Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

[[Father of John]] Smith On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Jane Sarles wrote: > When I have an ancestor, whose given name I do not know, but for whom I have > information to create and event,  I should like to know what other people > use for a given name. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://ww

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

I am a member of the "just leave it blank" school. I only enter the surname in those cases. Although I work for Millennia those are my personal standards not a "recommendation". Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changin

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

On 2012/02/14 16:36, Jane Sarles wrote: > When I have an ancestor, whose given name I do not know, but for whom I have > information to create and event, I should like to know what other people use > for a given name. I have his son's name, but no clue as to his. Is it best > to > leave it blan

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

That's what I do. I put the surname in. michele -Original Message- From: Mike Fry Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:08 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use? On 2012/02/14 16:36, Jane Sarles wrote: > When I have an ancestor, whose given name

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

I always use common nicknames like Sonny, or Butch, or Junior. There are more of these for men than women. For a female I might use Sissy. Certainly these entries might be real nicknames for people in your tree, but I would always enter them in the AKA. When I see them in the Given Name field of

Re: [LegacyUG] Webinar Wednesday - 10 Brick Wall Tips for Beginners

well, shoot! I am signed up but now I am going to miss the live one but will watch online as soon as it is available. -- Myrna Jorgensen --- On Mon, 2/13/12, Geoff Rasmussen wrote: From: Geoff Rasmussen Subject: [LegacyUG] Webinar Wednesday - 10 Brick Wall Tips for Beginners To: LegacyUs

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

On 2/14/2012 8:08 AM, Mike Fry wrote: > If you know his son's name then you should, all things being equal, know the > father's surname. So, create the father without any forenames, just the > surname. Adopted ? Tim Rosenlof Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etique

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

Jane, I am also of the leave it blank brigade. However, I rarely have a father without knowing his given name. If I have siblings with no known parents, I will usually create a father with their surname and no given name, but then I add to note to say he is an ‘invented’ person. It also occurs

RE: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

It would seem to me that this would only serve to confuse people with whom you share your work. How would they know they are made up names? Bobby From: Bob Rowe [mailto:rarthurr...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:14 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [Legac

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

On 2012/02/14 17:38, Ron Ferguson wrote: > I am also of the leave it blank brigade. However, I rarely have a father > without > knowing his given name. If I have siblings with no known parents, I will > usually > create a father with their surname and no given name, but then I add to note > to

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Master List

Open the Name List using the icon in the main tool bar or go to View > Name List Click on the Print button. You can include up to 3 lines of data for each person. If you have difficulty or questions at any stage press F1 or use the help button on the screen for more information. Brian Customer Sup

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Master List

On 2012/02/14 19:26, Haynes, Roxana J. wrote: > How would I print a master list of all the names in my genealogy file? Go to the Name List then hit the Print button. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

Well, I tried putting in just the person's surname and no given name, but I sure didn't like the report that has only the single word "Secor" to start a report of him and his descendants. There is just the !.Secor that begins the report. It looks to me like it needs something more. Although I r

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

I use double brackets [[Father of John]] - these are called privacy brackets (I think) in the help file. This gives you flexibility in that you have options in reports settings to either include or exclude private data, and I am pretty sure remove the brackets as well. I usually do not include th

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.5 and source citation import?

Leonard, I may be off-base here, but when I add the person's name in either the Text or Comment field on the Source DETAIL and click the check box to include it, then it does print in the citation. For example, I was using the Ill. Death Index for a couple... same source master, same date accessed

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

I also leave it blank. I tried "Mrs. John L. Smith" to help me know whose wife she was, but that just didn't look right in reports... didn't make it obvious that I still needed to determine her name. Specifically, I do not enter the wife at all, unless I have some other information to enter for h

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils

Does anyone else on this list use Heritage Quest through their library? --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 Hi

RE: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils

I use remote access to Heritage Quest and and other sites through my library. Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:10:06 -0600 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils From: j.bullock...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Yes,I do On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] HeritageQuest

Paula I do too. Howland Davis PS. Let's not hijack subject lines in order to aid future archive searching. -Original Message- From: Paula Ryburn To: LegacyUserGroup Sent: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 2:03 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils Does anyone else on this list use Her

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

Jane, I agree! Which is one of the reasons why I have always put Mr, Miss etc, in the prefix field, even if the first name is known. Before anybody advises me, I am aware that this is non-standard but I like it! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Jane Sarles Sent: Tuesday, February 1

Re: [LegacyUG] Controlling Subsequent Citation Details [WAS: Legacy 7.5 and source citation import?]

