RE: [LegacyUG] Missing multimedia file

2009-10-15 Thread leo macdonald
First go to each of the two people who are buried in this cemetery, in the burial address area click on the + sign at the right and see if you had attached a picture of the cemetery map in the burial pictures location. If this doesn't produce the missing photo then check to see if you have at

RE: [LegacyUG] how to print Event Address Coordinates

2009-10-08 Thread leo macdonald
<72497bc90910080238m432a0982m2e6190c5db2c7...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Dede=2C =20 In my example I used the word "Cemetery" for my searches because I have use= d this word in all my cemetery loca

RE: [LegacyUG] how to print Event Address Coordinates

2009-10-07 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Dede, there may be other ways to do this but this is what I would do. I would go to search> Find> Detailed Search> enter on the first line the following: Individual, Burial Place, Contains, Cemetery> at the bottom of the screen select "clear list before search"> Create list. When the li

RE: [LegacyUG] Printing Burial Notes?

2009-08-16 Thread leo macdonald
Keith, In the Descendant Book Report click on Report options> click Include tab, on the right hand side near the bottom under the heading "Notes" select what you want printed in the report. Leo > Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:43:41 -0400 > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Burial Notes? > From: gc

RE: [LegacyUG] Copying and Pasting Text

2009-08-13 Thread leo macdonald
Hi, there may be other ways to do this but this is how I do the copy & paste. 1. select the word or words you want to copy, right click the mouse and scroll over the words to highlight them, now place the pointer over the highlighted words and left click the mouse and select the word copy. If yo

RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Pictures

2009-08-10 Thread leo macdonald
If you want your tombstone images to show up in reports you will have to create an event for the person, you can call it whatever you want like; tombstone image, headstone photo, etc. In the new event you can attach the photo, but remember that if you have more then one tombstone image that you

RE: [LegacyUG] Name Change

2009-05-25 Thread leo macdonald
Hi, I agree with what Jenny has stated, but as the AKA screen does not allow any notes, to to explain the surname difference, I add an explanation in the notes section of the person's birth. Leo > > Eileen wrote >>My ggrandfather was born a Price. He married and had two child with the >>name

RE: [LegacyUG] Backing Up To MSN SkyDrive

2009-05-02 Thread leo macdonald
Thanks Ron, I didn't think that it could be done for files larger then 50MB. It would be great if the Legacy team could setup a secure site where only Legacy users could safely store their data & multimedia files. Leo > From: ronfe...@msn.com > To: legac

RE: [LegacyUG] Backing Up To MSN SkyDrive

2009-05-02 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Ron,there may be some who would say that SkyDrive is off topic, but there has been loads of discussion of other forms of backing up our Legacy files, USBs, disks, external drives, etc. I think that this is a topic that should be discussed on-list. I have SkyDrive but had never used it until I

RE: [LegacyUG] Travelling with Legacy

2009-04-23 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Gayle, you can always download and use your passwords to use Legacy on another computer proviving you have their permission to do so. When your finished update your USP, then you could just uninstall the program and delete any saved Legacy files off their computer. Leo From: grm...@mt

RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Address

2009-04-02 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Dave, I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do here, could you give us some more details of what you are trying to accomplish. Leo > From: davel...@gmail.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Address > Date

RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Address

2009-04-01 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Dave, I have wrestled with this problem myself, I found that in local newspapers and in books on communities or in books on family lines that sometimes a particular cemetery can be called by two, three or more different versions of the same cemetery name. As an example: West Devon Cemetery;

RE: [LegacyUG] Can't Preview Reports with Latest Update?

