Re: [LegacyUG] FHC introductory class

2011-11-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 30/11/2011 03:54, Maureen Lake wrote: > Thanks for the responses. I'm in Las Vegas. I didn't want to presume > where the videos were concerned - it can get dicey and feelings can get > hurt. You could also have the class work through the tutorials which are listed when you click Help>Show Hel

Re: [LegacyUG] Dropbox Woes

2011-11-30 Thread Randy Clark
Were you copying or moving the files to the Dropbox folder or was your family file living in the Dropbox folder? On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Roxanne wrote: > I don't think I have a question so much as a caution. I had my Legacy > files on my Desktop, and also on Dropbox. I'd check every no

Fw: [LegacyUG] Now what's wrong???

2011-11-30 Thread Phil
Hi, I have sorted the problem now. Thank you for all your help Regards Philip Rooke -Original Message- From: Phil Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:46 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Now what's wrong??? Hi Sherry, I wonder if you can explain the problem I am

[LegacyUG] Shoeck's not in index

2011-11-30 Thread BF
How do I get my Shoeck's to appear in the index.  There are 8 of them.  If I go to Index and type Shoeck, there is nothing.  I have to remember a wife then after I can see the name in a family file, THEN go to Index, they're there.  (New redownload is working better than ever.) Betty FL Legac

Re: [LegacyUG] Shoeck's not in index

2011-11-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 30/11/2011 12:45, BF wrote: > How do I get my Shoeck's to appear in the index. There are 8 of them. > If I go to Index and type Shoeck, there is nothing. I have to remember > a wife then after I can see the name in a family file, THEN go to Index, > they're there. If you click in the Surname

[LegacyUG] Today's Google+ webinar by Dan Lynch

2011-11-30 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
Looking forward to today's webinar, A Closer Look at Google+ by Dan Lynch. He's got some great door prizes to give away too and a pretty big announcement about his book, Google Your Family History. There are nearly 1,400 registered, so join early (at least 20 minutes early) to ensure your virtua

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations list

2011-11-30 Thread Tim Rosenlof
Do What ? You need to leave enough so we can see ? Tim Rosenlof On 11/29/2011 10:48 PM, Tony Rolfe wrote: > That's a shame. I wonder if there is any way of doing it through LTools > with a bit of magic SQL. > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations

2011-11-30 Thread Paula Ryburn
I know I'm reading this thread a bit late, but... Well put, Kirsten! Thanks! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harba

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations (addresses)

2011-11-30 Thread Paula Ryburn
Sherry, What bothered me about using the address table was that when I printed reports to include addresses, I got something that looked like this: Jane Doe was born 1 Jan 1900 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan (St. John's Hospital, Detroit, Michigan). Too much redundancy. So, now I have a mix of

Re: [LegacyUG] Thanks.. Ancestor colour coding

2011-11-30 Thread Paula Ryburn
John, Right now I use 6 colors (binders)... 4 for my ancestors and 2 for my husband's. I just re-set the colors depending on which ancestors I'm working on at the time. I also don't use the 4 "they" specify, because I started years ago with certain colors and that's how my brain thinks of them (

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations (addresses)

2011-11-30 Thread Sherry/Support
On the Include tab of Report Options is an option "Addr for birth, chr, death, bur., marr". To remove the addresses from the report, deselect that option I have my cemeteries, hospitals, etc entered as Events because there's so much more flexibility with reporting on Events. Sincerely, Sherry Te

Re: [LegacyUG] Making note of (inaccurate) information on census

2011-11-30 Thread Paula Ryburn
Kathy, Although I've not had the wrong gender for an ancestor on the census, I've had many misspelled. I typically do add a census event for each individual (but not exactly "how Geoff does it"), and in the misspelling cases, I typically indicate such in the Event Notes. "Besse was incorrectly r

Re: [LegacyUG] Dropbox Woes

2011-11-30 Thread anairene
Roxanne - I wonder if you set Legacy to open the family files on your desktop rather than the files in Dropbox. Dropbox only "knows" the files in it's folders. It can't update files it knows nothing about. 1. In my Dropbox Folder on my C drive, I created a folder named Legacy. Then I moved m

[LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-11-30 Thread Marli Yoder
Have I missed a thread? I'm trying to change all of my basic sources to Sourcewrite. I have the manual- states go to Master Source List-Options- then I do not see the next step-Choose Source Template Conversion tools. I have build 7.5.0.112.  Marli Yoder A & M Farms Eureka & Sturgeon Missouri Abbe

