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Michael J. Hannah, Los Ranchos, NM.
Customizing TMG™
Using It My Way ©MJH
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Notice: On July 29, 2014, Bob Velke, owner of Wholly Genes and developer of TMG announced: “I am sad to report that the decision has been made to discontinue The Master Genealogist ("TMG").” Since the behavior and features of TMG are now frozen as of the final TMG Version 9.05, I have tried to review, test, and update all the chapters in this book to ensure they reflect that final Version behavior. I have noted those cases where I realize I still need to do further testing against that final Version, usually by the word “test” in a footnote, but some points may have been missed. Any errors or omissions are generally unintentional and mine. |
• Style Guide, Import/Export, Data Entry
• Source Documentation Chapters
• Source Guide, Source Templates, Source Elements, Census Source
• non-Primary Children, Tag Type Descriptions, Tag Sentence Details, Tag Sentences
Index (across all chapters) - Modified August 1, 2020 2:47 pm
The Purpose and Nature of This On-Line Book
There are many configuration choices, optional features, and non-traditional usage and data entry methods possible using The Master Genealogist™ (TMG) software to allow you to use it “your way”. One of the best ways to understand these possibilities may be to examine how someone else has customized TMG. I began constructing this book with its cross-hyperlinked separate chapters to record “my way” of using and customizing TMG beginning in 1996 with Version 3. As much as possible these notes have been updated through the final Version 9.05 release.
NOTICE/DISCLAIMER: This book is NOT a beginning tutorial on using TMG. If that is what you need, I recommend the book A Primer for The Master Genealogist. The information within this book is not authorized or official TMG documentation. Instead see the excellent embedded “Help” facility within the Version of the program you are using.
Much of what these chapters discuss involves advanced features of this software. I do not suggest what I have recorded is the correct way to customize or use TMG; these ideas may be inappropriate or even wrong for you. Customization is not even a necessary way to use TMG, as the software is carefully designed to be completely usable in its default configuration. Care must also be taken in viewing my book as some of these notes refer to issues I encountered or features I was using in earlier versions, and these may not (yet) be adequately tested or updated to reflect the final Version and the ideas may now be inappropriate or obsolete. As these chapters may contain errors, users should test any ideas or limitations mentioned against their version of the software. Readers may report any error which they find in this book on the TMG-L e-mail List since I participate in that list and reporting it there also will alert others to the error. There are also clickable links on each page of the book to email me directly.
This book simply records “my way” of customizing and using TMG. If you customize TMG, I recommend that you document “your way” to help you be consistent. Hopefully these chapters will give you useful ideas. TMG is remarkably capable of being customized and tailored to one’s personal style, but it is also considerably rich in features and options which take time to understand and choose how to use. I do not (yet) use all the features of TMG, so the information in these chapters is not comprehensive. Many aspects of TMG are not be mentioned here, especially some of the newer features. This is not a comment against such unmentioned features, as others probably use them and find them extremely valuable. I have simply not “gotten around” to considering or needing them (or recording my way to use them) yet. I have found it useful to deliberately chose those options and methods that do suit me, and record my decisions in this book so that I can be consistent and be reminded later why I made those decisions. Linda Kuhn humorously suggested on the old TMG ListServ that TMG should come with a formal caution: “User customization of this product may be addictive and may inhibit the user’s decision making abilities. Persons with retentive behaviors should not use this product.” Intentionally funny, but possibly true, at least with respect to me, as these chapters attest. Parts of any one of these chapters concerning my customization may be characterized as any or all of the following:
I have recorded my decisions on using various standard features, which optional advanced features I chose to use and how, and the background that led me to those decisions. I encourage you to decide on, adopt, and record a consistent style for your use.
I believe consistency in data entry is valuable, and have documented some of my decisions of how and where I chose to enter different kinds of data so (hopefully) I will enter similar data the same way the next time. Consistency in data entry also helps when using the many search facilities within the program.