2009-03-21 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Connie, I just tried both reports and they are working fine. Leo > Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:41:36 -0700 > From: clshee...@yahoo.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Can't Preview Reports with Latest Update? > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > > > I just discovered that every time I click on

RE: [LegacyUG] Longitude and Latitude

2009-02-27 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Kris, go to the address that you want to add the coordinates to and click the down arrow. The master location list will open, go to the bottom of the screen and click the Edit button. At the bottom of the Add/Edit screen where the Lat and Long boxes are you will see a small Calculator button

RE: [LegacyUG] Saving files

2009-02-26 Thread leo macdonald
Hi,since you are looking at two separate family files of your research, I take from this that recently (not sure when) you decided to check one of you backup files from back lets say in 2008 (give or take a month or so). When you exited Legacy and reopened it again the file that opened was not

RE: [LegacyUG] copy and pase

2009-02-24 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Mary, it is quite simple once you learn. First select the piece you want to copy. Place your mouse pointer at the start or at the end of the piece. Press down on the left side of your mouse and drag it across the piece you want to copy. Release the left side of your mouse. This will highli

RE: [LegacyUG] Burial sites

2009-02-18 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Elizabeth, the only reason that I use the + sign for is to enter Death Notes. The address feature in there doesn't make a lot of sense to me so I don't use it. The reply that was sent to you by Dennis will locate the cemeteries for you providing you have entered the name of the cemetery in

RE: [LegacyUG] Burial sites

2009-02-16 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Elizabeth,if you know the names of the cemeteries that you want a list for, just go to View>Master Lists>Location>tag each cemetery location, then in the same screen>Options>Print>Location Report>Select to include, "only taged locations",and "Master locations and who use them", also select

RE: [LegacyUG] Location Names and Addresses

2009-02-08 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Donald, Legacy is a very easy program to work with and you will have to choose your own method of entering your cemetery locations and remain consistant in the way you enter them. The way that I have chosen to list my cemeteries is as follows: Cemetery: Arlington National, Arlington, Arlin

RE: [LegacyUG] Pictures

2009-01-23 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Jeanette, you have selected to show pictures, but did you select to Embed the pictures in the file. Leo > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:29 -0600 > From: jls37...@iowatelecom.net > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures > > >

RE: [LegacyUG] Suggestions, please... Entering Marriage Banns

2009-01-22 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Jim, click on your marriage information bar, click on the Add button to add an event,click on the down arrow button to the right of the Event, this will open up the Master Event Definition list, you may not have an event title called Marriage Banns listed in this list so click the add button

RE: [LegacyUG] (no subject)

2009-01-07 Thread leo macdonald
Hi, I just tried my program and everything works fine, I'm not sure what you are doing so I will walk you through what I'm doing, maybe it will help you. 1. go to reports, all reports, Form center. 2. click on the +. or double click on the words "Census Forms". This will expand the list of censu

RE: [LegacyUG] Cemetery photos

2009-01-06 Thread leo macdonald
GC, personally I would not place a cemetery photo in the photo gallery of the individual. I reserve this gallery for photos of the individual that are taken over a period of time from the birth of the person right up to the present day or the end of their life. But each person has a different w

[LegacyUG] How to convert Family Tree to Legacy

2008-12-31 Thread leo macdonald
I have checked the archives but could not locate the correct answer, if it has been answered please accept my apologies. I have always used Legacy and think that it is the best program on the market. I have a friend who has always used Family Tree Maker, she has just purchased the Legacy 7 progr

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Build 7.0.0.83 Details

2008-12-27 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Glen, Just click on your Legacy Home tab, then go to the right hand side of the page, go to the word Updates and click it. In the popup screen you will see in blue letters "see What's New" just click on it and it will take you to the page with all the information that you are looking for. L

RE: [LegacyUG] Picture Question

2008-12-26 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Bob, the only way to attach a gravestone or headstone picture and have it print out in reports, is to attach it to an event for the person who died, if it was a married couple's headstone I would a create an event under their marriage information screen. The event that I create is called h

RE: [LegacyUG] Descendant Narrative problem

2008-12-16 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Bruce, yes I have the same problem and I have sent in a bug report on this problem. Leo > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:27:12 -0800 > From: juicebo...@gmail.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Descendant Narrative problem > > When I preview a Descendant Narrative

RE: [LegacyUG] Notes VS Events

2008-12-04 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Bob, when I locate information on a person that is just general information like the places where the person has lived, where they worked, I will place it in the person's notes. General information about their birth, like time of birth, weight, etc., I add this to the birth notes. General i

