Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy on a MAC using CrossOver

2015-03-10 Thread Ellen Hilborn
I have been using Legacy under Parallels and haven't had any problems. On Mar 10, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Mary Tait wrote: > Thank you Peggy. Perhaps if we are LOUD enough Legacy will produce Legacy > for MAC. ;)I do wish that were the case now. Perhaps the VMWare Fusion > is a solution for m

Re: [LegacyUG] File ID in source citation

2014-02-08 Thread Ellen Hilborn
I forgot to mention that this is version 8.0.0.397. It worked before... On Feb 8, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Ellen Hilborn wrote: > > Can anyone tell me why my File ID numbers no longer display in the output > preview or in the source labels? Is it something I did? > > Ellen Hilborn

[LegacyUG] File ID in source citation

2014-02-08 Thread Ellen Hilborn
Can anyone tell me why my File ID numbers no longer display in the output preview or in the source labels? Is it something I did? Ellen Hilborn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Edit Source Detail using Source writer

2014-01-18 Thread Ellen Hilborn
..@legacyfamilytree.com > www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > -----Original Message- > From: Ellen Hilborn [mailto:draftd...@cox.net] > Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 9:16 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Edit Source Detail using Source writer > &

[LegacyUG] Edit Source Detail using Source writer

2014-01-18 Thread Ellen Hilborn
b key to enter the family no. If you tab without scrolling, you are typing the family number into the surety level. Thanks Ellen Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyuser

Re: [LegacyUG] Same Sex Partnerships/Marriages

2013-12-25 Thread Ellen
ore often than those of us who are grateful for it not being there. God bless, Ellen On Dec 20, 2013, at 5:03 AM, Kathy Thompson wrote: > Only problem is, this work-around doesn't "stick". > It dissappears with updates and it seems to disappear between program loads >

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering rural addresses into the location field

2013-12-25 Thread Ellen
have to be in the location field. God bless, Ellen On Dec 25, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Dale B. Watts, P.E. wrote: > I was wondering how most people enter the addresses or locations for events > if the people do not live in an incorporated town or city? For example, many > of my relatives

Re: [LegacyUG] With Legacy: Carbonite, Dropbox, SkyDrive, Mozy, etc.?

2013-12-15 Thread Ellen
. God bless, Ellen On Dec 15, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Dee Ziegler wrote: > Larry asked a good question, I'd also like to know, what cloud program do > other Legacy users prefer? I'm using Windows 7 only for genealogy; > unfortunately am a technodunce. Thanks, Dee in Maryland > ===

Re: [LegacyUG] If this is find-a-fault week --

2013-11-22 Thread Ellen
t might be helpful. I have found that the non-genealogists in the family really like the charts and graphs of info that we can provide to them whether they are easily produced by Legacy or not. God bless, Ellen On Nov 21, 2013, at 7:55 PM, 2marion wimps wrote: > Thanks Kathy - differen

Re: [LegacyUG] A technical problem

2013-10-17 Thread Ellen
Carolyn, go to File > File Maintenance > Check/Repair and run it. All sorts of things will clear up upon doing that. God bless, Ellen On Oct 18, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Carolyn wrote: > This is the first time I have had any trouble with Legacy deluxe version, I > have the latest bui

Re: [LegacyUG] Donating Legacy DB and Genealogy Files

2013-08-18 Thread Ellen
Why not look into who is studying those names for a one-name study? They would certainly appreciate adding to their research. What names are you doing? God bless, Ellen On Aug 18, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Dee Ziegler wrote: > In my experience, libraries (including the Family History Library in S

[LegacyUG] Books ready to order

2013-06-29 Thread Ellen
been other's experiences in dealing with publishers of multi-volume sets? You can email me privately if necessary. Ellen Kramer National Family Historian for all lines of the Staudt-Stoudt-Stout family Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived mess

Re: [LegacyUG] marriages

2013-06-20 Thread Ellen
? God bless, Ellen On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: > Perhaps a compromise is in order -- if Legacy can't bring itself to split the > two statements, at least it could say, " never married and had no known > children." > > Pat > > > On Th

Re: [LegacyUG] Never married option in Legacy 8

2013-06-18 Thread Ellen
someone has to speak up in defense of the other side so no opposing responses are necessary. God bless, Ellen On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:10 PM, John Zimmerman wrote: > Why not simply rename the "Marriage Indormation Window" to call it the > "Relationship Information Wi

Re: [LegacyUG] Never married option in Legacy 8

2013-06-18 Thread Ellen
ips that people have. I am just following blood lines and appreciate Legacy not changing from what we already have. It is flexible enough for me. If someone is printing a report, they can truthfully customize it further in there. God bless, Ellen On Jun 18, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Larry Lee wrote

