LornaHenderson

Is anyone here using TMG on Parallels 10 under Yosemite AND having problems with the focus being lost from TMG when you switch across to the mac and come back to continue typing/pasting whatever? This isn't unique to TMG, it is happening to other apps I still run under parallels as well. Up until I upgraded both to Yosemite and to Parallels 10 everything was fine but now this loss of focus is seriously annoying to a touch typist frequently switching between Mac and Windows. Anyone got any clues as to any settings that may be causing this? Parallels aren't much help. Support were willing enough, but clueless. They tried blaming TMG until I said it happened with another as well. Then tried a new VM - no difference, other than I lost my drive mappings to make it easier using the same projct on Mac and my desktop.

If anyone else notices this issue, I've determined that for me it only happens in Full Screen mode (my preferred mode of operation). Out of full screen mode, all works fine.

Hi Lorna I haven't made much use of Ctrl+F3 for repeat values, but if P9 is like P6 you can configure a key combination that will send Ctrl+F3 to windows.

Glenn, I gave up on trying to make TMG run under wine on the mac and bought Parallels 9 to use on my new macbookpro running mavericks. FYI the Mac/Win divide seems, to me anyway to be for all intents and purposes non existent. Once I'd set up a mapping to replicate my D:/Lorna/Genealogy directory for consistency across machines and set up datapaths.txt to reflect the correct path, all is working fine. D:/Lorna/Genealogy is mapped to the appropriate level psf directory. The only problem I'm having is trying to figure out what some of my keyboard shortcuts should now be and either figuring out where to change the default or retrain myself. Still working on how to get Ctrl + F3 Genealogy programs are my only remaining use for windows on this machine, my main every day one.

Hi Heintz57Kids,I've been (and am) running TMG under VMWare and want to reclaim disk space and speed so am trying to transfer to using Wine on my Mac instead of VMWare. Did you ever get TMG8.08 running on the Mac using Wine? Following the instructions here for TMG 8 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=25030 I managed to get it running very well on my linux machine (on Wine 1.4.1) but so far haven't replicated the success on Mac 10.6.8 wine 1.6 using these instructions for Wine http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/ I can get it (TMG8.08) to install but possibly still need to override some settings as it isn't really usable, can't edit memos or use the keyboard to access menus, and if I set on horizontal lines all the text is hatched over! Interested in hearing from anyone with any success in this. And no, Crossover doesn't help. Flatly says it is an unsupported ap that wont work and if you ignore that warning and try anyway, the instal is less successful than following the instructions above from the WineHQ AppDB. My next attempt is going to be to try and get an older version of Wine running on the Mac to see if it was something different between 1.4.1 where I was successful on the Linux and 1.6 the version readily available for Mac, but I'll be floundering as it appears I'll need to work out how to compile source code, something I last did in the 1970s in COBOL, several worlds and decades away from this!!

Jim, As a DNA project admim for several projects I use the (Y) DNA results stored in TMG all the time thanks to John Cardinal's secondsite. It enables me to present both overall results and the links to individual people and my One Name Studies with ease, including any analysis done. But any analysis has been manual. For Family Finder data however I do have a separate MySQL database of downloaded results and several utilities (mostly for data filtering and consistency checking) that I've written to integrate with a private TNG website. Sites like Gedmatch most certainly analyse and compare FamilyFinder results. It is a little misleading to say that eg Family Tree Maker allows storage of DNA data. As far as I can currently see, it allows you to input a tag labelled DNA with a date and notes which hardly compares with TMG, Legacy, RootsMagic (don't know about the others) where you can actually input which test, and the marker results. I've not compared the output options.

