Michael Hannah

I use a custom tag type in the Death group something like what Terry suggests. The death is "assumed" based on the evidence of a burial. See my "DeathAssumeBur" custom tag type: http://www.mjh-nm.net/TAGCUSTM.HTML#BurialTag Hope this gives you ideas,

Pete, I have the old installer file for Version 7.04 Gold US edition. Let me know if your registration key is for that version and you want it. But I agree with Terry that instead you should try to buy a Version 9.05 registration key while you still can.

Bertho, Since you are having problems, instead of trying to click on the email link, use your mouse to hover over the link and it will display Jim's email address. Now simply type that address in as the address for your Outlook mail message.

If you want to specifically place the period, John's idea will probably work. But if you would be satisfied with the output as: "John was big".1 then you could probably simply escape the trailing quote character in the memo like this: "John was big\" I also have not tested this, but believe this will work. This is typically how you get TMG to ignore the trailing character in a sentence when it does its end-of-sentence processing and automatic period and citation reference placement. Hope this gives you further ideas,

If you don't mind creating custom Source Types, you might look at my custom types in my on-line book. I choose to create general purpose types which can be used for a variety of different sources. For the Yearbook maybe my Government Register: For the Application maybe my Government Certificate. Hope these give you ideas,

If this parent is the only parent linked as a parent to these children then I think the following will be simpler. And it will retain any citations or other notes you may have on the parent/child relationship tags, plus any other tags and data about this person. Go to this parent person's Details. Now open each of this parent's children's relationship tag (e.g. Dau-Biological, Son-Biological) Record for later use the ID number of this child. Delete the ID number of the parent (not the child, the parent) from within the Parent slot on this tag. Once this is done for all children, double click on the SEX Flag in the Flags window for the parent. Simply change their SEX from M to F. Next, using the '#' (number sign) Menu button, use their ID number to go to the Details window of each of the children in turn. You will see a "Parent-Biological" tag down in the child's Details, and they will no longer have a Primary father. Open that tag and enter the (now female) parent's ID back into the Parent slot on the tag. It will now show as Mother-Biological. Finally, select that tag and press the '*' (asterisk) key to make that tag show as the Primary mother. Do this for all the children. This should keep all the tags and links and everything you have about this person. Probably takes longer to write this down than to do it. Unfortunately, if you already had linked someone as these children's Primary mother, as well as perhaps linked this parent to some female by marriage, you will have a little more work to do. You first will need to unlink that mother so that this (now female) person can be linked as their mother. But the concept is the same. Just delete the links, make the SEX changes necessary, then add the ID links back in to those existing tags where you deleted the link. Hope this makes sense and gives you ideas,

But as the bug "workaround" states, if you change the font size of "Normal" text in your default Word document template to be the same as you are using for your TMG report default, and save that document template, then the next time you produce a report TMG will use that default template. Then following the changed text in that bibliography entry the font will change "back" to the Word default (instead of the TMG default). But since they are now the same, it will look okay and mean you have nothing to "deal" with.

If the source entry near the end of your bibliography includes a change to the font size, your problem may be related to a known outstanding bug about fonts. See the description of the bug and the workaround in my on-line list of outstanding bugs remaining in the final version 9.05 of TMG: Text font does not reset after font change in a Bibliography when output to Word Hope this gives you ideas,

As Jim said, use a List of Events report, which is what I explicitly suggested.

Sorry, I don't know what is wrong. I daily login and check this website from my Android phone. Not sure why an iPhone should be any different. What error message do you get?

I don't know what events the original poster planned to record, but several people believe they have traced ancestors back to times before "AD". As only one example, several chinese families can link to genealogy documentation of heads of the family which go back that far. So this question of being able to enter such dates in TMG is not uncommon, which is I why I have included the customized method for doing so in my book.

There are a few specific known issues with some TMG report generations. More specific information is needed. What TMG reports are you trying to produce, using what output format, and are you creating the file and then printing it or sending it directly to printer?

