Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc.

We would like to invite all members using The Master Genealogist genealogical program to join our user group and attend our meetings. If you are considering this advanced program for entering your genealogical data, please come along to discuss and view the many features of TMG (as it is commonly known).

We will be demonstrating via the WAGS data projector at our meetings and this is a decided advantage for transmitting the many features of this top level program. Neil Bradley is our specialist demonstrator but many of our members have been using the program for many years and contribute to our discussions.

So come along and we’ll be happy to help where we can with any queries you may have. We would particularly like to hear from people in regional areas using the program. We currently have over 25 people in our user group membership and hope we can reach out to many more WAGS or affiliated members this year.

Contact

Convenors:       Neil Bradley and Anne Gilmour

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Meetings

The Group meets on the first Saturday in February, May, August and November at WAGS.

Next Meeting 

Saturday, May 1, 2010

11.00am - 1.00pm

For further meeting dates, have a look at:

 WAGS Event Calendar

Feb 10

General TMG issues discussed including: how to deal with photos, creation and use of "Foster" tag, use of SecondSite to create web pages and CDs, editing the list of Place Names and updating your database etc.

 TMG Minutes February 2010

Nov 09

Neil demonstrated the use of two monitors for Windows 7 and TMG.  Also discussed global changes to capitalisation of surnames such as 'van der Merwe' etc and using TMG Utility to remove Married Names from TMG.  The latest version of Second Site allows for the use of maps.

  TMG Minutes November 2009

Aug 09

Discussed additional content for TMG Special Interest Groups web page and also the requirements for WAGS Open Day.  Neil demonstrated TMG, Second Site and TMG Utilities throughout, in particular Journal Reports with photos and resizing photos.

 TMG Minutes August 2009

May 09

Neil demonstrated TMG, Second Site and TMG Utilities.  In particular, we looked at Sources, Witnesses and Flags.  Sort Dates and File Maintenance were also discussed.

 TMG Minutes May 2009 

Feb 09

Neil demonstrated TMG, in particular the use of flags and creating a focus group.  This was followd by a workshop using Second Site software to create a CD of genealogical data.  For more information on this workshop see minutes (below).

  TMG Minutes Feb 2009  (203.51 Kb)

Nov 08

We looked at dealing with adoptive parents, filtering out living people and changing the recorded sex of a person in TMG.  In preparation for the Feb 09 Second Site workshop instructions were provided on creating the focus group for the project and how to get started with Second Site (see appendix attached to minutes)

  TMG Minutes Nov 2008  (195.26 Kb)

Aug 08

Discussed new version of TMG v7.03 and Second Site v2.01, also the TMG Utility by John Cardinal.  General discussion on backing up TMG, charts, images, dealing with de facto partners in TMG etc.

  TMG Minutes Aug 2008  (190.05 Kb)

May 08

General discussion on TMG, including US vs UK version, bookmarks etc

  TMG Minutes May 2008  (187.84 Kb)

Feb 08

Upgrading to version 7, use of filters, layouts, use of TMG Utility to resize all photos used in Second Site, charts.

  TMG Minutes Feb 2008  (184.90 Kb)

There are many resources to assist you in getting the most out of The Master Genealogist

TMG

The Master Genealogist software is available as a 30 day free trial from www.whollygenes.com/

Second Site

Second Site creates web pages or CDs from your TMG database. It generates either narrative or grid style person pages, a master index, a surname index, and source pages in HTML format.  Great for sharing your data with family members.

Current version 3, released 5 May 2009 is available at www.johncardinal.com/ss/index.htm

TMG Utility

TMG Utility is a powerful database modification tool for TMG projects., The features available in TMG Utility complement the capabilities of TMG itself. People who have recently converted to TMG from another genealogy product will find a number of features designed to help them take advantage of TMG features. It is available at www.johncardinal.com/tmgutil/

DVDs

In these self-paced DVDs you will learn TMG's basic concepts, terminology, navigation, and many of its features.  There are 4 titles available in the series: "Getting Started", "Intermediate", "Advanced", and "Expert", each one has a duration of approx 90 mins.

Available from WAGS Library

Books

A primer for The Master Genealogist, by Terry Reigel

The book is designed to help users quickly become comfortable and adept with TMG. It provides an introduction in straightforward terms, with a level of detail that helps but doesn't overwhelm a novice user .  Written for Version 7

Available from WAGS Library

Getting the most out of The Master Genealogist, compiled by Lee Hoffman with contributions from many experienced TMG users and testers

Available from WAGS Library