RE: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: internet > database

2015-04-18 Thread John Lisle
Brian, Michelle, Barton et al, Again, please let me be the naysayer. With some repositories, you can be more specific than just the top level URL. For instance... If you copy a FamilySearch record with their copy button, and paste it into a detail citation note, it will include the URL of the re

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-15 Thread John Lisle
o import legacy gedcoms? I couldn't find any on the wiki page: http://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/index.php/Category:Mods_for_TNG_v10 Also looked for gedcom in previous builds. Could you give a direct link? Evert 2015-04-15 8:04 GMT+02:00 John Lisle <leg...@johnlisle.com >: Stuart, You point

RE: [LegacyUG] TNG and Sources [was: Testing Legacy Web Pages]

2015-04-15 Thread John Lisle
.   Stuart   From: John Lisle [ mailto:leg...@johnlisle.com] Sent: Wednesday, 15 April 2015 1:56 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] TNG and Sources [was: Testing Legacy Web Pages]   Barton, Margaret, Stuart, et al, In many of my previous posts, I have talked about

RE: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread John Lisle
ing to webtrees. > > > > For many years my webtrees site has been my prime database and I > > occasionally export a Gedcom from my site and create a new Legacy .fdb > > file so as to create reports that aren't available using webtrees. > > Although I back up my MySQL d

Re: [LegacyUG] TNG and Sources [was: Testing Legacy Web Pages]

2015-04-14 Thread John Lisle
context with the events they documented. Barton      On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 02:33 PM, John Lisle wrote:    > 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 &

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread John Lisle
> >Barton >Â >Â >Â On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 01:38 AM, John Lisle wrote: >Â >Â > Barton, > > > > Two basic types of family tree sites exist: static pages and dynamic > > pages. > > > > Static pages means you create all of the pages > > you wish

RE: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-14 Thread John Lisle
ack up my >MySQL database every night, creating a new >Legacy .fdb is another form of backup. > >Stuart > >-Original Message- >From: John Lisle [mailto:leg...@johnlisle.com] >Sent: Tuesday, 14 April 2015 1:39 PM >To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com >Subject:

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 t

Re: [LegacyUG] Testing Legacy Web Pages

2015-04-13 Thread John Lisle
Barton, Two basic types of family tree sites exist: static pages and dynamic pages. Static pages means you create all of the pages you wish to upload to whatever hosting service you wish to use. After you create the pages on your PC; you then have to upload all of the pages by FTP (or some simila

Re: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]

2015-04-09 Thread John Lisle
to go, I think. Don't wait for others to do it for you -- do it yourself.   Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 at 12:18 AM From: "John Lisle" To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...] Jay, Your (and my?) idea of w

Re: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...]

2015-04-08 Thread John Lisle
Jay, Your (and my?) idea of what the market requires may be different from what Legacy's management feels is necessary. Several years ago, an aggressive effort was made to create international versions. That added greatly to its market. L7 added mapping, improved privacy, source writer, and seve

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

2015-04-08 Thread John Lisle
this is something they want to fix. Not only do they have to change their data model, but they also have to make significant in a lot of their tools, reports, etc. john. At 02:35 PM 4/8/2015, MikeFry wrote: >On 2015/04/08 19:18 PM, John Lisle wrote: > > > One of the major knocks

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

2015-04-08 Thread John Lisle
Hi BobsTree2, I thought I was done with this thread but your email requires a response. As much as Legacy is an excellent Family Tree / Genealogy program, it is also a fine Family *History* program. And I suspect that most users who are using Legacy to record their genealogy are also documenting

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

2015-04-07 Thread John Lisle
ajority of the >most bizarre, unlikely relationships or non-relationships they can think >about. > >Jim >Legacy Technical Support > > > Original Message > > From: "John Lisle" > > Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 11:30 AM > > T

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

2015-04-07 Thread John Lisle
Jim, I agree but... I think that this most people think of this attribute of "Never Married" as being no formal marriage event, not no relationships. Further, even were it to mean No Relationships, unless we have perfect knowledge of the person's life, we would have to say "No KNOWN Relationship

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

2015-04-06 Thread John Lisle
Pat, Michele, Larry, et al, I believe Pat is correct in her reasons why these two attributes need to be split. A person may never have been legally married but might have been responsible for numerous children. As a genealogist, we can say that "No evidence that this person ever married" and "No

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

2015-04-02 Thread John Lisle
submit a suggestion.   Respectfully, Ron Bernier Woonsocket, RI   From: John Lisle [ mailto:leg...@johnlisle.com] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 12:15 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Comments in GEDCOM [WAS: Details text showing up in Footnote citation]   Jay

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

2015-04-01 Thread John Lisle
products that I have reviewed link the attributes that Legacy associates with Child Status as attributes of the individual, not the family. Legacy needs to do likewise. john. At 09:18 PM 4/1/2015, Jay Wilpolt wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:54 PM, John Lisle <leg...@johnlisle.com> wrote: The issu

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

2015-04-01 Thread John Lisle
te: 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]

2015-03-31 Thread John Lisle
David, Your point is well taken, but... 1/ Gedcom was last updated in the late 1990s. In my opinion, it will never be updated significantly again because (a) too many applications depend on the current implementation and from a development viewpoint are static. For instance, RootsWeb's WorldConne

RE: [LegacyUG] Individual's Information Screen

2015-03-31 Thread John Lisle
he voices in my head. http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus  ==   From: John Lisle [ mailto:leg...@johnlisle.com] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 1:11 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [Le

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual's Information Screen

2015-03-30 Thread John Lisle
7;t see the need for another Custom event. Am I misunderstanding your comment? Â Larry Lee ldlee. a...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:18 AM, John Lisle <leg...@johnlisle.com> wrote: Brian, Cathy, et al, This has been an interesting discussion. Why this discussion is most interesting

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual's Information Screen

2015-03-30 Thread John Lisle
Brian, Cathy, et al, This has been an interesting discussion. Why this discussion is most interesting is how you relate this to how the events are recorded in Legacy. Brian, having looked at many English parish records, I can agree with Cathy that Baptism and Christening are used more or less int

Re: [LegacyUG] Attn: Robert57P - Unknown Persons

2015-03-30 Thread John Lisle
Bob, Some interesting ideas. 1/ On the Individual Info page and maybe other places "Given Name" is used the term should be changed to "Given Names". By being plural, it will be both clearer and more correct (usually). 2/ Your idea about adding a private note to the a surname or given names field