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From: "Chuck Wolfram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Assist Request
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:59:03 -0500
References: <000c01c1da3e$49cec640$eefdfea9@HOTMAMA>


Welcome to TMG. IMHO, you made an excellent choice. This program is way
superior to FTM, although its a lot easier to make some of those box charts
in FTM than it is in TMG v.4.
BTW, Roles were introduced in v.4.0a. Take advantage of them! Especially
in censuses.
You need to create custom tags for property transactions. I have Deed-Sell,
Deed-Buy, Property, and a few others. I still haven't worked out the
*right* way to enter all that data, and its been 17 months since I left FTM.
If you don't already have it, get a copy of EVIDENCE! by Elizabeth Shown
Mills. It will be helpful.
And most importantly, visit Lee Hoffman's web-site www.tmgtips.com --it has
many and varied tips, articles, etc. on how to do almost anything in TMG.
Visit the linked pages. It has almost everything in relation to TMG there.

Chuck Wolfram


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Courtney" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 7:02 AM
Subject: [TMG] Assist Request


> Hi folks. Enjoyed the discussion on the Lower-Delmarva list on The
> Master Genealogist so much that I went and bought it and have been
> playing with it all weekend. After using Family Tree Maker for over
> five years, it is quite a change. Now, from you experience folks who
> are experts in TMG, I would like some guidance.
> I make extensive notations on land records and other court
> proceedings that I find, in an attempt to make each person come alive in
> the data base, rather than just a collection of dates and places. I am
> having trouble deciding on a good format to enter such narrative, and
> still be able to print the data in the genealogy report. So far, I am
> in a quandary. For a program that makes such extensive use of a
> relational data base, it seems the gave little thought to land and court
> records. Now, I may be off base, here, but I've read the get started
> manual, and have scanned the reference volume, but have not reached an
> optimum solution.
> Has anyone developed a good approach to this?
> One other note, TMG imported over 7000 names from FTM without a
> hiccup!!!!!!!
>
> Seeking some guidance here. If you don't want to respond to the
> list, please respond directly at <mailto:>
> .
>
> Frank Courtney
> Moncks Corner, SC
>
>
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