Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry

2013-08-30 Thread Leon Chapman
tc. Then create you own search strings. I have a fairly comprehensive list of search strings. You can go to my DropBox folder and download the Word Document at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rt9j4o2aecd1hym/YzFcYLGtcC ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:19 AM,

Re: [LegacyUG] search String for Ancestry

2013-08-29 Thread Leon Chapman
y 8* http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=ms_r_f-2_s&gsfn=[GivenNames]&gsln=[Surname]&msbdy=[StartYear]&uidh=000 [ ]=[+] ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Jay 1

Re: [LegacyUG] Individual Report

2013-08-21 Thread Leon Chapman
about 60,000 pages will be generated. You had better do the arithmetic and figure how many pages you will get. In my case, it would probably take several days or weeks to generate the report and print it. So, be careful what you ask for, you might get it. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com -

Re: [LegacyUG] How to handle adoptions?

2013-08-20 Thread Leon Chapman
Thanks Cathy. I had essentially done what you have suggested. However, I like all of your ideas on documentation, so I have also done all your suggested documentation. Thanks for your suggestions. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Cathy-0 wrote

[LegacyUG] How to handle adoptions?

2013-08-19 Thread Leon Chapman
for Joe & Sara after the adoption. Family 2 really now has 4 children with the last name of Johnson. A couple of questions: 1. How do you enter last names for Joe & Sara? 2. How do you include Joe & Sara in both families with both family names or not? ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gma

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy on Microsoft Surface Pro

2013-08-15 Thread Leon Chapman
Yes, that is correct. MS Surface RT WILL NOT run normal windows applications -- It WILL NOT run Legacy Family Tree software. Windows Surface Pro WILL run normal windows software. It WILL run Legacy Family Tree software. Sorry for any confusion. Chapy Leon Chapman On Aug 15, 2013, at 3:05

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy on Microsoft Surface Pro

2013-08-15 Thread Leon Chapman
and less transitioning from Windows 7. Good luck. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:57 AM, wrote: > Hello, > > Is there anyone in the group who has installed and is using Legacy on a > Microsoft Surface Pro with Windows 8 – full ver

Re: [LegacyUG] Apostrophe in Filenames

2013-07-23 Thread Leon Chapman
should be ok as long as you stay within that system. If you send files to others, publish on the web, then you need to use the least common denominator filename characters. Good luck. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Bo

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

2013-07-12 Thread Leon Chapman
Paula The answer is NO. It uses the standard windows file name conventions. If u publish files to the web, then u should not have spaces in file names and still with alpha and numerical characters for file names. You can use a - or a _ in file names and be ok Sent from my iPhone Leon Chapman

Re: [LegacyUG] Split Screen

2013-07-11 Thread Leon Chapman
The split screen lets u edit 2 files side by side. In single screen mode, a n internet search for a person using Legacy will open a 2nd screen using Internet Explorer. So, you then have 2 windows open, 1) Legacy and 2) the Internet - Internet explorer. Chap Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap

Re: [LegacyUG] Date printed on reports

2013-07-08 Thread Leon Chapman
Why don't you just add your Date information to be on the Title page, just like you might have your name and addresses, email, phone as the author of the report. Under All reports, Descendants, Ancestors, etc, there are several blank lines that you can place anything you want as text, so just inser

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing Relationship Chart

2013-07-07 Thread Leon Chapman
John: You just need to save the chart to either a *.jpg file or a *.pdf file. Copy that file to a CD or USB stick and take it to Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, etc and they can print to a poster size that will cover your 2 pages. You may want to check at Wal-Mart or whereever you want to get it printed ahe

Re: [LegacyUG] Report with images

2013-07-04 Thread Leon Chapman
le. There is also a picture scrapbook report, go to View, Scrapbook, and you can print all of the pictures of individuals that have a Tag 1 or all individuals. You can also include Master Sources that have pictures. These reports are not exactly what you want, but it is close. Hope that helps.

[LegacyUG] Re: How to Handle Adoptions?

2013-06-28 Thread Leon Chapman
Thanks to all that responded to the How to handle adoptions. Great ideas!. I will use the AKA name and change the child status information. Great list to have help! Thanks. again. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Leon Chapman wrote: > Here i

[LegacyUG] How to Handle Adoptions?

