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Pittsburg County Genealogical and Historical Society, Inc.
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E-mail: choctawnationit@sbcglobal.net
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Legacy Family Tree
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Main Web site
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Millennia Corporation
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Appears to be private
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Founded in 1984,Headquarters in Surprise, Arizona
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Training Site
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$32.95 for all the training videos$32.95 for second setAnimap - Centennia
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Product Review
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Pricing
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Legacy $29.95
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Down load site
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Wikipedia
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Needs to be updated for version 8
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Legacy For Beginners
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Links to media
Births of children are automatically added to the individuals timeline
Need to determine the cost of the maps program
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What's New in Legacy 8.0
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how it handles duplicates
Interfaces with Family Search Family tree
Duplicate lines can be removed
Statistics
Migration maps - any additional cost for the maps
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Features
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Tour
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Reasons to change
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Family Search Integration
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Open source documentation
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Duplicate
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Recomendations/Comments
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Donna Willis Brown
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I use Legacy. My file has about 95,000 people. It has always handled
the people instantly and switches from one view to another instantly [I
also have FTM2014 and with only a little over 14,000 people and 8,900
media files, it can take up to a minute or more to switch from one view
to another, such as from Places to Tree or Media view]. I don't have a
huge number of media files in Legacy because I've just recently started
adding them [I knew where and how they were stored on my computer and
didn't care if they were in the database program]. Media files are done
by linking and Legacy has a new relinking function, which Randy Seaver
tried this week and found it worked. With Legacy 8, it does allow you
to evaluate evidence. I haven't tried outputs so don't know if it shows
that in rank order or not. A really good advantage to the program is you
can download the free version and see how it imports from FTM and how
well it fits what you want to do. I used Legacy for 2 or 3 years before
I upgraded to the full version. They have excellent education opportunities
and there is a Google+ Virtual Users Group where you can get community
support.
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Janie M. Darby
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I also use Legacy, although on a much smaller scale.
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Karin Pasteur Coppernoll
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I just recently switched from FTM to Legacy. I really like Legacy and
plan on using it exclusively. The transfer of files via GEDCOM went okay,
though I did need to clean up the files a bit, particularly my sources.
Others may give you better tips. I haven't used GEDCOM before and fumbled
my way through, so there may be a way to get a cleaner copy.
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Diane Gould Hall
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I switched from FTM to Legacy back in 2006 and am extremely happy. I
agree that you should try the free version and see if you like the way
it looks. A HUGE however, though, is that you will not be able to see
all the features you are asking for without purchasing the deluxe version.
Legacy has fantastic tutorial CD's and they hold lots of webinars and
you can also purchase the webinars on CD or view them free for several
days after they run. Good luck!
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Diane Gould Hall
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Cool Teresa. Thanks for letting me know. Kinda wish Legacy would do
it that way.
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Janelle Vandervort Dvorak
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I've been very happy with Legacy. I have roughly 60,000 names and it
handles them well.
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Cheryl Rothwell
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Doesn't matter who loves what. It only matters with what works best
for the way YOU work and your genealogy. Try the free versions. I own
TMG, Legacy, RootsMagic. I use all three but Legacy is my main program
because that's how I work best. Your mileage may vary.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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I have almost 18000 entries in my Legacy file, but I don't know if it
will import FTM directly. I do like it and Legacy 8 has some really neat
features (but a few bugs too). They do many free updates and you can try
the free version.
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Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
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check out Legacy too
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Donna Willis Brown
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Legacy connects to FamilySearch trees. I do not want to upload everyone
in my working database to FamilySearch, so don't know how it compares
to Rootsmagic. But I have used the match and merge/update aspect of Legacy
with people I have in my FamilySearch tree.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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Donna Willis Brown, I do not upload anything to FamilySearch Trees.
I use Legacy for my husband's family and keep everything on my computer
(and also use Sugar Sync).
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Janelle Vandervort Dvorak
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I have no intention of uploading to Family Search, but Legacy does let
me connect to familysearch.org without leaving the program. I don't have
to upload my tree to do this.
