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How do you know what Wholly Genes are or are not doing. Peter

What do you want the tag list for on the new computer? Peter

No, VCF uses the default printer as set up in Windows and the settings of that default printer to set the initial page size. The only paper sizes available intially are those available for that printer in the default settings. If you want to use a different printer with custom page sizes and you are unable to effect the changes in VCF (it appears to depend upon the drivers being used for the default printer, some allow change of printers some do not) you can set up the printer required for the appropiate paper size and set as the default printer BEFORE creating your chart. A workround if you need to change the size of paper for a chart already made - firstly set up the default printer so that it is the printer you want and that it is set up fot the paper size you require. Open VCF chage the size of the blank sheet to the diagram size that you need ( using the default page size that you have set up). Then open the chart you wish to change. Select all & then copy this chart and paste onto the new chart with the correct paper size. Peter

Jim, I don't think that statement will be quite accurate. While Wholly Genes tries very hard to get each release perfect, TMG is a very large and flexible program. The beta testers test a wide range of feature combinations but TMG users are very creative in how they try to use the program, and there always seems to be a few obscure (and sometimes not so obscure) things that don't quite work properly. If they didn't insist on giving us so many useful ways to record and report our data, maybe they wouldn't have a few bugs in every release. But then many of us would not be interested in using the product. Pierce I have to use any release of any software that has not had a bug ib it. To hope to release any software without a single bug is impossible. TMG has relative few major bugs compared to programs I use in my business. Peter

Neil Go to the Warwickshire Registrations index - each marriage has a unique number with a suffix of 1 for the groom & 2 for the bride <http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Pages%20by%20Department/1057E57E886DA0228025738500453B29> Grantham Albert - 767/NWR/20/24/1 Grantham Louis - 767/NWR/20/23/1 Styles Lavinia - 767/NWR/20/24/2 Styles Veronica - 767/NWR/20/23/2 Therefore Albert married Lavinia & Louis married Veronica. Peter Bedworth Warwickshire

Debbie Try a kinship report - it will list relations under their relationship - you can then just count them. The only problem with defining generations is that once you get further away from the starting person the chance of having a marriage between two cousins of different generations increases - the resultant children become members of two generations for example 4xgreat grandchildren & 5x great grandchildren. I have ancestors who are four generations after a series of these marriages.

Sue Why not use an external hard drive (USB2, Firewire or SATA) to keep your TMG data files in? All you need to do is connect the drive to the appropiate computer - there is no need to worry about syncranising backups. Just do your regular backups to another drive or external media.

The .fpt is the file that holds the memo fields of the equivalent.dbf file and in the _c files only contains the description field of the flags. Without opening and then repairing the .dbf file in an appropiate editor, the best thing to do would be either to restore the back up or contact support to see if they can fix your file.

Dianne Another simple way is to keep your TMG project data files on a portable hard drive and plug this drive in everytime you want to use TMG.

teresa Check two things 1) That you are in advanced mode (In the file menu under prefeences) 2) that the language that you are using is the language with your sentences in (English (US) , English (UK) etc).(In the file menu under languages)

Patt What version of Word are you using? Word version 8 was Word "97" if you are using Word 2000 or later (including Office XP) you use "Windows 2000 or later" output

Barb What are you trying to correct? The dates between March 25 & December 31 do not need double dates and should only have a single year - double dating does not apply to these dates. The dates between January 1 and March 24 can be input using double dates if you wish, if you do not use double dates you must ensure that you input the correct year. TMG works on a year of 1st January - 31st December so that a date input as 3 February 1725 becomes a New style date of 3 February 1725, if it is input as an old style date 3 February 1725/26 TMG takes it to mean a new style date of 3 February 1726; giving a years difference. Care must be taken as some records before 1752 were written up with January 1st as the start of the New Year and some were written using the Old Style (dates between 1st January and 24 March using the same year as the December records) and it is advisable to look in the records to see when the year was changed. Transcriptions & OnLine databases are a problem as very often you have no idea whether the date given is Old Style or New Style (another reason to refer to the original).

You could use two name styles - one including the title and one not. TMG Utilities can change the name style to the one including the title every time you want to produce a report including the symbols and you can then change the style back again afterwards.