RE: [LegacyUG] Male Children Changes Name by Deed Poll

2008-11-25 Thread leo macdonald
Hi, the way that I would enter male or female children who have changed their surnames legally, by adoption, or in your case by Deed poll, would be to enter the new surname into the person's information screen. I would also add an AKA using his or her birth surname. In the birth notes section

[LegacyUG] Compact Family File

2008-11-08 Thread leo macdonald
Last evening after performing a backup of my Legacy files I did a comparison of it to the size of some files that I had backed up earlier this month. On Oct 15 the file size was 45.0 MB and on Oct 16 it was 38.0 MB. >From Oct 16th to Oct 22 it grew to 38.4 MB. My next backup was on Oct 27, whi

RE: [LegacyUG] looking for cems

2008-10-28 Thread leo macdonald
Have you tried the following: go to View>Master Lists>Address Lists>Event>you will have to highlight each person separately to see the address at the bottom of the page, when you locate the address you want then tag the person. Once you have all the people tagged then go to>Options>Print>who to

RE: [LegacyUG] looking for cems

2008-10-28 Thread leo macdonald
Hi, go to search>find>(Ist box) individual>(2nd) Death Place>(3rd) contains>(4th) Wayne County, Michigan, USA (or whatever county you are looking for) No second or third conditions selected, Clear list before this search selected.> creat list. Leo > Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:53:20 -0700 > Fro

RE: [LegacyUG] HTML/ Plaintext

2008-10-18 Thread leo macdonald
Mark, I use Hotmail as well. If you are using the Full Version you will have to change to the Clasic version first, select either a new message or reply to a message, just below the Subject line you will have to click on the words "Show Plain Text" they are in white letters and on the popup c

RE: [LegacyUG] File Types

2008-10-16 Thread leo macdonald
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RE: [LegacyUG] File Types

2008-10-16 Thread leo macdonald
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[LegacyUG] File Types

2008-10-15 Thread leo macdonald
When I do a backup of my family file, I'll call my family file name xxx, Legacy backs up and saves a data file and a multimedia file, these two files are stored in their proper location. Each time I do this backup there is another file created with the following information: xxx.COB Type:COB

RE: [LegacyUG] Trying to move Legacy from C drive to new E drive

2008-10-14 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Joan, under normal circumstances Legacy should locate all of your multimedia pictures, scans, .jpg, .bmp, ect. by clicking on a missing picture and selecting to locate it yourself, then reattach it. This will point Legacy to all the photo's in that folder or location. However, the multimedi

RE: [LegacyUG] Testing media paths problem

2008-10-01 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Toni, is it possible that the 5 missing photos (that show up in the correct places) are also attached to one of your sources for each of the people, either attached to the master source or to the source clipboard. You may have moved the five photos to a different location and reconnected th

RE: [LegacyUG] pictures and scanned documents

2008-08-25 Thread leo macdonald
. Leo > Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:15:33 +0100 > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pictures and scanned documents > > leo macdonald wrote >>In the Legacy program or folder there is another folder called "Data"

RE: [LegacyUG] pictures and scanned documents

2008-08-25 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Michele, there are many different methods of naming your scans and photos, the method that you choose is up to you. The method that I use is quite simple. If I have a photo that is linked to a person (picture, announcements, cemetery stone, etc.), I use the person's name: John Smith, for add

RE: [LegacyUG] Pictures in reports

2008-07-30 Thread leo macdonald
Hi, if you have four photos of a person and you want all four to print out on a report you can attach one to the person then you will need to add three separate events to the person and attach one picture to each event. Although the program will allow you to add as many photos (not sure of the

RE: [LegacyUG] Missing Multimedia Files report after backup

2008-07-08 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Art, if you are planning on performing a large batch re-naming of all your Multimedia files I would recommend doing a backup first, then I would do a small test batch of no more than 6 and check each one to make sure that legacy will locate them on its own, or do you have to locate each new

RE: [LegacyUG] Missing Multimedia Files report after backup

2008-07-07 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Art, I had a similar problem a while back, if you have changed the name of a picture you will get this message, also if you change the location of the photo. Everyone probably uses their own method of naming their pictures, mine may not be the correct method but it works fine for me. Here is

