Michael Hannah

Walter, It is easy to get confused with this, but in most cases TMG is doing what it "thinks" you want. The key when changing views is to notice what person or tag is selected/highlighted. If you go to Tree view, what is selected/highlighted in the Person view will determine who will be the focus of the Tree. For example in the Person view if you select/highlight the Father and then do Ctrl-T, you will get the Father's Tree view, not the focus person of the Person view for whom this is the father. If you immediately do Ctrl-P you now will get the Person view of the Father, since he was selected in the Tree view by default, and not the original person. Likewise, in the Tree view if you select/highlight someone other than the focus person of the Tree and then do Ctrl-P, you will get the Person view of that selected person. All this is by design. Hope this helps,

The lack of showing parents in the Individual Narrative is one of many reasons why most of us use the Journal report to send information to others. Generally I find that report reads better and is more complete. Note that if you insert the [PAR] variable in the Birth sentence it will output that data in all narrative reports, where often it is redundant. Jim's pointer to the HELP file of TMG for sentence variables is very appropriate. But if you want even more "gory" details, you could check the entire section discussing Sentence Variables in the Tag Sentence Details chapter of my on-line book about customizing TMG.

I agree with Jim to first check your Collate sequence, as well as be sure you have done the maintenance routines of Optimize / VFI / Optimize. However, there remains a bug in the Soundex sorting in both the Picklists and Project Explorer in the final version of TMG. That bug is listed in my web page of remaining TMG bugs. See the detailed description of that unexpected behavior here: Soundex sorting does not group as implied by the title of the sort Hope this gives you ideas,

You have to "trick" TMG into not realizing that the quotes are quotes, so that it does not perform its end of sentence processing including them. Use the ASCII keyboard codes for the two quotes. For left double quote, hold down ALT while entering 0147 on the numeric keyboard. For right double quote, hold down ALT while entering 0148 on the numeric keyboard. You only need to do this trick if the quotes are the last thing in the sentence. Hope this helps,

You do not indicate that you limited the filter to Primary Birth tags. Is it possible that these people have multiple Birth tags and one (non-Primary) tag is before 1940?

The PJC file is just pointers to the many data files plus some configurations. Check your Preferences carefully after loading a new PJC file. If you use the one from your backup it should be good. A PJC file is just a text file so you can view it in Notepad or something to see what it contains.

TMG consists of a large number of separate files, all of which must be kept in sync. I do think you "crashed and broke some files". The safest thing is to restore from the most recent backup. You do regularly back up your project, don't you?

Ahhh!!... You didn't mention that you were not creating the backup on an internal data drive. As I mentioned TMG needs exclusive control of the backup file when it is running. Software drivers for external drives, most notoriously for thumb drives, often interfere with actions to these external devices, attempting to buffer the activities among other things. There have been many posts on this Forum and the TMG-L list over time strongly recommending that backups always be made to internal drives, then copied or moved to some external device if desired. So this "fix" makes total sense. Glad I could give you a clue as to where to look,

I still suspect some background process is monitoring and interfering with TMG's need for exclusive control of the backup folder. Possibilities which Windows 10 (re?)installs by default are "Windows Defender" and especially "OneDrive".

You are quite welcome. Good idea. I hope Harry will be able to get to you soon. Yes, TMG only runs on Windows. Yes, I hope it will too. I have no experience with a Mac or the separate Parallels software or installing Windows under Parallels, but I do know that others have been successful. If you do have problems or questions, you may want to post a message to the TMG-L Email list where many TMG users continue to respond and some users who have done this may be able to offer suggestions. See http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html Good luck, and welcome back to TMG.

TMG Version 7 has some problems running on the latest versions of the Windows operating system. TMG Versions 8 and 9 were released to deal with many of these issues as well as fix bugs and add enhancements. For these reasons I suggest you try to purchase a license for the final Version 9 while you still can. See the topic: http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index.php?/topic/15915-tmg9-final-installers-v905/ If you do choose to contact Harry to purchase a Version 9 license, give him some time to reply as selling these is a part-time activity for him. No matter what version of TMG you choose to use, TMG will only run under Windows. The only way to run TMG on a Mac is using some form of program which allows a Windows operating system to (also) run on that Mac. Glenn Gilbert (who unfortunately has since passed away) posted several instructions about doing that, especially using Parallels. His most current posts deal with running the final TMG Version 9 on a Mac, but they would probably be adaptable to Version 7. See: http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index.php?/topic/15980-tmg-9-on-mac-in-2015/ Note that you will still need to obtain and install an appropriate Windows OS as part of this solution. If you choose to stay with your existing TMG Version 7 then I recommend getting Windows XP. Otherwise the TMG final Version 9 will run on the latest Windows 10. Hope this helps,

For the data, backup every project and copy over the SQZ files. For the program, get a copy of the installer and do an actual install of the program.