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Donna Willis Brown
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Robert, I have used both Legacy 7.5 and Legacy 8 with FamilySearch.org;
because of the short time Legacy 8 has been available, I have not worked
with it a great deal [it's not a huge part of the research time I have
allotted]. The Legacy program shows both what I have in my Legacy program
and what is on my FamilySearch Famly Tree. I can correct it, match it,
etc. from within Legacy. I do not upload anything to FamilySearch [personal
preference]; however, I would like for the people in my direct line to
be as accurate and complete as I can make them and Legacy makes it easy
for me to do that.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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Robert, I can use any one of a number of programs to search on, from
the internet tab (or my tab) of Legacy 8, that includes Ancestry and FamilySearch,
Genealogy,com, Google, Fold3 AND you can add whatever you would like to
it. I still MUCH prefer Ancestry's old search so I customized a search
with the Old search. (It works until I use the new search and have to
go back and reset ancestry). So if you wanted to customize a search for
say Mocavo, you could do that. I generally search Ancestry, Family Search
and FindAGrave. Although now I find my findagrave pops up on the Ancestry
search or there are no records.
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Mary D. Taffet
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Has anybody else encountered an error message with Error Code 3021 when
trying to import a GEDCOM file created by Family Tree Maker 2006/16 into
Legacy 8 Deluxe version? It's related to source records in some way ("Error
saving Source"), and may be related to the "Autosource"
function, but there doesn't seem to be a way around it at the present.
My goal was to import my GEDCOM file without any autosourcing/source record
for the import itself (I don't want to have a superfluous source record
that I'll just have to delete later), but even when I created a dummy
source record called "Temporary Source" for the Autosource function
to use, I still get the error message and the import fails. Any ideas?
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Donna Willis Brown
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I've had several 3021 error codes with Legacy 8 (not on an importing
of sources, but it was in working with sources on events). Make sure you've
downloaded the latest update because that was an issue needing to be fixed.
Then if it still happens contact Legacy. I contacted them on another issue
and they were very responsive and helpful.
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Mary D. Taffet
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Oh, regarding Autosourcing -- I've tried lots of variations on those
options, and nothing I select has made any difference whatsoever in terms
of producing the error code. If I tell it "Don't Assign a Source",
I get the error message. If I tell it to "Select a Master Source"
and then select the "Temporary Source" from that list, I get
the error message. Nothing works to avoid that error message.
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Mary D. Taffet
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Each time I see the error message, then the import stops, and I tell
it not to continue, I check the Master Source list, and one more source
from my FTM file is showing up in the Master Source list in Legacy 8.
So it looks like it's choking on each and every source that it tries to
import, and then stopping and giving me an error message after each one
comes in. In other words, it is not able to import more than 1 source
at a time before stopping and giving me that error message. In other words,
I start a fresh attempt to import with an empty file. I try the import
and it fails. I look at the Master Source list, and there is either only
1 source listed (the first one from my FTM Master Source list), or there
are two listed, including my manually entered "Temporary Source".
If I try the import again without clearing anything out and starting all
over, I get the error message again, check the Master source list in Legacy,
and there are now either 2 sources listed, or 3, depending on whether
it started with 1 or 2. I try again, next error message, and there are
now either 3 sources listed, or 4. And that pattern repeats. So it is
apparently choking on each and every source that it tries to import, but
somehow imported it just the same -- but only 1 at a time.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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You might want to look at the comments to Robert O. Pulse's GEDCOM questions,
While your issues are different, the fact is that you can look at your
file in notepad or notepad+ or wordpad and see what is in it. Look for
lines starting with SOUR
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Barbara Keary Garza
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Did you Google the error code? You may find you are not alone. Also,
I hear customer support for Legacy is outstanding.
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Kathy 'PK' Thompson
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Wanted to share how pretty you can make Legacy 8 look with the totally
customisable colours of just about Every aspect of various screen.
Totally loving the new layout, look and features it has!
