Terry Reigel

Marline,

It may help as you collect people into the Focus Group to temporarily make your marriage to your ex non-primary so the Add Others steps described in the article don't follow his line.

Bob,

If you mean individuals with no relationships, that easy with the List of People report and a filter like:

# of Marriage Group Tags = 0 AND

# of Fathers = 0 AND

# of Mothers = 0 AND

# of Children= 0 END

But if you are looking for small groups of linked people who are not connected to others in your database it is more difficult. One method is described in my article on Creating a "Connected" Flag.

You have the basics for installing the TMG program. See my article Moving Data to New Computer or Version for some tips on moving your data.

In addition to using the Tags described here to record military service and display it in narratives, I use a separate tag to record Military service for an index page in my website created with Second Site. See http://reigelridge.com/roots/toot-mil.htm

This tag collects the data used in the index in an organized way in order to build the index.

My thinking is that one can't immigrate to the same country twice. Either the first trip was a visit, followed by a later immigration, or the second was a trip to the old country to bring other family members.

Assuming the available information supports the belief that he came to stay the first time, I'd record it as the former, which is what I've done in a couple of such cases I've found. I'd probably use Immigration Tags for both but record in the Memo, and by changes to the Sentence, that the father "returned to... and brought back..."

I'm getting no such reports from NOD32.

I find the information I get for various service members is so varied that trying to create a standard Tag Type or Tag Types seems hopeless. So I use a custom Mil-Serv tag, but most of the time I change the sentence to [M] and write the whole story in the Memo, inserting Sentence Variables in the Memo to pick up the Date and place data. I include enlistment and discharge information, units, and information about campaigns involved, etc., when I can find it. I often use several tags to pick up different dates and places.

Right-click on any tag in the tag box. Half way down is "Filter for..." Open that submenu and click on what ever has a check box in front of it.

Danny,

If you download and install TMG 9 you will have a 30-day free trial. To continue using it after that you need a TMG 9 license, which you can currently purchase from Harry as Jim's link above directs.

Thanks. I was preparing for the worse. Now tell me it I dodged a bullet. I backup my desktop data base and restored t on my laptop. I then initialed Mills on my laptop. I then compared my sources between the two computers (sorry, I had to have both opened at the same time).

 

I found, to my surprise, that I had the same number (and names) of sources on both. does this mean the I can initialize without data loss? Or am I not seeing the real damage that would occur?

Bob,

If you really mean Sources, and not Source Types, of course you see the same Source. But try to print notes for them and you will see a total mess if you have done any customization of Source Types.

If you mean Source Types, you will have the same number of Source Types, but the Templates will be restored to the original and any Sources you created based on your customized Source Types will not produce the same notes as before.

Bob,

You are well advised not to use Initialize - it would indeed make a total mess of your source types and sources.

If you don't have a Lineage Application Source Type it has apparently been deleted from your project.

You can create a new one, either using the templates Jim shows above, or using the original ones, which are:

Full Footnote:

Lineage application of [sUBJECT], [APPLIED TO].

Short Footnote:

[APPLIED TO], [sUBJECT].

Biblo:

[APPLIED TO], Application of [sUBJECT].

Reminder:

If you have copies of the actual applications, I would use the standard Lineage Application source type to create the sources. If you instead have only indexes I would use other source types.

I don't consider applying for a lineage society a recordable event, so I wouldn't use any specific tag for that. I do cite the applications as sources in all the tags that record the information found there - Name, Birth, Marriage, Death, and Military Service.

You're welcome, Len.

Len,

You may find my article on Moving Data to New Computer or Version helpful. Pay special attention to the part about updating paths.

Kaye,

Why can't you download from Wholly Genes? If you don't have them the links are in my article at http://tmg.reigelridge.com/future.htm#wait

But you should be able to re-install with the copy of the installer you saved when you realized that TMG was no longer in development.

Judy,

That sounds like you are seeing exactly what I described.

If you choose "Only children that are carried forward" you are seeing all tags because these children are not being carried forward. Therefore they do not get only the BMDB tags.

If you choose "All Children" they get only the BMDB tags because that rule is then applied to all children, whether or not they are carried forward.

Judy,

Children "carried forward" (that is, who have their own section) have only a brief section when listed under their parents. That section displays only birth, marriage/divorce, death and burial tags. On the Tags section of the Journal Options you can choose to exclude some of these tags, and you can also choose one of three levels of detail for them.

