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From: "Laurie Taylor" <>
Subject: Prospective user wondering about conversion from other software
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 20:13:07 -0700
In-Reply-To: <000901c4a8a1$c4938620$6802a8c0@Cheasa>


Hi,

I am considering The Master Genealogist to replace Ultimate Family Tree.
I started out with Roots II and progressed through III, Virtual and UFT,
along with so many other people. After struggling intermittently with
UFT, I'm ready to get seriously back to building our family tree but
cannot face the frustration of UFT.

What I'm wondering is would I be better off using TMG to open up my old
UFT files, which are the result of a gedcom conversion due to software
and DOS issues a couple years back? Alternatively, should I pull out my
Roots III files, which were quite footnoted and comprehensive but did
not make it intact to UFT and figure out how to get them into order to
use with TMG?

Does this make any sense at all? I'm not sure how to explain it so if
it needs clarification I'll sure understand.

Thanks.

Laurie Taylor
Arizona



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-----Original Message-----
From: Teresa Ghee Elliott [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 10:04 AM
To:
Subject: [TMG] Census Name Styles and How they can be helpful


One thing I do differently than Betty is each of my census names has a
different name style. In the Picklist and PE, they show as

John Jones (age 43) on the 1860 census

John Jones (age 52) on the 1870 census

John Jones (age 2) on the 1860 census

John Jones (age 11) on the 1870 census



As you can see, that easily helps me to pick out the right John Jones.
While that may not seem like a big deal in my example, imagine that you
have 14 Sarah Unknowns. One of them is the Sarah Jones you are looking
for. So if you need to find the right Sarah Unknown, having her listed
as Sarah Jones, (age 42) on the 1860 census, is more helpful than 14
Sarah Unknowns.



It also is helpful for analysis. Say I find a John Jones in 1920. He is
59. He is probably NOT my younger John Jones, since he would be about
62. Having the census names in the PV would make that more obvious. I
am a little dense at noticing things like that, so the more things I
have to remind me the better. <G>



Teresa Ghee Elliott

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