This is my own colour variation, I've chosen to have background colour
change for gender rather than text colour as I can find coloured text
difficult to read at times.
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Diane Gould Hall
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I think the customizable colors are awesome too. So many options. That
being said, I do still think the old screens were easier to read.
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Karin Pasteur Coppernoll
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I love your customization. I didn't know you could customize the background
based on gender. Can you tell me how you I'd that?
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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Yes, I might change mine based on your ideas, Then I could have the
font always be black.
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Kathy 'PK' Thompson
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Karin, on Family View, I right clicked between the parents and selected
"Change Colour Scheme"
Then I clicked on various parts of the screen to get different pop-up
boxes to allow me to change different aspects
To change the children, click on a child's name and then adjust the settings
as desired in that pop-up box.
Hope this helps
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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I did that but it only changes at the bottom of the screen. I think
I am going back to my previous colors.
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Kathy 'PK' Thompson
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different parts of the screen can be set differently Sarah.
Click on a Parent's name to change those colours, click on Husband/Wife
to change those colours, click on Children to change theirs. different
background areas change independently as well
Here's a rather garish example of just how different the colours can be...
See how the different text items have different colours?
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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How did you get your photo larger? Mine fills the screen so it has to
be FB that is shrinking it. No one can see anything.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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It stayed small until I hit enter... and I tried it 5 different times.
Oh well.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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My males have dark blue print on a light blue background and the females
have a very dark pink on a light purple background. Unknowns are black
print on a yellow background.
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Kathy 'PK' Thompson
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my pic is smaller because I reduced the size of my Legacy window to
enable a smaller screen shot that was still legible.
You can click on the image and it will pop up nice and big.
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Sharon Patricia Saunders
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To the people who ordered Legacy 8 download version. How long before you
got the file to download?
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Regina De León
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Ordered mine last week. I received the download link (with my customer
order - the important part) in a few hours.
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Elizabeth C Godon
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I did mine the other day...about an hour or less afterwards
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Jenny Moorman Davis
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About 30 minutes.
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Debbie Blanton McCoy
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Mine took a day, but I ordered it the first day it came out. You can
go ahead and download and install it. That will give you the free version.
Then when you get your email, all you have to do is enter the unlock code.
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Nancy Gregory
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I ordered mine as soon as I heard it came out -- got the download the
next day.
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Sharon Patricia Saunders
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I'm still waiting for the email. I ordered it about 2 hours ago.
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Lynn Dosch
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I ordered the first day and downloaded free version while waiting. By
the time I had finished the download/install of the free version, my code
was there.
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Rick Patrick Shaul
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Got mine within the stated 24 hours.
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Sharon Patricia Saunders
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Finally got mine
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Sheila Watts
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I got mine within 12 hours and on a Sunday
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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I am working on Legacy. Trying to make myself comfortable with it. I have
a few questions that I would like to see if anyone else has had the same
problem. I have an individual and looked at his events. In the past, I
had the event listed as just the census and then relied on the date entered.
Now I think I should designate it as 1900, 1910 or 1920 census as an example
of the event name and then go with the date. I am just working on 1 family
and group sheet at this point. For some reason when I go to preview the
group sheet in the date field it will give me all the same date. Then
I go back in and look at the event and all the proper dates are there.
I am not sure if this is something I did wrong or is a problem with the
program. Your thoughts are appreciated.
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Teresa Ghee Elliott
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Patrice, I don't use Legacy, but I use 1910Census, 1920Census, etc.
I use the date the enumerator came by for the date of the event. And the
official date as the sort date. That way the event sorts on the date it
SHOULD have been taken, but the date it was taken prints.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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I use that date too in the column for the date of the event. The title
of the event I use 1910 Census, as an example. My problem comes in that
if in the event field it says 1910 Census - June 10 1910. Under the 1920
census on the group record it says 1920 Census June 10 1910. When I look
at the events page, it says the date of the 1920 Census is April 5, 1920.