TPG I've been experimenting, briefly, with a gedcom from TMG that I exported to RootsMagic, so I could try out their certified sharing with FamilySearch new FamilyTree (the Old familytree has either disappeared or is about to do so). An announcement in the last week said that FamilyTree would now accept sources from RootsMagic, I've not tried that, but have experimented with using their shoebox to save a source found in their records, later attaching it to my tree. Perhaps TMG could become the second piece of certified software to directly interract with FamilyTree Debbie Although obviously not knowing what Whollygenes means by asking you "'What do you mean by "to synchronize"? I would interpret that more as a request to more specifically document your requirements. Mine would be to enable me to choose which part of my database I wished to share/synchronise at any one time, and which events, with which website instead of having to go thru a gedcom. The RM/FamilyTree does allow you to do this person by person and event by event, which would be tedious if you wished to share/synchronise a lot of data but is very suitable where the tree at the FamilyTree end has rather too many duplications Ancestry/FTM has an all or nothing, which I most defintiely do not want, so restrict my links there to a one way download of ancestry data to FTM just to get a backup of my research there. In the meantime, I continue sharing my data using SecondSite, fully selecting what I want to publish, with regularly replaced snapshots to WorldConnect of a selected subset.of people and data. However other online trees don't quite cope with repeated updates via gedcoms (WikiTree, WeRelate) unless the data is new people , rather than replacement. such is life, but unfortunate as I like fishing in all sorts of online ponds for those elusive connections.

retsof For the people with the missing birth and death dates are there primary birth and death dates defined? Have you tried running the file maitenance routines? If that doesn't help have you looked at John Cardinal's TMG utility under People, Adjust Birth and Death?

Marlene, have you tried the file maintenance routines? Optimise Validate file integrity optimise again for good measure Lorna Waikanae, NZ

John, it won't help with your current problem, but wouldn't the better place for your lat/long comments as to accuracy be in the comment field of the place? Perhaps, and I've not checked, John Cardinal's TMG utility, when he has the TMG v8 version available, might be able to move your set text from lat/long into comments? Leaving the lat/long field for coordinates only.

Lee, the lat/long values are easily obtained from the map search by place name eg google maps by place name right click on the resulting balloon over the place select the What's here menu option then copy/paste the lat/long values that are shown into your place field

Wondering if there'll be a new DNA template for the newly announced Family Tree DNA Y-DNA111 results, ie a further 44 markers on top of the current Y-DN67. More info here http://www.familytreedna.com/faq/answers/d...spx?faqid=9#570

Thanks a bunch folks, worked a treat, now I just need to await the results.

Thanks Jim and Bizegrama - sounds a bit like the Whollygenes link to Gedstar pro needs a bit of an update http://www.whollygenes.com/Merchant2/merch...ode=GEDSTPRO-DL

Don't know about "mature applications" yet, but has anyone tried out the new GedStarPro v4 for Android? http://ghcssoftware.com/android/index.php and http://www.androidzoom.com/uk/android_appl...iewer_mpvc.html

Dave, Terry has given you sound advice. I too would/do keep a master TMG database/project with all lines in it in the one dataset. It isn't a problem finding people, even in very large datasets. I uploaded a seed tree to ancestry (well several for assorted purposes - dna studies, one name study, my own basic ancestors) as a one-off, and then have saved any successful searches to the appropriate tree, entering the data manually into my master TMG db. That way I get the best of both worlds, all those lovely hints, and matches, but full control over my data elsewhere. The hints are wonderful, but for other tree hints, do remember to track down to the base data quoted, many refer to other trees with no basis in obvious fact at the bottom of the chain. Periodically I download each database from ancestry and update a separate "Ancestry copy" TMG database, where each of the ancestry trees are separate datasets within that one project, just to make sure I have a copy of what is on ancestry in some form or other, in case I forgot to enter something into TMG in my excitement at finding someone/something before moving onto the next record in the chain. These are purely for reference and backup purposes and go no further unless I manually input to TMG from them. 'tis a pity that the attached images don't download, only the links.and yes the process is not without its idiosyncracies, but for my purposes, that's fine. Flags are limited to 36 values, ie 0-9, A-Z, but you could possibly use a combination of two flags to group/identify each of your source datasets. Flags would be useful for colour coding the source families if that is what you wanted. I use this extensively as I can tell at a glance which of the gazillion John SMITHs is the one related to me or from area x. Good luck

