Legacy LVUG Community

Photo by Renee Fisher on Unsplash Well Google meant it when they said they were shutting down Google+ effective today, April 2nd. Over the past week I have been exporting and migrating our community (read the past week's posts to learn more about it and this new blog). However, I was still surprised to click on the Google+ community this morning and simply see our logo and the categories remaining on the site  - Google is quickly emptying the tables, washing the dishes, throwing out the posts, sweeping the floors, and turning out the lights. If you signed into services with your Google+ account and "plused" things on various social media sites, those pluses are gone and your avatar is now a small gray head. If you owned or moderated any Google+ communities, I hope you took the time to export your data - posts, images, and videos. If not, they are gone with the wind. But do take a deep breath and relax. We are saying goodbye to Google+, which Google simply s...

Spent the better part of the weekend getting our LVUG community migrated to Blogger. When you haven't done something in a while (my poor neglected personal blogs), there is a bit of a learning curve. But with the example set by Russ Worthington (thanks Russ!) and just a bit of playing around with themes, layouts, and gadgets - I think we are up and running. I decided to work from most current posts backward - so what you see right now is 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. That is 158 posts published and only 924 posts to go! The remaining gems (924 posts) left to publish! Photo by Annie Spratt at Unsplash Here is a road map of sorts to help find you way here at the blog (so far ...) I have not added a subscription or follow by email gadget yet because I believe if you sign up, it will notify you of each new post (I still have 924 posts to add - I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy as I just went through spring cleaning my Gmail inbox). the search capability is at the t...

Photo by Erik Dungan on Unsplash An update on the migration of our LVUG community posts, comments and recordings or images to Blogger. 1. I have exported the Google+ community - there are 1,080 posts and over 5,000 comments. 2. I used both the service provided by Google and another service (just to be on the safe side). 3. I set up a blog - lvugcommunity.blogger.com  (you are here!) and started importing the export (yes it is an interesting process!). 4. Blog post titles are slightly wonky or nonexistent and so I have been going through and doing a bit of cleanup. 5. Noticed that not all of the comments were coming through and checked it against some posts in the LVUG community, also asked the question of Google+ Exporter - of course they had a "newer & better" update (never do your homework early!). That did the trick - a few more posts but lots more comments in the latest export! So had to delete earlier import, and start again - glad I had not got...

Photo by James Sutton at Unsplash As most of you know, Google+ is shutting down effective April 2nd. Google+ was a great place for communities to share knowledge, ask questions, learn how to use software and technology, and just share interests - no matter the topic. A few of us got together and started the Legacy Virtual Users Group site in 2012 and then migrated over to a Google+ community in 2013. We have 1,200 members in our community. Now that Google+ is closing its doors, many of our members asked what would happen to our community - would we ride out into the sunset or migrate to another platform AND is another platform even necessary in 2019? I asked the question back in February so we could decide what to do. How do our members stay up-to-date with the Legacy software? Our members responded as follows: the vast majority of our members use our LVUG community, Legacy News, and the Legacy sponsored Facebook group; a smaller set of members use our LVUG community...

Photo by Szucs Laszlo on Unsplash For those of you concerned that this will all disappear - if everything goes according to plan - all the posts, comments and images in our LVUG community will be in the blog I'm setting up over the next two weekends. So no worries, those of you who don't use Facebook - you won't need to go there. The blog will be in Google Blogger (don't want to have to learn wordpress just to move this information) and the blog WILL be found at lvugcommunity.blogger.com (right now it is just a blank space but by April 15th (fingers crossed) the previous posts will be there and between Shannon Thomas we can curate. Wish me luck! And if you are seeing this in the blog - it worked! Right now, it is tick tock but we will beat the Google deadline to get this done.

Only a week til April 2nd. Where are we going? What's happening? Photo by Ben White at Unsplash Read all about what we are doing - posting in the comment below.

What's going to happen with Legacy User Groups when Google+ is shutdown.

I have a quick question for those in this group - we plan to move all the posts and comments into a blog, but I am just wondering where our members are at online. Do you use only our LVUG Google+ community or do you also use Facebook and/or Legacy News. Feel free to comment about how you get your Legacy news, tips and how-tos. Thanks

GOOGLE+ UPDATE You have probably seen that Google has moved up the shutdown date for Google+ from August to April 2019! Last week I mentioned that Shannon Thomas and I were working out how to move all the content from our Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community to a blog. Cousin Russ and a few other genealogists with Google+ groups have recently done this AND it seems to work for them. So I went through the download process last weekend and read up on best ways to export the data, maintain it, and import it in to a blog format. There are some good articles online about how to move data seamlessly and how to plan the move to a blog. Shannon and I will chat and play around with the blog format - we want posts and comments to be easy to find and we want to make sure that you will be able to find it and, most importantly, we want to make sure that it works before we "go live." More to follow ...

Update of how we continue the spirit of Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community now that Google is closing down Google+ and apologies that I have been missing in action - spent the last two months helping parents move from their home to an "aging in place" residence (a really nice high rise with lots of benefits) and then moved my aunt up from San Francisco to be with family as she enters hospice - what a couple of months! But I DID NOT FORGET THAT GOOGLE+ IS CLOSING DOWN AND WE NEED TO MOVE (as well). What's with all this moving? Shannon and I have been looking at what Cousin Russ did with his Google+ Community - he moved all the data over to a blog and it will "house" previous posts and comments. It seems to be working a treat AND SO our project over the next three weeks is to export the Community data and then set up on blog (on either WordPress or Blogger - probably Blogger). There are a few ways to do it and so it might take a few days once we ge...

Yes, I'm still here and still trying to figure out how to eliminate these unwanted people without losing my whole database. Not that I don't think there are those on this list that are very experienced with this program as I'm certain there are; however, I wish someone who is with the company would get online and explain to all of us how to safely delete these people. Is Jim Terry still with the company; always had great luck working through problems/questions with him as he not only could give me the solutions but the logic behind the answers in a form I easily understood. Going back to the problem: Years ago when I first started with this program, another party gave me a Gedcom copy of a One name study (let's use the name WILSON as an example) he had done that was based on a name I also had and that at the time we thought was also related to the one person named Wilson I had in my tree. His source for all the people in this Gedcom we'll say was nam...

Questions regarding TREE FINDER (View>Trees) Legacy 9 and deleting all parties in database that have one specific Source. I am trying to delete all parties and their relatives who have a specific Source as the people identified with this source as I do not want these people in my database (not in any way related to me). So I went to View, Master Lists and clicked on sources, found that specific source, and then clicked on Show List and tagged those people. At the very top of the page listing all those people that are tagged, it says "All individuals who Use this Master Source 3735". DOES that mean that I will be deleting 3735 people? I won't be deleting anyone until I get an answer from someone who definitely knows and has maybe tried deleting in this manner. Now, how does the TREE FINDER fit into this, or does it? BTW, it shows that I have 198 trees and shows a count number ranging from a low of 1 person in the tree to the highest of 9291 people, I think ...