FTM/TMG

[Mark]

FTM is able to produce an "all-in-one" box chart showing all indivduals.

Can this be done with TMG? I haven't been able to discover how with the
trial version.

Mark.
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Researching: Leslie, Bodman.
ku(tod)oc(tod)75rmj(ta)kram

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Mark wrote:

FTM is able to produce an "all-in-one" box chart showing all indivduals.

Can this be done with TMG? I haven't been able to discover how with the
trial version.

Mark.
--
Researching: Leslie, Bodman.
ku(tod)oc(tod)75rmj(ta)kram

I use TMG but have no idea if it will do such a chart.

I do have a question though ... why would anyone want such a chart? If
your database has even a moderate amount of people in it ( mine has
approx 47,000) it will be practically useless for either printing out
or displaying on screen.

Just wondering

--
The Verminator

[Dale Hammer]

Mark,

My suggestion would be to post your question on the Master Genealogist
support site in the section "Pre-Sales Questions". I am pretty certain you
would get all the questions you have answered there. The url for this is:

http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index.php?act=idx

I've been a very happy TMG user for several years (used to use FTM myself).

Regards,
Dale Hammer
Carmel, IN







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FTM is able to produce an "all-in-one" box chart showing all indivduals.

Can this be done with TMG? I haven't been able to discover how with the
trial version.

Mark.
--
Researching: Leslie, Bodman.
ku(tod)oc(tod)75rmj(ta)kram

[Hugh Watkins]

[email protected] wrote:

Mark wrote:

FTM is able to produce an "all-in-one" box chart showing all indivduals.

Can this be done with TMG? I haven't been able to discover how with the
trial version.

Mark.
--
Researching: Leslie, Bodman.
ku(tod)oc(tod)75rmj(ta)kram


I use TMG but have no idea if it will do such a chart.

I do have a question though ... why would anyone want such a chart? If
your database has even a moderate amount of people in it ( mine has
approx 47,000) it will be practically useless for either printing out
or displaying on screen.

Just wondering

yes and how much of your data have you personally checked against
original sources?

One use of the all in one chart is to check for disconnected individuals
or unlinked family groups

Hugh W

[[email protected]]

The FTM "all-in-one box" chart came in extremely handy for me when I
was just beginning my family tree last year. It literally allowed me to
see the "big picture" and what I needed to link the various branches of
my tree. I agree that it is fairly useless for a large tree. However,
even though I now use Legacy, when I'm investigating a particular
subset of my tree I occasionally dump the subset to Gedcom and import
into FTM for an "all-in-one". It's great for an overview of collateral
lines.

Clem Ras

[Leif B. Kristensen]

Hugh Watkins skrev:

One use of the all in one chart is to check for disconnected
individuals or unlinked family groups

When I used TMG (I'm now exclusively on Linux, and have my own custom
PostgreSQL/PHP app), I was very satisfied with using special accent
colors and a custom report for that.
--
Leif Biberg Kristensen
http://solumslekt.org/

[[email protected]]

Hugh Watkins wrote:

[email protected] wrote:
Mark wrote:

FTM is able to produce an "all-in-one" box chart showing all indivduals.

Can this be done with TMG? I haven't been able to discover how with the
trial version.

Mark.
--
Researching: Leslie, Bodman.
ku(tod)oc(tod)75rmj(ta)kram


I use TMG but have no idea if it will do such a chart.

I do have a question though ... why would anyone want such a chart? If
your database has even a moderate amount of people in it ( mine has
approx 47,000) it will be practically useless for either printing out
or displaying on screen.

Just wondering

yes and how much of your data have you personally checked against
original sources?

One use of the all in one chart is to check for disconnected individuals
or unlinked family groups

Hugh W

Personally- every thing I have personally entered (and yes- I have
copies of the documents)- which is some 9600 people. I maintain the
master file which is a joint venture of several family members over the
last 107 years, all of whom were avid researchers and kept
documentation. Everyone today who submits info MUST supply copies of
their sources. I can give you the name of who submitted what and what
their sources were.

It is really too bad that more people putting things on the net do not
also include their sources ( which I agree should be primary sources
and not just crediting someone else's gedcom).

Now- about TMG....
It provides several ways (filtered pick lists, filtered groups, etc.)
to find unlinked family groups or individuals... altho now that it has
been explalined I can see the use of such a chart on smaller databases
I'm still not convinced it would work well on really large ones.

--
The Verminator



It has taken years to weed thru everything left us by my great
grandfather's estate.

[Bob Velke]

Mark said:

FTM is able to produce an "all-in-one" box chart showing all indivduals.

Can this be done with TMG? I haven't been able to discover how with the
trial version.

No it can't. The Master Genealogist (TMG) v7 can generate ancestor,
descendant, hourglass, and fan charts and you can drag-n-drop them together
to make customized charts ... but an "all-in-one" box is on our enhancement
list.

Thanks.

Bob Velke
Wholly Genes Software
http://www.WhollyGenes.com

[Mark]

Thanks for your replies.

As previously mentioned, the "all-in-one" view is handy for seeing the
"bigger picture" and in FTM can be "zoom'n'scrolled".

Regarding printing, there is a very useful utility called "SnagIt", by
http://www.techsmith.com, which can auto-scroll and capture the chart window
enabling it to be saved to disk and taken to the local printer.

Mark.
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Researching: Leslie, Bodman.
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[john]

Mark wrote:

Thanks for your replies.

As previously mentioned, the "all-in-one" view is handy for seeing the
"bigger picture" and in FTM can be "zoom'n'scrolled".

Regarding printing, there is a very useful utility called "SnagIt", by
http://www.techsmith.com, which can auto-scroll and capture the chart window
enabling it to be saved to disk and taken to the local printer.

Mark.

Capturing the chart window is not very sensible - you are limited to the
screen definition. Screens are usually 72 or 96dpi and not much bigger
than A4.

Much better to print it to a Postscript file and get that printed. You
can define the size of paper you want in most PDF print programs. You
can get to 600dpi or more if you want on A0 or ANSI E paper sizes or
even larger.
Try the free PDFCreator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ or
PDF995 http://www.pdf995.com/