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations (addresses)

2011-11-30 Thread Paula Ryburn
Not what I meant, but thanks anyway. --Paula From: Sherry/Support To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, November 30, 2011 10:07:44 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations (addresses) On the Include tab of Report Options is an option "Addr for birth, chr

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations (addresses)

2011-11-30 Thread Sherry/Support
I'm not sure what you meant then... You were asking about removing the duplcation of the addresses next to the locatons? Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Paula Ryburn wrote: > Not what I meant, but thanks anyway. > > --Paula > > > __

Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-11-30 Thread Paula Ryburn
Marli, I don't think they ever released that functionality. Search the archives for threads on how to do that. I've converted some, but had to use Access for one part of the process. Since I was cleaning up a lot of things at the time, I generally added new ones and re-did the citations... not

Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-11-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 30/11/2011 16:45, Marli Yoder wrote: > Have I missed a thread? I'm trying to change all of my basic sources to > Sourcewrite. I have the manual- states go to Master Source List-Options- > then I do not see the next step-Choose Source Template Conversion tools. > I have build 7.5.0.112. I think

Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-11-30 Thread Marli Yoder
Paula- did you do it family wise, or source wise? I have 800 people using a census source-(all different notes and geographic locations) It would seem that family wise would be best? Thanks Marli From: Paula Ryburn To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed,

Re: [LegacyUG] Shoeck's not in index

2011-11-30 Thread BF
Yes, they're in the list.  Spelling it is!  Even here... correct spelling is Schoeck.  Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Jenny. Betty FL From: Jenny M Benson To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [Legac

RE: [LegacyUG] Locations (addresses)

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Gray
Sherry and everyone, I wonder if the duplication that Paula is referring to is that the city, state/province, and country can be recorded are (or more correctly, can be recorded) in both the location field and the address field. Assume that one records a burial location with city, county, stat

Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-11-30 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I agree. It has been pending for years. L.5 or L6 forgot when.Rich in LA CA --- On Wed, 11/30/11, Marli Yoder wrote: From: Marli Yoder Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 9:03 AM Large whine on it not m

Re: [LegacyUG] Dropbox Woes

2011-11-30 Thread Roxanne
Randy; my files live on my desktop, in their own corner. I was copying and pasting from the desktop home to the Dropbox folder. Roxanne From: Randy Clark To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:33 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Drop

[LegacyUG] relationship indicators

2011-11-30 Thread Kathy Meyer
I have the relationship indicator turned on so it shows right above their name. Love that feature by the way :-) I have a 5th great grandfather/grandmother that shows up and the name is 'bolded' to show the direct line (another cool feature). For some reason, when I entered the parents for the 5

Re: [LegacyUG] FHC introductory class

2011-11-30 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I teach class Burbank CA. Send privately, --- On Tue, 11/29/11, Maureen Lakivatelye wrote: From: Maureen Lake Subject: [LegacyUG] FHC introductory class To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 5:16 PM I volunteer four days a week at the local Family History Center.

RE: [LegacyUG] relationship indicators

2011-11-30 Thread Jan Roberts
Have you re-set the relationship calculator since adding the new people (i.e. parents of 5th great grandfather)? You have to reset after entering new people. I wouldn’t do it after entering each individual – I’d enter a few and then recalculate if you need the relationship to help you enter mo

Re: [LegacyUG] Dropbox Woes

2011-11-30 Thread Kathy Meyer
I think someone else said this and gave more detailed instructions but I thought I'd chime in here. I was kinda doing what you are and that just got too much like work :-) Save your Legacy working file to your Dropbox folder and leave it there. All you have to do is 'save as' from your Legacy pr

Re: [LegacyUG] relationship indicators

2011-11-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 30/11/2011 21:43, Kathy Meyer wrote: > I have the relationship indicator turned on so it shows right above > their name. Love that feature by the way :-) > I have a 5th great grandfather/grandmother that shows up and the name is > 'bolded' to show the direct line (another cool feature). > For s

Re: [LegacyUG] relationship indicators

2011-11-30 Thread Kathy Meyer
I''m not sure what 're-set' is. I have gone into the relationships window and looked and it is set to 999. I opened the relationship calculator with the 6th great selected and clicked 'calculate relationships' and it still didn't change...I know I'm missing something simple.Sorry if I'm being

Re: [LegacyUG] relationship indicators

2011-11-30 Thread Kathy Meyer
Aha! I found it! thanks! Kathy On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Kathy Meyer wrote: > I''m not sure what 're-set' is. I have gone into the relationships window > and looked and it is set to 999. I opened the relationship calculator with > the 6th great selected and clicked 'calculate relation

[LegacyUG] Locations list

2011-11-30 Thread Tony Rolfe
Sorry, Tim. I'm in the happy position of being subscribed, but not getting e-mails. Thus, I always look at things at the thread level, rather than the individual message level, and I can't reply to messages, since I don't actually get them. I must remember to copy relevant bits of the message.

Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-11-30 Thread Sherry/Support
The SourceWriter was introduced in v7. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: > > I agree. It has been pending for years. L.5 or L6 forgot when. > Rich in LA CA > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyT

[LegacyUG] Checking to see if I am subscribed

2011-11-30 Thread Lloyd L. Hite
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Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-11-30 Thread Nita Phillips
Sherry, I am having a terrible time getting information entered correctly in the SourceWriter to get a proper bibliography! It is what I am doing, I am certain. I can find no good directions on how to enter info in order to have the output in the proper bibliography form. What does Recipient mea

Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-11-30 Thread Sherry/Support
The person who received Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Nita Phillips wrote: > Sherry, I am having a terrible time getting information entered correctly in > the SourceWriter to get a proper bibliography!  It is what I am doing, I am

[LegacyUG] Variation of Names

2011-11-30 Thread Carmen
I heard Geoff speak of a website that will provide the variations of a surname, does anyone remember it? Thanks, Carmen Legacy User Group guidelines:http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.aspArchived messages after Nov. 21 2009:http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/Arc

Re: [LegacyUG] Variation of Names

2011-11-30 Thread Robert E. Carneal
*Is this what you are looking for? http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2008/04/how-to-find-sur.html Robert * On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Carmen wrote: heard Geoff speak of a website that will provide the variations of a surname, does anyone remember it? Thanks, Carmen > > Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Variation of Names

2011-11-30 Thread Carmen
That's it ... thanks so much. From: Robert E. Carneal To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, November 30, 2011 8:39:50 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Variation of Names Is this what you are looking for? http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2008/04/

[LegacyUG] Cemeteries, Hospitals in Event Fields - Was: Locations

2011-11-30 Thread Jerry
Hi again Sherry. Can you give me an example of how you use cemeteries and hospitals as events? I've been putting them in the adjacent note fields to which they apply (birth, death, etc.). What title does the event have? I just like to know what others are doing to see if it makes more sense

[LegacyUG] new numbering system

2011-11-30 Thread Ron Taylor
A few days ago, someone mentioned a new numbering system. I intended to do some research on it but now can not find that message. Seems like it was a descendant numbering scheme like Henry numbers or d'Aboville. Hope someone out there will remember the name or the message that it was in. Tha

Re: [LegacyUG] Cemeteries, Hospitals in Event Fields - Was: Locations

2011-11-30 Thread Sherry/Support
I put the name of the cemetery or hospital in the Description field, date buried or of hospitalization in the date field and city, county, state and country in the Place field. I have a whole notes section for any further information about the cemetery or hospital - plot number, etc or just more i

Re: [LegacyUG] Cemeteries, Hospitals in Event Fields - Was: Locations

2011-11-30 Thread Jerry
Thanks Sherry - I'll take a closer look at that.--Jerry Boor / http://www.MerriamFamilyTree.org On 11/30/2011 10:04 PM, Sherry/Support wrote: > I put the name of the cemetery or hospital in the Description field, > date buried or of hospitalization in the date field and city, county, > state a

Re: [LegacyUG] Source template conversion tool

2011-11-30 Thread Nita Phillips
I understand that it means the person that receives it, whatever it is - but would that mean that I would enter my name as the person that received the information from whomever? If so, my name would be entered multiple times. Nita -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support Sent: Wednesday,

[LegacyUG] Pedigree Index

2011-11-30 Thread Jill King
I am trying to print an index of my pedigree chart.  When I do 5 generations, I get an index, but anything over that I get a blank page for my last page with no index.  I have the Index Options chosen to print a name index.  What am I missing? J.King Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.Leg

[LegacyUG] surname report

2011-11-30 Thread Nancy J Corey
Wondering if there's a way to do a surname only report--a report from a specific individual, but only the patriarch line?? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com