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  1. Posted · Report reply

    I'm not sure where I read it, or how long ago but I thought that TMG was moving away from FoxPro with V8. The odds are pretty good that I will still upgrade to V8 as I've been using TMG for over 10 years but Microsoft has announced that support for FoxPro will end in 2015.

     

    I don't think moving away from Foxpro has been said by WhollyGenes. I remember only that they accepted Unicode as a problem and put it on their Todo-list. But unfortunately, I never have seen a date.

  3. Posted · Report reply

    Hi,

     

    Probably this has already been handled in another thread, but I did not find it.

     

    My question is the following:

     

    The address where my father was born in 1918 is:

    Krugzell, Haus Nr. 12 1/2

     

    around 1935 or 1940 a renumbering of the houses took place and the address was now:

    Krugzell, Haus Nr. 32

     

    Today, its address is:

    Wasserschwenden, Haus Nr. 1

     

     

    This is always the same house that has been built in 1876. How do you handle these address changes referring to the same "physical" location?

     

    Thanks in advance.

  7. Posted · Report reply

    Hi,

     

    It is probably simple but I do not succeed in defining a filter for my problem.

     

    I want to create a people's report conatining all persons that either

    - do not have a death event

    or

    - have a death event but no sources attached to it

     

    If I select "Death ..." (Tod ...) for the field and "Number of sources" (Anzahl Quellenangaben) for the part, the report does not contain any such records and aftrerwards I can see that the filter definition has changed from "Death ..." to "Witnesses Death ..." (Bezeugt Tod).

     

     

    Can someone tell me how to define this filter?

  8. Posted · Report reply

    can I clean the quick list (of recent opened projects) in TMG and HOW?

     

    Hi Ronny,

     

    I think you cannot do this by standard tools. You might manually edit the app.ini file of TMG manually when TMG ist nor started. But be sure to make a backup copy of this file before you edit it.

     

    You can find it in "C:\Documents and Settings\your username\Application Data\The Master Genealogist v7\"

     

     

    Extract of its content:

    [Database]

    Prefix=

    project1=c:\mnt\e\Ahnen\TMG\V7\Projects\Leininger__.PJC

    project2=c:\mnt\e\Ahnen\TMG\V7\Projects\Straka__.PJC

    project3=c:\Eigene Dateien\The Master Genealogist v7\Projects\Sample\sample__.pjc

    project4=

    project5=

    project6=

    project7=

    project8=

    project9=

    LastUsed=c:\mnt\e\Ahnen\TMG\V7\Projects\Leininger__.PJC

    project10=

    LastRPB=

     

     

    In this example project1, project2 and project3 are shown as recently used. Removing the contzent after the = sign does the trick.

     

     

    Regards

    Helmut

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    I'm currently helping a friend with their Romanian genealogy. When I sat down to start entering data I quickly found that I couldn't use some common characters (even copying and pasting from the Character Map didn't work). Is there a way around this? TMG seems able to handle: à, á, &c. fine... but when it comes to: ş, ţ, it replaces the pasted character with the letter followed by a comma (other times it just appears as a question mark). This would be VERY confusing in a print-out, especially with places are separated by commas, i.e., Town, County, State, Country. Is there a work-around for this? Thanks.

     

    Dennis

    Hi Dennis,

     

    No, it cannot. It can treat only ANSI characters / windows character sets like CP1252 etc. You may have a look on various threads about national characters and Unicode.

     

    Regards

    Helmut

  10. Posted · Report reply

    There is a fair amount of discussion out there about the GEDCOM files produced by TMG not transferring all data to other programs (ie., GRAMPS).

     

    I took a look at GRAMPS last night and I like what I see. Has anyone had experience using it in full production?

    Hi,

     

    I do not really use Gramps because I am still a windows user. I tried it (version 3.2) just for interest for a quick and dirty little research for ancestors of my sister-in-law (and because it can handle Unicode).

     

    So, I used only very basic features like entering individuals' dates, relations, marriages etc. But still in this simple case, I miss some basic features of TMG (and others) that cause me not to use Gramps for my main project(s).

     

    - There is no view like the "details window" where I can see all the events for an individual (i.e. birth, baptism, death, children, marriage ...)

    - the "married name" is not generated automatically (ok, I could live with that)

    - You may enter alternate names and married names for individuals, but you do not see them in the person window (what you can in the project-explorer window of TMG). So, it is difficult to search by an alternate name or to see the connections/relations)

    - Nothing to see witnesses etc. in simple way (as I do in TMG when opening an event, not to talk about the Associates window)

    - Even if I do not use them extensively, the capabilities of customizing reports as in TMG.

