Re: [LegacyUG] Multiple lines of descent

2015-01-14 Thread Cathy Pinner
Hi Pat, Set relationships. When there is more than one relationship, there is a plus sign next to the relationship shown on Family View. Right click on the relationship and opt to view additional relationships. But this only shows when you get back far enough from "Self" for there to be a double r

[LegacyUG] Multiple lines of descent

2015-01-14 Thread Pat Hickin
The weekly survey of the NEGHS asks "Do you have any descents from one or more common sets of ancestors through multiple lines? (Or, as some say, are you your own cousin?) For instance, you might descend from a common set of ancestors, John and Mary (Smith) Jones, through both their son Thomas's li

Re: [LegacyUG] Online document available for each person?

2015-01-14 Thread Sherry/Support
The To-Do List - an excellent feature for keeping track of things to do and things done. You can also create the report in CSV and open that in Excel. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Gerald E Boor wrote: > > Doesn't Legacy have some buil

Re: [LegacyUG] Online document available for each person?

2015-01-14 Thread Gerald E Boor
Doesn't Legacy have some built in functionality for research? I haven't used it yet. But if you know Microsoft Access or a similar database program, it would do what you need in a more powerful way than you can do with Excel. I'm in the process of learning it more thoroughly myself. Jerry in Mic

Re: [LegacyUG] Attach documents to multiple individuals?

2015-01-14 Thread Ila East
That is the same question I was going to ask. It would be so helpful if we could. Ila East http://diabeticdogrocky.blogspot.com http://ilasrambings.blogspot.com Sent from my iPad > On Jan 14, 2015, at 2:15 PM, John Townsend wrote: > > I see the Media Center and how one can link pictures to mu

[LegacyUG] Attach documents to multiple individuals?

2015-01-14 Thread John Townsend
I see the Media Center and how one can link pictures to multiple individuals. Is there a way to do the same thing with documents (text files)? Thanks for any help. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://ww

Re: [LegacyUG] Online document available for each person?

2015-01-14 Thread james christopherson

Re: [LegacyUG] Online document available for each person?

2015-01-14 Thread Gordon Small
I used Excel some years ago when I was planning a trip to Ohio for research. I exported it to a web page. I didn't include my file in my Legacy database and I don't know if Legacy supports including Excel spreadsheets but, if not, you could export a web page from Excel that could be kept on your co

RE: [LegacyUG] Event Info Pop-up

2015-01-14 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Actually that was my first thought in that it was a Windows thing. But after firing up Legacy v7.5, that behavior is not seen there so it is something that the programmers toggled on for v8. I've seen the same behavior in using MS Access before but in just testing it now I can't duplicate the be

[LegacyUG] Online document available for each person?

2015-01-14 Thread james christopherson
I am thinking of using an online document such as an Excel or Word document for something like a research checklist or whatever i need for different reasons.I was thinking of copying standard text literals from a saved version into the text or research tabs and updating the lines as i needed but th