Terry Reigel

Michael,

You wrote "... few people actually put citations on Name tags."

I'm surprised if that's true. I probably have more citations in Name tags than any other tags.

The Children (and Siblings) windows display the "last viewed spouse" when there is more than one spouse.

To change that, open the Family or Tree view to your ancestor. Then click the Next button at the lower left until the desired spouse appears. That then becomes the "last viewed spouse" and will appear in the Children and Siblings  windows.

Susan,

You mean in the Master Source list, the column is too narrow for more than three digits? You can drag either side of the label at the top of the column to make it wider. Hold your cursor over the vertical bar at the edge of label until it turns into a double-headed arrow and drag to the side. I don't remember if you have to save the layout to get it to stick when you close and re-open the MSL. That may be required.

Susan,

I once used a similar method of constructing census sources using split CDs, as described in my article at https://tmg.reigelridge.com/Sources-Census-SplitCD.htm

I gave it up in 2008, for reasons described in that article, and converted to a separate Source for each household. That increased my number of census sources from 512 to 957. Since then I've added a lot of census sources -- I currently have 4,297. I don't find that to overwhelm any function in my Master Source List, but I suppose everyone has a different idea of what would do that.

No, there isn't. It's not used for anything except to validate the serial number. Just leave it.

Well, actually there is. You can buy a new serial number for TMG9. :-)

You're welcome. It's easy to forget these steps if you don't use them for a while.

Yes. In Data > Database section, when you set the Database, if you have more than one Data Set Second Site asks you which one to use. I think you need to go back to that section in Second Site and re-set the Database. If you are using Selected Tags in that same screen you will need to reset them after you change the Database setting.

Second Site will only recognize people in one Data Set. Which Data Set do you have it set to use? Is that the same one that you found 1711 people in?

Thanks, Michael. It's passed for the moment, but if it recurs I'll follow your advice.

Thanks, Jim.

I closed and re-opened and it seemed to fix it so far. But I'm pretty sure I did that a few days ago and it came back. If it does again I'll try the re-install.

I've found for the last few days that when I enter a Tag for the current focus person, when I close the Tag Entry Screen the focus shifts to a different person. It seems to be one person for a while, then a different one. Then in one case it didn't shift the focus, but when I tried to enter a new tag the ID# in the new Tag was that of the person it had been shifting to, not the person displayed as current focus person.

Re-indexing hasn't helped.

Is there a known fix for this?

Yes, I don't see why not.

Tom,

I put "Passport Application" in both the [Record Type] and [Title] Elements. I'm not sure that's the best plan, but it seemed to work for me.

The truth is, I pretty much ignore the Bibliography output, though I do use it for citations in my "outline" website where I include people who I've done little research on.

You're  Welcome, Tom.

Tom,

I use the Naturalization Record Source Type, which seemed to me to fit this source well.

I've modified the Source Type as follows for all usage, not just for passport applications:

FF:

[SUBJECT]<, [SUFFIX]>, [RECORD TYPE], <[FILE NUMBER]>< ([DATE])>; [REPOSITORY], [REPOSITORY ADDRESS]<. [COMMENTS]><, [CD]>

SF:

<[SF GIVEN NAME] >[SUBJECT]<, [SUFFIX]>, [RECORD TYPE]< ([DATE])><, [CD]>

Bib:

[REPOSITORY ADDRESS], [REPOSITORY], [TITLE], [SUBJECT]<, [SUFFIX]>, [FILE NUMBER]< ([DATE])>.

I totally rearranged the SF because I didn't like the way it worked.

I've added the custom [SUFFIX] Source Element to many of my Source Types to get suffixes to display properly. I've added the custom [SF GIVEN NAME] Element to many Source Types so the given name can be displayed in the Short Footnote, for use when a surname occurs often in my data. I've added the standard Source Element [COMMENTS] to many of my Source Types, to record that I found the record on various online sites, or other notes.

Judy,

I think this would work:

Create a "Marriage Hidden" tag or something like that, but make sure it's in the "Other Event" group, not in the "Marriage" Group. That way TMG will not recognize it as a marriage tag. Exclude the Sentences in this Tag so it will not appear in reports.

Delete the current Marriage Tag, and replace it with your custom Tag so you don't loose your record of the marriage. 

Ruth,

They are with all the other Project Files. By default, that is C:\Users\{user}\Documents\The Master Genealogist v7\Data\Projects, I think it is. You can see where it is in your case by going to Help > Access Folders and selecting the User Data item on the list that appears. Dismiss the warning and the user data folder on your system will open. The open the Projects subfolder (and any further subfolders if you have put your Projects in separate folders). 

The files you are looking for have names like {project name}_S.CDX and {project name}_O.DBF

There's nothing really you can do with them. You can't really even read them with a database reader.

Ruth,

As I replied to your question on FB, if you look at the File Structure page on Lee Hoffman's site -- http://www.tmgtips.com/dbnames2.htm -- you can see in the TMG 5,6,7,8 section (yellow background) the S and O Project files are were the Focus Groups information is stored.  

Jeff,

The first step I suggested was to use the List of Events report, based on a filter for citations to your four sources, to set a flag. Then use that flag in the List of People report to get the people who have events that cite one of the four sources. Do I need to spell this out in more detail?

 My caution was  that the list of Events report will only find event tags with those citations. So if a person has a Name Tag or an Relationship tag that cites those sources, but no event tags that do, that person will be omitted.

Jeff,

You can get there with this method, provided you can accept citations to your four sources to Events, not to relationship or name tags:

1. Create a temporary Flag.

2. Use the List of Events report with a filter for any Citations using the source numbers. Use the Secondary output to set the flag.

3. Use the List of People report with a filter based on the flag. Set the output to provide the data you need.

This will give you the data you want, but you won't be able to format as you specify without further processing, probably most easily in a spreadsheet.

I don't see a way to capture this data for people who only have citations to the four sources in name and relationship tags, other than to find them with the List of Citations report and manually change the flags for them.

David,

Even if your end product is a physical book, you could  do your proofing  of the text and notes with Second Site, then use a Journal for your final product.

David,

The Journal Report does not display Source Numbers. Rather, it displays numbers for Citations. Since a given Source can be cited many times in Tags that appear in your Journal report, often with different Citation Details, the Citation numbers cannot be the same as the Source numbers. 

There is at least one way to display Source Numbers in a Narrative presentation. If you use Second Site to display your narratives in a website, Second Site does display the Source Number as the first item in each footnote.

It would also be possible for you to add a Source Element to each of your Sources that has the Source Number, then have that Element appear in the output templates. However if you have very many Sources defined that would be a large task to undertake.

So one could install the US version and import into that, then merge the resulting Project with an existing Project created in the UK version? Would that work? 

As I recall you can't install TMG twice on the same computer, so the US version would have to be on a different computer? I don't remember all the details about how the two versions work. That seems complicated.

On the other hand, I see that TMG Utility has a a feature to change Place Styles. So one could import, then change the Place Styles before merging into the main project. 

I don't recall what happens during Merge with you happen to have two places otherwise the same but with different Styles, which could happen if you already have some US places in the main Project.

Jim,

Isn't the default Place Style set for a Data Set, not a Project? Since you cannot import into an existing Data Set there would seem to be no way to set the default Place Style for an import. So a TMG-UK user can't set the place style for an import to US other than having using a US version of TMG to make the import. No?

Quish,

Preferences that affect the appearance of the TMG screen are part of the Layout. If you change those preferences and want them to persist when you re-open TMG you need to save your changed layout.