2013-06-27 Thread Leon Chapman
Family 1 and Family 2 with the dual last names. Legacy lets me do this, but doesn't really like it. Any suggestions?? My goal is to show the children as being in both families since they are adopted. Maybe I am too optimistic to be able to do this? ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com --

Re: [LegacyUG] Best charting program

2013-06-22 Thread Leon Chapman
Try the built in Legacy charting program. It's great Chap Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ⛳ On Jun 22, 2013, at 2:59 PM, "lio ." wrote: I want to start playing with charting my family tree. I know Legacy Charting can do a lot, but is there a preference on t

Re: [LegacyUG] Source Template Conversion Tool

2013-06-20 Thread Leon Chapman
Sorry. It is not available You should try exporting to a GEDCOM file a source or two to make sure it exports correctly for you. Others have had problems. I am sticking with Basic Sourcing Chap Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ⛳ On Jun 20, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Chris Clifford

Re: [LegacyUG] Commonly used Christian name

2013-06-18 Thread Leon Chapman
Use the double quotes as part of his 1st name: John Edward Frederick Smith becomes John Edward "Frederick" Smith In reports, you can specific the full name is used the 1st time and then the quoted name (Frederick) is used thereafter. Chap Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@g

Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging

2013-06-16 Thread Leon Chapman
Rich: If you go to LegacyFamilyTree.com and look at their training Videos, they have one for Tagging: http://www.millenniacorp.com/_videos/tagging/tagging__preview.html An great Introduction of tagging can be viewed for free. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at

Re: [LegacyUG] Can I?

2013-06-12 Thread Leon Chapman
Cheryl: I will tell you the process that I use, generically, and it works fine. In Family view, edit a persons individual information. You can set up a new source by going to the sources icon. Once you have a new or old source selected, then you can copy that source to the clipboard (see small ic

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Revealed

2013-06-10 Thread Leon Chapman
Yes, Tagging is available. *Leon D. Chapman* On 6/10/13 5:10 PM, Bobby Johnson wrote: > > I certainly hope that tagging is turned off in the examples you show > since I see no evidence of the tag boxes. Please tell me tagging > still exists > > Bobby > > *From:*Geoff Rasmussen [mailto

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing pictures

2013-06-10 Thread Leon Chapman
other pictures, 1 event per picture. I do the same of family pictures, but use events in marriage for family pictures. Then in reports, you can print all the event pictures in a report. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:32 PM, wrote: > 1) Is there a way

Re: [LegacyUG] Two questions

2013-06-08 Thread Leon Chapman
Michelle: Go to View, Split Screen View. This will bring up a second window that you can open another Legacy file. You then will have two Legacy files open at the same time and can drag and drop from one file to the other. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:49

Re: [LegacyUG] Scanning question

2013-06-08 Thread Leon Chapman
If you want to print all four pages in a report, you will need to attacheach picture to a separate event for the individual for each picture. You might have events like the following: 1. Marriage Certificate - 1 of 4, date, place, description and then add picture 1 to event 2. Marriage Certifica

Re: [LegacyUG] All-inclusive Chart

2013-06-06 Thread Leon Chapman
thing to look at. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:24 PM, gociao wrote: > Is it possible to create a chart that includes everyone in the data > base? Presently, my chart doesn't show , for example, the parents of a > spouse who married into the main f

Re: [LegacyUG] SAVE AS?

2013-05-30 Thread Leon Chapman
You are correct. Normally, the file structure will be different. You can try to open the L7.5 file with L7.4 and it will tell u if it can't open it. I would make a backup copy of my L7.5 before trying to open the file in L7.4 Chap Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ⛳ On M

Re: [LegacyUG] sourcing social media (FB)

2013-05-09 Thread Leon Chapman
://www.facebook.com/Julie.Jones Recorded Date: 9 May 2013 That's it. Leon Chapman ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Lavern Hall wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking in the archives for some advice > on using a person's Facebook page as a >

Re: [LegacyUG] Creating A Descendant Book For A Large File That Can be Bound

2013-05-06 Thread Leon Chapman
the number of pages. Good luck. Leon Chapman ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Jim Carroll wrote: > My file is more than 1400 pages . I would like to print out a report > and have it bound. Even with printing on both sides of the paper, it is &

