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From: "Laurie Taylor" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: Prospective user wondering about conversion from other software
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:07:35 -0700
In-Reply-To: <002801c4a9b3$218ebfe0$6501a8c0@hpp1700>


Here's a new question to go with my original dilemma.

Is there a way to ask TMG to identify any/all individuals who have a
particular source attached to their record?

If I could do that, I'd just fix the Master Source list, transfer
non-source info to appropriate tags and be done with it.

Shucks. That could actually be easy.

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: William M Roberts [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 6:40 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Prospective user wondering about conversion from
other software


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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