Re: [LegacyUG] Never married option in Legacy 8

2013-06-18 Thread Ellen
7;ve had to do this numbers of times over the years. It's easy enough to fix. God bless, Ellen Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages fro

[LegacyUG] Legacy 8 sorting marriages

2013-06-17 Thread Ellen
n Legacy 8. God bless, Ellen Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-a

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 question

2013-06-14 Thread Ellen
Go to Options > Customize > Data Format > Term for Christening > choose Baptism or Christening God bless, Ellen On Jun 14, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Nancy Porter wrote: > Is there an individual option to choose between "christening" and > "baptism" (like burial vs

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Revealed

2013-06-11 Thread Ellen
Rather than having each field highlighted, maybe the entire box could be highlighted which would be less busy on the eyes. God bless, Ellen On Jun 11, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Ronald Bernier wrote: > Who said that you wouldn't be able to change the color scheme? If you read > carefull

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8

2013-06-11 Thread Ellen
hard time thinking of any possible improvements, but I know there are some that would continue to make it the dream software compared to the rest. God bless, Ellen On Jun 11, 2013, at 8:44 PM, Garry F Bell wrote: > I am still hoping that they have, at last, provided for High Contrast > users

Re: [LegacyUG] Index view

2013-06-11 Thread Ellen
The problem that I have with the Index View is that whenever I load a new update of Legacy, not just a new version but a new update, those customized columns are undone. Definitely keeps me remembering how to customize, but I would prefer that it mainteined my settings. God bless, Ellen On

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Revealed

2013-06-10 Thread Ellen
gray shadows on the blue default view. Maybe it will look better once it's done. God bless, Ellen On Jun 10, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Ronald Bernier wrote: > Thank you for the preview Geoff. Now, I will humbly eat my words – the new > screens look very interesting. It appears that Lega

Re: [LegacyUG] Photos not embedded in the reports

2013-05-26 Thread Ellen
m separated. I don't know though if Legacy will let us do a book in the Publisher with saving from multiple family files. So far my attempts have not worked with that. I LOVE Legacy in every way except for this final stage of publication. God bless, Ellen On May 26, 2013, at 10:53 AM, D

Re: [LegacyUG] Photos not embedded in the reports

2013-05-25 Thread Ellen
e and print those photos. We hate the thought of having to embed each one manually. God bless, Ellen On May 25, 2013, at 8:13 PM, singhals wrote: > Ellen wrote: >> We are nearing the end of preparation of a book series on the family. It >> will be over 2500 pages and cover 23

[LegacyUG] Photos not embedded in the reports

2013-05-25 Thread Ellen
he publisher by the end of this week. Also we noticed that despite the fact that we checked to only include User ID numbers, the MRINS are showing up in the reports anyway. We have spent TONS of hours just removing the MRINs alone. Any idea how to get them not to show up in the reports? G

[LegacyUG] .rtf v .docx

2013-04-25 Thread Ellen
documents. God bless, Ellen Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/

Re: [LegacyUG] Organization of Photos, Scanned Documents and etc.

2013-03-15 Thread Ellen
anniversaries can all go in the marriage folder. It makes it easier to locate for me. God bless, Ellen On Mar 15, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Mary Moyer wrote: > I have mine organized by surname with subfolders, and it works well for me. > > For example: > Smith Family > --Smith cemetery re

Re: [LegacyUG] Indiv "never married" option unavailable

2012-12-09 Thread Ellen
If you go to the individual's box as if to enter birth, death and other info, you will notice a box to check at the bottom left for never married and never had any children. God bless, Ellen On Dec 9, 2012, at 5:46 PM, gcr...@juno.com wrote: > I've had the same problem and f

Re: [LegacyUG] Indiv "never married" option unavailable

2012-12-09 Thread Ellen
tally which could have put a default possible husband in the icon area without listing the person in the spouse box. Either way, by going into the spouse icon, you can see if someone is there and delete that spouse to light up the box you want to check. God bless, Ellen On Dec 9, 2012, at 8:30 PM

Re: [LegacyUG] Indiv "never married" option unavailable

2012-12-09 Thread Ellen
arried and never had any children. God bless, Ellen On Dec 9, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: > I have an individual (female) who was "never married" & had no known > children. I have NO info & NO citations entered for either a spouse or > marriage & yet the I

