Jim Byram

There appears to be a registration issue with a DLL. There is not a program bug but an install problem. Bob said that he would ask Support to contact you about this.

Ken, The specs are quite clear (although incomplete) on the 'Y' convention for the DEAT tag and I'll see if that can't be implemented. The specs simply don't deal with the flag issue. I would say that if Death tag exists and has no date AND no place AND Living=N, then the death event should be exported as 1 DEAT Y. The Death tag would typically make an assertion (data for the death based on a source) whereas, the Living=N setting could be based on a Death tag with valid evidence or could be based on an assumption (all persons older than nnn years). The logic that I've proposed above allows the DEAT tag in the database to represent either an assertion or not. You could have a Death tag with no date AND no place but with a memo saying 'Sally thinks that Uncle Frank has died.' and Living=?. In that case, the export would be 1 DEAT with no 'Y' consistent with the intent of the GEDCOM specs (which don't cover all possibilities as written). You'll note that the 1 TAG Y convention applies to all tags in the GEDCOM Individual_Event_Structure but I don't see the point of dealing with the other event tags. 1 EDUC Y makes little sense to me. Jim

Would you please send me a sample Family Matters-created GEDCOM with all of the data types that you describe so that I can take a look? Click on the link below for my email: Jim Byram

Disclaimer - This is not an official Wholly Genes response. Yes. 90 days for 'download only' purchases also. The 'reputed steep learning curve' of TMG is mostly fiction. TMG is like anything else that has many features and options. You take it one step at a time learning what you need to know as you go along rather than being overwhelmed by things that you don't need to know when you are starting out. You need to know very little to get started using TMG. If you use them, for example, Microsoft Word and Excel are vastly more complicated than TMG. "Delivery by Mail CD-ROM, Universal British Directory, and Printed Manual (and optional download)" So the answer is "Yes". The "Printed Manual" is the Users Guide.

Thanks, Kevin. Vera's diagnosis is correct and I've reported the error. The menu should never show when the Welcome screen is active. This has been fixed and the fix should be in v6.10.

This is not an official Wholly Genes response. Just my take... Kevin, V6.00.000 was released in Decenber 2004. There have been nine updates since then (an update about every 3.5 months) and a tenth is imminent. There is no public bug list but reading the forums and the mail list gives you an idea of what has been reported and what has been taken to Support. Most user contact with Support is by email and phone. You can get the best feel for the users' view of the program by subscribing to the TMG mail list and following the conversation there for a while. Since the Welcome screen has no [Help] button, your description of the issue is not clear. If you can describe exactly what you found and it can be replicated, it will be fixed. You can invoke help from the Welcome screen by typing F1 and, by doing that, I get the help topic for the Welcome screen with no error. Since you can't respond in this forum, I'd take this to the v6 forum. In the meantime, I'm still trying to figure out what you're saying. All software has bugs. TMG is a very complex program (at the request of the user community) and, for this reason, is going to have more bugs than other genealogy databases. When they are reported and can be replicated, they are fixed. A perfectly reasonable thing to do. Jim

From the testing done by Gilles, it looks like v6.10.000 will resolve his issue.

You need to make a backup with nothing included except the project data files... nothing else. Your 155Mb backup likely includes something in addition to the data files. Send me an email by clicking on the link below and I'll tell you how to upload the backup. Jim Byram

Unfortunately, it's a completely different issue. Looking... I suspect that a backup of your project is going to be required.

n NAME +1 NPFX +1 GIVN +1 NICK +1 SPFX +1 SURN +1 NSFX +1 > I believe that the NPFX data will be imported to the Title field of this Name-Var. 1 NAME Dr. John /Smith/ Jr. 2 NPFX Dr. 2 GIVN John 2 SURN Smith 2 NSFX Jr. Need to test but don't have time at the moment.

No. The GEDCOM 5.5 specs do not include a standard method of marking a multimedia object primary. The _PRIM Y tag you refer to is a custom GEDCOM tag created by some exporting program.

It should be fixed in v6.10.

This appears to be a problem with Add Person when a parent is added and you are prompted to add a Marriage between the two parents and click [Yes] to add the marriage. At that point, citations in one or more Marriage tags for other people are lost. VFI is just cleaning the results of the Add Person process and there is not a VFI problem. Before your report, this issue was only seen in one beta testers project and couldn't be replicated in any other project tested. And in this case, the citation added in Add Person and the citations being lost from other Marriage tags were all to the same source. This took a long time to pin down and should be fixed in the next update. You will find some Marriage tag citations missing and need to fix those.

From the FGS and ID report perspectives, there are two kinds of memos... those used by sentences and those not used by sentences. You typically want those used by sentences (such as an occupation) to print in the FGS report itself. This is enabled by selecting the 'Embed sentence [M]emo' option on the Miscellaneous tab. I personally would want this data in the report rather than in the citations. So I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish.

I agree but this has nothing to do with the issue under discussion here.

I couldn't replicate the problem... even when backing up immediately after resizing the thumbnails. You tried reindexing (File / Maintenance / Reindex)?

You need to redo the import from FTM and use GEDCOM rather than using the direct import. There is a problem importing citations from FTM databases using the direct GenBridge import. This is being worked on and, hopefully, will be fixed in the next update.

First of all, a JPEG is saved if you view it and click [OK] at 0% compression so the resave results in no degredation. Second, you can view an image and then click [Cancel] and completely bypass this issue. So there is a very simple work-around. The design has been changed a bit to deal with this issue and the updated code should be in the next program update.

v6 can't import a v2 database directly. The v2 database will need to be sent to support@whollygenes.com for help with the update to v6.

C0000005 errors happen outside the TMG code and generally appear to be a memory/timing issue between Visual FoxPro and the operating system. They can be fixed if they can be replicated but are usually very difficult to replicate (as you have discovered). The error is trapped in the vfp7err.log as you have shown and the program error.txt content is not relevant.

There is a limitation as to what sort of filetypes can be uploaded. Archive the .KMZ file in a .ZIP and try that.

I don;'t understand what you are doing. You should be exporting a GEDCOM file to send to your Uncle if he is using a genealogy program such as Reunion on the MAC.

You right-click on an image and select 'Preview', you get the viewer. Have no idea nor any idea how tight the viewer and gallery are tied together.

First, that's a violation of your license agreement. Second, even if it weren't, you can't copy complex programs and expect them to work. There is a lot more to the program other than the VCF.exe file. The installation procedure is required to put all parts of the program in place in order to run it.

Looks to me that is exactly what Microsoft is doing. They provide access to six fields to record image data (Title, Subject, Author, Category, Keywords, Comments) and display read-only the additional EXIF fields created by digital cameras. How much simpler can you get?