Master Genealogist - Support Discontinued 2014

Main Web site

http://www.whollygenes.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?screen=TMG

Corporation

Wholly Genes Software/Gentech

Bob Velke

Visual FoxPro v9. and does not support Unicode.

Alexandria, Virginia, USA

follows GENTECH Genealogical Data Model

Starts 1993

Training Site

Product Review

http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/the-master-genealogist-review.html

The Master Genealogist is a career genealogist’s tool offering more built-in functions and links to online sources than other genealogy software. The layout is intuitive and there are plenty of useful icons, but be prepared to learn the technical language of genealogy and be thoroughly comfortable with manipulating multiple databases. If you’re tackling family history with the discipline of a statistician, The Master Genealogist is your genealogy software.

http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

http://www.gensoftreviews.com/

Pricing

Master Genealogist v8 $34 to 69.95

Down load site

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_Genealogist

http://www.whollygenes.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?screen=TMG

I have downloaded the demo

http://www.whollygenes.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=TMGTOUR

Recomendations/Comments

Teresa Ghee Elliott

I use the Master Genealogist. I have 16000 people, but i know people who have 100,000. They have training videos for sale on their website. I hope you find what you like. Legacy, RootsMagic and TMG all allow for a free trial download for 30 days. Try that and see which one works best for you.

I ahve not bee able to fine the training videos yet

Teresa Ghee Elliott

Diane, That may be the case with RootsMagic or Legacy, but not with TMG. The trial is the full program. It just no longer works after 30 days unless you register it. It just becomes Read Only.

Lin Chapman

I will only use TMG as I love it to bits

Phillip Gowanlock

Another vote for TMG. Event based and great flexibility. Good tech support and an even stronger user base on Rootsweb. TMG-L. the RUG User Group in Virginia has great resources for members and allows you to remotely join their monthly meetings. My second vote would be for Legacy then RootsMagic.

Teresa Ghee Elliott

Robert, You are talking about an evaluation you did nearly 20 years ago. A lot has changed in genealogy in that time. When you say you want it to be around for 30 years, in computer genealogy frankly that is asking a great deal. I started with computer genealogy in 1992. Bought Roots III with a free upgrade to Roots IV because it was in development. I stayed with the Roots products until Ultimate Family Tree was no longer developed in 2002. At that time, I moved to TMG 4.0 because it was the most like the Roots products and Whollygenes was willing to add features for those of us coming over. Now here we are 11 years later. TMG is in version 8.0.
BUT there are still people who use Ultimate Family Tree and it was no longer developed over 11 years ago. So by still being around do you mean usable, or do you mean still in development? I would say if the computer to run it is still available, then you could use any of today's programs 30 years from now, but let's be honest. How many of us are listening to Christmas music on 8 track tapes today?

Eileen Souza

TMG will import an FTM 2008/2009 file so you can save your FTM 2014 as FTM 2008/2009 and then import that file into TMG. I have found that to be my best way of transferring files with minimal errors. I then export TMG to GED and use that GED to import into Legacy or RootsMagic. IMHO, TMG produces a GED that is more acceptable to other software programs then the one produced by FTM, although the FTM GED has improved a lot with 2014.

If I understand correctly TMG does not suppot UNICode and i woudl loose my German Place name spelling, if FTM does support UNICode in the Gedcom

Jeff Jahn

Just though I would add that I didn't have any luck with a direct import of FTM 2008/2009 file from FTM 2014 into TMG. Working on a ged import but when you do that have to make sure you change to ansi.

If I understand correctly TMG does not suppot UNICode and i woudl loose my German Place name spelling, if FTM does support UNICode in the Gedcom

Chris Wright Robert

- I had FTM many years ago, and loved it, but then the regular 'purchased' upgrades eventually annoyed me to the point that I searched out another option (I had previously also used PAF and Brother's Keeper), and started using 'The Master Genealogist' from http://www.whollygenes.com/ . I have been very happy with it over the years. You can download a trial, to see how it works, and it is my understanding that it will read and convert to its own database, FTM files. Happy for you to private message me if you have other questions.

