Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-16 Thread Modena1920
took a while but they pulled the whole thing. The moral of the story: sharing beware ! Derk - Original Message - From: "Russ McGillivray" To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 11:00:32 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? K

RE: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-16 Thread Russ McGillivray
got no reply. Russ -Original Message- From: Kirsten Bowman [mailto:vik...@rvi.net] Sent: April-09-12 8:17 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? Jenny: To post sources or not is certainly your own choice. For those on the fence

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch 2?

2012-04-11 Thread Paula Ryburn
Graham, A subject including "Q dates" would've been nice here. Just sayin'. Thanks. --Paula From: Graham Love To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sun, April 8, 2012 12:17:07 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySear

Finding your own sources. Was Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-09 Thread Marg Strong
available and I'm grateful. Sorry for going "off topic,"  but without having the benefit of Legacy software everything would be lost! > > From: Jenny M Benson >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >Sent: Monday, April 9, 2012 6:20 PM &g

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-09 Thread Kirsten Bowman
ut publishing a book then I think including sources is a great option. Kirsten -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 3:20 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? On 09/04/2012 22:36, Marcy Cole wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-09 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 09/04/2012 22:36, Marcy Cole wrote: > Not quite sure why you feel publishing your sources is "handing everything > on a plate". Because if I do so someone can look at my record and copy the entire record, including Source, to their own database without contacting me, without crediting me and wi

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-09 Thread Ron Ferguson
nt: Monday, April 09, 2012 10:36 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? Not quite sure why you feel publishing your sources is "handing everything on a plate". If the IGI had required sources from the beginning, we would all be much

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-09 Thread Marcy Cole
uot;Jenny M Benson" To: Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? On 08/04/2012 12:00, Graham Love wrote: > After waiting for what seemed like years I was lucky enough to get LDS > access and use the 'new' Legacy

RE: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-09 Thread Alan Pereira
: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? You can add sources to any piece of information that you add in NFS any time; it's been like that from the beginning. It just doesn't 'auto source' when you important a gedcom or when you add records via LFS. The two systems just don&#x

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-09 Thread Kathy Meyer
roup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? > > I was able to add new data (my 2X ggmother) AND sourcing > > > > > Eliz > > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Mike Fry wrote: >> On 2012/04/08 13:00, Graham Love wrote: >>>

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch 2?

2012-04-09 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 09/04/2012 10:42, Alan Pereira wrote: > Graham, if you show the quarter in the format "from Jan to Mar 1856" > then it will transfer as Mar 1856, which apart from manually entering > the details, seems the best nFS can offer. This problem is irking me too, and the only workaround I have found i

RE: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-09 Thread Alan Pereira
Eliz, How did you manage to add sourcing? Alan Pereira -Original Message- From: Eliz Hanebury [mailto:elizhg...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 April 2012 22:21 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? I was able to add new data (my 2X ggmother

RE: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch 2?

2012-04-09 Thread Alan Pereira
he From to format. Alan Pereira -Original Message- From: Graham Love [mailto:love-fam...@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: 08 April 2012 18:17 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch 2? Thanks to all those who have given their views to my first po

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-09 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
first, to aim towards the second.  From: Graham Love To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2012 4:00 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? After waiting for what seemed like years I was lucky enough to get LDS access and use

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-08 Thread Eliz Hanebury
I was able to add new data (my 2X ggmother) AND sourcing Eliz On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Mike Fry wrote: > On 2012/04/08 13:00, Graham Love wrote: >> After waiting for what seemed like years I was lucky enough to get LDS >> access and use the 'new' Legacy FamilySearch feature. After matc

[LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch 2?

2012-04-08 Thread Graham Love
Thanks to all those who have given their views to my first post on this subject. Generally it seems they don't differ greatly from my own experience and I guess we all need to give it time! I must admit I don't mind leaving a correct legacy of my own family based on quite a few decades of research

Re: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-08 Thread Kirsten Bowman
e first place :-). Kirsten -Original Message- From: Graham Love Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 4:00 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? After waiting for what seemed like years I was lucky enough to get LDS access and use the '

RE: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-08 Thread Paul Gray
I am trying to take a more positive view. Despite the obvious data inaccuracies and duplication in the current database, the fact remains that nFS's basic design is a single record per person. This should, over time, improve data accuracy by putting all facts, correct and incorrect, sourced and

RE: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch?

2012-04-08 Thread Michele Lewis
7:01 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] What is the point of FamilySearch? After waiting for what seemed like years I was lucky enough to get LDS access and use the 'new' Legacy FamilySearch feature. After matching several hundred deceased relatives without a single new piece of