[LegacyUG] Updating to 381 Uninstalling/Reinstalling

2014-01-16 Thread grayscot2
How is the update to be handled? Unistall before re-installing or can it be installed on top of the existing? --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyT

[LegacyUG] Legacy 7.5: unrecognised items and lines from imported GEDCOM

2014-01-16 Thread John Bernacki
This is my first experience with a GEDCOM, so I am not sure where the problem is. The GEDCOM was sent by a distant cousin in Poland. We rely on electronic translations which can be problematic enough, so I at least want get my facts right before contacting him again. I downloaded the GEDCOM int

RE: [LegacyUG] interview questions

2014-01-16 Thread Kurt Kneeland
On the Interview Questions Tab of the Interview Report screen, there is a Language Selection box. Make sure English is selected there. From: Sydney Gabel [mailto:sydney.ga...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:01 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] interview

Re: [LegacyUG] interview questions

2014-01-16 Thread Wendy Howard
Hi Sydney, Do you mean the Questionnaire form in the Reports menu? Are you using the default settings, or have you changed any? Which version, exactly, of Legacy v8 are you running? Look in the Home tab to find out, should be 8.0.0.xxx - it's the 'xxx' that we need to know. Wendy Sydney Gabel

RE: [LegacyUG] interview questions

2014-01-16 Thread Charles Apple
Look at the bottom of the page when selecting Interview Questions. There is a place to select language. Select the language of your choice. Mine was not in English by default either. Charles From: Sydney Gabel [mailto:sydney.ga...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:01 PM To: Leg

RE: [LegacyUG] Printing Famly Group Record

2014-01-16 Thread Kurt Kneeland
Sounds like your Top Margin is set too large which pushes the starting point well down the page. Then there is only room to get one person’s info on what remains of the page. Legacy tries to not split a person’s info across a page boundary. I just tried it setting a large Top Margin and got

[LegacyUG] interview questions

2014-01-16 Thread Sydney Gabel
Why are the interview questions not in English? And yes, I chose English when setting up Legacy, Version 8. I did an update tonight. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@leg

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Famly Group Record

2014-01-16 Thread Kathy Thompson
Check your page setup - margins might be too large On 17 January 2014 13:43, Christopher Barttels wrote: > Recently I have been stumped by a problem when I print Family Group > Records. > > Each individual is on a separate page, i.e., husband, page 1, wife, page > 2, 1st child, page 3, etc. E

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Famly Group Record

2014-01-16 Thread Sherry/Support
Click on the Reset button in the lower right corner of the main report window when you have any problems with a report not formatting correctly. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Christopher Barttels wrote: > Recently I have been stumped by

RE: [LegacyUG] Printing Famly Group Record

2014-01-16 Thread Paul Gray
Sounds like it might be a messed up header or footer.. Have you tried looking at Report Options à Page Setup Headers Footers (on right) àthen pressing Reset? Paul Gray From: Christopher Barttels [mailto:chrisbartt...@msn.com] Sent: January-16-14 8:43 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com

[LegacyUG] Printing Famly Group Record

2014-01-16 Thread Christopher Barttels
Recently I have been stumped by a problem when I print Family Group Records. Each individual is on a separate page, i.e., husband, page 1, wife, page 2, 1st child, page 3, etc. Each page begins about halfway down the page. I can’t figure out why this is happening, it never has occurred before,

[LegacyUG] Options/Customise

2014-01-16 Thread Bryan Pratt
I’m finding that some of these options are changing for no reason - the latest - all my individual photos have stopped displaying, certainly not something I did deliberately (It’s 8.9) The other one I recall was Legacy started opening to Family File when I had it set to Legacy Home View (Option

Re: [LegacyUG] Charting - reset to defaults

2014-01-16 Thread Kathy Thompson
I will be - I wanted to double check I wasn't blind first - thanks On 17 January 2014 12:24, Wendy Howard wrote: > Hi Kathy, > > That no-one has responded to your query suggests that what you're > looking for isn't there. I certainly can't see any sort of "reset" in > charting. > > I suggest y

RE: [LegacyUG] Birth and Death dates in "Search the Internet"

