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I had 4 missing exhibits. Using TMG Utility, I ran Verify Exhibit Paths. That told me which Persons 3 of those 4 exhibits were supposed to be for. For the last missing exhibit, TMG Utility gives a file name (which I can't find, so I'm sure I've lost that file), didn't give a Person #, but rather says "Citation 1937798." When I run a List of Citations, I have 61423 citations. How do I find which person this exhibit was attached to, so that I can delete it and not have any more missing exhibits? I hope this makes some sense, Michele

Nevermind - I found the answer in a thread 4 pages back entitled How to Find the Focus of an Exhibit. Sorry for any bother, Michele

How would I write a sentence for two sister-in-laws found on a passenger list, each with their respective child? Jeremiah, Anna Rosina, 23 (wife of Jacob) Jeremiah, Margaret, 20 (wife of John) Jeremiah, Sylvia, 4 (daughter of Jacob and Anna) Jeremiah, Gertrude, 3 (daughter of of John and Margaret) Would Anna and Margaret both be principals? Can I get the sentence to show their relationship to each other as well as their relationships to their respective husbands? And how would I get the sentence to show the parents of each child? Would a separate sentence structure be needed for Principals and Witnesses? I"m not exactly sure how this works. Michele

Thanks, Michael. I ended up using the Immigration Tag, citing the Passenger list as a source, and using the following sentence structure: [P] <|and [PO]> immigrated <along with [WO]> <[D]> <to [L]> <on the [M1]> <from [M2]> Which turned out like this: Annie Roseine Thomas and Margaret Williams immigrated along with Sylvia Mary Jeremiah and Gertrude Jeremiah on 08 Dec 1904 to New York City, New York, New York on the S. S. Oceanic from Liverpool, England. Michele

Usually, I only record BMD and such, but this family had some interesting things happen to them that were recorded in their local newspaper, i.e. she was thrown from a wagon and lived (she was in her 80s!), and around the same time period their house burned down, nothing could be saved, and the community took up a collection for them. These seem like things that, while maybe not of genealogical value, are worth sharing somehow in the database. Suggestions? Michele

Hi Terry, I've been using TMG for a long time, but never noticed those Tags before! Thanks for pointing them out. Michele

I entered the twins in the wrong order. Neither one of them was named. On the death certificates, they were Baby Boy #1 and Baby Boy #2. I entered #2 first. I already had their sister born 1 year later. Both twins were born premature on the same day and died on the same day they were born. Twin #2 appears before Twin #1, even though I made Twin #1 1st in birth order, Twin #2 2nd in birth order, and sister 3rd in birth order. I also tried changing their birth as Multiple - 2 (Twins) to ? or Single, but that didn't help, either. What can I do to make them appear in the correct order? Thanks! Michele

I'm running TMG in a virtual Windows 7 window using VMware Fusion on a Mac. Every time I reload the program, the settings I've selected the last time I ran the program don't stick. For example, when it loads, it shows the screen that asks me which database I want to load. I uncheck the box that says not to ask me next time, but the next time I load the program, the box is there again, instead of taking me to my database automatically. I also previously set the Tag Box to show the age column. But, again, when I restart the program, I have to set it again to show the age column. Has anyone else experienced this and what can I do to get my settings to stick?

Thanks, that worked.

I'm using TMG 7 on an iMac using VMware Fusion in a virtual window. In the window, when running TMG, the F2 and F3 keys do not work. Does anyone know how to get the use of those keys from the Mac to TMG? It's really bugging me when I have to keep typing the source number, city, county, and state instead of just hitting F3. Thanks in advance for guidance. Michele

Thanks, Glenn. I went to System Preferences > Keyboard and selected F keys work normally, and that solved the problem. Again, thanks! Michele

I decided to create a custom source type for the draft registrations that I have. I'm trying to follow Terry tips on this and not being very successful. I copied the "Military Service Record - Filmed." But, I don't want all the same fields. Military Service Record - Filmed has: Title Short Title Subject Publisher Publisher Address <Film> For what I want to do, I guess Title, Short Title, and Subject are OK, but instead of Publisher, I'd like to put something like Website Name (since the registrations came from the Family Search Pilot website), URL (for the URL of the website), and Digital ID (because there were only images of the registrations and each image has a digital ID). But, when I try to put those in, Publisher, Publisher Address, and <Film> still remain. How do I get rid of them and only have the fields I want? In addition, I'd also like to add Date and State.

