Re: [LegacyUG] Family changed surname

2012-12-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Robert, Ultimately the decision is yours, after having taken into consideration all the factors which contribute towards the degree of certainty regarding the original name. These include things such as the current spelling of the name, and documentary evidence as to a previous spelling. I hav

Re: [LegacyUG] Family changed surname

2012-12-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 05/12/2012 07:34, Robert Fletcher wrote: > I have a similar problem, and since changing over to Legacy I am trying > to get my database genealogically correct. My great grandfather, Andrew > George Johnson, was born in Sweden. All family history and only one > mention in a letter referred to thi

Re: [LegacyUG] Event sentences

2012-12-05 Thread R G Strong-genes
Because that is the way the OP (Pat Hickin) made it. From: CE WOOD Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 11:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Event sentences Is there some reason why this thread is called "Event Sentences" when it is about locations? Many people who mi

Re: [LegacyUG] Family changed surname

2012-12-05 Thread Robert Fletcher
Ron, thank you you have rekindles the flame and I need to look into this again as it was about 5 years ago when I just started. The letter is not a direct link as it is one family member repeating what we were all told, that he came from Sweden. I guess in the meantime all I can do is to document h

Re: [LegacyUG] Organizing scans

2012-12-05 Thread Pat Hickin
Thanks, Wes, That's helpful!! Pat On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Wes wrote: > On 04-Dec-2012 9:08 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: > > Speaking of archival scans and lower dpi scans attached to Legacy > > leads me to wonder how you organize your files of same. > > > > Pat > > > I use 2 directories; one i

Re: [LegacyUG] Digital Images webinar now online

2012-12-05 Thread Lucie Vaccaro Bailey
WOW!!! Must say that today's webinar was extremely helpful. I found a record of my husband's ggrandmother's 1 marriage in Canada which proves a record I found yrs ago is correct . Lu On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Colin Liddell wrote: > Many thanks Brian, I finally found it, I was passing the cu

Re: [LegacyUG] Organizing scans

2012-12-05 Thread Pat Hickin
If I'm doing the scanning, I ordinarily do them t the highest resolution possible, which is 1200 dpi. I've ordinarily done them as .jpgs, tho I guess I should be doing them as tiffs. Pat On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > Just curious because you don’t mention it, but

Re: [LegacyUG] Organizing scans

2012-12-05 Thread Mike Fry
On 2012/12/05 23:41, Pat Hickin wrote: > If I'm doing the scanning, I ordinarily do them t the highest resolution > possible, which is 1200 dpi. I've ordinarily done them as .jpgs, tho I > guess I > should be doing them as tiffs. Yup! Also, to protect yourself for the future, mark the archival

RE: [LegacyUG] Organizing scans

2012-12-05 Thread Ron Ferguson
Pat, I basically agree with Brian. The disadvantage with a jpg is that if it is repeatedly saved, for example after editing, it will loose quality, whereas a tiff will not. --- Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 "Brian L. Lightfoot" wrote: >Then you are doing it correctly, name

[LegacyUG] Organizing scans

2012-12-05 Thread Tony Rolfe
I organise scans, downloaded images, PDF documents etc. according to the following scheme: 1. I have a D:\Genealogy directory for all my genealogy stuff, except that which has to go in C:\Legacy. This contains, among others, \Data, \Marriages and \Places sub-folders 2. Anything which relates t

Re: [LegacyUG] Organizing scans

2012-12-05 Thread Pat Hickin
Thanks, Tony, that's helpful! But tell me, what does the "M0123" in "M0123 Joseph Smith and Mary Ann Brown" stand for? Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.c

Re: [LegacyUG] Organizing scans

2012-12-05 Thread Brian/Support
See para 2 of his email. It is the MRIN, Marriage Record Identification Number, the marriage equivalent of the RIN for people. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- On 05/12/2012 17:59, Pat Hickin wrote: > Thanks, Tony, that's h

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy problems

2012-12-05 Thread MJ SA
Hi, thank you!!! I think this is going to work for me. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Sorry, I meant to mention that the "Safely Remove Icon" is in the hidden > icons on the task bar. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > -Original Message- > From: Ron

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy problems

2012-12-05 Thread MJ SA
New Problem. When I close Legacy on my desktop it closes to Backup to another folder I had created and than I set it to backup to the Data Folder and it goes to the folder I created, not the data folder. How do I change this? On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:38 PM, MJ SA wrote: > Hi, thank you!!! I th

[LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives that don't have legacy

2012-12-05 Thread MJ SA
I want to email my cousin her line of the family tree. Will the charts work? I can only save it as a ".lwc" She doesn't have legacy, so will she be able to open the file? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://ww

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives that don't have legacy

2012-12-05 Thread Eliz Hanebury
She will if she is willing to down load legacy! No reason not to Eliz On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:13 PM, MJ SA wrote: > I want to email my cousin her line of the family tree. Will the > charts work? I can only save it as a ".lwc" She doesn't have legacy, > so will she be able to open the file?

