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I am creating a book of my genealogical story. I want to include a chart in front of each section. I am breaking the book into four separate sections one for each of four main surname lines. When I went to use the pedigree chart everything worked as planned for the first set. The second set I started the chart numer at 10 and the page number at 10. It looked great until I noticed that the continuation pointers said cont 2, cont 3, cont 4, etc. In this particular set the charts run from 10 to 19 with no 2, 3, or 4 anywhere either in chart numbers or page numbers. Am i doing something wrong or is this a glitch?

You're welcome. What's happening here is that the Journal, by default, places the birth, marriage, death, and burial tags in the first paragraph, and everything else in a new paragraph. There is an option to turn this off. But if you use it, and also use the other narrative reports, there is a problem with the first tag after the birth tag - it should not have a carriage return for Journals, but you may want it there for the other types of narratives. I know of no good solution for this. You can find them with a list of Events of Events report, using a filter like: Any Witness... Sentence (local) Is not empty You may be able to fix them with the Search and Replace function of the TMG Utility - by making the sentence empty. I've not tried that, so don't know whether it will work. Terry, I followed your procedure and it worked well. I was also trying to reset my modified tags to unmodified so that the global change would work. I discovered a workaround. If I have a birth tag that was modified, then the global change will not apply to it. I was creating a new birth tag with carriage returns anyway so i tried switching. If I take a birth tag and edit that tag and switch the type to newbirthtag and save it and then re-edit it and then switch back to a birthtag then after that, all the global changes seem to apply. (reset any modified indicators) Not a perfect solution but it seems to work and will save me many hours of re-entering all the data. Again thanks. This forum is one of the few that is very helpfull with very knowlegeable users and with quick responses too.

<br /><br />The only potential problem here is when the preceeding sentence talks about someone else - sometimes the "He" / "She" will appear to refer to that person rather than the subject.<br /><br /> <br /><br />I understand the concern, but I find adding paragraph breaks is essential to getting decent output. Further, I find I have to customize a lot of sentences locally to get various sections to read well.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />Look carefully at the result of this. Your "new paragraph" tag will create a period and space at the beginning of the next paragraph. You can get rid of the period by adding the [:NP:] code, but you still get the space. <img src="style_emoticons/default/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /><br /><br />My solution is to:<br /><br />1. Create "new paragraph" versions of common Tag Types, with the same Sentence as the regular one except with the [:CR:][:TAB:] code in front. You can easily change Tag Type as needed, and if you make the Tag Type label the same except for "NP" at the end, you can see where they are from the Details screen.<br /><br />2. Create "new paragraph" roles in some Tag Types, similar to the above. This doesn't work if you have lots of custom roles in the tag.<br /><br />3. Where the above don't work, at the codes to the Local Sentence.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Terry, Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried all you have said and your solution is much cleaner than mine. I did find that TMG apparently does some formatting and it is not consistent across reports. (I have made so many changes I may not be 100% accurate here) but on a Journal report when outputting to word there is a carriage return put after the birth record printing but not in the Ahnentafel report. This results in an extra carriage return after the birth record on the Journal report and it is ok on the Ahnentafel report. Other tags don't appear to get any automatic carriage returns. Now that I can avoid the changes at the local sentence level is there a way to reset all the sentence changes or at least identify which ones were changed, or will it be a search effort to find any changes? I suspect I know the answer and I will need to reenter all those tags that have modified sentences.

I have used TMG for several years as a data repository. Now I am trying to finalize the printed output and I have been running into several issues with formatting. ( I have looked at the forums and Terry Reigel's site to find a solution) I have come up with the following procedure: I have changed many of my tags to use [RP:Principal] to get the first instance in a report to spellout the entire name but the subsequent sentences for a person to use the pronoun he or she. So far this seems to work. Second I tried adding [:CR:][:CR:][:TAB:] to the local sentence structure to get a new paragraph heading. This works but since any modification to a sentence will prevent any global updates to that sentence I thought this was a potentially cumbersome idea. I then created a tag called newparagraph with only the [:CR:][:CR:][:TAB:] in it. I can then add this tag anywhere ( as a tag and place it based on a date) I want and get the new paragraph without compromising the global update capability. However I would like to be able to make this tag disappear on the person screen when not working on formatting. My question is: is this a good idea or am I going to get myself into trouble later on?