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Teresa Ghee Elliott
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Are you using one event, or several? I have an event for each census
year (using TMG). We can't set globally for events, so I'd have to change
the date if I created a new 1920 event.
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Teresa Ghee Elliott
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It sounds like to me it could be a bug in the report writer, but I don't
have Legacy to check. Hopefully someone who does use it will see the conversation
and can test.
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Michele Simmons Lewis
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I use Legacy and I prefer to have the event name as 1900 United States
Federal Census and in the description field I put population schedule
(or slave or mortality or agriculture etc), then the date and then in
the notes I extract the pertinent data.
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Linda Theaker
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I use Roots Magic and do the following: 1900 U.S. Census, 1910 U.S.
Census, 1884 State Census - Michigan, 1865 State Census - New York, etc.
I then use the date the census taker has on the top of the page as the
"date" & then the place details i.e. Detroit, Wayne, Michigan,
United States.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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Michele -- but when you look at a group sheet are all your dates the
same for all your census records no matter what they are in the event
field?
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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Linda -- I have been using Rootsmagic for years and should have done
it that way to start. I am learning the error of my ways.
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Toni Robin Beal-Davis
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I have both Legacy and Rootsmagic. It sounds like it might be a glitch
in the system. Try closing the program and then reopen. See if you have
any upgrades coming that might be a problem they had to fix and then did
an upgrade of the system. It that does not help give the help line a call
someone is there 24/7. There is also in the help field a book that will
help as well.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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and HD videos under Windows.
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Teresa Ghee Elliott
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That looks like a bug. Did you try shutting down like Toni suggested.
Also does Legacy have some sort of routine it runs to reindex the project?
If so, run that. Otherwise, your best bet is to contact tech support.
YOu shouldn't be seeing that.
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Michele Simmons Lewis
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There is something definitely wrong there. Verify that you do have the
correct dates entered on the census events, close Legacy, reboot, open
Legacy and then do a check/repair. If that doesn't fix it send a message
to support@legacyfamilytree.com and include the screenshot.
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Michele Simmons Lewis
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There is one more thing you need to do before you email Support. When
you pull up the FGS report, hit the reset button. You will need to go
in and re do your custom settings but many times when there is something
going on in a report you can clear it this way.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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I found the where the problem is. I guess I will have to call tech support.
I can recreate it. The problem comes in when you go into report options
and event narrative. If I change it to the listing, then it gives me the
weird dates. If I go back to the original way it is shown, then the dates
are fine. Thanks all for your direction.
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Debbie Blanton McCoy
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That's strange. I use the Event list style formatting instead of the
sentence formatting and my dates are fine on the family group sheets.
Let us know if they figure out what is wrong.
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Michele Simmons Lewis
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I can't reproduce it either.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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I really tried to make this work. I went to the tech support on the
website and it was suggested to try a fix and repair on the file. As I
did this, I had a flashback to the last time I tried legacy, which was
about 7 years ago. This error is the same thing that made me call it quits,
then. Anyway, during fix and repair I came up with some error codes. The
first was 91, which tech supports they can't duplicate and to try some
work arounds. Anyway, I was glad to see that sufficient numbers of people
get these same error codes that they made a list. Sad to say that I am
going to give up. I want to work with a program that works with me and
I don't have to go through extra gyrations to get it to work. I want to
correct my errors in data entry and get back to research. It seems to
be a very nice program and I am glad for those of you that can work with
it. Thanks again for your input and help.
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Debbie Blanton McCoy
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That's too bad, Patrice. Sorry that you are having a problem. Just wanted
you to know that Legacy really is a great program. I've used it over 10
years and have never had an issue.
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Michele Simmons Lewis
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There is a learning curve no matter which software you choose to use.
