As has been, stated many times, there are two distinct Family Search processes in operation, neither of which has anything to do with Legacy, other than the fact that through Legacy we will be able to access them.

One is for LDS members only and concerns registrations with LDS (I don't know the actual terms) and has nothing to do with the non-LDS users. This can be access by LDS members now. This not the same as being registered on the Family Search Site.

Ultimately the whole of the new Family Search - which has nothing to do with the Legacy usage above, will also be available through Legacy when finally released by Family Search. It is currently under test by LDS members. Some documents are already available through the Family Search website, via the URL I gave in a previous post.

The current IGI access via Legacy will, I guess, be phased out since it will be replaced by the new Family Search.

This is probably a simplified version of what is going on, but serves as a working model!

@Ronald and anyone else who can help

I have been having trouble for quite a long time with the internet search on Legacy - however, it applies to all sites and I just get a message "error code: file not found" whichever site I am trying to get into - as a result I have been just going direct to the website concerned and putting all the details in - a bit silly of me really as it would make sense to sort out the internet function on Legacy.  My problem is clearly a different problem to yours though but your comment prompted me to seek help myself (thanks for the push, Ronald) So ... any suggestions anyone?

Sarah I have a bunch of related questions. Would you please contact me direct?

I couldn't find a way to get to you direct. Lhartswick  at  earthlink dot net

 Thanks

   ...lew...

That is good advice to put your images in a file in the Legacy folder, but how you file them within that folder will depend on whether you then plan to upload them to the internet and what folders that program uses.

For example, if you are using TNG, then your files should represent the folders used there: Documents, Headstones, Histories, multimedia and Photos.

Sounds like you need some local help. Is there a local genealogical club or at

least some one you can have help in person. If you were here in Albuquerque I'd

be happy to help.

   ...lew...

Hey Sharon,

I tend to agree with Lewis. It seems that you would be wise to befriend yourself with someone in the know on computers. You must have some teenagers in Fountain that could help. How about your church?

Anyway, that Passport is a fine drive and probably the correct way to go. It may have come loaded with some kind of backup software that you may have clicked on something saying 'yes' to making it your backup drive. You don't have to use any of the stuff that came on the drive. Many thumb drives have similar programs on them. If you have filled up the drive already you can delete it all and start over with a clean slate. Then you can use Windows Explorer to copy your stuff from one computer to the other. The drive letters might be different between the computers so it is important to look at the drive label; "My Passport". Then you know that you are copying things to the correct drive.

Good Luck!

Where can I hire a genealogical researcher to trace my maternal lineage? I think they came to the U.S. from England, Ireland, and Scotland. and lived in Virginia, Tennessee, N.Carolina, and Mississippi.The surname is STREET.

Blessings, Ben Street Sessions

Sharon, I am only able to give you general information, as otherwise I think I may confuse us both! But hopefully it will help.

For the moment forget all your flash cards, multiple drives and any USB sticks, or whatever you call your add-ons. Simply install Legacy on your C: Drive on all your machines, as recommended by Legacy, if you haven't already done so. It is important that you do this. Whilst it is possible to run Legacy from an external drive, you can only do this for one machine, and for simplicity I do not recommend this for you, it would be better to install the program on each machine. Just use your external drive for your Data.

Imagine each drive as a filing cabinet in which there are a number of folders - providing you have put them there! If, on your main PC you go to the C: Drive and open the Legacy folder, you will it contains a number of folders these you can copy across into your G Drive, or any other Drive. In other words all you are doing is copying the folders and their contents into another filing cabinet. You Legacy data files are contained in the Data folder, so that should be copied across, and then any other which may contain stuff which you want eg. any folder with pictures in it.

Having done that you can now remove the G drive from the PC *BUT* either switch off the PC first *OR* use "Safely Remove Hardware", otherwise you may lose some/all data.

On the second machine, on which you have already installed Legacy in the C: Drive, plug in the G Drive - you may find that it now has a different letter, that does not matter. Open Legacy and then File>Open Family File, in the box at the top of this screen select your external drive and in the Legacy Data folder you will find you family.fdb file, just open that. You will also, in the same way have to tell this machine where your picture files are.

I

As I said I can only give you the basics, 'm afraid that I find the multiplicity of drives to which you refer totally confusing - probably because I haven't got your set up in front of me, and hence cannot form a picture, which I'm afraid is the way my head works!

As I said, I can only describe to you the basics, and I'm afraid that you will have to work out how to fit this to your set-up yourself. If you get stuck on a *specific* point or hit a problems then I will be happy to try and help sort it.

My Legacy 7.5 which I downloaded to update my 7 a couple of days ago has somehow suddenly deleted all my Master Lists. View/Master Lists confirms that.

What has happened and how do I/Can I get them back?  I have started a discussion but I am getting desperate as the programme is now virtually useless. Never had problems with Legacy before in all the years I have used it.

Victoria

Please ignore my previous post. I have now solved what was actually not a problem.  I had ticked the verified box accidentally Sorry to waste people's time.

Victoria

Wonder if anyone else has this same problem?  I recently did the update for the lastest version and noticed that when I want to print out a report, when I try to reset the margins lower (usually to save paper)  the margins will not change and I end up wasting more paper!  I've tried to do a pdf and can't change them there either.  This was not a problem with the 'older' version.  Can someone help me on this problem?

Thank you so much!

LeLani

Hi,

 I'm new to Legacy and have a question. I put one of my dad's cousin in the the program and she has 13 kids, 50 grandkids and 54 great-grandkids and 1 great-great grandchild. I just want to put the names of her kids not the others. Where would I place them without naming each and everyone of them?

