Re: [LegacyUG] How to combine files

I would do a search for "Modified Date " after what ever date you started adding again on the old computer. Tag those records on Tag1 (making sure you first cleared the Tag1) Then create a gedcom export for all Tag1 Records. Import that gedcom into your new file. Double check for any potential

[LegacyUG] Search string for internet Ancestry search

Recently I noticed that my search string that opens to Ancestry.com search, no longer is passing along the year of birth and/or death. Does anyone have a working version that does pass along the year of birth and or death? Thanks in advance for any help Jay Oh, my old string is;

Re: [LegacyUG] Search string for internet Ancestry search

ld help if I included the link. > > > > > http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs=sfs28_ms_f-2_s=1=1=1=[GivenNames]_x=0=[Surname]_x=0=1=[StartYear]=[EndYear]=0=rstp=7t6 > > > > *From:* Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com] > *Sent:* Monday, November 16, 2015

[LegacyUG] Advanced Sourcing - Tagged Persons - Specific event

I am using Legacy Ver 7.5 I am unsure how to attach a source to a specific event on a tagged person. I have 2057 persons (tagged on 1) who I have an event called "Death Record - Civil" that I have cut and pasted the details from the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 In advanced

Re: [LegacyUG] Help with complex SQL

And I am in the 90 % Thanks! Any Wilpolt's anywhere in the world are related to me. On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Colin Charman wrote: > Ok, you're right - I should have said "relatively uncommon". > > Ancestry tells me there have been 78,211 in 100 years

[LegacyUG] Help with complex SQL

I need to create a report of Tagged persons that includes; Marriage Date Groom Bride Groom Father Groom Mother Bride Father Bride Mother But I am at a loss on the way to do the joins so that I get the correct results. Here is my initial select

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy files stored on NAS - problems with sleeping PC

You cannot leave Legacy running on a network connection, you need to close Legacy. If you try a workaround, I will bet you EVENTUALLY you will damage the datafile. Jay On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Colin Charman wrote: > Hi, I have my Legacy files stored on a

Re: [LegacyUG] Where does the flag get set for exclude?

re excluded, the Excluded from > Potential Problems button has an asterisk > Click it and you can see which category has been excluded for that person. > > Cathy > > Jay Wilpolt wrote: > > > Margaret, > > Thanks for that info. > > I see that the PPCheck column (

Re: [LegacyUG] Generation Heading Spacing

Margaret, AFTER the report is completed as Word Document, You should be able to HIGHLIGHT that line, and the edit that line and all similar lines. Since it appears to be its own unique style (Font and font size) that should work fairly easily. Hope that helps. Jay On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at

Re: [LegacyUG] Changing Parents in Legacy

I would unlink the child from the second marriage, then go to the first marriage and link the child to the first marriage.. If you have to have the child listed as part of th esecond marriage, then again relink the child, then right-click on the children when in Family View and select "Childrens

[LegacyUG] Where does the flag get set for exclude?

Fellow Legacy Users Where in the database table does the Flag get set when I set a person to be exluded from Potential problems item (in this case when a person is born before a parents marriage date.) I do not see any field in the tbl.IR (persons) table Thanks in advance for any help Jay

Re: [LegacyUG] Where does the flag get set for exclude?

/ltools/legacys-database/legacy-tables/?tableName=tblIR=Individual-Records > :) > Margaret > > On 8 November 2015 at 11:06, Jay Wilpolt <jaywilp...@aol.com> wrote: > >> Fellow Legacy Users >> >> Where in the database table does the Flag get set when I set

Re: [LegacyUG] Where does the flag get set for exclude?

persoftware.com/wp/ltools/legacys-database/legacy-tables/?tableName=tblIR=Individual-Records > :) > Margaret > > On 8 November 2015 at 11:06, Jay Wilpolt <jaywilp...@aol.com> wrote: > >> Fellow Legacy Users >> >> Where in the database table does the Flag get set w

Re: [LegacyUG] Family Photos

How about we give the programmers somewhat of an unofficial poll on how/ where? My vote is to place the photos at the end of the paragraph of . was born on date, place, christened on date, place; died date, place and was buried, date, place with any relative photos in the same order as

Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcoms

Daniel, Make sure you have the Admin>Custom Events set to "allow" for each type BEFORE you import . Hope that helps Jay On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Daniel Landry wrote: > Hi > > How do I create an export file that includes certain events that I created > (ie:

