For a few months, I wasn't able to identify the parents and possibly grandparents of an individual, yet knew he was part of a large family in Guilford Co, NC. I made two family files, one linking the individual to his known spouse, her ancestors, and their descendants. The other file was all of that family surname living in the area connecting them to each other and their ancestors. I finally can make a connection. How can I merge these two family files? I realize now I should have used one family file, and just not make a connection. Any help will be appreciated. Diane

> > DanBCooley <dbcooley@rcn.com> wrote: > Dear List Manager - Whoever you are, it's your responsibility to keep > your mail list clean. Pagans expressing their personal religious > ignorance is not the purpose of the Legacy mail list. There are plenty > of USENET bulletin boards for this purpose. > > To tricia - If you study family history you're a party to it. Go be > repulsed by yourself. > -- > Dan > > The thread is ended. Any further posts relating to the thread, will cause the poster(s) to be summarily removed from the list. The original posting in the thread, was improper, and the above message is equally improper. If a list subscriber has a problem with a posting on any Rootsweb list, the proper, and, prescribed procedure, is to send a message to the list administrator, NOT to either tell the list administrator what to do or how to operate a list, or, to start a flame war on a list. It is also not proper on any Rootsweb list, to make comments about an organisation such as the Mormon church, as have been made criticising the religious practices of the Mormon Church. Rootsweb mailing lists are for the discussion of genealogical research, NOT for starting religious arguments. If you must criticise any religion, do it somewhere else. It will not be tolerated by me on any list that I administer, including this list. If I see further criticisms of the Mormon church, or any other formal religion on this list, the posters of such messages will be summarily removed. -- Bret Busby List Administrator Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................

Thanks for the help with my question. Again sorry for offending someone. Legacy is in my opinion the best Family Tree program out there. The best part of it is the Merging, I always recommend it to everyone that asks me about it. I have used PAF, Family Tree Maker, Family Origins, Kindred Konnections, Cumberland Family Tree, Brother's Keeper, Family Treasures, Kith 'N' Kin and have found that Legacy is the best of them all and the easiest of them all to use. Jerr

I have been using Legacy for almost as long as I have been doing genealogy. I was a bit apprehensive when I reaearched the program because of the LDS slant, but then I realized that most genealogy programs seem to allow for LDS needs. I am not a member of LDS, and in fact I don't agree with praying for the dead (as they have already met their maker), but I am very grateful to LDS members for all the work they have done and that they let everyone see it - for free! It was very easy to figure out at the outset that the program doesn't have to show LDS info. Does anyone have a tip for an impatient person? When I go to Index View, and type in a name, it often seems to miss the first letter. Am I just being too impatient, or is there a reason? Thanks, Marion ---------------------------- Powered by Execulink Webmail http://www.execulink.com/

To the List: I apologize for the fact that my e-mail to Jerr went to the list. That wasn't intended. I don't apologize for my viewpoint. In my defence, I would like to express an opinion that there's a vast difference between disagreeing with (arguably unethical) practices of a huge conglomerate, and publishing personal flames against individuals. I flamed no-one, tricia > Dear List Manager - Whoever you are, it's your > responsibility to keep > your mail list clean. Pagans expressing their personal > religious > ignorance is not the purpose of the Legacy mail list.

I currently have to-do notes in multiple research notebooks and scrawled in the margins of printouts, etc, which often works for me, but is hardly organized. Does anyone use legacy's to-do function, and if so, do you have tips, advice or things to watch out for? I've read the help section on to-do's and the web site tour, but I'm not certain as to the best way to use it. For example, are there advantages/disadvantages to making an item general vs person-specific? I'm near our state library and do many obit searches, not only for me, but for others who contact me. Presently I keep a more-or-less rolling list of obits for which I'm looking, worrying more about lumping by time periods than by who the person is, but occasionally a request drops off my radar screen. If I start entering all of this in legacy, would I make general entries of obits that I'm looking for? or is there a reason I would want them by person? Thank you for any suggestions, Alaine ~~~~~ www.nepagenealogy.com www.lackawannacounty.info

