RE: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-20 Thread Peter Haughton
certificate and a photo of me by his grave 2,800 km away. Peter -Original Message- From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:42 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors Hi Pat, I was just reiterating what

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-19 Thread Paula Ryburn
the extra source citations from these now unlinked branches for a while...!)   --Paula From: Pat Hickin pph...@gmail.com To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 6:37 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors Well, it looks as though

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-19 Thread Pat Hickin
Hickin pph...@gmail.com *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Sent:* Sunday, May 18, 2014 6:37 AM *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors Well, it looks as though everyone feels it's best to keep them in and unlink them. I've already done the unlinking so I'll just let them stay

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-19 Thread Cathy Pinner
Pat, If there is an oral tradition for these lines being part of your family and someone has gone to the trouble to disprove it with DNA, all the more reason to include a note on your proved ancestor. Cathy Pat Hickin mailto:pph...@gmail.com Tuesday, 20 May 2014 4:36 AM Thanks, Paula, In

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-19 Thread Pat Hickin
Cathy, I'm not sure what you mean by this: to include a note *on your **proved ancestor*. Can you be a bit more explicit? Pat On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Pat, If there is an oral tradition for these lines being part of your family and someone

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-19 Thread Cathy Pinner
Hi Pat, I was just reiterating what others have said. If you unlink people/a line because the link is disproved, it helps to add a note on your family member from which they've been unlinked so that everyone knows that another line was pursued and it was wrong. If only you know this, then the

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-18 Thread Cathy Pinner
www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com  *From:*Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2014 6:51 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors  I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-18 Thread Ron Ferguson
:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors  I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved.  I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other L egacy users handle the matter.  I could put them in a separate file or leave them where

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-18 Thread Ron Ferguson
@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors  I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved.  I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other L egacy users handle the matter.  I could put them in a separate file

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-18 Thread Cathy Pinner
Not for me. I always exclude everything that is in privacy brackets. If I want some things sometimes but not others I use an event which I can make private when I don't want it. Now I guess you could choose to include or not include event notes but since I haven't entered notes with the thought

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-18 Thread Ron Ferguson
Just different ways of working - it's no bad thing for users to know the options. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Cathy Pinner genea...@gmail.com wrote: Not for me. I always exclude everything that is in privacy brackets. If I want some things sometimes

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-18 Thread Pat Hickin
Well, it looks as though everyone feels it's best to keep them in and unlink them. I've already done the unlinking so I'll just let them stay there. Thanks for your input! Pat On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.ukwrote: Just different ways of working -

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-18 Thread J.M. Jay Ingalls
www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com  *From:*Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2014 6:51 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors  I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-18 Thread Cathy Pinner
Hi Jay, I also have a few of notes in name fields to warn the reader. For example, when I think I've found the parents of an ancestor, I add them, make them invisible so they're not published and for my use visually on the screen add to the given name - guess (meaning best guess rather than

RE: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-17 Thread Michele/Support
...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com From: Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 6:51 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-17 Thread singhals
Pat Hickin wrote: I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved. I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other Legacy users handle the matter. I could put them in a separate file or leave them where they are and just

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-17 Thread J.M. Jay Ingalls
*To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved. I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other Legacy users handle the matter. I could put them in a separate file

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-17 Thread Ron Ferguson
@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved. I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other Legacy users handle the matter. I could put them in a separate file or leave

RE: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-17 Thread William Boswell
...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 6:51 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved. I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other Legacy users

[LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-16 Thread Pat Hickin
I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral lines and have since been disproved. I don't want to delete them entirely and I'm wondering how other Legacy users handle the matter. I could put them in a separate file or leave them where they are and just unlink them so that they're

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-16 Thread Liz Denis
I just unlink them and leave them sitting there. I've done quite a bit of research on some people before I realized I was barking up the wrong tree. Maybe someone else can benefit from your work. On 5/16/2014 3:50 PM, Pat Hickin wrote: I've got a couple of what were once thought to be ancestral

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-16 Thread Anne Picketts
Unlink them and leave them where they are. In 6 months time when the names flash past your eyes again you will be saying to yourself I'm sure I had that somewhere!:-) Don't put them in a separate file. On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Liz Denis nehalemm...@gmail.com wrote: I just unlink them

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-16 Thread Cathy Pinner
The only other thing I'd do if the line had been thought by others as well to belong would be to put a Disproven Line event on the person(s) you're unlinking the wrong line from. This event could be made private for some purposes or published to let others know not to follow that path. But

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-16 Thread Liz Denis
Or worse you forget that you ever looked at that person in the first placeage! On 5/16/2014 4:49 PM, Anne Picketts wrote: Unlink them and leave them where they are. In 6 months time when the names flash past your eyes again you will be saying to yourself I'm sure I had that somewhere!:-)

Re: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-16 Thread Jackie King
I disconnect them but leave them for a couple of simple reasons. Either later I need to know I have already looked at them - or I find out they are cousins and the information proves valuable but in other ways. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Liz Denis nehalemm...@gmail.com wrote: Or worse

RE: [LegacyUG] Disproved ancestors

2014-05-16 Thread Ron Ferguson
Pat, Some years ago I also hit this problem and in my case decided to leave the individuals as a separate tree in my main file. At the time my main reasons were because the family had the same surname as the correct one, and lived in the same area they may prove to be related (still not the