I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine
locations, but that's not working for me. It involves way too much
scrolling up and down and all around. Also, the find at the top
isn't finding anything. It only looks for the first word which doesn't
help me.
What I need to do is
Hello, group!
I just wanted to announce the first version of my new Legacy-generated website
— www.hainings.net.
In the past, I have uploaded versions of my tree to various other places
(Rootsweb, Ancestry, and even MyHeritage). For me, one of the best benefits of
having your tree online
Thank you Bob, Bob and Jim for the kind advice and links for color coding
folders, now to make a choice.
Judith
From: Judith [mailto:judithsfamilyt...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:35 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG]
Hello: After Mary Hill’s
On 13 Apr 2014 01:09, Ron Ferguson wrote:
They are simply a record of when these events were*registered*. Strictly
speaking I suppose that one should create a Registration Event for each type
then it would be clear that March 1852 was a quarter date.
That's precisely what I've started to do.
On 13 Apr 2014 08:09, magnoliasouth wrote:
Now as you can see, when I have 300 locations and they're sorted they
are at the top the middle the end and so on. Scrolling take WAY too
long and that's just not an option. I'd rather not bother if I have to
do it that way.
300 is not a lot! I have
Forgetting all the issues of accuracy with the GRO Index it is worth
noting that an individual has 42 days in which to register a birth so a
13 week quarter on the birth index covers up to 18 weeks of possible
dates of birth. Deaths on the other hand are required to be registered
within 5 days,
Thanks for this discussion by the way, I've long wondered what these odd
looking Quarter dates (vs say 1Q1900 or 1900Q1) were all about ...
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
-Original Message-
From: David Newton [mailto:davidnew...@drdavid.plus.com]
Sent: April 13, 2014 05:09 AM
To:
Perhaps I'm missing something .
I'm trying to get a list of marriage records with marriage contracts by a
certain notary. I can get the list of individuals involved but I'd like a
marriages list instead of an individuals list and then I'd like to tag
(advanced tagging) those marriages. Am I
I don't think there is any easy way around this.
Instead of merging each one to your final choice, you could merge the
ones that are near each other first.
However, with the examples you provide, they'd all be together if
you were sorting left to right instead of right to left - but you
probably
Marriage tags can't be added from a search list.
Marriage tags still have very limited
usefulness. We need enhancements to make them really useful.
Marriage tags have to be added one by one though
they can be removed all at once.
You can print from the Marriage list but you
can't filter it by
There is a way to tag all the locations containing Sumter but what you
can do with the list after that I do not know.
It involves changing the sort order step-by-step and the number of steps
depends on how many elements you need to check. I'll do it for generic
terms but if you are in the USA and
Thanks Cathy ...
Multiple marriages are a big problem.
Another problem is the fact that when selecting Marriage Contract as a field to
display, it's all blank.
I then tried to report via the Name List (not the Search List) but same result
(blank Marriage Contracts) plus I discovered that
Ron Ferguson wrote:
David,
It would seem that you are not familiar with the English quarter days.
Historically these are the days on which many accounts had to be settled,
especially anything relating to land, property and government administration.
The actual day being the last day of
magnoliasouth wrote:
I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine
locations, but that's not working for me. It involves way too much
scrolling up and down and all around. Also, the find at the top
isn't finding anything. It only looks for the first word which doesn't
help
On 13 Apr 2014 15:48, singhals wrote:
Since you alluded to it -- was 31 March the quarter day when
the year began 25 Mar? Because my logic suggests quarter
day then would have been 26 June, which would explain a few
puzzles.
I ask primarily because I once ran across some Quaker MM
records
Only in England ... :)
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
-Original Message-
From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: April 13, 2014 10:13 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Quarter dates
Cheryl,
Good question!
I suggest that you Google English
Using Search and Replace might help you in this situation. Read the CAUTION
below.
Find where: Lists-Location
Find what: Sumter
Replacement text: Sumter
Find whole word only
Anywhere in the field.
Replace only found text with replacement text
The above is the *safe* way to do this. (make a
C.G.
Where are the marriage contracts and notary details recorded in your Legacy
database? You said you can get the list of individuals involved...does that
mean you have both spouses for the marriages in question? If so, it would be
fairly easy to tag the marriage records with a SQL script
The Quarter days are 25 March, 24 June, 29 Sept, 25 Dec. They can be remembered
by 5 letters March, 4 June, 9 September and Xmas Day. Rents are still paid on
Quarter days--- I have to send out invoices!
Sue Anderson
From: singh...@erols.com
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Date: Sun, 13
The bureaucrat that thought of this - wonder how many pints it took …
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
From: Susan Anderson [mailto:sander...@waitrose.com]
Sent: April 13, 2014 12:01 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Quarter dates
The Quarter days are 25 March, 24
On 13 Apr 2014 19:29, C.G. Ouimet wrote:
The bureaucrat that thought of this - wonder how many pints it took …
I think the English ( Wales?) legal system still adheres to these dates. So,
they've been known and used for a very, very long time.
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg (g)
Legacy
There were no what we would call bureaucrats at the time, say 2000+ years ago,
everything related to time was related to natural phenomena, lunar, solar
cycles etc.
These were adopted by the Celts and later by the church. Excellent use of the
tools available.
Ron Ferguson
On 13/04/2014 19:33, Ron Ferguson wrote:
There were no what we would call bureaucrats at the time, say 2000+
years ago, everything related to time was related to natural phenomena,
lunar, solar cycles etc.