From another thread

Teresa Ghee Elliott

Master Genealogist colors. Just thought I'd share.

Lin Chapman

yours is tame compared to mine Teresa lol but it really does show what you can do

Teresa Ghee Elliott

I don't use accents for people all that much. But I love the ones for Tag Types. I just haven't set them all up yet. I also don't like to change the background color much because it makes my eyes tired. Though I admit, I've used the blue a little long and am thinking of changing it to something more seasonal. Maybe a red-green.

Lin Chapman

I use the blue edging with a pale cream background as I find it restful on my eyes. I have tag type groups set up ie bmds and censuses but I use them a lot for people, having the four branches of mine and hubby's set up with a different colour, the directs being the darkest, married into the family a paler shade of that and all others with the cream background and the text in the darkest shade. It sounds complicated but it only took me a few mins to set it up and I can instantly tell which side they are from. My wish for v9 is to be able to have all those with the top accent appear at the top of the explorer list.

Teresa Ghee Elliott

Have you sent the request to Bob. I usually use a creamy color, not always a white, but a yellow or pale color for the background as well. I try and change it about every six months to give the eyes a change of scenery. I love that I can save a color scheme so when I get tired I can always go see if an older one still works for me. I will accent people when I am working on a specific project. I have made everyone Black on black except the line I was working on, so I could totally focus on that specific project for a while. Glad that's not permanent. LOL

Lin Chapman

I did put the request on the message board some time ago, and you agreed with me lol. Virginia suggested that I use a focus group but it just seems a long winded way if I only wanted to work on say a certain census for an evening or such like

Teresa Ghee Elliott

I am sure I did. Sounds like a great idea. I just don't remember it. I do create focus groups a lot so that I can focus just on those people and then save it for later. But I like your idea. It would be a way to weed out those that I'd already found.

Linda Franz Hewitt

What genealogy program is this?

Teresa Ghee Elliott

Linda, The Master Genealogist www.whollygenes.com Wholly Genes
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Lin Chapman

I have 10,000 in my tree which means just for an evenings work I can spend the majority of it just scrolling up and down the explorer trying to find those I need

Teresa Ghee Elliott

The only problem with a focus group is if the person you need isn't in the list, you are still hunting the PE.

Lin Chapman

or you press the "remove all persons" button by mistake instead of the one you had completed the task on, I have done that so many times arrgghhh lol

Teresa Ghee Elliott

Linda, Each of the individual windows can be opened, closed, moved around, resized, reshaped, etc. So you can make the layout look anyway you want. Here's a different layout of the windows. You can also change fonts. I use Comic Sans MS. I prefer the roundedness of the letters.

Teresa Ghee Elliott

Lin, I've never done that, but I have added the wrong people to the list before.

Lin Chapman

I change the fonts and the layout on a weekly basis depending on my mood lol this is one of the reasons I love it, its mine. All I really need now is for gensmarts to be able to work with the UK parish registers and I would feel as though I'd won the lottery lol

Teresa Ghee Elliot

t Haven't used Gensmarts in a long time. But I used to customize it and have it search for specific records. Would that work. I don't even have it loaded anymore. That's how long it's been since I used it.

Lin Chapman

It works with the censuses and bmd registrations but not the parish records which is all we have prior to 1837

Phillip Gowanlock

My post wasn't at all clear - my point was that after eye surgery I contemplated buying a larger monitor when all I had to do was use the flexibility of TMG to make the Person View easier to read.

Teresa Ghee Elliott

Yes, I use a very small font, but I know people who use white on black because it makes it easier for them to read. You could change to a larger font, have less on the screen, etc. I do kinda like that Person view only screen with a tool bar for adding tags and searching. I can see where it would be very helpful when you know the people very well and are editing data or adding tags to one small family group.

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