Re: [LegacyUG] Direct line preferred

2012-10-10 Thread Brian/Support
If you read the help file for the set direct line as preferred sceen you will find that it explicitly says it sets the direct line ancestors of the selected person as preferred. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- On

Re: [LegacyUG] Direct line preferred

2012-10-10 Thread R G Strong-genes
Plus when the window opens to set the preferred line, the Window Title says Set Direct Line Ancestors As Preferred Line and then above the box for the person to set it says Set this person's direct-line ancestors as the Preferred line -Original Message- From: Brian/Support Sent:

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread Colin Liddell
They are well worth the money, I bought both sets! Colin - Original Message - From: MJ SA michs...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:29 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Would I be better off buying the training videos? Any opinions? Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Family Search files and your next generation

2012-10-10 Thread Anthony Punnett
I have also been thinking about that but I intend to create a book, in PDF format, with as much information as I have, record it on CD or DVD, distribute it to immediate family and digitally (by e-mail) to others who have been interested. I also intend to leave the Legacy program and files on the

Re: [LegacyUG] Family Search files and your next generation

2012-10-10 Thread Wes
On 10/9/2012 11:44 PM, Modena1920 wrote: I thought of a question yesterday: If I died tomorrow, who would know how to access, navigate, restore my legacy, or other genealogy files? I helped a neighbor go through her fathers possessions, I could tell that he had done massive amounts of

Re: [LegacyUG] Are There Settings for Chart Page Breaks

2012-10-10 Thread Sherry/Support
Unfortunately, at this time it's not possible to get page breaks that don't overlap information. However, it's pretty easy to either export the file to PDF and take it to Kinko's or another printer or order the chart through our printer and just have it one on continuous sheet. Just click on the

Re: [LegacyUG] Family Search files and your next generation

2012-10-10 Thread SHIRLEY ANDERSON
For many years none of my children were interested. One of my daughters promised to store my materials until someone was interested. More recently another daughter has become interested. She is doing a limited amount of research herself. For birthdays I have given her memberships to various

Re: [LegacyUG] cleaning and finding my family tree

2012-10-10 Thread MJ SA
I just meant the CD's to learn the program, I will call tech support in a bit. Thank you On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Bobby Johnson b...@brmemc.net wrote: I agree with Ron that the training CD's will not give you any help with the problem you are experiencing. One thing you might consider

RE: [LegacyUG] Basic Source Format vs Source Writer

2012-10-10 Thread Michele Lewis
NARA is the National Archives and Records Administration. They are the record keeper for the federal government. Michele From: Don Hendershot [mailto:donald.henders...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:26 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Cc:

[LegacyUG] Report wording and use of [FullName]

2012-10-10 Thread Pat Hickin
In an ancestor, e.g., report, before listing the children, there is the following wording: Children from their marriage were: Rather than just using the pronoun their, I want to put in the *names*of the parents: I know that in place of their I can insert [FullName] and it will give

Re: [LegacyUG] Basic Source Format vs Source Writer

2012-10-10 Thread Don Hendershot
Thanks Michele Lee! ~Don On Oct 10, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Lee Bruch lbr...@nwlink.com wrote: NARA = National Archives and Record Administration. If you are anywhere in the neighborhood of one of the regional National Archives repositories be sure to drop in. They can be immensely helpful to

Re: [LegacyUG] Basic Source Format vs Source Writer

2012-10-10 Thread Ron Bernier
National Archives and Records Administration Don Hendershot wrote: Please excuse the newbie question. What does the NARA mneumonic mean? Thanks, ~DonH On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:35 AM, mvmc...@aol.com mailto:mvmc...@aol.com wrote: The current NARA GIL [General Information Leaflet] is: (GIL

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread MJ SA
Legacy 8 is coming out soon, anyone know a date? On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Colin Liddell cap...@optusnet.com.au wrote: They are well worth the money, I bought both sets! Colin - Original Message - From: MJ SA michs...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Sent:

[LegacyUG] What to do with genealogical files after death of compiler

2012-10-10 Thread Emily Moore
The Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne is happy to receive donations of genealogical records (paper or electronic) regarding deceased individuals. Also, local genealogical or historical societies may want such records. Emily Sent from my iPhone On Oct 9, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Modena1920

RE: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread David C Abernathy
I have NOT heard, but I bet it will be out for the Christmas rush! Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers This message represents the official view of the voices in my head.

RE: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread Ron Ferguson
I doubt it! To answer the question the company does not give advance dates, and after the mess in the launch of Legacy 7.0 I hope that it will never again even give a hint. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 David C Abernathy da...@schmeckabernathy.com wrote: I have NOT heard,

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread Bain Family
I have the training DVDs and the printed manual. I think they were well worth the investment to get me started on the right foot. I especially appreciated learning how to properly save sources to the clipboard and copy/paste events -- what time savers! Go for it! Lana -Original

Re: [LegacyUG] Report wording and use of [FullName]

2012-10-10 Thread Brian/Support
Use [couplenames] to have the names of the husband and wife included. Be sure though that the report section is for a family. If you try that for a report for an individual you will only get the person's name. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread BOB CUNNINGHAM
    MJ SA Where did you get the Info about the release of 8.  As Ron says in his mai,l after the fiasco when 7 was released I think it would be a great mistake for Legacy to even hint when it would be releasing 8. Regards Bob Cunningham From: MJ SA

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Numerous Individual Reports

2012-10-10 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 10/10/2012 19:04, Chuck Schober wrote: I wish to print an Individual Report for numerous individuals. What is the most efficient way to do this? See Record Selection on the Individual Report main screen. Lots of options to choose from. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Numerous Individual Reports

