Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Print Surname Summary Report with Selection of Records?

2015-03-04 Thread ronfergy . aul
Geo. For a method of arriving at a list of direct line ancesters see my web site ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk/Blogs/Y-DNA_,Search.PHP Ron Ferguson Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

re: [LegacyUG] Printing Alphabetical Names List

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Terry/Support
Ila, Please see the article Index View - How to print it at http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00564 for the steps to print the Name List alphabetically. Jim Legacy Technical Support Original Message From: Ila East sunnydays1...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday,

[LegacyUG] Descendant Report - in Word, etc. ?

2015-03-04 Thread Stu and Priscilla Fanning
I have not asked a question in a long time, so I hope this will go to the right place.   I would like to make what I call an Outline Descendant Tree -- something with one person on each line plus date of birth, date of marriage, date of death -- but in a format that could be changed.  Most of

[LegacyUG] Problem with Sharing a Marriage Event

2015-03-04 Thread Jane Colquhoun
Hi List I've noticed something perculiar with my database and wondered if anyone else has had this problem and if they've managed to resolve it. I've been sharing marriage events with fathers and witnesses in my file. When I look at the sources for that event in the name index, the event is

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Print Surname Summary Report with Selection of Records?

2015-03-04 Thread GeoPappas
It looks like you fat-fingered the website. I tried to find it with Google, but didn't have any success. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:47 AM, ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Geo. For a method of arriving at a list of direct line ancesters see my web site

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Alphabetical Names List

2015-03-04 Thread Ila East
Bless you. I have such a bad habit of just scanning things, or maybe just seeing what I expect to see, that I miss things. I missed the customize button. Ila -Original Message- From: Jim Terry/Support Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 10:18 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject:

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2015-03-04 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
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Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Print Surname Summary Report with Selection of Records?

2015-03-04 Thread Stratton
Ron, The web site address does not work. Richard On 3/4/2015 8:47 AM, ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Geo. For a method of arriving at a list of direct line ancesters see my web site ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk/Blogs/Y-DNA_,Search.PHP Ron Ferguson Sent from my Xperiaâ„¢ smartphone

RE: [LegacyUG] Switching fields in an event

2015-03-04 Thread Kirsty M. Haining
Hi, Howard — Thanks for taking a stab at answering my question. The issue you faced sounds quite frustrating, and I’m glad you found a solution. Unfortunately, my issue has to do solely with Legacy, and not with its integration with FamilySearch’s tree. I actually had data that came from

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report - in Word, etc. ?

2015-03-04 Thread Stu and Priscilla Fanning
Thank you to Gerald, Cathy, and Mary for your suggestions.   I tried the html first.  I have two concerns.  One is that the lines seem to wrap the text before necessary -- in other words the lines are short and then go on to the next line leaving a large space on the right side of the document.

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report - in Word, etc. ?

2015-03-04 Thread Cathy Pinner
Hi Priscilla, You can save any of the book reports to .rtf which is rich text format which will open in any word processor. However, it sounds like you want a Descendant Chart with the option chosen to pack information on one line. This can be saved to either html or txt. Both can be opened in

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report - in Word, etc. ?

2015-03-04 Thread Nancy Paget
Word 2013 converts them itself, doesn’t it? From: Mary Fowler Leek Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 7:20 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report - in Word, etc. ? Priscilla, Another suggestion is to download the little free utility, Nemo PDF to Word.

RE: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report - in Word, etc. ?

2015-03-04 Thread Mary Fowler Leek
Priscilla, Another suggestion is to download the little free utility, Nemo PDF to Word. http://www.nemopdf.com/pdf-to-word.html It will convert your Legacy PDF reports to Word. I haven’t tried it with a chart but the report conversions turned out very well. I use a lot of photos in my

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report - in Word, etc. ?

2015-03-04 Thread Brian/Support
Nothing is online unless you sent the report to a web host. HTML is a web page line format but the file Legacy creates is only on your hard drive or wherever you told Legacy to create the file(s). Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Print Surname Summary Report with Selection of Records?