[LegacyUG] not duplicates file

Where is the 'not duplicates' file stored? It appears Legacy (7.5) is no longer seeing the 'not duplicates that I had previously reviewed. Thanks in advance for any help jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Fwd: [LegacyUG] Search Function Anomaly #2

did this work for you??? -- Forwarded message -- From: Jay Wilpolt jaywilp...@aol.com Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Search Function Anomaly #2 To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Better answer search for DATE =- Thats what stored

Re: [LegacyUG] Search Function Anomaly #2

Better answer search for DATE =- Thats what stored in the events table date column when no date is entered Hope that helps Jay On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 2:32 PM, MikeFry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015/07/19 22:28 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: The procedure would seem

[LegacyUG] Legacy Ver 8 Gedcom export to Legacy Ver 7.5

So I have tried several ways, but apparently once you convert your database gedcom to Ver 8 , you cannot EXPORT a gedcom 5.5 .ged file that will import into Legacy Ver 7.5 Since this is a project I am working on for a past client, I guess I will have to MANUALLY edit this HUGE gedcom to fix

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Ver 8 Gedcom export to Legacy Ver 7.5

a Legacy database. Note, as Brian said, Legacy 8 has some features like shared events that are not recognised in Legacy 7.5. If these have been used, I don't think anything will make them import. Cathy Jay Wilpolt jaywilp...@aol.com Tuesday, 7 July 2015 8:46 AM So I have tried several ways

Re: [LegacyUG] Notes Report

Don, Tag all the persons with 1 tag then do a search for the tag, FROM the search results you can scroll thru the persons on the left and see only their notes by selecting Notes on the right. Hope that helps Jay On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Don Quigley dwquig...@cox.net wrote: Is there

[LegacyUG] Ver 8 Customer num

Well I cannot find my email that I figured would have had my Legacy ver 8 cust number (still using 7.5) (when was ver 8 released ?, I bought it as soon as it was avail) so, do Ineed to formally submit a request or will this mail list get a response from Legacy? Thanks Jay Legacy User Group

[LegacyUG] Gedcom ver 8 to ver 7

Someone sent me a gedcom created in Legacy Ver 8 It was created as a GEDCOM but I cannot get it to properly import into Legacy ver 7.5 I understand that because of the version changes there may be loss of event data (when shared events) but I did not expect the gedcom import to fail. Any ideas on

Re: [LegacyUG] Two Unrelated Family Files

Jenny, I have 1 file in Legacy that has one 'connected' group of 150,000, and also over 12,000 other 'trees' of yet unconnected (but many probably related) On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: On 26/06/2015 14:38, OB wrote: Is it possible to have

[LegacyUG] Now

So now will Millennia at least say they will work on a way to properly code same sex marriages in Legacy? I dont expect a resolution quickly, but just at least tell us you will work on it. Thank you, Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Two Unrelated Family Files

Merge them On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Marianne Szabo msz...@mindspring.com wrote: I truncated your last message to include only the paragraph of interest. I found an “unlinked” person “Peter Krysten” in his own tree with an RIN of 56. When I checked the source I realized it’s my

Re: [LegacyUG] How to add a source citation to a photograph?

If the photograph is attached an event or attached to a standard event just edit the record and event and add the source. On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Brian/Support br...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: Legacy has no way to link a source to a media file. Jenny's suggestion of including the

Re: [LegacyUG] Persistent Error in Sharing Event Data with LDS FamilySearch Database

Howard, Have you also asked Family Search WHY they feel that an event with text exceeding 255 char is not allowed? Or is there a field discrepancy that maybe your gedcoms are inserting the notes of that event into the description of that event. The Legacy Event Table is confusing where they list

Re: [LegacyUG] Run-time error 3021. No current record.

Chris, Dont forget that the system RAM memory and cpu are also a big factor is the machine cant keep up with the software Hopefully not still using a Pentium. On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Chris Seens cseens1...@gmail.com wrote: I am a retired programmer also and I used to use MSAccess

[LegacyUG] Video file types and recordings file types

When I go to attach a video file, the link for video opens to only show Movie file types. I have other file types that are movies that I would like Legacy to recognize as well , .MP4 and .flv I know I can currently select these types by changing the Movie file type to all. But it seems they

Re: [LegacyUG] Media issue - Error 3163

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Elizabeth Moseley mdc...@gmail.com wrote: Genealogy\ Elizabeth I am sure you will get many different answers on how to best handle media and media links I have over 60,000 links. Here is how I would do it On your c drive create a folder Genealogy\ Do you