Definitions of some TMG features
While TMG includes a complete and official Help documentation, I developed, re-worded and/or expanded definitions of some (but not all) of the many TMG features. My notes and definitions tend to focus on those features I regularly use, want to remember and/or find I tend to forget. And I choose to group information about various features in ways different from TMG Help that I find easier to locate.
As I have used TMG and heard from others on the old and new TMG Email List and Wholly Genes, Inc. forum, I have learned tricks and tips about using and customizing TMG. I have tried to record such ideas both as future reminders in case I might use them, but especially if I have adopted or adapted them for my use.
Table of Contents
Chapters and Topics
These chapters attempt to collect and document in some organized fashion broad TMG topics, and my overall principals, concepts, and usage of TMG for my genealogy projects.
Style Guide - Modified August 1, 2020 11:16 am
This chapter is a general discussion of my, often non-standard, way of using TMG, plus a collection of several topics that I did not chose to separate into individual chapters or files. (69 pages)1
• Numbering: Unused TMG numbers, People Numbering, Source Numbering
• Backup
• Separate Project Data, Install Two Copies, External Links, System Errors
• Collate Sequence, People Accents and Filters, Fonts, View History, View Timelines, Layouts, Toolbar Buttons, Multiple Witnesses
Year, Surname, People, EOL, Location, Cemetery, Repository, Research, Source, Census, Sentence, Ship, TMG, Unmarried, Tag Accent, Other
• Flags
Adopted, Birth Order, Living, Sex, others
Pseudo, Main/Blood, Edited, SS, Work, Find, Events, Parent Surety, Related By
• Reports
• Secondary Output, TOC and Indexes, Title Variables, Spell Checker, Excel Reports, HTML Reports, Filters, Fonts, Charts, Bugs
General, Options, Naming, Default Text, Tag Types, Special Purpose Reports
Family Group Sheet, Individual Detail, Individual Narrative, Journal Report, List of People, Descendant Indented, NEHG standards
• Overview, Task Name, Task Keywords, Completed Tasks, Task Dates, Task Reports, Tracking Sources
TMG Utility, TMG to GEDCOM, Second Site, GedStar, PathWiz!, TagWiz!
Importing, Merging, Export, and GEDCOM - Modified August 1, 2020 2:44 pm
This chapter includes a variety of topics dealing with getting data files into and out of TMG. Many of these features have significantly changed and improved as the TMG versions have evolved. Of special interest, now that development of TMG has ceased, is exporting to GEDCOM, especially its Enhanced Export option introduced in Version 9.04. (42 pages)
• Import versus Restore of old TMG versions
• Sources, Source Types and Source Elements, Tag Types and Styles
• Project Files (with or without retaining customizations)
• People
• Merging
• Data Sets:
Tag Types, Source Types, Source Elements, Sources, Repositories, Styles, Flags, Places, Tasks, Exhibits, People
• People, Places/Locations, Sources and Source Types, Repositories
• ID Numbers, Names, Dates, Places/Locations, Two-Principal Tags, Relationship Tags, Citations, Sources, Repositories, Tag Names, Default Tag Names, Exhibits, My recommendations, Character Sets
• V9.04 Enhanced GEDCOM Export
• Address/Telephone, Note/Name dates, Sort dates, Witnesses, Surety, Repository detail, Lengthy descriptions
• Name data,Name Title/Prefix issues, NOTE tags, Assigning tags, Unassigned tags, Relationship Tags, Source data, Surety
• Association of programs with the ‘.ged’ file type extension
Data Entry - Modified August 1, 2020 11:00 am
This chapter attempts to document the data entry standards that I try to follow (if I remember) for data that is common throughout TMG and across many different types of information. Data entry of information unique to major specific topics (e.g. census data, sources, and tags) I have documented separately. (36 pages)
• Overview
• Names:
Blank Names, Index Name, Sort Names, Married Name, Selected Name, Name Styles, U.S. Standard Name style, Name Title Field, Name Style sorting and indexes, Name Style Templates
• Dates:
Irregular Dates, Old Style, Modifiers, Question Mark, Say/Circa, After, Same-day Ordering, Internal Structure, Sort Order, Sort Date Table, BC Dates
• Places:
F2 Sort Code, L10 Codes, Place Styles, Repository Place Styles, Short Place, Second Site Places, Latitude/Longitude
• My Place Entry Usage: U.S. locations, Non-U.S. Locations, General Conventions
Long ‘s’, Non-ANSI, Special Use
• Memos
• Sources
One of TMG’s distinguishing features is its robust ability to document sources that support the genealogy data. I have multiple chapters on this topic as this is an area that especially lends itself to customization and personal standardization, and believe one should carefully document the many personal choices associated with this topic.
