Thank you, Brian. That was it.
Sent from Windows Mail
From: Brian/Support
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 5:28 PM
To: Legacy
Did you put a check mark on his name in the name list before clicking
Select? You have to do that to have him picked from the list and his
name en
I
s there any way to tag more than one marriage at a time?
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Cheryl, Orinda, et al,
First, COPY COPY COPY was just for emphasis. If you convert your only
7.4 family file, you cannot go back.
FS gets bug fixes with many new L8 builds. But Millennia is not
sending out new builds of L7.5 so that version is not getting those updates.
I have been using FS heav
Did you put a check mark on his name in the name list before clicking
Select? You have to do that to have him picked from the list and his
name entered in the list of people sharing the event.
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
br...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
I have a mother in the 1841 UK census and details therein include her son. She
has 2 sons called Henry, one of whom is deceased. If I click Share Event from
the mother’s individual window I get the “People who share this event” window.
I select “Add one or more people” and “Select from the name
Happy Birthday Jenny! (Or rather, "would be Happy Birthday")!
Rob Miller
Toronto, Ontario
Sent from my iPad
> On Dec 26, 2013, at 5:21 PM, "Jenny M Benson" wrote:
>
> On the Legacy Home tab there is a list of Birthdays, Death Dates and
> Anniversaries. It informs me that I "would have been 69
A good point, John. Still, as often as they're changing FS,
that may not be true by the time one manages to d/l and
install the update. Then too, on another list, there seems
to be something non-functional about FS this week in that
nearly everyone (across a wide spectrum of browsers,
computers,
By copy, copy and copy mean to actually make a copy or to backup more than
one time? Thanks
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:56 PM, John B. Lisle wrote:
> Denise, Helen, et al,
>
> One of the challenges with using 7.4,0.45 - or any version of 7.4 - is
> that the version of FamilySearch that comes wi
LOL!
Sent from my iPhone 4S
> On Dec 26, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote:
>
> On the Legacy Home tab there is a list of Birthdays, Death Dates and
> Anniversaries. It informs me that I "would have been 69 years old in 9
> days."
>
> Would have been? Am I dead? I think I should be told!
Denise, Helen, et al,
One of the challenges with using 7.4,0.45 - or any version of 7.4 - is
that the version of FamilySearch that comes with that does not support
the current FamilySearch. It only works, if it works at all, with the
version of FamilySearch that was recently made read only and wi
Actually - my point is not that I want hints, my point is that I have Zero
hints and I've never seen Legacy have Zero hints for anyone in any of the
areas before.
In fact, none of my NEWLY added people have hints in the "Suggested Sources
- Goal: Death"
As far as I can tell, the people who were i
On 26/12/2013 23:07, Sherry/Support wrote:
> You might want to check your status on the Individual's Information
> window If you ever accidentally entered info in a death field
> then backed out, you need to remember to change the living status as
> well.
Thanks, Sherry. That's what must hav
Must be something really wierd between GMail and my iPhone. This message
repeated 50 times and none of thisr would delete.
I went to my Desktop PC and then it deleted.
Sorry for any confusion!
~DonH
On Dec 26, 2013, at 4:05 PM, "Sherry/Support"
wrote:
> Spam This is a legit message to
Couple of points, no you do not have to be a member of any particular
church but you do need a FamilySearch Family Tree account to login and
use the system. goto FamilySearch.org to set one up (free & no strings
attached). Also remember FamilySearch's goal is to have One tree not
Your tree.
Chas
I am using Leg 7.5 and I find that Family Search will not take anything I
share with it, I always have to take from them. Since I am trying to get
my tree onto Family Search I would like for it to work correctly, so that I
don't have to go to FS to add children or whatever needs adding.
My ques
Your answer, however was very instructive. A much better why to handle
adoptions than I made up. Thank you.
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:24 PM, C.G. Ouimet wrote:
> If s
Yvonne Morehouse
> On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Wendy Howard wrote:
>
> A backup is not just a copy. Things have been done to the file, such as
> compression to reduce the size of the resultant file, so you can't just
> open it in Legacy and have it work.
>
> A copy of your data file can be op
Jenny,
You might want to check your status on the Individual's Information
window If you ever accidentally entered info in a death field
then backed out, you need to remember to change the living status as
well.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 a
Spam This is a legit message to the LUG list.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Don Hendershot
wrote:
> Spam!
