Michael Hannah

I am not Jim, but the simplest way is to somehow identify the people you want so you can use a Filter for them. One way is to set a Flag to a unique value for the people in this family. Another is to start by selecting a person from this family in the Focus Group and use it to add people that are ancestors, descendants, and or spouses until the entire family is added to the Focus Group. I note that Legacy cannot directly import from TMG, so you will have to do a GEDCOM export. Be sure to choose the Enhanced option and then select this subset of people, either by Flag value or by Focus Group, when you do the GEDCOM export.

FT SuperTools is essentially the Visual ChartForm subset of TMG Version 7.0 which came out roughly in 2008. The Wholly Genes company halted all development of any products in 2014, so I believe what you have is probably the last version available. The list of reports you see in the dropdown menu are all the possible reports in TMG V7, which is what FT SuperTools is based on. But TMG has the capability to produce many other types of reports that SuperTools cannot. Those are the reports that you see grayed out in SuperTools. SuperTools only produces charts, and only those you see in bold. I don't know what you are attempting to do, but depending upon what database you are using there are likely to be more current programs to do what you want with more advanced features. P.S. This Forum is no longer monitored by the company, only by a few of us dedicated users of TMG. We will try to help as best we can. I see that you joined this Forum in 2006, but last posted in 2011. Welcome back. I also note that Virginia Blakelock helped you with FT SuperTools back in 2011. You may be interested to learn that she died on February 15, 2019, age 81. She was an active TMG user and helped many of us over time. I had the great privledge of knowing her personally. She is sorely missed.

No, if you have a NEW laptop then you are doing a brand new initial install, not a reinstall, since it is new to that specific OS installation. For any new install you need to properly go thru the registration process twice. It is not a good idea, and not necessary, to run as Administrator for your normal TMG activities as you say you are doing. You need to enter your registration twice... once running as a Standard user and once running TMG as administrator. Run TMG normally and enter your registration information. Exit. Run TMG by right-clicking on the shortcut and selecting 'Run as administrator'. Respond affirmatively to the security prompt. Enter your registration information and immediately exit afterwards. Then from now on use TMG by running normally as the Standard user. SInce you did run TMG as administrator there may now be issues where some normal user data files are owned by Administrator and thus the Standard user does not have permission to access these files. Hopefully that will not be true, but be forewarned that you may have to set permissions for the Standard user on some such normal user data files. Ask if you have problems.

I use Pseudo People extensively in my TMG projects, both as "Census people" and as "Location people". I think being able to focus on a particular census is a perfect use of this concept. Pseudo People is a rather advanced usage of TMG so you might be interested in reading the extensive section on that topic in my on-line book at: https://www.mjh-nm.net/STYLE.HTML#PseudoPeople How I create and use "Census people" is described in a separate chapter here: https://www.mjh-nm.net/CENSUS.HTML#CensusPeople and my discussion of creating "Location people" is here where I use it to create a "Cemetery person" for cemeteries with lots of my ancestors' interments so I can identify everyone I have found there: https://www.mjh-nm.net/STYLE.HTML#LocationPerson Note that these "people" are especially useful when using Second Site as that "person" provides hyperlinks to all the associated "real" people. Hope this gives you ideas,

I suspect? there may be a message on a hidden window waiting for your action. When TMG appears to hang click on the "Window" menu item along the top of the TMG window, and choose the menu item "Center the current window". See if that causes a window with a message requiring your action to now appear.

Jean, What Operating system are you using, and how are you trying to print? The print routines in TMG were updated in Version 8 to let it work with later Windows operating systems. You might try generating your report to a Word document, and then printing that using Word. Hope this gives you ideas,

See also Terry Reigel's excellent on-line tutorial about moving to a new computer and/or TMG version here: https://tmg.reigelridge.com/new-computer-version.htm

I have also seen this when some users have (mistakenly) tried to "OPEN" a backup .SQZ file. Be sure you really are trying to open a .PJC file.

Kaye, If you want all the gory details of what will be lost in doing a TMG GEDCOM export, see the Import/Export chapter of my on-line book and the separate section on GEDCOM export: https://www.mjh-nm.net/IMEXPORT.HTML#GedcomExport Pay special attention to my topic "Two-Principal Tags", but as Jim warns there is A LOT more that IS LOST in a GEDCOM export. The more of the advanced features of TMG you have used the more that will be lost. This is not a failing of TMG, but mainly due to GEDCOM having no standard way to represent a lot of what you can record in TMG. It is for this very reason that Version 9 of TMG added a special option to do an enhanced GEDCOM export, which will output non-standard custom GEDCOM tags containing much (but not all) of the data from TMG which cannot otherwise be exported in a standard manner. It is also why John Cardinal wrote his new TMG To GEDCOM program (which only works with Version 9) to export even more of TMG's features and data, and also will customize its program's non-standard GEDCOM tags in a manner which specific other genealogy programs will accept. Doing the export does no harm to your TMG data, but it will only contain the very basic genealogy information.

John, Have you tried to do a backup where the option is set to NOT include external exhibits?? What operating system you are using? If it is an older version it is possible by including exhibits the backup file may have become a bigger single file than your system can handle. Clutching at straws here.

Sorry, I know of no variables or automated way to generate that data in a TMG report. That is one of the nice things about Second Site in that the separate Parent Section at the top of the person's page gives the parents' birth/death dates.