Source Guide - Modified August 2, 2020 3:12 pm
This chapter captures my general comments about the usage and customizations of typical sources. (48 pages)
• Abbreviations for sources in the Master Source List: Codes, Details
• General Source Data Entry conventions and issues:
• Ibid and Unique Endnotes: Ibid, Unique
Topic, Reference, Caption, Description, External filename
Topic, Caption, Description, External filename
Internal/External, Order, Storage, Printing
• Creating Source Pseudo People
• Names
• Link Source to Source People
• Abbreviations in the Master Repository List
Source Templates - Modified August 1, 2020 5:16 pm
The structure of source citations which will output in reports are defined by the source templates of master Source Types or custom Source Definitions. They are often dependent upon ones’ personal standards and/or the standard used by some publication. This chapter describes my own standards for citations (which are based on but modified from various citation style guides) so report citations will output “my way”. I have made “some” changes in nearly all of the templates provided with TMG, although many I have chosen not to use. In addition the following list are my most customized source types and their templates which I do currently use. (102 pages)
• Overview: Style, (ShortFootnote, FullFootnote, Bibliography)
SecondSite automatic treatment of URL sources
• Comments on special groups of Source Types:
Book Source Types, Census Records, Church Records, Government Records, Marriage Records, Obituaries
• Alphabetical List of only those Source Types which I currently use:
Census, Church Combined Compilation, Church Combined Register, Church Event Certificate, Church Event Compilation, Church Event Register, City (or County) Directory, Correspondence, Electronic Database, Electronic Database-FindAGrave, Employment Record, Family Group Sheet, Government Combined Compilation, Government Combined Register, Government Event Certificate, Government Event Compilation, Government Event Register, International Genealogical Index, Interview, LDS Patron Sheets, LDS Pedigree Resource, Manuscript, Miscellaneous, Obituary/Newspaper Article, Passenger List, Photograph, Published Location work, Published work, Records (MultiVolume), School Record, SSDI
• Alphabetical List of all the various Source Types described and their Templates:
Ancestral File™, Ancestral File(MJH), Article(Journal), Article(Serialized), Baptismal Certificate, Baptismal Record, Baptismal Register, Bible Record, Bibliography Only, Birth Certificate, Birth Church Register, Birth Register, Birth Registration(Local), Birth Registration(State), Book(Authored), Burial Cemetery Register, Burial Certificate, Burial Church Register, Census, Church Combined Compilation, Church Combined Register, Church Event Certificate, Church Event Compilation, Church Event Register, City (or County) Directory, City (or County) Directory(MJH), Computer Software, Correspondence, DAR Records, Death Certificate, Death Church Register, Death Register, Death Registration, Deed, Diary, Dissertation, E-Mail Message, Electronic Database, Electronic Database(MJH), Electronic Database-FindAGrave, ElectronicFile, Electronic Web Site, Electronically Published, Employment Record, Family Group Sheet, Family Group Sheet(MJH), Family History Library, Forced Commentary, Government Certificate, Government Combined Compilation, Government Combined Register, Government Document, Government Event Certificate, Government Event Compilation, Government Event Register, Government Register, International Genealogical Index, International Genealogical Index(MJH), Interview, Interview(MJH), Law, LDS Patron Sheets, LDS Pedigree Resource, Lecture, Legal Case, Letter, Lineage Application, Manuscript, Manuscript(MJH), Map, Marriage Certificate, Marriage Church Register, Marriage Register, Military, Miscellaneous, National Archives, Naturalization, Obituary/Newspaper Article, Obituary/Newspaper Item, Obituary/Newspaper Lumped, Passenger List, Pension File, Periodical, Photograph, Probate, Published Location work, Published work, Published work-combined, Records (MultiVolume), Research Report, School Record, Series, Social Security Death Index, SSDI(MJH), Syllabus, Tax Roll, Thesis, Town Record, Translated Work, Video, Vital Record, Will
• I also find this chapter a convenient place to collect other miscellaneous ideas about possible source templates.
