Viper2004

Hello TMG-Team,

i have lost my serialnumber for TMG 7. Since TMG is dicontinued - how can i get help?

(And is there a way to upgrade my V7 to V9?)

Best regards, Philipp

Dear ladybonita,

thank you so much for this excellent walkthrough!

It worked just perfect.

In case others have the same question that i had,

i'll just add the info how i continued from the focus group in order to output the group via Second Site 2:

1. Create a Flag (FILE -> Flagmanager) and give a name that suits your purpose best

2. Go to REPORT -> List of... ->People

3. choose "focus group" as subject(s) of the report

4. Klick OPTIONS -> Secondary Output ->Change Flag (to Y)

5. Klick OK and the Create Report

6. When asked, tell the Computer to change the flag for all people in the focus group

Now in Second Site you can exclude everyone from export who is NOT in the list.

Thank you again!

Regards, Phil

Hello everyone!

I am trying to export only branch of my family to a website using second site 2.

In this case it is my great-grandmothers line.

- I do want everyone of her siblings, cousins, direct ancestors etc. included but

- i do not want to have her husbands family and

- i do not want any of their descendands included.

So - using the image of a tree - i just want to use one branch.

It would be OK to put them in a new database. It would be even better to continue using my database and markt this branch with a flag.

Since i got over 5000 people in my database i can't flag them by hand.

I am shure this has been done hundereds of times but i havent found it here on the forum, nor in the manual.

Thanks in advance,

Phil.

Setting Flags per person might be a way, but not the best, as i think: I've got abot 5000 people in the DB that i want and about 500 that i dont want to have. So it would be a awfull lot of work. I am really surprised, that there isn't a "delete everyone who is not related to this branch Button".

- Philipp

Thank the both of you.

The background is that i'd like to create a website using Second Site 2 for a special branch of my family. (And i want this with all relations, sidebranches, cousinlines, etc.) And i don't want the other branches to appear there.

So i thought i'd copy all data to a new database (so i won't loose any since i keep the original DB) and delete all people i don't want to have on the website.

- Philipp

Hello!

I would like to delete a whole familybranch from one of my projects along with all cousins, partners of cousins, their kids, etc. If i disconnect one of the couples i would have 2 separate trees and one of them i would like to get rif of. Is there a way to do so?

Thanks, Philipp

Hello.

Thank you, but it didn't solve my problem.

Under File > Page Setup on the Page Setup screen there is no Printer-button. Also it doesn't look as if there was a place reserved for a button like this.

All i can enter are 4 parameters:

- the paper-size (only far too samll sizes!),

- the paper-source field is grayed out,

- selection for landscape or portrait

- page-borders.

No button saying "Printer" or similar. I'll try to upload a screenshot of my VCF-Page-Setup-Screen in the next days.

(I am using TMG 7.02, Vista, PDF-Creator is installed and working)

- Philipp

Hello,

i try to expot a VCF Ancestor-Box-Chart to a PDF-File by using PDF-Creator as printer.

As far as i remember there used to be an option (going through File/Page Setup/Printer) to setup the pagesize so the whole chart could easily be exported on a single page to PDF.

The problem us: There is no File/Page Setup/Printer anymore. All that is left (under TMG 7.02) is File/Page Setup.

Is there another possibility to set the pagesize in VCF?

- Philipp

Hello Michael,

it is not easy to describe what i would call "beautifully designed". IMHO TMGs reports look pretty typewriter-like: No free choice of fonts, no elegant footers or headers, etc. Compared to f.ex. PAF, Legacy, FTM or Reunion the results are rather unsatisfying. My workaround is to export everything to "The Complete Genealogy Reporter" or for familytrees to "familytreefactory". But since i really like working with TMG i'd be glad not to have to use a workaround.

Maybe it's just my settings that make it look that way. Do you have any recomendations for output-settings?

- Philipp

Hello,

from time to time i create reports or familytrees.

I my opinion the standart reports are not really beautifull designed. So i usually export everything to GEDCOM and reimport it to different programs that might give me a result that i like more. But doing it this way creates other problems. F.ex. the programs that have nicer layouts are usually not as flexible in output-configuration as TMG is. So it it's a compromise in both ways - flexibility against layout.

So i would like to ask if there are ways to improve the standard layout of the reports or if there exists something like a "nice layout" addon for TMG or if somebody knows other ways to create nice looking reports.

- Philipp

Thank you, Michael.

That is exactly what i was looking for.

Regards, Philipp

Hello.

When is started my research about 2 years ago i had a "glorious" idea. I created a source called "Website" and just put the URL of the website in the citation detail. Today the source "Website" is cited about 5800 times in my project. Now i would like to change that.

For example i would like to create a new source called "Wikipedia" that has only links to wikipedia entries in the citation details or a source "Thepeerage.com" where i only have URLS from thepeerage-entries in it so i know more detailled from what website i got my info.

But how do i find out how many and which "Website"-Sources have "www.wikipedia" oder "thepeerage.com" in their citation details?

Will i have to got through all 5800 citations and change them manually? Or can i somehow create a report that sorts every occurence the source "Website" by its citation details?

The problem is a bit complex and my english not so fluent, so if i couldn't make myself fully understandable please let me know.

