RE: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs

2011-02-24 Thread William Boswell
What a lousy website for downloading. I'll never use it. I tried eight times and it won't successfully download the file. It stops before reaching 500KB. --- Bill Boswell -Original Message- From: Donald McRoberts [mailto:drmcrobe...@charter.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 23,

Re: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs

2011-02-24 Thread Mike Fry
On 2011/02/24 14:07, William Boswell wrote: What a lousy website for downloading. I'll never use it. I tried eight times and it won't successfully download the file. It stops before reaching 500KB. Downloaded first-time for me. Don't blame the website! Blame your physical connection to the

Re: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs

2011-02-24 Thread Tim Rosenlof
On 2/24/2011 5:07 AM, William Boswell wrote: What a lousy website for downloading. I'll never use it. I tried eight times and it won't successfully download the file. It stops before reaching 500KB. --- Bill Boswell Loaded six seconds. Will never need a reason to go back. Tim R.

Re: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs

2011-02-24 Thread Gene Hutson
I just did it in less than 3 seconds. Gene in COLD Nebraska -Original Message- From: Tim Rosenlof Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:24 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs On 2/24/2011 5:07 AM, William Boswell wrote: What a lousy website

Re: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs

2011-02-24 Thread Mike Fry
On 2011/02/24 16:34, Gene Hutson wrote: I just did it in less than 3 seconds. Gene in COLD Nebraska It probably downloaded faster just to keep warm :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages

RE: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs

2011-02-24 Thread BG Johnson
For those of you having trouble downloading these tutorials, I have posted them on our local users group Yahoo mail list site. You may now download all three tutorials combined into one file. You can access this file at the URL:

Re: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs

2011-02-24 Thread Sherry/Support
Access to this download link is for members of the Clay County Generalogy Group only, BG. PLEASE Contact BG OFF LIST at b...@brmemc.net for the tutorials and any problems downloading. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:42 AM, BG Johnson

RE: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs

2011-02-24 Thread BG Johnson
Live and learn! I thought you only needed a Yahoo account (which is free) to access them. Sorry! bgj -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:19 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

[LegacyUG] Tagging

2011-02-24 Thread gcr...@juno.com
I'm venturing into the option of TAGGING. A little background in my doing so... I have been adding photos and documents/files (probably erroneously-but with the volume already added a little too late to change my methodology now!) via the Picture Gallery PICTURE or FILE links. I now want to be

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

2011-02-24 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:36:29 GMT, gcr...@juno.com gcr...@juno.com wrote: How can I find out what these old tags referred to and UNtag them? All I find in the HELP file was information on how to associate a TAG to individuals, not disassociate a TAG from an individual! Unless you labeled the

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

2011-02-24 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 24/02/2011 16:36, gcr...@juno.com wrote: How can I find out what these old tags referred to and UNtag them? All I find in the HELP file was information on how to associate a TAG to individuals, not disassociate a TAG from an individual! As someone else has pointed out, it's a very good idea

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

2011-02-24 Thread Genealogy mail
gc, If you had previously added a description to your tags you can find them by doing the shortcut cntrl-t or goto the edit menu and select Tag Records. With the Advanced Tagging screen open you can rename what you assigned your tags to. And if you click on the Tags to Show button you can change

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

2011-02-24 Thread Mary Moyer
If you've labeled your tags, when you hover over the tag number in Family View, it shows the label you've assigned. Mary -- Original Message -- From: Genealogy mail rgstrong-ge...@hughes.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging Date: Thu, 24 Feb

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

2011-02-24 Thread Ron Ferguson
You can find out who has a particular Tag by using SearchFindTag No., but I think you probably know that. To untag. say Tag3, right click on the Tag indicators in Family View, and on the new screen set the Tag number to 3 in the box on the top right. Then check the radio button Untag and click the

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

2011-02-24 Thread Mary Moyer
I also just discovered a shortcut to advanced tagging - right click on the tag numbers when you're in Family View. Mary -- Original Message -- From: Genealogy mail rgstrong-ge...@hughes.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging Date: Thu, 24 Feb

Re: [LegacyUG] Tutorial PDFs

2011-02-24 Thread Wes
On 2/24/2011 12:30 AM, Brian Woolvett wrote: Mines all there and It's 1430KB, you might find a difference in size depending on the version of Adobe being used to save it with, mines Ver. 9 Extended. Brian -Original Message- From: Donald McRoberts [mailto:drmcrobe...@charter.net]

[LegacyUG] Splitting family files

2011-02-24 Thread Helen Ayers
I have recently met on line a third cousin from my mother's side. I want to split my family file to send him our common relatives. I am able to make a file of my mother's ancestors and another file of my 3rd Great Grandfather's descendents. But my problem is that I can only make these files

[LegacyUG] Searching for broken links to attached files

2011-02-24 Thread Terry Jednaszewski
Is there a way to search a family file to find any attached file links that don't work? I'm interested in finding any such links in records for individuals and for sources. Thanks, Terry Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after