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Center

2013-04-29 Thread Leon Chapman
pictures. Try a few of these and preview a report or two with pictures set to print in the report. Chap Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ⛳ On Apr 29, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Richard_S_ wrote: I am using Legacy 7.5.0.219 and am trying to insert personal pictures into my charts and

Re: [LegacyUG] transferring data between 2 family files

2013-02-24 Thread Leon Chapman
he other? > I appreciate the help... > Lavern Hall > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Leon Chapman <mailto:chap...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Under View, choose Splt Screen and you can then open another file > and drag and drop people from one family file to another. Whe

Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestor Report large white space / page break between events

2013-01-14 Thread Leon Chapman
Make sure you do not have any Checks in the Descendant Book Report Options, Options Tab, Look at top left it says: Insert Underlines for Missing: x Given and Surnames x Dates and places It would appear you have these boxes checked. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Mon, Jan 14, 2013

Re: [LegacyUG] Marriage images in a report

2012-12-14 Thread Leon Chapman
ch using this method and it works very nicely. Good luck. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Don Hendershot wrote: > Legacy 7.5 with updates. > > I've attached pictures (.jpg) to several Marriages from the Marriage > Information scr

Re: [LegacyUG] FGS Report

2012-10-26 Thread Leon Chapman
I try to check and verify the important ones, like Presidents Sent from my iPhone Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On Oct 26, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Leon, > > You write " > >> Another chapter that is nice to include is famous ancestors. If you upload &g

Re: [LegacyUG] FGS Report

2012-10-26 Thread Leon Chapman
es will be well worth it. Probalby too much .... but, Good luck. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Lavern Hall wrote: > @ Daphne, What does write a macro mean? > > @ Leon: From reading your post, it sounds like your books follow > the Decend

Re: [LegacyUG] FGS Report

2012-10-24 Thread Leon Chapman
color cover on-line at Lulu.com and was very happy with the results. The books when printed in B&W with color hard back covers only cost about $25-35 apiece. Probalby too much information, but I would suggest you try using the Legacy publisher, you might like it. __ Leon Chapman

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy/Families/iPad/Spreadsheet Help

2012-08-16 Thread Leon Chapman
Here are some apps for the iPad that reads Excel files: 1. Quickoffice 2. GoodReader 3. PrintBureau 3. Numbers And there are probably lots of others. Most of these have a fee for the app. Good Luck Chapy Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Arch

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Files and Restore

2012-08-05 Thread Leon Chapman
them. Hope this helps. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Colin Liddell wrote: > I have had some problems with my computer and now have doubts about the > current Legacy file I am working on. > My aim is to Restore a zip file from a time when I kn

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing

2012-07-22 Thread Leon Chapman
Why don't u just take your laptop or smartphone with your database on them. You can use Families in smart phone or tablet and take your whole database Sent from my iPad Chap On Jul 22, 2012, at 7:04 AM, bgsu1...@gmail.com wrote: > MJ SA proclaimed: > >> I don't want to print at the FHL, I wan

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing

2012-07-20 Thread Leon Chapman
as a PDF file in lower right of Descendant Book Window. Choose PDF and give the file name and location where you want to save it. That's it -- take the PDF file on your computer with you. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:00 PM, MJ SA wrote: > How do

Re: [LegacyUG] Families - Syncing from Laptop to New IPad

2012-06-13 Thread Leon Chapman
Follow the instructions at the URL below http://www.telgen.co.uk/families/styled-3/index.html Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On Jun 13, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Laura Johnson wrote: > Can someone who has experience with Families help me to sync my Legacy > file to my new iPa

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Legacy on an Imac with Snow Leopard

2012-04-24 Thread Leon Chapman
Mountain Lion this summer which means you will be 2 generations behind in your operating system. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Sandra Crashley wrote: > Hi - I recently read a comment on "Legacy Family Tree update available > (7.4.0.45)"

Re: [LegacyUG] Sourse vs. event

2012-04-20 Thread Leon Chapman
this example helps. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - 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:

Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with the "I think" and "maybe" individuals?

