I am attaching a screen shot of the report and this graphically shows my question better.  Thanks, Sarah

I have a fellow in my tree and I did a test of all 3 marriages and only the notes of the wife come up. When I did the report I defautled on the husband and selected the wife I wanted and then previewed the report it turned out right each time and the only referrence to the other wives is in the heading. I do not get the general notes for the other wives. I would check your report options and make sure they are set for what you want to view. Just use the preview to see if its correct.

Rick 

Hi Rick,

Thanks for your input.  This is really strange.  After I exited Legacy and signed back on to the program I tried three different settings as you suggested with the same results.  Now on General Notes it just says "Wife -" with no name at all and the note beneath.  I guess that's fine.  Funny how I had to sign out of Legacy to have that happen.  In this case I have no notes for his other wife.  I should check some of my other individuals that have more than one wife and notes along with those.  Appreciate your help!  Thanks again,

Sarah.

Hi Brian,

That's my fault as I just didn't change the name before running the report as I was just doing a test.  There's not an issue with that.  What else are you suggesting that is non-standard?  I wonder why you couldn't get the second wife's notes to appear.  I think I should check out some other individuals that have more than one wife and both have notes and see what I come up with.  It might not be tonight though but I'll get back to you with those results..  Thanks,

Sarah

Hi again,

I finally got a chance to try this Family Group Report again and this individual had three wives with notes for him and his spouses.  Like you, Brian, I do not get notes on the other two wives; just the one.  I have to change to his next wife and so forth to get the notes to appear.  For some reason I am not having that issue either anymore that I first complained about here.  It just says "General Notes of Husb-" and then "General Notes of Wife-" in the header which is fine. But I would like to be able to have notes for all three wives in one report but it looks like that is not possible in the Family Group Report. 

I wonder how Rick was able to get notes on other spouses in his test.  Also, I still do not understand why I was getting the wife's name in the header in that first  sample I sent..  Was that the Family Group Report you did, Rick?

Sarah

I can see that you did not read my comment carefully I only got the notes for the current wife and I cycled through the  3 wives and only got the notes for the wife shown during my test. I never said I got notes for all the wives on the same group sheet.

Rick

Sorry Rick,

My bad.  I apologize.  I see that now.

Sarah

Anyone with an idea as how to make a list and export it of all the entries with

the same surname including at least birth and death dates, notes would be nice.

The object is to give another searching the same surname all the ones in my

file to look over for matching and exchanging data.

 Thanks,  Lew Hartswick

Use Search>Find>Detailed Search then Select: Individual, Surname, Equals, xxxxxx.

Click Create and on the new screen Print. Then choose the data you wish to send.

Ron Ferguson

http://www.fergys.co.uk/

Thank you Ron. I'll give it ago tomorrow, bed time now. ]

   Lew

Hey Ron,

That is pretty cool.  I still have a lot to discover about Legacy.  I will find that suggestion very useful.  I did have to figure out how to add general notes after your instructions.  I went to "List Report Options," and then clicked on the "*Row 2" tab.  Then I clicked on "Select Fields for Row 2" and chose "General Notes" from the drop down box.  There's plenty of other fields you can choose from as well.  I really like this neat report.  I'm attaching a screen shot I made so Lewis can see visually what I did to add the general notes field.  He may have notes in his research or medical notes fields too.  I guess you could then go to a Row 3 and add something in there as well.  It's pretty neat!  Thanks, Ron.

Sarah

Thanks everyone. I am now almost an expert on making lists. :-)  Works great!

   ...Lew...

Friends of Legacy,

I haven't used it that much so I find out today that a GEDCOM file downloaded from Ancestry.com into Legacy is lacking a few items I never noticed before.  In a birth, death and burial record the description field I have in Ancestry.com does not load into the GEDCOM file.  I have many descriptions I put into those fields and find this disturbing.  For example, I might have a person that I enter a death event for and put notes in the "description" field.  Another is the burial field where I put in the date, place of burial (town (city), county, state, country and then add the cemetery name and location of burial into the "description" field in my DB on Ancestry.com.  This "description" information does not transfer into a GEDCOM file for Legacy.

