Thanks Terry and John. I had overlooked this aspect of the search feature in SS. I went to my own SS-created site and used the Search page I had already created there and it worked like a charm. (I don't have any flag filters set in SS and am looking at 18tha and 19th century weddings, so not worried about the "Exclude Living" issue.) Thank you both for your patience and help! Greg On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 1:40 PM, John Cardinal <John@johncardinal.com> wrote: > Greg, > > Terry has suggested using TMG Utility to add married names. That's worth > doing, but you may also want to consider using Second Site's Search > feature. > > > 1 - Make a NEW SDF file that you will not use to publish. > > 2 - Uncheck "Exclude Living" and do not set a flag filter. That will ensure > that everyone in your TMG project is a member of the site. > > 3 - Add a Search page and put a Search User Item on it. > > 4 - Make the site. > > That will provide a Search page where you can search for people using the > person's name (or a part of it) as well as the person's spouse or parents. > > You can see an example here: > > http://www.bezansons.com/search.htm > > Try this search, for example: > > Subject first name: Elizabeth > Spouse surname: Bezanson > > That will find women named Elizabeth who married someone with the surname > Bezanson. There are two hundred women named "Elizabeth" and thousands of > husbands named Bezanson on that site, but the SS search make it VERY easy > (and quick) to find the 30 or so people who match both terms. > > 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 > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Greg, Terry has suggested using TMG Utility to add married names. That's worth doing, but you may also want to consider using Second Site's Search feature. 1 - Make a NEW SDF file that you will not use to publish. 2 - Uncheck "Exclude Living" and do not set a flag filter. That will ensure that everyone in your TMG project is a member of the site. 3 - Add a Search page and put a Search User Item on it. 4 - Make the site. That will provide a Search page where you can search for people using the person's name (or a part of it) as well as the person's spouse or parents. You can see an example here: http://www.bezansons.com/search.htm Try this search, for example: Subject first name: Elizabeth Spouse surname: Bezanson That will find women named Elizabeth who married someone with the surname Bezanson. There are two hundred women named "Elizabeth" and thousands of husbands named Bezanson on that site, but the SS search make it VERY easy (and quick) to find the 30 or so people who match both terms. John

On 10/29/2016 12:54 PM, Greg Vaut wrote: > Thanks Terry, > > Do you happen to know how TMGU will handle a case where a woman married > twice? Greg, From TMGU Help: "For each married woman, the program will build a list of (a) her existing names, and (b) the primary names of her husband(s). The program will compare the lists, and for each husband surname that does not exist in the list of the wife's surnames, the program will add a married name tag." Terry

Thanks Terry, Do you happen to know how TMGU will handle a case where a woman married twice? Greg -----Original Message----- From: TMG [mailto:tmg-bounces+gregvaut=gmail.com@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Terry Reigel Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2016 11:50 AM To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List Subject: Re: [TMG] Problem with Finding Wive's w/o NAME-MARR Tag On 10/29/2016 11:44 AM, Greg Vaut wrote: > I have a database of nearly 80,000 individuals that I have built in > TMG over the years. I'm now doing detailed research on 8 generations > of large intermarried families that used the same given names over and > over and whose spouses tended to have the same given names > (intermarried Quaker families). I often find female head of household > listings in the early censuses (1790-1840) where I am pretty certain > that this is a widow (e.g., a Sarah SMITH), but I have many SMITH men > marrying women named Sarah and I have to go through all of the SMITH > marriages (200?) to try to determine who married a Sarah. I need a > more efficient tool to be able to SMITHs with wives named Sarah. > > Ideally, I could build a search rule for Project Explorer that will > allow me to Identify all of the SMITH wives whose Given Name contains Sarah. > Unfortunately, I never used the NAME-MARR tag in TMG and can't find an > obvious set of variables in the Project Explorer drop down menus. > > Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I might do this? > > Thanks for any ideas offered. Greg, John Cardinal's TMG Utility will add married name tags for you. 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 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 10/29/2016 11:44 AM, Greg Vaut wrote: > I have a database of nearly 80,000 individuals that I have built in TMG > over the years. I'm now doing detailed research on 8 generations of large > intermarried families that used the same given names over and over and > whose spouses tended to have the same given names (intermarried Quaker > families). I often find female head of household listings in the early > censuses (1790-1840) where I am pretty certain that this is a widow (e.g., > a Sarah SMITH), but I have many SMITH men marrying women named Sarah and I > have to go through all of the SMITH marriages (200?) to try to determine > who married a Sarah. I need a more efficient tool to be able to SMITHs with > wives named Sarah. > > Ideally, I could build a search rule for Project Explorer that will allow > me to Identify all of the SMITH wives whose Given Name contains Sarah. > Unfortunately, I never used the NAME-MARR tag in TMG and can't find an > obvious set of variables in the Project Explorer drop down menus. > > Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I might do this? > > Thanks for any ideas offered. Greg, John Cardinal's TMG Utility will add married name tags for you. Terry Reigel