[LegacyUG] Legacy Mapping

2008-06-07 Thread leo macdonald
I have installed the new Legacy 7.0.0.45 and have tried using the new mapping feature, this may become a very usefull tool in the future when some of the kinks get worked out. I live on the western end of Prince Edward Island, Canada and have a large portion of the people in my data base that

RE: [LegacyUG] Master Location List & Internet Map

2008-03-09 Thread leo macdonald
Hi, I'm having the same problem. Leo > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:20:09 +> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Subject: [LegacyUG] Master Location > List & Internet Map> > Hi> Before I report a possible fault is anyone else > experiencing problems> with the 'I

[LegacyUG] Legacy 7 Charting

2008-03-05 Thread leo macdonald
I have had very little experience using any of the charting programs, I downloaded the free program and tried doing a 9 generation ancestor chart. I like the ability to add pictures as well as all the other features. When I printed off a standard ancester chart, I found that the starting perso

RE: [LegacyUG] Comment about the Source Clipboard

2008-02-14 Thread leo macdonald
I have been reading all the replies to this subject with interest. I had posted a request for a new feature in regards to the source clipboard and was told that it wasn't necessary so I just let it drop. I use the source clipboard a lot, I have usually around 5-6 or more sources saved at all ti

RE: [LegacyUG] Found picture files not sticking

2008-01-21 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Jennifer, I think that what you are experiencing is a bug in the program and you should send in a report. I had a similar problem. All of my pictures and scans were in BMP format so I did a batch conversion of all files to JPG, I had gone through most of these and removed the BMP connection

RE: [LegacyUG] Unknown not wanted

2007-10-31 Thread leo macdonald
I have been using a ? for a first name or a surname if I do not know what it is. If I do not know either I enter a ? for both. Examples: ? Smith, John ? or ? ?. This method works for me, may not work for others. I have found that some people just enter the surname or the given name, when I run a

RE: [LegacyUG] Search for incomplete burial date

2007-10-02 Thread leo macdonald
Hi, Jennifer, have you tried, search>Find> Look for - Individual> where to look - Burial Date> how to look - Equal to> what to look for - 1933 or Feb 1933 or 2 Feb, or whatever date you are looking for. Click the box at the bottom that states - Clear list before this search, then click Create Li

RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Location/Address Reports

2007-09-26 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Thad, if you want to print a list of all the people buried in a certain cemetery all you need to do is the following: with your program open go to the top of the page and click on "View">Master Lists>Location: now scroll to the cemetery address that you are interested in, chick the tag box to

Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] VIEW ONLY setting

2007-09-10 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Robert, Have you considered Just going up your family line to your earliest ancester and saving a descendant report, include embedded pictures, and save it as a PDF file. You could go up each of the different branches like your mother's side, your grandmother's, etc. Place each file in a fol

RE: [LegacyUG] Titles

2007-08-14 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Jennifer, You are right about my choice of words to describe a relationship between two people who never married which resulted in the birth of a child. I find that the wording options in the marriage screen refers to the two people as a married couple in all the reports. The best that I coul

Re: [LegacyUG] About dates

2007-08-13 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Valeris, I agree with Jenny as this is how I enter an unknown birth, death, or burial date. To help explain how I came up with this approximate date I would attact the source that I used to help comfirm the date. As an example the Census that Jenny referred to or the death notice of a brother

RE: [LegacyUG] Titles

2007-08-13 Thread leo macdonald
erence. Jennifer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of leo macdonald Sent: Sunday, 12 August 2007 9:49 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Titles Hi Phil, when I entering information on two individuals who have

RE: [LegacyUG] Titles

2007-08-12 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Phil, when I entering information on two individuals who have had a relationship which resulted in the birth of a child I enter my information as follows: 1. I check the box in the upper left hand corner that reads "This couple did not marry". 2. I change Husband to "Father", Wife to "Mother

[LegacyUG] Pictures

2007-07-29 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Everyone, I am still working on my pictures that I have in my Legacy Data File. I really appreciated all your responses on how to convert my BMP files to JPG files. I have another question that I hope someone can help me out with, some of the BMP files that I have in my program are scanned im

