Abbreviations used by members of TMG-L
When learning TMGish (that's like English, Spanish, etc) it is hard enough to learn all the new words, but we on TMG-L ( TMG-L@rootsweb.com) also use abbreviations of those new words and for a newbie (that's anyone who is unfamiliar with TMG) those abbreviations can be quite confusing.
If you would like to join us on TMG-L, send an email to TMG-L-Request@rootsweb.com and put Subscribe in the subject line. Don't put anything in the message. Here are a few abbreviations and their meanings.
From the report definition screen
ADL= Ahnentafel-Direct Line
AC= Ancestor Box Chart
DC= Descendant Box Chart
DIC= Descendant Indented Chart
DIN= Descendant Indented Narrative
DOP= Distribution of People
FGS= Family Group Sheet
FC= Fan Chart
HC= Hourglass Box Chart
ID= Individual Detail
IN= Individual Narrative
KR= Kinship Report
LOC= List of Citations
LOE= List of Events
LON= List of Names
LOP= List of People
LOPL= List of Places
LOR= List of Repositories
LOS= List of Sources
LOT= List of Tasks
LOTT= List of Tag Types
LOW= List of Witnesses
CP= Compressed-Pedigree (Found under reports as Pedigree-Compressed), not PC, because that would confuse it with Personal Computer.
PI= Project Information
RC= Relationship Chart
SR= Statistical Report
Miscellaneous Abbreviations
PV= Person View
FV= Family View
TV= Tree View
FG= Focus Group
PE= Project Explorer
MSL= Master Source List
MPL= Master Place List
MRL= Master Repository List
MEL= Master Events List
MTTL= Master Tag Type List
MSLP= Master Style List Places
MSLN= Master Style List Names
CD= Citation Detail This is where you can put more information (like page numbers) about a source. Not a Compact Disk.
PL=Picklist
DSM= Dataset Manager
VFI= Validate File Integrity
.sqz file= the file format that TMG uses to save backups in