For other events where I put information into the description field they transfer into a GEDCOM file fine.  I went to the Legacy site and cannot find any information about this question at all.  Am I just doing something wrong or is that feature not available?   Thanks,

Sarah

Thanks Brian.  That is what I figured.  My notes transfer fine from the "Note" field in Ancestry and so do all those URL's for pictures also.  I can get rid of those URL's in a Chron report but not some other reports.  That is too bad as I have so many things in the birth, death, burial description fields.  I also have FTM2012 and 2011 and the description fields are not an issue but of course those are Ancestry products and the fields match.

Thanks so much for your input, Brian.

Sarah 

If, when importing your GEDCOM, you click the option of putting unrecognised items in the Notes, Field then the vital events Description details should go there. I have not tested this, but it is what I would expect.

Hi Ron,

I already tried that and the birth, death, burial descriptions do not go into the note field.  I have found, so far, the only thing that happened was a few source errors were put into the note field for unrecognized items.  The only alternative I can see would be to put all those description fields into the note fields in my Ancestry DB which is not feasible as I have so many.  Guess I am out of luck on this one.  Thanks,

Sarah

Ron or "someone who has had the problem and solved ti" :-)

Recently deleted several names (due to finding they were duplicated) and then

later added some new ones which the program assigned the "un-used" RIN #
 Fine ; Then when added a few more the program pops up a small window :

__________________________________________________

ERROR

 (red O with X in it)  Error getting next deleted MRN

  Error 3021:  No current rrecord

  Would you like to try again

(buttons)  YES  NO  Quit  Online help

___________________________________________________

The YES just comes back ti the same window,

Quit  really does Quit the program

NO doesn't do anything the first click but a second will

get the program back to working.

  This did NOT happen in the past when I have done this, admittedly it's been

quite a while (probably a year or so) since I have.

  So why does the program continue looking for un-used RIN #s after it has

used up the ones generated, and even more important How do I stop it. :-)

  My version started out as 7.0 up dated to 7.5 and as far as I know up-dated

with latest bit and pieces automatically.

  Thanks.

   ...Lew...

Lew open Legacy and go to file file maintenance and then click on check and repair that should fix your problem very quickly. I happened to me a few years ago.

Rick

Sarah, I have reported your problem to Legacy and it has been registered as a bug, so hopefully will be corrected in the not too distant future.

Cool, thanks Ron.  I never thought of doing that.  It would be great if that could be realized.

Sarah

Thanks for the help on the 3021 error. All fixed now on the desktop BUT now a

problem on the laptop one. I think it's a Windows problem but "any port in a storm".

I get a Run time error 380

Invalid property value

When I try to open Legacy. I re-ran the Legacy setup.exe but no change.

 Any Ideas?  Thanks.

   ...Lew...

Lewis, Which Legacy set up did you use i.e. where on your laptop did you find it, or do you mean that you re-downloaded it? I suspect from your comment that you know that the common reason for this problem is an incomplete installation, it may be that if the setup.exe was on your laptop (or the wrong one). In which case you may be better off by uninstalling and reinstalling.

Thanks Ron, I thought that may be the solution. The setup was the one that was

downloaded when the laptop was re-loaded about a year ago. But nothing had been

done in the way of new or changed pgms for a very long time. This error just started

out of the clear blue. So I'll do the "un-install" and bring a copy of the appropiate

DATA files from my desktop over and insert it in the Legacy folder..  Hope it

works. :-) Guess I have to get the "install" setup from the net.

   ...Lew...

Yes, I certainly wouldn't use a file from my PC or laptop.

Downloaded the setup from the web site and ran it. Copied the two main DATA

files from the desktop and inserted them in the DATA folder. Works fine now.

Thanks.

   ...Lew...

I have a question about saving a chart. I have a Father's chart that I want to save  in my documents but it saves it as a *.lwc file which cannot be re-opened. Is there a way of saving it as a jpeg or another file that can be opened other than printing it out and then scanning it back in.