2012-04-19 Thread Leon Chapman
Peggy: The source icon is Grey if there are no souces for an individual in the family view. You could add a new Master source called UNSOURCED and attach that to each person you have unsourced and then you can see a list of people who have that source named UNSOURCED. ___ Leon Chapman chap

Re: [LegacyUG] Narrative Reports

2012-04-11 Thread Leon Chapman
Birth, General, Spouses notes, Birth, General, Marriage notes, and Children, Birth & General. If you don't want any notes printed, just uncheck the boxes you don't want printed. You might want to review the other Tabs in this area to see what else you may want to change from the defaults.

Re: [LegacyUG] Run-time error 3021

2012-04-10 Thread Leon Chapman
Thanks Keith I was not aware of any of this We may have to rally the troops again to get anything done Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:02 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: > Yes > Rich in LA CA > > From: R G Strong-genes > To: LegacyUserGroup@

Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate Problem

2012-04-08 Thread Leon Chapman
helps. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:55 AM, R G Strong-genes wrote: > I agree. Are you importing the gedcom directly into your file? You should > import it into a NEW file then do all your duplicate checking, place name > formats etc, etc. BEFORE

Re: [LegacyUG] Handling Photos

2012-04-05 Thread Leon Chapman
Tersa: Send me an email and I will send you a document describing how I published three books using Legacy. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:55 PM, wrote: > So I have another question for everyone, and appreciate earlier answers > today - it

Re: [LegacyUG] Questions about Sorting and Printing

2012-04-04 Thread Leon Chapman
Tab t top, then make sure you have Picture of husband and wife, Picture of children, and Event pictures selected. 5. Close Options, and then preview your report and all the pictures should print. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:41 AM, wrote: > Hi G

Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced sourcing help needed.

2012-04-01 Thread Leon Chapman
Good job! ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Brian Lehman wrote: > That's how I did it,Leon, > Individually,one ate a time, It works, > I have many 'lumped sources",such as New York Birth Certificates, that I > want to divided

Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced sourcing help needed.

2012-03-31 Thread Leon Chapman
the Search screen, it is easy and quick to copy a source to a specific field or event for each person. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Leon, Brian, > > If I understand Leon correctly then I do not think that it will wor

Re: [LegacyUG] Advanced sourcing help needed.

2012-03-31 Thread Leon Chapman
Why not just edit the old source that you already have for the 80 people and then Legacy will change it for everyone? I think that would be the easist thing to do. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Brian Lehman wrote: > Hello, > Is this possibl

Re: [LegacyUG] 7.5.0.154 - Problem with Page Numbers

2012-03-01 Thread Leon Chapman
starting page. Which report and which options do you have selected in reports?? ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Kay Fordham wrote: > Using 7.5.0.154 - Downloaded today (1 March) > > Header and Footer - Include Page Total After Page Number (i.e

Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures - how to handle ones with more than one person in the photo

2012-02-05 Thread Leon Chapman
picture can be printed. I use lots of events for individuals and families. You can also print scrapbooks for individuals when you can have lots of pictures for each individual. Normally, only one picture can be printed for an individual. Hope that helps! Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap

Re: [LegacyUG] Annotating my research onto a friend's GEDCOM

2011-12-11 Thread Leon Chapman
assign that master source to every field in your database. Then import her GEDCOM data and you will have one file with your research data sourced to you and her original data in one file. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:04 AM, ArdenholmeGenealogy wrote

Re: [LegacyUG] Spacing Issues / Word Wrap

2011-11-02 Thread Leon Chapman
account for the pictures. I use a lot of events with pictures and do get several blank lines between events since the picture takes up several lines. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:33 PM, MarksLady wrote: > Recently after upgrading to Windows 7 I be

Re: [LegacyUG] export a group of people

2011-11-02 Thread Leon Chapman
All the sources and pictures will be exported to the new Legacy file Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On Nov 2, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Tim Rosenlof wrote: > And your sources ? > > Regards, > Tim Rosenlof > Utah, USA > Researching Southern Sweden > Always -->

Re: [LegacyUG] export a group of people

2011-11-02 Thread Leon Chapman
this helps. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: > I would like to make a file of all of the ancestors [and their > siblings] of one person with all the data I have for those people and > use it separately. I don't wan

Re: [LegacyUG] printing a book

2011-10-30 Thread Leon Chapman
to 1 in I would suggest you preview report 1st and then only print a 4-5 pages to verify you got the desired output. Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On Oct 30, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Margie Lauer wrote: > Hello > I am ready to print a book, which will contain double sided page

Re: [LegacyUG] book production

2011-09-21 Thread Leon Chapman
book costs about $35.      vii. Books are printed and shipped in about 5-7 days by www.Lulu.com These were the steps that I used in published three books, the smallest was 370 pages and the largest was 785 pages.  I hope these steps may help you in writing a book. ___ L

Re: [LegacyUG] How to enter census data into my Legacy records.