If you are making copies of the identical exhibit file so that you can have multiple names for the same exhibit, then I would probably label you a splitter. I also think this is unnecessary and generally a bad idea. I prefer to have only one external file for a given exhibit, and then have multiple exhibits pointing to that one file linked to however many people and events desired. Therefore I name the file based on the nature of the exhibit itself rather than what it is linked to. In my mind being able to link multiple exhibits to the same file is the main value of external exhibits. And if you edit or update that one file, as long as you keep the file name the same all the exhibits will now have the updated image. Using your example, if you have a page of a census record which contains multiple families, I would name the file something like "CENS US 1860 Indiana Wells SD8 ED158 pg12A". I would then have an exhibit on each Census event for each family, all of which linked to that one file but each exhibit could have it own separate caption. Even if you want to have multiple Windows file names for the same file for some reason, you can do that in Windows by making a Windows "shortcut" of a different name to the same file without the need to copy the file. However, whether you link a TMG exhibit to the shortcut name or to the actual file name, the Exhibit Log will show that it is a link to the actual file name not the shortcut name. Hope this gives you further ideas,

I don't believe so. It is my understanding that an external exhibit is linked solely based on the filename. Once you change that filename TMG cannot find the file. There are ways to find that filename if it was moved to a different folder, but I know of no way to realize its filename was changed. So unfortunately I believe you must do them individually. To be sure I got them all, I would do them one at a time as follows: delete the TMG link to the external exhibit, rename the file, relink the external exhibit to the new name. Sorry. The most thorough and reliable way I can think of to work through such exhibits is using the Exhibit Log. I would have open both the Windows folder with the exhibit files and the Exhibit Log in TMG. Set the Focus and Types in the Exhibit Log as appropriate, even just using "All Exhibits" and "All Types". Now I would select an exhibit in the Exhibit Log whose name I wished to change and click on the Properties button to popup the Properties subwindow. With that open, I would now change the name of that exhibit in Windows. Now back in the still open TMG Properties window of that exhibit click on the "Load" button. Select the newly named file. That will change the link of that exhibit to that newly named file. There still will be an issue if you have linked the same exhibit to multiple people or events etc. in TMG. If you have done this then each time you rename an exhibit, in the Exhibit Log you will need to right-click on the exhibit just renamed and choose "Refresh all thumbnails". Now only the other exhibits which used to link to this old now-missing name will have a frowny face and you can relink those from their Properties using the "Load" function. Don't be confused that when you open their Properties you still see the correct image. You do not have a link, that is just the old stored thumbnail. Yes, this will be tedious, but can be done. Hope this gives you ideas,

Hmm... Glad you were able to resolve your issue, but as I said: Since it was not the thumbnail, it was probably the link. The other action I should have mentioned to deal with links to external exhibits was to run the maintenance routine "Validate File Integrity" and be sure to choose the option "Search for missing external exhibits". Your symptoms suggest that the external exhibits may have now been stored in a folder different than the one when they were linked. That option, with the appropriate folders specified for searching, would likely have fixed the issue in a single action. Ahem, "shoveling snow", golly, what is that? I seem to vaguely remember that from my youth in Michigan

There probably are many reasons why a thumbnail image can be missing or the link to the image has changed. However, rather than deleting and reinserting, I would first open the Exhibit Log. Next change the Focus to "All Exhibits" and (for images) set the Type to "Image". (Not sure if setting the focus and type is required, but can't hurt.) Now RIGHT-click on any exhibit. Choose the Menu item of "Refresh all thumbnails". If the images still exist at the pathname where they were originally linked then all the thumbnails should now show after this refresh. With the Exhibit Log focus showing "All Exhibits" of type "Image" you can also rather quickly scroll through all your images a page at a time and see if any other images are still missing a thumbnail. Hope this gives you ideas,

Yes, VCF stands for Visual Chart Form.

