Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Centre query

2015-04-14 Thread Jo Poi
Pictlist.dbm file makes logical sense, but then that gives me a problem in that I have my database and media files on a USB memory stick so that I can use Legacy on my desktop and netbook. The problem I have is that on one computer some pictures are shown with a + and others with a - and on the

Re: [LegacyUG] Issue with Gedcom Export of Child Status

2015-04-14 Thread GeoPappas
I am wondering if I need to change from my cable provider to another host. The domain name is my first and last name so if it means changing to another domain name, I really would prefer not to have to do that. If needed, you can transfer domain names from one host to another. ​ Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Quick Viewing of some Reports

2015-04-14 Thread Mary Young
Hi Brian Thanks for the explanation. But I am still confused. You said There has been no new update to Legacy since my email of 2 Apr. But my About Legacy says Build Date 26 Feb 2015; *Last Update 13 Apr 2015* 16:22. So do you mean, the fix will be in the Next Build rather than Next Update? Sorry

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Centre query

2015-04-14 Thread MikeFry
On 2015/04/14 12:19 PM, Jo Poi wrote: Pictlist.dbm file makes logical sense, but then that gives me a problem in that I have my database and media files on a USB memory stick so that I can use Legacy on my desktop and netbook. The problem I have is that on one computer some pictures are

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Centre query

2015-04-14 Thread Jo Poi
Following on from Mikes example.. I only have one picture called grandpa.bmp available to any and everything this is located in folder Z:mediagrandpa.bmp. When I look at grandpa in Legacy on desktop in the picture centre it shows a ' + ' next to grandpa.bmp and gives the correct location of

Re: [LegacyUG] Quick Viewing of some Reports

2015-04-14 Thread MikeFry
On 2015/04/14 12:10 PM, Mary Young wrote: Thanks for the explanation. But I am still confused. You said There has been no new update to Legacy since my email of 2 Apr. But my About Legacy says Build Date 26 Feb 2015; *Last Update 13 Apr 2015* 16:22. Ahem! Last Update is the date your

RE: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread Stuart Gregory
For Barton, John and others interested, The open source PHPGedview has not been actively supported for a number of years since the main developer and a lot of others moved to create webtrees. I would definitely not recommend using PHPGedview. Webtrees is open source and therefore free, unlike

RE: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread BARTON LEWIS
Stuart, is it possible to see a tree generated by wbtrees - yours, perhaps? Thanks, Barton      On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 06:16 AM, Stuart Gregory wrote:     For Barton, John and others interested, The open source PHPGedview has not been actively supported for a number of years since the main

[LegacyUG] Family Search Sync

2015-04-14 Thread Ila East
Several times, when closing out the Family Search syncing screen, I have gotten a message like this, Access violation at address 00458FC in module 'LegacyFS.exe' Read of address 20292918. I don't know if the numbers are the same each time, but the rest of the message is. Is there anything I

re: [LegacyUG] Family Search Sync

2015-04-14 Thread Jim Terry/Support
Ila, There is no one cause of the Access Violation error in Legacy FamilySearch. I have noted that I can reproduce the error when exiting Legacy under certain conditions. For example if Legacy FamilySearch is busy collecting possible duplicates and I decide to quit the program in the middle of

Re: [LegacyUG] Quick Viewing of some Reports

2015-04-14 Thread Mary Young
AOK, Brian! Mary Young On 14 April 2015 at 05:25, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Now I see why you might be confused, we are talking two different kinds of update. The Last update line on the About Legacy screen is in the File information section and is the date you last made

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Centre query

2015-04-14 Thread John Lisle
Jo and Mike, Pictlist.dbm is considered an internal file and is, in reality, not well maintained. Not every Legacy media tool will maintain it. john. At 06:55 AM 4/14/2015, Jo Poi wrote: Following on from Mikes example.. I only have one picture called grandpa.bmp available to any and everything

