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  1. This «navigation» issue also happens in my project from time to time. It is a a kind of unreproduceable bug. I never found out the situation that causes this unexpected jump to a different person. Luckily, the changes made to the original person are not lost after the jump. The only point I noticed is that the person appearing after the jump has the the same first as well as family name.

    Max


  2. On 2.4.2020 at 5:12 PM, Morbius said:

    I have been using TMG for so long (since about Version 3) that I intend to continue using it until it just won't work anymore.  I find myself wondering, just how many of us diehards are out there.  I just (with a little help) loaded Version 9.05 to a new laptop, so I am pretty sure I will get several more years use out of it.  I have reached a point in my research where I am writing research papers more than actual research, and I find the TMG reports very useful for that (mostly the individual narrative and family group sheets, but also the journal report).  But, I also know there must be life after TMG and I want to be able to pass my years of research along in a usable database.  Consequently, I purchased a copy of Roots Magic (because it has an "Import from TMG" capability), as a future back up.  When I backup TMG, I import that backup into Roots Magic, and store the resulting file in a way it will be available, should the need arise. But, I am not entirely sure this is the best scheme, and I am wondering if other have made similar provisions. 

    You mention an «Import from TMG » capability of RootsMagic. However, the RootsMagic Web Site does not mention the direct import of TMG data. Is there a new version available that allows direct TMG import or did you export the data e.g. as GEDCOM before the import into RootsMagic ?

    Max


  3. I would like to report an "unreproducible" but often occuring bug in TMG 9.05. If I add children to an existing family using the sequence: "Add" -> "Copy Person(s)" with an exising child, it sometimes works straightforward. However, sometimes after adapting the first name and birthdate of the new child, an unexpected refresh of the window shows the new child with different parents. I then have to change the parents manually to fix the bug. After such an error I once optimized the data set ("File" -> "Maintenace" -> "Optimize") and ended up in a situation where TMG was unable to open the project because of a missing file. I had to restore the project but oviously lost the data entered since the last backup.

    For these reasons I now enter new children systematically using the "Add new Person" button. It takes mor mouseckicks but I have never had problems this way.

    Max


  4. When thinking about replacing TMG do not forget the companion programs that are extremely useful and will most probably not be updated for a differen product. My concern is that I will not be able anymore to use John Cardinals most valuable Second Site and TMG Utility with a different genealogy program. I would only be ready to use a different genealogy program if John would adapt his Second Site to that particular product.

    Max


  5. Thank you Helmut for your feedback. If I add the report to the custom toolbar using the "Customize.../Anpassen..." button, the report is also generated correctly. However, if I use the standard TMG-buttons at the right end side of the toolbar, they do not work as explained above. I can also generate the report directly from the dropdown report menue. The Problem concerns the preview function on the standard toolbar only.


  6. The problem of creating individual narrative reports using the buttons in the toolbar has been reported earlier for v8. If set to German, the "Individual narrative preview" does not work at all and the "Individual narrative preview with sources" just creates an empty page. Unfortunately, v9 still gives the same results. I am wondering if other users have encountered the same problem.

    Max


  7. I have a different problem with the option „Group common birth places“ for the following situation :

    Older data from our church books report the christening date for a child and the birth place where the parents lived. The actual birth date is not available. For these cases I have used a non primary birth tag with an empty date field and a birth location (LB) followed by a primary christening tag with both the date and the location of the church (parish, LC). The birth location and the parish are in most cases not identical. The journal report with « Group common birth places » cannot handle this situation correctly : it takes the location for « all born at … » from the primary christening tag (LC) and not from the birth tag. The Birth location is ignored. I assume that the problem is caused by the fact that both tags belong to the same tag group and that the common birth place is taken from the primary tag and not from the actual birth tag. This makes the gouping option useless for me.

    Max


  8. Just wanted to say that I am also using Times New Roman in my Journal Reports and that I was able to generate a Journal report covering 15 generations of about 3500 individuals. It took some time but the report eventually appeared in a Word document without error messages. I noticed, however, that in the current version 8.02 the endnotes are listed with Roman instead of Arabic numerals. I could not yet find a way to change this.

    Max

     

    P.S. I am using the German language setting

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