2012-10-10 Thread JLB
Thank-you. I was wondering the same thing. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 10/10/2012 11:34 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: On 10/10/2012 19:04, Chuck Schober wrote: I wish to print an Individual Report for numerous individuals. What is

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread MJ SA
Lol, Ron :) I just read a very confusing article on the internet, that Legacy and Win 7, 64 bit are not compatible On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Bain Family rlcb...@gotsky.com wrote: I have the training DVDs and the printed manual. I think they were well worth the investment to get me

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread Ron Bernier
I am running Legacy 7.xxx on a computer running Win 7 Ultimate - 64 Bit. I have not experienced any problems what so ever. 2 weeks ago my hard drive gave up the ghost. After installing a new hard drive, I reinstalled all of my software. I then restored my back up file(s) without any problems.

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread Ron Ferguson
I think that my last message became garbled! Please can you send me the URL as I would like to read it. I know of one blogger who insists that Legacy will not run on Vista 64bit and does/will not accept that he is wrong! I wonder if it is the same person? Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread MJ SA
Ron, Sure, am I allowed to put the url on this thread? On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I think that my last message became garbled! Please can you send me the URL as I would like to read it. I know of one blogger who insists that Legacy will

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread MJ SA
Ron Bernier, I have been wanting to throw this laptop out the window since I got it 2 years ago. I am waiting for Windows 8 to come out to get a new laptop. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:15 PM, MJ SA michs...@gmail.com wrote: Ron, Sure, am I allowed to put the url on this thread? On Wed, Oct 10,

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread Ron Ferguson
No problem Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 MJ SA michs...@gmail.com wrote: Ron, Sure, am I allowed to put the url on this thread? On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I think that my last message became garbled! Please can you

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread Confused
On 10/10/2012 1:16 PM, MJ SA wrote: I have been wanting to throw this laptop out the window since I got it 2 years ago. I am waiting for Windows 8 to come out to get a new laptop. My guess is you will still throw it out the window :) -- Confused Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread Bob
On 2012-10-10 12:39, Ron Ferguson wrote: ...and after the mess in the launch of Legacy 7.0 I hope that it will never again even give a hint. After the mess in the launch of Legacy 6.0 I thought that it would never happen again! I bought Legacy 7.0 as soon as it came out, confident that they

[LegacyUG] Report Output to Spreadsheet

2012-10-10 Thread Gary Davis
I would like to sort a file containing about 700 records produced by tagging people in Legacy using a spreadsheet program. Is there a way to get the output from legacy into a format I could load into Lotus 123 (or Excel)? I have saved it as a .pdf file, and then converted that to Excel, but that

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-10 Thread MJ SA
When tech support calls me back, I am sure they will fix my problems. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Bob byoabm8a4h...@wowway.com wrote: On 2012-10-10 13:49, MJ SA wrote: I just read a very confusing article on the internet, that Legacy and Win 7, 64 bit are not compatible Legacy does not

Re: [LegacyUG] Report Output to Spreadsheet

2012-10-10 Thread Ron Ferguson
Gary, Save it as a CSV file. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 Gary Davis gadav...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I would like to sort a file containing about 700 records produced by tagging people in Legacy using a spreadsheet program. Is there a way to get the output from legacy into a

[LegacyUG] Centering of Descendant Chart

2012-10-10 Thread RHS Consulting
To: Sherry/Support Thanks for the page break information. I will think about it. The cost of packing (rolling up) and shipping large charts also needs to be considered. My standard (horizontal) descendant chart is not centered. The boxes all start in the upper left corner and work

Re: [LegacyUG] relationships

2012-10-10 Thread Wendy Howard
Tools Set Relationships Note that you can change the starting person, you don't have to navigate to that person first. Consider the options available, then click on Set Relationships and wait while it does its thing. When it's done, the relationship of the husband and wife to the starting

Re: [LegacyUG] relationships

2012-10-10 Thread Susan Perrett
Select your person, e.g. yourself, go to Tools - Set Relationship, then everyone in your database will have how they are related to you in the gap between yourself and your parents. There is a little window for you to make certain selections. At 10:15 AM 11/10/2012, you wrote: I am trying to find

Re: [LegacyUG] Report wording and use of [FullName]

2012-10-10 Thread Pat Hickin
Fabulous-- Thanks, Brian! Pat On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.comwrote: Use [couplenames] to have the names of the husband and wife included. Be sure though that the report section is for a family. If you try that for a report for an individual you will

Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with genealogical files after death of compi ler

2012-10-10 Thread gcr...@juno.com
This is (or should be!) a concern of all of us who spend a 'lifetime' researching. Just so happens I've been doing this very thing for my family - what to do when the time comes I'm either gone or incapacitated so as not to be 'with it'. I've prepared a couple of 'user guides A User Guide of

Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with genealogical files after death of compi ler

2012-10-10 Thread JLB
Having also written User Guides called READ ME files, about a dozen to cover everything computer related, including Legacy and the ancestors of course, there's another essential part to this. That's the cover letter that you actually print and put somewhere easily accessible. (In my case, in an

RE: [LegacyUG] What to do with genealogical files after death of compi ler

2012-10-10 Thread David C Abernathy
You need to include ALL account names and passwords for accessing the computer itself, any monies accounts, data and etc. I have helped way to many widowed persons access their deceased spouse's data that was passworded. Hacking is not always fun, but in cases like tis it is needed to be done.