Re: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big

2007-07-22 Thread leo macdonald
Hi everyone, Thanks for your replies, I have downloaded the IrfanView program. I hope that I'm not getting to far off the Legacy etiquitte guidelines as this pertains to the best way to store our picture files that are attached to our Legacy program and I know that IrfanView is not a Legacy add

RE: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big

2007-07-21 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Ron, I have a quite a few pictures attached to my family tree and at least 90% of them I have saved in the bmp format, I do not know a lot about pictures. Is there an easy way to change my bmp format to the .jgp format and by changing the format will this affect the quality of the pictures. L

Re: [LegacyUG] New User Problems

2007-07-16 Thread leo macdonald
My perfered method of dealing with nicknames is to list their nickname in the notes for that person. If I had a person called John Robert Daniel Smith and his nickname is Dan, then in the notes section for this person I just enter the following: John Robert Daniel's nickname is "Dan". If I want

Re: [LegacyUG] Photo Problem

2007-06-29 Thread leo macdonald
Thanks Cathy, That was what I had to do and it printed out fine. Leo From: Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Photo Problem Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:23:15 +0800 Hi Leo, It sounds as if the p

[LegacyUG] Photo Problem

2007-06-28 Thread leo macdonald
Recently I added a death notice from a local newspaper as a new event to a person in my family file, I placed it in the Events Section for this person. The death notice was quite long and I had scanned the notice into the event as a bmp. When I tried to print the Descendant Book Report, I notice

RE: [LegacyUG] GenSmarts 2.0 for Legacy - Now Available

2007-06-23 Thread leo macdonald
ally. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of leo macdonald Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 5:11 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] GenSmarts 2.0 for Legacy - Now Available

2007-06-23 Thread leo macdonald
With your Legacy program open click on the Legacy Home Tab and read the notice for the new software and you will find it, the code is 23fwban6 Leo From: Darlene Hicks & Don Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sub

Re: [LegacyUG] Index View and Name List Width Problem

2007-06-23 Thread leo macdonald
Hi kb, I had the same problem as you, I had not used the index view before so I thought that I would try it when I read your post. I had a hard time to get it figured out. First bring up the idex view, go to the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen and scroll it as far to the right as you can

RE: [LegacyUG] Sorting Burial Locations

2007-06-07 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Joe, recently I have spent a great deal of time going through my family file working on the cemetery locations. I was not satisfied with the way that I had entered them as in some instances I had listed a certain cemetery by two or three different names according to the information contained

RE: [LegacyUG] U.S. County Verification

2007-05-24 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Jill, if I am reading your first question correctly the word "of" appears with the address in the location box and you want to get rid of the word "of", if this is the case then you can go to the top of your screen and select search>search and replace, in the "find where" box click the button

RE: [LegacyUG] Importing Pictures

2007-05-06 Thread leo macdonald
Hi John, I think that you can go to your backup multimedia file, copy it to another place like the Legacy Pictures folder, expand it, now go to your legacy program, go to a person that you know has a picture attached (maybe yourself), click on the picture icon of yourself, a screen will come up,

Re: [LegacyUG] Learning how to create a web site for our data

2007-04-20 Thread leo macdonald
Ron, count me in as well, Leo From:  "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To:  LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.comTo:  LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.comSubject:  Re: [LegacyUG] Learning how to create a web site for our dataDate:  Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:50:51 +0100>>Thank you to all who

RE: [LegacyUG] Printing Assigned Source List

2007-04-11 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Dianne, if you select the person you want, then go to reports>report memu (charts)>Individual>report option>sources, now select the options that you want to include in the individual report, click preview. Advance to the pages that list the sources and print each page that you want. You can

RE: [LegacyUG] CD questions, again.