Source Elements - Modified August 1, 2020 2:53 pm
This chapter documents the source elements including those custom elements I have added. (12 pages)
• Source element Groups are collections of multiple synonyms of source elements
• Specially handled “people” group variables
• My group name abbreviations
• Source element Groups alphabetically:
• Author, Citation Detail, Citation Memo, Citation Reference, Comments, Compiler, Date, Edition, Editor, File Reference, Film Number, Location, Pages, Publisher, Publisher Location, Record Number, Record Type, Repository, Repository Info, Repository Memo, Repository Reference, Second Date, Second Location, Second Person, Series, Short Subtitle, Short Title, Subject, Subtitle, Title, Version, Volumes
• Source element Variables based on where entered:
See also my Source Element Table. (1 page) - Modified August 1, 2020 2:55 pm
• Citation Screen, Repository Screen, Source Definition Attachments Tab, Source Definition Supplemental Tab, Title on Source Definition General Tab, User Selected Elements on Source Definition General Tab
• My source element Variable Names by group and alphabetically:
Address, Agency, Annotation, Applied To, Arrival Date, Article Title, Author, Author Address, Author E-Mail, Bible Title, Book Title, Call Number, CD, Census Date, Chapter Title, Church, Citation Detail, Citation Memo, Citation Reference, CM, Comments, Compilation Title, Compile Date, Compiler, Compiler Address, CREF, Date, Date Obtained, Document, Edition, Editor, Employer, Entry Port, Essay Title, Family Info, File Date, File Name, File Number, File Reference, Film, Film Number, First Party, Household, Informant, Informant Address, Interview Date, Interviewer, Journal Title, Jurisdiction, Jurisdiction Biblio, Listserve, Location, Location Biblio, Location DB, Location Detail, M, Manuscript Info, Memo, Name Of Person, Newspaper, Newspaper Title, Number, Original Date, Page, Pages, Period, Person Type, Photographer, Present Owner, Printout Date, Pseudo Person, Publish Date, Publisher, Publisher Address, Publisher Location, Reader, Recipient, Recipient Address, Record Group, Record Info, Record Number, Record Title, Record Type, Register, Register Title, Repository, Repository Address, Repository Info, Repository Memo, Repository Reference, Roll, RM, Second Date, Second Location, Second Party, Second Person, Section, Series, Ship Name, Short Article Title, Short Bible Title, Short Book Title, Short Chapter Title, Short Compilation Title, Short Essay Title, Short Journal Title, Short Newspaper Title, Short Record Title, Short Register Title, Short Subtitle, Short Title, Speaker, Spouses’ Names, Subject, Subset, Subset Volumes, Sub Title, Subtitle, Testator, Text, Title, Transcriber, Translator, URL, Version, Volume, Volumes
Census Source Data Entry - Modified August 2, 2020 4:45 pm
How to record the wealth of information found in the special source that is census data has prompted considerable discussion and debate among genealogists in general and TMG users in particular. It involves both custom source issues (see above) and custom tag issues (see below). There are numerous suggested methods. My non-standard method of using TMG for this purpose is only one way. While I find it sufficiently comprehensive for my needs, it is complex and very customized and requires careful documentation and strict data entry rigor to ensure I consistently follow my method. (38 pages)
• Background:
Data available, TMG options, My method
Tag Sort Dates and Roles, Names, Name Styles, Relationships, Families, Examples
Finding People with No Census Tag
• Census Tags:
Census/CensOrig, CensusEnum, CensusFind, CensusNil, CensusX, CensusXFind, CensusXNil
Census/CensOrig, CensusEnum, CensusFind, CensusNil, CensusX, CensusXFind, CensusXNil
Custom Tag Documentation Chapters
TMG tag types record different types of data and define sentences concerning that data that are used to produce reports. Significant ways to customize TMG are by modifying the standard tag types, defining your own additional tag types and roles, and crafting the sentences these tag types will produce in reports.
