At 10:29 AM 3/13/2018, ORYL L FISCHER wrote: >My program is too large for laptop screen. Please help. What resolution is your screen? There is a certain minimum that TMG pretty much requires as some dialog boxes are not resizable. I run TMG in a 1457x954 window (I have a monitor that is 1920x1200). However... I presume the top/title bar for TMG is visible on your screen, and that it is the bottom and right side that are off-screen. DRAG the title bar down and to the right (yes, this sounds like I'm making things worse). THEN hover over the top/left corner until you get a resize \ arrow. Now drag that corner even more down and to the right. Move about a quarter of the screen. This action will make the total window smaller. Now drag the title bar up and to the left. If you reduced the window size enough, you will eventually be able to see the bottom/right corner. You can now adjust all the sides to you preferences. Adjust the inner windows as needed. FINALLY -- SAVE the layout as your default layout; that should mean TMG resets to those positions when next loaded. >________________________________ >From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 9:02 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: TMG Digest, Vol 13, Issue 47 > >Send TMG mailing list submissions to > [email protected] If you are replying to a DIGEST message -- Please trim anything that is not pertinent to your reply. You basically sent everyone a copy of every message in that digest! If starting a new post/thread, don't reply to a message, create a new message sent to the list address. -- [email protected] Dennis Lee Bieber HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

I use TMG v.9.05 in Windows 10. I was ready to do an Indented Descendent Narrative Report. But I'm getting a box saying the folder c:\Users\Brian\Documents\The Master Genealogist v. 9_output does not exist. I have had a crash but I thought I had reassembled everything. I am able to input information for example. What do I need to do? Brian Cole

Danielle, If you were not using TMG v9.05, I was going to recommend that you update. I have not encountered the problem you described, so I don't have any specific advice for you. I find that using the File > Maintenance > Optimize command solves problems that are caused by bad index entries, and that might apply here. Using VFI is a good idea, too. If you have done both of those, then I am not sure what else to suggest. Note that File > Maintenance > Optimize is more thorough at rebuilding the indexes than File > Maintenance > Reindex. Use Optimize. John

9.05, thank you John -----Original Message----- From: John Cardinal [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 7:35 AM To: 'The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List' Subject: [TMG] Re: Question regarding inputting sources Jean and Danielle, Which version of TMG are you using? John The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html

FYI - Resubscription to Rootsweb allows you to manage how you receive your posts from the TMG list and any other Rootsweb lists. It is required since they did not migrate that information from the old system. The archives can be found here: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/ Unfortunately the archive are now only March 2018 until Rootsweb finishes restoring everything (hopefully soon). I have no way of correcting the message that shows at the bottom of our posts to point to the new archive. I am gritting my teeth along with all of the rest of you. If you are auto-unsubscribed, please go to the subscription page and re-sub. Sorry for the long message. -- Constance Chappell Horne TMG List Administrator TMG Subscribe instructions: http://home.rootsweb.ancestry.com/listindexes/search/TMG TMG Archives: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/

You need to right-click and "Run as Administrator" and re-do your details. That should fix it. Known issue with Windows. Constance Chappell Horne TMG List Administrator TMG Subscribe instructions: http://home.rootsweb.ancestry.com/listindexes/search/TMG TMG Archives: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/

