Re: [LegacyUG] Updating images

2010-07-08 Thread Ron Ferguson
Maureen, Initially, may I request that when you wish to change the subject you create a new post and not rename someone elese's. It is easy enough, just use Create Mail, or whatever your email client calls writing a new email. This is not a frivolous request as I sort by thread and as yet Ann's

Re: [LegacyUG] Updating images

2010-07-08 Thread Maureen Lake
Sorry about that. It never even occured to me. I have learned from my goof. Won't happen again. On Jul 8, 2010, at 12:23 AM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Maureen, Initially, may I request that when you wish to change the subject you create a new post and not rename

[LegacyUG] Apologies

2010-07-08 Thread Maureen Lake
Good morning, all, I'd like to apologise to Ann especially, and to all generally for accidentally hijacking her thread.  It was not my intention.  I acted in haste and ignoranvce and I have learned a valuable lesson.  My thanks to Ron for pointing out my error. Maureen Legacy User Group

[LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work out of state.

2010-07-08 Thread WILLARD WHEATON
I am getting too old to continue my work, and want to transfer to a younger relative with the minimum work for her to get the system up and running. My program and data, pictures, videos, documents, etc. amount to 35GB of disk space, but she does not have that much available space on her Hard

Re: [LegacyUG] Apologies

2010-07-08 Thread aparsons
No apology needed, Ron is a wonderful person, good he noticed it - Ann On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Maureen Lake arespo...@yahoo.com wrote: Good morning, all, I'd like to apologise to Ann especially, and to all generally for accidentally hijacking her thread.  It was not my intention.  I

RE: [LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work out of state.

2010-07-08 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Adding new hard drives so that you can expand the holding area for Legacy files is easy on any computer. You can add an internal hard drive (usually the cheapest, safest, and most reliable) assuming that there is room for it inside the case. The new hard drive will not be a C:\ drive but

Re: [LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work out of state.

2010-07-08 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/07/08 18:36, WILLARD WHEATON wrote: I am getting too old to continue my work, and want to transfer to a younger relative with the minimum work for her to get the system up and running. That comes to us all eventually. My program and data, pictures, videos, documents, etc. amount to

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual Report Printout Is Not Consistent How Data Is Printed

2010-07-08 Thread Ron Ferguson
Ann, Has your Geek Squad sorted this? I agree with Mike, that it looks as though after your enlargement and reduction in font size the system did not revert back to normal. Before deleting the Indiv.usr file as suggested, I would see if using the Reset button on the bottom right of the Individual

[LegacyUG] Fwd: Advanced Set Living feature

2010-07-08 Thread Eliz Hanebury
I have been praying for this but DANG! I would enjoy Intelli-Murder someone was feeling frisky G Eliz Legacy Tip - Using the Advanced Set Living feature Intelli-Murder was the name given to this new feature by our programmers. For some reason, they decided to rename it to Advanced Set Living

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual Report Printout Is Not Consistent How Data Is Printed

2010-07-08 Thread aparsons
Ron, I am in your debt forever! I pressed the reset button and all is back as it should be. The Geek Squad are the computer repair persons (need to be politically correct) that work at a chain of electronic stores. I was just sitting here hunched over my keyboard, dreading to make the trip. The

[LegacyUG] Family Search Mapping

2010-07-08 Thread Ron Ferguson
Reading the Legacy Newsletter about the additions to Family Search Records has reminded me to mention a new Mapping Search of England from which one can identify all the jurisdictions relating to a town or area eg, Registration Districts, Parishes and hence indications as to where source

[LegacyUG] family tree maker to gedcom help

2010-07-08 Thread Susan M
All of my family files are .fbk and I no longer have family tree maker software. I would like to transfer them to Legacy but they must be changed to gedcoms. Does anybody on here have an older version of family tree that could convert my file for me? Thanks Susan Legacy User Group

RE: [LegacyUG] Family Search Mapping

2010-07-08 Thread Bill Anderson
Ron, Now if they do it for Scotland as well! Bill From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:39 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Search Mapping Reading the Legacy Newsletter about the additions to Family

RE: [LegacyUG] family tree maker to gedcom help

2010-07-08 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I'd suggest that you post your plea on Ancestry's Family Tree Maker forum asking for some kind soul to take your .FTW file and create a GEDCOM for you. Brian in CA Original HTML post converted to Plain Text From:

Re: [LegacyUG] family tree maker to gedcom help

2010-07-08 Thread Jackie King
I might suggest one alternative. I used to have a copy of FTM on my computer that I used to do exactly what is needed here. I no longer do. But when I did, I found the folks on genealogy.com's FTM forums doing a lot of this type of thing. Genealogy.com is, of course, owned by Ancestry.com. Those

Re: [LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work out of state.

2010-07-08 Thread WILLARD WHEATON
Thank you Ron, Mike, et al for your quick response. The answer I was looking for was the Options, Customize, Locations portal. I wasn't aware of it. So I will have to see what will be involved in changing the pointers. I will look at it tomorrow. Yes, I realize that many computers use D: and

Re: [LegacyUG] family tree maker to gedcom help

2010-07-08 Thread Susan Perrett
Yes, I have 2006, that can change for you, just send them to me as attachments - privately - and I will GEDCOM them and send back At 06:44 AM 9/07/2010, you wrote: All of my family files are .fbk and I no longer have family tree maker software. Â I would like to transfer them to Legacy but they

[LegacyUG] fbk to gedcom

2010-07-08 Thread Susan M
Thank you very much to each and every one of you who offered me your help. It is done. I really appreciate your generosity. Susan Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work out of state.

2010-07-08 Thread WILLARD WHEATON
Thanks Ron, that looks like the technique I was hoping for. I'll know a lot more by Monday. But, lets take a photo which has been attached to a certain individual, and that picture may be down deep inside my data folder tree of folders, sub-folders, in more sub-folders.

Re: [LegacyUG] Family Search Mapping

2010-07-08 Thread carogene
Not so in some cases, I have found excellent records for the parish of Jedburgh dating back to the 1600's. It does pay to look at the film catalogue at Family Search to see if your parish has been filmed. Carolyn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp