Why is Help so unhelpful! I'm always frustrated by trying to find a n y t h i
n g in Help. When I do find an answer it starts somewhere after the
beginning, so I don't know where to find it.
I just spent 15 mins looking for 'no children.' A report said 'one daughter,
no given name'
On 2012/01/07 16:20, BF wrote:
To illustrate my point, here's what I got when I searched - For ‘gender
unknown’
You're not searching for the phrase 'gender unknown', but all indexed
occurrences of the two words 'gender' and 'unknown'.
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg
Legacy User Group
Oh, do I have to search with ' ' enclosing? I'll try that. Thanks.
From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help files
On 2012/01/07 16:20, BF wrote:
To illustrate
Are you looking in the Index or Search tab? Single words are best.
I'm not sure why you were looking for no children - what
specifically were you hoping to find out?
Using the Index tab for Gender, I was taken to the topic on the
Information Screen and it says
Gender
Select the appropriate
On 1/7/2012 9:20 AM, BF wrote:
Why is Help so unhelpful! I'm always frustrated by trying to find a n y
t h i n g in Help. When I do find an answer it starts somewhere after
the beginning, so I don't know where to find it.
You are being too specific in your search. I just tried to search for
How to enter 'no chldn' so a report doesn't show - one dau, no name!
From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help files
Are you looking in the Index
Thanks Gene, 'marriage info' would not have occurred to me to find no children.
From: Gene Young n2...@cfl.rr.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help files
On 1/7/2012 9:20 AM, BF wrote:
If there aren't any children, don't add any. If you know for a fact
that the couple never had any children, mark that option on the
Marriage Information window.
If there's a possibility of a child but you don't know any more, don't
add any and don't mark the option on the Marriage Information
On 07/01/2012 14:20, BF wrote:
Why is Help so unhelpful! I'm always frustrated by trying to find a n
y t h i n g in Help. When I do find an answer it starts somewhere
after the beginning, so I don't know where to find it.
As some of the things you are looking for are really rather basic
Sounds like you may have entered a nameless female child to this marriage.
Producing no children IS a characteristic of the marriage... hence on the
marriage screen / under the marriage info topic in help.
I second the motion made by someone else on this list: use just one word in the
Help, and
Good point, Sherry! I hadn't thought of it that way. 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 Harbaugh Hind
Jennie, I've been doing genealogy for 20+ yrs and basically
only used FTM; don't like their association with ancestry.com. Legacy
sounded good, and the good things I like, but as someone said 'I would rather
be doing genealogy than learning how to program Legacy.' I will be bored silly
going
In the 1871 UK Census John (age 78) and Mary (age 69) Smith have in their
household in addition to only themselves Peter Jones - identified as
son-in-law - age 6 [six]!
If Peter's age were 26 I'd think he was the husband of John and Mary's
daughter. In that case, I'd enter a [blank] female
but as someone said 'I would rather be
doing genealogy than learning how to program Legacy.'
I really think that person was taking the wrong approach. Of course
it's perfectly possible to do genealogy without learning to program (I
would prefer to use the word use in this context) - people did
Betty,
Jenny answered your questions appropriately, however, I would like to address
one specific issue in your email with which I am very well familiar with, i.e.;
This UG seems to be the only place to get answers, but frequently they come
with the ‘you should have known that’ attitude.
When
Amen to that Jenny.
If one can not be bothered with how the programs work...then maybe their best
tool is a pencil and paper.
Gene
From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 11:04 AM
Click on Help then the Search tab then enter no children including the quote
marks. That tells the search engine to look for the words together and then
each help file with those words together can be examined and those words will
be highlighted in the text to make it easy to spot. If you
Jenny -
Thanx for your response. John and Mary had six known children - all
accounted for in 1871 (dead or elsewhere in the census).
You have raised an intriguing possibility - that Mary had been married
previously. That had been raised but discarded previously :-)
Also, all grandchildren have
Gene,
I think that you are, perhaps, being a little unfair, surely a pen rather than
a pencil !
Seriously though, I think that we should realise that for a newcomer to the
program, Legacy does have a pretty steep learning curve – and with all the new
stuff it’s getting steeper. Even 10 years
John,
As Jenny has indicated, family relationships used to be far less precise than
today’s usage. A grandchild is certainly a possibility, and probably the most
likely, but I would not exclude (great) nephews/nieces or even cousins.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
From: John Roose
Thanx Ron. I was hoping you'd chime in :-)
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.ukwrote:
John,
As Jenny has indicated, family relationships used to be far less precise
than today’s usage. A grandchild is certainly a possibility, and probably
the most
Just checked the manual for Legacy 7.0 (which I occasionally look at).
Usually, I just search the help system as it is pretty complete.
On page 27 it clearly states For a complete description o how to use the
online Help system, choose How to Use Help from the Help menu.
I had never tried
That was taken out in v6, probaby when they switched from the old
style of Help to the new style to run under Windows Vista. Legacy's
Help file is based on the standard Windows Help and works like help
files in just about every other program that uses the standard Windows
Help file.
I can't
On 2012/01/07 23:16, Sherry/Support wrote:
I can't imagine that it needs much explanation - the Index tab helps
you search indexed topics, the Search tab is an everyword search and
the Favorites tab is where you bookmark Help topics you use a lot.
Ahem! I have a copy of the Microsoft Help for
Ron, your answers are always THE best. I look forward to the Ferguson Genealogy Software!BettyFL From: Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help files
Gene,
I think that you are,
Thanks, Betty, but I think I’ll stick to websites and leave the heavy lifting
to somebody else – it’s my arthritis that does it!
Ron Ferguson,
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
From: BF
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 11:02 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help files
I'll second that Betty. But maybe a knighthood? Sir Ron has a certain ring to
it.
Cheers
Shirley
NZ
- Original Message -
From: Ron Ferguson
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help files
Thanks, Betty, but I
Yeah... :-) you have a fan club, Ron. And I know Jennie is a participant too. From: Shirley Richardson shirleyr...@clear.net.nz To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help files
I'll second that Betty. But maybe a
Thank you, Jenny! And I'm glad you have a sense of humor!
Roxanne
From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Unique Question Regarding
Mike,
That was precisely the kind of How to use Help that should be somewhere in
the Legacy help files or at least a link to the write-up that you cited.
Thanks for that info. If, as Sherry reported, the Legacy help system is now
based on the Windows protocol, then all of these methods should
Hi all
I was wondering about an adoption I cam across and how to record it within my
records.
The child was born 1897 without a father, no mother is stated either.
A family adopted here in 1901 and changed here name to their surname and also
changed her
christian names. How would I record this
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