2011-09-13 Thread Leon Chapman
rious aspects of Legacy Family Tree. In preparation for the webinar: 1) Download and print the census records here<http://www.millenniacorp.com/_videos/webinars/2011-09-07-census/2011-09-07-census.pdf>so you can follow along. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Report Selection locks Legacy up

2011-09-11 Thread Leon Chapman
Chuck: My version, 7.5.0.112, works just fine. I think you are refering to Chart Reports rather than narravtive descendant report -- in either case, mine version works just fine. I am running Windows 7, but I don't think that will make any difference. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmai

Re: [LegacyUG] Single Chronology for multiple people

2011-09-10 Thread Leon Chapman
main Publishing Center window. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:02 AM, paula.ryburn wrote: > ** > Question: How do I change the print options for the chronology reports > that I'm including in this book? > > Thanks, > --Paula > > >

Re: [LegacyUG] Single Chronology for multiple people

2011-09-04 Thread Leon Chapman
Yes, each person would have a new chapter in the book. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Marnie Oakes wrote: > Would each person's chronology then be a chapter in the published book? > Marnie > > > > Legacy User G

Re: [LegacyUG] Single Chronology for multiple people

2011-09-04 Thread Leon Chapman
is report. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Marnie Oakes wrote: > I would like to create a chronology for 3-4 generations of four brothers > who all lived in the same > area of Maine. The only way I've thought of to do it is to create .rtf >

Re: [LegacyUG] Single Chronology for multiple people

2011-09-04 Thread Leon Chapman
Nope. That's it! ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Marnie Oakes wrote: > I would like to create a chronology for 3-4 generations of four brothers > who all lived in the same > area of Maine. The only way I've thought of to do i

Re: [LegacyUG] Help with Legacy on two computers

2011-09-01 Thread Leon Chapman
ncing site -- I use both Dropbox & Sugarsync. Enjoy! ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Beci and Ken wrote: > I recently bought a laptop and can not wrap my brain around how to keep my > most recent info on both computers. For instance, I will wor

Re: [LegacyUG] Windows 7 64 Bit losing records

2011-08-29 Thread Leon Chapman
repeat all of your process steps. Thanks. Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:26 AM, "Alan Pereira" wrote: > conduct Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mai

Re: [LegacyUG]

2011-08-08 Thread Leon Chapman
Bill: Right click on the left side of family view where the Born, Chr, Died, Buried fields are listed and you will get a pop-up window to select what fields you want to see in the family view. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Willard Ellis wrote: >

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy file organization

2011-08-02 Thread Leon Chapman
Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:50 PM, "David C Abernathy" wrote: > I signed up when it was first announced and gave the impression that EVERYONE > would have access. It has been almost 2 years since this announcement and the > NON members still do not h

Re: [LegacyUG] entering and sourcing a seaman's log book

2011-07-06 Thread Leon Chapman
Louise I would use Events for the person for each trip / voyage. The source is your log book. I would treat that like a book with g-pa as the author. Hope this helps. Sent from my iPad Chap chap...@gmail.com On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Louise wrote: > My husband's grandfather was a ship's

Re: [LegacyUG] Short Location Name List question

2011-07-06 Thread Leon Chapman
Charts & reorts Sent from my iPad Chap On Jul 6, 2011, at 8:16 AM, "P Jones" wrote: > Can anyone tell me where the Short Location Name in the Locations Master List > is used other than in the Master List? Thanks > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.a

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing all pictures in a book

2011-07-05 Thread Leon Chapman
Another way to get the pictures printed in a book is to include a scrapbook chapter for a person in your book. The scrapbook will include all pictures and event pictures for a individual Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:32 PM, sandy keas wrote: > Alt

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing all pictures in a book

2011-07-05 Thread Leon Chapman
You r doing nothing wrong. It is a limit of Legacy. The solution is to place each picture on an Event. U can add events to the individual or at the marriage data for a couple and / or a family. Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On Jul 5, 2011, at 1:19 PM, "Althea" wr

Re: [LegacyUG] ADDING OBITUARIES...