I have a database of nearly 80,000 individuals that I have built in TMG over the years. I'm now doing detailed research on 8 generations of large intermarried families that used the same given names over and over and whose spouses tended to have the same given names (intermarried Quaker families). I often find female head of household listings in the early censuses (1790-1840) where I am pretty certain that this is a widow (e.g., a Sarah SMITH), but I have many SMITH men marrying women named Sarah and I have to go through all of the SMITH marriages (200?) to try to determine who married a Sarah. I need a more efficient tool to be able to SMITHs with wives named Sarah. Ideally, I could build a search rule for Project Explorer that will allow me to Identify all of the SMITH wives whose Given Name contains Sarah. Unfortunately, I never used the NAME-MARR tag in TMG and can't find an obvious set of variables in the Project Explorer drop down menus. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I might do this? Thanks for any ideas offered. Greg

Brian, If you have your TMG icon on your "taskbar" for quick open, then it is two steps. First right click on the TMG icon (which shows two lines...."The Master Genealogist" ....and.... "unpin from the taskbar"). Right click again on the line that says "The Master Genealogist" and then click on "run as administrator". This will bring up a screen that requires you to fill in your name, email., and your full unlock code. Complete that screen and that should make Windows 10 happy that you have a paid copy.......at least until Windows 10 again has a major update and manages to forget what you just told it about TMG, sigh. Dave Ball

Hello All, I am running a purchased/licensed TMG 9.05. A couple of months ago my venerable Windows XP computer started having problems and I switched to a new Windows 10 machine. Since then TMG pops up every month telling me that my trial period has expired. When I load my serial number TMG is happy. for another month. It's annoying, but certainly not a disaster. Still, does anyone have an idea what I may have done/not done when I changed computers/operating systems? Any suggestions how to eliminate this? Thanks for your help! Brian

