[LegacyUG] Legacy Family Tree - Virtual User's Group Meeting webinar recording now online

2014-07-11 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
The recording of today's Legacy Family Tree Virtual User's Group meeting is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free. We learned about dates, searching, and tagging. A few comments from our viewers: - My wife & I didn't really appreciate or understand tags before this sem

Re: [LegacyUG] LFS Build 563 -- merge problem

2014-07-11 Thread JV Leavitt
Sorry -- I accidentally sent this to the wrong UG. Attachments are not allowed in this one -- I apologize unreservedly. Joseph Leavitt On 7/11/2014 11:28 AM, JV Leavitt wrote: > Now there is something very bad happening. It appears the LFS merge > process is really messing up the data in FT. >

[LegacyUG] Using Dragon with Legacy

2014-07-11 Thread Scott Hall
I'm looking forward to the webinar on this very subject, but as it is not until December, I was hoping someone might be willing to converse with me about how they've successfully used Dragon to input data into Legacy. Thanks! Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquet

Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014

2014-07-11 Thread Brian/Support
Priscilla, First you have to understand that there are two parts that need to be looked at. 1. Event Definitions are where the sentence is formatted using a combination of entered text and field definitions which are filled in when the sentence is used. The fields are the parts of the sentence en

Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014

2014-07-11 Thread William Hoff
I switched from FTM 2014 as well. I'm a real novice with software and do not even know what this did to me. Abt 14,500 people in tree. I do know that much of my media did not carry over and I'm abt 1/3 complete in fixing that. I've been on this project on and off for a month or more. Look forwar

Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014

2014-07-11 Thread singhals
William Boswell wrote: > One huge mistake I made with importing my GEDCOM into Legacy > was to not uncheck the third checkbox on the left that > reads: “Put unrecognized items into notes field.” Leaving > it checked put all my source text from Detail Text into > Detail Comments within Legacy. T

Re: [LegacyUG] Report for parents only one child

2014-07-11 Thread Ron Taylor
Jay, I'm wondering what prompted you to search for this combination.  What are you trying to solve? Ron Taylor On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 8:33 AM, Ron Taylor wrote: This one could be fun.   1) Clear tag1 2) use Legacy>Search>Find>Miscellaneous>Linked individuals with no parents then click "

RE: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014

2014-07-11 Thread William Boswell
I’ve been down that road with FTM which I started with back in 1998. I also used The Master Genealogist simultaneous which meant updating both of them at the same time. FTM was a good product until Version 16/2006. After that, I made the mistake of locking in all my data in the failed 2008 ve

Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014

2014-07-11 Thread Sherry/Support
The Event Definitions is where you change how an event reads. "[HeShe] resided at" to "[HeShe] lived at" (or however you prefer the wording) in Report Options, accessed by clicking on the button in each main Report window, if you click on the Event Options button on the Include tab, you c

Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014

2014-07-11 Thread Stu and Priscilla Fanning
Hi Sherry, Please help me by starting from the beginning again.  I started with View > Master Lists > Event Definition.  I don't know where Notes, Event Options, Include tab or Report Options are.  Thanks,    Priscilla >

Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014

2014-07-11 Thread Stu and Priscilla Fanning
Hi Sherry, Please help me by starting from the beginning again.  I started with View > Master Lists > Event Definition.  I don't know where Notes, Event Options, Include tab or Report Options are.  Thanks,    Priscilla >