2014-01-16 Thread Bobby Johnson
Next chapter. I went through the customization one page at a time resetting my custom settings. I did a save on each page and checked the birth and death dates after each save. When I finished all pages everything was in working order. I still don’t know what went wrong. Bobby From: Bobb

Re: [LegacyUG] Charting - reset to defaults

2014-01-16 Thread Wendy Howard
Hi Kathy, That no-one has responded to your query suggests that what you're looking for isn't there. I certainly can't see any sort of "reset" in charting. I suggest you contact Support for assistance. Kind Regards, Wendy Kathy Thompson said the following on 16/01/2014 9:55 p.m.: > Please, is

RE: [LegacyUG] Birth and Death dates in "Search the Internet"

2014-01-16 Thread Bobby Johnson
Brian and Chris, I checked this out using the Sample.fdb and saw the same error. I went to my standby laptop which has 361 installed and the problem did not appear in the Sample.fdb. That is the only database available on that computer. I went back to my working computer and saved my settings

RE: [LegacyUG] Birth and Death dates in "Search the Internet"

2014-01-16 Thread Bobby Johnson
Brian, It isn't the site that is causing the problem. What you need to do to check this out is simply choose a person with a birth and death date, highlight that person and click "Search the internet for current person" and look at the birth date and death date that is displayed. The first cha

RE: [LegacyUG] Birth and Death dates in "Search the Internet"

2014-01-16 Thread Bobby Johnson
Chris, I isn’t any one person in particular. It is all. I normally type in a date as “10 May 2012” and there has been no problem until a few weeks ago. I also reported it as a problem and had a ticket assigned with a promise that they would get back to me “in a timely manner”. I am going ba

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Detail information -text limitation

2014-01-16 Thread JV Leavitt
Bernie, I do the same thing, but I noticed that, for most of the census records, they require a little more space, so I've made it a practice to paste the source citation text for these into the Source Detail Text field, leaving the entry box blank on the "Detail/Information" tab. As long as I hav

Re: [LegacyUG] Birth and Death dates in "Search the Internet"

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Seens
I reported this to support last month. Initially it was suggested that as I was using Canadian date formatting this was the issue but upon further testing support could not duplicate the issue. It was then suggested to delete the person having the issue and then renter  the persons information.

Re: [LegacyUG] Birth and Death dates in "Search the Internet"

2014-01-16 Thread Brian/Support
Each web site you try to search has different search criteria. Which site is causing you this problem? Have you reported this to support? We monitor this list but that is no guarantee that every problem mentioned here will be noticed. You should probably work with support on this one since they ma

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Detail information -text limitation

2014-01-16 Thread Brian/Support
The source detail is limited to 255 characters. This is documented, along with the sizes of other fields, in the Help. Help > Help Index, type capacities into the search box then display the topic. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree

Re: [LegacyUG] A new Bug

2014-01-16 Thread Brian/Support
Confirmed. Problem report raised to have this fixed. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 16-Jan-2014 3:33 PM, Dave Johnson wrote: > This bug is still in there in 8.0.0.381 > > Dave > > > > From: Dave Johnson [mailto:davel...@g

[LegacyUG] Source Detail information -text limitation

2014-01-16 Thread Bernd Hornung
In a basic source in the Detail Information tab, does anyone else find a limitation to the amount of text one can enter. I have been copying citations from FamilySearch databases and on occasion not all of the copied text can be added. I have not counted the characters. Using build 367. Bernie

RE: [LegacyUG] Birth and Death dates in "Search the Internet"

2014-01-16 Thread Bobby Johnson
This bug is still there in 381. Makes it very annoying to use "Search the Internet for the current person". It reports each error, one at a time, and you have to acknowledge it each time to initiate a search. Bobby -Original Message- From: Bobby Johnson [mailto:b...@brmemc.net] Sent:

Re: [LegacyUG] Shared event question

2014-01-16 Thread Brian/Support
The sources you link to an event apply to the entire event and will be cited for the event for everyone who shares it. There is no provision to apply separate sources to the shares for an event. This is the same for the vital events and for any extra events you add. If that means you will not use

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing the entire Names List Problem

2014-01-16 Thread Brian/Support
If you want to print everyone in the file you do not need to use the Record Selection. On 16-Jan-2014 3:53 AM, Mike Forryan wrote: > Hi > > I am using Legacy 8.0.0.353 > > I want to print out a list of all the names in the Names List with RIN > Surname - Christian name and date of birth. > > I go