Customizing for non-Primary Children - Modified August 1, 2020 3:45 pm
This chapter separately documents the custom tag types and custom usages of standard tag types I use to record information about non-Primary and non-biological children (for example adopted or step children, and pseudo children) in a way to report them appropriately different but similar to Primary biological children. (31 pages)
• Overview
• Customizations for non-biological/non-Primary children
• Customizations for SS conditionally excluded parents or children
• Approaches to Recording Adoption
• Tag Types to record Adoption
Recording other Adoption related Data
• Custom Tag Types for Adoption Data:
Adoptee, AdoptGive, Adopting, AdoptLink
• Overview
• Sort order for multiple Family Sections
• Affecting a Family Section heading
• My Custom Usage of FS Note Events
Listing Pseudo People’s “Children”
Listing other Non-Primary child relationships
• TMG and SS Family Section custom output
Tag Type Descriptions - Modified August 4, 2020 11:18 am
The ten fixed tag groups defined in TMG can each contain multiple tag types. Each tag associated with a person in the dataset is an instantiation of a tag type, and is intended to be used to record a specific type of information or aid in producing specific report output. This chapter describes my customizations of standard tag types and the custom tag types I use. (78 pages)
• Definitions of Tag Groups, Tag Types, and Tags
Name, Birth, Relationship, Marriage, Divorce, Death, Burial, History, Address, Other
• Types
• Tags
• Type, Primary, Memo, Sentence, Citation, Principals, Dates, Place, Witnesses
• Relationship Tag Types
• Standard: *-Ado, *-Ste, *-Oth
• Custom: *-Bio2, *-Can, *-Nil
• Name Tag Types
AllFields, Census, Location, Married, OneName, Repository, Source, SurnamePreSort
TMG People (Name) Index, Second-Site Name Index
• Name Tags—Alphabetical List:
Name-Adopted, Name-Assume, Name-Baptism, Name-Birth, Name-Chg, Name-Comm, Name-Index, Name-Link-Only, Name-Loc-Var, Name-Marr (Name-Marr, Name-Married, Name-Marr-Title, Name-Maiden), Name-Nick, Name-One, Name-Step, Name-SurnameSort, Name-Title, Name-Var
• Tag Name Suffixes for Custom Tag Types
*Alt, *Assume, *Date, *Excl, *Find, *Img, *Loc, *Narr, *Nil, *Sens, *Sum, *Text
• Customized Tag Types—Alphabetical List:
Address, Adoption/AdoptOrig, Adoptee, AdopteeFind, AdoptGive, AdoptGiveFind, Adopting, AdoptingFind, AdoptLink, Anecdote, AnecdoteExcl, AnecdoteSens, Associatn, Author, BaptAdult, BaptFind, Baptism, BaptNil, Birth, BirthAssume, BirthFind, BirthIlleg, BirthMultiple, BirthNil, BirthOrder, BirthPar, BirthRec, BirthStill, Burial, Cem-list-head, Census Tags, ChildFind, Christning, Codicil, Conflict, Correspondence, Created, Cremation, Death, DeathAssume, DeathAssumeBur, DeathAssumeCrem, DeathFind, DeathNil, Descriptn, Dissolved, Divorce, Divorce Fl, DivorceAssume, DivorceFind, Duplicate, DupNil, Education, EmigFind, Emigration, Employment, Event-Misc, FamilySectionNote, Graduation, Guardian, GuardianFind, Illness, ImmigFind, Immigratn, JournalConclusion, JournalIntro, LocationLink, Marr Assume, Marr Bann, Marr Cont, Marr Dummy, Marr Find, Marr Lic, Marr Never, Marr Nil, Marr Not, Marriage, Milit-Beg, Milit-End, MilService, Misc, MiscFind, MiscNil, MovedFrom, MovedTo, MoveFind, NarrativeChildren, Natlzation, Note, Num Child, Num ChildExcl, Num ChildSens, Num Marr, Obituary, Occupation, Ordained, Ordination, Probate, PsgrList, Related, RelateFind, Research, ResidedAddress, ResideFind, Residence/ResideOrig, Sex Change, Src Link, TestTag, Title-Event, Transcript, TranscriptExcl, TranscriptSens, Twin, Widow(er), Will