2007-03-21 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Kenneth, I have a copy of Legacy installed on my daughter's computer, when I want to transfer my files to her computer I do the following: insert the cd, using my burner I go to my C drive>Legacy>data, now select my latest backup data file and then select my latest backup Media file, now burn

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing Center, Ancestor Book Reports, Multiple Parents

2007-03-02 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Rob, I'm not sure if this is what you want. Go to your grandmother's screen, select View>Parents List of grandmother>Biological Parents, now go the the Publishing Center. At the top of the screen it will list her name with her biological parents listed on the second line, now go down to the

Re: [LegacyUG] Quoted Names

2007-02-23 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Wayne, as I have said in a previous response that I would enter my information using your daughter's name as an example. "Kathryn" Andrea Martell in the notes for Kathryn I would enter; Kathryn Andrea's nickname's are "Kathy", "Kate" and "Kath". If I was entering additional information in the

Re: [LegacyUG] Quoted Names

2007-02-23 Thread leo macdonald
t;Dan". From: Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Quoted Names Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:22:00 + leo macdonald wrote For those of you who choose to use John Paul "

[LegacyUG] Quoted Names

2007-02-22 Thread leo macdonald
It was good to see the interest in the quoted names. I have tried each of the reports using the following: J. Paul Smith, "John" Paul Smith and John "Paul" Smith. The person's full name appeared intact as written above, the only difference was in the wordng within the report. The following are t

[LegacyUG] Quoted Names

2007-02-22 Thread leo macdonald
I am in hopes that this letter will help those of you who are just starting out with your genealogy program. I have the latest updated version of Legacy Deluxe with a little over 50,000 names in my program. When I would enter a person's name into my program, if they had two or more Given Names I

RE: [LegacyUG] Error 3021

2007-02-19 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Martha, Try File>file Maintence.>Check/repair Leo From: "Martha Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: Subject: [LegacyUG] Error 3021 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:29:42 -0500 When I try to enter a spouse and press button to add a new individual I get t

[LegacyUG] Photo Question

2007-02-13 Thread leo macdonald
I responded earlier that I could transferr pictures by using the Rich Text File (TGF) this was incorrect information and for this I apologize. I should have referred to the PDF File instead, by using the PDF file you can send pictures by e-mail (if it is not too large) or you can transfer the fi

RE: [LegacyUG] photos question

2007-02-11 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Marilyn, if you are just trying to do up a Descendant report or Ancestor report and want to include the pictures in the report so they will show up in your daughter in law's computer then all you have to do is: go to reports and pick out the report you want to send or give her - go to the rep

RE: [LegacyUG] Removing redundant commas from Locations

2007-02-05 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Mary, with the individuals screen up click the Show Master Location List button at the end of the address, in the next screen click the Edit button, in the pop-up screen either backspace to take out the commas or add in new information and then click save. This is the only way I have found to

Re: [LegacyUG] a question

2007-01-31 Thread leo macdonald
I am not sure the correct way to write MS or AL without messing up the search feature. michele - Original Message - From: "leo macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:52 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] a question Hi Michele, when I have a loc

RE: [LegacyUG] a question

2007-01-31 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Michele, when I have a location that is questionable the first thing that I do is enter what I do know into the Location field (New Augusta, Perry County, , USA), then click on the Show Master Location List button, Click the edit button, when the next screen comes up click the Show Geo Locat

RE: [LegacyUG] child - unlink from mother only

2007-01-20 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Janis, if you have already added the other wife, go to the spousal list for the husband and set the wives in the right order. Go to each child that belongs with the first wife, click view, parents list, childs name, link to existing parents, sroll the same father and first wife, select, the c

Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures in a RTF book

2007-01-19 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Bonnie, I had never used the RTF optin before so though that I would give it a try and I must say I like the results. My pictures showed up in both the preview screen and when I printed it off. I am wondering if you have the proper options checked in the Report Options. This is what I did, I

RE: [LegacyUG] Married but kept maiden name?

2007-01-16 Thread leo macdonald
RE: [LegacyUG] Married but kept maiden name? Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:47:42 -0600 Leo, It only works with the Family and Pedigree Views, etc. But when you print a Calendar it reverts to the lady's married name. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [LegacyUG] Married but kept maiden name?