Jean and Danielle, Which version of TMG are you using? John

My program is too large for laptop screen. Please help. Thanks. Marilyn ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 9:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: TMG Digest, Vol 13, Issue 47 Send TMG mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of TMG digest..." The TMG archive is at: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fth%2Findex%2FTMG%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=W8G4N4bFR7JM58AenthFEGikqSrjpl40Cq%2FgGhPFhT8%3D&reserved=0 How to subscribe to TMG is at: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Findex%2Fother%2FSoftware%2FTMG.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=EuWxjxUIiO77oUX5ghQ8pGUeGdFwOzmJNxuEurrSqwU%3D&reserved=0 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Question regarding inputting sources (Danielle Forestier) 2. Re: Question regarding inputting sources (Byron Hallam) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:53:18 -0700 From: Danielle Forestier <[email protected]> Subject: [TMG] Re: Question regarding inputting sources To: 'The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List' <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I, too, experience that annoying glitch on the Witness screen. The freeze produces an abort message and none of the three offered choices allows me to proceed. (The message, which I don't remember exactly, has something to do w/subscripts, which I am not using). There must be user error here w/some keys I am pressing by mistake. It only happens when I am putting a persons' ID number in. Love having the board back, hearty thanks to the troubleshooters behind it! Danielle Forestier -----Original Message----- From: Jean Suddarth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [TMG] Question regarding inputting sources I have a situation which occurs ever so often. I get all the information into the memo field, then when I go to put in the source, it freezes. So I have no choice but to get out of TMG and go back in. When I do, somehow the only thing I get is an abbreviated Witness in the information fields. So then I have to delete and start over. I try to remember to put the source in first because I don't have the problem when I do that but I almost always forget. When this happens I validate the file integrity and several other things and it works fine for a while, but it always happens again when I least expect it. I'm wondering if I'm hitting a wrong key or what. Anybody got any ideas? Jean The TMG archive is found here: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fth%2Findex%2FTMG%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=W8G4N4bFR7JM58AenthFEGikqSrjpl40Cq%2FgGhPFhT8%3D&reserved=0 Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Findex%2Fother%2FSoftware%2FTMG.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=EuWxjxUIiO77oUX5ghQ8pGUeGdFwOzmJNxuEurrSqwU%3D&reserved=0 The TMG archive is found here: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fth%2Findex%2FTMG%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=W8G4N4bFR7JM58AenthFEGikqSrjpl40Cq%2FgGhPFhT8%3D&reserved=0 Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Findex%2Fother%2FSoftware%2FTMG.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=EuWxjxUIiO77oUX5ghQ8pGUeGdFwOzmJNxuEurrSqwU%3D&reserved=0 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:02:07 -0400 From: Byron Hallam <[email protected]> Subject: [TMG] Re: Question regarding inputting sources To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" File...Maintenance clears up many annoying issues. At least, that’s my experience. Byron Hallam > On Mar 13, 2018, at 8:53 AM, Danielle Forestier <[email protected]> wrote: > > I, too, experience that annoying glitch on the Witness screen. The freeze > produces an abort message and none of the three offered choices allows me to > proceed. (The message, which I don't remember exactly, has something to do > w/subscripts, which I am not using). There must be user error here w/some > keys I am pressing by mistake. It only happens when I am putting a persons' > ID number in. > > Love having the board back, hearty thanks to the troubleshooters behind it! > Danielle Forestier > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean Suddarth [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TMG] Question regarding inputting sources > > I have a situation which occurs ever so often. I get all the information > into the memo field, then when I go to put in the source, it freezes. So I > have no choice but to get out of TMG and go back in. When I do, somehow the > only thing I get is an abbreviated Witness in the information fields. So > then I have to delete and start over. I try to remember to put the source in > first because I don't have the problem when I do that but I almost always > forget. When this happens I validate the file integrity and several other > things and it works fine for a while, but it always happens again when I > least expect it. > I'm wondering if I'm hitting a wrong key or what. Anybody got any ideas? > Jean > The TMG archive is found here: > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fth%2Findex%2FTMG%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=W8G4N4bFR7JM58AenthFEGikqSrjpl40Cq%2FgGhPFhT8%3D&reserved=0 > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Findex%2Fother%2FSoftware%2FTMG.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=EuWxjxUIiO77oUX5ghQ8pGUeGdFwOzmJNxuEurrSqwU%3D&reserved=0 > The TMG archive is found here: > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fth%2Findex%2FTMG%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=W8G4N4bFR7JM58AenthFEGikqSrjpl40Cq%2FgGhPFhT8%3D&reserved=0 > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Findex%2Fother%2FSoftware%2FTMG.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=EuWxjxUIiO77oUX5ghQ8pGUeGdFwOzmJNxuEurrSqwU%3D&reserved=0 > The TMG archive is found here: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fth%2Findex%2FTMG%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=W8G4N4bFR7JM58AenthFEGikqSrjpl40Cq%2FgGhPFhT8%3D&reserved=0 > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Findex%2Fother%2FSoftware%2FTMG.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=EuWxjxUIiO77oUX5ghQ8pGUeGdFwOzmJNxuEurrSqwU%3D&reserved=0 > The TMG archive is found here: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fth%2Findex%2FTMG%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=W8G4N4bFR7JM58AenthFEGikqSrjpl40Cq%2FgGhPFhT8%3D&reserved=0 > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Findex%2Fother%2FSoftware%2FTMG.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc7a1a5757be342e22d7e08d588eb90d8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636565467678248216&sdata=EuWxjxUIiO77oUX5ghQ8pGUeGdFwOzmJNxuEurrSqwU%3D&reserved=0 ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer To contact the %(real_name)s list administrator, send an email to %(real_name)[email protected] To post a message to the TMG mailing list -- [email protected], send an email to %(real_name)[email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to %(real_name)[email protected]%(host_name)s with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. ------------------------------ End of TMG Digest, Vol 13, Issue 47 ***********************************