Wow, Terry! I would never have guessed that that's how you do it. It worked. I've never even bothered with output sentences, so had no idea that would do anything. Thanks AGAIN! Michele

Hi All, I have a bunch of WWII draft registrations. They all occurred in April 1942 and include address, birth date, place of birth, name of person who will know the person's address (not always the wife), employer, employer's address, height, weight, eye color, hair color, complexion. Would it be a good idea to make new tags for height, eye color, hair color, etc., or would that be too much information? How should I cite these cards? Thanks, Michele

Thanks, Terry. That is, of course, my primary quandry regarding sources: To lump or separate? In the past, I have lumped (primarily with electronic databases) and have separated (census).

I got some help with this several years ago and have (of course) forgotten how to do this. I'd like to make a new GEDCOM to upload to Family Tree of the Jewish People on JewishGen. The problem is I can't remember how to do this. My mother was Jewish and my father was not. I want to leave out his family, my husband's family, and my ex-husband's family from the GEDCOM. I'd also like to include not just my mother's ancestors, but also those who married into not only her family, but into the extended family. In other words, I'd like to include all the Jews in my database, not just the ones directly related to my mother. For example, my mother's grandaunt Helen Greenberg married a man whose surname was Shae. He had changed his family name from Shaevitz to Shae. I'd like to include his family (ancestors and descendants), even though they aren't related to us. Another example -- my grandmother's sister's daughter married a man with the surname Marc. That was a shortening of Marcovitz. I'd like to include his parents and brothers and sisters and their descendants in the GEDCOM. Is it really complicated to achieve this? Thanks in Advance! Michele Chavez long-time TMG user, but not exactly a "power user"

Hi Jim, I did that, and it worked well. Thanks!

Hi All, I'm pretty sure that somewhere in the ancestry I have for my husband I've made a mistake and connected a mother and child where the mother was only 10 years old when her "child" was baptized. I wish I could remember who these people were. I ran Audit to find them and correct this, but it looks like it only picks up Births and not Baptisms. I'd like to set up a report to do this, but can't figure out how to do it. Thanks in Advance for help with this, Michele

Hi Robin, I did that. What happened was that it revealed other people that I had made birthdate transpositions on. After running the statistical report several times and correcting each error, the last time I ran it revealed someone who actually had a child very young. No correction to be made. Plus the difference in age between the mother and child in this case are more than the difference in the mother/child I'm trying to pin down. It may be that it is still missing Baptisms and only finding Births, because it did not find the person I am looking for. It's looking like the only answer is to look through all my husband's ancestry until I locate it by hand. Michele

Thanks, Milkman! I had the exact same problem.

Hi Everyone! Someone sent me a GEDCOM that I'd like to compare some individuals with what I have in my dataset. She has information for some people and I have information for other people. I'd like to compare what we each have without affecting each dataset. I imported the GEDCOM into a separate Project. Do I have to put it into my Project? I did put another file into my project once, and I didn't like the way it then showed all the ID numbers with colons, i.e. 1:2, 2:2, etc. What's the best way to compare the people in each dataset? Thanks! Michele

How do I create a GEDCOM for my paternal surname (for inclusion on a surname DNA project?). Thanks! Michele

Hi Everyone! I use Heritage Quest's censuses and each time I find a census page with the folks I'm looking for, I download the page as a PDF file and save it in my "Census" directory on my hard drive. Then, I make a Source for that page in the Master Source List. My question is, should I be using external exhibits to connect each PDF file to the Source in the Master Source List? I've never used external exhibits. Thanks! Michele

When I uncheck "closest relationship only" under Miscellaneous options on the Relationship Chart, I get the error "operator/operand type mismatch." When I cancel out of the error dialog box, it asks if I want to run a backup. When I click no or cancel (can't remember what it actually says), I get the following error twice "Unknown member RACPANEL." Is this a known error and is there anything I can do about it? Thanks! Michele who is glad this support forum is here

Thank you, Virginia!