Hi, In addition to Terry's comments, I can add that I thoroughly endorse in particular his first point about the cross referencing. I am currently looking at the Free Legacy (and the free Roots Magic) for a course I'm running this week about choosing genie software but someone else is coming along to demo the full Legacy, so my overview knowledge of Legacy is pretty basic. At the moment, what is driving me pottiest about the free version (which you would presumably NOT be using as the paid up version is very similar to TMG in event/sentence/sourcing customisation possiblities with the use of roles, customised sentences etc) is that I cannot seem to (currently) find how to see everything about a person at once. In TMG I can work with the layout options to get screen views suited to what I am working with at the time - along with customised input templates. in Legacy (free), I can see family with basic BDM OR pedigree view but to see the events/facts, I have to open another screen, which only shows me the individual, out of context. Also the lack of quick entry using function keys for repeats, adding/updating (but then I'm a keyboarder). Another point relates to publishing data. Terry mentioned Second Site (SS) for web pages. Legacy appears not to have anything like the flexibility that this combination of TMG and SS can give you, offering what looks like a very basic set of web output templates - but does at least offer that even from the free version, which is pretty good going for free. (This comment applies to the paid version of Legacy as well, from what the chap coming to do the demo for me has showed me so far). Terry also mentioned accents. I drive my accents from flags (along with all sorts of other things, eg is this individual to be output to the web, have I found his birth cert, etc etc) Legacy does have a sort of equivalent in "tags". I don't know about the full version, but the free version only seems to have 3, admittedly with some flexibility about how they can be applied to your database, and as yet I haven't found a way to colour code from them, although I have been led to believe that you could control your outputs from them. After experiencing what TMG can do with Flags, accents, etc, which gives me limitless options on what I can highlight, find again, keep track of, by using such things, I think I would very quickly realise that this is a limitation. But if you've not seen the power of TMG, you wouldn't realise that of course. After many years, I still find it can cope with whatever I want to throw at it - project manage my dna projects, no problem, being one of the more recent adventures. The friendly people on the TMG lists and this forum, and of course Terry's TMG pages, can quickly help you get the best out of TMG.

Ta Terry, I'm slowly getting there. MacBook Pro now has Fusion and Win7 installed, the DVD drive renamed to E but I hit problems last night trying to shrink the Windows side of things C drive to the size I wanted and the instructions from there looked too complicated for that hour of the morning so I went to bed. Yes (on both desktop and laptop, I have my folders within My Documents all set up as I want them, and the same on both machines - but somehow I've always been too timid to rename the My Documents part of it to MyDocs or just Docs, or even LornaDocs or whatever (I hate the way m$ names heaps of things My ... , it ruins quick keying by initial letters) it seemed so intrinsic to M$, let alone tamper with any higher order bits in the path. Hopefully today I'll get to the point where I can get the MacBook set up with the D drive and start loading stuff onto it and get going again and see if I've won (certainly have as far as the machine itself goes - love it, even if I'll take a while to get used to different keyboard shortcuts) Thanks everyone for your help and support to give me the courage to try stuff I wouldn't normally be near with a barge pole. Suppose if I just think of it all as yet another software package with settings to fiddle, albeit with a bit more care, I'll get over that mental hurdle.

Ta Jim. The options are expanding! My MacBook Pro has just arrived - an hour ago. (I already have Fusion downloaded ready to do something or other with it) and Win 7 pro arrived yesterday, sitting as an unopened package on top of the MacBook box. I'm a little incredulous with myself for leaving it in its box unopened, but I've been a bit busy so far today, and will be for the next couple of hours. It may well be that the easiest option at this point is to go Win 7 on the laptop (XP) as well - EXCEPT that that involves a heap of research by me on how to do it, as it's not the upgrade from XP it's the Win 7 pro instal - and not something I was going to tackle in the near future for the laptop. However, if I can get the MacBook Pro as my production machine with a D:\User_data\Documents in the windows side of the fence I'd actually be a happy camper as this problem, in essence, should then go away. (I do assume that the "User_data" part of that is simply your naming convention and D:\Lorna\My Documents is perfectly acceptable? I think of things as programs or data, and that's where the data is on the XP desktop) Thank you so much for your patience.

