Les Wylde

You ask where should the colour of eyes be put for the sentence to read correctly. There are many ways of achieving what you want by playing with sentence structures. I would change the sentence to something like; [P] was recorded as having <[M]> <[D]> <[L]> and put the eye colour in the memo (M). For example in the memo you could put "blue eyes" or perhaps a bit more detail "blue eyes in his army record". Hope this is useful Les

I use a sentence similar to Terry's sentence, except I include a memo in which I put the text of the obituary in italics: An account of the life of [R+:Deceased] appeared <[L]> <[DD]>. <[M1]> The + forces the use of the full name, which I prefer in the obituary sentence. Les Wylde

I use Birth, Marriage and Death registration Tags, with sentences which refer to the quarter for the date of registration. for example: [PS] <birth was|and [POS] birth were> registered <at [L]> in the quarter ending < [D].> <[M].> I agree that quite often certificates can show additional information, which is better placed in the normal B, M, D Tags. My preference is to record the county as the county when the birth occurred, mainly to aid any overseas relatives who might read my data. Les wylde

I'm using UK Gold Edition and the download from the Help menu worked fine on my desktop last week. Yesterday I tried to update from the Help menu on my laptop and when I tried to install I got the message that the update was for the US version of TMG. I updated the laptop with no problems from the Update Centre. So problem seems to be computer specific. Les Wylde

Hi Don Checked my project and all are reporting the wives of direct line males as X-great grandmother of... Have you tried refreshing the relationship calculator in File>Preferences>Current Project Options, Other? Les Wylde

1) If you enter the participants other than the Pricipal as Witnesses on the Tag Entry Screen, the event will also show on each of the witnesses Person View Screen. 2) To enter census information I do the following: Enter date as date of census Enter location Select Role for Principal (HoH) In memo for HoH, enter: He/She was aged? And his/her place of birth was recorded as ……. I then enter the memo information as ||-. The || places the memo as M2 to correspond with my sentence structure and the - allows control over whether or not to print the memo information in reports. To get it to print in reports, use Options>Miscellaneous>Show Excluded Data. Enter other family members present as witnesses and write an appropriate Witness Memo (e.g. He/She was aged ? and his/her birthplace was recorded as …..). Again I use "-" before the sentence (without quotation marks) so I can switch it off in reports if I want. Enter the citation details as required. As far as Occupations recorded in the census are concerned I enter this information via an Occupation Tag, to which I do not usually attach witnesses. Do have a read of Terry Reigel's tutorials - they will give you lots of ideas, Les

Terry Thanks for reminding about the Ctrl + F3 function - I had forgotten about that and will find it very useful. Easier than repeatedly going through the list with F3 Les Wylde

Mike You can toggle this feature on or off via File>Preferences>Programe Options>Data Entry. Just select or deselect "Use Buttons for Add/Edit/Delete/Primary on Details Window". Like you I needed the real estate on my monitor so I switched it off. Les Wylde

Mike I found the upgrade worked really well. I guessed that the license number was probably the serial number. I was interested to see the new serial number on the invoice page immediately I'd payed for the upgrade, before the e-mail arrived. I am enjoying using some of the new features - I like being able to to combine sentences at the local level, the Associates Window is great and I am working at completing the Data Entry Reminders. Well done Bob and the team. Les

Download the latest 30 day trial from the Wholly Genes website onto your new computer and unlock it by using your user name and serial number. Backup your project from your old computer and restore it to your new one. Les

I always backup to my hard drive and burn to the CD from there. I have always been able to restore direct from the CD with no problems. Les

-With desired person in Person View, open Flags Window (Flag button on toolbar) -Right click on Sex in Flag Window and select Edit this Flag -Edit Flag Window opens -In Edit Flag Window, select the desired sex (?, M or F) and click OK This should change the sex. Les

Jeff I haven't changed all mine yet. I tend to change the older ones as I come across them by changing the Tag type on the Tag Entry Screen(I originally entered them as straightforward Births, Marriages or Deaths) - I'm slowly getting there. Les