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing the entire Names List Problem

2014-01-16 Thread Brian/Support
Confirmed. Problem report raised to have this fixed. Like Kurt I found that the record selection does not limit the records included in the report. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 16-Jan-2014 8:46 AM, Kurt Kneeland wrote:

RE: [LegacyUG] A new Bug

2014-01-16 Thread Dave Johnson
This bug is still in there in 8.0.0.381 Dave From: Dave Johnson [mailto:davel...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:03 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] A new Bug While cleaning up my locations, I noticed a strange behavior. The following steps shoul

[LegacyUG] Updating information using a split screen

2014-01-16 Thread Bob Austen
I am trying to update a current file (#1) with information from a second file (#2). I have the two open in a split screen. To add the information to the first file I do the following: 1. Open the individual in #2, Save 2. Open the individual in #1, click on the field name I want to

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy v8, Build 381

2014-01-16 Thread Kurt Kneeland
Sorry, my mistake. Build 381 IS a general release build. From: Kurt Kneeland [mailto:kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 7:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy v8, Build 381 This is posted to the wrong mailing list. Build 381 is

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy v8, Build 381

2014-01-16 Thread Kurt Kneeland
This is posted to the wrong mailing list. Build 381 is a Beta build, NOT a general release build. From: C.G. Ouimet [mailto:c.g.oui...@outlook.com] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:46 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy v8, Build 381 One of the fixes is … Imp

RE: [LegacyUG] Printing the entire Names List Problem

2014-01-16 Thread Kurt Kneeland
In build 367, I’m seeing the opposite problem, no matter what you pick for Record Selection, you get All Individuals. From: Mike Forryan [mailto:m...@forryan.f2s.com] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 2:54 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Printing the entire Names L

RE: [LegacyUG] Family Group Record - Print Report problem

2014-01-16 Thread Sysadm
Just installed Legacy 8.0.0.381 and the problem is fixed. Regards, Tom From: Sysadm [mailto:sys...@ntlworld.com] Sent: 16 January 2014 08:14 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Group Record - Print Report problem Legacy Version 8.0.0.367 Report Menu -> Family -> Repor

[LegacyUG] Legacy v8, Build 381

2014-01-16 Thread C.G. Ouimet
One of the fixes is . Improved the size of family files. The last build caused them to be larger than was needed. Interestingly, mine grew with Build 381, although not by much. C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archive

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing the entire Names List Problem

2014-01-16 Thread MikeFry
On 2014/01/16 10:53, Mike Forryan wrote: > I go to Names List > Select Print > Select the fields in Row1 > then go to options > then Record Selection and select All index in entire file this then shows All > Individuals in the box Did you press the Add button instead of the Close button? The Add

Re: [LegacyUG] Charting - reset to defaults

2014-01-16 Thread Kathy Thompson
Please, is there a way to reset these settings or reset the charting program itself. I've started getting an "Access Violation at address 00405BF0 in module 'LegacyCharting.exe'. Read of address 0100FFF8" error. I press "OK" and then it immediately throws up another errs "Access violation at addre

[LegacyUG] Printing the entire Names List Problem

2014-01-16 Thread Mike Forryan
Hi I am using Legacy 8.0.0.353 I want to print out a list of all the names in the Names List with RIN Surname - Christian name and date of birth. I go to Names List Select Print Select the fields in Row1 then go to options then Record Selection and select All index in entire file this th

[LegacyUG] Family Group Record - Print Report problem

2014-01-16 Thread Sysadm
Legacy Version 8.0.0.367 Report Menu -> Family -> Report Options -> Select the Include Tab and ensure all 3 boxes are checked in the 'Events' area. Select the Format Tab and ensure the 'Use event sentence formatting' option is checked. Close the Report Options window, then print (or preview) the r

Re: [LegacyUG] Shared event question

2014-01-16 Thread MikeFry
On 2014/01/16 01:01, Tony Rolfe wrote: > I probably didn't make myself clear, but I'm not trying to share a > "Marriage Certificate" event. I'm sharing the marriage vital event > using the share button next to the marriage location in the edit > marriage window. The marriage certificate is used