Carolyn: Did you back up the images when you backed up your family tree file. If you did back up the images you have to unzip them and put them in the exact same folder on his computer. That way Legacy can find those images. That is the main reason Legacy installs on your C drive and not in the program folder. When he opens the zip file for the images it will show him the path to them so he will have to put them in the same place. If by chance you have put all your pictures in your documents folder he will have to reattach every image to the file on his computer as the paths will not be the same. HINT: On my computers I created a folder called Legacy Images on my C: drive and store all my images there. so no matter what computer I put my tree on all I need do is copy that folder and the images are in my tree when I open it. If you put the images where Legacy wants you to in its program folder then if your husband puts them in the same place the program will find them. Hope this helps.

yes thank you Rick that is a great help. I couldn't find anything in Help that did.

Carolyn

Hi, it's me again,

I am pretty sure that I have put the wrong parents to my 3rd Gt Grandfather. I need to unlink him to them and to his grandparents and also his siblings. How do I do it so that he stays where he is along with all his descendants, so that I can add another parent to him

Carolyn

Hi Carolyn. In the Legacy help menu, it has instructions for unlinking a child from parents and siblings, but keeping his/her spouse and descendants. 

Unlinking a Child from Parents 

When you choose to unlink an individual from their parents, you are telling Legacy to break the tie that exists between that person and their parents and their siblings (if any).  Unlinking a person does not delete the individual from the family file.  It simply disconnects him or her from having a child relationship with the current parents, and a brother-sister relationship with any siblings.  The person would still remain linked to his or her spouse(s) and children.

Is this what you wanted?

Hi Pamela, that is exactly what I wanted. I was a bit unsure whether to unlink the parents from him or unlink him from his parents. I did have a look at the help but still was unsure.

Thanks a lot

Carolyn

I maintain my genealogy database using Legacy on my desktop, but use TNG online.

On 12th October, I uploaded a new GEDCOM to TNG with 167896 individuals and 70351 families.

Since then, I have added around 100 individuals to the Legacy database, but noticed last night the file now has just 165803 individuals and 69780 families.

I have not deleted any files, though I have merged two.

Is there a way I can identify the additions since 12th October and then add them back in to the GEDCOM?

Responding to my own question - I did a File Maintenance - Check/Repair, and the 'missing' entries have returned.

I just upgraded to Legacy 8 and I love it so far!  I am running into a little snag, though -- the keyboard shortcuts listed on the back of the Legacy 8 book (like NS to add a new son, or EW to edit wife, etc.) do not seem to be working.  Do I need to enable those somehow?  It's late and I'm tired, so it's entirely possible I'm missing something obvious...  :)  Help, please?  

I have Legacy 7 De Luxe. Will I lose anything if I only upgrade to Legacy 8 Standard.

Carolyn

Carolyn - You should not lose anything other than the Deluxe feature. Legacy 8 is installed in a separate directory path, so you'll still have full access to Legacy 7 after installing Legacy 8 (Standard or Deluxe). Once you have Legacy 8 up and running, you will have to manually customize it to match what you currently have in Legacy 7, interface color, menus, ... etc ...

RayDean-Hill - The book yo which you refer is, I guess, Geoff's, published some time before the release of V8.0. To the best of my knowledge this feature has not yet been implemented.

Ron, thank you for your input.  The book is the "Legacy 8.0 Family Tree" user manual for the software, published by Millennia.  I got it in July when I paid for version 8 at a conference.  So I would imagine those keyboard shortcuts listed on the back of the book should be available, especially since it's a feature that was in Legacy 7.5.  I'm still feeling puzzled...  :/

RayDean Hill - As I do not work for Millennia I am not familiar with the details. Whilst I have no doubt that the details in the book were published in good faith, it is my understanding that changes made necessary by the implementation of improvements and enhancements did lead to the removal of some functions previously available in V7.5.

I cannot say whether or not this applies to the change in key shortcuts to which you refer.

it seems no-one form Legacy/Millenium has looked in on this page for a while...

oops, Millennia

With Legacy 7, when I printed out a report, it would add compiler information at the bottom of each page in small print. I can not find in Legacy 8, deluxe, how to have compilare information to be added on reports. Anyone out there know how to turn on this option? Thanks. 

Phillip H. Pitzer: I have only looked at the Descendant Book Report, but usually it will be the same for all. On the right hand side of the Report Options page there is a box "Page Set up.....", click and select "Footers"

Ron, thanks, I knew there was a way. I just could not find it. Thanks again, Merry Christmas to everyone.

I have marked a person as 'Invisible' and they have duly been removed from reports generated by Legacy on my desktop.

However, the person still appears in my online database (I use TNG).

Why is this?  The help advice says it should not.

Legacy and Linux: will Legacy (7.5) run under  WINE in a Linux machine?  I'm

about fed up to eyebrows with this Windoze crap. :-(

 Thanks for any info.   ...lew...

Lewis, I've tried Legacy 7.5 using Wine on my Debian system. It runs--mostly. I have not been able to get Legacy to recognize any of my CUPS printers, so Legacy then refuses to generate any reports and crashes. There are other issues with Internet access via Legacy. I don't really recommend it, but your mileage may differ. Legacy 8 starts, but I don't see any data so it's currently unusable.

Just installed V8 and have issue with "Potential Problems" feature. I have someone who died 21 Sep 1993 and put buried on 24 Sep 1993. In events I show "Eulogy" and "funeral home" and used the 24 Sep 1993 date. It is coming up potential problem with "event date out of range"  When I click on it to clear the problem the box shows "There were no problems found" and nothing is listed in the box???? Am I missing something or is this a glitch? Anybody else with this problem and does anyone know how to fix this?

