Re: [LegacyUG] It's official - Legacy 7.5 is now available

2011-01-19 Thread roy_delos_reyes
Kathy, You said: New Family Search takes all of this information and more and puts it in a more up to date format and aims to link those individuals and trees like never before. Over time, the database gathered loads of duplicated records; one person might have submitted an ancestor and only had

Re: [LegacyUG] It's official - Legacy 7.5 is now available

2011-01-19 Thread roy_delos_reyes
I quite agree! It wasn't about Legacy until they chose to tie themselves to and promote the LDS site; but they did and so it is. - Original Message - From: CE Wood wood...@msn.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:50:35 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] It's official - Legacy 7.5 is now available

2011-01-19 Thread roy_delos_reyes
Ron, Since all the info from the old IGI is going into the new Family Search it has a direct connection to it. the NFS should *only* contain extracted data-period. User submitted Family Group Sheets simply are not evidence, and thus have no place in a Database of genealogical records. -

Re: [LegacyUG] Half Cousins

2010-11-02 Thread roy_delos_reyes
It is not unusual for the same word to mean different things in different fields. Black may well be right when speaking of legal definitions but entirely wrong in speaking of the field of genealogy. Remember -16 ounces equals one pound,except, of course, when speaking of precious metals; in

Re: [LegacyUG] New Person Gender

2010-07-31 Thread roy_delos_reyes
Might I suggest that, considering such unions are legal in various jurisdictions worldwide, it is well past time for that oft mentioned re-writing to begin. - Original Message - From: Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, July 23,

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering siblings

2010-07-31 Thread roy_delos_reyes
The parents are *not* fictitious - merely unnamed; and yes- you do have to enter at least one parent. - Original Message - From: Inta Warner pwar...@internode.on.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 12:53:29 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Entering siblings I

Re: [LegacyUG] GEO Updates Coming?

2010-01-19 Thread roy_delos_reyes
Why not just start building a location database of our own? Seems all we need is: PlaceName-Long-Lat Put into a 3 column spreadsheet and doing a two level sort on long and then lat would show every name associated with any particular long/lat- right? Get as many other legacy users, even others

Re: [LegacyUG] Using Legacy with Ancestry.com or other online programs

2009-12-23 Thread roy_delos_reyes
Kirsten, That is true of Rootsweb but not on Ancestry; Ancestry always writes a complete new file without modifying the old one. - Original Message - From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:17:28 AM GMT -06:00