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Everything posted by Terry Reigel
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Try Preferences > Program Options > Data Entry and under Data Entry Mode select Advanced.
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Links to the TMG 9 installers are shown in my article on the Future for TMG Users. If your old computer is still operable, you can recover the serial number from it. If not, you need to find the email from Wholly Genes that contains it. If that fails, at last report emails to support@whollygenes.com requesting old serial numbers were still being responded to, but you must be patient waiting for a reply. If nothing else, you can buy a new serial number from Harry Goegebeur whose address appears as a link in my article. Once you get back up running make sure have copies of the installer and serial numbers in a safe place as recommended in my article.
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Want to buy a "used" copy of TMG 9
Terry Reigel replied to jt23456's topic in The Master Genealogist v9
You can download TMG 8 from several sources. But I'd recommend you move to TMG 9, as Michael suggests. -
If you are using the standard Sentences you should expect the narratives to be stilted, or worse. If you care about the quality of the narratives you really need to customize the Sentences for each Tag Type so they work well with the way you use them. If you really care about the quality of the narratives you need to create different Roles to suit different situations, and/or customize the Sentences is some individual Tags. I would like to know how you find that works. I hope to publish some books that would be pretty long and may need to use that technique. Combined notes are helpful in theory but really don't work well if you have long notes, especially the first footnote when you include notes in the Comments field of the Source Definition to explain the note. Do consider how many of the Citations you want to appear in the output. You can exclude those that are repetitive or don't really add anything. My "rule" is to show no more than three, sometimes fewer, unless the sources are conflicting and I think more are needed to explain. First, I'd suggest you reconsider whether you want all those variations to appear in reports. I include in reports only 1) the one name I think the person actually used, 2) nicknames that are not obvious diminutives of that name including cases where the person went by a middle name almost exclusively, 3) cases where a person substantially changed his or her name, and 4) "farm names." While recording variations may be useful in research, my view is readers of a report don't want to wade through them. If you want you can concatenate the output of different Tags by putting the [+] code in front of the Sentence of all Tags after the first (I assume that works for Sentences of Name Tags - I see it is not on the right-click menu for them). However I think you will find that you need to not use that code on the first name to be displayed (remember that the primary Name Tag is not actually output but it combined with the first other Tag.) This means I think that you would have to assign one Name Tag Type to the first name, and another to all following Name Tags. Roles would be useful for this but they are not supported for Name Tags. Are you talking about the output for the parents or the children? What Sentences are you using? You might look at my Census Tag for one idea about how to output the names of children in the household with the parents, and also output for the children. It is described in an article on my website.
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You're welcome, Joe, The TMG Utility can make that process much easier, as I tried to describe in my article cited above.
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Bob, Yes. You made the change to the Tag Type definition. So it applies to every Tag that uses that Tag Type.
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Joe, I did that with most of my sources that used split CDs some years ago. My article on that process at http://tmg.reigelridge.com/Sources-convert.htm may offer useful tips. I didn't have any trouble finding the sources involved because they all used Source Types that were designed to use split CDs. I think I use a list of sources with a filter for those Source Types to locate them, but it was pretty easy to spot them in the Master Source List anyway. I suppose you could filter the List of Citations for the bars but I'm not sure how you specify that. Hopefully someone else will offer a suggestion on that.
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That is the Residence Tag for them. You can change the labeling in their Person View by editing the Residence Tag, Other tab. At the top left, under Display Witnessed Tags, change As "Witness" to Using the Label Above. I think that will do what you want.
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Bob, I don't understand the issue with the Person View - the tag does appear for each person. For the FGS Jim is correct - you the Sentence doesn't help.
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Why don't you change the Sentence for the Witnesses so it says what you mean?
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Witnesses not showing on subject screen
Terry Reigel replied to Squirrellhunter's topic in The Master Genealogist v9
It happens from time to time with quite a few users. I've never figured out how it gets accidentally changed either. -
You're welcome. The three journal formats are intended to replicate the standards of the respective journals. They do that by manipulating the various options on the Miscellaneous tab. Custom lets you set those options yourself. When you choose Custom it starts with the settings of the last journal option you has selected. That's what is supposed to do. I've never tried it, but I recall comments that there were issues with it, but don't know whether the issues were with TMG or with Word. I recall hearing separately that the master document feature in Word had issues, but that's some time ago so don't know whether it applies to current versions. Please let us know if you try it what your results are. That will reduce the number of notes, and I think the number, rather than the volume, of notes is the issue with Word but since M/S won't explain what the issue actually is it's hard to know.
