Dave Sharred

OK, found the link to reinstall; did a repair, now all is back... Just done Jims tip too with run as administrator; although I should already be set up as admin... Lets hope it is sorted..

I too have noticed this problem on my current Windows 8 PC; I upgraded my TMG licence last year after migrating to a new laptop. Having seen this on problem on v9; I checked to see if there was an update; and there was. Problem is; now TMG will not load, saying "MSVCR71.dll is missing from your computer. Thy reinstalling ..."etc - question, from where ???

Thanks again Terry; I found your website, so will read up on merging before I try it. I already have the files backed up, too. Thanks for taking the time to offer sound advice Best regards Dave

Hi Terry Many thanks for your input; you confirmed what I thought about Ancestry. I see a lot of the hints also are corroborated from other users, which is another plus point for using such a site I guess. I don't know much about these things, but maybe GEDCOM is too primitive in what you can export, which may be behind the problem? I think that I will follow your advice though; and maintain the master as the off line copy. I will have to investigate merging the branches I have. The scary part is that I am sure most will not link, so it may become unmanageable in trying to work on so much data ! On the positive though, I may find a dew surprises too! Thanks again Dave Sharred

Hi I am still a Novice Genealogist really; I "inherited" my Father's vast research into our family name; and have only tinkered round the edges in the last 10 years. To quantify what I have; He had around 45 Project files; each covering 100 + names. I have converted all of these to V7 some while ago. First Question. Whenever I look at the info he had, it is very bewildering. Is it better to merge it all into 1 TMG "project" (I don't think Project was a concept back in V4!!) or to keep the files separate? There are no obvious links to most of these 45 Projects; and probably never will be. Next: I have looked at a subscription to a Genealogy website; and am impressed with what Ancestry.Com (and Ancestry.co.uk) throws up as additional hints. I am now in the process of exporting my files as GEDCOM and importing them to Ancestry.co.uk. Again, it looks like I have a lot of additional data that I can add. I am then thinking that I may take a year's subscription to see what else I can find. So, what is the best way of managing the data between TMG and Ancestry.co.uk ?? I am worried that if I import the GEDCOM from Ancestry, I might lose some detail, so should I take any new data from Ancestry, and manually add it to TMG; and then periodically purge the Ancestry GEDCOM files?? Any advice would be gratefully received Thanks in advance Dave Sharred g3nkc@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks a lot again Virginia; I can wait. I am looking around the new software; I was already familiar with the old. As I said, I need to get rid of the old Win 95 PC , which prompted the upgrade ! Dave

OK; sent off a note to Tech support. Many thanks Dave

Thanks Virginia; I just found that, and it looked promising.... BUT - the new software is Project based (PJC); whereas the old just wanted a TMG file name (and SQZ for backup). By importing , I have found a problem - when it starts converting ("updating data set v3.5.2...); I get an error box saying "Variable EDATE not found 1063 FIX352"; if I then accept Ignore, it looks for a dbf file. There are a number in teh root of V7, but I wouldn't know which one I should be selecting ! I then get a message "no table is open in teh current working area" ; and teh application is stuck - I cannott quit; it is frozen - only Contrl-alt-del to end task will close TMG ! Confused. The demo works ok ! Dave

Hi ; I took over my father's research files some years ago; he used V3.5. Now, I needed to migrate to a newer PC; and purchased V7. I am confused by the patch file archives, and if I need to use them or not. Could I just move teh SQZ files over, and all will be ok ? This would have been my preferred route; his files were pretty uncomplicated (no attachments). It depends on if teh structure of teh SQZ file has changed ? If I have to convert them, I see no ealrier convertors from V3.5 files ? Thanks for any advice in advance Dave Sharred