There is also not to be any "flaming" on a Rootsweb List to anyone . Either respond kindly or ignore them altogether. Jerr when in Legacy go to : Options > customise> General Tab> Go to bottom of right column and on the LDS options be sure to uncheck the box which says "Display LDS information". I think that should do it for you. Good Luck. nancyb DanBCooley <dbcooley@rcn.com> wrote: Dear List Manager - Whoever you are, it's your responsibility to keep your mail list clean. Pagans expressing their personal religious ignorance is not the purpose of the Legacy mail list. There are plenty of USENET bulletin boards for this purpose. To tricia - If you study family history you're a party to it. Go be repulsed by yourself. -- Dan software@yellowknife.com wrote: >Hi, Jerr: > >I don't have the answer to your question. I just want to >tell you that I agree most heartily with your viewpoint. >I'm a pagan. The last thing I want is for some descendant >of mine to "baptize" me posthumously. I was raised >Catholic, and I've left it far behind me. The whole >concept becoming a party to the Mormon ritual practices >repulses me. > >tricia > > > >>How can I remove the LDS information from a file? >>I don't believe in their practice of baptizing the dead >>and Proxy marriage >>stuff and the sealing of children and spouses. >>So I would like to take that stuff out of my files. >>I know that from records online that a lot of the people >>that they baptized >>when dead were baptized when kids or when they joined some >>church. >>So it's a waste of time for the Mormons to re baptize >>them. >>Sorry I don't mean to offend any Mormons who use this >>program. >>Thanks, >> >> >>==== LEGACY Mailing List ==== >>To contact the list administrator, or to unsubscribe, or >>to view the >>list archive, or for other list information, go to the web >>page at >>http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LEGACY.html >> >>============================== >>Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records >>added in the >>last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. >>Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> >> >> > > >==== LEGACY Mailing List ==== >To contact the list administrator, or to unsubscribe, or to view the >list archive, or for other list information, go to the web page at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LEGACY.html > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > ==== LEGACY Mailing List ==== To contact the list administrator, or to unsubscribe, or to view the list archive, or for other list information, go to the web page at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LEGACY.html ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx

Like I said I don't mean to offend anyone. I just was asking a legitimate question about removing the LDS information. Yes I did say something about my beliefs. And no I am not a pagan or idiot like a couple of you have said. I am a Christian that was baptized when I was a little kid. Again sorry to all that I offended. Jerr

Dear List Manager - Whoever you are, it's your responsibility to keep your mail list clean. Pagans expressing their personal religious ignorance is not the purpose of the Legacy mail list. There are plenty of USENET bulletin boards for this purpose. To tricia - If you study family history you're a party to it. Go be repulsed by yourself. -- Dan software@yellowknife.com wrote: >Hi, Jerr: > >I don't have the answer to your question. I just want to >tell you that I agree most heartily with your viewpoint. >I'm a pagan. The last thing I want is for some descendant >of mine to "baptize" me posthumously. I was raised >Catholic, and I've left it far behind me. The whole >concept becoming a party to the Mormon ritual practices >repulses me. > >tricia > > > >>How can I remove the LDS information from a file? >>I don't believe in their practice of baptizing the dead >>and Proxy marriage >>stuff and the sealing of children and spouses. >>So I would like to take that stuff out of my files. >>I know that from records online that a lot of the people >>that they baptized >>when dead were baptized when kids or when they joined some >>church. >>So it's a waste of time for the Mormons to re baptize >>them. >>Sorry I don't mean to offend any Mormons who use this >>program. >>Thanks, >> >> >>==== LEGACY Mailing List ==== >>To contact the list administrator, or to unsubscribe, or >>to view the >>list archive, or for other list information, go to the web >>page at >>http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LEGACY.html >> >>============================== >>Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records >>added in the >>last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. >>Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> >> >> > > >==== LEGACY Mailing List ==== >To contact the list administrator, or to unsubscribe, or to view the >list archive, or for other list information, go to the web page at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LEGACY.html > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > >

Hi, Jerr: I don't have the answer to your question. I just want to tell you that I agree most heartily with your viewpoint. I'm a pagan. The last thing I want is for some descendant of mine to "baptize" me posthumously. I was raised Catholic, and I've left it far behind me. The whole concept becoming a party to the Mormon ritual practices repulses me. tricia > How can I remove the LDS information from a file? > I don't believe in their practice of baptizing the dead > and Proxy marriage > stuff and the sealing of children and spouses. > So I would like to take that stuff out of my files. > I know that from records online that a lot of the people > that they baptized > when dead were baptized when kids or when they joined some > church. > So it's a waste of time for the Mormons to re baptize > them. > Sorry I don't mean to offend any Mormons who use this > program. > Thanks, > > > ==== LEGACY Mailing List ==== > To contact the list administrator, or to unsubscribe, or > to view the > list archive, or for other list information, go to the web > page at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LEGACY.html > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records > added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