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Witnesses not showing on subject screen
Terry Reigel replied to Squirrellhunter's topic in The Master Genealogist v9
This a simple issue, and re-installing is not going to help - it seldom does. The key is that you have somehow filtered the events so witnessed events are not shown. Right-click on any tag in the main tag box. About half way down the right-click menu you will see "Filtered for." Click on that, then click on which ever filter has a check mark in front of it to remove that mark. -
repository name showing as unknpwn in preview
Terry Reigel replied to jmjiru's topic in The Master Genealogist v9
I'd guess the issue is that the repository is not marked as Primary. On the Attachments tab, see if there is a " * " in front of the Repository number. If not, highlight the Repository and click the [ * ] button. -
If you create large files for Word with many footnotes or endnotes you will not be able to open them - Word will give a meaningless error message that totally disguises the fact that the issue is number of notes. Try Jim's suggestions to use other word processors and/or output in RTF format.
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Ruth, There are a couple of ways. Adding an exclusion mark as John suggested in the empty name field should do it. Or you can change the name variable in the Sentence to one that doesn't call for the missing name element.
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Abrosz, On the Help menu, choose Technical Support. On the screen that opens, click the Trouble Report button at the lower left. When prompted, let it open in your word processor. Near the top will be the name, email address, and serial number. Copy and paste each of them in when you enter the serial number as Jim has directed above.
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Moving TMG v9.05 to new computer with TMG v9
Terry Reigel replied to LorraineH's topic in The Master Genealogist v9
I assume that by "download software" you mean download the TMG installer. The answer to "how long" is nobody can tell you that. The answer to can you get disks is no. If you intend to keep using TMG you should have already downloaded the appropriate installer as Jim directs above, and saved a copy of it and your serial number in a safe place. See my article for more information. -
Roz, A marriage bond is like a bann in the sense that it shows that a marriage was intended. Neither proves the marriage actually happened. If you have other evidence that they did in fact marry, I would enter a marriage with a "circa" date, because you don't know how long after the bond was made they were married, and cite the bond as a source.
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Christopher, You sequence tags by adding a Sort Date to Tags that don't have a date, or that you want to appear out of date order. You must be in Advanced Data Entry mode to see Sort Dates. You change to that in Preferences > Program Options > Data Entry.
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"expired trial version" message during login
Terry Reigel replied to jerseyjoe67's topic in The Master Genealogist v8
Dan, You need to enter the name and email address as they appear in the email you received that transmitted your serial number to you. That should be the same email address you entered when you paid for the serial number. -
New Computer - Need to install TMG8 from old computer
Terry Reigel replied to nsdwm56b's topic in The Master Genealogist v8
See my article Moving Data to New Computer or Version for some tips on the backup process and fixing issues with paths that generally occur when you move to a new computer. -
Polly, I suspect the issue with printing PDF reports is that you are using Windows 10, which is not happy with TMG's PDF printer. If so, the solution is to send the report to Printer, then select Windows 10's built-in PDF printer. Or, better yet, send the report to Word, edit as needed, then use Word's PDF output. The problem with "forms" like FGSs and Pedigree charts is that you are using a recent version of Word that cannot read TMG's output of these reports. The solution is in Help - from the Report Definition file of one of these reports click Help, and read the note in the box at the top of the page.
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You can also run a List of People report with a filter for missing information. For example, you could use a filter like: Birth... Date Is Empty OR Death... Date Is Empty OR Marriage... Date Is Empty END Check the box in front of each line if you enter multiple tags for birth and death to get only the primary ones. I'm not sure whether this filter will pick up BMD tags that are missing entirely. If not, use something like this: # of Birth Group tags = 0 OR # of Death Group tags = 0 OR # of Marriage Group tags = 0 END In either case, to to the Output Columns tab in Options and specify useful output to understand what is missing.