Re: [LegacyUG] Viewing recent gedcoms

2013-01-24 Thread bgsu1976
Paul Gray proclaimed: >I think the short answer is no, that's a Windows thing Not necessarily. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253171 -- bgsu Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Web Site Structure

2013-01-08 Thread bgsu1976
"Judith" proclaimed: >Legacy User Group: I'm trying again with my question, does anyone have any >response? > > > >I use Legacy to create my web site and I'm in process of updating the site. >My original site was created using the 'Pedigree Chart' style. This is the >wording that automatically

Re: [LegacyUG] Split View

2012-12-28 Thread bgsu1976
Gene Young proclaimed: >On 12/28/2012 7:33 AM, Rita Lynn McKale wrote: >> Hi Sherry, >> >> Hope you had a wonderful Christmas…. >> >> I have done a reinstall of Legacy from the website. My problem remains >> however it is not how I first thought. It is not the split view that >> causes Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Events with a + sign

2012-12-14 Thread bgsu1976
Pat Hickin proclaimed: >On the individual screen when it's showing a list of events, at the right >is an "S" followed by a "+" sign. > >I thought the plus meant there is a picture, but I gather it can also mean >that you've added an address (which may not have a picture). >Is that correct? Did y

Re: [LegacyUG] still have a duplicate

2012-12-14 Thread bgsu1976
Pat Hickin proclaimed: >On the individual screen when it's showing a list of events, at the right >is an "S" followed by a "+" sign. > >I thought the plus meant there is a picture, but I gather it can also mean >that you've added an address (which may not have a picture). >Is that correct? Did y

Re: [LegacyUG] Page setup - printing notes

2012-12-12 Thread bgsu1976
"Corney Keller" proclaimed: >When one chooses the print options for a (any) note, a window 'Print Notes >Option' appears. One of these options is 'Page Setup' where one can adjust >margins, paper size, etc. The standard value for the left margin is 1.25 cm. >I change this value to my preferred va

Re: [LegacyUG] Event sentences

2012-12-03 Thread bgsu1976
The OP can find the answer by searching for "commas" in the help. "bobstr...@comcast.net" proclaimed: >Location search and replace: >Open location master and edit the location. It will take effect everywhere it >is used. Use a space char before the first comma for the missing city. >Assume

Re: [LegacyUG] Another problem -- sorry! -- with source list names in a new .gedcom

2012-10-05 Thread bgsu1976
"Sherry/Support" proclaimed: >Producing the file for >Legacy includes *all* data in the Family File. Does it include the SW template ID? -- bgsu Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/lega

Re: [LegacyUG] Another problem -- sorry! -- with source list names in a new .gedcom

2012-10-05 Thread bgsu1976
"Sherry/Support" proclaimed: >The data is there. What you have entered is still available. > >The format has changed. I attached that data to a specific SW template. I don't see that in the export. -- bgsu Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Another problem -- sorry! -- with source list names in a new .gedcom

2012-10-05 Thread bgsu1976
bgsu1...@gmail.com proclaimed: >Was the exclusion of SW data from a Legacy GEDCOM: > > 1) a mistake >or 2) intentional No answer? -- bgsu Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyuser

Re: [LegacyUG] Another problem -- sorry! -- with source list names in a new .gedcom

2012-10-05 Thread bgsu1976
Mike Fry proclaimed: >Why? I'd never use a GEDCOM to go from Legacy to Legacy. It's far better and >more comprehensive to use the native file format. I agree, but sometimes there is no other way to fix a database problem. A native export just uses SQL to copy a table from one database to another

Re: [LegacyUG] does gedcom drop source details???

2012-10-05 Thread bgsu1976
"Ron Ferguson" proclaimed: >The Basic Source format includes, pretty much the same details as the SW >Format, but does not meet the requirements of Elizabeth Shown Mills. One can, with a little effort, meet those requirements with the Basic format. SW just makes it easier. -- bgsu Legacy Us

Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOMs - exporting - problem with deleting a source.

2012-10-04 Thread bgsu1976
Anthony Punnett proclaimed: >If I were you, I would back up my database then do the maintenance on >the old/current database then check to see if Legacy has deleted the >unwanted source. > >On 2012-10-04 12:55 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: >> I have created a .gedcom of the ancestors of a 2x grgrandmothe

Re: [LegacyUG] attachements, plain text

2012-09-16 Thread bgsu1976
Tim Rosenlof proclaimed: >On 9/16/2012 12:07 PM, bgsu1...@gmail.com wrote: >> "Michele Lewis" proclaimed: >> >>> >isn't there some sort of setting on the Legacy end that would prevent >>> >attachments and convert HTML/RTF messages to plain text? >> Some of the notes screens have a "Strip HTML" b

Re: [LegacyUG] Events marked Private

2012-09-14 Thread bgsu1976
Lloyd Hite proclaimed: >On 9/14/2012 3:39 PM, bgsu1...@gmail.com wrote: >> Then it sounds like you made the Master Event (aka Event Definition) >> private. Just go back and edit the Event Definition and uncheck the >> private flag. > >The flag was unchecked. Then my only suggestion will be to ch