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives that don't have legacy

2012-12-05 Thread Susan Perrett
Unless she has Legacy Charting, she will not be able to open the file. Ask her to download the FREE version of Legacy to view the file At 01:13 PM 6/12/2012, you wrote: >I want to email my cousin her line of the family tree. Will the >charts work? I can only save it as a ".lwc" She doesn't have

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives that don't have legacy

2012-12-05 Thread MJ SA
A few of my relatives would like to see the family tree as a nice chart, but these are elderly people, it is amazing they know how to use the computer as it is. There has to be another way. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Susan Perrett wrote: > Unless she has Legacy Charting, she will not be ab

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives that don't have legacy

2012-12-05 Thread Rich Falzini
You can create a descendant report, and when doing so save it as a PDF file. You can then attach this to your email and send it to her. If you need to know how to do this mail me Rich Rfalzini@yahoo. Com Sent from my iPhone On Dec 5, 2012, at 9:13 PM, MJ SA wrote: > I want to email my cousi

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives that don't have legacy

2012-12-05 Thread MJ SA
Can you just explain it to me on this email, I am sure others may want to know how to do it also. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Rich Falzini wrote: > You can create a descendant report, and when doing so save it as a PDF file. > > You can then attach this to your email and send it to her. > > I

Re: [LegacyUG] Organizing scans

2012-12-05 Thread Pat Hickin
Well, of course -- I was reading it as an "MO" rather than an "M0." * :-(* Whatever happened to those slash marks they ysed to put in zeroes? Thanks, Brian! Pat On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Brian/Support wrote: > See para 2 of his email. It is the MRIN, Marriage Record Identification > Numb

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives that don't have legacy

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Falzini
Here is how I share my file 1. Open legacy and go to your earliest ancestor on the section you wish to mail 2. Then Click reports then all reports 3. from here click descendants 4. Configure your options ie. Index and report options and Title page 5. On the same screen click PDF File 6. Then c

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives that don't have legacy

2012-12-05 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Does charting come with the free version? On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:53:51 +1100 Susan Perrett wrote: > Unless she has Legacy Charting, she will not be able to open the file. > > Ask her to download the FREE version of Legacy to view the file > > At 01:13 PM 6/12/2012, you wrote: > >I want to email

Re: [LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives that don't have legacy

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Falzini
Let me get back on my other computer in a minute and I will mail you the directions from there Rich > > From: MJ SA >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:05 PM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sharing Family Tree with relatives th

[LegacyUG] Creating GEDCOM for ancestry

2012-12-05 Thread sylvia
I think.I've figured this out (to create a GEDCOM to go on ancestry "private"), however, I don't know how to suppress the dates from, say: 11 Jul 1954, Stamford, Lincolnshire to: 1954 Lincolnshire as it appears some people have. Or...do I have to go through my list and shorten the dates and

Re: [LegacyUG] Creating GEDCOM for ancestry

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Falzini
Hello Sylvia,    I can mail you from my other computer to explain what you have to do. I don't have legacy on this computer and I have to see it to explain it From: sylvia >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:49 PM >Subject: [LegacyUG] Creat

Re: [LegacyUG] Creating GEDCOM for ancestry

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Falzini
I don't know about the image problem, but for privatizing do the following --- If you want to keep the dates private on a gedcom, click file then export to gedcom file then, click the privacy tab and adjust your settings accordingly This should give you what you want  If you need further help

Re: [LegacyUG] Organizing scans

2012-12-05 Thread Mike Fry
On 2012/12/06 05:12, Pat Hickin wrote: > Well, of course -- I was reading it as an "MO" rather than an "M0." * :-(* > Whatever happened to those slash marks they ysed to put in zeroes? Change _your_ font that you use to read emails with :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) Legacy User Gro