Re: [LegacyUG] Searching for broken links to attached files

2011-02-24 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 24/02/2011 20:38, Terry Jednaszewski wrote: Is there a way to search a family file to find any attached file links that don't work? I'm interested in finding any such links in records for individuals and for sources. OptionsCustomiseLocationsTest all Multimedia Paths. -- Jenny M Benson

Re: [LegacyUG] Searching for broken links to attached files

2011-02-24 Thread Terry Jednaszewski
Thanks, Jenny. That's exactly what I was looking for. Terry From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 4:15:29 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Searching for broken links to attached files On

[LegacyUG] LDS information

2011-02-24 Thread Roger Weeden
Greetings, Is it possible in Legacy to filter out those who need some or all of the L.D.S ordinances from the main data base? If so how do I do it please? Roger Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

[LegacyUG] Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file

2011-02-24 Thread Cliff Gittens
Does anyone know if Legacy supports the inclusion of a Living Flag in its Gedcom export files? I want to export a gedcom to another piece of software without exporting details on living individuals, but I would like the other software to be able to determine if an individual is living. The other

Re: [LegacyUG] Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file

2011-02-24 Thread Ron Ferguson
Cliff, Please use Plain Text on this List. I have already answered this on Genealogy Wise. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Cliff Gittens Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:10 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file Does

Re: [LegacyUG] LDS information

2011-02-24 Thread Kathy Meyer
Reports - Books Other -- Chose LDS Ordinances -- click the appropriate boxes for the type of report you are looking for -- Kathy On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Roger Weeden rogerwee...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Is it possible in Legacy to filter out those who need some or all of the

RE: [LegacyUG] Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file

2011-02-24 Thread Paul Gray
I believe the guidelines have removed the plain text requirement. They now only speak to attachments and received requests. http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp Paul Gray -Original Message- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: February-24-11 4:22 PM

[LegacyUG] Plain text

2011-02-24 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:35:55 -0700, Paul Gray grayp...@telus.net wrote: I believe the guidelines have removed the plain text requirement. They now only speak to attachments and received requests. That is fine. But if posters want their questions to be read by the largest possible audience, it

[LegacyUG] Plain Text was Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file

2011-02-24 Thread Paul Gray
Ron, An interesting point. I guess an imbedded image might be considered an attachment ( I never have thought of them that way), but I am sure most non technical computer users would interpret an attachment to be a totally separate file outside of the body of an e-mail. Not sure whether

[LegacyUG] FYI: Custom Search URL for FindMyPast

2011-02-24 Thread James Cook
To Kathy Jones and any interested, you should be able to play around with this URL to customize your search. I am not a user of the site, so am not familiar with all that is available there. I found a search form with four fields - first, last, birth year, death year, and a couple of check boxes

Re: [LegacyUG] Plain Text was Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file

2011-02-24 Thread Sherry/Support
Paul, If an email program is set to receive emails in plain text only, then the graphics are stripped out and are received as attachments. So yes, embedded images can be considered as an attachment. We have users from all over the world and many of them have limited internet access or on

RE: [LegacyUG] Plain Text was Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file

2011-02-24 Thread Paul Gray
Sherry, Understood. Actually I post in plain text, I was looking for confirmation of what was considered an attachment. While I understand your position (don't necessarily agree with it, but that's not the issue), I must say that I don't believe most users would classify an embedded image

Re: [LegacyUG] Plain Text was Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file

2011-02-24 Thread Sherry/Support
Embedded graphics only become attachments when the recipient has their email program set to receive all messages as plain text. Then any embedded graphics are converted to attachments. We see this all the time with the email system we use for Support tickets. Sincerely, Sherry Technical

[LegacyUG] Pointers and Intellimerging

2011-02-24 Thread brittongen
I have another Intellimerge to do, and one file has at least one pointer problem. It manifests as a family file traversible only in one direction, i.e. in this instance traversal upstream deadheads unexpectedly, while traversal downstream from the eldest ancestor completes correctly. From

RE: [LegacyUG] Plain Text was Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file

2011-02-24 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
The question is can a virus hide in embedded text, or not. What people believe does not give it any more or less truth. Rich in LA CA --- On Thu, 2/24/11, Paul Gray grayp...@telus.net wrote: From: Paul Gray grayp...@telus.net Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Plain Text was Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom

[LegacyUG] RE: FYI: Custom Search URL for FindMyPast

2011-02-24 Thread Kathy Jones
Thanks James, and I just tried it using Bobby's instructions to add customized searches and it worked! Eureka!! Now I just need to understand a bit more about GETS and POST. And who said family history was boring - you learn so much every day - and not always just about family history.

Re: [LegacyUG] Plain Text was Living Flag in Legacy Gedcom export file

2011-02-24 Thread Gene Young
On 2/24/2011 10:03 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: The question is can a virus hide in embedded text, or not. What people believe does not give it any more or less truth. Rich in LA CA From the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team's web site at

[LegacyUG] Photos as Sources-----Sources for Photos

2011-02-24 Thread Olds-Wills-Anderson-Simonson Hodges-Harris-Liikala-Jukkara
I have researched the archives and pondered this issue. Should photos have sources-are photos themselves a source. I believe the answer to both is yes, It does not appear Legacy programmers think assigning a source to a photo is approporateat least I've not found a means to assign a