Dennis, TMG is doing what you yourself have told it to do, even if you do not realize it. These V8 folder names are stored as part of the project Preferences itself, and you must manually change them yourself. For further discussions on all the things you need to do when upgrading to a new version of TMG, I highly recommend reviewing Terry's TIps on this topic here. Hope this gives you ideas,

Bill, As Jim mentioned you need to delete recreate the index files for the repeat files. As an aid to learning how to do searches the next time, note the following. To do the Search Virginia suggests, you will need to select "The Master Genealogist v9" forum either from the main menu when you enter (or by clicking here) and enter the search term at the top. That will perform the search within that selected forum. That search term will return two previous posts with questions which mention this same error, and provide the same solution Jim gave. Hope this helps,

Yes, "do overs" are easy. Just close TMG if it is open on that project, open SS, select the SS configuration file for your project, (modify the config if you wish), Ctrl-M to remake the files, wait the few seconds it takes, and refresh your browser page to see the changes. Really easy.

Second Site produces a set of web pages which are computer files. You can store those computer files on any storage device of your choice, including a DVD. I have mine stored on a DVD for backup, on my desktop for ease of navigation, and on my smart phone to be able to refer to them when I am out and about. In your case I would have them at least both on DVD for backup, and on your computer to be able to have a window open of a person when you are trying to compare that person to RM.

David, You do not mention which version of TMG you are using. Assuming it is the final version 9.05, I do not foresee a problem for quite some time to come First, as Jim mentions it is possible some later version of Windows may cause an insurmountable conflict with programs like TMG which worked in Windows 10. However, Microsoft has historically taken steps to provide backwards compatibility to working programs, such as the existing "Compatibility Mode" feature in Windows. Next, even if one was "forced" into that new OS and it also did not provide a mechanism for some older programs to work, I expect a virtual operating system package, e.g. Parallels, is highly likely to allow a previous compatible version of Windows to run as a guest operating system under that new OS, thereby extending further the lifetime of such older programs. Thus I believe the probable working lifetime of TMG to be extremely long. And by then I would expect/hope that a more modern version of a personal genealogy program would exist which would be able to import most of the TMG data. I, for one, have no plans to convert from TMG, and expect to be long gone by the time it would be required. As for taking actions to preserve one's TMG data, I would periodically create a full backup fileset on some external media, e.g. CDROM, and store it off-site. Within that fileset I would suggest a four-tiered approach. First, I would at least include the TMG installer and required unlock data, all the external exhibit files, and the latest full TMG backup with options set to backup everything except the external exhibits. Second, I would on occasion generate a report file of a Journal report of all people in the project using options to include everything. (If you later become concerned about being able to read that computer media, just print that report to hardcopy.) Third, I would regularly generate a GEDCOM file of all people and use the Enhanced Export Options available in version 9.05 to export as much as can possibly be included in a GEDCOM. Finally, if I were really paranoid I would sometimes include files generated by the "export data" function of the TMG Utility which can export some of the internals of TMG, such as Places, Sentences, Sources, and Styles. Hope this gives you ideas,

Laura, You say you just changed computers. In addition to what Jim suggests above, I would highly recommend reviewing Terry's Tips about installing TMG on a new computer. See his web page here.

I don't know about other users, but I do all my image editing outside TMG. I find the TMG image editor very limited, and most other separate image editor programs have a lot more features and capabilities. My impression from comments of other users in the past is that most others feel the same. If you do not already have an image editor you like, you might consider the free program "Irfranview" which has been recommended by several users. By the way, I do know that the final version 9.05 of TMG does still have at least one known bug in the image editor which I have included in my list of outstanding bugs. But I was unaware of any action in the editor that freezes the program. I will try to reproduce it and add it to my above list of known bugs. Hope this is helpful,

You will need to figure this out since TMG, like most programs, requires administrator privileges to install it.