Diane, I assume that by "descendancy narrative report" you are referring to a TMG Journal Report. Apparently the GEDCOM from Ancestry included many TMG "witness" people on events for the principal participants. There may be a way to control this in creating or importing the Ancestry GEDCOM - I don't use Ancestry GEDCOMs so don't know. But there is a way to suppress all these witness sentences in the TMG Journal Report. In the report options, on the Tags tab, you probably have the "All events and witnessed events" choice selected. Select one of the other choices and your unwanted witness sentences should be eliminated. Of course this will also eliminate any witness sentences that you may have wanted to retain, so if this is the case you would need to fix the problem at the GEDCOM import level. On 10/28/2016 5:40 PM, Diane Wilson wrote: > I am having great difficulty with a GEDCom created from Ancestry > > The reports now created in TMG are all most unusual > > Here is an example of a descendancy narrative report with lots of witnessing going on which I dnat want nor need > > > I. James Robert1 Wilson (926) witnessed the birth of James Robert Wilson (926) on 8 Dec 1868 at Clevedon South Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the baptism of James Robert Wilson (926) on 6 Feb 1869 at Clevedon Presbyterian Church, Clevedon South Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the marriage of James Robert Wilson (926) and Annie Maria Sutherland (966) on 31 Mar 1897 at Residence of Hugh Sutherland, Clevedon South Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the death of James Robert Wilson (926) on 12 Feb 1954 at Papakura, New Zealand. > > A. Sutherland2 Wilson (967) witnessed the birth of Sutherland Wilson (967) on 14 Mar 1898 at Paparimu, New Zealand. He witnessed the baptism of Sutherland Wilson (967) on 26 Apr 1898 at Papakura, New Zealand. He witnessed the marriage of Sutherland Wilson (967) and Marie Constance Heald (975) on 22 Jan 1931 at St Marys Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the death of Sutherland Wilson (967) on 25 Sep 1981 at Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the burial of Sutherland Wilson (967) on 27 Sep 1981 at Purewa Crematorium, Auckland, New Zealand. > > 1. Warwick Sutherland3 Wilson (976) witnessed the divorce of Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) and Elizabeth Mary Sykes (978). He witnessed the birth of Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) on 21 Feb 1932 at Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the marriage of Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) and Elizabeth Mary Sykes (978) on 4 May 1954 at Kings College Middlemore, Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the marriage of Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) and Ann Hutton Stewart (9189) on 21 Feb 1998 at Coromandel, New Zealand. He lived with Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) in 1999 at State Highway 1, Mangatawhiri, New Zealand. > > > How can I rule out an error in the TMG programme and really what can I do?? > > I am not a very confident TMG user Really a beginner I guess > > Diane Wilson > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: TMG [mailto:tmg-bounces+diane=wilson.gen.nz@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Donald Range > Sent: Friday, 28 October 2016 9:50 a.m. > To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <tmg@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [TMG] Descendant Box Chart > > One possibility is that you may have checked the "Only include people with this flag value" box on the Report Definition Screen. Another possibility is that the Surety setting (Other tab on the report options) could be excluding people, although this setting does not seem to work as expected for me. > > > On 10/27/2016 10:19 AM, Artie Berry wrote: >> In the past I've created Descendant Box charts for multiple >> generations without any problems. Recently, however, all I can get to >> display in Visual Chartform (or when I save to a file) is a single >> generation (with spouse), regardless of the number of generations I >> enter in Report>Descendant Box >> Chart>Descendant Chart>Options>Max # generations:. I've also tried >> Chart>several >> different Focus persons, all with known descendants, without success. >> >> I keep thinking I have a box checked or unchecked that is causing this >> problem but I'm unable to locate it. Any advice on what I'm doing wrong? >> > 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 > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > 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 > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I am having great difficulty with a GEDCom created from Ancestry The reports now created in TMG are all most unusual Here is an example of a descendancy narrative report with lots of witnessing going on which I dnat want nor need I. James Robert1 Wilson (926) witnessed the birth of James Robert Wilson (926) on 8 Dec 1868 at Clevedon South Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the baptism of James Robert Wilson (926) on 6 Feb 1869 at Clevedon Presbyterian Church, Clevedon South Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the marriage of James Robert Wilson (926) and Annie Maria Sutherland (966) on 31 Mar 1897 at Residence of Hugh Sutherland, Clevedon South Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the death of James Robert Wilson (926) on 12 Feb 1954 at Papakura, New Zealand. A. Sutherland2 Wilson (967) witnessed the birth of Sutherland Wilson (967) on 14 Mar 1898 at Paparimu, New Zealand. He witnessed the baptism of Sutherland Wilson (967) on 26 Apr 1898 at Papakura, New Zealand. He witnessed the marriage of Sutherland Wilson (967) and Marie Constance Heald (975) on 22 Jan 1931 at St Marys Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the death of Sutherland Wilson (967) on 25 Sep 1981 at Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the burial of Sutherland Wilson (967) on 27 Sep 1981 at Purewa Crematorium, Auckland, New Zealand. 1. Warwick Sutherland3 Wilson (976) witnessed the divorce of Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) and Elizabeth Mary Sykes (978). He witnessed the birth of Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) on 21 Feb 1932 at Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the marriage of Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) and Elizabeth Mary Sykes (978) on 4 May 1954 at Kings College Middlemore, Auckland, New Zealand. He witnessed the marriage of Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) and Ann Hutton Stewart (9189) on 21 Feb 1998 at Coromandel, New Zealand. He lived with Warwick Sutherland Wilson (976) in 1999 at State Highway 1, Mangatawhiri, New Zealand. How can I rule out an error in the TMG programme and really what can I do?? I am not a very confident TMG user Really a beginner I guess Diane Wilson -----Original Message----- From: TMG [mailto:tmg-bounces+diane=wilson.gen.nz@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Donald Range Sent: Friday, 28 October 2016 9:50 a.m. To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <tmg@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [TMG] Descendant Box Chart One possibility is that you may have checked the "Only include people with this flag value" box on the Report Definition Screen. Another possibility is that the Surety setting (Other tab on the report options) could be excluding people, although this setting does not seem to work as expected for me. On 10/27/2016 10:19 AM, Artie Berry wrote: > In the past I've created Descendant Box charts for multiple > generations without any problems. Recently, however, all I can get to > display in Visual Chartform (or when I save to a file) is a single > generation (with spouse), regardless of the number of generations I > enter in Report>Descendant Box > Chart>Descendant Chart>Options>Max # generations:. I've also tried > Chart>several > different Focus persons, all with known descendants, without success. > > I keep thinking I have a box checked or unchecked that is causing this > problem but I'm unable to locate it. Any advice on what I'm doing wrong? > 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 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Right-click on the TMG icon and select "run as administrator" from the menu which pops up. -----Original Message----- From: TMG [mailto:tmg-bounces+rcj=charter.net@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Margaret Clark Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 6:15 PM To: tmg@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG] Opening the full version of TMG When I load the disk I bought of the latest US version, it does great... until I close it and open it the next time. Then I get the British version, with inactive features, unable to add any info, etc., rather than the complete version. Someone posted a similar situation and the "fix" was to use "run as administrator". I want to try that but I can't find where that choice is available. How is it done? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Margaret 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 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

