Mary Lou 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2009 Hi, I have 22 days left of my 30 day trial. I am trying to see if converting to TMG from Generations is do-able. Everybody got imported but TMG does not recognize my sources as such. I see them referred to as citations. There are over 650 sources; most of them cited numerous times. In Generations I named each source like so: [cen32] ( 32nd census record that I found); [dea17] ( 17th death record that I found; could be death cert, obit, etc); [sal04] (fourth bunch of info given to me by some one with knowledge regarding the Salter family; ie hearsay...). The very first part of each source is the [xxx] name. Each of these documents is filed in my file cabinet under the [xxx] name. Am I gong to be able to make this conversion within a month or so??? What can I do to my Generation database to make it easier to import? Any advice would be appreciated. Mary Lou Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Byram 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2009 Did you check the Master Source List? Tools / Master Source List Citations are links between the name, event or relationship tag and the source. In Generations, when you link data to a source, the citation has the citation detail in the right part of the link. This will show in the Citation Detail of the citation in TMG as it should. There is no real structural difference between how Generations handles citations and sources and how TMG handles citations and sources. TMG just has more possibilities but the Generations citations and sources are imported correctly. The sources do need to be cleaned up after import. If you have more questions or need to discuss this further, take it to the V7 forum where you can reply. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