Tag Sentence Details - Modified August 19, 2020 12:21 pm
This chapter separately documents the tag sentence variables, their meanings, and how I commonly use them. (32 pages)
Conditional, Living, Two Principals, Sensitivity, Exclusion, Trailing punctuation and concatenation
• Variables: Linked People, Parents, Age, Date, Location
• Memo, Empty Split Memo Parts, Memo Variables Table
• Embedded Format Codes, Embedded Format Codes Table
• Default Roles, Role Names, Role Variables
Tag Sentences - Modified August 4, 2020 11:29 am
Finally, this chapter contains the details of the sentences for all tag types and roles which I use. (55 pages)
• Tag Type Sentence Index by Tag Group:
• Address, Birth, Burial, Death, Divorce, History, Marriage, Name, Relationship, Other
• Description of the conventions used in my Tags and Sentences table
• Table of my Tag Types and Sentences
I have progressively used more and more of TMG since Version 3 in 1996, although I had followed its development even earlier. Some of the comments in this book are dated to earlier versions and may not apply to the final Version, but I have tried to keep the information up to date. The following identify sources of various ideas which appear in this book and for whose contributions I am grateful:
As mentioned in more detail in the Style chapter, there are several Companion Products which have been developed over time and are associated with TMG. However I feel special mention should be made of the many products produced by John Cardinal which I rely upon and consider essential companions to using TMG. These include the ability to do global changes to a TMG project with TMG Utility, to automatically generate a web site from a project with Second Site, and to obtain an improved export of TMG data via the recent TMG to GEDCOM program.
Several of the ideas and documentation may have been mentioned in some form by other users over nearly two decades, and I owe many people acknowledgement, but I had the foresight to record the names of only some of them. If you see an idea that you think was originally yours but I did not attribute it to you, my apologies and thank you, and if you let me know I will acknowledge that in these chapters. If I have mentioned you but misrepresented your ideas, again my apologies, please let me know and I will try to correct that.
TMG, its Help files, and earlier printed Users Guides
The definitive source for the behavior of TMG is the software itself and its official Help documentation embedded with each version of the software. As others have stated in the past, I also believe it is (still) the most comprehensive and professional genealogy software of anything else currently on the market, even though TMG is no longer sold, and I acknowledge its value to me in my genealogical endeavors.
TMG On-line Forum sponsored by Wholly Genes, Inc.