Regards,

Philipp

Hello.

When i create charts i often have Names that are cut off dur to their lenght.

F.Ex.:

"Baron Ludwig Sebastian Emanuel von Immenstein zu Oberfels"

gets truncated to "Baron Ludwig Sebastian Emanuel von"

So the familynames get lost when the full name is too long.

Is there a workarund or a setting i haven't found?

Thank you in advance,

Philipp

Hello. When i try to Drag'n Drop a exhibit i get the followig errormessage:

"Operator/operand type mismatch. 9

FRMEXHIBIT.CONIMGLIST.OLEDRAGDROP"

There is a simple workaround by importing exhibits by using the "Add" [or maybe "Import?"]-Dialog in the exhibitwindow. However it is not elegant and slows workflow down. It either is a bug of TMG v7 or (as i guess) Vista Ultimate (it is the first time i run TMG under Vista and it has a lot of annoying restrictions - maybe Drag'n Drop is one of these...). Is there any known solution?

- Regards!

Hello.

During the last year i added some infos that were based on telephone calls or personal meetings. While i recorded every WRITTEN source i forgot recording the "word of mouth" sources. I'd like to change that as long as i remember most spoken sources. Is there a way to find all events that haven't a source yet or will i have to go through every single entry and check manually? (Sorry for my poor english - it's not my native language.)

- Thanks, Phil

Hello.

The jpg export worked fine with a 35363 x 4049 picture of 6,87 Mb filesize.

After adding some more family VCF simply breaks down - Windows asks me if i want to send a Trouble-Report (i allways answer No) - and thats it - VCF closes down.

I had this trouble before with a pretty big Descendant-Chart - so i guess it's all about size.

Is there something i can do to export these huge Charts to jpg? PDF would be fine as well - anything i could let print at a store.

If i simply resize the chart, the connection lines get small errors.

Regards,

Philipp

Hello Dave!

I don't know to much about the Tech-Facts of TMG, but i know (from video-editing) that Windows used to have (or still has?) a filesize-limitation of 2 Gig. (Maybe that has changed.) So maybe it is not ONLY a software-restriction but a operatins-system problem. (But again it's not more than a guess.)

Another idea migth be to reduce filesize of your Exhibits. 2 Gig seem quite a lot to me. You could put the original-size photos, videos, etc. in external folders and only reference to them and put smaller versions of them directly in your dataset. So both would be available by maybe smaller filesize.

- Phil

Hello!

I just started adding some portraits to my ancestors when i found out that i spend a lot of time browsing from Programm_Files/The_Master_Genealogist/Pics to the folder (on another harddrive, in a subfolder of a subfolder) where i keep all my extern exhibits (photos, texts, etc.).

Please make TMG remeber the last exhibit-folder.

- Phil

Hello Robin.

It works!

Thank you very much!!

Still i think the 256 color-problem is a bug.

Hello!

I've been dealing with the same thoughts about placenames.

My solution for this is writing todays placenames in the placefields (so they can be easily found TODAY) and putting the original placenames as quotations in the annotations.

To stay with the Hawaii example i would put "Kingdom of Hawaii" or Then: "Kingdom of Hawaii" in the notes.

I have also been asking for a tool to export to Google Earth ...with not a single reply. Still i think this might be THE killer-application since GE has become a sort of must-have-software.

- Phil

Hello!

When i create a chart (f.ex. Ancestor chart) and select a background-image (.jpg) it looks as if it was reduced to 256 colors.

When on the other hand i insert a jpg-image (f.ex. a photo of s.o.) it is displayed in all its beauty.

Why is that?

Has this problem occured to anyone else?

- Phil

Hello!

I just created a new place-style i would like to aplly to all (or if possible only to all german [where country=Germany]) events.

Is this possible or do i have to do this by hand?

Best regards, Phil

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EDIT:

Thanks to Terry Reigels website (again) i found a solution:

TMG Utility can do it.

If you follow Terrys tips everything should work fine.

-Phil

Hello!

I am using TMG 6.09 witch german language.

When i add a task for a person i should be able to enter a startdate for my research.

When i enter it (f.ex.: 21 5 2006) it automaticly changes to 21 Mai 2006.

Annot.:(Mai = german for May)

Once i press the OK Button it tells me i have to write it in a valid dateformat (i guess TMG expects american dateformat here) and doesn't save it.

When i try writing 21 May 2006 it also gets changed back to 21 Mai 2006 and is...invalid.

I guess it might be a bug in the Task list only, since german dates work fine everywhere else.

I only tried this with the german language pack.

Best regards, Phil

Hello Terry!

I actually have read (all of) your article(s) before.

They helped me a lot.

Setting flags for all my ancestors is something i plan for the future.

Thank you very much for both: Your reply and your articles.

- Phil

Hello!

I have some questions about color-accents.

The only one i use at the moment is:

Is ancestor or descendant of...(me)

I would for example like to highlight the spouses of the current person. (Since it has the same color as the children).

Is there a way to archieve this?

Maybe some of you know other accent-settings that might make work easier.

If so, i would be glad, if you could post your settings (along with a short description) here.

Thanks a lot!

-Phil