Re: [LegacyUG] Happiness, moving citations, and anyone in NJ?

2010-02-05 Thread Dawn Del Guercio
I am happy to inform the group that I found my answer. I found a "copy event to clipboard" and "paste from clipboard" on the detail information screen. A Dawn D. in NJ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http

RE: [LegacyUG] Cutomising family view information

2010-02-05 Thread Jennifer Crockett
Thanks a million, Brett. That is just what I needed. Regards, Jennifer -Original Message- From: BMcL Robinson [mailto:b...@vodafone.co.nz] Sent: Saturday, 6 February 2010 1:14 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cutomising family view information Hi Jennifer

Re: [LegacyUG] Newspaper Announcements

2010-02-05 Thread Tom Kemp
Here are the links: Full title list: http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/sourcelist/ Links by city: What you do is click on each state & it shows the cities & titles. http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/ And this link for the modern obituaries: http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk

[LegacyUG] Keyboard shortcuts (was: Happiness, moving citations, and anyone in NJ?)

2010-02-05 Thread Wendy Howard
A small correction - Ctrl-X is CUT, not delete. Effectively the same, if all you want to do is remove a block of text. But if you want to shift it to another location, then you want to CUT it from its current position (thereby deleting it from your document and saving it in your computer's memory

RE: [LegacyUG] Newspaper Announcements

2010-02-05 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I'm not so sure that is entirely correct. While they may have archives of "historical news", there is one link within their site which lists exactly which cities are covered in each state. There are probably an average of 10 cities per state, with much more coverage in the New England area but v

Re: [LegacyUG] LegacyFS User Group

2010-02-05 Thread Bruce Jones
I've had the same experience. Don't know why. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Carolyn Smith wrote: > I signed up for the FS group two days ago and have received no messages, > including one I personally sent to check on reception.  Does anyone know how > to enroll other than through Legacy links

Re: [LegacyUG] Happiness, moving citations, and anyone in NJ?

2010-02-05 Thread Judy Wardlaw
Oh yes, I know of those. Use them CONSTANTLY. Don't know how any computer operator wouldn't use them :0 But regarding legacy, I doubt this would work for multiple tabs. In other words. I want to copy not only the text in the "notes" tab, but also want to copy the text in the "detail informatio

RE: [LegacyUG] Re-subscribed to List; Not Receiving Messages

2010-02-05 Thread stan megraw
I was having the same problem. I contacted Millennia directly and they were able to sort it out for me. It seems something was happening at their end when subscribing to LegacyFS with the same email address I used to subscribe to LegacyUG. If you have another email address, try subscribing to L

Re: [LegacyUG] Re-subscribed to List; Not Receiving Messages

2010-02-05 Thread Tim Rosenlof
We see new post from folks we have not posted before. They may be lurkers, but who knows, they are posting. Anyway here is post from the list 'LegacyFS' that Ken McGinnis made. I don't think he will mind. Quote: " Everything seems to be working when I test things. One of the test messages that j

[LegacyUG] Re-subscribed to List; Not Receiving Messages

2010-02-05 Thread Connie Sheets
"I signed up for the FS group two days ago and have received no messages, including one I personally sent to check on reception.  Does anyone know how to enroll other than through Legacy links? Carolyn" I'm having the same problem [I copied and pasted Carolyn's post from the archives; I've rece

Re: [LegacyUG] Newspaper Announcements

2010-02-05 Thread Tom Kemp
To be clear the obituaries and entire newspapers go back to 1690. Small towns and large towns are included. GenealogyBank.com has 4,300 newspapers from all 50 states. There is also a separate bucket on the site that highlights the obituaries from the 1970s forward. Tom On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:

RE: [LegacyUG] Newspaper Announcements

2010-02-05 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
But be careful of what you are looking for, how old it may be, and from where you think it might have come. Check those web pages closely and you'll see that the cities covered are only the larger metropolitan areas. If your relative in the obituary were a farmer from a rural area and the newspa

Re: [LegacyUG] Happiness, moving citations, and anyone in NJ?

2010-02-05 Thread Dawn Del Guercio
Dede, Oh yes, I know of those. Use them CONSTANTLY. Don't know how any computer operator wouldn't use them :0 But regarding legacy, I doubt this would work for multiple tabs. In other words. I want to copy not only the text in the "notes" tab, but also want to copy the text in the "detail infor

Re: [LegacyUG] Cutomising family view information

2010-02-05 Thread BMcL Robinson
Hi Jennifer No need to move from Legacy for what you want. You can save a number of different display settings and easily switch between them as you need to. In Family view, right click on the frame where the display names are, and click customise. First Save your current settings and give them a

Re: [LegacyUG] Happiness, moving citations, and anyone in NJ?

2010-02-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
Dede Holden wrote: > Dawn, > > Do you know about the shortcut keys for cutting and pasting? They > have been the best thing I've learned in a long time and they work in > a variety of applications. Here they are: > > Ctrl-A = Select All > Ctrl-C = Copy > Ctrl-V = Paste > Ctrl-X = Delete > > and

Re: [LegacyUG] LegacyFS User Group

2010-02-05 Thread Carolyn Smith
I signed up for the FS group two days ago and have received no messages, including one I personally sent to check on reception. Does anyone know how to enroll other than through Legacy links? Carolyn From: CE Wood To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Th

Re: [LegacyUG] Happiness, moving citations, and anyone in NJ?

2010-02-05 Thread Dede Holden
Dawn, Do you know about the shortcut keys for cutting and pasting? They have been the best thing I've learned in a long time and they work in a variety of applications. Here they are: Ctrl-A = Select All Ctrl-C = Copy Ctrl-V = Paste Ctrl-X = Delete and the best of all? Ctrl-Z = Undo! If you

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Colours (Colors)

2010-02-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Joy wrote: > HI everyone > > I have just had a fiddle around with the colours and all I have done > is make a big mess and now I cannot seem to get anything I can read > or like. > > Can someone in plain english explan what I need to change the boxes > where the names are to look like Elizabeths pl

RE: [LegacyUG] People with a Specific Surname without Parents

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Abbott
Barend Use search miscellaneous for linked individuals with no parents and set a tag. Then search for tagged individuals with the surname you are looking for. Peter -Original Message- From: B J Venter [mailto:twyfelpo...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 February 2010 06:13 To: LegacyUserGroup@Legacy

[LegacyUG] Legacy Charting - Step Children

2010-02-05 Thread JMB
I usually mark any step-children in my Stepson or Stepdaughter but this creates problems if I produce a chart to send to someone because it does not distinguish them from other children. I wonder if it would be possible to have an option to not include the step children in the chart or indicate