File...Maintenance clears up many annoying issues. At least, that’s my experience. Byron Hallam > On Mar 13, 2018, at 8:53 AM, Danielle Forestier <[email protected]> wrote: > > I, too, experience that annoying glitch on the Witness screen. The freeze > produces an abort message and none of the three offered choices allows me to > proceed. (The message, which I don't remember exactly, has something to do > w/subscripts, which I am not using). There must be user error here w/some > keys I am pressing by mistake. It only happens when I am putting a persons' > ID number in. > > Love having the board back, hearty thanks to the troubleshooters behind it! > Danielle Forestier > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean Suddarth [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TMG] Question regarding inputting sources > > I have a situation which occurs ever so often. I get all the information > into the memo field, then when I go to put in the source, it freezes. So I > have no choice but to get out of TMG and go back in. When I do, somehow the > only thing I get is an abbreviated Witness in the information fields. So > then I have to delete and start over. I try to remember to put the source in > first because I don't have the problem when I do that but I almost always > forget. When this happens I validate the file integrity and several other > things and it works fine for a while, but it always happens again when I > least expect it. > I'm wondering if I'm hitting a wrong key or what. Anybody got any ideas? > Jean > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html

I, too, experience that annoying glitch on the Witness screen. The freeze produces an abort message and none of the three offered choices allows me to proceed. (The message, which I don't remember exactly, has something to do w/subscripts, which I am not using). There must be user error here w/some keys I am pressing by mistake. It only happens when I am putting a persons' ID number in. Love having the board back, hearty thanks to the troubleshooters behind it! Danielle Forestier -----Original Message----- From: Jean Suddarth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [TMG] Question regarding inputting sources I have a situation which occurs ever so often. I get all the information into the memo field, then when I go to put in the source, it freezes. So I have no choice but to get out of TMG and go back in. When I do, somehow the only thing I get is an abbreviated Witness in the information fields. So then I have to delete and start over. I try to remember to put the source in first because I don't have the problem when I do that but I almost always forget. When this happens I validate the file integrity and several other things and it works fine for a while, but it always happens again when I least expect it. I'm wondering if I'm hitting a wrong key or what. Anybody got any ideas? Jean The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html

I have a situation which occurs ever so often. I get all the information into the memo field, then when I go to put in the source, it freezes. So I have no choice but to get out of TMG and go back in. When I do, somehow the only thing I get is an abbreviated Witness in the information fields. So then I have to delete and start over. I try to remember to put the source in first because I don't have the problem when I do that but I almost always forget. When this happens I validate the file integrity and several other things and it works fine for a while, but it always happens again when I least expect it. I'm wondering if I'm hitting a wrong key or what. Anybody got any ideas? Jean

Hi I am sure this has been answered before but can't find where it is listed. My 9.5 version suddenly started to ask for activation details, I cut and pasted my serial number from the trouble report and confirmed my email address as the same as on the report. Only open as it should and just says I have an expired trial version. I have also tried to activate using administration rights but same result. I would be grateful for any fix for this. David Cavanagh Adelaide South Australia.

On 3/12/18 10:27 PM, Terry Reigel wrote: > On 3/12/2018 8:35 PM, John Cordes wrote: >>   Robert, >>     Maybe I'm missing something, but why isn't your Focus Group >> including a filter on the Living flag to exclude living people? > John, > > Because there is no provision in Focus Groups for filtering based on > flags or anything else. > > Terry Reigel But you can 'transfer' a focus group to a flag:   Make a temp flag or reset one that is hanging around   Use a LOP report to set flag for every one in the focus group Now, with the flag, you can reset it for everyone who is living with a LOP report. Then you can copy that flag back into creating a focus group, with everyone who was there before who wasn't currently marked living. -- Richard Damon

Terry, Sorry, I wrote in haste and without going into the details of what it is I usually do. What I really had in mind was first filtering the Project Explorer, and then adding all the resulting names to a Focus Group. I do this regularly, and the filter includes a test on the Living Flag as well as other conditions. The purpose is, in part, to create a gedcom without living people. John Cordes On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:27:53PM -0400, Terry Reigel wrote: > On 3/12/2018 8:35 PM, John Cordes wrote: >> Robert, >> Maybe I'm missing something, but why isn't your Focus Group >> including a filter on the Living flag to exclude living people? > John, > > Because there is no provision in Focus Groups for filtering based on > flags or anything else. > > Terry Reigel > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html

On 3/12/2018 8:35 PM, John Cordes wrote: > Robert, > > Maybe I'm missing something, but why isn't your Focus Group > including a filter on the Living flag to exclude living people? John, Because there is no provision in Focus Groups for filtering based on flags or anything else. Terry Reigel

