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...

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 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.

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 ...

Now that Google+ is about to go to Google Heaven with all their other failed offerings, has anyone worked out how we could save all these posts, so that the knowledge is not lost?

Legacy has suddenly shown Spouse 1 and Spouse 2 to be THE SAME NAME. This is seen for ALL marriages in my entire database. LIterally thousands of names are involved. Please don't tell me I have to remove them one by one. It tells me I will LOSE all data for that spouse. Would like to keep one spouse just delete the other name however, BOTH names show all data on children, birth, marriage, death, Notes, etc. Would like to know how this happened as all I do is enter data and occasionally a new name but main focus is getting rid of the duplicate names. Appreciate guidance.

Is this group still active or should I delete this page? Thank you!

If I create a master Family file after merging all my little bits and pieces that have been previously created how do I work with that master file? Am I limited to working with it on one machine or can the file be synchronized with other machines? What is the best way to add information? Any help is appreciated.

Using Legacy 9 what is the easiest way to merge two family files? Does anyone know how the notes are handled?

I was surprised when I tried to use my Cloud stored Legacy 9 files they were only used for storage. I was hoping that I would be able to use my cloud-based files to keep my other machines in sync. Am I missing something? The real power of storing files in the cloud is their ability to be shared.

I am using Legacy 8, and when I go to the master Location list the map is not showing and it is not verifying The location, I have show map checked . Does anyone know how to fix this?

It seems that every so often we get an influx of people who want to join the Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community. We moderators do our best to check the individuals before we accept or reject them. Reasons to reject : (1) clearly appear to be bots - no information, no posts, no other communities followed. (2) clearly in sales - we don't sell anything on this site and are not interested in our Community being targeted for sales. (3) blue heads with no information posted that we can see relates to family history or genealogy - I know some don't include avatars but if there is nothing that indicates a person has an interest in genealogy we question why they want to join. BUT sometimes an individual gets past that first check (although our moderators are great) and if that happens, we usually catch it by their posts. Every so often I go through the list of members to make sure we don't have bots. If you are here for genealogy and Legacy Family Tree disc...

I would put this under Suggestions if there was such a category. I am still using v.7.5 with no intention of upgrading so it's irrelevant for me but I still like the idea. Here it is: an additional tab in the Notes section (General/Research/Medical) for something called something like Scratch Pad. This would be a dumping ground for work in progress, never to be printed in reports but just for collecting. For instance, I have a habit of searching census records, en mass, or marriage records, or death records, or what-have-you, and adding the information and citation into Research Notes to properly enter and cite later. Later could be by the time the number is up around 1,000. Is. Meantime, my Cuz uses Research Notes for actual, you guessed it, research notes. So and so may have had a second marriage, based on blah, blah, blah. Her opinions that matter. I would like to print out her opinions in book reports because I think they do matter. On the other hand, my collec...

Have we heard any more about possible MAC version of Legacy? AND If you run Legacy on a MAC, could you briefly review your set up, Parallels? etc. Thanks.

Word received that Legacy was sold to MyHeritage. No immediate changes expected.

Update: Resorted to an uninstall and new download for the reinstall. Finally working again after 90 minutes of lost time. HELP! Just installed the latest update of Legacy 9 on my PC (Windows 10). Seemed to run ok but Legacy will not start up at all now. Nothing. Looking in the programs directory, Legacy.exe is missing. Instead, there is a LegacyX.exe file. Double clicking that does not start anything (and nothing shows up in the task manager). Some sort of glitch in the updater? If so, it should be many more people than me since it came out ~6/13. Any ideas other than to uninstall and reinstall?? How do I protect my files which are not backed up to today?