, January 04, 2007 9:52 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] One tested method of organizing files ...a bit
more still
You can use Legacy to find next sequential File ID when you are
prefacing the number with a code.
Click the binoculars at the end of the File ID field
You can use Legacy to find next sequential File ID when you are
prefacing the number with a code.
Click the binoculars at the end of the File ID field.
Highlight the code + greatest number in the list
Click Select +1
Cathy
At 12:34 PM 5/01/2007, you wrote:
Jean
True, the Legacy feature that
Of jean
van horn
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:43 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] One tested method of organizing files ...a bit
more still
Gary,
I tried using a letter in front of the number for my adoptive family
database so that when I'm gone that
ht on.
Gary
Near St Louis MO USA
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"...I use the file it as I got it system which files source
Thanks. Makes sense and simple enough.
Jeff
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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] One tested method of organizing files
I do something similarly and my system was the topi
sequence in which it is filed.
Mary
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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] One tested method of organizing files
Thank you. That makes sense.
Question
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] One tested method of organizing files ...a bit
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"...I use the file it as I got it system which files sources once but is
referenced by all that use
it."
"When I find a censu
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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] One tested method of organizing files ...a bit more
Frankly I will not endeavor to defend the standard ahnentafel nor the
library cross referencing systems that have survived virtually all options
for many de
I'm up way past my bedtime, so I hope this makes sense:
I agree with Loran. I use the Dollarhide adaptation. I know that it's a
nuisance to go back and change numbering of several descendants when
children are out of order or when a new child is found . But having this
unique number for each indi
Frankly I will not endeavor to defend the standard ahnentafel nor the
library cross referencing systems that have survived virtually all options
for many decades.
I am not a professional genealogist, but I have noticed that the more we try
to merge family lines into one file the more difficult
:
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] One tested method of organizing files
Hi Jeff,
It's not Clooz you need (in my opinion) but the method of organising paper
documents before you enter them into Clooz.
When you enter stuff in Clooz, everything has an ID code/numbe
acyUG] One tested method of organizing files
Back on the topic of organizing files--
I heartily agree with those who view making multiple copies of material
wasteful, time-consuming, space-consuming, and prone to errors.
For what it's worth I am defining "material" here as any
One other problem with this method - ahentafal numbers, with child numbers
afterwards, and spouse numbers if needed(which I used for a while) - the
numbers can get very messed up if you find out that you missed a child or
had them in the wrong order, or the same with spouses
*** Give th
Hi Jeff,
It's not Clooz you need (in my opinion) but the method of organising
paper documents before you enter them into Clooz.
When you enter stuff in Clooz, everything has an ID code/number. You
have to assign that to the pieces of paper.
The suggestion is to divide your paper into types -
See embedded comments:
You are quite right - we need to make sure our research papers are
organised in some fashion - a great message for the New Year.
You'll find several methods listed in the Legacy News.
Personally, I can't cope with any method that requires copying or
cross-referencing. I
Back on the topic of organizing files--
I heartily agree with those who view making multiple copies of material
wasteful, time-consuming, space-consuming, and prone to errors.
For what it's worth I am defining "material" here as any hard copy item
be it photograph, letter, newspaper, recorded tap
Cathy wrote:
Personally, I can't cope with any method that requires copying or
cross-referencing. I found I simply put such papers in a pile to "file
later" and later never came.
I file by document type as advocated by the maker of Clooz - Elizabeth
? - it's the only useful thing I got from C
Perhaps I'm missing something but, in my view, there is one major flaw with
this system. The Ahnentafel numbering system has meaning and when hardcoded
into the UserID that meaning becomes irrelevant when doing pedigrees for
someone other than the person for which the numbers were generated for in
Hi Loran,
Are you wondering whether this reached the list? It came forwarded a
few days ago and now direct preceded by an empty message from you
with the same title - and while I was writing this - another one.
You are quite right - we need to make sure our research papers are
organised in s
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