Re: [LegacyUG] Linux/Wine

You need to use windows to get all the features of Legacy without constantly stumbling into problems that are caused by trying to workaround Windows. Trust me, you will waste (way too much) time over the years trying to run it on another OS. Jay On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Frank

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendants Narrative report - Addresses

and name) in your locations then the Location Index will include those at the end of the report. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 27/04/2015 3:12 PM, Jay Wilpolt wrote: Listers, In a Descendants

[LegacyUG] Descendants Narrative report - Addresses

Listers, In a Descendants Narrative Report Is there a way to include people addresses but as a listing at the end of the report? Thanks for any help/ advice. Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

Evert, (re: Legacy Gedcoms imported to TNG) I have a mod that is not yet publicly available that makes it easier for me to import a gedcom with many media links, by 'forcing' the media into collections based on folder names and structure. Anything in the Document folder is a Document anything in

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Citations - Part Deux

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: *When I view the Gedcom as a pure text file, all of the “Media, Title, and Publication” words are found directly in the Gedcom for the Source citation. For example, here is where the “Publication” word is

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

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] Any Way to Mark a PERSON as Never Married?

Sorry Tessa, IF Legacy paid attention to the market and the needs of its customers they would have made many of the suggested changes already Face the facts ..they dont want to and I doubt they ever will On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Tessa Keough murke...@gmail.com wrote: I like

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Mark a PERSON as Never Married?

LOL On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I don't see why religious beliefs have anything to do with it. It's a matter of simple logic that you may not know ( that in the case of a man, the individual *himself* may not know whether he's

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Mark a PERSON as Never Married?

How else is Legacy supposed to know HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS !!! IF we dont keep beating this dead horse On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:43 PM, STEPHEN stephen.gra...@comcast.net wrote: I agree. This has long since reached the dead horse stage. -- *From: *William

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Mark a PERSON as Never Married?

Larry, They are if there is no spouse or children attached to the person, If either is present then you use one of the separate tags in the marriage. On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Larry Lee ldlee...@gmail.com wrote: Michele, This really needs to be split into two boxes, 1 This

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Comments in GEDCOM [WAS: Details text showing up in Footnote citation]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:54 PM, John Lisle leg...@johnlisle.com wrote: The issue with Child Status is that Legacy has chosen to export the data as an attribute of Family instead of Person as is done by all other vendors who export this type of data. Probably because Child status is not a

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Comments in GEDCOM [WAS: Details text showing up in Footnote citation]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:00 AM, John Lisle leg...@johnlisle.com wrote: What is a problem with Legacy is when Legacy does not export any of its data OR it exports the data in a fashion that cannot be accepted by the receiving software. John , In regards to *What is a problem with

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Comments in GEDCOM [WAS: Details text showing up in Footnote citation]

Ward, I agree with you completely. I would add one thing however, that the Legacy Shared events could possibly be handled better, so as to not cause the potential problems as it could in its current form. Personally, I would prefer to have a switch to not use shared events and for the database

Re: [LegacyUG] Unknown Persons

:08 PM, John B. Lisle leg...@johnlisle.com wrote: Jay, Please see below... john. At 06:59 PM 3/27/2015, Jay Wilpolt wrote: John I think we are on the same page some thoughts to add. *As both of us maintain somewhat public research sites online, I decided some time ago

Re: [LegacyUG] Unknown Persons

Don, I cant answer the question as to why Legacy does the things it does as far as name conventions. But I have a large database of almost 250,000. The problems come most often because of exchanging gedcoms where importing and exporting data doesnt always end up in the right place causing

Re: [LegacyUG] Unknown Persons

not as not as worried about this. But it is a concern. john. At 03:29 PM 3/27/2015, Jay Wilpolt wrote: Don, I cant answer the question as to why Legacy does the things it does as far as name conventions. But I have a large database of almost 250,000. The problems come most often because of exchanging

Re: [LegacyUG] Any Way to Search Complex Surnames?

