Terry Reigel

It may take a while. Remember, the TMG business is closed and there are no support people there anymore. At last report, another employee occasionally looks at serial number requests.

Be aware that if you have installed free updates after you installed from the original disk that re-installing from the disk is likely to leave you unable to open your Project (depending on which version is on the disk and which version you last used). The formats of files used to store your Project information were changed with some updates. It is always better to be sure your installer is the last update of the TMG version you are using, which may require downloading that installer.

Judy, As Jim says, the NarrativeChildren tag changes only the introductory sentence for the list of children. The list of children is generated normally (except you can use a code in the tag to suppress the birth places in the listing). There is no need to create the list of children with the tag as long as they are entered with these parents as primary parents. The only time you have to generate the children's names is if you are trying to add children for whom these are not primary parents. In that case you can add the children's names with the tag, but there is no code for generating the list. You have to construct it yourself in the Sentence. You do not need to create the Sentence manually for each Tag. You can modify the Sentence in the Tag Type, and if you need multiple different Sentences for different situations by using Roles, as described in my article that Michael pointed you to.

I'm not sure what you mean about upgrading TMG 7 to TMG 9. There's really no such thing. Either you install TMG 7 on your new machine, using the unlock information you found, or you buy a TMG 9 serial number from Harry and install TMG 9. Moving your data is the same either way. See my article at http://tmg.reigelridge.com/new-computer-version.htm for detailed instructions. If you install TMG 9 it will convert your data to the new format when you Restore it in TMG 9. If you want to install TMG 7 you can find the installer on the Roots User Group website, at http://www.rootsusers.org/install.html Several people have had difficulty contacting Harry by email. In most cases he has responded but his replies are lost. Send me an email from my website that includes your email address and I'll make sure he gets in touch with you.

Joe, I suggest you use the second option. There is little point in backing up exhibit image files, which rarely change, every time you do a backup of your TMG data. Doing so needlessly expands the size of your backup files and the time it takes to create them. You should have a backup plan for all your important data, not just your TMG data. Include the exhibit files in that plan.

Robin, The TMG list on Rootsweb is alive and well so far as I can tell. At least there were posts there as late as the middle of last week. However it looks like if you are currently not subscribed you can't become subscribed until the mailing list pages get back up on Rootsweb.

The automatic update feature doesn't work since Wholly Genes stopped supporting TMG; it has nothing to do with the age of your computer. You have two choices. If you want to stay with TMG7 you will need the TMG 7 installer. It is available in several places, which we can direct you to. You will also need your TMG7 serial number to unlock it. If you want to update to TMG 9 you can do that. Links to the installers, and to Harry Goegebeur, the only dealer with TMG 9 unlock codes for sale, are on in this article on my website. Directions for moving your data are in this article.

Jim, You have two options under the Tools > Renumber People command: 1) you can renumber one person or 2) you can renumber all people. The first will do exactly what you want, but may be a bit of a chore depending on how many people you need to renumber. The second will also solve your problem, but if there are gaps in the numbers assigned the rest of the people in your Project those with numbers above those gaps will be renumbered to fill the gaps. This may or may not be an issue for you depending on whether you make use of the existing numbers in other contexts.

You're welcome, Bob.

Bob, You don't need to "Add" the husband because he is already in your Project. Instead just add a Marriage Tag to link the two people together. You can start with either one and add the other as the second Principal.

After you have copied the backups and installed the program as Michael says, you need to pay attention to changes in paths between the old and new computers. That's described in my article at http://tmg.reigelridge.com/new-computer-version.htm#paths

Are you talking about Accents that appear on the TMG screens or Accents that appear in Box Charts?

Roger, You can easily make a list of the descendants of a person with the List of People report with a filter: ID number .... = .... 123 ... END and then check the box below to add Descendants. This will not include the spouse of the descendants, which you didn't mention but I suspect you would want. To do that use the filter: ID number .... = .... 123 ... AND Is a Descendant ... of ID# ... 123 ... END and check the box below to add Spouses. You can include the birth date for each person from the Output Columns tab in Options. You can output either the full date, or the day and month. If you do the later you could sort on the day and month, but that will not produce good results because the months will be spelled out and sort in alpha order rather than calender order. The only way I think of to get calender order is to output the report to a spreadsheet, use a formula to convert the dates to a format the spreadsheet understands, then sort there.

I would suggest you look at the name tags of those who do not have a comma. I suspect you have entered both surname and given name in the surname field.

Were you not successful in removing it as you would any other program, but opening Programs and Features from Control Panel and finding it there?