[LegacyUG] RE: Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread BARTON LEWIS
great - I will try that from home tonight.  Thanks, Cathy. Barton      On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Cathy Pinner wrote:     Hi Barton, Thought I'd get your email out of an irrelevant thread. I can't help with your hosting and compatibility issues. However, Legacy Web Pages are generated

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread BARTON LEWIS
John, thank you for the informative background.  I think I would not want to go with WorldConnect or FamilySearch as I want to be able to display media.  So I have been viewing the web page links at TNG and think that's the way I want to go.  My only concern is that by using my cable compnay as my

[LegacyUG] RE: Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread Barton Lewis
Hi Cathy, when I start to do this, regardless of what option I pick, Legacy starts creating pages for all 18,000 people in my file. I really don’t need that -- a few would do. How can I just create a few for purposes of seeing what the pages look like? There is no obvious way to do this that

RE: [LegacyUG] RE: Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread Barton Lewis
Got it, thanks very much. Barton -Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:47 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] RE: Testing Legacy Web Pages On the Who tab of the internet pages screen you can

RE: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread Stuart Gregory
Hi Barton, John and other interested people Happy to provide the link but I would like to make a couple of comments. I am currently not using the latest version of webtrees. One of the reasons for this is that I have made some minor modifications to the underlying PHP code and for me to

RE: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread Barton Lewis
Thank you, Stuart. Very helpful and informative. Barton -Original Message- From: Stuart Gregory [mailto:stu...@scss.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:01 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages Hi Barton, John and other interested

RE: [LegacyUG] Issue with Gedcom Export of Child Status

2015-04-14 Thread David Abernathy
The site names from most cable and DSL providers are based on the cable/DSL account name. These site names are real subdomains of the real domain (camcast.net) They cannot be changed. What is the problem with having your name in the subdomain? Thanks, David C Abernathy Email

[LegacyUG] Importing single records from a second file

2015-04-14 Thread mlund8307
I created two family data files with file names of x and x1 intending the first to be the master. However, over time I occasionally used x1 for the original data. I now have 6274 records in x1 with 98% the identical. I did a files comparison, but when was not sure how to transfer the new

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread John Lisle
Barton, Although WC and FS do not (easily) take media, they are worthwhile as places to archive your genealogy that also makes your research available to different audiences. One of my issues with using Cable company for web site (or email address) is that you might drop your cable company and

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread Jay Wilpolt
The problem with webtrees and its predecessor phpgedview, is that neither of these programs break down a gedcom into data sets, but rather leave it intact as whole and each action reads from the one file and generates an answer, thus it will get slower and slower as anything is added to it. No

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread BARTON LEWIS
After looking over many pages at TNG, an objection I have is that Sources is a separate page that is unlinked to any other.  If you upload your GEDCOM to TNG, what happens to all your sources?  Do they become separated from the events they document, or are they transferred over at all? I envision

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread BARTON LEWIS
John, in your statement, If you are using TNG or webtrees or some other tool with collaborative ability, you could lose data and you might also lose the value of having a search engine document your site. do you means if you use TNG in conjunction with a cable company host provider (subject of

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread BARTON LEWIS
Thanks, Margaret, I am seeing that now on some of the pages.   Barton       On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:54 PM, Margaret Turner wrote:     With regard to sources and tng.  1. If any event is sourced, then they have a footnote suffix,  2.These numbered sources are listed at the bottom of a person's

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread Margaret Turner
With regard to sources and tng. 1. If any event is sourced, then they have a footnote suffix, 2.These numbered sources are listed at the bottom of a person's page http://turnermob.com/getperson.php?personID=I245tree=turner (I use Legacy 7, basic sources and my reserach dates from late 1997 so I

RE: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread John Lisle
Stuart, Thank you for mentioning webtrees. I was aware of it but have not investigated it. One of my issues with phpGedview was that it did not well handle large Gedcoms. After looking at the site samples on their web site, I do not see examples of large files. However, it does appear to be far