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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Unknowns
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:33:13 -0400
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DE Neilley wrote:
>I didn't, because I used to do something similar in another program, and
>discovered that I could never remember which file to look in for a
>particular family group. When I moved to TMG and it allowed multiple
>databases, I just didn't go there. I like being able to search the entire
>list for a name without trying to sort through a bunch of databases. I know
>that TMG addresses this by being able to look at multiple lists, but I had
>made the decision before I discovered that. Now I don't think I would change
>anyway. I have 37,000 + people (including a number of "Dummies" for census,
>battles, clerical, titles as in king of Germany etc) and don't find that it
>slows my system noticably. I like the flexibility of having everybody in the
>same group.

Using TMG's multiple data sets in a project, it would be very easy to
find a person and easily know to which data set that person
belongs. You just look in the Picklist or the Project Explorer and
find them as if they were all in the same data set anyway. The
_only_ _ real_ advantage is that when a person is to be attached to a
family then you don't first have to copy or move them from one data
set to another. By having them all in a single data set, you save
one step in the connection process and that step is only a couple of
mouse clicks.

So, in a sense, the multiple data set is almost the best of both
worlds. The persons in the "other" data set _can_ be disabled (not
seen) until you want them (or not).

As I said earlier, I prefer all in one myself. But, I operated like
that long before TMG (in v5) gave me the capability of multiple data
sets in a project, so there is no change for me. If I were starting
out today. I very well might keep "unknowns" and "unrelateds" in a
different data set. The advantage of easily "turning off" those
special persons is nice. On the other hand, I am so used to ignoring
them now that they do not bother me and I "see them" only when I
_need_ to see them.

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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