You can have symbols on an indented chart using the reference field. By using different input strings for male & female in the reference field (e.g. ~~~~~ for males ##### for females) and after outputting to your word processor changing them to the symbol required. (If you can find the symbol required in the font you are using in TMG you may be able to omit this step). Just make sure that you select refence field on the names tag on the options tag of the report definition

Old style dates only apply to months of January, February, and March. Any date entered 1751/1752 for any other month is interperated as a from 1751 to 1752 date thus you will get the prompt as the range may be outside the input (in other words the age may be 1 year out).

Use ASCII delimited with tab you can then copy & paste the resultant text file directly into an Access Table.

RadioHead said When I bring up the Windows Task Manager, it always says TMG is using 50 to 51% of the CPU, but it's actually doing nothing. How do you know it is doing nothing? Do you mean "not responding" if so this could mean that it is too busy to respond rather that doing nothing. Try leaving the computer longer - with your database it may take a long time (even 30 min or so)

Pat What sortof data is it? Do you want to add new people or just events to current people in the project?

I wonder why you have split it into two datsets. My advice is always to run one dataset per project. Spliting into two datasets, in my opinion has no performance as the file size is not reduced (files are made on a project not database basis). I have never founsd any benefits in splitting a project in two or more datasets

Neil I would do the following. Leave the project that is now on your PC (from laptop) alone. Take your latest backup (containing the edits to the 4 people concerned) and restore - ensuring at step 2 you alter the location in the bottom box so that the original project is not overwritten. You can then reinput the informtion from the restored project to the saved project. (For just 4 people I think it would be easier to input the changes manually but you could make a new dataset with the four people in - delete the complete restored datset (leaving just the datset with four people) and merge the projects). Having finished delete any projects and/or datasets that are no longer required.

You cannot - an import always creates a new data set - you can then merge the data sets afterwards If you are using the UK edition, this is preset. As far as I know, GEDCOMs do not support sort dates. Are you importing new people or do you wish to add new tags to existing people? If you are adding tags to existing people, you do not want a GEDCOM but use John Cardinal's TMG Utilities to add tags using a text file. See the help file If you are adding new people with a GEDCOM, you will have to edit the new datset afterwards and then merge it with your current data set.

Zanemc said >Question : How do I install these "missing" UK features ? >82 Custom UK source categories (including Apprenticeship records, GRO indexes, and others) >Custom source elements in support of those custom source types >A "UK Standard Name" style ......... The Wholly Genes Website actually says In addition, any new data sets, will reflect: 82 Custom UK source categories (including Apprenticeship records, GRO indexes, and others) ·Custom source elements in support of those custom source types ·A "UK Standard Name" style ......... Therefore these addition items only appear in new datasets. To add to them an existing dataset follow the instructions below to merge your dataset with a new dataset that will have these items To add those customised data types to an existing data set, you must make sure that you have plenty of valid backups and then perform the steps described below. All of these functions are performed from the Data Set Manager which is accessible from the File menu. 1. [Add] a new data set called, e.g., "New stuff". Leave all boxes unchecked. 2. Click on your data set to highlight it. 3. [Merge] it with your data set(s) using these settings: Data set A: Your data set Data set B: New Stuff (x) Merge B to A (Data set B remains intact) 4. [Delete] the "New stuff" data set. 5. Set the Default Data Set Style to "UK Standard Place" Note that some of the new tag types, styles, or source categories may have the same function and/or similar names as those that you previously created. In each such case, you may want to merge them or delete one of the redundant records."

The message on the warning comes from strings.dbf (the file that holds the language translations). If it does not print properly it suggests that the Uk langusge translation for that warning has been corrupted. Did you install the new language translations when asked in the upgrade? Or have you modified the English UK language yourself and mistranslated that line?

You are using Death Group Abbr Memo this gives the abbreviation for the tag and then the memo. If you used Death Group Memo it would not print the abbreviation - if it is on the line after the death date and place the missing abbreviation should not matter.

There is a look up for abbreviations in TMG. Under the tools menu select State/Province abbreviations Although it appears incomplete and not too useful