Sorry, Jack, but I know of no way to suppress the comma from the end of the place name. In fact, it is even worse than that. There is a remaining bug in the final TMG version where that annoying extra comma will be output in reports, but will not show in the sentence preview making you think everything is fine until you generate the report. See the entry in my list of outstanding bugs: "Extra comma shows in reports but not in Sentence Preview"

I assume when you say "(I do say to create married name)" this implies you have set the "Preferences // Program Options // Prompts // Prompt for married names" as being checked? A Name-Married will only be created as part of creating a Marriage tag, and then only when the male linked to the Marriage tag has a surname, and there is a female linked to the Marriage tag. Under what circumstances do you not see these Name tags being created? Are you getting the prompt asking if you want a married name? If so and you click Yes, what do you see in the female's Detail screen?

You might check to see if the log of any antivirus program shows it has chosen to block TMG.

Hi Judy, Have you tried the Report Options for the Journal Report on the "Tags" tab? Since you are mentioning events for children, you might try the settings I use: Applies to: Only children that are carried forward Include only: Birth Death Format: He was born in If a child has their own section (is carried forward) then in the parent's section the report only lists the abbreviated events checked/included, i.e birth/death. That avoids some repetition since all that child's events will be output in their own section. But if the child does not have their own section then all the tags selected for the report are included/repeated for that child in the parent's section. With these options a particular child's data will always be there, either in their own section or repeated within their parent's section. There will still be some amount of repetition within a parent's section, but I know of no way to avoid that and still output all children's information somewhere. Of course, if you do not want to replicate any child's events in a parent's section you could check the option: Applies to: All children But then as you have noted, if the child does not have their own section (does not themselves have children) then their events will not appear anywhere in the report. Hope this gives you ideas,

As I suggested, not that I know of since this Descendant report is not listing marriages but listing children. I believe other reports, such as a Journal report, list marriages based on the Marriage tag date.

I believe the Descendant Indented Chart is not ordering by marriage date because it is not designed to list marriages. It is designed to list "Descendants", i.e. the children, and thus lists children based on their birth dates. So unlinking children from this woman who were not begat by this woman seems appropriate.

Roger, First, if you only want a calendar of birth date anniversaries, I would suggest you look at John Cardinal's program "On This Day". http://www.johncardinal.com/otd/ It can make a calendar from your TMG project of events throughout the year. You can filter for BMDB ((birth, marriage, divorce, death, burial) events, and restrict to Primary events. This might directly do what you are desiring. However if you want a full chronological list of birth dates you need to do something like Terry mentioned. Terry is correct that the List of People report has no options to format the date, so sorting on a column of the month output with alpha characters does not sort chronologically. However, the LOP does (somewhat) abide by the Program Preferences for the date format. You could (temporarily) set your "Preferences / Program Options / General / Date format" to "yyyy.mm.dd". The LOP output column of "Birth Group* tag; Date" will use that format, and you can choose to sort the report by that column which should produce (approximately) chronological results. Unfortunately, the LOP output column of "Birth Group* tag; Month" expects the input to be alpha characters, and thus the report outputs a value of zero for all months. However, the List of Events report does abide by the Program Options for the date format. Thus one could perform a two step process using a temporary Flag. Run a List of People report like Terry suggested to set a Flag to identify the descendants which you want. Then run a List of Events report filtered for Principal1 having that Flag value, and Tag Type Group is Birth. Sort the Output Columns on (now with numeric values): 1=Date - Year, 2=Date - Month, 3=Date - Day. Add any other output columns such as the Prin1 name and/or ID and the full Date value. That will give you a full chronological list of birth dates of these descendants. Hope this gives you ideas,

Okay, Jim, I give up I have a new Win10 tablet and am trying to install TMG. It seemed to install (as administrator) just fine. I then ran the program (as administrator) and it opened just fine, asked for unlock, and that was successful. Exit and run as normal user. Opened just fine with the Welcome screen showing the serial number. Attempt to open the Sample project. The screen clears and the Toolbars all display, but the program just hangs. Task Manager says program not responding. Must abort the program through Task Manager. No backup programs (I disabled OneDrive) and no virus protection yet installed. Any suggestions? Help? I am guessing this is some permissions issue, but where should I look, and for what?

Not sure what the problem was. Compatibility mode got TMG to at least open the Sample project so I could change program settings. However based on Jim's comment that TMG doesn't need compatibility mode, I opened Properties on tmg.exe and turned off compatibility and the program now runs just fine. Very strange, but I am not arguing with success. Just glad to be up and running. For what it is worth, it is a tablet but I run in desktop mode.

Problem solved. TMG runs fine if and only if in compatibility mode for Windows Vista (Service Pack 2).

After unlocking running as Admin and exiting, I opened as Standard and it was already unlocked. Correct. Temporarily disabled for testing.

Rowan, I agree that things really look strange. I looks like your database tables have a problem. Have you recently modified or moved your TMG database files or folders in any way? Have you started using some kind of cloud or automated backup program? You didn't mention so I wonder whether you have tried the Maintenance routines available in the "File" menu? Remember to do Optimize, followed by Validate File Integrity (VFI). Repeat those two until VFI shows no errors. Then do a final Optimize. If that does not work, you could run your V9 UK TMG installer program as Administrator and choose the Repair option. Report back on the results. If those don't work hopefully another one of us users may have an idea.

When you open the Focus Group window you can click the "Load" button. That will popup a window with a list all your saved focus groups. In that window you can select them one-by-one and Delete them in this window. When done be sure to do the Maintenance routine of Optimize. That should also free up some of this space in these tables.