Also, since Legacy has just been released there are going to be issues
that pop up and they are being addressed in a timely manner. The programmers
have already issued 3 updates. No matter how thoroughly you beta test
something when it is released to the public you are going to see things
you didn't see before. Why? Because there are an infinite number of combinations
of types of computers and configurations. They can't possibly test everything
that could be out there.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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Michele - I am not trying to bash Legacy. I am sure it is a very nice
program. I was prepared for a learning curve. I think the problem probably
comes in when I created my original database back in the 1980's. Gedcom
had one standard then. I was also using PAF and that gedcom is still the
basis of my Rootsmagic file today. The error message says that Legacy
tech support can't recreate the problem, therefore cannot fix it. They
do provide work arounds. I worked on it for about a week and I may go
back to it again. When I realized that I would have to use work arounds
and the fact that there were other error messages in the file, I chose
not to continue. I am not comfortable. I want to research more and get
my files and paperwork in order. Continuing with Rootsmagic just works
for me and what I want to accomplish. I also try and support the developers
of genealogy related programs by purchasing the full version of the program
and associated book. My thoughts are if you don't support the tech support
community, they will stop developing the tools you like. I have purchased
a lot of programs, some of which I just choose not to use for one reason
or another. Thanks for your input. I appreciate it.
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Teresa Ghee Elliott Patrice
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What I would do is download the Rootsmagic or Master Genealogist trial
and see if the same problem exists in either of those programs. If it
does, the problem is in your data and you need to fix it. If it doesn't
then you can assume it's something about how Legacy reads your data and
you can decide whether you want to move to Legacy or not. Both programs
allow you to use them for 30 days for free and I am pretty sure, most
do a direct read from PAF, not gedcom.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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Teresa -- It works fine with Rootsmagic. I didn't realize Master Genealogist
had a trial. That's another program I used many moons ago. Sometimes I
think you can't teach an old dog new tricks. I will check it out. Thanks.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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I am using Legacy 8.0 and it is still a bit buggy, especially compared
with 7.5. There are some very nice features, but had I known when I downloaded
it, that it was buggy, I would have waited until the first update.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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When I enter a census record, I enter it as census and select the date
and when I enter the source it says 1920 census etc. I do not see the
census show up on the family view only when I click on the individual
and then it shows Census/date/Description and place. If I edit to the
source it show say "1930 United States Federal Census as the source
list name and then the detail as 1930: census place". This is not
different than what I saw in 7.5. So it may be the way that you have your
family view set up. Or are you looking at a report?
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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Legacy 8 users. I thought that I had turned off ALL gaps checking, because
I do not want it. I am still getting potential problems that have to do
with gaps and I want all the other potential problems just not these.
How do I turn them off permanently, not just one person at a time but
for the entire family?
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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All boxes for gaps checking are unchecked.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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Also sporadically when I go to enter a source, I find that the line
chosen is "unspecified" and the computer beeps. I can not move
the cursor down to the event that I have just selected and escape takes
me completely out of Legacy. I can get right back in and select the event
and then enter my source, but Legacy opens where it was originally, not
where it was when I hit escape.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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BTW, this is a great group.
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Diane Gould Hall
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Sarah L M Christiansen - I've sent about half a dozen problem reports
to Legacy, along with the same number of suggestions. They do respond.
Just go to their home page and go to the "Help Center' tab and you
will see your choices.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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My adventure into using Legacy has led me to ask the following question.
On the genealogy program that you use, how do you handle events like residence,
census, obituary, etc. Do you include them on your family group sheet
as a part of it? Do you just include this information in notes and document
it that way? Do you write up a separate document analyzing all the other
information, including footnotes or endnotes? Is a family group sheet
only meant to include Born, Baptized, Died, Buried and Spouse? I am a
long time RootsMagic user, and am interested in looking at what other
programs offer. I am afraid that in trying Legacy I can't get past the
little bit of basic information on the Family Group Sheet, but on RootsMagic,
I may be including too much information.Your thoughts are appreciated.
Thank you.