When I load the disk I bought of the latest US version, it does great... until I close it and open it the next time. Then I get the British version, with inactive features, unable to add any info, etc., rather than the complete version. Someone posted a similar situation and the "fix" was to use "run as administrator". I want to try that but I can't find where that choice is available. How is it done? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Margaret

One possibility is that you may have checked the "Only include people with this flag value" box on the Report Definition Screen. Another possibility is that the Surety setting (Other tab on the report options) could be excluding people, although this setting does not seem to work as expected for me. On 10/27/2016 10:19 AM, Artie Berry wrote: > In the past I've created Descendant Box charts for multiple generations > without any problems. Recently, however, all I can get to display in Visual > Chartform (or when I save to a file) is a single generation (with spouse), > regardless of the number of generations I enter in Report>Descendant Box > Chart>Descendant Chart>Options>Max # generations:. I've also tried several > different Focus persons, all with known descendants, without success. > > I keep thinking I have a box checked or unchecked that is causing this > problem but I'm unable to locate it. Any advice on what I'm doing wrong? >

In the past I've created Descendant Box charts for multiple generations without any problems. Recently, however, all I can get to display in Visual Chartform (or when I save to a file) is a single generation (with spouse), regardless of the number of generations I enter in Report>Descendant Box Chart>Descendant Chart>Options>Max # generations:. I've also tried several different Focus persons, all with known descendants, without success. I keep thinking I have a box checked or unchecked that is causing this problem but I'm unable to locate it. Any advice on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Artie Berry artieberry@gmail.com