This was the officially sponsored forum for posting questions and receiving answers concerning the TMG software both from the vendor and from the many users who subscribed to the forum. Anyone may browse the Forum and its questions and replies, but you must register to make any postings. Wholly Genes no longer has staff to respond to questions posted on this forum, but as long as the forum continues to be on-line2 volunteer users have pledged to try to answer posts.
A Primer for The Master Genealogist©3
Written by long-time knowledgable user Terry Reigel, the book is designed to help new users quickly become comfortable and adept with TMG. Its second edition has been updated to reflect TMG Version 8. Both editions provide an introduction to TMG features in straightforward terms, with a level of detail and clear graphics that helps but doesn’t overwhelm a novice user, and can be an excellent refresher even for long-time users especially of unfamiliar features. Terry also maintains an excellent website. Terry’s TMG Tips contains many web pages with guidance for using TMG, including step-by-step instructions and images of TMG screens to follow his suggestions.
Getting the Most Out of The Master Genealogist (GMOTMG)©4
Compiled and edited by long-time TMG user and original moderator of the old TMG ListServ, Lee H. Hoffman, this is an invaluable reference for new and seasoned users alike. Although TMG has added new features since this edition was written in 2003, almost all of what it describes is still appropriate to the final Version of the software. Lee also has a website with many good links and ideas about TMG.
TMG-L e-mail List originally at Rootsweb, now at Groups.io
This e-mail List has always been organized by and run by users of TMG. Its current moderator is Constance Horne. It has no official affiliation with Wholly Genes, Inc., but both novice and seasoned TMG users who subscribe to this List are often the best source of explanations and suggestions on clever ways to customize and use the software. Many of the ideas in these documents originally were mentioned in some form by one of these users or inspired by comments on this List. At the beginning of 2020 Rootsweb announced it would no longer host e-mail lists but would retain their archives for some unspecified time. Since the List at that host existed long before the official on-line forum was created, its archives are invaluable for dealing with older versions of the software, and for an historical perspective on the development and enhancements of TMG over time. As many users continue to use TMG even after the software has been frozen, the List was moved to Groups.io where it is still active. Questions on using some feature to customize TMG can often be answered by posting a question on this List, or by browsing or searching its current or the old archives. I expect this List to continue to exist as long as there are active users of TMG.
Many TMG users have published web sites over the years that have explained and documented features of TMG and suggestions on how it might be used. I have often found nuggets of ideas in them, and many of the comments and methods in these documents were born of these ideas. There are too many sites to name, so I suggest starting by browsing the (possibly out-of-date) list of user sites added to over time on the Wholly Genes forum, or browsing the archives of the TMG ListServ identified above for sites mentioned.
1. The page count for each chapter is the approximate number of 8½ x 11 single-sided pages required to print the file in 12 point type. Total count, including this special introductory section, would be 556 pages, not counting the Index.
2. As it was hosted by Wholly Genes, it is not clear how long it will continue to be available now that the company has closed. Since 2009 I have been privileged to be one of several users who were moderators of this forum, and intend to continue to reply to posts as long as the forum is on-line.
3. Terry Reigel, A Primer for The Master Genealogist (Boone, North Carolina: ReigelRidge Press, 2008). Edition one was originally written for Version 7. In December 2011 Terry released a second edition which was updated for TMG Version 8. Although I recommend the second edition, either edition is still of significant value when using earlier versions as well as the final version of the software.
4. Lee H. Hoffman, compiler and editor, Getting the Most Out of The Master Genealogist (GMOTMG). (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003). Last I checked (Dec 2018) it was still available both new and used on Amazon.
Disclaimer
I am not affiliated in any way with TMG™, its company Wholly Genes, Inc., or its primary author Bob Velke, nor with John Cardinal, author of several TMG after-market programs. I am simply a satisfied user of these software packages and have constructed these documents to aid me in their use.
If others find these documents useful, so much the better. I do not warrant in any way that they are accurate or useful, and any use of them is at the user’s own risk.
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