>
> ~DonH
>
>
> On Dec 26, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Jackie King wrote:
>
> When it comes right down to it, whether you upgrade now
First thing I would do is write my own Obituary, just in case Legacy was
correct and you only had to the end of the day.
On Thu, 12/26/13, Jenny M Benson wrote:
Subject: [LegacyUG] Does Legacy know something I don't
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.
> Descendant Chart – L to R
How does this differ from what's available in Legacy Charting? I keep
an old version of a rival program on my hard drive for the rare occasion
I need a chart. I'm referring to the kind of chart where each name is in
a small box with the BMD info in it too.
Spam!
~DonH
On Dec 26, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Jackie King wrote:
> When it comes right down to it, whether you upgrade now or later to a later
> version of Legacy, you will eventually upgrade only because as you upgrade
> your computer you are almost forced to upgrade the software at some point.
When it comes right down to it, whether you upgrade now or later to a later
version of Legacy, you will eventually upgrade only because as you upgrade
your computer you are almost forced to upgrade the software at some point.
So whether you choose to upgrade now or in the future, the discussions a
Denise:
Here are a few of the reasons you might want to upgrade to Legacy 8 - the
new features:
Origins Report
Migration Report
Migration Mapping
Instant Duplicate Checking
Potential Problem Alerts and Gaps
Shared Events
Family Bow Tie Chart – Husband & Wife
Descendant Chart – L to R
Sour
As for as the use of Locations/Places, I do NOT use any address. I just use the
city/town, County, State, and Country.
I have NO use for the address except for a very few and those are in my
contacts of my email program.
Thanks,
David C Abernathy
Email disclaimers
---
If she was, I wasted my time ... Lesson learned ...
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
-Original Message-
From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com]
Sent: December 26, 2013 05:15 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adoptions
On 2013/12/26 23:12, C.G. Ouimet wrote:
> Ass
Wendy, Thank you for such a well-reasoned reply. It stands to reason
that we should be made aware of the bugs first because where else can we
ask about them except on this list?
I think my main question is what do I have to gain from upgrading? I
don't want to upgrade and find that all the additi
On the Legacy Home tab there is a list of Birthdays, Death Dates and
Anniversaries. It informs me that I "would have been 69 years old in 9
days."
Would have been? Am I dead? I think I should be told!
--
Jenny M Benson
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On 2013/12/26 23:12, C.G. Ouimet wrote:
> Assuming the child already exists in your file and with parents …
>
> In Family View, with the parents in the “Husband” and “Wife” slots and with
> that
> adopted child in the Children section, right click any of the children shown
> to
> get the pop-up
On 2013/12/26 22:47, Denise wrote:
> I, too, have Vewsion 7.4.0.45 and am disinclined to upgrade. My version works
> just fine, and seeing all the emails about various 'bugs' gives me pause.
That's great. Just remember that version 7.5 is unlikely to receive much more
(if anything) in the way of
Denise said: "I, too, have Vewsion 7.4.0.45 and am disinclined to
upgrade. My version works just fine, and seeing all the emails about
various 'bugs' gives me pause."
There are bugs in the version you are using, too - it's just that you're
not as aware of them as you are these v8 issues due to th
Merry Christmas
Thanks to all who have inputted to this problem of mine.
I found the area to manage the settings.
THANKS ALL
Chuck
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Kathy Thompson wrote:
> I wonder - could baptism dates be known for the three children and the PP
> alerts are being triggered
Michelle in Support
I believe you are missing Kathy Thompson's point. I think she is asking
LegacyFamilyTree's Research Guidance to have your logic built in. That is
for the program to be intelligent enough to determine that there is a
missing death date for a person and then use the generic
I, too, have Vewsion 7.4.0.45 and am disinclined to upgrade. My version works
just fine, and seeing all the emails about various 'bugs' gives me pause.
On Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:15 AM, "ci...@treadles.ca"
wrote:
Many of these bugs that were supposedly fixed in version 7.5.0.278 I've
Assuming the child already exists in your file and with parents …
In Family View, with the parents in the “Husband” and “Wife” slots and with
that adopted child in the Children section, right click any of the children
shown to get the pop-up menu – select “Children’s Settings”. From the pop-up
Hi Boyd,
It’s working fine here... I’ve just tried.
