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From: Steinar Vissebraaten <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Narrative Reports and Second Site
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:31:02 +0200
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At 02:18 07.04.2007 Saturday, John Cardinal wrote the following:

After lurking about SS I just went and downloaded the software. It
seems to be what I have been looking for and when I tried to set
Database it occur a problem:
Second Site Version 1.9 Build 16

Error -1 from CTMGDB [LOC=11]
Error (-310) Not a Correct Index File opening xxxx\The Master
Genealogist\projects\MY PROJECT_$.dbf as $

Could someone tell me what my problem is?

Thanks in advance.

Steinar.

>Marty,
>
>The best way to preview narrative reports for Second Site is in Second Site!
>
>Second Site does not use TMG to make the narratives--if you were
>wondering--and there is no exact report in TMG that matches SS. It _does
>use_ the TMG sentence rules, of course, so the output is very, very similar.
>It's just the page context, if you want to call it that, which is different.
>
>If you want to test under TMG, you can use the Individual Narrative report,
>but there are some differences. SS includes parents, lists of spouses, lists
>of children, etc., in the person page entry in addition to the narrative,
>and so the Ind. Narrative is only a subset of what appears. There is also a
>passing resemblance to Journal reports...
>
>I think most SS users will attest that if your TMG reports look good, then
>so will the narratives/pages in SS. Many users find that SS helps them
>uncover issues in the TMG narratives because SS produces narratives quickly
>for a large set of people. More than a few people make sites for their full
>database and then explore it with SS to find issues.
>
>John

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