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Donna Willis Brown
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I don't think in terms of group sheets - that's just one way of looking
at the data (prepared as a report). I do, however, put all information
in as an event (and record a source for it). When you have listed the
information in that way, everything you know about a person is visible
on the family view and shows up in chronology view, timeline, and reports
such as group sheets, etc. I rarely, if ever, print anything - I just
switch views if there is something additional I want to see. I do occasionally
prepare a report, such as a group sheet, but I only look at it through
the print preview. Although I could either print it to a hard copy or
save it to the computer as a pdf, I am constantly finding new information,
thus outdating anything printed.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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Donna -- Thank you for your post. What you say makes sense. In a paperless
environment, which is what the world is going to, everything you need
appears on your screen. How will that all translate to future generations
that may or may not use the program you use. I have to think on this more.
Thank you for your comments.
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Donna Willis Brown
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Because Legacy has an excellent free version of their program, anyone
could download the free version and either utilize it that way [I used
the free program with much satisfaction for a couple of years before deciding
to upgrade], upgrade or export to a program they prefer. Most of the other
programs I have reviewed do not have an adequate free version (every view
you want to look at says "upgrade to see this view" or limits
the amount of people you can have in a free version), but most of the
necessary views were available in the free version of Legacy. GEDCOM is
still a means of transferring the data to a different program, although
media will not be transferred.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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Donna -- I purchased the Legacy 8 Deluxe version, as well as the book
Unlocking Legacy. I have used Roots Magic for years and had tried Legacy
in the past, but went back to RM. This is what has gotten me off on this
tangent. They are different in several ways. I like some of RM and some
of Legacy. I like the FGS print out on Legacy, until you want the additional
events to appear. However, on RM, my FGS does look a bit crowded. Both
have all the information clear on the computer in a concise format. Don't
really know what I am going to do.
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Cathy Martin Naborowski
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I've bee working with both Legacy and Rootsmagic in the past couple
of weeks. I think I'm preferring RM. Anyway, I list all events as facts
- and as mentioned above, don't think in terms of family group sheets.
So I enter things like a mention in a newspaper article as a fact, all
residence facts (individual directory mentions), anything that comes up.
With some individuals I have a very long list of facts that would print
if I were printing something out. I really like RM (and now Legacy's)
ability to share these facts with others who are mentioned in the facts.
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Amy McGrory
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I use FTM and I record all non-census residence information as an event.
I want to be able to tell where my ancestors lived at any time during
their life, so I can use that information to verify which records I find
belong to my ancestor. This is especially useful when you find several
people with the same name as your ancestor. Since I don't print out FGS,
whether it appears there doesn't matter to me.
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Diane Gould Hall
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The Family view is just where you view that particular family. A Family
group sheet or record is a report you create to keep or share. The icons
under the two main people tell you what you have for that person. If they
are colored in and not grey, then you have info in that particular spot
such as events or sources.
The census, residence, military and other items are all documented in
Events/facts once you click on the Individual's information by clicking
on that person. And, yes, enter all that info in events. Add sources and
media to your events and make them as thorough as possible. That way any
report you do eventually create will be complete as will the Chronology
info/view for that person.
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Diane Gould Hall
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Patrice Houck Schadt. I will create a nice Family Group Record and share
it with you so you can see how Legacy does it.
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Diane Gould Hall
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Here is page one.
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Diane Gould Hall
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page 2 - you can see all the events and the small pics of documents
from those events. I hope this helps. This is a 9 page report, so I won't
post them all, but he sources are all listed at the end also.
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Michele Simmons Lewis
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You can add events to a Family Group Sheet in Legacy. Once you have
the FGS Report screen open, go to Report Options at the bottom and then
select the Include tab. Events is at the top of the second column. It
does not clutter the report at all. You can choose to have just the events
for the husband and wife or you can also include the events for the children
as well.
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Donna Willis Brown
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It's been so long since I set up Legacy, I'd forgotten that I had gone
to the Options field and selected to include all events for all the people.
I just opened that tab further and there are other Event options that
include all notes you've made for an event as well as any shared event
[like where they were included in a marriage of someone else]. As Diane
said, it is not cluttered at all because the additional information just
makes the report longer.
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Debbie Blanton McCoy
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I put all of that type of info into the Events in Legacy for the same
reason that Donna stated - so they will show up in the Chronology. Also,
I send Family Group Sheets to people who contact me for more information
on certain persons and I like being able to add the events to the FGS.
