RE: [LegacyUG] Pronunciation Guide

2012-05-03 Thread CE Wood
Thanks to all the ingenious suggestions to get around a Legacy lack. I will submit a suggestion that there be a List of General Information. It should be essential for a company that struggles to include foreign users! CE Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiqu

Re: [LegacyUG] Danish Question

2012-05-03 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Amt is county/state concept in Denmark. Most of the Scandinavian Countries have 2 sets of divisions. One is the parish/bishopric and the other is the small government/large government units (secular). Both have created BMD records. I always spell a place like it is called locally, so would keep

Re: [LegacyUG] Pronunciation Guide

2012-05-03 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Create a fake person RIN 99 named ZZZPronunciation ZZZLists. You can fill up the notes and it will be either first or last. Easy to find and remember. Sorry it didn't help. From: Jenny M Benson To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Thursday, May 3

RE: [LegacyUG] Danish Question

2012-05-03 Thread Jennifer Crockett
Hi Larry 1)Amt means County. 2)I would use the English, Copenhagen, Denmark 3)No need if you use English in the place name. Wikipedia has this: Københavns Amt (English: Copenhagen County) is a former county (Danish, amt) on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. It covered the mu

Re: [LegacyUG] Pronunciation Guide

2012-05-03 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 03/05/2012 18:48, CE Wood wrote: > I am looking for a place to put stuff like this - information relevant to the > whole database. So far the only solution I've found has been to mess with > the To-Do List. For instance, there are several posters on Gen-Med who use > only initials; I have t

Re: [LegacyUG] Trouble with Index?

2012-05-03 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I don't remember e actly, but a few years ago I discovered there are two settings when adding new people. One would update immediately which drove me crazy while keypunching 200 people. The other was/is to wait to reindex until restart or turn off. I forgot where they were, but awareness of the

RE: [LegacyUG] Pronunciation Guide

2012-05-03 Thread CE Wood
Thanks, Jenny. I must not have been very clear what I was looking for, but you discerned what I meant. I am looking for a place to put stuff like this - information relevant to the whole database. So far the only solution I've found has been to mess with the To-Do List. For instance, there a

RE: [LegacyUG] Trouble with Index?

2012-05-03 Thread Linda Hauley
Thank you to you and Mike - that's exactly what's happening. I've had to shut my Legacy down and start it back up for these names to appear in the index tab. I went to another tab but that didn't seem to work. Linda -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytr

Re: [LegacyUG] Trouble with Index?

2012-05-03 Thread Mike Fry
On 2012/05/03 15:29, Linda Hauley wrote: > Is anyone having trouble with the Index tab having all the names in the > database > listed? The Name Index doesn't update immediately. Click in the RIN box and then click back in the Surname box. That should make your latest entries appear. -- Regards

Re: [LegacyUG] Trouble with Index?

2012-05-03 Thread Sherry/Support
If you have selected to Include Alternate Names and/or Include Married Names, new individuals won't show up right away.  If you go to a different tab and then back, then they should show up. This is a known problem which the programmers are working on/ Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy

[LegacyUG] Trouble with Index?

2012-05-03 Thread Linda Hauley
Is anyone having trouble with the Index tab having all the names in the database listed? I have just added three unrelated couples with their marriage date because I know they will connect with the rest of my tree - I just have to follow up with more research. After putting these couples in

Re: [LegacyUG] Pronunciation Guide

2012-05-03 Thread Wes Jester
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:49 PM, CE Wood wrote: > I need to create a pronunciation guide for names, places, etc.  How would I > best do that? > My suggestion is to use something similar to a language pronunciation giude. Just use two columns instead of three EnglishFrench

Re: [LegacyUG] Pronunciation Guide

2012-05-03 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 02/05/2012 23:49, CE Wood wrote: > I need to create a pronunciation guide for names, places, etc. How would I > best do that? I would use the Individual's General Notes and/or use Location Notes. It rather depends on how you plan to pass on your information. If you are going to give your rel

Re: [LegacyUG] Pronunciation Guide

2012-05-03 Thread Ron Ferguson
I suggest that you Google "phonetic Welsh pronunciation" (without the quotes). I have had a look at the first few and http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Welsh_pronunciation seems to be pretty good, as does http://www.omniglot.com/writing/welsh.htm The pronunciation of letters is very different