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Unless you are a genealogist living under a rock or have been so busy researching that you have not been following the genealogy social media the past two weeks, you have heard about the Genealogy Do-Over. I share my thoughts in this post and would love to know yours. Is the Genealogy Do-Over in your future? Why or why not? Originally shared by Tessa Keough On New Year's Eve when thoughts go to resolutions, goals and plans for the New Year - I weigh in on the Genealogy Do-Over (it must be wordy Wednesday). I gave this some thought and hope you do too.  http://keoughcorner.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-genealogy-do-over-my-thoughts.html

I am new on the Legacy User Group and am wondering how I resolve the inability to post/email comments.  When I try to email a response to the list I get an error from the AOL server:   ----- The delivery status notification errors ----- : conversation with      mail.LegacyUsers.com timed out while sending MAIL FROM Has anyone had this issue?  I have enjoyed the lessons learned and would love to be able to contribute. ~Mike

Actually on the Legacy User Group a person asked how anyone handles their patronymic surnames and farm names (love those bygdebokers). If you have Scandinavian ancestors you will know what he was talking about - if you don't, perhaps you will find another use for my little "cheat."  The Norwegians who lived on farms used the farm name as a means of identification - so Erik Ivarsen, Medkilplass/Hastagjerdet was Erik Ivar's son born on  the Medkilplass farm who moved to the Hastagjerdet farm. Of course his nine children were either Erik's datters (daughters) or Erik's sens (sons) and they were born at Hastagjerdet. I use the individual's patronymic name cause that is the name they used AND I put the farm names in the suffix title. It looks a little something like this. I know the same holds true for my Swedish ancestors (most of whom were on farms as well).  If you have Scandinavian ancestors, how do you keep track of the patronymic and farm informati...

I subscribe to the Legacy User Group email forum (I hope I have that right!). Anyway, it is the place where a number of Legacy users ask questions or try to get their Legacy problems solved. It is moderated by Legacy and the messages are archived. Some of the questions posed are jumping off points for me - I try to figure out the answer (sometimes I even post my response). A recent one was interesting in a couple of ways. Why not read the question, follow along with my suggestion, and then think about (and share) how you would answer the question. A person is going to research in a particular place and wants a list of surnames that occur in that place (although they would like cities and counties, if possible, they really need the State and the surnames that occur there). The person has not been consistent in their data entry for locations and does not have the time to clean up their database. They are aware of the location report option but because their data entry is inconsiste...

Of course it is time to wish everyone in our LVUG Community here on Google+ a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ! It has been a great year and I would like to thank each of our 787 members - some of you have been with us since the beginning  (thanks so much) and some joined this year (welcome). Your questions, comments and suggestions make our LVUG Community an active and helpful place to be to learn more about using our favorite genealogy software . Thanks While I have you here today - why not check out Tony Proctor's post on place, location and address. I find the discussion interesting and I do appreciate his approach. Here in the LVUG Community, we have discussed location before: using the master location list, including latitude and longitude, listing the place as it was identified at time of event, making notes to include any additional information that might be helpful to you and anyone else using your database. Tony discusses three things - place, location an...

Was it done by the attending doctor or by the parents? Or? I'm trying to understand how my aunt was registered as having been born a year later than she actually was. This was not a transcription error; it was intentional by the parents.