2015-03-04 Thread Mark Klan
Title: Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Print Surname Summary Report with Selection of Records? Here is the web page I believe Ron was referring to, with a method of obtaining an ancestor tree and list: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Blogs/Y-DNA_Search.php Mark 3/4/2015 3:34 PM, Stratton wrote: Ron, The

[LegacyUG] Download earlier build version of Legacy 8

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Sawyer
Hi Everyone, I have had to reinstall windows and downloaded Legacy 8.0.0.473 from the website. There appears to be a bug and it will not download my tree from FamilySearch ! Is there a way that I can download an earlier version of Legacy 8 that does not have this bug as I have a couple of

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Married Names

2015-03-04 Thread Charani
On 04/03/2015 01:34, Cathy Pinner wrote: Whatever you do it has to be clear to someone else. Just adding other surnames in brackets or just tagged on to the Given Names is confusing. Surnames in brackets isn't all that confusing. I'm not the only one who does it :) It's less confusing that

[LegacyUG] Any Way to Print Surname Summary Report with Selection of Records?

2015-03-04 Thread GeoPappas
Is there any way to print out the Surname Summary Report (found under the Reports - Other Reports icon) and just include a selection of records? I have multiple trees in my Legacy file. I only want to print out records from one tree. In addition, I only want to print out people that have a true

Re: [LegacyUG] Download earlier build version of Legacy 8

2015-03-04 Thread GeoPappas
I believe that earlier versions are available here: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00899/ On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Bob Sawyer bob63saw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I have had to reinstall windows and downloaded Legacy 8.0.0.473 from the website. There appears to

RE: [LegacyUG] Download earlier build version of Legacy 8

2015-03-04 Thread Michele/Support
Bob, It isn’t a bug because I was able to download my tree from FS 2 minutes ago with no problem. When you try to download your tree are you getting any sort of error message? Did you not already have your tree in a Legacy file on your computer? Reinstalling Windows should not have

Re: [LegacyUG] Download earlier build version of Legacy 8

2015-03-04 Thread GeoPappas
Sorry, I just noticed that there are only versions prior to 8 on that webpage. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Bob Sawyer bob63saw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I have had to reinstall windows and downloaded Legacy 8.0.0.473 from the website. There appears to be a bug and it will not

Re: [LegacyUG] Download earlier build version of Legacy 8

2015-03-04 Thread MikeFry
On 2015/03/04 10:24 AM, Bob Sawyer wrote: Is there a way that I can download an earlier version of Legacy 8 that does not have this bug as I have a couple of days off work and was hoping to get some research done and get used to enter data into Legacy ? I have versions 454, 458 and 459 if

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Print Surname Summary Report with Selection of Records?

2015-03-04 Thread MikeFry
On 2015/03/04 12:32 PM, GeoPappas wrote: Is there any way to print out the Surname Summary Report (found under the Reports - Other Reports icon) and just include a selection of records? I have multiple trees in my Legacy file. I only want to print out records from one tree. In addition,

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Print Surname Summary Report with Selection of Records?

2015-03-04 Thread GeoPappas
I can't see what value the Surname Report would have for DNA matches. It's a count of how many people of each surname and their date range. When you have found someone that is a DNA match and has an MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor) of 4 or 5, then comparing surnames during specific timeframes

Re: [LegacyUG] Download earlier build version of Legacy 8

2015-03-04 Thread GeoPappas
We do not keep the old builds available on the website. I would suggest that you keep at least one or two older builds on your website for just this type of issue. ​ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Print Surname Summary Report with Selection of Records?

2015-03-04 Thread Cathy Pinner
Certainly you can tag a group and print data on that tag group. Use the Name List/Search List - Print. As Mike says, you probably want to save as a .csv and open this in a Spreadsheet. I can't see what value the Surname Report would have for DNA matches. It's a count of how many people of each

RE: [LegacyUG] Download earlier build version of Legacy 8

2015-03-04 Thread Michele/Support
You can send in a suggestion for this here http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/suggest.as Michele Technical Support mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com mich...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com From: GeoPappas [mailto:papp...@gmail.com] Sent:

RE: [LegacyUG] Download earlier build version of Legacy 8

2015-03-04 Thread Michele/Support
Oops, the whole URL isn’t included. Try this http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/suggest.asp Michele Technical Support mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com mich...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com From: Michele/Support

[LegacyUG] Printing Alphabetical Names List

2015-03-04 Thread Ila East
I want to print a list alphabetically by surname which includes birth date, spouse MRIN, and parents MRIN. I have done this several years ago, but just can’t seem to find how to do it now. I’ve looked at the Name List but when I choose the option to include MRINs it goes from one line per name