Go to SEARCH FIND Individual Surname contains Santiago On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:28 PM, GeoPappas papp...@gmail.com wrote: Puerto Ricans (and other Hispanics) use a system of two surnames (one for their father and one for their mother). So if a person was born of a father named Juan

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

Ward, I also use TNG and export a gedcom from Legacy. I use the Export to Gedcom, but where the first window has a selection for type: I leave that as for Legacy. It will use standard 5.5 rules but include much more info. I customize the contents by blocking data for LDS and To-Do notes, then in

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

. At 05:22 PM 3/26/2015, Jay Wilpolt wrote: John, After further review, I am not so sure this is as critical of an issue (for me) As noted in other messg on this thread, Legacy does export and TNG does properly import the Child Relationship status. Thats good enough for me. In a quick

Re: [LegacyUG] TNG and Shared Events

I dont use shared events nor do I want to at this point as then Legacy cannot be used by LTools I sure hope that there will be a concensus amoungst the genealogy software makers on a standard, but until that happens you RISK fouling up any data export/ imports unless the source or destination are

Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a wife to Legacy

To each his own I use Unknown Unknown, because I was way too frustrated with receiving gedcoms from people where wifes given name was in the surname field. I still get them but at least I know data I send out will never get MANGLED up. Jay On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Boyd Miller

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

:29 PM 3/26/2015, Jay Wilpolt wrote: John, I also use TNG, but I have yet to figure out how to let multiple people to work on a single copy if the Admin is regularly uploading a complete new gedcom. Do you have a solution for getting TNG additions by other Users back to the Admins Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] ENTERING CENSUS SOURCES

John, I know for a fact that if you paste the ancestry URL for a census page into the details of a Source note it WILL properly display on a TNG website with a working link to the page. (Remember however the visitor must still be an ancestry member to view those pages, if not they will be

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

1000s, of users are importing Legacy Gedcoms into TNG and most have never noticed that this status (actually an attribute) field is not getting imported. thanks for your message, john. At 07:28 PM 3/25/2015, Jay Wilpolt wrote: John, I was unaware of this as well. I hope Darrin will fix

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

John, I also use TNG, but I have yet to figure out how to let multiple people to work on a single copy if the Admin is regularly uploading a complete new gedcom. Do you have a solution for getting TNG additions by other Users back to the Admins Legacy database? That would be something MANY

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

John, I was unaware of this as well. I hope Darrin will fix it or is there an easy was to change the gedcom contents before importing into TNG? I am always frustrated when creating a gedcom in Legacy for Changed persons, and then importing that (appending to an existing database) into TNG

Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage list

Leon, This is NOT a bug. It's just 'leftover' data in most cases. There are many ways these 'ghost' marriages are created and they stay in Legacy until you delete them. Why, because Legacy knows it isnt as smart as you are, and never assumes that just because you are removing a spouse or child

Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage list

Yes, How else could the logic work if it didnt have SOMETHING to connect the two? On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Charani phoenixantis...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/2015 16:18, Leon Chapman wrote: I looked at my list and find the same problem. Lots of Unknown married to Unknown. I've

Re: [LegacyUG] Switching fields in an event

GMail users should know that they will not see their messages appear in their own inbox because GMail 'holds back' displaying of your own emails. This is a standard GMail process for any List type mailing group and not anything to do with how Legacy handles their List email settings. Just an FYI

Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage list

phoenixantis...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/2015 18:22, Jay Wilpolt wrote: How else could the logic work if it didnt have SOMETHING to connect the two? Logic and programming are not /necessarily/ the same thing. I'd like to be able to add children without having to enter the surname of a mother

Re: [LegacyUG] View Edit Legacy Data in MS Access

Donald, Have you tried using LTools? It will make changes directly to the Legacy database. (needs to be before Legacy 8) And it's written specifically as a tool for Legacy, whereas Access is the format that Legacy database is stored in, the potential for an error that could 'break' your Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures for Locations and Sources

Nancy, For photos of where people lived I use the Residence Event and attach the image to that and adding the date span like bet 1900-1925 I have a great uncle who built 'very' large barns that were often pictured in the newspaper. So in I create an Occupation event for each one, listing his

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting

You are asking for a Genealogy program to perform the function of a Data Manipulation program. To get the results you desire, export the data to csv and then use a data spreadsheet type program to manipulate your data. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:47 PM, kaytt ka...@sasktel.net wrote: I have

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting

I should add here my own idea that I hope might someday be implemented to resolve many place name issues. First, lets break down the place field into the individual components. A field for Country a field for State a field for County a field for Name Then lets add another set of fields to help

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting

. Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com From: Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 5:03 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting Michelle, re: addresses and names

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting

for the States, but no good fir many other countries. Ron Ferguson Jay Wilpolt jaywilp...@aol.com wrote: I should add here my own idea that I hope might someday be implemented to resolve many place name issues. First, lets break down the place field into the individual components. A field

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting

Michelle, re: addresses and names of building do not belong in the location field. These belong in the address field. I disagree that Legacy LOGICALLY handles addresses and places in the ADDRESS field The best example I can give is a cemetery. If you added the cemetery name in the Burial

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting

Long/Lat that was stored for that exact same place name) Thanks Jay. On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Gene Young n2...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 2/20/2015 8:27 PM, Jay Wilpolt wrote: Gene, This is an oft mis understood area. What they were saying is that in the Burial Place field, we

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting

...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 2/20/2015 6:35 PM, Jay Wilpolt wrote: The problem is the address function Does NOT give you one cemetery addresses with everyone attached to it, it created one address record for EVERY burial, I dont want 1200 st. Mary Cemetery address records If this is the result you

Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh!

