Rob Roy

I've been looking for a method where two or more genealogists from my family association can collaborate on the tree. Currently, I maintain and add to it via TMG. There is nothing better! I urge that TMG 9 be a cloud platform allowing multiple access.

I had an idea, and thought I would see if anyone else has tried this. Drop Box allows you to have files on your PC replecated to the cloud and to other desktops. These files can be shared with other people. If I were to put my TMG files in my drop box folder, and shared them with another family member who lives elsewhere and owns TMG, could we both work on the family data. I know we would have to ensure neigher of us accessed the files at the same time. Anyone tried this?

I was having the same issue. Dorothy at WhollyGenes suggested removing external exhibits from the backup, and this worked. However, I was having issues with other programs as well. Backed everything up, reformated the hard drive, and did a full reinstall of the OS and all software. Issues have all gone away. I liken PCs to ships. Every now and then you have to scrape the barnacles off.

Opps, happened again. Darn, thought I had it figured out!

I have been having this problem intermittently. Finally dawned on my that it started occurring after the last update to WinZIP. I uninstalled WinZIP, and so far, the back up works every time.

I'm suddenly having the same issue. I back up to an internal drive. It all worked a few days agao

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I have probably set something wrong, but darned if I can find it. With some of my early English ancestors, I use the PreSurname field to enter "de". This displays with the full name but is not used in sorting. It has been working as long as I can remember. Suddenly, the PreSurnname field is not displaying. Any suggestions? Rob Roy

I've found the issue, and it is name styles. Thanks everyone. Rob

For counties, I always spell it out, as in "Fairfax County" I omit "United States"

I have a number of exhibits tied to events. I want to move them to tie to the main record. Is there an easy way? Rob Roy

I have two questions on the Journal Report. I have lines that go way back, and yes, some cousins married other cousins. So when I produce a journal report, some people are repeated in a generation. Is there anyway to turn the second and sometimes third listing with full information of a person within a generation, much as is done with a pedigree chart? Secondly, I have tried everything I can think of, but cannot get full justifications when printing to Word. Thank you, Rob Roy

When I print out a journal report, the exhibits linked to the person record have captions, but those linked to events, do not. I have put captions in the exhibit files, they just do not appear. Any suggestions, other than making all exhibits link to the entire record?

I have created a tag called "Gravestone" where (now that I have centering) i put the inscription. The tag reads: The gravestone inscription <[L]> reads: <[M]>[:CR:][:CR:] Is there anyway to prevent a period from finishing off this sentience?

Thank you very much. Worked well

On version 7.00 I discovered a problem with "Circa" The problem remains with version 7.01 I go into English2, and make Circa translate to About. Yet, when I print or preview reports (set for English2, I checked) it still reads Circa.

Yep, I was using the uppercase Circa

I enter sort marriage dates for unknown marriage dates as 1 year before the birth of the first child. If this is unknown, then I use 20 years old for the first marriage. I will also adjust the sort date to meet the dates I do have

I use anecdotes for such information. This also useful for recording obituarys etc.

Exhibits that are linked to events, and not to the primary record do not display their caption when exported into a journal report. I should think that captions would be wanted regardless of their linkage.

Paths can be a problem, espeically in the XP environment, when your "My Documents" folder is down in the tree. My solution is a directory at the root cleverly called c:\TMG. Under it I have reports, exhibits, projects etc. If I move things to another machine (I do this weekly) I just put it in the root and all is well.

I have encountered multiple periods when I end a sentence in a memo field with a period (Full stop for your Brits). The sentence definition adds a period. I now make it a policy to never end a sentence in a Memo field with a period. The same is true for several other fields as well. Let the software end the sentence. Hope this helps, Rob Roy

My solution for BC dates is to record the date as “345 BCE”, then put a number between 200 and 250 in the sort field. I use 200 for birth, and 250 for death dates. 220 is for marriages. Thus events sort in order, but dates appear in the text as BC.

All known decendants of Peter Delva and Lucy Town who settled in Warwick, Massachusetts http://www.delvee.org/Delvey/index.htm The Delvees have been meeting in a pine grove on the original farm of Peter, every year since 1886. Ok, they skipped 1943, owing to wartime restrictions.

This site cointains the present state of my research. www.genealogy.theroyfamily.com