Double check the file locations for backups... you need to set them
specifically when you carry out a backup.
Other than this, you could do a search for the particular backup file you think
you have created.
>From Windows:
* Click th
Brian, how then do you treat adoptions?
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot <
br...@the-lightfoots.com> wrote:
> There is no genealogy in same-sex marr
Awesome Brian! I learned something new about Legacy today
And I've only been working with the program since it started in 1997
and working support since 2002
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Brian/Support
wrote:
> I do not know if this
I do not know if this is documented in the Help but holding down CTRL
and using the mouse scroll wheel worked for me to increase and decrease
font size.
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
br...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
On 06-Dec-2013 4:34 PM, David wrote:
> I
I've been following this thread with some interest, although I have none of
those relationships in my personal records. I think Bill states an obvious
and simple solution to this. I've been pondering the ramifications of such
a change in the database from a totally non-programming knowledge basis
THIS THREAD MUST BE STOPPED NOW!
Please, no more posts about same-sex marriages. I see that it's going
to start getting "hotter"
It doesn't matter what you think about the relationships and we're
getting *away* from Legacy topics now.
PLEASE STOP.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Suppor
One more thing to keep in mind ... If Legacy were to go the Family History
route (vs the genealogy route), is the GEDCOM Standard up to the task of being
the vehicle to transfer that data to other applications?
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
-Original Message-
From: C.G. Ouimet [mailto:c.g.o
Genealogy and Family History are not always the same ...
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
-Original Message-
From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com]
Sent: December 26, 2013 02:11 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Same Sex Partnerships/Marriages
Th
There is no genealogy in same-sex marriages thus there are no same-sex
marriages in genealogy.
If you want something for recording people, their lives and their
relationships, it's called a diary.
Brian in CA
-Original Message-
From: singhals [mailto:singh...@erols.com]
Sent: Thursd
Thanks for your comment.
I have just reinstalled version 367 over the previous copy of the same
version. In the process it skipped most files but stopped to copy at
least one, so it looks like an original installation issue. Backup now
appears to work fine.
Boyd
On 27/12/2013 8:11 a.m., C.G. Ouime
On 26/12/2013 18:56, Boyd Miller wrote:
> The backup function does not seem to be working, either when I exit
> Legacy after making changes, or when I specifically ask for the file to
> backup. I'm using the deluxe version 367 on a W7 computer.
Is Legacy not giving you the Backup Reminder when you
That is one upgrade I won’t be subscribing to very quickly – just imagine all
the bugs and data integrity issues …
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
From: Orinda Spence [mailto:crazypie...@gmail.com]
Sent: December 26, 2013 02:10 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Same Sex
I think the easiest solution is to just add the same-sex partner as either a
wife or husband whether their sex matches that position or not. The marriage
options allow adding whatever you want under "Master Marriage Status List" and
you can also put a note that both individuals are either male
My 367 backup works fine. Do try another manual backup double checking where
the backups are going before actually executing the backup …
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
From: Boyd Miller [mailto:bo...@vodafone.net.nz]
Sent: December 26, 2013 01:57 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject:
I would vote for the same sex, relationship provision. Just to include
everyone in one's family tree.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:01 PM, grayscot2 wrote:
>
> I'd like to up the count for including provisions for same sex
> marriage, "significant others", poly-amorous, etc.
>
>
I'd like to up the count for including provisions for same sex
marriage, "significant others", poly-amorous, etc.
But also, switching to a different underlying database program.
Anything so fragile as to need constant check/repairs is far too fragile. I've
used Dbase3, Visual
The backup function does not seem to be working, either when I exit
Legacy after making changes, or when I specifically ask for the file to
backup. I'm using the deluxe version 367 on a W7 computer.
My last backup was 24 Dec which is about the time I installed version
367. All the file types and d
We are "keeping count" somewhat, but as Leonard wrote quoting Ken,
it's a major ripping apart of the basic design of Legacy and would be
very time consuming for the programmers. Not only would they have to
restructure Legacy, they would also have to re-code all the other
options based on the restru
Most two-sex marriages these days aren't "life-long" either,
though.
