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From: "William M Roberts" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Prospective user wondering about conversion from other software
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:40:28 -0400
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Laurie

I believe there is an option in the advanced GenBridge list to change the
location of the event footnotes in TMG.

If not I am sorry as I can not look at the options unless I had a Roots IV
database.

Myrnice


"Laurie Taylor" wrote on Sunday, October 03, 2004 5:34 PM
Subject: [TMG] Re: Prospective user wondering about conversion from other
software


> Hello,
>
> Well, I'm still experimenting with the settings for opening a Roots IV
> database in TMG and I think I see what is happening. Where ever I had
> an event footnote in R4, TMG turns it into a 'source', so that I see it
> in my Master Source List. But when it is a line like, "he died after a
> long illness", that makes no sense as a source. At the same time I
> cannot see to whom it is referring, at least as far as I can tell.
>
> Does this make sense? Would going back to the old R3 file make more
> sense, or would it come out the same? Is there a setting that I'm
> missing that would make this import better?
>
> The more I play, the more I like the program, but would like to be sure
> of minimizing the footnote import issues before I buy. I've also looked
> at Legacy and Roots Magic because I really like how they handle
> pictures, but that is not as important to me as having a clean, accurate
> database.
>
> Well, back to it.
>
> Laurie Taylor
>
>
>
> "Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might
> as well dance." (author unknown)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof. G. L. Esterson [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 2:13 PM
> To:
> Subject: [TMG] Re: Prospective user wondering about conversion from
> other software
>
>
> Laurie,
>
> I used Roots3 for a number of years and was very happy with it. But the
>
> time had come to move on. Recently, I have been moving over to TMG
> 4.0d,
> beginning with one of my
> databases.Ididtheimportandfoundthatfor
> the most part everything was imported as I would have wanted.
>
> One exception was that in my Roots3 notes, I had included citations of
> the
> Roots3 ID number of persons, and these were not well handled. For
> example,
> for the "Born" item, I might have included in the Note, "Named for mat
> grandmother 00499, & grt aunt 00495". In Roots3 reports, the two
> numbers
> are recognized as references to the names of the persons specified and
> this
> would yield the names of those persons in the reports. I found that in
> the
> TMG import, in all cases, the imported number was not identified with
> the
> person, but was just imported as a number. Of course, this required
> manual
> clean-up after importing. Otherwise, the process went rather well.
>
> I still had to do a certain amount of refinement in order to sequence
> events properly, and to achieve other effects which resulted from the
> richness of TMG in handling details, but I expected this to happen.
>
> After a bit more experience with this first data base, I will soon
> import
> my other data bases, one by one, and continue with their clean-up.
>
> Good luck with your efforts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Esterson,
> Ra'anana, Israel
>
> At 11:12 AM 10/3/2004 -0600, Laurie Taylor wrote:
>>Wow, thanks to you and everyone else on this list for the very quick
>>responses. I'd love to take you up on your offer, but will hold on
>>until Wholly Genes responds to my e-mail as I figure I might as well
>>test their customer service. I suspect though that nearly everyone on
>>this list will be able to tell my that the service is as good as the
>>program and everyone is very happy with the program.
>>
>>I'm still playing with various imports, including an R4 file that I
>>forgot I had, so if it looks good, I might not need the R3 conversion,
>>but would probably need to see both imported files to be sure that the
>>R4 was really as accurate as what the old R3 file had been.
>
>
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