Jeff The Tags are in seperate groups, so Birth Reg in Birth Tag Group, Marriage Reg in Marriage Tag Group and Death Reg in Death Tag Group. Les

Jeff Just a thought, I sometimes get this sort of message when I am updating birth dates (say from one estimated from a census entry to one from the GRO) and the new date is before the old date. You don't have this though and I wonder if it the use of "before" dates, which cause the problem? On this I wondered why you have chosen to use the "before" dates approach since it appears that you have the quarter and year from the GRO. When I have the quarter dates from the GRO I tend to use custom Birth Reg, Marrige Reg and Death-Reg Tags (in their appropriate Tag Groups, with sentences like: The birth of [RF:Child] was registered <at [L]> in the quarter ending < [D].> <[M].> and for marriage with Role Groom: The marriage of [RF:Groom] and [R:Bride] was registered <at [L]> in the quarter ending < [D]> <[M].> I then simply enter the date as say Sep 1866 and the sentence takes account of it being a quarter date. If say my Death Reg Tag is the only date I have for a death, I make it primary and ages seem to be calculated correctly. So although this doesn't answer your problem it may be a possible if complicated way round it. Les

In The Master Source List window you will find a button, above the Help button Marked More or marked Less. If you are in the Less mode you should see the Source number In the column to the right of the Abreviated Source Title. If you are in the More mode you should see the Source number in the blue box just abve the Full Footnote box. Les

You can enter multiple people to a particular Tag as Principal and Witnesses (a Witness in TMG is anyone associated with that Tag) but you need to be in Advanced mode for this. So for example in a Will Tag you can have the Testator as Principal and executors and beneficiaries as Witnesses, even thogh they may not have witnessed the event in the true sense. If that Tag has a source then that source applies to the Principal(s) as well as the Witnesses. You may find it useful to use Roles as this enables you to set up specific sentences for each Role. As a Newbie ( A big welcome to this superb program and please remember we were all Newbies once) the power of TMG can seem quite daunting, but the best way forward is to try things, preferably on a small test project, so if you get unexpected results you don't damage your main project. When I started I found the book "Getting the Most out of the Master Genealogist" to be of great help. The tutorials in Terry's TMG Tips are also invaluable and I am always finding some new wrinkles there to try. You can access them at: http://tmg.reigelridge.com/ Les

Different people have different approaches to this. Could I suggest that as a astarting point try Terry Reigels TMG Tips website. He deals with census information here: http://tmg.reigelridge.com/Census.htm You may also want to read his tutorial on using Roles. I find using Roles for census Tags to be very useful. Try a few things out and see how they work out for you. It can be useful to set up a dummy test project to try them out on. If you find they don't work as you want then a further question here will get lots of helpful response. Les

I have settled on this for now Les

Yes "check for an update" closes TMG but it should open a download window. Sometimes firewalls cause problems. On my Laptop I always have to switch the firewall off to download the upgrade. Les

Try checking that you have the correct language selected in the language box on the Tag Type Definition Screen. I had the same problem when I changed to the UK version. I thought I had lost all my sentences. In the UK version the language box was showing English (UK) and my sentences were in English (US). I changed the language to English (US) and they came back. You can change language via File>Language>check the required one. Les

With the Tag Entry Screen open, left click and hold the mouse over the hatched area on the bottom right corner of the box. Still holding the left click down drag down and towards the right. As the Tag Entry Box gets bigger so will the font size. Les

Dirk Glad to hear it is now working as you would like. Sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error but you can usually make it do what you want. Les

Dirk I can get it to work for both the Individual Detail report and for the Family Group Sheet. You will need to have <[M1].> <[M2.> in the sentence definition. I am able to set up a sentence so I can print both parts of the memo or just the one part without the exclusion marker. So for example if I have "-He stayed at school until he was 18||He was always top of the class in Physics" (without quotations), I can get the second half to print if I do not select "show excluded data" and both to print if I do select it. I also select "embed sentence memo" and under Tags I deselect "restrict to BMDB events" on Family Group Sheet and on Individual detail I select Roles. You may need to play around a bit to get it exactly as you would like but in principle it seems to work even for non-narrative reports. Les