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From: "Al Boswell" <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] Re: TMG-L:Beginner's problems
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:25:17 -0600
References: <20000428.074503.-143635.2.BuddRice@juno.com>


Bud
A couple of questions
1. When you are on the person view screen does the father show multiple
marriages?
2. Do multiple spouses show up in the Family View.
If there is only one wife on the person view screen but multiple spouses on
the family view screen. then you have not associated the wife as the mother
of the children. You can fix this by going to the person view screen of the
child and adding the mother. If this fixes the problem, you can avoided it
in the future by adding the parents first then the children
If this is not clear please email me back
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Budd Rice" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: TMG-L:Beginner's problems


>
> Harry,
>
> I agree with you. "The Master Genealogist" is for Master Genealogists.
> I am sure that TMG is a powerful tool and once you have learned
> how to use it, both the application software and the manuals will
> be of great use. I have had nothing but problems getting through the
> "Getting Started Manual". The manual indicates that there is a
> "TMG Demo and Tutorial" in the HELP pull down menu and
> it doesn't exist and it doesn't get much better as one proceeds.
> I believe the problem for us beginners is probably the terminology
> and methodology that is being used. If we understood both than
> the underlying design philosophy would be intuitive, but I neither
> understand the terminology nor the methodology. It's a real
> struggle, but hopefully the light bulb will come on and one
> can find their way through the maze.
>
> I have just started entering data and am surprised at the number
> of men who have non existent first wives when I only entered one
> wife and she ends up being the second wife. TMG appears to want all
> men to have multiple wives. In fairness, I am sure if I had entered the
> women first I would have TMG generating phantom husbands.Obviously
> I have erred in the inputting process. The only remedy I have found to
> date
> is to start eliminating "persons" until the phantom wife disappears and
> then
> start reentering data. A long and laborious process.
>
> If TMG can point you to a support group in your area, it would be to
> your benefit to join it. TMG has not identified such a group in the
> Seattle
> area, so I am still teething and doing a very bad job of it. Frustrating
> as
> hell.
>
> Keep stuggling. I am sure that in the end the struggle will be all
> worthwhile ...
> ...... I hope, I hope, I hope.
>
> As for fonts, they're the least of my concern at this time. I first have
> to generate
> the data base before I can worry about how to artistically print the
> data. If I
> decide that I need a "zwei strichen", I'll just add an "e" instead.
>
> Budd Rice
> Seattle, WA
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:40:47 +0200 "Prof. Harry J. Hirschhorn"
> <> writes:
> > My mind boggles at the idea of using over 200 fonts.
> > Would some of the "Hundred-Font-Users"" write us a list of all the
> > fonts
> > that they are using. I could not even remember all 200 font names
> > and their
> > appearance.
> > I am a new TMG reader, have not yet started using it. For me,
> > simple
> > HARRY, the TMG seems far too complicated. It does not readily
> > produce
> > decent output reports.
> > I am amazed at the great attention to minutia that the incoming
> > messages
> > display. What a pity, that TMG does not have a "beginners"
> > discussion
> > group, which would focus on the basics.
> > Harry J. Hirschhorn in Alfe Menashe, Samaria, Israel, searching for
> > GANS.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: J. O'Neall <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 10:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: TMG-L: Font Handling Problem
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > I spent an hour going through many lists of shareware and
> > commercial
> > > > offerings. The only one I initially found, that might be what's
> > needed,
> > > > was an Adobe product at $65.00. The end result is that I
> > finally
> > > > searched the archives of the TMG list, where I found a single
> > reference
> > > > to HP Font Manager(for HP printers). Sorry for my ignorance, it
> > was
> > > > right here on my computer all the time.(If you have an HP
> > printer it
> > > > likely came with it.)
> > >
> > > You can also try Fontviewer, a free product available on the
> > Ziff-Davis
> > > site, tho I don't have the URL available here.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > How easy it would have been if this known problem was listed on
> > the TMG
> > > > site with this included in a list of solutions with instructions
> > to trim
> > > > the in use list to 255 maximum.
> > >
> > > True, but then I frankly can't imagine what anyone would want with
> > >255
> > > fonts. But maybe I have a limited imagination. True, there is
> > the
> > problem
> > > that lots of products install their own without telling you about
> > it. To
> > my
> > > mind, this is a Windows (i.e., Microsoft) problem.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps. Didn't mean for it to sound aggressive.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> >
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