Jim Byram

Hummmm... It also works to simply click the [Restore down] buttom to re-window the DNA Fingerprint screen and that gets things back where they started. I'll report the issue.

Level 1 ADDR tags subordinate to individual or family records are not supported by GEDCOM 5.5. Read Chapter 15 in Getting the Most Out of The Master Genealogist or check out my documents on GEDCOM export on Lee Hoffman's TMG Tips web site for some ideas to circumvent this. http://www.tmgtips.com/usrtutor.htm

Every time that you run VFI, follow VFI by running optimize. That will eliminate repetitive reoccurrence of the same issue.

(Note that this is not an official Wholly Genes response.) No. TMG does not include an "all-in-one" chart such as you are describing.

You have a citation to this source from a source? If so, you should be able to find it using a List of Sources?

No. You can indent with spaces or [:TAB:] printer codes. The memo formatting does not include implementation of paragraph formatting.

This issue is some sort of code problem and has finally been tracked down and fixed. Dale has tested the fix and it resolved his issue with adding/viewing text exhibits. And the fix should be included in v6.08.000. (Now John has to find something else to keep himself occupied. )

(This is not an official Wholly Genes response.) The 'trial' version is the full TMG installer and has no restrictions. It just times out to limited functionality in 30 days. By entering the registration information, full functionality is restored.

There is no 'basic' source. There is the source data that you recorded and that is what is exported. The labels are added to explain the data. Otherwise, different data types would be combined with no means of understanding what the data is. This is a matter of being able to record detailed source data in TMG and the GEDCOM source record specs having no way to accomodate the data with the same sort of breakdown. The end point of the export is to export your data in a meaningful way, not just a part of your data, and to do it within the default GEDCOM source record structure.

Basically, the answer is no. The data that you record for the source will be exported and GEDCOM provides little leeway as to how that data can be exported. The data has to go somewhere and if GEDCOM doesn't provide an appropriate tag, the data goes to the TITL tag.

Ancestral Quest will encode multimedia objects but then other programs can't extract them.

Only the links to external exhibits are exported. I would suggest using only external exhibits in any case. They give better control and keep your database backup much smaller. Doug mentioned the part of the GEDCOM specs that covers encoding multimedia objects. This has nothing to do with TMG internal exhibits. GEDCOM actually supports only links to external multimedia objects and just provides a way to add those external objects to the GEDCOM file.

That looks fairly straightforward and I'll talk to the programmer when we have the time to look at it.

"We" in my message refers to the programmer responsible for the Exhibit Log and myself. I have talked to Phil about Dale's problem but was totally unaware of the email you copied to him and of what it had to say. Phil is in Support and works for Wholly Genes. I'm not in Support and don't work for Wholly Genes. I can respond to Pre-Sales topics since I'm a moderator and often do. Sometimes, I say that my response is not an official Wholly Genes response and sometimes I neglect to do it (and should state that). OK?

That's always the correct response for an erroneous Open dialog. Never try to respond to the dialog and always click [Cancel]. This looks like an unexplained OCX registration issue to me. Hang on. I need to get some information before suggesting a test. (Reinstall should also work.) Open the Exhibit Log. Select an image that is not displaying correctly. Right-click and select 'Copy to Slideshow Manager'. Does the image display in the SlideShow Manager? Close the Slideshow Manager. Close the Exhibit Log and TMG. Run TMG. Is the image display issue corrected? If not, I have another thing to try.

Jim speaks on behalf of Jim, never on behalf of Support.

I've been been able to replicate the error. The updater appears to be causing the problem. A couple of days ago, we surmised that the issue is that the activex control which contains the text viewer module is not properly registered and this is the source of the problem. The solution is to register the activex control. I installed v6.00.000 and updated to v6.07.000. (This is the same updater that Dale used.) I ran TMG, opened the Sample project and set the focus to Frank Alexander (1), opened the Exhibit Log and tried to view the text exhibit. And got: 2006.01.26, 20:27:58 1923Object GOMEDIAVIEWER is not found. 170 FRMEXHIBIT.MVIEWEXHIBIT Closed the Exhibit Log and exited TMG. Opened the Command Prompt. Changed to the system32 folder. CD \windows\system32 Registered the activex control by typing: regsvr32 richtx32.ocx Hit [Enter]. Got the confirmatory prompt and exited the Command Prompt. Ran TMG, opened the Exhibit Log and tested the text viewer. The viewer now worked with no error. I asked Dale to try this a couple of days ago and he said it didn't work. I've asked him to try again. Puzzled as to why the registration wouldn't work.

(This is not an official Wholly Genes response.) It works the same in TMG although the notion of a 'witness' differs in UFT and in TMG. All individuals linked to an event in UFT will be imported as such to TMG. It was suggested that you are in the Beginner data entry mode where the witnesses to events are hidden. Change to Advanced data entry mode. File / Preferences / Program Options / Data Entry / Data Entry Mode / select Advanced This PDF completely documents the UFT to TMG imports. It describes what data is imported and where it goes. http://www.whollygenes.com/files/uft2tmg.pdf There is also an article located on the Roots Users Group website written for the RUG Newsletter by Paul Lawrence on UFT import to TMG. http://www.rootsusers.org/ Go to Downloads, scroll down and you'll find a downloadable PDF file.... Once you start importing for real, there will be questions that you have that should be directed to the TMG-L mail list so that those who are experts in the UFT import can respond. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html

(This is not an official Wholly Genes response.) There is no difference with TMG. Each source in the Master Source List can be linked by citations to as many name, relationship and event tags as you wish. You may be thrown off by the Mills templates with the details in the source. I do very much what you describe with custom census source types. The census source is per year - 1850 U.S. Census (Free Schedule) - for example. They could be by year and county as your example. The details are in the citation detail. Here's my 'template' for creating the citation detail entry for US census entries - ST, Co, Tn, p. n, ED n Sh n Ln n (Nat. Arch. Film #). People using TMG record census sources many, many different ways depending on what suits them. The UFT MIlls census templates are very similar to the TMG Mills census templates. Sources in TMG are specific to the data set, not external to the databases in a master library as with UFT.

http://www.pocketgenealogist.com/download.htm The “Unregistered” version is a “try before you buy” version. It is fully functioning except it does not allow data entry, direct imports, or the “Tree” views. (Ancestor and Descendant)

(This is not an official Wholly Genes response.) The answer is to try both and compare the results. There are a few omissions from the direct Legacy import such as the citation and source 'actual text' fields. The loose ends for the direct import have been reported.

In terms of TMG functionality? None at all. There is an issue of access to the installation depending on operating system privileges for different users if an 'all users' installation is located in a privileged folder such as Program Files (discussed in a different topic in this section).

No. You have to proceed as you have been doing. This is not the appropriate forum for this topic since this is not a site (aka related to this Message Board) issue. I'm assuming this is a v6 topic and should have been posted in the 'The Master Genealogist v6' support forum (above).

Sure. You'll notice that when you install TMG, on the first screen, there are alternates to install for 'all users' or for a single user (or different single users if you have more than one). You install one installation for 'all users' and after that is done, you install a second installation for a single user. Each installation needs to be to a different program folder location. And you will need to unlock each installation when run for the first time. Be aware that each installation has different settings for paths and the configuration files (app.ini) for the installations will differ and you must be aware and maintain that difference. Other files such as layouts can be used in either installation. Running two installations is straightforward but requires a certain amount of discipline and awareness of the differences between the two.

PDF printer drivers have a variety of settings that end up affecting the size of the PDF file produced (for example... how images are handled, whether fonts are embedded, etc.). You would need to configure each driver with comparable settings before you could make a valid comparison.