Re: [LegacyUG] Can't uninstall 7.5

On 20/01/2014 8:26 AM, Paul Gray wrote: > Bob, > > That did the trick, except that I had to use the custom uninstall. > > Executing unwise.exe gave me three options, Automatic, Custom, or Repair. I > first did Automatic and got the same old behaviour it just deleted the > install.log file. > > C

Re: [LegacyUG] Relationship

And Kurt's last sentence explains why Legacy does differentiate between spouses of blood relatives. When relationships were redesigned to accommodate the other languages we had to change from the usual English method and differentiate between a blood relative aunt uncle niece nephew and the equival

Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem display for an individual

On 20 Jan 2014 02:36, Tony Rolfe wrote: > I have a person flagged with a potential problem, "Birth too long after > prev child". There is a red button next to their birth details and when > I hover over that, the pop-up says "click to view details". So, I click > and a reasonably big window appe

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship

>From Legacy Help: Non-blood Relationships These are people you are linked to through marriages. For example the Brother of the Wife of the 3rd Great-Grandfather of your Sister-in-law. Set the value for the Limit to the closest X paths. Note: Non-blood relationship terms are not displayed on th

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship

However, the Genealogy Glossary at HistoryDetectives.com only mentions the blood-relationship aunt/uncles/nephews/nieces. -Original Message- From: Kurt Kneeland [mailto:kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 12:08 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [L

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship

I can't answer the why part of your question, but it is how Legacy is set up. The Relationship displayed in Family View, Pedigree View and other places is always a blood relationship, immediate in-laws, or spouse of those. Other non-blood relationships are only shown in the Relationship Calculat

Re: [LegacyUG] V8 Windows 7 - notes for a Master Location

I think Location Notes only print in a Location Report, not in any report from any other point. Master Locations > Options > Print > Location Report > Options - Include Location Notes On 20 January 2014 15:04, Valerie B Garton wrote: > I am doing a OneName Study for Hall's in Ireland and am ha

Re: [LegacyUG] Birthdays, Anniversaries list Legacy home page

Perhaps it's a stray character that was not intended to be there, and now that it has been mentioned, a support person (such as Sherry or Brian or Michele or one of the other wonderful support people) will be able to make appropriate comment and action as needed. On 20 January 2014 14:41, Bryan P

[LegacyUG] V8 Windows 7 - notes for a Master Location

I am doing a OneName Study for Hall's in Ireland and am having trouble knowing where all the townlands are so I came up with what I thought was a good idea BUT: Master Location: Cloonagh, Owenduff, Wexford, Ireland Notes: Cloonagh is a townland of 326 acres in the County of Wexford, Barony of She

Re: [LegacyUG] Birthdays, Anniversaries list Legacy home page

So why not a symbol for other events? It seems odd. And there is no explanation for it anywhere. So we have a pointless symbol which adds nothing to the statement which says death…. far too precious. Bryan Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived m

RE: [LegacyUG] Updates - works now!

Hi John, Mine worked this time too – and it installed from the link! Progress! Bob From: John Roose [mailto:jbro...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 8:27 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Updates - works now! I previously reported, as others have done,

Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems List

Hi Boyd, Yes - I can do that - I can also delete items from the pdf file with my programme but it seems it would be so much simpler to have a button - as in the To Do List - where it says "Go to this person". Often there are several errors that will be solved in one family, e.g. where one of the pa

RE: [LegacyUG] Revision history on web site

Amen to that!! CE > From: robert...@gmail.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Revision history on web site > Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:27:45 -0500 > > Legacy support, > > When one goes to the web to check on the Legacy Revision History, why do > the builds only show th

[LegacyUG] Potential Problem display for an individual

My "Edit Children" button is greyed out, so I'm guessing it applies to the children of this person, not to her siblings. I went back out of the edit individual screen to the Pedigree View window (where 7.5 had a useful display of her siblings) and did the right-click and view siblings shuffle. No

Re: [LegacyUG] CORRECTION: Legacy 8 User Manual

Charlie What a cheap deal!! I too purchased the "shipped" version of Legacy 8. The cost of shipping and handling to NZ was USD25 John On 6 January 2014 11:12, Charles W Aubin wrote: > Ron, > > I am in agreement with you that the already updated PDF manual should be > available for download.

Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem display for an individual

yes, it will. You need to click on the Edit Children button > > > On 20 January 2014 10:36, Tony Rolfe > wrote: > > I have a person flagged with a potential problem, "Birth too long > after > prev child". There is a red button next to their birth det

Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem display for an individual

click on the actual red dot - that will bring up a box where you can tell it to ignore the problem if it's something that needs to be ignored On 20 January 2014 10:36, Tony Rolfe wrote: > I have a person flagged with a potential problem, "Birth too long after > prev child". There is a red butt

[LegacyUG] Potential Problem display for an individual

I have a person flagged with a potential problem, "Birth too long after prev child". There is a red button next to their birth details and when I hover over that, the pop-up says "click to view details". So, I click and a reasonably big window appears with a single line "Child 9 born too long aft

[LegacyUG] Revision history on web site

Legacy support, When one goes to the web to check on the Legacy Revision History, why do the builds only show the dates? Can you please list both the date AND THE VERSION NUMBER on this web site? http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/RevisionHistory8.asp (Easiest way to get there: on Legacy Home tab,

[LegacyUG] Relationship

I have a couple of nieces (on my wife's side - my wife's brother's kids). We took guardianship of them in their pre-teen years, thus I have added them to myself and my wife as "children" in Legacy. I have the "children's setting" "Relationship to father" (and mother) set to "Guardian". My questi

Re: [LegacyUG] Birthdays, Anniversaries list Legacy home page

Testing with my own file shows me that 'Name indicates a death anniversary - which is also indicated by the remainder of the sentance On 20 January 2014 08:42, Bryan Pratt wrote: > I cannot find an explanation in the Help file for the apostrophe at the > start of some names. Could someone enli

[LegacyUG] Birthdays, Anniversaries list Legacy home page

I cannot find an explanation in the Help file for the apostrophe at the start of some names. Could someone enlighten me, please? Thank you Bryan Sent from Windows Mail Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://

Re: [LegacyUG] Identity theft

I never, ever, share my entire tree with anyone, even my immediate family. What I do share is this: --> a descendants chart containing everyone in the line that is common to us, edited so that only first name (or the one they're known by) and last name are showing for living people. This way the

Re: [LegacyUG] Why am I not getting the LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Emails?!

Hi Julie, This is a common complaint from new subscribers, unfortunately. Something doesn't go right when some people subscribe, as you're experiencing now. You need to contact Support (supp...@legacyfamilytree.com) and tell them what's (not) happening, and they should be able to fix it for you.

RE: [LegacyUG] Can't uninstall 7.5

Bob, That did the trick, except that I had to use the custom uninstall. Executing unwise.exe gave me three options, Automatic, Custom, or Repair. I first did Automatic and got the same old behaviour it just deleted the install.log file. Copied the install.log file back, and executed Custom. It

[LegacyUG] Why am I not getting the LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Emails?!

I have never gotten one yet. I've been subscribed for a couple of years. I even re-subscribed this week to see if that would help. But nothing. I get the emails for the LegacyFS, but not the users group. How do I get this fixed? Please? Julie Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Can't uninstall 7.5

Paul, Same thing happened to me. First I would check to see if you have the install.log file in the Legacy folder. If you do, make a copy of it and put it on your desktop for safe-keeping. Next, go into the Legacy folder , find the file named "unwise.exe" and double click it. Basically, you are

RE: [LegacyUG] A new Bug

I'm sure the programmers have it on their list of bugs to squash. Patience is a virtue. ---Original Message- From: Dave Johnson [mailto:davel...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 2:40 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] A new Bug This Bug is still in vers

RE: [LegacyUG] Can't uninstall 7.5

Paul: Yes, the same happened to me, I went through all the same steps you did, and I finally just deleted the whole folder from the C drive. I kept the files in the recycle bin for awhile, but all seemed o.k. and no problems since. Give it a try. Judith -Original Message- From: Paul

[LegacyUG] Can't uninstall 7.5

Well, I'm happy with V8, want to uninstall 7.5. Since I had read previous posts about uninstall problems and the missing install.log file, I first went to C:\Legacy and verified that I indeed did have that file. Went to the Legacy folder on my start menu and found an entry for Uninstall Legacy 7.5

Re: [LegacyUG] Identity theft

Bill, No reason to by sorry for that! I appreciate the effort it took to write that, and it means a lot. Excellent food for thought!! Thanks for the other replies too. They give me something to consider when sharing information. Ed On Sunday, January 19, 2014 11:32 AM, William Boswell wr

RE: [LegacyUG] A new Bug

This Bug is still in version 8.0.0.385. Dave -Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 2:40 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] A new Bug Confirmed. Problem report raised to have this fixed. Bri

Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems List

I find the easiest way to deal with the list of potential problems is to create a text file, not a pdf. By using ALT-TAB I can switch between the text file and database, and there is no need to remember the Rin for very long. Then I just delete each item from the text file as it is dealt with. A

RE: [LegacyUG] Identity theft

I delete all social security numbers, don't include sources unless I really know this person, and tell them I do not want my information posted online. I had this experience recently with a distant cousin I never met. He belongs to the LDS church and he told me he doesn't use genealogy softwa

Re: [LegacyUG] pictures -- unlinking

The message you're seeing mentions the clipboard; the message I got by doing the obvious did not, it flatly said it would be deleted forever. Since this morning I couldn't get that message, I don't know what was obvious to me yesterday that isn't today, but doesn't matter now that we've found what

[LegacyUG] Updates - works now!

