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Thanks so much Jim! Mark

Hello, Is there a way to get a report of a list of people in my file that has the same source? For instance: All the people who have source #73 as a source for their birth. or just All of the people who have source #73 associated witht them. Thanks for any help! Mark

Thanks Terry. I didn't even notice the little arrows on the top. It is kind of unusual to view a document like that. Mark

Hello, Is there some kind of limitation on reports that are printed screen that prohibits the viewing of a report that is longer than 1 page? The reason I ask is that no matter what settings I use, I can not view anything in a report that is longer than one page. I mainly use the Ind. Narrative and the journal reports. Is there a way to be able to get this to work so that I can view a whole report? Thanks, Mark

Nevermind...I found the problem. It was missing a > in the memo field. Thanks!

Hello, Every once in a while in my reports, I will get an output of <FARIAL> somewhere in the report, usually somehwere in the memo field output. I definately don't want this in my report so can someone tell me what this means and how do I get it to go away? Thanks, Mark

Thanks for the explanation and fix Paul. Much appreciated. Mark

Hello, I think that I am having a problem with the journal report. It may supposed to be this way, I don't know. Anyway.... When I print out my report to my screen, the order of my event tags is as follows: Birth in 1873 Marriage in 1897 Death in 1942 Burial in 1942 Census in 1900 Shouldn't the 1900 census be in the report before the Death & Burial? Does anyone know what could be wrong to cause this? The dates are all correct and in chronological order in my details screen, yet they don't output correctly, in my view. The individual narrative report does print out in the correct order, but does not have a listing of the children of the Principal, which the journal report does. Can anyone help? Thanks, Mark

Hello again, IS it possible to set up a filter that will be able to find various various Citation Details (CD1, CD2, CD3....etc)? Suppose I enter Census County, District, Page, Line Number, etc into each of the nine usable variables available in the Source Detail. Is it possible to set up a filter that will show me what Census pages have been used by me so far as sources? If so, could you please lead me in the right direction? Thanks, Mark

Okay...Thanks again for that info. Another question. Is it a true that if I use the 1900 census as a source for say 100 different HOH's, that if I look in the "Master Source List", I will have 100 entries of the 1900 census? In other words, I will have to make a copy of my 1900 census each time I use it as a source? Is there not another way to enter the Title, County, State, Film Number and Comments for a HOH using only one copy of the source? If that is the way it works, I don't have a problem with it. It just seems that there will be a lot of clutter in the Master Source List after I am done. Thanks, Mark

Terry, Well....after playing around and trying different things for a couple days, the lightbulb finally went on and I am starting to figure out some things. I do have a couple questions for you though. What is the best way to look at and test the sentence structures? Is it by using the "Journal"? I have entered sentences for the Witness roles, but they are not printing on my journals. The witnesses, i.e. children, are included in the paragraph about the prinipal but the witness sentence does not print out where the children of the principals are listed. You know where the little Roman Numerals are with a listing of the children??? Another thing I would like to add is the ages of the Principals and the witnesses to be displayed after each person is listed in the intial paragraphs, something like "given age of 24", or the like. I have entered that in the memo field for the witnesses but it doesn't show up. Is there a way to add this information so it shows up? This is the sentence that I would like the ages to be displayed after each person is listed: [PF] <|and [PO]> appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of< [LCI],>< [LCN],> [LS]<, at [LD]> [LP]<, enumerated [D]><, [M]>. <Their children [RG:with Parents], were listed as living with them><His children [RG:with Father] were listed as living with him><, [M2]> Thanks, Mark

Theresa and Terry, Thanks so much for your replies! Terry.....I have read the tip you you suggested and that is pretty much where I get screwed up. I think that I can successfully make the tags as you suggest on your page using roles and such. So that part is okay. Is that all I need? I guess I am wanting to be a splitter, having my reports tell who was in the household, their ages, occupations, down to the page number and line that the HOH is on. So, I create the tags I need according to your page with roles and the different outputs for one parent, both parent, etc... I want to source the census' that I get from Ancestry. Do I have to create a special source for this? I guess I am getting mixed up on what exactly I need to create to get the ouput that I would like to see and then how to create it. On your "Managing Census Information" page, you say the first thing that you do is to create a source entry for the census and that you create one for each roll of microfilm that you look at. So then I go to the "Census Sources Types Using the Split CD". This is where I really get messed up. I then look at "Creating A Custom Source Type" page and try to follow the directions there. I made a copy of one of the census types and saved it. I then tried to go in an edit the Source Elements as you have on the page cited above about "Using the split CD". It seems that I can't create the elements as you have...CD1, CD2, CD3...etc. They're not in the element selection screen either. So what do I do? Let me ask....I create a Tag for each census year, with roles that I fill in in the witness area...correct. I then have to cite where I got this information. Of course it is census images from Ancestry. So I have to cite this with a custom source that I have to create and change the elements to reflect what you have done. In order to create this custom source I have to follow what steps to get it done? Do I have to create a custom source for each year of the census I use? I guess I am mainly having a problem creating the custom source with custom elements. Could you help me out with this? Once again, thanks so much for responding and taking the time to try to help me out. I appreciate it so very much. I hope this all makes some sort of sense to you. Thanks, Mark

Hello, I am a fairly new user of TMG having switched from FTM. I have been reading the various messageboards and visiting various websites trying to figure out a way to enter census data (i.e. Head of household, wife, sons & daughters) in a way similar to the way Terry Riegle does his. I have read every Tip that he has on his website and am very much confused on exactly how to make a new source template, make elements and add them so I get my output to be fairly nice to read. I guess I am asking for someones help in guiding me through the steps I need to do to create exactly what I need, from what buttons to press to what words to enter. Alternatively, has anyone put any step by step procedures on the web anywhere to help me along with this? I consider myself a fairly smart guy, but I am having a heck of a time wrapping my head around the various aspects of this program to make custom souces. Can anyone possibly help me out? Thanks, Mark

Thanks guys! The utility worked great. Mark

Hello, I have recently started trying this program again as I have found that my prvious program, FTM, didn't have the robustness I needed. Recently I imported my FTM file in TMG. Because of the way I saved census information in FTM, I now have about 4000 instances of the "Name-Var" tag and I want to get rid of them. I would like to delete this tag for all of the members of my file at once rather than going through each individual. I have about 8000 names in my explorer now, half of which are name variations. Is there any way to delete a specific tag for the entire file at one time? Thanks, Mark