Great advice Jim! I run a File Check repair Every time I use Legacy I create a backup at least once every day and if I have spent an hour or more adding info, I will make a backup after that. (Every month I deleted old backups and that folder usually has about 50 to delete every month) DO NOT

Re: [LegacyUG] Locations: towns in multiple counties?

Jerry, She is talking about cities that are in two counties. Like New London, Wisconsin do you use New London, Outagamie, Wisconsin or New London, Waupaca, Wisconsin. It's about 50/50 land spread between the counties. and Appleton, Wisconsin could be Appleton, Calumet, Wisconsin or

Re: [LegacyUG] How's the Web Page Output - Legacy v8

Actually Legacy does now export all of the HTML if you check the boxes on the setup page of exporting a gedcom. Make sure that these three are all checked; Keep embedded formatting codes Convert formatting codes to HTML Make space strings in note field web friendly And everything will work. My

Re: [LegacyUG] Export File Paths

Ward, If you do not have the path in the gedcom, then TNG will NOT be able to PROPERLY create the links to your media. The export from Legacy will either include the pics or not, there is no choice about the path (but I am still using Ver 7.5) The simplist way to make things easy is to

Re: [LegacyUG] How's the Web Page Output - Legacy v8

Gordon, I can speak from experience, I hope that you consider using TNG for an truly dynamic web site online (and not just a dynamic template) I wasted many, many weeks, and months only to discover that I could have made my web site even better in less time using TNG. It not only allows for

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Website

Ah, but Mary, words and phrases can mean different things depending on how the reader interprets them. Though it may look as if the reader wanted to know about web sites that are created by Legacy, the actual wording does not exclude the process Jerry mentions where Legacy's exported data is used

Re: [LegacyUG] RE: My Legacy Test Message

LOL. Millennia would never consider such a simple solution! Shame NO other company of any size that I have contact with online lists (guessing over 500) has EVER had a problem like Millennia has had for more than one month. BUT, after all these years I continue to BITE my Tongue.

Re: [LegacyUG] Bing Maps and Event Addresses

Steve, I agree its frustrating in that Legacy supposedly Geocodes a location, but doesnt borther to tell you that it didnt in fact geocode the actual location but instead inserted the default Goecode for the State or County or Town. (Which by the way should have a different PIN that a geocode of

Re: [LegacyUG] Modify GED File to Remove Shared Events?

Don. Try Using Notepad++ for editing your gedcom Search for 2 _Shar and select the find all lines with this then repeat the process for the 3 _Role Then at least you can see all the lines and I think you can even delete them all at once. Otherwise I would just go back to Legacy 7.5 and use

Re: [LegacyUG] Modify GED File to Remove Shared Events?

macros to do what is needed. Was hoping to avoid that effort. Don *From:* Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 12, 2015 7:30 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Modify GED File to Remove Shared Events? Don. Try Using Notepad

Re: [LegacyUG] Fallout from Location cleanup

You need to run a file check maint. to rebuild the index of persons at each location, etc. On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: With your all's help, I got my Main Location List looking beautiful. The problem now seems to be that when I look at it and wish

Re: [LegacyUG] Running reports on extremely large files

Bob, Try creating a gedcom and filter out any data you do not need for your report. Maybe just include the dates and locations, but filter out any events or attached media or other items. Then use that gedcom to create a new Legacy file, which hopefully will then complete without a memory full

[LegacyUG] Finding spouses of related

Is there a way to find persons who are the spouse of a blood relative.? I know the Related list will include them, but I need a listing of only spouses of blood related persons. Thanks in advance for any help. Jay Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp

Re: [LegacyUG] Shared events on reports

the course of a marriage, there are many activities that may be done as a couple – buying property, establishing residencies, etc. It appears that I am perceiving the marriage events in Legacy incorrectly and they are not meant for that. Thanks for your insight Jay, Chris *From:* Jay Wilpolt

