RE: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Jim Terry/Support
Ron, . You could also try exporting your records into a new Legacy family file: Click on File > Export > Export to a new Legacy Family File. Give your new family file a name and click Save and the Legacy Export screen will open. Click the Privacy Options button to open the Privacy Op

re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Jim Terry/Support
Adrian, I am sorry for the joke. We don't always get it right in tech support, especially when we have just a sentence or two worth of problem description and don't have the family file to examine and test. Jim :) Legacy Family Tree Technical Support Original Message > From: "

re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Adrian Purkiss
Ron For successful analysis of the problem the following is really required. Actual dates and field name all date fields of an offending record Other field names that contain data although actual data not required. What error the potential problems report is showing for that data. Regards Adrian

re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Adrian Purkiss
Jim Sorry not intending to bash you personally rather support in general. No point in suggesting something a user has stated they have already done. Been through that loop numerous times on two problems which now have been accepted as bugs. Whilst not bashing your second suggestion it would se

RE: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Goodwin Genealogy
Thanks for the suggestions Jim. I have tried the check and repair several times, but it didn't fix the problems. So I will now give your second suggestion a try. Thanks Ron -Original Message- From: Jim Terry/Support [mailto:jimte...@legacyusers.com] Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 16:10 To: le

re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Adrian Purkiss
Jim Not intend Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Jim Terry/Support To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:26 PM Subject: re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates Adrian, You forgot to bash me for my 2nd suggestion! Jim Legacy Family Tree

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing source citations

2015-07-17 Thread Helen McCall
Thanks for your quick response. Yes, I looked at reports early on.  But you don't know what you need till you know what you're finding to put into the thing.  And I'm waiting on feedback from my husband as to what he finds easiest to follow.  Meanwhile, info has to be the

re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Jim Terry/Support
Adrian, You forgot to bash me for my 2nd suggestion! Jim Legacy Family Tree Technical Support Original Message > From: "Adrian Purkiss" > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 1:30 PM > To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates > > Jim >

re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Adrian Purkiss
Jim I'm sorry but that seems the answer given to all problems even when the user has stated he had tried that and it does not fix the problem as Ron has said. Adrian Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Jim Terry/Support To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Fri

re: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Jim Terry/Support
Ron, Sometimes i have had a record for a person that has unusual problems like you are reporting. I have fixed the problem with check and repair. See http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00749 for the steps. On extremely rare occasions the only way I could fix a problematic record is to

[LegacyUG] Potential Problem with dates

2015-07-17 Thread Goodwin Genealogy
I am experiencing a problem with the Potential Problem reports, for some reason it is not reading the entered dates properly. It is reporting a problem where it says that the entered date is 1774 where the date that I have entered is 1874. I have run the "check/repair" several times and have de

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing source citations

2015-07-17 Thread Cathy Pinner
Hi Helen, The sooner in a project you check how it looks in the output you are planning to use, the better. When you say "basic printouts", what particular reports are you planning to use? In what format are you planning to provide "the full tree"? If you are wanting a report containing only so

[LegacyUG] Printing source citations

2015-07-17 Thread Helen McCall
I'm using Legacy 8.0.0.501 Deluxe for a quick family tree to supplement my husband's memoirs, which have to be completed urgently. I've set up the tree and put in as many events as I can find in the time allowed and have put in lots of sources, mainly census documents and birth/death/marriage doc