2007-01-15 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Belinda, I just checked my program and it works fine, it lists all wives by their maiden name, when I enter a husband and wife into my program I always use the wfe's maiden name, if I want to show her with her husband's last name then I would enter that name in the AKA list. I am not sure h

RE: [LegacyUG] MRIN & RIN Error

2007-01-10 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Nancy, I have run into this problem before myself. First before you do anything perform a backup of your file. Reopen Legacy; click on the File button at the top of your screen on the left. Scroll down to File Maintenance and click on the Check/Repair button and on the pop-up screen click th

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Modified Register Descendants Report

2007-01-05 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Mary, I have just checked my program, I did a Descendant book using the Modified register. I printed off two pages and everything looks fine to me of course I have gone into the report options section and had changed the font settings quite a while ago as I have some elderly people who can no

Re: [LegacyUG] Baptism Dates - NOT Birth Dates - How To Fix?

2006-12-31 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Cathy, May I suggest that if you know only the baptismal date of lets say "3 May 1850" and you want to add a birth date and you are uncertain of the birth date then just type in the following into the birth date field "bef 3 May 1850" the Legacy program will change it to read Before 3 May 18

RE: [LegacyUG] Name of Church

2006-12-29 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Mary, What works for me is in the area where you would normally place the address I start with the name of the church. An example is as follows: St. John Nepomence Roman Catholic Church, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA this works great for me because if later on I run across anothe

[LegacyUG] Legacy Users Group Etiquette

2006-12-28 Thread leo macdonald
To the User Group, I have been bitten, only recently, a little over four years ago by the urge to research my family tree. I tryed a couple other programs before finding the free Legacy program. I was very impressed with the programs flexibility, it is a program which is easy for beginners to l

[LegacyUG] Location names

2006-12-26 Thread leo macdonald
I have in my family history file some Ancestors who can be traced back to England. In the Geo Location Database in Legacy if I try to locate a place in England it will display a place in the following format: City, County, State/Province, Country. North Petherton, , Somerset, England Could this

RE: [LegacyUG] Recording Unknown Names of Children

2006-12-26 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Gary, Here s what I do for an unknow given name " ? Smith", for an unknown surname " Jane ?", for an unknown person " ? ?". It is simple and works for me. Leo From: "Olds-Wills-Anderson-Simonson-Hodges-Harris-Liikala-Jukkara-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamily

RE: [LegacyUG] adopted children

2006-12-22 Thread leo macdonald
Pat wrote: I'm new; bare with me! When I enter a child that was the biological child of two people who later divorced and that child was then adopted by the second wife of the biological father of the child, how do I get the child to show up under both cases, or can I? This is very easy Pat, j

[LegacyUG] Location names

2006-12-16 Thread leo macdonald
I have gone to the Master Location list, highlighted the location that has had it's name changed, clicked edit and added a note that the community has changed it's name to Then I went to the different reports to see if it will print the notes indicating the name change in all reports. It doe

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names

2006-12-16 Thread leo macdonald
.asp?mid=3AV63La --- - Original Message - From: "leo macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location names Thanks Glen, I do use the name of the community as it was when the person was born, but on all the up to dat

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names

2006-12-16 Thread leo macdonald
Index.asp?mid=3AV63La --- - Original Message - From: "leo macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 11:40 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Location names I was wondering what everyone else does when

[LegacyUG] Location names

2006-12-16 Thread leo macdonald
I was wondering what everyone else does when they are entering the place name of a community where a person was born and they find out that the communities name had been changed from what it was called back when the person was born. I know that I can enter the name change in the the notes secti

RE: [LegacyUG] How to Change Relationship Between Individuals

2006-12-16 Thread leo macdonald
1. with Father Perry and Mother Barabra in the view screen, click view, childrens list, highlight Daughter Cora, unlink. 2. with Father Perry and Mother Barbara in the view screen, click edit, unlink husband from wife or wife from husband. 3. with Mother Barbara in the view screen add Actual Hus

RE: [LegacyUG] Funeral Home information

2006-11-30 Thread leo macdonald
Mary, When I receive the Funeral Home information that is included in a death notice that in listed in a book or a family history file, I manually transcribe it to the notes section of the death. If I find the dath notice on a Funeral Home Web Page on the Internet I save a copy of the page and

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