Re: [LegacyUG] Creating a mtDNA LIST of ancestors

Jessica, You might want to contact Dennis at LTools and for ask what it would cost to create a special report for you. I have had several done over the years, many were well worth the $25 he charged me. I dont know how complicated it would be to properly calculate or how difficult it would be to

Re: [LegacyUG] Shared events on reports

Chris, I have been adding events to marriages even before 'shared events' came along in Ver 8. These work great for events where the couple is the focus, like a newspaper marriage or anniversary event. And they will show on reports (as events for that marriage) not under individual's because the

Re: [LegacyUG] Shared events on reports

that I am perceiving the marriage events in Legacy incorrectly and they are not meant for that. Thanks for your insight Jay, Chris *From:* Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com] *Sent:* Friday, October 31, 2014 2:25 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re

Re: [LegacyUG] Long/Lat for stones

into Legacy when they have addressed the situation. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Jay On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:20 AM, MikeFry emjay...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 Oct 2014 01:27, Jay Wilpolt wrote: I think the current 'logic' of the long/lat for Burial Place just isnt taking

Re: [LegacyUG] Long/Lat for stones

-Cemetery (J.19.6), Salt Lake, Utah, USA Hope this helps. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Jay Wilpolt jaywilp...@aol.com wrote: How can I add in the Long/Lat for several stones within the same Cemetery without creating a separate address card for each one? Under Burial Address If I enter

Re: [LegacyUG] Find Duplicates Not opposite sex

http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 28/10/2014 5:43 PM, Jay Wilpolt wrote: Cathy, Yes, I have tried with the Compatible Gender checked and unchecked and in BOTH cases the results ALWAYS are asking me to compare M vs F I am using Legacy 7.5 build 7.5.0.278 I can do with the SKIP

Re: [LegacyUG] Long/Lat for stones

are all located at 1 Location address. Had just been hoping that someone figured out a reasonable work around. Kinda surprising to find no one has. Thanks, Jay On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk wrote: On 27/10/2014 17:57, Jay Wilpolt wrote: How can I add

Re: [LegacyUG] Find Duplicates Not opposite sex

, Jay Wilpolt jaywilp...@aol.com wrote: Brian, I just tried the same file in Legacy 8 and I do NOT get the Compatible Gender checkbox to respond either way. You mentioned your try showed the boxes did not stay repositioned. Are you reporting that as a bug or should I ? If you like I can send

Re: [LegacyUG] Find Duplicates Not opposite sex

parent-child suggestions. However, when you find them, mark them as not duplicates and they'll never come up again unless you clear your not duplicates list. Cathy Jay Wilpolt wrote: When I go to Find Duplicates, How can I have the search results to consider SEX and not to keep asking me

[LegacyUG] Long/Lat for stones

How can I add in the Long/Lat for several stones within the same Cemetery without creating a separate address card for each one? Under Burial Address If I enter the first one as Cemetery Name, City, State and then in the Long/Lat enter a specific set of Long/Lat Then when I come to add another

[LegacyUG] Find Duplicates Not opposite sex

When I go to Find Duplicates, How can I have the search results to consider SEX and not to keep asking me if I want to review these two because they are opposite sex? And the same for parent/child, I dont want those to be included when searching for possible duplicates. Thanks in advance for any

Re: [LegacyUG] Dates on Event Sentences

You need to make sure you have the correct event sentence set up for the correct fields that exist. Check the Master Event definition list and make sure that the [date] is properly formatted and included in the variable options. On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:30 PM, sa...@attglobal.net wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] Showing Event Photos on Webpages

I use a batch file renamer Its free and easy to use http://www.ronsplace.eu/ You could point to the folder where your files are located , do a replace (space) with (underscore) and with one click it will change all the file names. It can also make changes to 'un- capitalize your filenames.

Re: [LegacyUG] Showing Event Photos on Webpages

It looks good now, (as far as seeing other images besides the default photo) On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Re Media Names. Legacy will adjust the names for you if you choose the right options. It replaces spaces with an underscore. (I don't think

Re: [LegacyUG] Don't use Check Repair

Richard, You might try using the appropriate html code like a href=www.google.comGoogle/a and see if that works ok. On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Richard Van Wasshnova rfvanwasshn...@gmail.com wrote: There is a very serious problem with the Check / Repair tool in L8. I am using

Re: [LegacyUG] Family File Statistics - Individuals born after 2000.

Were they entered since you last ran a File Check Repair. Part of that process, rebuilds all the lists and updates counts. On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Ronald E Howell rehowell0...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello Group, Just found the 'Family File Statistics' report and noticed there is a

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