The Master Genealogist

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The Master Genealogist
Developed by Wholly Genes Software
Latest release 7.02.000 / May 24, 2008 (2008-05-24); 18 days ago
OS Windows
Genre Genealogy software
License Proprietary
Website Whollygenes

The Master Genealogist (TMG) is genealogy software for Windows first released in 1993[1] by Bob Velke. The Master Genealogist is able to be customized for data entry through user-defined event, name, and relationship types.

"TMG is the only program that allows the documentation of independent relationships between a child and each parent; other programs force the research into pre-structured "families" that do not always match the available evidence."[2]

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[edit] Features

  • In TMG information is displayed like a spreadsheet. With no set space for any piece of information, this allows you to record conflicting information you may collect, eg.If a civil birth record states John Doe born:1/1/1900 England. And Church record Birth 30/12/1899 baptism:2/1/1900. you may record and display each birth, this allows you to collect conflicting evidence instead of being restricted to deciding which one is correct.
  • GenBridge recognises many common genealogy data format files from other programs and will import genealogical data directly into TMG, this minimizes the lose of data when transfered through GEDCOM. TMG can import from a standard GEDCOM file also.[3]

[edit] Source Types

"The default source types in the standard edition are based on Wholly Genes' interpretation of Elizabeth Shown Mills' Evidence! (Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1997). Those in the UK edition are based on designs by Caroline Gurney, specifically for sources commonly encountered in the United Kingdom."[4]

[edit] TMG version history

Please view the TMG talk page for the more information on past versions.

[edit] Languages Available

English (US), English (UK), German, Dutch, Norwegian - Bokmål only , French, Italian and Afrikaans.

[edit] File Format

TMG's underlying database engine is Visual FoxPro v9.
Visual FoxPro v9 does not support Unicode.

  1. File Structures for (TMG) for DOS and Windows v3.6
  2. TMG File Structure - Applicable to TMG v3.x, v4.x, and v5.x & v6.0

[edit] Platforms

TMG has been designed to run on the Windows platform, however many users are running TMG on their Macintosh and Linux machines. Running TMG on a Macintosh requires special software such as Parallels, or Virtual PC for older non-Intel Macs. TMG runs on Linux with Wine[5].

[edit] Third Party Help/Tools

[edit] Help

  1. TMG Cheat Sheets - TMG Codes, Variables, and Shortcuts
  2. Lee Hoffman's TMG Tips
  3. Terry's TMG Tips
  4. TMG mailing list on Rootsweb
  5. The Master Genealogist Forum on Genealogy.com
  6. Wine AppDB - TMG Entry - Information on making TMG work with Wine (software).

[edit] Tools

  1. John Cardinal's Genealogy Programs -
    TMG Utility - database modification tool for TMG projects
    On This Day - displays a list of anniversaries: BMDB events, Also includes Mocakebi the read-only browser for TMG databases
    Second Site - publish your TMG data in HTML format.
  2. Gensmarts- analyze your existing genealogy file and produce research recommendations.
  3. Gedstar Pro - View TMG genealogy data on your PalmOS.
  4. Pocket Genealogist - View TMG genealogy data on your Windows Mobile and PocketPC handheld computers.
  5. TMG Witness to Note - converts TMG witness data to TMG note tags. After conversion then TMG can print those tags to a GEDCOM file.
  6. Pathwiz - Allows exhibit management and reporting and editing of exhibit paths, descriptions,topics and captions.

[edit] User Groups

  1. User Groups

[edit] Migration from TMG

Due to the great flexibility of TMG, it's actually impossible to perform a complete GEDCOM export, something Bob Velke is the first one to admit.

  1. tmg2gramps Convert TMG 6 to GRAMPS Free Software for Genealogy.
  2. Forays Into Genealogy Data Base Modelling - Details how Leif moved his data out of TMG into a program of his own creation [1].

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ancestry - Genealogical Computing 7/1/2002 - Innovators: Bob Velke.
  2. ^ Ancestry - Genealogical Computing 7/1/2002 - Innovators: Bob Velke.
  3. ^ Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - August 30, 2004 -GenBridge Update.
  4. ^ Terry's TMG Tips - A Source Tutorial.
  5. ^ TMG Setup on Wine.