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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG 4.0d Creating custom sources
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 12:11:09 -0500
In-Reply-To: <64.27923791.2af40ae7@aol.com>


wrote:
>Although I have used TMG since DOS days, I have never created a custom
>source. I simply use the Mills sources and perhaps add an additional
>element. I'm afraid that by creating custom sources I will mess up/lose my
>Mills sources.
>
>Could someone please explain how to create custom sources in TMG 4.0 and how
>my doing this will affect my Mills sources. Also, if I adapt a Mills source,
>can I then simply give it a new name and will it appear on the Mills list?
>
>My questions may be very naive for someone who has used TMG for many years,
>but perhaps it also shows newcomers that you can use TMG successfully for
>many years without using or understanding the many, many features of the
>program.

The Tutorials and Articles page of the TMG Tips web site (URL below) has a
tutorial on creating custom Source Types. Also I think Terry Reigel's web
site has similar articles and there is a link on the TMG Tips web site to
Terry's.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

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