Michael Hannah

Probably not, John, those were probably my ramblings and I am probably older and more senile an old fool than you Hmm... How are you using a Filter in Second Site?? I am further confused. But soldiering on... I am "guessing" that you really mean you are using the above filter in a List of People report where you have the Secondary Output set a Flag based on this Filter. And then you use that Flag in Second Site??? Have I guessed correctly? Or how are you filtering Second Site? A TMG Filter like yours may?? be what you want, but I would suggest two changes to the above combined Filter: ( Surname // = Equals // Jones // OR Surname // = Equals // Smith // ) AND ( Name-Marr...// Surname // = Equals // Jones // OR Name-Marr...// Surname // = Equals // Smith // ) END Notice using the Surname name part and the parentheses which are required when you mix AND and OR conditions. Not sure what you mean by "refined" , maybe "defined"?? If your actual goal is to identify only those people who are direct descendants, plus spouses, of a given person, I suggest a better way in TMG is to use a Focus Group. Start with an empty Focus Group and add the common ancestor. Now with that person still selected in the Focus Group, check Descendants for the desired number of Generations, plus check Spouses, and with one click Add all these people to this Focus Group. (I would probably Save this Focus Group of people with an appropriate name for subsequent use.) Of course, descendants of a female who married will include the descendant children etc. with her husband's surname, which may not be what you want. Alternatively, if you have some how identified a group of people based on their surnames, and simply want all of their spouses added to that group, you could again use a Focus Group. Filter the Project Explorer for your group. With an empty Focus Group, Right-Click in the filtered PE and "Add all names to Focus Group". Now in the Focus Group "Select All", check "Spouses". A single Add Others click will now add all these peoples' spouses to this Focus Group. Now that you have these descendants and their spouses identified, run a List of People report Filtered by this Focus Group, and use the Secondary Output to set a unique Flag value for these people. Finally in Second Site set the option in Data//People to "Include" based on this Flag value, or create a Pages//User Items//Custom Index based on this Flag value, or whatever else you want to do in Second Site using the Flag which identifies these people. Yes, but as Jim and Terry warned, some TMG reports (such as various Ancestor and Descendant reports) intentionally generate information about many people based on the focus of the report being a single person. So be careful about which type of report you are generating. Hope this gives you ideas,

John, You were not complete in describing your Search Filter. Assuming you mean the Picklist, there is no "Field" called "Name" and the AND does not seem to make sense. If you mean a Filter something like: Surname // = Equals // Jones // AND Surname // =Equals // Smith // END This doesn't make sense as a person can have only one Primary Name tag which will have only one Surname. Perhaps you are trying to filter some report? Which one, as different reports have different Filter possibilities. To make suggestions I would need to know first what you are filtering (Picklist, or some specific report) and second the exact Filter you are using. (You can change the values of the names if you wish to protect the guilty .)

Mick, The use of the maintenance routines is always a good idea if problems pop up. However your sequence is not the one recommended. FIRST do file>maintenance>optimize (optimize will also do a reindex, so that separate action is not required) THEN do file>maintenance>validate file integrity IF the VFI produces any errors, repeat the above two steps. Finally, after VFI produces no errors do one last file>maintenance>optimize That should clean most everything up. (This is also a good time to do a Backup.) Hope this helps,

NO! NO! NO! Do not allow OneDrive to touch or monitor or do anything with the TMG data folders!! By personal experience this can corrupt your files and projects. Always ensure that all the TMG data folders are on your local disk and not under any control of a cloud or backup system. Run TMG only on local files on your local computer. You can then use TMG to make a Backup which will create an SQZ file. You can then move or copy that file either to a folder controlled by a backup system, or to a folder which is on the cloud. If you have external exhibit files you also can store copies on a backup system or a cloud. But everything TMG deals with should be on a local and unmonitored disk. Hope this is clear,

There is an easier way to do all this at once. In the child's (Karen) window double click on the "Mother" label for her primary mother. This will pop-up an Add Tag Entry for Mother-Bio, but the Parent field will have no ID number. Be sure your cursor is in this Parent field (which it should be by default) and just click the "person-+" Add-Person icon in upper right. This will give you the Add Person screen for a female (the mother) and when you OK out of everything she will automatically be linked as the Primary mother since that is how you started. Fewer clicks and things to remember. Hope this gives you ideas,

I suggest you review Terry's Tips about merging projects and datasets: http://tmg.reigelridge.com/merging.htm

No, David, these prefixes are trying to show you that a TMG Project can contain multiple separate data sets. I suggest you review Terry's Tips about merging datasets within a Project: http://tmg.reigelridge.com/merging.htm