I presumed CG was referring to the method of remembering the dates of
the Quarter days.
Kirsty: Good job, it looks great, love the pictures!
Judith
From: Kirsty M. Haining [mailto:khain...@comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2014 11:42 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Announcing my new Legacy website...
Hello, group!
I just wanted to announce
MikeFry wrote:
On 13 Apr 2014 15:48, singhals wrote:
Since you alluded to it -- was 31 March the quarter day when
the year began 25 Mar? Because my logic suggests quarter
day then would have been 26 June, which would explain a few
puzzles.
I ask primarily because I once ran across some
I created a cvs spreadsheet and used that externally to group my common
places.
At least then I knew what to look for in the Legacy location listing.
And I have over 5,000 locations...
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:09 PM, magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.comwrote:
I have a horrible list of
GRO Quarter Dates are not dates but actually publication references.
Properly, for Legacy to convert them to dates, Legacy should do so by rendering
them in the form before (quarter end date). All that is actually known is
that the event took place prior to the quarter's end.
Note that not
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:59 PM, magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.com wrote:
Again, I've checked my spam folder, and my gmail filters (there are
none). Can someone please check into this?
I know you said you did check your Spam folder, but for the benefit of
others: for the last couple of
Many, MANY thanks for the suggestions and the sorry but you'll just
have to deal with it answers. I appreciate the sentiments. lol!
Oh and when I said 300, I meant 300 ways of Sumter County. lol! Who knew?
The search function doesn't appear to work properly either. To prove
the problem, I'll do
Georgia, Sumter
Georgia, Sumter County
Georgia, Sumter Co.
GA, Sumter
GA, Sumter County
USA, GA, Sumter
USA, GA Sumter County
USA, Ga. Sumter County
United States, Georgia, Sumter
Sumter
Options in the Location list can take care of GA/Georgia, and USA/United States
if the locations are entered
In the Search Replace dialog, I would try un-checking Match Case and
selecting Anywhere in Field ...
C.G. Ouimet
Kingston ON
-Original Message-
From: magnoliasouth [mailto:magnoliaso...@gmail.com]
Sent: April 13, 2014 05:38 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re:
On 13/04/2014 22:46, C.G. Ouimet wrote:
In the Search Replace dialog, I would try un-checking Match Case and
selecting Anywhere in Field ...
Just in case there's a , Al somewhere which is NOT to be changed, I'd
leave Match Case checked, but change the Exact to Ends with. It's
the Exact which
There are other genealogy website programs out there — but they break down
into two main types. The difference between the two types is whether or not
you have pages of static material (how Legacy does the pages) or whether the
information comes dynamically in response to a query. In terms of
Cheryl,
Always. In 1752 it was not the months/dates which changed, but the start of the
year. I think, but stand to be corrected, that Feb's leap day may have also
been added
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
GOONS #5307
singhals singh...@erols.com wrote:
MikeFry wrote:
On 13 Apr 2014
SO sorry, but I have one more problem (this time, a quickie) because
I'm totally not understanding the sort function in the Locations list.
I know you all are sick of me. I'm just trying to catch up with Legacy
8 here and am not understanding a few things.
Have you ever seen Bill Cosby's Himself?
Charlene - Thanks for the heads up. I checked my Spam folder - from Mar 16
up to and including today. Of which there were several from B Weed,
Lacoursiere, R. Taylor. - Ann
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Charlene C charlene...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:59 PM, magnoliasouth
Is there something about FTM that encouraged users to create this mess of
locations? Every FTM-based GEDCOM that I have received has had exactly the
same problem. And usually from otherwise very competent, diligent
researchers. (I just laboriously used the Combine function on a temporary
data file
Try two (2) commas before
Regards
Laurence E Stephenson
-- Original Message --
From: magnoliasouth magnoliaso...@gmail.com
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Sent: 14/04/2014 7:37:52 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location merging
Many, MANY thanks for the suggestions and the sorry but
The first thing you could do is to go to the Master location list and on the
right side click the Options button and pick Purge unused. This will
eliminate all the locations that are not being used by anyone in your file.
Sumter is all over the place and some location entries
don't even have
I am not certain that all the options functions are working properly on
the Master Lists Locations. Purge works but auto merge does not. I ran
it while looking at two locations that were identical (I checked) and
ran merge. It reported no duplicates. Also, as I understand it, one of
the
Wel in the days when I was using FTM (I stopped at FTM 6 when I switched
to Legacy 5 in 1996) there was no place. A fact/event had a comment
where you could put anything you chose. For some types of events it
might be a place but if it was an occupation for example the comments
might contain the
If there's the slightest difference between locations (other than the
capitalization), such as a comma or lack of one or an extra space,
Legacy won't recognize it as a duplicate.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Bernd Hornung
Expand/contract location parts only works if you have the city, county, state,
and optional country format. You have to have a leading comma place holder if
there is no city component - State has to be in the 3rd position.
In your case, I would uncheck the Sort checkbox. All of the Sumter
Hi Cindy,
Unless all your locations are entered with just 4 fields with commas
for the missing fields, then the only sort available in either normal
left to right (the way it is entered) OR the reverse right to left sort.
Those fancy sorts only work on nice neat location lists that follow
the
The default format is city, county, state, country. If you have something
below the city level, as in a cemetery name, I find it best to format it as
city (cemetery), county, state, country. Others use a dash instead of the ().
For sort order, just use right to left. If you are going to use
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