Re: [LegacyUG] Commonly used names in Charts

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/04/15 03:44, Boyd Miller wrote: Charting does honour Short location names, why not Quoted names. I have previously put this forward as a suggestion on 2 Mar 2009, 8 Jun 2009, 14 Mar 2010, and again today. Perhaps we will get a positive response this time! Ah! But did you put it in

Re: [LegacyUG] Querying several sites- possible?

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/04/19 02:56, Robert Carneal USA wrote: What I was envisioning was being able to open all four sites, if Sosiah Carneal is found on their site, into four separate windows. (Split the screen into quarters.) Then, if one said his birthdate was Jan 10, 1882, but three say his birthday was

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Research Guidance

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/04/19 05:56, Larry Lee wrote: I have been using Mozilla Firefox as my default browser. I used IE to try this technique as well. I finally experimented a little more and can get to where there are 3 windows open horizontally. The first Welcome to Research Guidance! screen stays open by

Re: [LegacyUG] Dates for Events

2010-04-22 Thread Jenny M Benson
Brian L. Lightfoot wrote One notable exception might be for a US census event. While it would be correct to use the actual date of the census enumeration, one must be careful about the timeliness of any information derived from within that event. For example, while the data may have been given on

Re: [LegacyUG] Search for additions/alterations since say 1 Apr 2010 to Legacy 7.4

2010-04-22 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/04/20 13:09, Ron Ferguson wrote: SearchFindModified DateAfter31 Mar 2010 Ron (and others), Rather than catching fish for those who ask a question on how to use the Search facility, why not teach them how to fish. Or, encourage them to dangle a line and see what happens -

RE: [LegacyUG] Dates for Events

2010-04-22 Thread Rob Miller
Thanks Ron! It's something that's always wondered about. Rob From: ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dates for Events Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:32:20 +0100 Rob Miller wrote: While I

[LegacyUG] How do I save my legacy file as a GEDCOM

2010-04-22 Thread eileen swanberg
I am hoping someone has this answer for me. I have saved all but one tree as a GEDCOM in addition to saving it as an fdb file for Legacy. I can not for the life of me remember what I did to save it as a GEDCOM. I have looked at the book, but it does not tell you have to save it as a GEDCOM,

RE: [LegacyUG] Dates for Events

2010-04-22 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
The instructions at the time were, to answer the questions as if they were answered on the 1st of June, not the day the census taker actually got to your house. They were to ignore children born after that day, which my relative was, and include people who died after that date, which you have

Re: [LegacyUG] How do I save my legacy file as a GEDCOM

2010-04-22 Thread Bob Janice
Eileen, Saving and Exporting are, in this context, the same thing. Just follow the instructions in the book (or help file) for exporting. Bob On 4/22/2010 12:10 PM, eileen swanberg wrote: I am hoping someone has this answer for me. I have saved all but one tree as a GEDCOM in addition to

RE: [LegacyUG] Search for additions/alterations since say 1 Apr 2010 to Legacy 7.4

2010-04-22 Thread Sherry/Support
Indexing is hard - not everyone thinks the same way. If you can't find a Help topic in the Index, please let us know via the Suggestion form how it might be better indexed. And don't forget the Search tab! I use that frequently if I can't think like the indexer g Thanks for using Legacy.

RE: [LegacyUG] Commonly used names in Charts

2010-04-22 Thread Sherry/Support
All suggestions received are reviewed and considered. Due to the volume of suggestions received, not all are acknowledged. We do respond when a suggestion is sent for a feature that is already available or if we have any questions about the suggestion. Support questions get our first

RE: [LegacyUG] Dates for Events

2010-04-22 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
This is probably to what Jenny was eluding was she mentioned the precariousness of the word correct. In the case of census data, a lot depended upon the truthfulness of those being enumerated and then a lot also depended upon the precision and uniformity amongst the various enumerators. Brian