I have just upgraded to Legacy 8

There is supposed to be an option within Legacy using an ugrade link on the home page to do this. However, my version 7.5.0.278 says I have the latest build and does not offer the upgrade offer. I followed the download route.

However, what has really upset me is that all surnames have been capitalised. No longer can I differentiate between Macdonald and MacDonald, or McLean and Mclean.

Hi,

I have just realised that my Backup family file has not been working for a while. When I click backup it does nothing. I need to sort this out quick in case  my computer packs up.

Can anyone help me. I am still working with 7 de luxe

Carolyn

Further to my last post, I have updated to Legacy 8 de luxe and am in even worse problems. When I try to convert the files I first get an error 48 and if I try again I get an error 3191. I am at my wits end...I cannot access any of my trees not on 8 or 7.It asks me to repair the file but I cannot access the file to repair it. Is there anyone who can help me

Carolyn

I Upgraded to 8  from 7.5.  I'm finding out that I should have ordered the training video.  Its like having to learn all over gain, even though a lot of features remain, the User Interface is radically different, and takes getting used to.

No help here from the Millennia team for a while...

I note that V8 has been upgraded again.  Maybe some of these bugs have been fixed?

Looks like someone violated the Maxim:" If it aint broke don't fix it" Legacy 7.5

works just fine. :-)

   ...lew...

Carolyn: If you go here it may help you with your error, it does tell you what to do if you have problems. http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00666/11/Error-Messa...

When you said your backup did not work on Legacy 7.5 did  you do a file maintenance on your tree as it could be a database problem causing your problem.

Good Luck

William- my surnames did not get capitalized when I updated to Legacy 8. You may be able to change this by clicking on options tab, then customize and choose option 3, Data Format. 3.3 deals with surnames. Hope this helps you.

Hi Rick,

I have been in touch with Legacy and they are going to convert the files for me.

I cannot now open 7.5 as I get an error message. Is this because I upgraded?

Carolyn... When you upgraded, di you install Legacy 8 in the same directory as Legacy 7 was in?  If so, 8 automatically "converts" the old files to the legacy 8 format. This could be the cause of 7 giving you an error message when you try to open it, because the files no longer mach... Just a thought.

Hi I have a simple question.

I have legacy 8 deluxe. On my laptop the family view page is the right size but on my desktop the boxes and writing are too big, yet they say the same when I look at the settings.

How do I make them smaller so that everything fits in.

Carolyn

Carolyn it may just be as simple as the screen resolution on your desktop not being set properly. I am sure once you set it the problem will go away.

Back in Oct I started prep. for L#& -Ran a Potential Prob. Report and due to extended illness am just getting back to this (3/2014) and finished all the correction - went to run a new report, but got the same OLD one.  I can see all the changes I made in the family files what why not an up to day Pot. Prob. Rpt??.  What did I do wrong.  Help!

Since yesterday the familysearch integration feature has not been working for me. Also yesterday I installed the latest update to ver. 8. Not sure if the problem began before or after the update install. Help please.

Leonard if you look at the news above the listings you will get an explanation of why it does not work it should show up on the home page of your program also.

bcrick

Thanks Rick

After much work (with the help of a co-worker), I was able to install ver.8. I noticed that from ver 7.0, I have an incon for Legacy Charting 7. Do I still use that or is there one for ver.8? What also made it hard for me was that I needed a new computer so I went from Vista to Win. 7.

Thanks for you help.

  Margi

Margi,

You should have a blue circle with an "L" on it for your icon.  Do not use the old one for Legacy.  The new icon should be on your desktop.

Thank you for your help. I do have the new icon for 8, but I still have an old icon for Legacy Charting 7 plus the Icon for ver. 7. Do you still use the Charting 7?

Margi,

When you open Legacy 8, you will see the icon for charting on your toolbar.  You don't need to open Legacy 7 for charting.  Hope this helps.

Can I still get all the up-dates to my legacy 7.0 CD if I want to put it on my new

computer to make it the latest version of 7.5 and how do I go about it?

Thanks

   ...Lew...

The more that I work with Legacy, the more questions that I have. One of my ancestors was going to marry someone but he died before she could. Would you still put him under spouse. They did have a son, but her second husband has him as his son. She also had 4 kids out of wedlock where would I place them.

Thank you for your help.

I'd Make her "spouse" with the note "did not marry" and the child as theirs. Somewhere note the child was "adopted" by the second spouse. the other children I'd ignore as they are not part of your tree.   ...lew...

Surely if the Mother is on the family tree line then any of her children, even with different unknown fathers, would still be family?

And aren't we told to record everything significant.

Carolyn

I would still be related to her children. They would be my half ancestors (is there such a thing). What I found interesting was that her son was blind as my son is. Another thing is that in Ancestry I found someone's family tree that had her daughter as there daughter. I found the baptism certifcate saying that my ancestor was the mother. How do you deal with that?

Thanks for all the help.

I have the almost the same situation in my tree. Several of my cousins children have had children out of wedlock with different partners, none of whom they have actually married and I am always at a loss how to record the children and the relationship of their parents. Any other people besides Margi and I dealing with similar problems.

I have encountered much the same problem with several people. I just enter the parents on the marriage screen with the note that they never married. Often, the children were never adopted by later step parents, but the surname does not change with additional spouses of the custodial parent.

Try here for How to add multiple and single parents to a child

http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00537/0/How-to-add-m...