Jim, Yes I am aware that that is the ideal solution. I am also aware that I am ideally trying to have C:\ for program and system stuff and D:\ for data stuff, but I'm not there yet given existing constraints and lack of understanding on HOW to get there. Any wonderful web sites to point me to to solve this aspect? It is after all not really a TMG problem, other than there must be other poor bods like me around who don't quite know what they're doing in this regard and do backup/restore between older laptops and newer desktops. My problem then becomes that I don't know how best to get the laptop to have a D:\ drive for the data! I'm not into hardware stuff at all. The partitioning of the desktop was done by a friend, who is now very busy! On the laptop D:\ is already allocated to a dvd writer, and XP doesn't appear to have a rename facility

The most important problem I want to solve is that when I restore from my laptop (which is set up as c:\My documents...... and with all sources/exhibits etc in folders also referencing c:\My documents......) the desktop cannot find the exhibits because on the desktop everything is in D:\Lorna\My documents .... The actual file structures under My documents are identical and the exhibits are all synched using dropbox so all should be on both machines. But TMG (laptop is production) has all the exhibits marked as being stored in c:\My Documents ..... I do wonder why it can't just use relative addresses from whatever directory some other setting is pointing too, which would make this problem go away. If I can already do so, where do I influence this?

Jim, Some path issues I've had have made it to the top of my "tackle now" list. As for Kenny, my TMG data is now on d:\ under D:\Lorna\My Documents\ etc, masquarading as the much longer path that normally is. The actual projects being under D:\Lorna\My Documents\Genealogy\TMG\Projects.... Before I tackle that one, does this mean simply copy C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\TMG7 to D:\Lorna What as? D:\Lorna\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\TMG7 and does that mean I don't need to get my head around data_paths.txt? (I'm in overload mode at the moment reviewing a heap of things about how I do stuff and make assorted machines talk to each other and my first attempts at getting data_paths.txt to work failed - it was rather late at night) This is only on my non-live data, and I suspect that this alone wont fix my main problem from restoring data onto this machine, which is that although the relative directories are identical between production, where everything is on the laptop c:\ and desktop, where data is on d:\, every restore I have to overwrite file paths in the restore and I lose all my exhibit paths,which seem to be stored as fixed paths, not relative ones. It's mainly the latter that's a right pain as there are a heap of folders to add to the find missing exhibits to fix the slow way, hence the desire to find a quicker way (short of repartitioning the laptop and creating a D:\, which I'm not at all confident about being able to do, should this be the most desirable solution!). Ideally, I don't actually want to restore at all to be able to work on my production copy on separate machines, but any time I've tried simply opening the laptop project over the network performance was a right pain so I stopped. Oh for a fast front-end that could automatically keep things in synch across machines like the email solutions I've just installed without having to restore. It can be wonderful having a tree on ancestry eg and be able to access it from anywhere, however much that is no replacement for TMG.

And now branching out into One Name Studies for two of my more interesting, and rarer, names: Fledgling sites at the moment as I figure out how to best structure things in TMG, but these are fully generated using TMG and Second Site 3. http://runciman.lornahen.com and http://fairbairn.lornahen.com You'll notice a fair bit of similarity in structure between them, but one will by necessity have more emphasis on analysing raw data (Runciman), and the other (Fairbairn) on existing family trees in the first instance.

Duane, In Person View Double click on Father to open the Tag entry screen which should show tag type of Father-Bio In the Parent box, key in the id of the true father, or search for him using the binoculars Repeat the exercise for the Mother and in between say NO to enter marriage for parents if you have that set.

It also seems as if you cannot edit a prior entry either. For example, if you received your first 12 markers and enter them then you have to create a new panel to enter the next 13 or 25 markers because you cannot go back and edit the intial results that you entered. It seems to make better sense to me to have all the marker results in one place rather than having a separate record for each set of results. You write as if you picked a 12 marker test to enter the first set of results even though more were coming. It is much better to pick the template for the full set you think you'll use and just keep editing that as more results arrive. With the one 67 marker test you can enter the panels as they arrive, rather than creating and entering a log entry for the 1st 12, then another for the 13-25 etc. On any one test you can edit the prior panels, but you cannot add more panels, at least not as far as I can find. I would support more flexibility for the templates. Currently I'm trying to work out what to do with an EthnoAncestry set I've been sent. Most, but not all, can be found on the Family Tree DNA 67 marker set.