Well, that is just an example of how TMG lets each user do whatever works for them. I was basing my statement on my perception of user comments made in the past, but I am probably biased by my use on my main project where out of nearly 6000 people (nearly 10,000 "names") I have only 250 Name tags with a citation. Only 19 Primary name tags have citations, the rest of the citations are explaining the "alternative" name. We all record data differently.

Hi Judy, First you need to realize that "Sources" are not connected to a surname. "Citations" to sources are connected to Name tags, Relationship tags, and Event tags. If you want to find all citations to "Name" tags where those tags have a specific surname, Jim's suggestion is great. However, few people actually put citations on Name tags. If you want to list all citations to "Event" tags where anyone linked to the event has a particular surname, then I suggest a Filter on the List of Citations of: Linked Event... / Any Witness Surname / = Equals / (enter the surname) / END Of course you could combine three filter conditions together of: Linked Name... / Surname / = Eguals / (enter the surname) / OR Linked Relationship... /Parent's Name#; Surname / = Equals / (enter the surname) / OR Linked Event... / Any Witness Surname / = Equals / (enter the surname) / END That way you get all citations to any type of tag which involves that surname. In the Report Options I would suggest including columns like: Source Number, Source Abbrev, and Linked Record; Tag Type Hope this gives you ideas, Michael

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Might be enough, but for some people that did not work. Many seemed to need to force the presence of at least two or three valid entries to prevent the bug from reoccuring. And you can do that by just going to a couple of people by ID without clearing the history. Seems simpler.

Terry, This is one of the known remaining bugs. See: https://mjh-nm.net/BUGS.HTML#B89 That includes details and workaround. Michael

You need to define a custom Tag Type in the Marriage Group, perhaps named "Marr-Sens", identical to the Standard marriage tag type. Use this Tag Type for this couple. Don't bother about excluding anything in this tag. Now when you run your reports use the report options to select tag types and exclude this sensitive tag type. And when you run reports for yourself you can include that tag type and all will look normal. Hope this gives you ideas, Michael

In addition, David, in case you were wondering about this option. John's TMG Utility has several features to do global changes to citation details, etc., but I double-checked and the program has no option to automatically obtain the Source Number for a citation and insert it into some part of that citation's details. Sorry. This is (yet) another reason why I use Second Site and not Journal reports to review my data as part of clean-up. As you probably recognize, having this citation's Source Number at the front of each footnote citation really helps to correct some mistake I made in a citation.

You are welcome, Buzz, but Terry deserves all the credit.

See the step-by-step instructions about moving TMG to a new computer on Terry's Tips web pages: https://tmg.reigelridge.com/new-computer-version.htm

First, Quish, Terry is correct that "most" Preferences which affect the display are stored as part of the Layout. Unfortunately, filtering to show only Primary events is not. It is stored with the project's overall Preferences. Just to be clear look at the "Details" window for any person. Does the first column of the Tag area have the title "Filtered"? I assume it does. There are two ways to change that Filtered setting. I assume you are opening "Preferences" and under "Tag Box" you are checking "Show non-primary events", and then clicking "Apply" on the Preferences window. Correct? That is one way. If you reopen Preferences is the box "Show non-primary events" still checked? If not I am guessing you missed the "Apply" step. A second way to turn off this filtering is to click in the tag area of any person and "Right click" to pop up a menu. Select "Filter for..." and you can then uncheck the filter item of "Primary events". In either case when you exit that project it should save the setting in the project overall Preferences. Hope this helps, Michael

Are you looking for a Genealogist to research and build your family tree for you? But do that and record the data in TMG and publish it using Second Site in a website for you? What exactly is the scope of work you want done?

Hi Roz, I also include her maiden name as part of entering a woman's Married Name tag, but I let TMG automatically add her maiden surname by using a custom Name Style. I describe my "Name-Marr-Title" custom name tag which uses my custom "Married" name style in my on-line book here: https://www.mjh-nm.net/TAGCUSTM.HTML#NameMarrTag However, you seem to want to have both her maiden name, and her "previous" married name. I think the narrative makes the list of marriages clear so I only ever include the maiden name. However, since your method requires you to actually type in her maiden name in the suffix, e.g. "-[Jones]", maybe typing all appropriate prior names in order would work, e.g. "-[Jones/Smith]". Would this do what you want? Hope this gives you ideas,

I am not Terry, but no, it does not limit the repetition of citations, you get the same "number" of citations. But it just makes sure there is citation detail instead of just the word "ibid". For more on this see the section on Ibid in the Source Guide chapter of my on-line book here. I don't disagree with Jim's "lumping", if it works for him that is great. It would not work for me. For USA I have one source record per county/microfilm. A county spanning multiple films is multiple source records. Multiple counties on the same film are multiple source records. I have a whole chapter about recording Census data here, and my custom Source Template for census data is here. Hope this gives you ideas,

Hi Ron, There are many different ways to deal with this, including use of TMG Name Styles. Each will probably have advantages and disadvantages. You might find it useful to read the "Names" section of the Data Entry chapter of my on-line book: https://www.mjh-nm.net/DATENTRY.HTML#Names It discusses various customized ways to enter names in TMG. Hope this gives you ideas, Michael