On Apr 10, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Elizabeth Richardson wrote:
Why would I need to do any of these things? If my database isn't
going to transfer seamlessly, I won't be upgrading. I do have a lot
of work to do in all of these areas. Legacy 6 accepted my database
with all its warts. I would think
Jill,
Are you asking how to transfer your data or how to install Legacy or
both?
Jim
On Apr 10, 2008, at 4:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can make a GEDCOM file, save it to a CD and even better save it
to one of those 'thumb' drives that can be plugged into one o
Why do you need dashes or underscores surrounding the "?"? Seems to
me "?" makes it clear the name is unknown.
I wish there were some established standards for entering names.
Census reports are always a challenge with spouses given the husband's
surname. I use the husband's surname in p
Leslie,
When the gedcom screen is open there is a checkbox to include full
source details. By default it is not checked.
Jim
On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Leslie wrote:
I need help in exporting a gedcom. Is there a way to be assured that
everything is being exported and them imported prope
Over time you will find that RINs are not constant. If you export
your file to a new Legacy file and do not check Maintain RINs, they
will be renumbered. After being bit with this several times over the
years, I decided to keep the information pertinent to the subject of
the photo. In pl
Well said Ron. In the same vein, it would be great if, when somebody
wants off the Legacy list, that many, many people would refrain from
sending instructions on how to unsubscribe and let Sherry and company
take care of it, or at least, send it privately so we don't have so
many meaningle
I'm not picking on Carolyn, just trying to understand why anybody
wants to include the contents of a census page in their Legacy file.
I keep a copy of the original census page and do a spreadsheet as
Carolyn does but I don't copy the contents of either into Legacy. My
logic is that if I
ike a way to show them but when genealogy programs are
designed to track blood linkages, this is not likely to happen.
Regards,
Jim
On Mar 17, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Phil Warn wrote:
At 02:35 18/03/2007, Winfrey Jim wrote:
Kathy,
Unrelated children who come with a new spouse are not your
descend
Kathy,
Unrelated children who come with a new spouse are not your
descendants. They aren't related to you in any way. They certainly
are not 1/2 children since neither of their parents are related to
you. I think everybody has this situation and want to include all
people connected to
Not to mention that, in the US, unless you are contractually bonded
such as the list administrator, changing somebody else's status by
using their e-mail address without their written permission can be
classified as identity theft and is a federal crime.
Jim
On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Sh
Nancy,
You do not have all the GEO database modules loaded into your
database. Go to Help and search for GEO database and it gives you
step by step instructions for downloading, installing, compressing
and using the modules.
Jim
On Mar 5, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Nancy wrote:
In my geo data.
Janis,
You aren't double clicking by some chance? If you have preferences
set to default then a single click brings up the next focus person.
Double clicking will skip a generation.
Jim
On Mar 4, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Janis Gilmore wrote:
I have been doing some extensive clean-up since my im
Jenny, thanks for an excellent assessment of the issues. By default
if we choose to study the past and the people who lived it, we are
historians. Historians document the past, they don't change it to
meet modern interpretation. Historians also do not take credit for
the past so your use
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