Features
* Designed for both normal users and genealogy professionals * Flexibly displays information * Has elaborate database-oriented support for source and citation information * Supports the inclusion of media files * Supports DNA information * Allows the user to record conflicting evidence * Allows a "Surety" of a given piece of evidence to be recorded * Supports elaborate chart-making * Supports smart importing of genealogy files. Its GenBridge recognizes many common genealogy data format files from other programs and imports genealogical data directly into TMG. This minimizes the loss of data when transferred from other software and avoids some of the problems caused by transferring files through the limited but universal GEDCOM format.Source types
The default source types in the standard edition are based on Wholly Genes' interpretation of Elizabeth Shown Mills's ''Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian''. Source templates based upon Wholly Genes' interpretation of the source types in Richard S. Lackey's ''Cite Your Sources'' are also provided. The source templates in the UK edition are based on designs by Caroline Gurney for sources commonly encountered in the United Kingdom.Platforms
From version 2 onwards TMG was designed to run on the Windows platform but can be run on Macintosh and Linux machines using a Windows emulator.Limitations
* TMG did not support Unicode, which limits data entry to the Western European (Latin) character set. * Before TMG version 8, reports generated on computers with 64-bit operating systems (only) were limited to "txt", HTML, and PDF output, although popular word processor reporting formats were supported on 32-bit platforms. The print routine was rewritten for the current version (v 9.05) of the program eliminating this restriction. * Some users have complained about the limitations in the program's multilingual support in narratives. This issue is focused on personal pronoun and other individual word replacement resulting in output that may have minor grammar errors.TMG version history
''Please press show for more information on past versions.''Migration from TMG
GEDCOM
TMG has elaborate and detailed support for sources in a database format where a source can be referred to by any other record. In the GEDCOM database specification, sources can be attached to any number of individuals or multiple families, by attaching to any number of facts for that individual or family. Exporting a TMG database involves duplicating the sources into each place where a given source is used. All of the information is exported, but the structure of each source is lost permanently. An example is when there is a census or ship's record that lists many members of an extended family. TMG allows each individual's entry to refer to a common source record, which can itself have an elaborate description. GEDCOM also allows every fact in that census or ship record to apply to a single source, it's simply a matter of tagging the facts with that source. This may vary with how TMG handles sources but that's perhaps the fault of TMG not adhering to the standard that was well established prior to the program being produced.Non GEDCOM exports of TMG
The following options allow for some form of direct transfer of TMG files, possibly limited, apart from GEDCOM.File format
TMG's underlying database engine is Visual FoxPro v9 and does not support Unicode.Companion products
Several software developers have created companion products specifically for TMG that enhance its functionality. These products include:References
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