Dear List - I recently sided with JerrSingle on a GEDCOM problem with Legacy. I am now sorry I did. The "remove LDS" posting is so obviously a virulently prejudiced opinion disguised as a technical request that, I think, JerrSingle should be booted from this list. How this idiot got to publicly air its opinion is, I guess, a risk we all have to take in a public mail list such as this. JerrSingle: Fie on you. -- Dan - not a Mormon JerrSingle@aol.com wrote: >How can I remove the LDS information from a file? >I don't believe in their practice of baptizing the dead and Proxy marriage >stuff and the sealing of children and spouses. >So I would like to take that stuff out of my files. >I know that from records online that a lot of the people that they baptized >when dead were baptized when kids or when they joined some church. >So it's a waste of time for the Mormons to re baptize them. >Sorry I don't mean to offend any Mormons who use this program. >Thanks, > > >==== LEGACY Mailing List ==== >To contact the list administrator, or to unsubscribe, or to view the >list archive, or for other list information, go to the web page at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LEGACY.html > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > >

In a message dated 1/21/2005 6:17:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, alaine@nepagenealogy.com writes: sealings etc are only done with one's own ancestors Interesting! I don't think I ever thought of it but what a good bit of advice you just gave us. Way too good to miss, thanks Eliz

I don't understand why you would have entered that into your files in the first place, given your beliefs. Vern > How can I remove the LDS information from a file? > I don't believe in their practice of baptizing the dead and Proxy marriage > stuff and the sealing of children and spouses. > So I would like to take that stuff out of my files. > I know that from records online that a lot of the people that they > baptized > when dead were baptized when kids or when they joined some church. > So it's a waste of time for the Mormons to re baptize them. > Sorry I don't mean to offend any Mormons who use this program. > Thanks, -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.13 - Release Date: 1/16/2005

I'm not a Mormon and I'm offended. Go to 'Options' under the 'General' tab and tick the appropriate box. It must really grind on you every time you go to the LDS site and download a census entry...or descendant report...or SSDI entry...etc. >-----Original Message----- >From: JerrSingle@aol.com [mailto:JerrSingle@aol.com] >How can I remove the LDS information from a file? >I don't believe in their practice of baptizing the dead and Proxy marriage >stuff and the sealing of children and spouses. >So I would like to take that stuff out of my files. >I know that from records online that a lot of the people that they baptized >when dead were baptized when kids or when they joined some church. >So it's a waste of time for the Mormons to re baptize them. >Sorry I don't mean to offend any Mormons who use this program.

How can I remove the LDS information from a file? I don't believe in their practice of baptizing the dead and Proxy marriage stuff and the sealing of children and spouses. So I would like to take that stuff out of my files. I know that from records online that a lot of the people that they baptized when dead were baptized when kids or when they joined some church. So it's a waste of time for the Mormons to re baptize them. Sorry I don't mean to offend any Mormons who use this program. Thanks,

Ignoring whether or not you share Mormon belief, you may want to rethink erasing all traces of Mormon records from your database -- almost every piece of info can have benefit when looked at in the right light. As I understand it, sealings etc are only done with one's own ancestors, therefore while this information may not tell you about the person who was sealed in your opinion, it does tell you about at least one strand of descendants and gives you possible means to contact them and perhaps share additional information. Alaine ~~~~~ www.nepagenealogy.com www.lackawannacounty.info > How can I remove the LDS information from a file? > I don't believe in their practice of baptizing the dead and Proxy marriage > stuff and the sealing of children and spouses. > So I would like to take that stuff out of my files. > I know that from records online that a lot of the people that they baptized > when dead were baptized when kids or when they joined some church. > So it's a waste of time for the Mormons to re baptize them. > Sorry I don't mean to offend any Mormons who use this program. > Thanks,

What settings are necessary to keep the information on screen proportional. If I minimize the screen to do something else, when I come back the left side of the family page almost covers the screen. Is it my computer and/ or monitor maybe. I use XP, with the regular updates. If I close out the program and start again it comes back the regular size. Thank You Electra Price kimblep@earthlink.net

