RE: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-27 Thread La Nell Shores
bject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names You can turn off specific warnings for specific people, will that help? For example, I have a lot of cousins that married cousins with the same last name (rural 9th century MS). When I add the person it tells me that they husband and wife ha

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-27 Thread Robert57P via Gmail
if "it is you" or "if it is the program". Bob - Original Message - From: Mary Fowler Leek To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names Ron, It's in the Descend

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-27 Thread Michele Lewis
ustomize>Other>Turn off or on Optional Reminder Messages, not on each individuals information screen. I hope this made it clear what I am asking for. La Nell -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names La Nell Shores wrote From the amount of chatter on this s

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-27 Thread Jenny M Benson
La Nell Shores wrote There are a total of 13 standardization warnings. I am asking for the ability to globally turn off each one individually. Right now, you can either turn them all on or off. Rather by chance, I have happened on what you are talking about - which is the Optional Reminder

RE: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-27 Thread La Nell Shores
n Optional Reminder Messages, not on each individuals information screen. I hope this made it clear what I am asking for. La Nell -Original Message----- Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names La Nell Shores wrote >From the amount of chatter on this subject, there must be a

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread JLB
In theory, I like the best the option of putting [[ ]] to indicate the married surname for women, except the surname does not line up alphabetically under others of that surname. It goes after the people with no surnames. So I don't know how useful it is. This topic went back and forth a co

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just my 2 cents. Jeff - Original Message - From: david To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:21 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names In the 'Individual's Information' screen click on 'Exclude from

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
ald ferguson To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:53 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names Mary, In which reports are the lines not showing up? They are OK in mine - I have only looked at the Preview though, so is it something that happen

RE: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread david
In the 'Individual's Information' screen click on 'Exclude from Potential Problems...' , then select the 'Standardisation' tab. Is this what you mean? Regards, Dave (NZ). From: La Nell Shores Sent: Fri 27/06/2008 02:02 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Dealing

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread Elizabeth Cunningham
I am currently using the form "(Brandt), Pearl" for last names or "Gartley, Unknown" for first names. I tried using [] but the name disappeared. I have may be 50 or more names where I have no last name and another 20 where I have no first name. Attaching the married last name in parentheses

RE: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread ronald ferguson
/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:45:04 -0500 This is what I now enter for my unknowns (_). Please see example at end of message. It will lose a

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread Dermot McGlone
Jeff, If you create, for example, an ancestor book report (Reports>All reports (Books and others)...>Ancestors), on the "Options" tab, you can choose to Insert Underlines for Missing "Given and Surnames", "Dates and places" and "Death information for individuals marked as Living". These options a

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
This is what I now enter for my unknowns (_). Please see example at end of message. It will lose a bit of formatting because of sending this message as plain text but you can get the idea. I used to enter just a __ but noticed, with Legacy 7, my entered underlines don't carry

Re: [LegacyUG] Dealing with unknown names

2008-06-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Totally agree with you. I know of the search for missing data, but I've never used the report that "inserts underlines" for missing data. Where is that one? Jeff La Nell Shores wrote: From the amount of chatter on this subject, there must be a bunch of us who use , [--?--], or so