breamefford

Can it add Co. to a place if there is none? Thanks for creating such a powerful utility to help fill in the gaps of TMG. Any chance you will create anything to help LDS users sync with the new Family Search API? I haven't heard from TMG about that request, and have a feeling it's not on their priority list.

1). Do you have any idea of what you are asking for? You say "all the places out there". That would be a database that included every known name during any time period for each place on earth. There is not now, and probably never will be, such a database. Even if there were such a database to have it consulted in real time as you type a place it would put such a performance hit on the system (and the system better be a supercomputer to even think about running such an application) as to make it almost totally useless. 2). I found out a long time ago the best way to keep the Master Place List clean is to not import locations into it. I rarely import anything into my database but on the handful of Gedcoms I've imported over the years I always strip location beforehand. I've found it takes less time to re-add them than to clean them up later. There's a program called Family Insight that actually takes all of your places and compares them against a database and gives you suggestions of corrections. I have only used it once, but from what I remember I was blown away at how many US and foreign country places it recognized. To have something like that incorporated into TMG would be amazingly powerful!

Thanks for the suggestions Terry. I have always used F3. It definitely makes data entry quick, but not necessarily accurate. I haven't used F2 because of the message that always pops up that it might take a long time to search for values, but that looks like a much better option to help the places be consistent. And thanks for the suggestion on how to avoid the database from collecting data. I'll give that a try.

1. First request is some ability to have some sort of database of all the places out there, so as we're typing a place for a new tag, we're prompted with a location. It's too easy to misspell and omit information, and I really would like all my places to be uniform. I don't want to constantly be having to monitor the Master Place List and cleaning it up. If we had to choose from a Standard list of places and got a warning if we weren't using a known place, then there would be so many less mistakes to correct. And those people that don't want that warning, can just turn it off in the preferences. 2. Second request is about the Master Place List being cumbersome to clean up. Since I have imported a lot of data into my program, I have a lot of places that are in the incorrect format. And a lot of data that has been imported into the Place List, that should be notes and are not a place. I've got thousands of tags with ID#'s that I just want to delete. But it takes me 30-45 sec to delete just one of these records, because my master place list has to collect places & update master place list. It would take me months to clean this up! There has got to be a better way to clean up the Master Place list.

Is Master Genealogist 8 going to sync with the new familysearch.org? My husband went to a conference and the programmers for the new familysearch said they designed an API for other software vendors to be able to easily sync with. Currently RootsMagic & Ancestral Quest have added this capability to their programs. I've used Master Genealogist for several years, and there are so many things that I love about it, but it's been very time consuming trying to update all my LDS tags manually. It would be amazing to have the LDS tags updated automatically!

I generally have had most of my exhibits as .jpg files, but in the last few weeks I have had sites that have only let me save the document as a pdf file. I have gone through the messy process of converting most to a .png file, but one particular record is a 550 pg. book in pdf format. I sure can export that to a .png. I don't really need to have the pdf open up in TMG. It could it just pop open adobe when I click on the image. Seems like that really should be possible, especially for those of us who save our exhibits externally.

I am trying to make a person's photo appear next to them in a chart. It would be nice if they would appear next to their name in the family tree, but it doesn't seem like that is possible. Is there a specific place I am supposed to attach the image? I attached it to the person't birth, as it didn't seem like I could attach their photo to their name. I went to edit the photo's properties. On the general tab, there is no box to check to make it primary. I have made it an internal image. Has the way to make an image primary changed from the time that the instructions were written? Thanks! Brea