2011-06-28 Thread Leon Chapman
you do this, to create a report and see what your scanned image is going to look like in reports. You may or may not be happy with the end result. Good luck! ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Marian Seiders wrote: > ** > How can I add a newpaper (or

Re: [LegacyUG] Families iPhnoe app

2011-05-09 Thread Leon Chapman
Yes it is worth it if u want your family database on your phone Sent from my iPhone Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On May 9, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Joshua Crump wrote: > Legacy User Group, > > I am trying to decide if I want to buy the Families iPhone app and I > wanted to know if a

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing - Special Text entry with images

2011-05-01 Thread Leon Chapman
Joan: The developers are the ones that know the answer to your question. Not sure they will respond. Sorry. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM, JB wrote: > Leon, thank you for responding. I am aware that images can be printed via > events. B

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing - Special Text entry with images

2011-04-30 Thread Leon Chapman
Attach any pictures to an Event and then it will be printed in reports. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:32 AM, JB wrote: > I am wondering if there is any way, short of creating a separate word or > pdf file and place holder, to print special text e

Re: [LegacyUG] Ordering siblings chronologically

2011-04-13 Thread Leon Chapman
Right Click in Childrens area of Family Tab, Select Children's Settings, then hit Sort. That should do the trick. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:49 AM, e-mail a.quelch wrote: > I have added some of my ancestor's children in the order that I came

Re: [LegacyUG] Location List Problem

2011-02-21 Thread Leon Chapman
you track down the location and how it is being used. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Dave Johnson wrote: > The location report shows the two individuals.  Neither individual has any > events attached to their names.  The location does not app

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy and internet searches

2011-02-10 Thread Leon Chapman
Kathy: I think others would be interested in your tutorial. Can you send them to me also?? thanks. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Kathy Jones wrote: > Hello and I have a question on the internet searches.  Would it be possible > to add Find M

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Timelines

2011-01-02 Thread Leon Chapman
I have added Obama to my timeline file and it works fine in the Chronology view in both v7.5.032 & the latest GR v7.4.045. Maybe you don't have all the check marks checked to include the time line. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:56 PM, RICHARD S

Re: [LegacyUG] Report with multiple lines?

2010-12-03 Thread Leon Chapman
Elizabeth: I do not believe Legacy has that capability. You can publish a standard descendant report and save it as a Word file and then go into Word and add whatever you like. The numbering will be messed up for any new people. It seems like a lot of work to me. ___ Leon Chapman chap

Re: [LegacyUG] multimedia/pictures storage

2010-11-03 Thread Leon Chapman
you. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Paul Gray wrote: > Hi Leon, > > I think what you are saying is that my statement that the DropBox folder > needs to be 'high up' in the folder structure is inaccurate. If I understand >

Re: [LegacyUG] multimedia/pictures storage

2010-11-03 Thread Leon Chapman
to share pictures with my family. I couldn't do without DropBox - I love it. Try it, you will like it. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Paul Gray wrote: > I believe the best result will be achieved if both the working database and > multim

Re: [LegacyUG] Why no RTF for Individual Report?

2010-09-11 Thread Leon Chapman
Helen: Try the product I had the URL for and it works perfect on Chronology, Family Group Sheet, Descendant reports. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:14 AM, wrote: > I converted one Legacy PDF report to RTF, think it was a Descendant > Report, and have

Re: [LegacyUG] Why no RTF for Individual Report?

