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Thanks, Michael. I'll have some time next week to play with this a bit more. I'll let you all know if I succeed....

You guys are great! Thank you all for your thoughtful suggestions. I'll definitely be trying out several approaches. Sheila said: "I think you will find that just looking at the person in TMG will allow you to easily see the variations and how they are sourced." I guess I should have also mentioned that I'm not just interested in looking at one-person-with-one-event+variations at a time. What I do now, and am trying to replicate using TMG, is to build an event list that includes, for each person in my focus group, all events with all sourced event variations. So, in a family group that includes our Agnes, I have a separate event+source entry, as above, for every instance of every event relating to Agnes, but also a separate event+source entry for every instance of every event relating to each person in the particular focus group -- arranged chronologically. This combined timeline report is what I'm hoping I can do in TMG7. Yes, this can be a very large timeline, but I've found that -- as a very visual person -- this is a terrific way for me to get a comprehensive overview of all the collected evidence. Initially it's useful for determining where I'm missing good (direct, primary) sources for data I already have, as well as highlighting where I'm missing data and reminding me where I haven't looked yet; down the line, it's the best way for me to comprehend how reliable my evidence is as I begin to analyze the various converging sources of data, or when I'm working toward trying to build a good argument with only indirect evidence to work with. So, from what you guys have summarized here, it does sound like it'll be possible for me to work out a way to produce this chart using TMG7. And if this additional description of what I'm trying to do suggests any other hints or approaches that I might look at as I experiment with TMG7, I'd appreciate any further input you might have. Thank you all. --Meredith

Thank you both for such quick and useful replies. I've already downloaded the trial v.7, and I will try what Terry suggested using the List of Citations. This might be just what I need. Terry said "The issue is that any event can have any number of source citations, so the list of Events does not allow you to include what can be an unlimited number of citations." To clarify my need, what I'm looking for is literally a report in which there's a one-to-one relationship between a particular event and one source that bears on that event. I'm not looking to output a final conclusion with all possible sources that relate to it ("15 Aug 1853; birth; Agnes X; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; <notes>" -- followed by the nine different sources that specify Agnes's birth date). What I'm looking for is the ability to make a list of every instance of the event as it is documented in each of those different sources, so that I can see exactly which version of the event is connected with which particular source: est. 1852-1853 ; birth ; Agnes X ; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts ; <brief note> ; 1910 census, X family, Chelsea 15 Aug 1852 ; birth ; Agnes X ; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts ; par Hugo X, Estera Y ; Agnes X birth cert, Boston, 1852, vol 452, p 523 18 Aug 1853 ; birth ; Agnes X ; Chelsea?, Suffolk, Massachusetts ; par Hugh X, Esther Y ; family lore I currently keep an Excel file to track this information, because I haven't been able to find an app that will give me these six columns in one report. (And I guess, if all the lineage-linked genealogy databases classify events in this one-to-many way, that's partly why I haven't found one to do what I want, yet!) But using the List of Citations as Terry suggests does sound like it'll get me what I want.... Thanks. I won't have a chance to play with the new release for a couple of days yet, but it would be terrific if this works.... --Meredith

Hello. Former TMG 5 user thinking about getting back into using TMG again. I will, if I can do this one thing: if either my version or the new version will let me create an event list that includes a column for an abbreviated source reference. That is, I want to be able to create an event list with the following columns: Date -- Event -- Person -- Place -- Associated Info -- Abbreviated Source Thanks. --Meredith