I use the General Notes section for more of a narrative about the person.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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I was going to post a copy of my family group sheet. I looked at it
and was to embarrassed to do so. In the list of events, the title census
appears several times with the same date in 1920, when in fact the person
had several different census years of info with different dates. I need
to analyze this further and see if it is me or the program. I would really
like this to work.
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Jeff Jahn
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I put obituaries as a source and if I have a copy I link it to that.
At one time I didn't it as a event but didn't like the way it looked.
Census I create my own event don't like the generic events for most of
the software because only one census is primary all the rest is secondary.
I usually don't use the residence fact much, mainly because I don't want
to include a lot of current info for residence in tree although I do you
it to trace people. I also prefer my events more in a timeline view which
some family group sheets don't handle as nicely. Although ftm doesn't
have a family group sheet per say their individual sheet is close.
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Donna Willis Brown
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The Family Group Sheet lists the events in the same way as I enter them.
I enter much of the detail in the space below the event; for example,
I transcribe all information from a census sheet for the whole household
and then copy that event to each person in the household. I bold the information
for the specific individual [other than the head of household] on the
event in their person page so their information is easily identifiable.
I have attached a copy of the first page of the family group sheet for
my grandfather in illustration. There are two pages of information for
him before the information for his wife begins.
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Teresa Ghee Elliott
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I use TMG and it allows multiple people to be attached to events. Those
events will show on a FGS for each person. To see an example of a narrative
report, you can go to my blog. http://generationsgoneby.wordpress.com/.../george-l-gee-2/
Look specifically at the 1850 census paragraph.
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From another string
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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I have purchased Legacy 8 and spent a good chunk of the day working on
one family group. My question is when you print a family group sheet,
how can that information be included as part of the family group sheet,
so that it looks like the rest of the events on the family group sheet?
Thanks.
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Diane Gould Hall
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Patrice Houck Schadt. There is an Options button on the bottom of the
screen when you go to print any of the reports. This allows you to include
or exclude any number of items. Have you tried that yet?
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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I did try that but when it printed in the family group sheet, it did
so without the lines and looked different than the rest of the report.
I am thinking that perhaps the Chronological report takes the place of
including all the extra info in the family group sheet. Working on that
theory now.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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I have been trying to get the events sorted by date. The help screen suggests
that there is a checkbox on the check/ repair file in file maintenance.
That is where it was in Legacy 7.5 and I looked for it there in 8 and
it is not there. I ran check/repair last night and I had hoped it was
there, but it is not in my version. Would you please see if it is there
in your version? If it is, I will just try downloading again.
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Debbie Blanton McCoy
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Go to the Tools tab, click on Other Tools, then Sort Child, Marriage
and Event Lists. If you don't want to sort the children and marriages
or marriage events, be sure to uncheck them.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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Thanks I found it. Thank You it was hard to find. I wish some of the
icons were larger. I increased font size because I have astigmatism but
there seems to be no way to increase the miniscule Icons. They could move
the numbers on the marriage bar to the left (if they need them) so that
the Icons could be big enough to make out!!
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Karin Pasteur Coppernoll
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I discoverd the options index. Go to the Options tab, select Customize
and it's the last feature on the left. It's very helpful.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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Karin, the customize is how I changed the font size and colors, but
it does not have a way to increase the icon size, especially on the marriage
bar, where the space is split with a batch of numbers....
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Debbie Blanton McCoy
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Sarah, what size font are you using? I tried 12 and 13 and there wasn't
much difference, so I set it to 14. That increases it, but it cuts off
any letters like "y" and "g."
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Diane Gould Hall
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All our Legacy users out there. Has anyone figured out how to change the
label color on the Individual's Information yet? These are the labels
that are colored when you have a source for them. I've tried and tried.
