tomcoughlan

Is there any way to create a report, in date order, of all the events recorded in my project?

I envisage something that looks like:

Jan 1 1800, Birth of John Doyle, son of Edward Doyle and Mary Diffley

Mar 16, 1800, Edward Doyle jailed for drunkeness

June 3, 1801, Marriage of Peter Shanley and Bridget Reynolds

etc

Basically, I want to print the date, the names of the principles and the sentences, pretty much using the ones produced for each event.

I know I can create a list of events, save it to a spreadsheet or document, and could then enter all the data manually - but is there anything that TMG or Second Site offers that could save a lot of work?

Tom

Terry,

Thank you for putting me right on this - I should really have spotted that myself - the only excuse being the frustration suffered when all went 'belly-up."

Thanks again - I expect this to work but will post if anything unexpected happens.

Tom

I have also met this problem, exactly as described above. And my situation is complicated in that I run the UK version - hence downloading the trial version from the website is of no use to me as this is the U.S./Global version. So am writing this partially as a warning to other U.K. version users, and also to ask is there any likelihood of a fix in the near future? I should mention that to resolve the problem I did a system restore and have simply continued to run V8.0 - but obviously this is not ideal when a newer version exists.

Hi

I recently upgraded to TMG7 and have successfully converted my files and all is well in most respect. I upgraded due to a new laptop which has Vista installed.

On my desktop, everything seems fine, but on the Vista laptop, when I open VCF, the toolsbars are spread over 4 lines. I moved them to occupy only the top two lines. But when I next opened VCF they had moved back to their original positions. This loses me two lines of screens and is a definite nuisance. Is there any setting I can tweak to make them stay where I put them?

Tom

I used to use Clooz, but after switching to TMG I found it more work than it was worth. Too much redundant data entry. I kept my document numbering scheme, and just enter the number in TMG, depending on the source type the document number goes in the citation reference field or the repository reference field.

Yes, that's a very good point about redundant data entry, and one that does concern me about Clooz (and a similar British product Custodian). On the other hand I am looking for something to create an inventory of all my sources, including what names are mentioned within them. I have a few TMG projects on the go, and at least some of the people in my sources do not relate to any of them. I suppose a simple database in Access would not be beyond me as a last resort.

Thanks for the reply.

Tom

Hi.

I use TMG6.12 (UK edition). I recently installed the trial version of Clooz 2 and sampled it. After closing it, I opened TMG and found the performance very sluggish - opening/closing/copying project all took an age, as did generating reports. I restarted the PC, and this time did not start Clooz, but when I opened TMG I got the same very slow responses.

I uninstalled Clooz and tried TMG again, with the same result.

Then I restored my system to the pre-Clooz installation point and retried TMG. Performance was completely restored to normal.

I just wonder if anyone else has had similar experiences? And if so, does this imply that Clooz is a no-no if one wants to keep a smoothly running TMG?

Tom

Tom, as you found, you can't add source notes to the List of People Report. But you can actually get fairly close to what you want with the Individual Detail report by selecting only the birth and death tags. But it will show places as well as dates.

 

You can get closer with the Individual Narrative by creating a custom language and making special sentences for the birth and death tags that will print only the dates. That's pretty easy to do.

 

In both cases you would control who is included with a filter, focus group, or by selecting them in the project explorer.

 

In both cases the sources would be those for the death tag - not necessarily for the date, but perhaps for the place or memo.

Thanks Terry, I'll play around and see what happens.

Tom

Hi, back again to pick people's brains.

I would like to create a report as follows:

Person's name, Person's ID no, Person's Birth Year, Source(s) for that birth year. Person's Death year, Source(s) for tha t year.

I can produce the name, ID and birth and death years, using the People List, but is there any way I can pull in the additional data?

I've looked at the List of Citations, and can vaguely see how I might use exports to a Spreadsheet and a very tedious manual effort to achieve what I want, but just wondered if there was any easier way?

Thanks for reading.

Tom

Somehow, I was afraid of that. It looks like I'd better regenerate and this time leave the shadows out. Ah well ... Thanks for your responses.

Tom

Hi all. Not certain if this should be under this forum or the VCF one but here goes...

I produced an Ancestor Box chart from TMG. Got it into VCF and tidied it up a bit. Then I decided I didn't like the shadows under my boxes. But I can't get rid of them. No matter what I try amending in Detail Properties, or Default Properties, when I try Ungrouping the boxes, the option is 'greyed out'. Am I missing something, or is it just not possible to remove the shadows if I told TMG to create them in the first place?

Tom

Thanks, Robin. I'll certainly try that.

Tom

I am currently working on a pedigree from circa 1100 to c1800. For most of the early generations, the spouses are not recorded. I want to produce a Descendent Box Chart, but without these unknown spouses appearing. I can't find any way of suppressing them however. Am I just missing something, or is this something I will have to manually adjust after the chart is produced?

Tom

Thanks for the advice. I have run the Maintenance options but they report no problems. I will try the option of merging again, in a new copy of course, and see if that works. Many thanks.

Tom

I recently merged 2 projects, and it went fairly well up to a point. There was a crash and when I reloaded I found a number of duplications had occurred. It seemed to add each source from each new person several times, and the same for each repository. These were not too cumbersome to manually edit. Now I've discovered that the program has taken each task assigned to an individual and set it up as a general research task, multiple times. I've got 1432 'general' research tasks. Is there any alternative to deleting these one at a time? Help!

Tom

Yes

Use the list of people report to create a new project using filters and/or focus groups. You can then merge this new project into another project if you wish.

 

If you want any help with the report settings or filters please post a further message.

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Aha! Excellent. That never occurred to me. I think I know what to do with filters and settings, so I'll get cracking. Many thanks indeed.

Tom

Hi. Is there anyway to copy data from one TMG V6 project to another, without losing witnessed events, marriages, and other data that gets lost in GEDCOM export/import? I've read the manual, looked on web etc, and can't see any options. But perhaps somebody has an alternative to simply re-keying the data?

Any help appreciated.

Tom