Carolyn

What program is used to open a  " .lwc " file?

   ...lew...

Legacy Charting creates and opens lwc files.

If you use the Publish tab in Legacy Charting you can save your file as a PDF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, or TIFF.

Thank you, it was as easy as that.

Carolyn

I have just put my tree on line through the legacy internet button.

Two problems: How do I delete living descendants? And secondly. How can the site be viewed on other computers?

And thirdly, if it can't be viewed how do I delete the page?

Question abt file types:  I just noticed in the Data folder some file types that I don't

remember seeing before. After the main file name  ~PPL.PPL  and  ~RGD.RGD.

One of the trees has both and two other trees have one, one of each. 

  Are these some new thing and what are they?

  Thanks.

   ...Lew...

Another problem:  Discovered I have two "Family" pages with the same parents

(same RIN nos.) but one has children, the other none. Both parents are shown

as two marriages but same person. 2 questions: how to get rid of the one with

no children. second HOW did it happen (so I can avoid it again) ? :-)

The parents of both show only one entry for the individual so that isn't the

source.

 Help!  :-)

   Lew

Horay! It worked. Thanks

Is there any way to "copy and paste" from the XP clipboard to the notes in Legacy?

Sure would make entering info I already have in a .txt file into the notes.

   ...Lew...

Lewis,

CTRL-C puts selected text on the clipboard

CTRL-V puts the clipboard text at the position that your cursor is sitting

How about that! I've used that lots before but never tried it into the Legacy program.

Always between various Windows parts of the OS.

 Thanks.   ...Lew...

I can't think of a place where it doesn't work. Another good one is CTRL-X for deleting selected text. But so does the delete button.

Hey Jude, there are slight differences. You are correct in the use of the Delete key - it will simply delete the selected text. While Ctrl+X is actually the Cut command. This will cut the selected text AND hold it in memory [the Clipboard]. That way you can now go to another location and Paste that text.

Hi, I have a problem that I don't know how to solve. I have children born to one set of parents and have followed these children through with their wives and their children. Now I have found that their Father was married twice and I have the wrong Mother for some of the children, they were from a previous marriage. How can I add them to his other wife and delete them from the 2nd wife. I tried linking them to the 1st wife and deleted them from the 2nd but wiped all the family out of my tree.

Thanks....Carolyn

Carolyn,

At the bottom right of every Family View page are 3 boxes with the letters "H", "M", "W" followed by a number, these are the husband's RIN, MRIN and wife's RIN respectively. Go to the view for the parents to whom you wish to link the children.and make a note of the MRIN.

Now unlink the first child from the current parents and link to existing parents using the MRIN to identify them. Repeat for each child.

thanks so much

Carolyn

Legally changed given name: One of my great-nephews (I think that's right)

was born (and probably raised) with a name and at some point changed it to

(it may have been a middle name) another.. SO which name should be in the

normal "Family View" and I assume the other in the AKA file. Also should

a note of some sort be added elsewhere ?

1) Which name in Normal Family View - your choice - my choice the one on the birth certificate with the other in AKA.

Yes I would add a note and if I knew the date and place of the change I would create a Name Change Event.

As a result of working on the same family tree at two computers (desktop and a laptop while on vacation) I had a lot of things to "coordinate" but got them all equal

now but ended up with 7 names with different RIN. Is there some "easy" way to

change them?  Moral of the story is don't do what I did. :-)

I used the split screen and for notes the ctrl c- ctrl v , but for simpler things a lot of typing. :-)

   ...Lew...

Hi,

I was checking through a report I have made and noticed on lots of people there is a Y in the death notes. I haven't put it there. Is there a reason for it and is there a way I can delete them en masse without going to each individual.

Thanks

Carolyn

That's great Thanks

Carolyn

Thank you, Brian.

At some point I had capitalized first letters resulting in 24,000+ 'Of's in place of 'of's (as in King Of/of France) - all now corrected!

Hi,

I have sent a backup of my family files to my husbands computer to put on Legacy but the pictures are not on there.. How does he enter the multimedia files to his Legacy file.

Carolyn