Leonard, We had a lot of discussion about Subsequent Citations a while back. I think March of 2009 might be the most recent. I don't know if anything has changed in Legacy. I know I logged some requests. Think of a template-driven (i.e., SourceWriter) citation as consisting of 4 groupings of fiel

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

I do something very similar to what James does. When you are going through a list and you see a bunch of Sallys, blanks or unknowns, it does not lend itself well to giving you any idea how the person is related to another person in your tree. So, I would indicate very much like James and say: Su

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils

Yes. It has been very helpful...especially with the 1860 Census, which lists only the individual, but not the family, in Family Search. On 2/14/2012 12:02 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: > Does anyone else on this list use Heritage Quest through their library? > --Paula in Texas > Researching: Adair Baker

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

Just a comment from the peanut gallery, but you CAN alter the title of a report. It could read something like "Secor family in ". Maureen Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Jane Sarles wrote: > Well, I tried putting in just the person's surname and no given name, but I >

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

Depends on how you do your research. I do mine by family, working steadily backwards, so I rarely use the Name list. Also, I just last night accidentally discovered I can set more than 3 bookmarks for individuals woo hoo! ;) Legacy is still full of surprises for me. I guess what I'm saying

RE: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

Brian, I use a combination of yours and from James. The known surname and for the given name I enter eg. N N (Father of ...) At first I also used the square brackets but as Legacy uses the "[[]]" for privacy options in the report I changed to the above. Bernhard -Original Messag

[LegacyUG] Colonial Secretary's Papers and Source Writer

Hi I am new to this group, and a little nervous, but hopefully I get this right. I am wondering if anyone has entered NSW Colonial Secretary's Papers as a source in Legacy. I have found a number of supporting documents in this collection but am unsure how to enter it in Source Writer as there d

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

Very good pointt, Paula, but on our website we have hundreds of unknowns, both Paula Ryburn wrote: >Depends on how you do your research. I do mine by family, working steadily >backwards, so I rarely use the Name list. > >Also, I just last night accidentally discovered I can set more than 3 book

[LegacyUG] Web page creation performance

I've just done a little experiment creating web pages from Legacy. The results might be of interest. First I created the web pages onto D:\genealogy\Web (a regular mechanical hard disk) and copied them to C:\Legacy\Web (a solid state disk). Then I recreated exactly the same web pages and timed f

Re: [LegacyUG] Colonial Secretary's Papers and Source Writer

On 14/02/2012 22:29, Megan Hitchens wrote: > > I am new to this group, and a little nervous, but hopefully I get this > right. > > I am wondering if anyone has entered NSW Colonial Secretary's Papers as > a source in Legacy. I have found a number of supporting documents in > this collection but am

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.5 and source citation import?

Paula, Thanks. We are sill on topic: getting the source and the text comment to appear together in the footnote/endnote. Footnotes and Endnotes work the same, just a matter of where they appear and another one of those personal preferences. I use both depending on how the report in used; when rev

Re: [LegacyUG] Web page creation performance

Just delete the directory first, instead of all the file contained therein; takes seconds rather than minutes. Wm Voss On 14-Feb-12 4:11 PM, Tony Rolfe wrote: > I've just done a little experiment creating web pages from Legacy. The > results might be of interest. > > First I created the web page

Re: [LegacyUG] Controlling Subsequent Citation Details [WAS: Legacy 7.5 and source citation import?]

