The Master Genealogist

Original author(s) Bob Velke
Developer(s) Wholly Genes Software
Initial release 1991
Stable release 8.00.000 / December 21, 2011; 56 days ago (2011-12-21)
Written in Visual FoxPro
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Available in English (US), English (UK), German, Dutch, Norwegian, French, Italian and Afrikaans
Type Genealogy software
License Proprietary
Website www.whollygenes.com

The Master Genealogist (TMG) is genealogy software for Microsoft Windows first released in 1993[1] by Bob Velke. Data entry can be customized through the use of user-defined events, names, and relationship types.

Contents

Features

Limitations

Source types

The default source types in the standard edition are based on Wholly Genes' interpretation of Elizabeth Shown Mills's Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian.[3] Source templates based upon Wholly Genes' interpretation of the , source types in Richard S. Lackey's Cite Your Sources[4] are also provided. The source templates in the UK edition are based on designs by Caroline Gurney for sources commonly encountered in the United Kingdom.[5]

TMG version history

Please press show for more information on past versions.

File format

TMG's underlying database engine is Visual FoxPro v9. and 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, v5.x, v6.x, v7.x

Migration from TMG

TMG has elaborate and detailed support for sources in a database format where a source can be referred to by any other record. In the GEDCOM database specification, sources can only refer to either a single individual or single family. Because of GEDCOM's limitation, exporting a TMG database involves duplicating the sources into each place where a given source is used. All of the information is exported, but the structure of each source is lost permanently.

An example of this limitation of GEDCOM is when there is a census or ship's record that lists many members of an extended family. TMG allows each individual's entry to refer to a common source record, which can itself have an elaborate description. The structure of GEDCOM forces you to duplicate all mention of and information contained in that source. The duplication of records, makes the source information in the exported GEDCOM file (and all GEDCOM files) hard to maintain.

Non GEDCOM exports of TMG

The following advanced options, apart from GEDCOM transfer are available:

  1. tmg2gramps Converts TMG 6 datafiles to a GRAMPS v2.2.6 XML - by Anne Jessel.
  2. Forays Into Genealogy Data Base Modelling - Details how Leif Biberg Kristensen moved his data out of TMG into a program of his own creation [46].

Platforms

TMG was designed to run on the Windows platform, however some users run TMG on Macintosh and Linux machines.[64] 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.[65]

References

  1. ^ "Ancestry - Genealogical Computing 7/1/2002 - Innovators: Bob Velke". http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=7608. 
  2. ^ "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - August 30, 2004 -GenBridge Update". http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2004/08/genbridge_updat.html. 
  3. ^ Elizabeth Shown Mills. Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1997.ISBN 0-8063-1543-1
  4. ^ Richard S Lackey, Cite Your Sources: a manual for documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1980.ISBN 0-87805-286-0
  5. ^ "Terry's TMG Tips - A Source Tutorial". http://www.reigelridge.com/tmg/source-tutorial.htm. 
  6. ^ 23 Aug 2008 Chat Transcripts - Wholly Genes Community
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n TMG-L Re: [TMG] TMG puchase (sic) - "TMG's update history off the top of my head <g>:" From: Bob Velke - Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:41:19 -0400 - RootsWeb
  8. ^ Product announcement from 1993 when TMG v1.0 - Laura's Minimalist Home Page
  9. ^ Product announcement for TMG v1.2 - Laura's Minimalist Home Page
  10. ^ a b TMG Demo - Laura's Minimalist Home Page
  11. ^ Downloading TMG/Win v3.5, Laura's Minimalist Home Page
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  29. ^ RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.06.000 is now available, From: Bob Velke Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003
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  33. ^ VCF Chart, Second Site requires version 2.1.0.592 or greater of VCF.EXE. If you are using TMG v5.09 or greater you should have a supported version of VCF.EXE., John Cardinal's Home Page
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  41. ^ Subject: TMG v6.00 is now available!, From: Bob Velke, Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004, RootsWeb: TMG-L
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  51. ^ RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.08 is now available!
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  56. ^ TMG 6 and Windows Vista.pdf
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  63. ^ RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v7.04 is now available! From: Bob Velke Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009
  64. ^ RootsWeb: TMG-L Re: [TMG] TMG on a Mac - 21 Jun 2008
  65. ^ "TMG Setup on Wine - Wine Application Database (AppDB)". http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10500. 

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