My not needing the ability to add same-sex relationships
doesn't mean someone else won't need it, and I can always
not-use it if it's there.
If someone's keeping count, here's a "it might be a nice
option" vote.
Cheryl
Ellen w
I had always made it a practice in the past to show the name of the church
in the location field when recording baptisms and then putting the sponsors
in the events section. I am curious how others are recording this for
reporting purposes.
I see that we can add an address for the location - is t
On 26/12/2013 16:16, lio . wrote:
> 1. When you source a document, where do you put the transcription - in
> the Master Text, or in the Detail Text?
Being a lumper (which is actually correct practice for a relational
database, although I don't always carry it to the full extent which I
should) I p
SPLITTERS:
1. When you source a document, where do you put the transcription - in the
Master Text, or in the Detail Text?
2. Are you using the new Shared Events feature? Any issues?
I'd like to see how far off I am with my splitting method and alter it so I can
start using the Shared Events fea
Many of these bugs that were supposedly fixed in version 7.5.0.278 I've
never come across. There are many features in the program that apply to
the USA only and if the bug is there, I'd never find them and they
wouldn't bother me. And the improvements in 7.5 weren't improvements to
me, I just plain
Hi Kurt!
Yes, that is what I have been doing, but it still makes the final Sourcing a
little wonky for me.
It works if the Master Text for the event is short (ie. an article about a
court case), and the transcription doesn't need to be broken down.
But if the shared event is based on a large d
Helen,
I am the "Keeper" of a fairly large database for a family association with lots
of collaborators. It is not possible for good collaboration between version
7.5 and version 8 because the file structures have changed. Version 7 files
can be read by version 8 but not vice versa. Therefore
I'm using Legacy 7.4.0.45 and an quite happy with it. I prefer to keep
my tree plain and simple and have found that this version, along with
LTools, provides just about everything I could ask for. I'm not an
"upgrade for the bloatware bells and whistles" person hence my
satisfaction with the older
Hi Brian!
Do you lump or split your sources?
I split, and keep my Full source transcription in the Master Text, and only
portions of it in the Detail Texts.
Example:
Master text [I include the FULL transcription in the Master Text for each
person in the shared event]
Jack and Jill lived up on t
Hi Cheryl:
Thanks for your reply. The only part of the details I want to change is a line
or two in the Detail Text. This doesn't stop it from being a Shared Event.
Remember I split my sources, I don't lump them. When I source a document I
include a transcription of the whole document into the
Thanks Jenny - subtle is an understatement :)
Graham
-Original Message-
From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk]
Sent: 26 December 2013 14:57
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Custimise - view
On 26/12/2013 14:19, Graham Love wrote:
> Can anyone tell m
Kathy,
If I have nothing but a marriage record I assume the groom was abt 21 and the
bride was about 18. If I have nothing but the date of birth of the children,
I find the oldest know child and calculate the marriage date 1 year before that
and then their ages using the 21/18 rule. If you h
On 26/12/2013 14:19, Graham Love wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what the difference is between 'Flat' and '3-D'
> (Customise 8.6)? Both appear exactly the same for me
The difference is fairly subtle, I think, but if you compare the "boxes"
in the top part of Individual View (ie where birthdate, birth
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between 'Flat' and '3-D'
(Customise 8.6)? Both appear exactly the same for me but I see there are
text boxes in 8.6 - are these meant to contain anything?
Graham
Legacy User Group guidelines:
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Archived messag
This problem was also reported by one of our testers. The issue is fixed
in the latest update.
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
br...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
On 06-Dec-2013 5:00 AM, Sebastian Masch wrote:
> Sebastian Masch schrieb am 06.12.2013 09:31:
>> H
A problem report has been entered for this based on Susie's report to
our trouble reporting system.
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
br...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
On 16-Dec-2013 6:19 PM, Susie Zada wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Another problem which has been repo
I am in the process of changing how I enter addresses. My mother and
father lived at 5514 North Newcastle Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois,
United States.
I have entered the street address in the description field, but this does
not give
the correct location on the map. I have therefore started en
Of course - but I was asking the question about if I had found a bug or
not, not "Hey where's my handout"
That's why and how I knew about the other things of where to look and why
I'm not tearing my hair out puzzled about where to look.
It is Research "Guidance" afterall - and I wanted Guidance on
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