100% on target. I have assumed that Ancestry simply made gedcom uploads so unsatisfactory as a tool to promote use of their own proprietary software. It's such a short sighted approach. Greg On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:58 AM, John Cordes <John.Cordes@dal.ca> wrote: > Fabulous! > > John > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 07:53:36AM -0400, Terry Reigel wrote: > > On 10/26/2016 3:00 PM, Linda M. Towne wrote: > >> And from previous experience with Megan Bounds - she wants to add a > >> link to ancestry trees to the site. Personally I wasn't interested in > >> providing free advertising to Ancestry. > >> > > I suspect Linda is right. She contacted me late last year asking for a > > link on one of my pages. She never responded when I wrote back: > > > > "Why would I include that link? How does one upload a GEDCOM from > > there? Did you read my article? That's what the whole article is > > about. Nobody who would be reading my article would have any > > interest in creating a tree from scratch on Ancestry. > > > > "Now if you would like to talk about fixing the issues with > > Ancestry's treatment of GEDCOM uploads that I describe in the > > article I'd be happy to do that. > > > > "In the meantime, maybe you would consider putting a link on your > > site to my article to help people understand the issues they will > > encounter when they try to upload to an Ancestry Tree?" > > > > > > 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 > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Fabulous! John On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 07:53:36AM -0400, Terry Reigel wrote: > On 10/26/2016 3:00 PM, Linda M. Towne wrote: >> And from previous experience with Megan Bounds - she wants to add a >> link to ancestry trees to the site. Personally I wasn't interested in >> providing free advertising to Ancestry. >> > I suspect Linda is right. She contacted me late last year asking for a > link on one of my pages. She never responded when I wrote back: > > "Why would I include that link? How does one upload a GEDCOM from > there? Did you read my article? That's what the whole article is > about. Nobody who would be reading my article would have any > interest in creating a tree from scratch on Ancestry. > > "Now if you would like to talk about fixing the issues with > Ancestry's treatment of GEDCOM uploads that I describe in the > article I'd be happy to do that. > > "In the meantime, maybe you would consider putting a link on your > site to my article to help people understand the issues they will > encounter when they try to upload to an Ancestry Tree?" > > > Terry Reigel

On 10/26/2016 3:00 PM, Linda M. Towne wrote: > And from previous experience with Megan Bounds - she wants to add a > link to ancestry trees to the site. Personally I wasn't interested in > providing free advertising to Ancestry. > I suspect Linda is right. She contacted me late last year asking for a link on one of my pages. She never responded when I wrote back: "Why would I include that link? How does one upload a GEDCOM from there? Did you read my article? That's what the whole article is about. Nobody who would be reading my article would have any interest in creating a tree from scratch on Ancestry. "Now if you would like to talk about fixing the issues with Ancestry's treatment of GEDCOM uploads that I describe in the article I'd be happy to do that. "In the meantime, maybe you would consider putting a link on your site to my article to help people understand the issues they will encounter when they try to upload to an Ancestry Tree?" Terry Reigel

And from previous experience with Megan Bounds - she wants to add a link to ancestry trees to the site. Personally I wasn't interested in providing free advertising to Ancestry. On 10/26/2016 2:45 PM, Terry Reigel wrote: > On 10/26/2016 2:41 PM, Constance Chappell Horne wrote: >> I have received an email from Megan Bounds with Ancestry.com asking >> about the owner of the website www.tmgtips.com <http://www.tmgtips.com>. >> >> Does anyone know who owns this site? >> >> I would like to send them a copy of the email I received. >> >> Thanks! >> > > Constance, > > That site belongs to Lee Hoffman. > > Terry > > > > 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 > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 10/26/2016 2:41 PM, Constance Chappell Horne wrote: > I have received an email from Megan Bounds with Ancestry.com asking > about the owner of the website www.tmgtips.com <http://www.tmgtips.com>. > > Does anyone know who owns this site? > > I would like to send them a copy of the email I received. > > Thanks! > Constance, That site belongs to Lee Hoffman. Terry

I have received an email from Megan Bounds with Ancestry.com asking about the owner of the website www.tmgtips.com. Does anyone know who owns this site? I would like to send them a copy of the email I received. Thanks! Constance Chappell Horne TMG List Administrator http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/index/TMG