By default children who are not carried forward will display all their tags in the listing under their parents. These tags are displayed in full narrative format based on the Sentences in those tags. Depending on how many tags a person has, a child's listing under his or her parent could go on for pages - just like it would if that person did have his or her own section.

This result happens when you choose the "Only children that are carried forward" option.

But if you choose the "All children" option, children not carried forward get the same brief BMDB section as those who are carried forward.

Judy,

If you choose "all children" all of the children get the abbreviated events, even if they don't have their own sections later.

George,

Yes, you can restore a new backup over the existing project. But I'd recommend that instead you restore it to a new subfolder so you can compare them before you decide which to use.

The primary reason for an incomplete backup, assuming you have specified that is was to include all people, is interference from another program. The most common culprit is a cloud backup or sync program. Some anti-virus programs also have been found to interfere with backups.

Judy,

Sure. Create a List of People Report with a filter like:

Is a Descendant ... of ID# ... {enter ID number of ancestor] ... END

When the Filter Progress screen appears you can read the number of people on the right.

You don't need the actual report; you can even cancel it as soon as it starts to generate.

It would appear that you want to use the List of People report, since you are asking for people. But it cannot include the date of the Immigration Tag. So instead I would suggest a List of Events report.

Use a filter like:

Tag Type... Label ... Contains ... {insert part of the Label of your Immigration Tag here} ... End

Then open Options and set the Output Columns to include the ID# and/or "Given Last" for Prin1, and optionally for Prin2. Include the Date and any other field you think useful.

The result will be a list of events, but will look like a list of people. You can sort on ID#, name, or whatever you like.

Doris,

Yes, it's possible to add tag to everyone, but doing so in a way that produces anything useful after it is processed by the receiving site is pretty difficult. After some experimentation I found a way to do that for Ancestry, but found it easier to add it to the GEDCOM after it is created than from a Tag in TMG. The problem is Ancestry doesn't process information from Tags in a way that makes that useful.

For details about how I did it see my article on Uploading Your Data to a Public Site.

I didn't try to put a link in but instead referred the reader to Ancestry's "Owner" link. I don't know whether Ancestry would allow a direct link to an outside site.

I've not tried to do this with other sites so don't know whether the same approach will work. I doubt that this particular method will because Ancestry does some strange things with uploaded tags.

John,

The only way to change a smaller font size in TMG reports is to chose a Font that you have set to a smaller size for other purposes. If there is none you have two alternatives that I see:

1. Send the report to a word processor, and change it manually.

2. Use the Left Indent feature instead to set of this text.

If you are using output to Second Site you have other options, but you don't mention that you are.

Tom,

The only way I know is to create a Kinship report, send it to Word, and delete everyone but the listing of first cousins. It's not that hard this way.

My mother, turning 93 this week, has collected an enormous amount of information in TMG 8. While none of my generation have her genealogical bent, we are very interested in capturing the fruit of her labor (e.g., importing into a currently supported program or reporting to a very large PDF).

 

I have a few questions that perhaps some of you can help me with:

• Is the best first step to move to TMG 9? If so, is it sill possible to buy a license for TMG 9 by contacting harry.goegebeur@genea.be? If so, is there a cost and does that take long?
• I have browsed some of the TMG 8 reporting, but don't see a report that provides a comprehensive listing of information, images, etc. Is there something like that in TMG 8 or 9?
• Is there any good, currently supported genealogy application that accepts TMG 8 or 9 data for import?

Andy,

Since no one is ready to continue her work now, the need to upgrade to TMG9 for your use is not really there. However I suspect you will have better luck importing to another program if you start with the current version of TMG. Hopefully someone with more knowledge on that will chime in.

Yes, you can buy a license from Harry. There is a cost, but you would have to get that from him. The time it takes is the time it takes you to exchange emails, and for you to download the installer.

There are several types of reports that will output the data she has entered. An Ancestor or Descendants report like the Journal will capture the data and put it in narrative form, but how well that will read depends on how she entered the data. These reports show relationships between parents and children. They can include images if they are saved as exhibits.

The more traditional genealogical reports, the Family Group Sheet and Pedigree charts will not provide narrative output, but do show relationships. The FGS can show all of the events that are recorded.

I think one of the above types will capture the most information.

The Individual Detail report shows the most detail of what is recorded about each person but does not include any parent/child relationship information.

There are several decent programs that can directly import TMG data. None can capture all of what TMG can record, but how much is lost depends on exactly how the TMG data has been entered and which features have been used. The loss may be significant, or may not be. Those with experience with these imports can provide more specific information, and hopefully will.