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From: "William M Roberts" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Prospective user wondering about conversion from other software
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:25:25 -0400
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"Laurie Taylor" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 11:07 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: Prospective user wondering about conversion from
other software


>
> 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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