You are most welcome, Judith

Laura, Back in January you said you "just changed computers". In a personal message to me yesterday you said this new computer is a Windows 10 computer. What did you do to "install" TMG on this new computer? If you simply copied the TMG files of the program from the old computer's disk to the new that is undoubtedly the problem. To get TMG to correctly operate on a new computer you must actually run the TMG installer program for that version on that new computer. That installer links TMG correctly to the current operating system. Re-reading your error messages it seems possible you have data in your system register from an old operating system referring to paths which do not exist on the new operating system. That is what makes me think the program files were copied, not installed. Just fixing those registry entries will not be enough, you must actually install the program. In your personal message you said: The unlock screen needs three pieces of information: the "name" you used when you got your V8 license, the "email address" you were using then, and the V8 unlock code that Wholly Genes sent you back then to that email address. Is it possible that you still have access to your old computer with V8 running on it? If so open TMG on that computer, go to the Help menu, and select the last menu choice "About The Master Genealogist." That will list those three pieces of information: name, email, and Serial No (which is the unlock code). If you have lost your registration information, you can write support@whollygenes.com. They do on occasion still check that email address, but not very frequently. You should ultimately receive a response but please be patient in case it takes a while. Give them as much information to identify your registration as possible, and they may be able to help. If you don't have access to the V8 installer program, ask here and one of us will point to where you can download that version's installer program. However, I really strongly recommend that you consider upgrading to the final TMG version. I believe you still can buy a TMG9.05 license over the web by contacting Harry Goegebeur. That will give you new separate unlock data for that separate version's installer program. That final version will read V8 projects and update them to Version 9 so you can work on your existing projects with all the final features and bug fixes. Hope this gives you ideas,

Sorry Judith. TMG is strictly a Windows program. Unless there is some way to install Windows as the operating system instead of (or in addition to) Android, TMG will not install on this tablet. I have no experience with this tablet or platform, but will assume that it has a web browser program. An alternative which would at least let you "view" your TMG data would be to use Second Site on your Windows machine to create a set of web pages of your project. You could then load those files on your flash drive and "view" your project using the tablet's web browser. Sorry, but that is the best I can think of for using this tablet.

Glad to hear it, David. Ancestor charts with custom data in the boxes can be very useful. For example, if I know it I put the "cause" of death in Memo1 in the Death tag. Choosing that memo in a chart gives a really good indication of what illnesses run in the family.

I am not sure I understand Terry's reply either. Sure you can include information from "Other" tags on Ancestor or Descendant Charts. Exactly as you noted, go to the Data Types tab. Since the boxes are limited in size you can only include 9 entries in an Ancestor box, but one of these could be the Memo field from your Religion tag. Each of these 9 entries could be from a different tag type, but all people "of that type" will have the same 9 entries output. As you mentioned, in both Male and Female ancestor box types, click on one of the unused Box contents numbered buttons. Now scroll down in the popup list to find the Religion tag and select "Religion* Memo". That will output the memo from the Primary Religion tag for the person. You can only output the fields specified. But if you have entered their type of religion in the memo, this should work fine.

More detail would help concerning what you think is wrong. Flag values and keys can easily get out of sync when you import and/or merge datasets and projects. Flag values and keys can also be Language dependent, so changing languages (e.g. from U.S. to U.K.) might introduce differences. For details of the Flag feature in TMG you may wish to review that section of the Style chapter in my on-line book here. There is also a section in the Import/Export chapter which covers the issues concerning Flags when you merge datasets here. Hope this gives you ideas,

No, you are not dense. The entire issue of Adoption is a complex one to enter into TMG. Remember that TMG is primarily designed for tracking genetic relationships, so Adoptions have to be kind of "squeezed" into TMG. From TMG's point of view Adoptions are an event not a relationship, although most people consider an adoptive parent & child as having a relationship. My on-line book about customizing TMG has a very lengthy and detailed discussion about Adoption which begins here. As that section describes, I find it useful to create several customized tags to deal with this issue. I use custom event tags which have the adopting adults as Principals and the adopted children as Witnesses. Such event tags show in both the Principals' and Witnesses' individual views, so that this situation/event becomes clear in the narrative of all participants. (You do have the "Preferences / Program Options / Tag Box / Show witnessed events" option checked so events show in Witnesses individual views, right?) Since my primary output is Second Site (which will list all relationships, both Primary and others) I also add custom relationship tags when that seems to make sense as described in that discussion. You may not wish to get as thorough and complex as I do, but reading my thoughts about customizing TMG to record Adoptions in TMG hopefully will give you some useful ideas, Michael

Bob, without some idea of what is different/special/unique about the few images and/or their full pathnames which are not being found it is difficult to guess.

Highly doubtful, since as Jim says TMG has nothing to do with sounds. That is strictly Windows.