Ward, I just responded to Paula on Subsequent Citation Details and yes, I should have changed to a new tread. I have been using the Basic Source templates and not the SourceWriter. This is my first serious attempt in becoming familiar with Legacy, but the SourceWriter is similar to that used in FT

RE: [LegacyUG] Colonial Secretary's Papers and Source Writer

Megan I'm in the U.K. and do research worldwide - my late husband was American and I have 2 One-Name Studies that include people in Europe and Commonwealth especially. Because I have been using Legacy since before Source Writer was created I find that it's best to use that for U.S. sources onl

[LegacyUG] Relationship Problem

I am hoping someone on the List will able to explain a relationship problem to me. Just recently I found a distant cousin on Ancestry, it turns out my g grandmother is the sister of her gg grandmother. As she is one step out in the realtionship, my first thought was she was my 3rd cousin once r

Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use?

Actually all you have to do in Family view is right click on the person and then pick the menu item Add>brother or sister Russ -Original Message- From: Mike Fry Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What name to use? On 2012/

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Problem

The word “Half” means that one of them had the same mother or the same father but not both. Did you check to see that there were not two marriages in the line. Russ From: Colin Liddell Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationship P

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Problem

Russ,thank you for your reply. They both had the same parents. I had the same thought and went in to check that I had not entered the mother twice for some reason but she is the only entry, it is an unusual name, Sara Johanna Doelnif Van Die KAAP so it would not be accidently entered twice.{:-) I

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils

Yes, I have access from home to HQ through my library card and use it often. Does anyone know who, if anyone, will be putting this new census online, and when? Elizabeth == On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: > Does anyone else on this list u

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship Problem

Go further back in their ancestry. CE> From: cap...@optusnet.com.au > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Problem > Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:29:50 +1000 > > Russ,thank you for your reply. > > They both had the same parents. I had the same thought and went i

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Problem

CE, I am at the end of the line, I can go no further back at the moment. This research is in South Africa which is a difficult place to research at the best of times, I have had to rely on Baptisms to get back this far. I have Sara Johanna Doelnif Van Die KAAP who was a slave to a Dutch farmer,

Re: [LegacyUG] Colonial Secretary's Papers and Source Writer

Thank you, Carol I will do it that way. Now I can finally move forward Regards Megan   You can feel compassion regardless of whether you view the other person as a friend or an enemy. It is based on the other's fundamental rights rather than your own mental projection. - the 14th Dalai Lama

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils

Are you refering to the 1940? Ancestry and familysearch are both getting it I believe. Ancestry is running a count down they will put it online browse only ASAP and then set people to indexing it. What familysearch has to say ” On April 2, 2012, NARA will provide access to the images of the 19

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils

You can get free 1790 through 1930 Census images (as well as many other things) here: http://www.archive.org/mediatypes-browse.php?mediatype=texts I would guess they will have the 1940 Census at some point. Laird On 2/14/2012 10:55 PM, Eliz Hanebury wrote: > Are you refering to the 1940? Ancestry

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharpen Your Pencils

Images of the 1940 census will be available free through a variety of sources however without indexes. Three sites are combining resources to provide indexing through a volunteer effort. This was released last December - SALT LAKE CITY—Three leading genealogy organizations, Archives.com

[LegacyUG] Relationship Problem

If your GGM is the sister of her 2GGM, then their parents are the common ancestors. So Your 2GGP and her 3GGP are the same people. This means that you are third cousins once removed. How does this work? This couple had children, your GGM, her 2GGM and maybe others. these are siblings. These p

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Problem

If you look at that line more closely, I think you will find that at some stage a parent had two partners/spouses, and one line descends from a child from one marriage, and the other child from the second marriage. I have a half-great-uncle, Jack. His father is my great-grandfather (Eddy), his mo

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship Problem

- Original Message - From: "Tony Rolfe" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:22 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationship Problem > If your GGM is the sister of her 2GGM, then their parents are the common > ancestors. > > So Your 2GGP and her 3GGP are the same people. > > This means that