Re: [LegacyUG] Future updates

2012-11-24 Thread Ellen
gacy to be superior overall. Thank you, Legacy team and Geoff. God bless, Ellen On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Tessa Keough wrote: > I remember the version 7 release (although not at traumatized as some > Legacy users). I do think that with the advancements by other > genealogy programs (most

Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with genealogical files after death of compi ler

2012-10-14 Thread Ellen
With so many sad stories, I thought it would be great to tell one fairly good story. We will have to check out what was given away, but I have plenty to keep me busy for a long time even without whatever she gave away. God bless, Ellen On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:47 AM, hwedhlor wrote: > Hi Ron, &

Re: [LegacyUG]

2012-10-12 Thread Ellen
ABSOLUTELY! Many of the questions on this list are answered on those videos. God bless, Ellen On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:29 PM, MJ SA wrote: > Would I be better off buying the training videos? Any opinions? > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree

Re: [LegacyUG] everyone comes up on the index two times

2012-08-09 Thread Ellen
DO NOT delete people willy nilly. You might find that people won't be connected to anyone then. The only way that I know if is to do a merge. Legacy can find the dups and automatically delete the definite duplicates. God bless, Ellen On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:43 PM, MJ SA wrote: > Amazi

Re: [LegacyUG] Same sex "marriage".

2012-07-09 Thread Ellen
them once I get the info anyway. There are some relatives who have had children from affairs that may be hearsay or are not publicly known and I won't be the one to publicize it. There are times when you need to use your head and follow logical requests and not follow others. God bless,

Re: [LegacyUG] Same sex "marriage".

2012-07-09 Thread Ellen
eeds to be discussed here. God bless, Ellen On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:23 PM, salude...@aol.com wrote: > I'm sorry but I don't understand your way of thinking. Are you telling us > that if you don't like a FACT, then you are going to ignore it and not > include it in your data

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 3800 and other problems

2012-06-17 Thread Ellen
shing Center, it changes all of the book info to the current line that I have open. I have been trying to send info in .rtf or .pdf to other people to proofread and they can't read things because it will only save in .rf1 which doesn't exist. God bless, Ellen On Jun 17, 2012, at 5:26 P

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 3800 and other problems

2012-06-17 Thread Ellen
Would a new computer help? Does it matter if it is 64 bit or 32 bit? I also got a message to send the file to Ken@Legacy... Did the emails on printing reports deal with not being able to save reports in .rtf and .pdf? That is another thing that I am dealing with. God bless, Ellen On Jun 17

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 3800 and other problems

2012-06-17 Thread Ellen
I have no idea how to export or what a 5.5 standard might be. God bless, Ellen On Jun 17, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Tim Rosenlof wrote: > On 6/17/2012 2:32 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: >> On 17/06/2012 20:48, Ellen wrote: >>> Dear people: >>> >>> I am able to do many thi

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 3800 and other problems

2012-06-17 Thread Ellen
Ron, I am using WIndows XP with the latest version of Legacy. It started happening with a version about 2 updates back. I tried to do the Error 3800 stuff now on my desktop but that didn't help. God bless, Ellen On Jun 17, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > -Original

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 3800 and other problems

2012-06-17 Thread Ellen
told me to delete the .dbm files (in plural) so I did. Now it says that it cannot find the Legacy2.dbm file. Give me a break! I did reboot etc and no help. Ugh! Ellen On Jun 17, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 17/06/2012 20:48, Ellen wrote: >> Dear people: >> >>

Re: [LegacyUG] Error 3800 and other problems

2012-06-17 Thread Ellen
books and I cannot get it working. I did check repair numbers of times and it still is not working. PLeeease help. When these error messages come up, the only option that I have that works is to quit Legacy. Now I have Error 3426 coming up too. Happy Father's Day to all the dads!

Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage Banns

2012-06-09 Thread Ellen
If I were to do it at all, I would put it in as a Marriage Note. God bless, Ellen On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:02 AM, Tony Rolfe wrote: > Since Banns are called 3 times, is it normal to have 3 different events, > one for each calling of the banns? > > Also, the default wording for the &qu

Re: [LegacyUG] Child-Parent Relationship

2011-12-24 Thread Ellen Ward
those citations and then add them back in and see what happens. Happy Holidays! Ellen in Maryland Sent from my iPad On Dec 24, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: > Ellen, > Go to the Individual in question, click on the little book icon to get to the > list of source citation

[LegacyUG] Child-Parent Relationship

2011-12-24 Thread Ellen Ward
t. Also I'd like to understand what the difference might be for using these two fields. Where do I control the sources added to each of these areas? I hope this makes sense. Thanks for any help you can give me. Ellen Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.a