Hi Bob, If you really want people who have no other source cited to them but this one, I can think of a way do it, but it takes several steps, and a temporary Flag. Assume the ID number of the source is 123, and you have defined a temporary Flag named ABC with values "N, Y", where N is first so it is the default value for all people in the project. First run a List of Events, with a filter of: Any Citation... // Src Number // = Equals // 123 // END Have that List of Events report set the temporary Flag using the Secondary Output, e.g. set the Flag ABC to 'Y' Anyone who has at least one citation to this source now will be set to 'Y' Now run a second List of Events, with a filter of: Any Citation... // Src Number // Does Not Equal // 123 // END Have that List of Events report set the same temporary Flag using the Secondary Output, but reset it for these people back to 'N' Anyone who has any citation to some other source will unset the Flag. So only the people who have at least one citation to source 123, but no citations to any other source, will be left with the Flag ABC set to 'Y' Now you can use either the Project Explorer or List of People filtered for Flag ABC equals 'Y' to identify these people. Note this will only check "Event" tags. If you have citations to Relationship tags these reports will not test for that. Hope this gives you ideas,

Totally agree, Jim, which is a warning I include in the description of this method in my book.

Hi Bob, There is another alternative which several users have adopted for exactly your kind of situation. You can create several "pseudo" people, one for each house. Then each family could have a Residence tag whose Date covered the range of time where that family lived in a given house. Users of this concept then add a custom Witness role to the Residence tag which allows the house "pseudo" person also to be linked to this tag with its own sentence. Pictures of the house can then be added as exhibits to the house "person", as well as other custom tags providing additional information about the house. This approach provides two features. First there is now the house "person" who would have its own separate custom narrative. At minimum this narrative would include all the Residence tags in chronological order of all the families who lived in that house, plus any other information you choose to add. Next, if you use Second Site you can customize the Residence sentence templates for the "real" occupants to include the house "person" in their sentence so that there is a direct hyperlink to the house person's narrative from each occupant's narrative. Further discussion of this idea can be found in the Style chapter of my on-line book. It has an extensive section explaining the general concept of creating "pseudo" people, which includes example custom tags to define a beginning and ending of the "life" of such a person, a custom Flag to distinguish between real and "pseudo" people, as well as other custom tags for descriptive information about such people. In addition there is a specific detailed description and examples for creating Location "pseudo" people such as houses or cemeteries. Takes a little bit of work to initially set all this up in TMG, but it can be quite useful. Hope this gives you ideas,

Hi Bob, I agree with Jim's cautions and recommendations. As for a discussion of Place Styles, normally I would point you to Terry's Tips, but he (rightly) considers this topic advanced and does not cover it in his introductory web pages. While I do use custom Name Styles extensively myself, I have not currently found a need for custom Place Styles. As Jim suggests, and you indicate, I also have simply been "making assumptions about what is the city, county, etc." However if you are interested in some further issues concerning Place Styles, I do have a short discussion of this topic in the "Data Entry" chapter of my on-line book here. As an example of how I handle this issue, a Germany place entry I have in one of my projects is: City: Baltmannsweller County: Esslingen State: Württemberg Country: Germany Hope this gives you ideas,

See the pinned topic for the final installers. Hope you still have your license/unlock code.

Glad to introduce you to custom Flags. They can be very powerful.

You are most welcome, Pat, glad to give you ideas.

Pat asked a similar question, and my reply here describing different methods of defining who "belongs" to a family group, and who does not, also may be of interest. As I said to Pat: "How you choose to set your Flags is up to you and what you want that Flag to show."

Hi Pat, This "Family Group" Flag idea is one which several users have mentioned in the past. For both you and Judy (and any other lurkers) I have tried to give a full explanation of this concept in Judy's thread. See my recent reply to her here. As for your comment about multiple membership in lines when using multiple family group Flags, only you can decide on your criterion for whether a person "belongs" to a given family group. One method I have seen is based on a few end-of-line ancestors as follows: neither the spouse nor the spouse's ancestors are marked as a member of their spouse's family group, but the offspring are all marked as belonging to both. The Flags in this method suggest a person is marked as belonging to a given family group if they should share genetic material with that group's end-of-line ancestor, and is not marked if they could not. So you might use this for your four grandparents, or more appropriately further back end-of-line ancestors. An alternative purpose of such Flags is to identify all persons who are direct descendants or ancestors of one of several specific people (such as your four grandparents). At the opposite end of these direct lines some people would be expected to be marked as direct to multiple of such people, others would not. Another possible purpose is to identify connected versus unconnected family groups. If the project contained multiple family groups each unconnected to the others, each Flag could identify each group. In that case you would expect all four grandparents to be connected to the same single family group, but you might have entered other unconnected family groups who would have their own Flag. How you choose to set your Flags is up to you and what you want that Flag to show. Hope this gives you ideas,