I previously reported, as others have done, that the Legacy Home Page box "updates" was not notifying me of new updates. Well - an update! This morning upon signing in it worked like it did in V 7. I have a notice that version 8.0.0.385 is now available for download. Success!!! John Genealogy -

RE: [LegacyUG] Upload gedcom to ancestry from V8

Another thing that works most of the time is to make another GEDCOM, but this time LOOK to see where it is being saved. There will always be a pane that will allow one to type in a name and at the top will show the path. So by doing the second GEDCOM, one can see where it would be saved, and the

Re: [LegacyUG] Upload gedcom to ancestry from V8

I usually recreate something that I have lost to see where my computer "automatically" saved it. There is usually a screen that asks is it ok to save it "here" and fives you the opportunity to change that to somewhere else.If you are not familiar with the windows search function that is a fast

Re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems List

Hi Tom, Thanks - have just done that - will keep my fingers crossed. Marion On 19 January 2014 20:36, Sysadm wrote: > Hi Marion, > > > > Sounds like a good idea, so put in a suggestion to the Legacy team about > it. > > > > I had the same experience with the Master Locations List, where I wan

Re: [LegacyUG] Identity theft

Ron,  It's not that the trust is not there. But I can understand when someone is just getting into genealogy, it might be a temptation to publish the data without even considering the possible consequences. Ed On Sunday, January 19, 2014 7:24 AM, Michele/Support wrote: Ed, I enter everythi

RE: [LegacyUG] Upload gedcom to ancestry from V8

Valerie, I save my GEDCOMs to my desktop so that they are easy to see. After I create a GEDCOM and send it to wherever I am sending it I delete it anyway. Why? Because I am adding information to my file every day and that GEDCOM because obsolete very quickly. If I need another one then I gen

RE: [LegacyUG] Identity theft

Ed, I enter everything and source everything. HOWEVER, I am very selective with what I share with others. I will only export a select branch or even just a single family. I will mark people as invisible if I need to but I can’t even remember having to do this because I rarely send anything t

RE: [LegacyUG] Identity theft

Ed, It seems to me that you do not trust your relative enough. In which case I would exclude all confidential data. My brother in law sends me his full file, knowing that I would never publish data for living persons. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Ed Ladendorf wrote: >I would like t

[LegacyUG] Identity theft

I would like to share my files with a trusted family member (or friend). But I'm hesitant to include much information on living people, even though this can be suppressed by whomever gets the file. It's entirely possible that they could enter this information online (whether intentional or not),

RE: [LegacyUG] Potential Problems List

Hi Marion, Sounds like a good idea, so put in a suggestion to the Legacy team about it. I had the same experience with the Master Locations List, where I wanted to ‘select’ an individual from the list and go straight to the Family View screen. It fell on deaf ears, but it has been ‘quietly’ int

[LegacyUG] ToDo list printing

Has anyone successfully printed out a ToDo list ? I am finding that: It will not sort in order to the file no entry The file no entry appears as though it relates to the next ToDo I tick 'don't split a task over a page break' .it does to name but a few that

Re: [LegacyUG] Upload gedcom to ancestry from V8

On 1/19/2014 3:43 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > Just a tip, but in the future, you may want to consider creating all these > GED files in the same folder that you can easily remember again. For example, > just create them in the same folder where you family file resides. The .GED > file won't

RE: [LegacyUG] Upload gedcom to ancestry from V8

If you don't want to go through all the steps to re-create your GEDCOM file, just use Windows Explorer to search for it. Assuming that it is somewhere on your C: drive, just type in the search window, "*.GED" (without the quote marks). It will bring up a list of any and all GED files on the driv

Re: [LegacyUG] Upload gedcom to ancestry from V8

On 19 Jan 2014 09:51, Valerie B Garton wrote: > Could someone please give me some KIND direction as I really am not a > complete fool. A childish question deserves a childish answer! What's wrong with looking at the title of the window that opens when you press the BIG button that's labelled 'S