The Master Genealogist
Encyclopedia
| Meaning | |
|---|---|
| Red | Not supported |
| Yellow | Still supported (Update to the last patch for that version) |
| Green | Current version |
| Blue | Public beta version |
| Edition/s | From v3.5 TMG was separated into a Gold and Silver version. From v5 TMG was separated into: Gold (U.S.A), Gold UK, Silver (U.S.A), Silver UK. |
| Version | Release date | Edition/s | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TMG v.XX | 1991 | pre-release | - |
| TMG v.99 | Feb, 1993 | pre-release | - |
| TMG v1.0 | Jul 1993 | DOS | - |
| TMG v1.1 | Nov 1994 | DOS | Upgrade/Patch |
| TMG v1.1b | Feb 1994 | DOS | Upgrade/Patch |
| TMG v1.2 | 21 Apr 1995 | DOS | Upgrade/Patch |
| TMG v1.2a | Nov 1995 | DOS | Upgrade/Patch |
| TMGW v2.0 | Oct 1996 | Windows 3.1 | - |
| TMGW v2.3 | Feb 1997 | Windows 3.1 | Upgrade/Patch |
| TMG/Win v3.0 Gold Edition | May 1997 | Windows 3.1 | - |
| v3.5 Windows | April 1998 | Split into separate Gold and Silver Editions. | Upgrade/Patch. GenBridge Introduced. |
| v3.6 Windows | Aug 1998 | Upgrade/Patch | |
| v3.6a Windows | Sep 1998 | Upgrade/Patch | |
| v3.7 Windows | Dec 1998 | Upgrade/Patch | |
| v4.0 | May 1999 | Windows 95 | Ancestral Genealogical Reference Library supplied on the second CD-ROM. Based on FoxPro v2.6 FoxPro 2 FoxPro is a text-based procedurally-oriented programming language and DBMS, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, MS Windows, Apple Macintosh, and UNIX.... . Visual Chartform v1 introduced. |
| v4.0a | 15 Aug 2000 | - | Upgrade/Patch |
| v4.0b (UK edition) | 2000 | - | Upgrade/Patch. First British edition. |
| v4.0c | 3 Nov 2000 | - | Upgrade/Patch. TMG v4.0a version updated directly to v4.0c |
| v4.0d | 20 Feb 2001 | - | Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v1.2 |
| v5.00 | 22 May 2002 | Split into separate USA and UK versions. | Based on Visual FoxPro v6 Visual FoxPro Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft in 1992, after which the software acquired further features and the... . |
| v5.01.000 | 25 May 2002 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.02.000 | 15 Jun 2002 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.03.000 | 22 Aug 2002 | - | Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v2.1. |
| v5.04.000 | 09 Nov 2002 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.05.000 | 04 Mar 2003 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.06.000 | 08 Apr 2003 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.07.000 | 28 Apr 2003 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.08.000 | 15 Jul 2003 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.09.000 | 12 Aug 2003 | - | Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v2.1.0.592 |
| v5.10.000 | 21 Nov 2003 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.11.000 | 05 Dec 2003 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.12.000 | 21 Apr 2004 | - | Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v3.0 |
| v5.13.000 | 17 May 2004 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.14.000 | 07 Jun 2004 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v5.15.000 | 25 Jul 2004 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.00 | 21 Dec 2004 | - | Based on Visual FoxPro v7 Visual FoxPro Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft in 1992, after which the software acquired further features and the... |
| v6.01.000 | 28 May 2005 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.02.000 | 11 Aug 2005 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.03.000 | 02 Sep 2005 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.04.000 | 27 Sep 2005 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.05.000 | 30 Oct 2005 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.06.000 | 04 Nov 2005 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.07.000 | 04 Nov 2005 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.08.000 | 24 Mar 2006 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.09.000 | 3 May 2006 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.10.000 | 09 Oct 2006 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.11.000 | 15 Oct 2006 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v6.12.000 | 04 Nov 2006 | TMG updated to run as a legacy application under Windows Vista | Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v3.2.0.2 (Note:VCF uses http://freeimage.sourceforge.net freeimage.sf.net]) |
| v7.00 | 28 Dec 2007 | Windows Vista (Support for 98, NT dropped) | Based on Visual FoxPro v9 Visual FoxPro Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft in 1992, after which the software acquired further features and the... . CD-ROM version of TMG includes a free copy of The Universal British Directory of Great Britain 1791. |
| v7.01.000 | 18 April 2008 | - | Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v3.2.0.13 (Build date:1 Sep 2007). |
| v7.02.000 | 24 May 2008 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v7.03.000 | 28 Jun 2008 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v7.04.000 | 13 Feb 2009 | - | Upgrade/Patch. |
| v8.00.xxx | 10 May 2011 | add: Windows 7, 64-bit | Beta, Public pre-release version, Free trial |
Languages available
English (US), English (UK), GermanGerman language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
, Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
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File format
TMG's underlying database engine is Visual FoxPro v9Visual FoxPro
Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft in 1992, after which the software acquired further features and the...
. and does not support Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
.
- File Structures for (TMG) for DOS and Windows v3.6
- TMG File Structure - Applicable to TMG v3.x, v4.x, v5.x, v6.x, v7.x
Migration from TMG
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 GEDCOMGEDCOM
GEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a proprietary and open de facto specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software...
database specification, sources can only refer to either a single individual or single family. Because of GEDCOM's limitation, 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 of this limitation of GEDCOM 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. The structure of GEDCOM forces you to duplicate all mention of and information contained in that source. The duplication of records, makes the source information in the exported GEDCOM file (and all GEDCOM files) hard to maintain.
Non GEDCOM exports of TMG
The following advanced options, apart from GEDCOM transfer are available:- tmg2gramps Converts TMG 6 datafiles to a GRAMPS v2.2.6 XML - by Anne Jessel.
- Forays Into Genealogy Data Base Modelling - Details how Leif Biberg Kristensen moved his data out of TMG into a program of his own creation http://sourceforge.net/projects/urdabrunn.
Platforms
TMG was designed to run on the Windows platformMicrosoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
, however some users run TMG on Macintosh
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
and Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
machines. Running TMG on a Macintosh requires special software such as Parallels
Parallels Desktop for Mac
Parallels Desktop for Mac by Parallels, Inc., is software providing hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors.-Overview:Parallels, Inc...
, or Virtual PC
Microsoft Virtual PC
Windows Virtual PC is a virtualization program for Microsoft Windows. In July 2006 Microsoft released the Windows-hosted version as a free product...
for older non-Intel Macs. TMG runs on Linux with Wine
Wine (software)
Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like...
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