Hi

I have recently been looking at the database of WW1 draft registration cards that is available on Ancestry.com and have found a lot of my male ancestors there. Since there are a fair number of them, I would like to try to get my data entered in TMG as well as I can on the first pass. So I have a few questions for some of you out there who have forgotten more about this subject than I currently know.

1. What is a good way to set up the sources and citations for the draft registration cards, in such a way that some one can look at them and be able to locate the referenced cards?

2. What are things that I might want to consider in setting up a custom WW1 draft registration tag, especially since there were something like 3 different registrations?

3. Which data on the cards is best presented in such a custom tag, and which data is best presented in other tags, like name, birth, address, occupation, etc.

4. Are there any samples dealing with the handling of draft registration cards in TMG posted anywhere?

Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I love TMG, but I'll be glad when the day comes (hopefully) when I don't always feel like I'm scuffing along on the seat of my pants.

Mike

I don't use the research log like I should, but now that I'm getting older, I see the benefits more than ever.

I pulled a list of tasks report and found several entries I created back in 2006. They are all labeled "general" rather than "person" and without any names, I can't tell who the tasks are for and I'd like to either correct that or delete them entirely.

For instance, the task for one says "look up Harry and Bessie in 1930 Allegany County Maryland." I can't find a Harry and Bessie in my main project. I vaguely recall creating a project on Harry Truman back when my mother insisted she was always told she was related to Harry Truman's mother. I did a little census work on them, determined that there weren't any apparent links to our family and quit. I got a new computer in 2007 and didn't copy over that project to the new one, so that project is gone. If this was a task from that project, could it still show up in my list of tasks in my main project? If so, how do I get rid of the entries?

Thanks for any help.
Robin in Short Pump

When I start up TMG I get the error Invalid seek offset. The only option is to hit the "ok" button but when I do the program closes. Please help! Thanks!!

I found a number of older threads that also addressed the topic of embedded image metadata.

http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index...ost&p=18746
http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index...ost&p=15497

I created an XMP Custom File Info Panel for Photoshop. This File Info Panel is meant to capture metadata about a genealogy/family history photo. The metadata property names on the File Info Panel are based on my interpretation of the recommended primary citation for a photograph (private possession) (annotated, with provenance) as described on page 95 of Elizabeth Shown Mill's "Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian" and on my interpretation of recommended primary citation for an Electronic File (Image from Private Files - Annotated), Mills, "Citation!", page 81. I added a few more property names for location and date the photo was taken and keywords (to ID people by number rather than by name), the name of the person who provided the description, a surety for their description, and an informal description.

Data entered into the panel will appear not only in Photoshop but also in Adobe Bridge and other products that recognize XMP-based data like Photoshop Elements. The data will be read-only in Elements. Image application Breezebrowser will not display the custom data. Those are the only applications I tested. Maybe other applications that support XMP display the data as well. Here's an image of the panel as it appears in Photoshop.




I've attached the panel to this post, so if you want to use it please feel free. If you find the panel useful or if you have suggestions for improving the panel please contact me or post here.
Thanks for your time.
Ron

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The following was taken from "XMP Custom Panels," Adobe, Oct 2003.
Each time an Adobe application opens the File Info dialog, it scans all the files in these directories and appends them to the file list. If more than one of the description files has
the same panel name, the one found in the last file to be loaded is added, and others are ignored.
Changes to the contents of the directories do not require you to reload an application; changes are automatically reflected in the dialog the next time it is opened.

The panel description and localization dictionary files must reside in the following locations for use with Adobe Creative Suite applications:
Mac OS X
{Root Volume}/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels
{Home Directory}/Library/Application/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels
Windows
\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\XMP\Custom File Info Panels
\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Adobe\XMP\Custom File Info Panels


The panel description and localization dictionary files must reside in the following locations for use with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 or 6.0:
Mac OS X
{Root Volume}/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Custom File Info Panels
{Home Directory}/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Custom File Info Panels
Windows
\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\\Custom File Info Panels
\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Adobe\Custom File Info Panels

Metadata entered in the Comment, Subject, etc. fields in Windows XP Explorer's internal Photo Editor is embedded in a page prepended to the JPEG, along with EXIF camera data.

Metadata entered in similar, but more expansive, data fields in accordance with the IPTC (Professional Photographers) template is similarly prepended to the previouslly prepended Microsoft data in the JPEG file.

Note: These data fields go with the JPEG, so images uploaded to the web may contain these embedded fields.


This site may be of interest:
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imaged....html#standards

And also this Breezeblower Photo Editor site may be of interest to those with high end (RAW) cameras.
http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/help/preferences.htm

As to finding applications with utilities to properly search these data fields, that seems to be a work in progress, across the board.

Use of XP operating system for a general search can bring up unique names or keywords, perhaps, but not abbreviations. If you live in Canada (CAN), but have relatives in California (CA) and use a Canon camera you may find some searches useless.

As to Irfanview's implementation of the IPTC template, it is straight forward and seemingly freeform. If you open that JPEG created in Irfanview and then download a trial version of, say, ACDSee, with its fancy interface you may have a different reaction.

After an hour you may find yourself rushing to uninstall ACDSee, with its supposedly searchable internal Album database utility. Might as well stick with TMG for your album tagging if you can't embed data fields in the JPEGs themselves.

FWIW,
John M.

I am moving to a new computer with windows 7 from an older computer with windows XP. I have TMG v 6.12 on the old computer. I have made backup files of all my projects on the old computer so I can use them to "restore" to my new computer. But I need to know if TMG 6.12 is compatible with windows 7, or will I need to purchase TMG 7 for the new computer?

I have apparently lost a file (or 2) and TMG will no longer load. I have v6.12. The first error message I get is
that it can't load 32-bit DLL c:windows\system32\bblist.view.ocx

If I click on ignore, it goes a bit further & then says :

OLE error code 0x80040154: class not registered 40TMGAPP0BJ.DOFORM

I haven't gone any further than that.

I have a new registry cleaner & I also deleted some old programs & files
that I never use anymore.

What do I need to do to fix this and/or would purchasing v7 correct it? I was
going to buy it anyway, just haven't gotten around to it. I run Windows XP on
an older (5 years) Dell Inspiron laptop. I have the SP3 pack too.

Thanks for any help.

I don't know if this facility is available but my help doesn't work so:
What is the best way to enter a BMD quarter if the actual month is unknown?
Suggestions would be welcome. Many thanks.

Firstly, where are all the topics for ver. 6? I only see 2.

Let me explain the relation first. My father has an older first cousin who was adopted by my father's uncle. When my father's biological father passed away, this cousin who was adopted married my father's mother. They had additional children together.

When I look at the details page, it lists the additional children as my father's siblings. I tried to create an adoptive relationship between the cousin who was adopted and my father since he became my father's step-father.

When I ran the kinship report, it does not list the half-siblings as siblings, but rather as first cousins once removed, even though they share the same mother.

In the descendancy narrative, rather than saying x was adopted by y, it says instead that x and y were adopted.

Obviously, I must have entered something wrong here. Can anyone tell me how I correct this so that my father's half siblings show up as same?

What is the safest way to renumber all the people in my current data set? When I was in TMG beginner mode, I started with myself at #1, my father at #2, my mother at #3, my maternal grandfather at #4, and my maternal grandmother at #5. Since I was new to TMG, I did not bother with trying to change the order of the ID numbers. Now, I would like to renumber the people in my data set, starting with my maternal grandfather -- because this particular data set is actually about him, his descendents, and some of his ancestors. I want to start with my grandfather at #1, his wife (my grandmother) at #2, and then his children (my mother, aunts, and uncles) from #3 to #9.