 Thanks for your help.

   Margi

Margi,

I am not sure I understand what it is you are trying to do!

You want to put them in, but not name them?

You can either give them a mention in the comments box, so anyone looking at the details of your dad's cousin would see the detail, and that would mean you do not need a record of all of them.

Or you can list '13 children' without allocating a sex, as a 'child' of your dad's cousin, and below them you can write, again as a 'child', '50 children', and so on.

Hi, I always seem to have a problem with Spouses. I am making a report but on one of the family it says "William not found Mary Ann" instead of " William married Mary Ann". I just can`t find anywhere in the manuel that tells me how to make this right. Can anyone help?

Regards Carolyn

I meant to add that I have deleted her and added her again but it made no difference.

Carolyh

Thanks Ron,

The 2nd option was the one. I changed it and now it is ok. Isn`t it easy when you know how!

Carolyn

Just went through the discussions and didn't see matching question:

I have been transcribing a family tree from a book into Legacy and there are numerous

instances of a child, either died at birth or "in infancy" with no name. I have been

entering " unknown " for the given name but Legacy displays this a real name

with capitol U ( Unknown ). I think this is a bit confusing and thought it may be 

possible to either make the first letter lower case or some other "convention"

to denote this fact.  What ever technique is adopted it should be consistent

with a gedcom to enable others who may use this source. Any ideas or suggestions?

 Thanks

   ...Lew...

Hi, I have saved an item to my clipboard but, even after looking in the manual for help, I can't find how to look at it. It must be easy.

Carolyn

Thanks Brian , the clipboard that I saved to was from a report book.

Carolyn

hello, i downloaded the latest version of Legacy.  now, when i select Temple, Go to Temple Ordinance Tracking Center, i then get an error box that says Command Line Error, Not Enough Command Line Options.  so, i can't get in.  is this a software problem with the latest version?  thank you for your help. 

I have a problem with linking to existing people.  Scenario:

One family (A) entire family with descendants etc (no parents).

Second family (B) complete with both up and down generations.

Find that the father of husband of A is the husband of B (ie he was not on the

list of children of B). I discover this and try to link by right-click on the box for

the father of husband A and click "existing person" from the list of names I

double click on the right person. The name shows up for the father but not the

mother and the A person does not show up in the list of children of B.

  What do I have to do to get the entire group of both families to link???

  I even tried to do the same for the mother and get some response that she is

already linked to the person "Do I want to link again?" or something to that

effect.

 Thanks for any help.

   ...Lew...

Lew: Simply go to family  B and click add another child and select existing person then input the husband of family A as the child of the parents of family B. That shoulld work fine and bring everything over in line as he is now attached to family B.

bcrick

OK. Thanks. I'll give that a try. I came up with the info from the other direction so

that was the way i started but what you say makes sense. :-)

   ...Lew...

I want to search my database to find anyone that has Ireland in any of the fields.  Then I want to output those individuals to a summary individual report.  Seems pretty simple but darned if I can figure it out.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Andi

Only you know know which fields may include "Ireland", so I will limit myself to the obvious ones, birth place, christening place, death place, burial place, events place. You may have others, but the search principle is the same.

Go to Search>Find>Detailed Search. In the first row select Individual; Birth Place; Contains; Ireland. Then select OR and in the second row: Individual; Chr Place; Contains; Ireland. OR third row: Individual; Death Place; Contains; Ireland.

Legacy only allows 3 conditions at any one time. So, check that "Clear list before this Search" is checked and click the Create Button, and on the new screen select Options>Advanced Tagging. On the next screen select a convenient tag, say, 1, and then "Everyone in Search List", and close.

Click Search>Find, and you will return to the main search screen. Change the first row to read Individual; Tag 1; Equals; Tagged. OR second row: Individual; Burial Place; Contains; Ireland. OR third row: Individual; Event Place; Contains; Ireland. Check that "Clear list before this Search" is checked, then repeat the create and tagging routine as before, but choose, say, tag 2.

Now use the Search button to return to the main Search and search for individuals who have tag1 AND tag2 tagged.

There are other ways of doing this but I have chosen the one which I think is the most straight forward.

Thanks.  I did it a slightly different way by tagging from the Master Location List (thank goodness I wasn't doing England!) but got the same result.  Appreciate the help!

Like I said, there are various ways of doing it. I wouldn't fancy going through my Location List and tagging all those with England in either!

looking to see if any one  has a Eula Caldonia Judkins Daniel in there family line  also  looking for information on the surname Daniel  line

Hi, I did a silly thing. I thought I had finished saving a report and so, as I wanted to tidy up the files in My Documents, I changed the File name. I then realised I hadnt done a relationship record. When I tried to save it as a PDF file it said it couldnt find the location. I tried to save it in another place but it wouldn't do it. I changed the file name back but that doesnt work either. Any suggestions?

Carolyn

What I usually do when I create a report is always select screen/printer option first then I view the report and if I like what I see I create a pdf file of it. It then opens the window to where I want to save it and I can change it to any place I wish. So either I am missing something from what you stated or are you trying to make a report from another report. If the problem keeps happening go to your file menu click file maintenance and then click check and repair. I am sure everything will return to normal.

Rick

Hi Rick,

The save button just didnt work, so I did what you said then restarted and BINGO.

Thanks so much

Carolyn

Is there a way to combine two files? I checked the help section, but couldn't find anything. Thanks!

Cindy go to the help menu and type in merge and it will explain what you have to do

Rick