Helmut Leininger

Polly, You can download it from here (if this was your question): http://www.johncardinal.com/tmgutil/ Regards Helmut

Hi, I will first tell the story (shortened version) that I found in a church register from 1841 before asking the question. May 13th 1841 in the evening, Johann Niederer (1), wanted to go home from the nearby inn of Andreas Niederer, rather drunk and accompanied by two children of his step-daughter Magdalena Niederer. But he staggered too much and fell into the Rhine together with one of the children, named Agatha Lutz (2). Due to the yelling of the other child, named Ferdinand Lutz (3) the innkeeper Andreas Niederer (4) and his step-daughter Magdalena Niederer (5) came out. The innkeeper tried first to rescue Johann Niederer with a bucket, but Johann Niederer let it go. Then the innkeeper fetched a hook-pole, could not catch Johann Niederer any more, but succeeded in rescueing Agatha. Many searches on May 14th were without success. It was May 27th in the evening when finally Johann Lutz (6) and Ferdinand Lutz (7), a teacher, found his body swimming in the Rheinholz (wood in the Rhine). ... He was buried the 29th of May at 7 o'clock in the morning by J. Bachler, priest. I want to store this information in such manner that I can easily "see" this story from all the involved people (with the correct date) and also have "links" to the other involved persons without multiplying the story too often. For sure, Johann Niederer (1) will have it connected to his death. For the others it will probably be an anecdote. Who should be Principal, Witness, ...? Many thanks for your ideas. Regards Helmut

Hi Michael, Thanks for your response. I like the idea with the history tag and will give it a thought.

Hi, Basically, I would like to do the following: Find all persons that have at least one source attached to the birth event. For these persons output a list with: - Name and Id - date of birth - Id (number) of the fist source attached to the birth event - Name and Id of the person's father - Name and Id of the person's mother Is there a way to achieve it? Thanks for your help Regards Helmut

Thank you, Terry. That is what I asumed.

Hi, When you attach a source to an event, in the event window the source is shown with its number and its abbreviation. The abbreviation is cut off (in my case after 34 characters) even if there is more space available to show more characters. It is not really important, but is there a specific reason for this behaviour? I would think that if in the source the abbreviation can be of a certain length, it should show in the event window with the same length (or cut off at the end of the line). Regards Helmut

Hi, I am using TMG 7.03. Now, I have identified (at least) two sources with the following problem: - They can be seen in the "List of Sources" report - They cannot be seen in the Master Source List - They are attached to events, where they appear in the sources of the event, but they cannot be accessed / opened from there either. Data Integrity checks do not show any problem Re-indexing does not help. What can I do to "return to normal". Thanks in advance.

Hi, @Vera: 1) Yes 2) I did not try because I did not want to loose any reference and maybe never find the record again. @Terry: This did the trick. Many thanks to all of you.

Hi, When I am producing a list of people, most names are printed "surname, given name", e.g. "Lutz, Johann". But for a number of individuals, the comma after the surname is missing, e.g. "Lutz Johann". I checked the names and did not find eye-catching differences. What might be the cause? Thanks and regards Helmut

Hi, I just fixed it using TMG Utility. Thanks to everybody for help and John Cardinal for his great utility.

Hi Jim, As you guessed in your mail, it is a problem with a wrong name style. Now, I want to get rid of this and assign another name style ("Deutsch") to the concerned individuals. Is there an easy method to "find all individuals with style XXX and assign style Deutsch" ?

Jim, I uploaded the save and sent an email with examples. Regards Helmut

Yes, i cross-checked it several times. The sort order in the project explorer is ok. BTW, I am using TMG 7.03.

Hi Jürgen, From what I know, this is just the title. But you may position the cursor into the field and press F2 which will give you a list. Helmut from Wien, Austria

Hi, I have reproduced this problem several times using this procedure on a single CPU system with Windows XP SP3: I have set TMG to show the Welcome Window at startup. How I reproduced it: 1) Startup TMG and open the project 2) Startup TMG another time (from outside, not from the running session) and let it show the welcome window. Do not open a project 3) Do some work in the first session or wait one or two minutes. 4) Terminate the second session by clicking on the lowest button of the Welcome Window. The window closes but the process does not. You have nowe two TMG7 processes running. 5) close the first session now (this leaves still one process running) and restart it opening your project- You have now 2 sessions running. I do not know if closing and restarting is really necessary. 6) start working (or maybe just wait ?). After a few minutes The CPU usage of one the two TMG7 processes goes up to full CPU. Regards Helmut

Hi, I would like to add nicknames to several individuals. They should be shown in the details window, preferably also in the project explorer and printed with some kind of reports. In general, adding nicknames quite easy. But I do not want that the entered name is "expanded" with the given name or surname of the person. I.e. if I have a person called John Smith, whose nickname is "sorcerer", I don not want to see it as "John sorcerer" or "sorcerer Smith". Is there an easy way? Thanks

Thank you Terry, that is what I was looking for. Regards Helmut

Hi, I am using TMG 7.0.2. TMG is set to look periodically for updates. Problem: If no update is found (which is true in the majority of start-ups). TMG is not started automatically, it must be started manually. I think this has not been the case with TMG 6.x. Regards Helmut

Hi, I am using TMG 7.02. Maybe I did not read the help carefully enough, but I did not find an answer. My filter definition screen looks this (and the filter seems to work): What is the meaning/function of the checkbox at the left (pointed to by the hand)? If I check it, the condition is rejected and I do not get an output. Regards Helmut

Thanks, Jim Regards Helmut

Hi Terry, I am using German language. And if I mark this field, the error message I get is the following: "Fehler: Unbekannte Filter-Bedingung - "GEBURTS-GRUPPE* TAG"; DATUM/HAS MODIFIER" Clicking on Ok continues and selects 0 records for the lst condition although all are primary events. Changing the condition from GEBURTS-GRUPPE to GEBURT does not give the error message but the last condition finds 0 records --> no output. Changing the language to English shows a totally different behaviour: All 4 cases produce the same result (i.e. a good selection). So it seems there is a bad Language problem within TMG. Regards Helmut

Hi, conc.: output to PDF: Microsoft Office 2007 has a export possibilty to PDF (must be downloaded and installed, but is free). Another possibility is "FreePF XP" (downloadable from http://freepdfxp.de, they have also versions for Windows 9x/ME/NT), free of charge, works like a printer from every program. Regards Helmut

Pierce, You have to differentiate between a thumb drive (USB (2) memory stick) and an external hard drive connected via USB2. Of course, they probably will not reach the speed of an internal disk. But I think the difference using the latter, especially in random access as databases usually do, is rather small. External drive: advantage: fast, big capacity like 300 or 500 GB, disadvantage: size, maybe external power needed USB Memory: advantage: small, disadvantage: low capacity (about 2 or 4 GB), slower REgards Helmut

John, I think if you specify date - Day before (less than) 1 then it should not take full dates (the day here should be 1 - 31) - at leqast it did not in my trial. So probably only one run should be enough. Regards Helmut

Sorry, I just see that my solution is the same as Michael's. I was too fixed on his second part with date empty and creating an additional outpurt. You should get the same result as in Michael's second suggestion with: Tag Type Group is Death AND Date - Day < Comes before 1 AND Date Is Not Empty END Regards Helmut