Robert, Maybe I'm missing something, but why isn't your Focus Group including a filter on the Living flag to exclude living people? John Cordes On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:29:54PM +0000, Robert Livingston wrote: > Michael, Lee, Terry, > Thanks for the ideas, but I'd been hoping there was a way to use the living flag with the focus group to have TMG not generate living people at all.  I've got about 500 living descendants and spouses to delete or edit and both methods seem prone to making mistakes and are time consuming.  I may mull this one over for awhile. > > Bob > From: Terry Reigel <[email protected]> > To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 12:54 PM > Subject: [TMG] Re: Gedcom of Living People > > On 3/12/2018 11:57 AM, Robert Livingston wrote: > > I need to create a Gedcom file for MyHeritage and finally created a focus group that makes a good gedcom of 6 generations of ancestors, 5 generations of their descendants, and all their spouses.  I used "suppress details of living people" which eliminated their events, but still output their names and sex.  I don't have permission from all these people to publish their names and family relationships on the web.  Is there a way to not list them in the gedcom? > Robert, > > Sure. Remove their names from the Focus Group. > > > If not, can I edit the gedcom to either eliminate them or change their names to "Private?" > > You could, but I think you would have to do it one-by-one, which would > be much more tedious I think than removing their names from the FG. > > Terry Reigel

Michael, Lee, Terry, Thanks for the ideas, but I'd been hoping there was a way to use the living flag with the focus group to have TMG not generate living people at all.  I've got about 500 living descendants and spouses to delete or edit and both methods seem prone to making mistakes and are time consuming.  I may mull this one over for awhile. Bob From: Terry Reigel <[email protected]> To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 12:54 PM Subject: [TMG] Re: Gedcom of Living People On 3/12/2018 11:57 AM, Robert Livingston wrote: > I need to create a Gedcom file for MyHeritage and finally created a focus group that makes a good gedcom of 6 generations of ancestors, 5 generations of their descendants, and all their spouses.  I used "suppress details of living people" which eliminated their events, but still output their names and sex.  I don't have permission from all these people to publish their names and family relationships on the web.  Is there a way to not list them in the gedcom? Robert, Sure. Remove their names from the Focus Group. > If not, can I edit the gedcom to either eliminate them or change their names to "Private?" You could, but I think you would have to do it one-by-one, which would be much more tedious I think than removing their names from the FG. Terry Reigel The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html

On 3/12/2018 11:57 AM, Robert Livingston wrote: > I need to create a Gedcom file for MyHeritage and finally created a focus group that makes a good gedcom of 6 generations of ancestors, 5 generations of their descendants, and all their spouses.  I used "suppress details of living people" which eliminated their events, but still output their names and sex.  I don't have permission from all these people to publish their names and family relationships on the web.  Is there a way to not list them in the gedcom? Robert, Sure. Remove their names from the Focus Group. > If not, can I edit the gedcom to either eliminate them or change their names to "Private?" You could, but I think you would have to do it one-by-one, which would be much more tedious I think than removing their names from the FG. Terry Reigel

At 3/12/2018 11:57, Robert Livingston wrote >I need to create a Gedcom file for MyHeritage >and finally created a focus group that makes a >good gedcom of 6 generations of ancestors, 5 >generations of their descendants, and all their >spouses. I used "suppress details of living >people" which eliminated their events, but still >output their names and sex. I don't have >permission from all these people to publish >their names and family relationships on the >web. Is there a way to not list them in the gedcom? You can delete individuals from the Focus Group which will keep them outy of the GEDCOM file. This can be one at a time or hold the Shift key down and click on each person to be deleted. When all have been selected, click on the [Remove Selected] button. >If not, can I edit the gedcom to either >eliminate them or change their names to "Private?" This is another option. It is a bit more tedious than just removing them altogether, but this allow the reader to see that persons exist, their gender, and any other information that might be left. I prefer this even with the extra work. But, this may depend on how many of these you have. Be sure to edit the GEDCOM in a text editor (such as the NOTEPAD editor of Windows) or if you use a word processor, be sure to save the changes as a text-only file with the .GED file extension. Lee

Kurt, First, a "paper" reference manual was discontinued when additional effort was put into the HELP system which comes with the program. Contrary to many programs I think it really is very good, and should be your first place to look. As others have said, Terry's Tips is an excellent beginning tutorial, and is especially a good place to look when starting to use a TMG feature you haven't used before. Finally, if you get really deep into customizing TMG and want some advanced discussions about how to do non-standard things, see my on-line book: https://www.mjh-nm.net/#MyWay