandmother then enabled the "Show ½ kids" option by right-clicking on the child in the Children's box and from the popup menu select View > Sh

Re: [LegacyUG] Change color of the source

2008-03-02 Thread Wendy Lavender
Hi Michele.you can goto OPTIONS > CUSTOMISE > COLOURS and by clicking on any of the areas you can create your own colour scheme and save it over on the bottom right hand corner. Then click SAVE An alternative way to this screen is to right click any where on the background of the Family Vi

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7?

2008-02-08 Thread Wendy Lavender
Thanks for the link Patti, I missed it the first time around. Very interesting to see what is coming up in Version 7. Something to look forward to, always like playing with new software Wendy [AU] - Original Message - From: Patti Hobbs To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Is anybody there?

2008-02-04 Thread Wendy Lavender
I was blaming the inches of rain we've had over here on the east coast of Oz. Wendy [AU] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:12 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Is anybody there? Has everybody gone

Re: [LegacyUG] User ID

2008-02-03 Thread Wendy Lavender
I put it with the last marriage, the one she was in when she died. The same with living entries, their documents go with the current marriage and their double-barrelled MRIN tells me that there was an earlier relationship...such as Brad Pitt M:1234-1235. His documents would go with his relati

Re: [LegacyUG] User ID

2008-02-03 Thread Wendy Lavender
I use MRIN for my paper filing, Elizabeth. As far as I know, there is no easy way of transferring the MRIN into the User ID field. Some years ago I think Geoff may of mentioned that they were thinking of programming it into the software so that you would have the choice of creating User IDs wi

Re: [LegacyUG] Re-organizing sourcing

2008-01-28 Thread Wendy Lavender
Hello Janis,  I was reading on another site through the week about sourcing and one suggestion was, say with Australian, Nsw births deaths marriages, to have them under one Master Source of NSW Registry of Births, Deaths, Marriages and then in the detail explain which vital it was [birth, deat

Re: [LegacyUG] Re-organizing sourcing

2008-01-28 Thread Wendy Lavender
Hello Maureen.thank you for the suggestions. I have mainly NSW with a few Qld and a couple of NT sources. After reading the replies to my post I may have to rethink my desire to lump the stuff together. :o)) Wendy [AU] Maureen Chambers wrote: Hi Wendy, With New South Wales (and all ot

Re: [LegacyUG] Re-organizing sourcing

2008-01-28 Thread Wendy Lavender
Yes I can see there can be problems lumping sources together for the sake of tidying up the list, particularly with large databases. I need to rethink and probably renaming some to get some uniformity may be a better way to go. Wendy RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: I did it by creating the 15 US

Re: [LegacyUG] Re-organizing sourcing

2008-01-28 Thread Wendy Lavender
Thanks for the suggestions...I've backed up the whole file and about to see what happens by merging the surplus entries. Cathy, you made a good point about the Census, keeping them in their separates years does have it's advantages for doing a search. Tah muchly Wendy [AU] Wend

[LegacyUG] Re-organizing sourcing

2008-01-27 Thread Wendy Lavender
Yes another dreaded sourcing question :o) I now realise that I have made work for myself by creating separate Master Source entries, for example, Nsw Births, Nsw Deaths, Nsw Marriages...when I should of probably had just one for New South Wales BDM Registry and then added the extra information

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Vista

2007-08-11 Thread Wendy Lavender
I bought a Dell [Aust] back in April that shipped with Vista Home Premium . Didn't have any problems running Legacy on Vista. My Legacy data imported well and off it went My problem was with Vista. Perserved with it for 4 months then last week I wiped it and went back to XP. Don't like