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30-50 posts per day from the national TMG List? Join the
TMGTUG mail list.
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| Have a question about TMG and don't want to wait for the next UG
meeting? Here are three easy steps to get your questions answered
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- Search (or browse) the TMG-L
Archives. All posts to the TMG Mailing List since 22 July 1999 are
residing on the Archives and they seem to be updated simultaneously
with the actual List. At the time of this writing (23 January 2001 @
4:37 p.m.) the most recent archive is date-time stamped 23 Jan 2001
18:36:51 EST.
- If you don't find the answer in the Archives, subscribe to TMG-L
and post the question yourself. You can unsubscribe from the mailing
list at any time by following the instructions on the TMG
Mailing List webpage. There are no limits to how often or how many
times you subscribe and unsubscribe from the List.
- Post your question to the Tucson
TMGTUG mail list. Maybe someone from our group can answer the
question.
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| A nice new web site has been developed to consolidate all of the
tools, publications, web sites, Users Groups, and other resources for
users of The Master Genealogist and Family Tree SuperTools. It is :
http://www.whollygenes.com/forums/.
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| Learn to customize your TMG toolbar with fun icons. Users Jim Byram, Carol
Oswalt, and Phil Lloyd have developed some
bitmaps for your use. Click here to download the
buttons and for instructions on how to use them.
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| Visit Lee Hoffman's TMG Tips Page
for valuable tutorials and tips to take advantage of some of the
awesome power of TMG. He also provides source citation patterns in his
TMG Proprietary
Information page.
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| If Lee's tips aren't enough for you, take a look
at Terry's TMG Tips Page.
Terry Reigel has customized sources, alternate languages and roles to
name just a few.
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| Diane Begeman developed a wonderful process for entering census data
and uploaded detailed instructions on
Diana's TMG
Example Page. She makes use of the witness feature in TMG to
link all members in the household into one census entry and can run
reports that show everyone in a particular census. The instructions
are for TMG 4.x, but can be adapted very nicely to TMG 5.
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| Allen
Mellen provides some examples on using filters as well as housing
downloadable census forms.
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| John
Cardinal developed some very useful after-market tools for
exclusive use with TMG. John classifies most of his applications
"DonorWare." They are free to download and use. He requests
that you make a donation in his name to the PMC/Jimmy Fund of
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute if you feel the utilities "saved you
time and aggravation." John provides a link on his website with
more information about the PMC/Jimmy Fund. |
His
TMG
Utility allows you to make global modifications to the dataset,
useful for cleaning up imported data or for correcting mistakes you may
have made. For example, if you created a custom tag in the Other event
type and later decided you wanted it to be in the Death event type, this
utility will fix that for you. Or, if you were inconsistent in assigning
the husband as P1 in the marriage tags, this utility will do that for
you and more. TMG Utility is available only for both 4.x and 5.x.
Another fun tool by John Cardinal is his
On
This Day (OTD) application which "displays a list of
anniversaries of BMDB events for the current day, week, or month. Use it
to remind yourself or members of your family of important dates in your
family history." This program is available for both TMG 4.x and TMG
5.
The third companion program developed by John for use with TMG is
Second Site. Second Site creates web pages from a genealogy
database. It generates either narrative or grid style person pages, a
master index, a surname index, and source pages. Second Site can be
purchased from the Wholly Genes web store.
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| The Roots Users Group of Arlington, VA has
links to other TMG User's groups. They also offer a newsletter to their members.
Anyone interested may join the group whether or not they live in the Arlington,
Virginia area.
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Teresa Ghee Elliott
has compiled a list of sample custom sentences,
LOP filters, and source templates for TMG v5.
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Chuck Wolfram has set up a website that explains how to use roles and
also has a link to a database of roles that have already be created. It
also has source templates that you can copy as well.
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