On 17 Jan 2005 JerrSingle@aol.com wrote: > I imported a gedcom to Legacy and because I only needed a little bit > of the names in the file I exported a gedcom from that file. When > export was done it said I had exported 200 individuals I forget how > many families. But when I imported the new gedcom it only had 2 > people in the gedcom. I have tried it with several files and it > happened with all them. I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish or exactly what you did, so in order to help figure this out please provide answers to these questions. . . . The Gedcom you imported to Legacy went where -- a new (empty) file or one that already contained some individuals? When done did the Legacy file contain all you expected? So then you exported from Legacy to a new Gedcom -- did you want to export everyone or was this a subset? If a subset what method did you use to select the individuals to export? Legacy said it exported 200 into the Gedcom but another program reading that said there were only 2. So you need to see how many were in that Gedcom to see where the problem resides -- did you look? Gedcoms are simply text files and can be viewed using any text editor such as Notepad, Wordpad or even your word processor. You could also go through another Legacy import with the newly-created Gedcom and see how many individuals Legacy says are in it. Repeat the process and look at the Gedcom to see what's in it -- the difference between 2 and 200 will be very evident! Please let us know what you are trying to accomplish with these gyrations -- I suspect there could be an easier way. Cheers, -- Dave N. -- David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. ---

Dan, I last responded to you about this back in October - sorry if you never got the final "verdict" from Dave on the Source problem. One of the big problems with a Generations gedcom comes about when a user has selected to do "FreeForm" sources. Since those sources aren't formatted in the standard way in Generations and they're exported with a TEXT tag, the only way Legacy can import that is into the Text of Source field in the Source, with the Source List Name as "Source". There's nothing that we can do with that style of source other than to import it into the Text field. A correctly exported source would be seen in the gedcom as: 0 @S22@ SOUR 1 _MEDI Directory 1 ABBR Washington, Spokane, Spokane - 1907 - Spokane City Directory 1 TITL Spokane, Washington City Directory, 1907 1 AUTH Research Publications, Inc. 1 PUBL New Haven, Connecticut: Research Publications 1 REPO @R10@ 0 @S24@ SOUR 1 _MEDI Directory 1 ABBR Washington, Spokane, Spokane - 1908 - Spokane City Directory 1 TITL Spokane, Washington City Directory, 1908 1 AUTH Research Publications, Inc. 1 PUBL New Haven, Connecticut: Research Publications Whereas the FreeForm sources from Generations show up as: 0 @S64@ SOUR 1 TEXT Missouri State Archives, Birth & Death Records 0 @S65@ SOUR 1 TEXT From Letta May Miller-Reilly; written lists, a family Bible and 1 TEXT a scrapbook of newspaper clippings; about 1970 With the first set of sources, Legacy knows *exactly* which fields the various elements of the source should be placed. Legacy has placed the TEXT tag into the Text of Source field, the only option an import by any program would have (other than to ignore it completely, which some programs do) The workaround that we've been giving Legacy users, besides manually editing all the FreeForm sources to a standard format either before or after export, is to go to Options > Customize > Sources and select to Include Master Source Text on Reports. That way the sources will show up on the reports for you until they can be reformatted by the user to a standard source format. The other problems we've seen with Generations exports can be dealt with and Dave is working on them as they come up. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation Support@MillenniaCorp.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: DanBCooley [mailto:dbcooley@rcn.com] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:26 PM To: LEGACY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LEGACY] Importing and exporting Gedcom problems I've read JerrSingle's comments about Legacy's GEDCOM with interest. I am a Generations user but because it's company (Sierra, Inc.) is now defunct I decided to switch to Legacy. When I transferred my data from Generations to Legacy I found out many things were not getting into Legacy from Generations, especially sources (and some comments too). I think most of my individuals got there. I contacted Legacy Customer Service and they sounded very helpful. She said lots of former Generations users were having trouble with GEDCOM transfers to Legacy, implying that Generations was at fault. Sources were out of kilter or just not there. She told me to e-mail my GEDCOM file and that "Dave" would take a look at it. That was SIX MONTHS ago. I've e-mailed several times but no response. Legacy isn't as enthusiastic about helping me now. I now suspect that Legacy's GEDCOM import algorithm is wrong. I've looked at my Generations GEDCOM file and, while I'm not a GEDCOM expert, it looks to me like sources are in there correctly (i.e. sources are all at the end and look like this: @S22@... for example). JerrSingle, I think Legacy has a big GEDCOM problem -- Dan

Nancy, Please contact Support@MillenniaCorp.com directly and we'll take a look at the problem. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation Support@MillenniaCorp.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Beck [mailto:naneki35@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 11:08 AM To: LEGACY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [LEGACY] Problems Hi, I am new to the list. I am having problems with Legacy losing information when I close out the program. What could be causing this . Its been happening now for for quite awhile. Any new information I enter into notes is gone when I return to the program. I can't figure out what is happening. [Version : 5.0.0.173 Build Date: 26 Oct 2004] Thanking you in advance Nancy