Re: [LegacyUG] Events marked Private

2012-09-14 Thread bgsu1976
Lloyd Hite proclaimed: >On 9/14/2012 12:42 PM, Brian/Support wrote: >> There is no way to globally set events linked to a person as not private. > >But they were globally set to private by me. When I started adding >FindAGrave events I did not like the way they showed up in a narrative >report, s

Re: [LegacyUG] Saving report options

2012-09-01 Thread bgsu1976
bgsu1...@gmail.com proclaimed: >"Ron Ferguson" proclaimed: > >>I am fairly certain I have never saved any Report >>Options and if I had done so I certainly wouldn't have chosen to save >>them in the Colour Schemes folder. >> >>It may be "by mistake" on the part of the programmers, but the Colour

Re: [LegacyUG] Saving report options

2012-09-01 Thread bgsu1976
CE WOOD proclaimed: >EXCEPT, that is the only search or report file I have saved, so your comment >doesn't obtain. Ron said "load". Did you ever "load" one of Legacy's built in color schemes? If so, Legacy set the directory pointer to the ColorSchemes folder. -- bgsu Legacy User Group gui

Re: [LegacyUG] Saving report options

2012-09-01 Thread bgsu1976
"Ron Ferguson" proclaimed: >I am fairly certain I have never saved any Report >Options and if I had done so I certainly wouldn't have chosen to save >them in the Colour Schemes folder. > >It may be "by mistake" on the part of the programmers, but the Colour >Schemes folder does seem to be the def

Re: [LegacyUG] Saving report options

2012-09-01 Thread bgsu1976
CE WOOD proclaimed: >What IS the extension that is supposed to be given by Legacy when we save >report options or searches? There are many different extensions. I think there is something in the Help file on this. -- bgsu Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etique

Re: [LegacyUG] Possible printing bug

2012-08-31 Thread bgsu1976
Jacob Psutka <4freeb...@gmail.com> proclaimed: >there are NO documents in the printing queue nor is the >printer doing anything. > >I checked that the printer setup is OK I have found that setting up the printer FROM WITHIN Legacy sometimes doesn't work. I recommend exiting Legacy and setting up

Re: [LegacyUG] MRINs again

2012-08-31 Thread bgsu1976
Marg Strong proclaimed: >I don't have much success searching the archives. Can someone tell me if there >is a report available that will list the MRIN numbers for all the marriages in >my database? How about View/Marriage List/Options/Print ? -- bgsu Legacy User Group guidelines: http://w

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Legacy tags

2012-08-30 Thread bgsu1976
Lloyd Hite proclaimed: >On 8/30/2012 11:17 AM, bgsu1...@gmail.com wrote: >> Is it just the tags that are amiss? Or is all the work you did also >> gone? > >It is just the tags that are gone as far as I know. In opening the name >list, it shows all the names with the tag checked. So the name list

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Legacy tags

2012-08-30 Thread bgsu1976
Lloyd Hite proclaimed: >On 8/30/2012 9:57 AM, bgsu1...@gmail.com wrote: >> I don't know what caused it but you should try reverting to a backup. > >A backup is not the answer because my last backup was two days before >and I would have redo about 400. Is it just the tags that are amiss? Or is al

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Legacy tags

2012-08-30 Thread bgsu1976
Lloyd Hite proclaimed: >I have a problem that I cannot solve myself. I had 2028 instances of one >source that I wanted to make corrections to, so I had them tagged with >#1 tag. As I completed one I unchecked tag 1 and checked tag 2 for it. I >have been working on them for about 3 weeks and had

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture list

2012-08-18 Thread bgsu1976
Don Hendershot proclaimed: >Each invidual going back 23 generations has one biological father and one >biological mother respectibly. That is only 46 verifiable people links at two >per generation. > >We don't have 2^23 grandparents over that period of time. We just have 23 >sets of grandpare

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources

2012-08-02 Thread bgsu1976
That kind of attitude is going to get you a lot of help the next time you ask. If you can reproduce the error, you can report it to support to get it fixed so you and others won't encounter it in the future. Since you apparently can't reproduce the error, my 'pilot error' comment stands. -- bgs

Re: [LegacyUG] Dropbox problem

2012-07-24 Thread bgsu1976
"Jenny M Benson" proclaimed: >I have to be away from my computer for a couple of weeks, but have access >to my sister's laptop, so I backed up my Legacy family file to Dropbox, >along with several other folders of genealogy stuff. When I opened >Dropbox on the laptop my family file (zip) wasn't

Re: [LegacyUG] Printing

2012-07-22 Thread bgsu1976
MJ SA proclaimed: >I don't want to print at the FHL, I want to have a list of names/birth >dates/marriages so when i am at the FHL looking at my microfilms I can >look at my family tree I printed out and see if I have that person on >my family tree or if it is a new person. In Legacy tag the lin