Tag: #tmg

TMG-RootsMagic Sentence Variables & Format Codes #tmg

RootsMagic version 6.3.2.0 and later supports the direct import of project databases from The Master Genealogist. These programs have many similarities and, of course, many differences. They both support witness tags/shared events, sentence templates for facts, footnotes and bibliography and text formatting but names of variables, syntax, codes and database structure differ. Not all can…

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TMG to RootsMagic Migration #tmg

This page provides an overview of the utilities available on this wiki that may help you with your migration of a TMG Project to a RootsMagic database. An example of what TMG Refugee Mike James did is described at https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/tmg-refugees.rootsweb.com/thread/199856/. It is important to note that there may be considerable cleanup and data manipulation to…

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TMG-RM Fact Sentence Tweaks #tmg #facttypes #roles #events #sharedevent

After importing a TMG project, there is considerable cleanup to be done in the resulting RootsMagic database. There are differences in their respective sentence template languages that cannot translate well or could be translated better (improvement possible in the direct import process). This script addresses some of these outcomes and some unwanted artifacts that could…

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