nbradley

As a general rule I only make changes on my home desktop computer. I use the laptop as a reference when I am visiting relatives or travelling. Occassionally I will expect to pick up so much data that it will make more sense to update the laptop and then backup/restore that data to my home pc. As I would only do this rarely it is not difficult to "remember" which machine is the master.

Genviewer from Mudcreek Software is a useful and cheap tool which (amongt other things) will show you any islands which you mave have in your data. If you decide to buy it then I recommend that you pay the small additional amount and also purchase Genmatcher as I have found it to be a very useful addition to my suite of geni tools.

Using "After" can give you some odd results in filters. Probably harmless enough in Burials. I leave the burial date blank if it is unknown and I just rely on a sort date to tidy up the sequence

Mike It is under Preferences (Tags??). I don't have V7 on my work computer yet. I found that I had to save my Layout with that change to get rid of the annoying buttons as they kept coming back.

If in doubt - consult John Cardinal's TMG Utility. Yet again John comes up trumps. I had a quick look and it will do what you want.

John, The Journal Report is not designed to give you that information. Spouse Events really only gives you the names of the Spouse's parents (if known). As the children of a previous marriage aren't related to the primary ancestor in your report you wont see them. The only way to get them to show up is to add a parent relationship between the children of the previous marriage and your desendant (e.g. father-step or father-ado) and to make that relationship primary. You wont see the spouse's earlier partner but you will see the children.

I'm not an expert on this one but I have noticed that I only get endnotes with my document when I select a word processor format. In other cases I have had to run the separate Endnotes report. Hence I have two sub-optimal suggestions :- 1. Run the endnotes report to rtf and cut/paste 2. Output your report to Word and then save in rtf format from within word. Hopefully someone else will have a better idea.

Rich, You can access the Book Manager screen from Reports, Book Manager. As with everything else in TMG there is probably at least one other way to do it. If you have saved a "book" definition then it will have an extension RPB and you can select any previously saved "book" from within Book Manager. The files with extension RPT which you refer to are Report definition files. They can be opened / selected from within the report type where they were saved. Each report has a default definition (name of the report.rpt) but you have the ability to save others with any name you select. Hope this makes enough sense to head you in the right direction.

If you are looking to print spouse parents then (sadly) the DIN report lacks that capability (I don't know why). I use the Journal Report - different output format but it gives the maximum amount of detail including spouse parents.

There was a thread yesterday "Multiple Data Sets for large Files" where one member said he was happily using one project for 150,000 names. I have 28,000 names and I strongly agree with Terry. You have much more flexibility and much less dual maintenance with using a single project.

Barry Are you printing to screen or to a file? Try selecting File and something standard like Word for Windows 2000 and see what happens.

As of a couple of minutes ago there was exactly one non birthday event showing up in the Calendar for all of 2008. That event is only showing because I specifically asked a moderator to approve it yesterday. I posted the event in May. As a User Group Co-ordinator, do I need to specifically email for Calendar approval every time I try to post?

Daryl The Descendant Indented Chart has an option under Miscellaneous - "Repeat Duplicate Lines". You want that one unchecked. I don't know why the Descendant Indented Narrative and the Journal Report do not have the same option.

Peter John Cardinal's TMG Utility is exactly what you need. http://www.johncardinal.com/tmg/

Peter 1. There may be a better way (there often is with TMG) but I would filter on Any Event .. memo contains OR Any Event .. any place field conatins OR etc A tad messy but generally you know where that data is so you can be more specific 2. Use the List of Events Report or John Cardinal's TMG Utility 3. Use the List of People Report (or List of Events) or John C's Utility

You might check out GenMatcher from Mudcreeksoftware. It is quite cheap and I find it really useful for comparing files.

Zane, As with most things in TMG there are lots of different ways to achieve most tasks. It is often a matter of personal preference. If you are happy to see a person's nick name printed in all reports then there is nothing wrong with your current method. I do it too. I have found it useful to put the bracketed nick name at the end of the given names i.e. Herbert Joseph (Bluey) rather than Herbert (Bluey) Joseph. You get a more predictable sort when you look people up or include indexes in reports.

Under Preferences, Reports TMG enables very good control over the updating of the "Last Edit Date" field when Flags are updated from either the List of People Report or the List of Events Report. If you forget to set the Preference Field the way that you want it both of these reports will still ask the user whether or not they want the "Last Edit Date" updated. Unfortunately for me no such control exists when Flags are manually updated. I make hundreds of flags changes whenever I buy a new CD of BDM indexes or when new data becomes available on-line. I regard Filters and Custom Flags in combination as one of the most powerful features of TMG. I would love to be able to use the "Last Edit Date" to filter for genuine database changes since the last time I shared data with a particular group of co-researchers (for example). I could then restrict the data that I send them to only those people who have had changes or I could set up a custom index in Second Site so they easily find people who had been updated. Currently, every time I manually change a flag the "Last Edit Date" field updates and becomes somewhat meaningless. It would be very helpful to me if the Preference, Reports option also allowed control of the Last Edit Date when Flags are manually changed. Neil Bradley Western Australia

Good point Jim. My want/need/desire is to do with custom flags. I would be happy with any mechanism which allowed me to control the updating of the "Last Edit Date" on Custom Flags. Individual control of flags would be a bonus. I'd settle for a preference option which controlled all custom flags. Cheers, Neil

Pallbearer isn's a standard tag. Chances are that you have set up a custom tag within the Death group. You might try setting up a similar cutom tag in the Other group and see what results that you get. Cheers, Neil

Zane, It is just the design of the Journal Report. The children of generation X will show with a plus (+) if they have children themselves. To see their full details you need to look at their entry in generation X+1. I assume that the designers of the report decided on a minimal amount of info for children who had descendants themselves to minimise duplication of info. The report is really good once you get the hang of it. Cheers, Neil

Thanks Jim

You might try using the List of People report instead. It allows you to output the Spouse Surname to a column. Cheers, Neil

Jim, How would you suggest that I proceed when I have calendar postings that are not visible. In the past I have sent a number of emails to everyone who I thought might be responsible but have never had a reply. Cheers, Neil

Jim, Are you talking about the "Make Visble to the Public" vs "Personal" option or is there some other function.