2010-09-10 Thread Leon Chapman
CE: Here is a product that I have found -- it works great. I can take any of the pdf reports and convert them to a Word document and then edit them. It would be really nice if Legacy provided this capability. http://www.pdftodocconverterpro.com/ ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On

Re: [LegacyUG] Current date on title page of Descendant Report

2010-09-05 Thread Leon Chapman
use one of those lines for a date. You only have 3 lines as subtitles, but you could also use the Main Title Text lines (4 of them). ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Cathy-0 wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks. Yes, I am aware of how to get the date to pri

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy removing leading commas from Descendant Narrative Report

2010-08-30 Thread Leon Chapman
My version 7.4.0.45 works perfect. If I select not to have commas removed, then no commas are removed -- but I do not like the resulting report with commas in the middle of a sentence. When I select to remove one or more leading commas, it removes them and the report looks fine. ___ Leon Chapman

Re: [LegacyUG] one world tree on ancestry

2010-08-26 Thread Leon Chapman
Ancestry has combines all of their information receieved via any uploads into one family tree -- hence, one wor ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Michele S wrote: > Anyone know what One World Tree is on Ancestry? Someone said it has to do > with

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy file on a Kindle or other tablet device?

2010-08-17 Thread Leon Chapman
> > Bob: > Here is their URL: www.telgen.co.uk/families In the iTunes Store, search for Families Leon Chapman Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy file on a Kindle or other tablet device?

2010-08-16 Thread Leon Chapman
these apps lack many of the features you have come to expect on your desktop Legacy software, but they are very useful and I would highly recommend all of them. GedView is probably my 2nd choice for an app on the iPhone/iPad. Good luck. ___ Leon Chapman - On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:19 PM

Re: [LegacyUG] Help with Advanced Sourcing Tool

2010-08-08 Thread Leon Chapman
You have options to apply the source to whatever fields you choose. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Kevin Walker wrote: > I agree that it will apply the sources to all tagged individuals. > > But the question I had was regarding the tagged in

Re: [LegacyUG] Event Type List Limitation?

2010-07-21 Thread Leon Chapman
Parents per Individual Unlimited Sources per Event Unlimited Pictures per Individual Unlimited Number of Entries in History List 160 Address Lines per Individual 5 Phone Numbers per Individual 2 Generations per Pedigree Chart Unlimited Generations per Descendancy Chart Unlimited ___ Leon Chapman

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Windows Sync (w/Windows 7, 32-bit) to copy my database

2010-06-28 Thread Leon Chapman
. Dropbox.com provides 2GB of free storage -- should be adequate for most people. Windows Live Sync should work in a similar manner, but I doubt if it works to sync with the iPhone. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Pat wrote: > Windows Live Sync is a App

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Windows Sync (w/Windows 7, 32-bit) to copy my database

2010-06-28 Thread Leon Chapman
. Dropbox.com provides 2GB of free storage -- should be adequate for most people. Windows Live Sync should work in a similar manner, but I doubt if it works to sync with the iPhone. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Pat wrote: > Windows Live Sync is a App

Re: [LegacyUG] Incomplete Export of Source Details

2010-05-28 Thread Leon Chapman
It would be more useful if u always use the latest test version - 7.4.0.42 Sent from my iPad Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com On May 28, 2010, at 11:51 AM, "Ward Walker" wrote: > Update: > > I just updated my (Deluxe) build from 7.4.0.30 to 7.4.0.39 and got a > differ

Re: [LegacyUG] A sourcing question -- how many to include?

2010-05-26 Thread Leon Chapman
nted as is. Hope this helps. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Scott Hall wrote: > A search of the archives pulled some threads on this topic, but from a > few years back, so I thought revisiting it would be OK. > > I'm still trying t

Re: [LegacyUG] Location Pictures

2010-03-09 Thread Leon Chapman
Bob: You are correct here. Sorry. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:48 AM, RUNION ROBERT wrote: > Leon - I have the picture added to the source, but when I add the source to > multiple people (i.e., all those buried in cemetery A), the source shows at >

Re: [LegacyUG] Location Pictures

2010-03-09 Thread Leon Chapman
section only and will print one time. The same source can be sited for an event for multiple people. If you attach the same picture to multiple peoples events, then you will get the same picture printed multiple times. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com - On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:54 AM, RUNION

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy on a Mac

2010-01-24 Thread Leon Chapman
xtra price to run Windows on a Mac is about $300. That's not bad, since you will also pay about twice the price for a Mac compared to a PC. An excellent PC 15" laptop these days runs about $650. A 15" MacBook Pro starts at $1700. Take lots of $$ to the Mac store. ___ Leon Chapma

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