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From: "Wayne Morgan" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG 5.03 - A Rank Beginner
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:03:42 -0300
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Hi Lee:

This sounds like an excellent idea. Thanks for all your help.

Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hoffman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG 5.03 - A Rank Beginner


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