    ...

  15. Posted · Report reply

    Hi,

     

    I have TMG 7.04. I created a new project with the same settings as an existing one (to be strict I created it by copying a person from an existing project). I have several external exhibits attached to events like births or marriages, no sources yet.

     

    Now, when I run file Maintenance / Integrity check TMg does not ask to chek the external exhibits nor does it find a problem when an exhibit is missing.

     

    I have nevr seen this problem in the "old" project where I have the exhibits attached to soiurces.

     

     

    Is this normal behaviour?

  17. Posted · Report reply

    You may find tmg2gramps (http://www.cohsoft.com.au/tmg2gramps/) that transfers some data from TMG to gramps. It does not transfer everything, just what the author needed for his requirements. I tried it once from TMG V7 and did not succeed (but I did not try too hard).

     

    The second point is if gramps meets your requirements. If you trust the description, it is quite powerful. Here is my personal experience (I tried because I was looking for UFT/Unicode support):

     

    I tried to enter some basic data (individuals, families, some marriages, ...). No problem with the birth date of individuals. My probelms began when I tried to enter a marriage between two persons. I could easily create the marriage event, but I had difficulties to "connect" this event to the individuals. Gramps identifies everything by numbers which is ok (and every program has to do this), but the only way I have found to attach the event to a person was by its number.

    The same for places. In TMG, if you enter a place information for an event etc., TMG looks if the same place exists already and uses it (or by optimizing thd database TMG will do it). Gramps always creates a new place unless enter its ID (number) in the event.

     

    I did not succeed in creating something like the detail person view in TMG where you see an individuals "life", i.e. birth, marriages, children, death, other events. So I gave up after two or three days.

     

    I also tried (just for interest) running TMG in wine, but besides the speed it has a lot of restrictions that do not work.

     

    Probably, the best thing (if you want to stay with TMG) would be to run it in a virtual Windows Environment (such as VMware, Xen, ...).

     

    However, I think you should try gramps first with some people (probably not more than 50) and events, sources, exhibits etc. to see if it meets your requirements and you can get familiar with its terminology and philosophy. This decision (Gramps does what you want and it does it in a way you are going to accept/get used to) is more important than how to import data. Importing data is "just" time consuming work. But if you cannot get used to gramps, the best import feature won't help you to have fun with it.

  18. Posted · Report reply

    How can I make a list of all the living blood relatives of a person

    Hi,

     

    I am not sure if there is an easy way. You may run a report of relatives, but this includes also non-blood relatives (i. spouses, relatives of spouses ...).

     

    I myself, when adding an individual, set a flag that tells me if it is

    - direct ancestor

    - blood-related

    - "just" related

    - not related

     

    This helps me using accents for different kinds of relationships or create several reports.

  21. Posted · Report reply

    "Half" siblings are when you share one but only one biological parent, e.g. you have the same biological mother but different biological fathers. So if the parents of the marriage above have a child, then that new child is now a "half" sibling to the children from both prior marriages, i.e. it will have one but only one biological parent in common with either of the other children.

     

    Hi,

     

    Just to show the "impossibility" to get it straight: half-siblings do not have half-parents but one parent and one step-parent.

  23. Posted · Edited by hlein · Report reply

    Hi,

     

    Occasionally, TMG V7.04 aborts with the following message:

     

     

    Fatal error: Exception code=C0000005 @ 2009.08.21 09:14:20 PM. Error log file: C:\Programme\The Master Genealogist v7\VFP9Rerr.log

    Called from - tmgmain line 556 {C:\Programme\The Master Genealogist v7\tmg\programs\tmgmain.prg c:\programme\the master genealogist v7\tmg7.exe}

     

    Any idea what this might be? Verifying the project does not find any errors.

  24. Posted · Report reply

    Hi,

     

    I am having the same problem (which was not present in V6): When TMG checks for an update (whatever the period may be) it closes after the check and has to be restarted manually. So, you have either to live with this behaviour or you have to abstain from the automatic check for updates

     

    I already reported it in this thread:

    http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index.php?showtopic=10281&hl=update

     

    Regards

    Helmut

  25. Posted · Report reply

    I understand why multi-lingual users need unicode, but I chose this tool so that I could hook on to the data with an ODBC driver and report on it any way I wanted. Unless WG is contemplating moving to an Oracle DB (which by the way will make the cost go up significantly maybe 20 times), I'd hate to see them change the database format.

     

    Marcie,

     

    There are several freely available databases (besides Oracle) that support Unicode, ODBC and JDBC interfaces, known names like mySQL, PostgrSQL and others. Some of them may also be embedded into the program.

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