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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG 5.03 - A Rank Beginner
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:35:47 -0400
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Wayne Morgan wrote:
>Although I have read the Help on Tags, I am still having difficulties, can
>you give me any suggestions as to where to start in dealing with tags, where
>I have no Tags at present.(I have converted sources, I think)

Wayne, I think your problem is that you are still trying to do things the
way you old program did them. While TMG will essentially do things
similar to other programs, it was designed to help you do research and no
other program is designed for that purpose. But one you have done things
in TMG, you will see that most are rather obvious and often rather intuitive.

I would strongly recommend that you create a new project (call it
"Practice") with a new data set named "Practice" that you key in from
scratch. This doesn't need to be a big project/data set. You might start
with yourself, add your parents, and grandparents. Just enter basic data
for now. Then you can go back later and add other stuff as you wish. Keep
in mind that this is for practice and trying things out, so you don't have
to enter things exactly. Go ahead and enter Repositories and Sources and
attach citations. Do everything that is needed as if it was a real data
set -- just don't push to enter a lot or be concerned if you don't have
exact data -- when I entered my practice data, I didn't have the birth date
for a G-GF so I made it up. It's practice so what does it matter.

After entering the initial information, generate an Individual Narrative
(IN) Preview report for each person and see how it reads. If any sentence
seems odd or otherwise needs changing, make the change and see what happens
then next time you generate the report.

Similarly, generate the IN Preview with Sources and see how the citations
look. Remember that a source is where you found the data and a citation is
the description of that document including "chapter and verse", "page and
line number", or other details. To create a citation, you would enter the
description of the document in a Source Definition Screen and then cite
(attach) that Source (record) to the Tag (event record) adding any Citation
Details (page number, etc) as needed.

As you play with this practice project, you will see what you want to do
with your main project. If you aren't sure about something in your main
project, switch back to the practice project and try it. You can do
anything with it and not worry that you might goof. Then once you have
tried it for practice, go back to the main project and continue your work
with all the comfort of having done it before and knowing what you are doing.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

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