Both of these ideas have given me some options. I will try both to see which one works best for various items. Thank you for your help. Any idea if this is something TMG will add or is it up to the user to use the existing features as you suggest?

I have several items that have been passed down through several generations. Other family members have similar items. How can I track these objects as they get passed from person to person? I would like to be able to enter a description once and then just relate when an object is passed to the next generation without having to reenter the description, picture, etc. Any suggesstions would be appreciated.

I have migrated my data from an older version of TMG and I am trying to verify that all went well. I have run statistical reports from both versions and the numbers match. I tried running an audit report and found several erros in the older version that did not appear in version 7. Specifically i had a marriage date wrong and the husband was married at 9 years old and the wife at 0 years old. even though the selection on the options/miscellaneous was checked it produced no error. Also I have checked the flag for people over 90 years old and that also did not produce an error. I am assuming that I have not done something correctly in the audit report but cannot determine what. Any suggesstions? P.S. Some errors are being produced such as born before mother was 14 years old.

I have noticed that under tmg version 7 there are two errors reported with errors importing data. The reply seems to point to a version 7.01. How would I know when that is available since I am also affected by the import errors.

I have just uncovered some data in the Familysearch.org site that can be usefull to me. It appears as a user submitted pedigree chart. About 300 years ago this persons family tree and mine seem to merge. While some of my older data matches his, he has additional lines which I do not have. This site shows a pedigree chart with 4 generations on a page. It also let's you download a gedcom file that contains the data on that page. I downloaded about 12 pages and gedcom files. The people on the rightmost side of a page are the first people on the subsequent page. When importing the gedcom files I end up with many duplicates (about 3 per person on the page border). All this is understandable and I have read Terry Reigel's tutorial on importing and merging datasets and eliminating duplicate people. A great tutorial but I end up with some errors that don't appear to be any fault of the tutorial or TMG. Each of the 3 duplicate people have different person numbers for parents so the link betewwn a child and parent when it occurs on a page and gedcom boundry are lost. Again I can see how this is happenning. There is much more data in the gedcom file than appears on the display at the lds site so I was trying to import the data into a separate project so I could use TMG to create a working copy so I could use it in my research to verify all the data. Is there any way to get the data combined (reasonably easy) to use as a working document? If I can verify this data then I would probably reenter it into my main project but reentering all that data just as a worksheet seemed like a lot so I was hoping for some suggesstions.

Jim & Terry great answers. I learned enough to get myself out of trouble. The idea of fixed fields with alias's was great. I did add one to many definitions or rename one to many fields on one source definition. I didn't see how to get rid of a field name once I selected it. Do i just ignore the name or just make it conditional in any output descriptions? Thanks again and I will start to read the tutorials.

I have entered all my data into version 4 but have not been active with TMG for a couple of years. In starting up again I realize that I should upgrade to version 7 and that I should review all that I have done in version 4 and correct any issues. I am now just knowledgable to get myself into serious trouble. I have read several different ways to record census data and one creates a source definition that has state, city, county as separate items on the list of items in the bottom half of the screen. I have tried to create separate source elements for city, state and county and it appears successful. However it seem to put these into a group called address. When I select one (state) of these items it works as expected but when I go to select a second (city) it does not now appear on the list of selectable source elements. If I delete the first (state) then I can then see the other (state, city, county). As the commercial states I'm stuck. Another thing that I have not figured out yet is if I select too many items in the lower half of the source definition screen and want to delete one I can't find any way to delete or erase one.