It's red and I want it to be blue. Thanks
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Michael Giallella
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Click on OPTIONS, the "Click here to change other user-interface
colors". Click the "Other Colors" tab, and then on "Text
colors for Labels showing attached sources". Then pick from many,
many colors - especially BLUE!
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Michael Giallella
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That should be OPTIONS, then COLOR CHANGES'
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Julie Cahill Tarr
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Even though I didn't ask...thanks! The red drove me crazy!
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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I set my color scheme to purple and the text is black - no red. The
only red is a line on the active person in family view. However, the females
are red and the males black in the pedigree view, and the index.
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Monique Riley
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That's one big reason I love Legacy, is that we can personalize so many
things. I actually like the red labels. My eyes can't see the difference
very well between blue and black.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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In 7.5 I could use my own windows color scheme, and I would prefer this
to theirs. I am now actually going through the same process as I did for
setting the colors for the desktop. It would be SO much easier if I could
just use my Windows color scheme.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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But now that i think that I have what i want, it will not let me hit
the close button.
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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I did all that and it put me back where I was,
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Sharon Patricia Saunders
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How to I change "Christening" to "Baptism"? I was
able to in Legacy 7.5 but can't in 8.
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Michael Giallella Sharon
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: OPTIONS tab, then CUSTOMIZE (blue wheel), then go to number 3 - DATA
FORMAT. Item 3.10 is "Term for Christening". You can change
it to Baptism there and save.
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Diane Gould Hall
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Geez Michael, I could have sworn I'd been to that page and done that.
Thank you!!!! Must have been the wine LOL! Blue labels here I come.
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Patrice Houck Schadt
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Thank you for this post. I have just started using Legacy and appreciate
this information.
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Sharon Patricia Saunders
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Thank you Michael Giallella
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Diane Gould Hall
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One thing I'm upset about is the removal of the pop-ups on the Family
view. I just rec'd a response from a question I sent to Legacy support.
So now when you are in Family view (which is where I am..always, when
doing research), you have to click on and go the either the children or
parents instead of just hovering and having their info shown. They said
"well, it's on the Pedigree view." Who cares? Or, why not make
pop-ups on both Family and Pedigree? I probably use the Pedigree view
5 times a year. Anyone else?
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Sarah L M Christiansen
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Diane, I am in Family view 66% of the time, 33% in individual view (pop
up) and 1% in pedigree view.
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Monique Riley
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I agree Sarah L M Christiansen, love the popups in the family view!
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Diane Gould Hall
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Then we all need to inundate Legacy with requests for pop-ups to return
to Family view. I agree with you Sarah L M Christiansen, about being in
Individual view too.
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Kathy 'PK' Thompson
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I'm confused - what pop-ups were there in Family view?
The only one I know of, being a single click on either spouse, is still
there.
What did I miss finding before it was taken away in v8? (given that I
still have 7.5 to play with I'd like to see if it's something I want back
or not)
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Kathy 'PK' Thompson
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I know what I DO miss though - the Spouse/Child & Sibling lists
in the Pedigree screen! I want them back
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Diane Gould Hall
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In 7.5 when you are in Family view, if you take your mouse and hover
over either the parents or children, you could see their birth & death
dates and any marriage I for. That way you don't have to actually click
on the person, which then changes the Family view. It is incredibly handy
and a feature I used daily. In 8 it is no more. Now it's in Pedigree view.
Who does their research from pedigree view? Not me, that much I know.
So, why take away features we all use constantly, including what you just
said about the siblings etc.? We need to let them know! FYI to Michele
Simmons Lewis who at least may have their ear.
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Diane Gould Hall
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P.S. I haven't deleted 7.5 yet.
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Kathy 'PK' Thompson
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What setting did I have to select to see those roll over pop ups Diane,
I don't see those features
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Monique Riley
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Kathy 'PK' Thompson Go to Options> Customize> General Tab and
click on "pop up automatically" under the Popup Information
Boxes. I have mine set at 3/10 of a second.
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Kathy 'PK' Thompson
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huh - would you look at that - yes, I think I'd like to have that back
too thanks!
Thanks Monique.
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