The Master Genealogist (TMG) is genealogy software originally created by Bob Velke for Microsoft DOS in 1993, with a version for Microsoft Windows released in 1996. Data entry was customized through the use of user-defined events, names, and relationship types. Official support for TMG ceased at the end of 2014. Informal support continues through a number of online user groups.
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.Elizabeth Shown Mills. Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1997. Source templates based upon Wholly Genes' interpretation of the source types in Richard S. Lackey's Cite Your SourcesRichard S Lackey, Cite Your Sources: a manual for documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1980. 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.RootsWeb: TMG-L Re: [TMG] TMG on a Mac - 21 June 2008
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 grammatical errors.
TMG version history Please press show for more information on past versions.
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 1991Wholly Genes Community: Chat Transcripts - 23 Aug 2008 pre-release - TMG v.99 Feb, 1993RootsWeb: TMG-L Re: [TMG] TMG puchase (sic) - "TMG's update history off the top of my head <g>:" From: Bob Velke - 23 July 2000 pre-release - TMG v1.0 Jul 1993 Product announcement from 1993 when TMG v1.0 - Laura's Minimalist Home Page DOS - TMG v1.1 Nov 1994 DOS Upgrade/Patch TMG v1.1b Feb 1994 DOS Upgrade/Patch TMG v1.2 21 Apr 1995Product announcement for TMG v1.2 - Laura's Minimalist Home Page 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 1997TMG Demo - Laura's Minimalist Home Page Windows 3.1 - v3.5 Windows April 1998Downloading TMG/Win v3.5, Laura's Minimalist Home Page 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.RootsWeb: TMG-L Re: [TMG] Version of FoxPro ?? - 30 April 2002 Visual Chartform v1 introduced. v4.0a 15 Aug 2000RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v4.0a is available now! - From: Bob Velke - 15 August 2000 - Upgrade/Patch v4.0b (UK edition) 2000RootsWeb: TMG-L Re: [TMG] Re: Ver. 4 Report Problem - 15 February 2003 - Upgrade/Patch. First British edition. v4.0c 3 Nov 2000RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] The Master Genealogist v4.0c now available - From: Bob Velke - 3 November 2000 - Upgrade/Patch. TMG v4.0a version updated directly to v4.0c v4.0d 20 Feb 2001RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v4.0d released - From: Bob Velke - 20 February 2001 - Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v1.2Which Software Should I Buy? v5.00 22 May 2002RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] Release of TMG v5.0 - From: Bob Velke - 12 May 2002TMG 5 Release Date, PRESS RELEASE Split into separate USA and UK versions. Based on Visual FoxPro v6.RootsWeb: TMG-L RE: [TMG] Visual FoxPro 6.0 security warning (TMG 5) - From: Bob Velke - 6 September 2002 v5.01.000 25 May 2002RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.01 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 25 May 2002 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.02.000 15 Jun 2002RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.02 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 15 June 2002 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.03.000 22 Aug 2002RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.03 update is now available. - From: Bob Velke - 22 August 2002 - Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v2.1.RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] Accents in Visual Chartform 2.1 (TMG 5.03) - 2 September 2002 v5.04.000 09 Nov 2002RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.04 has been released - From: Bob Velke - 9 November 2002 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.05.000 04 Mar 2003RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.05.000 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 4 March 2003 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.06.000 08 Apr 2003RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.06.000 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 10 April 2003 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.07.000 28 Apr 2003RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.07.000 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 28 April 2003 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.08.000 15 Jul 2003RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.08.000 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 14 July 2003 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.09.000 12 Aug 2003RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.09.000 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 12 August 2003 - Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v2.1.0.592 VCF Chart, Second Site requires version 2.1.0.592 or greater of VCF.EXE. If you are using TMG v5.09 or greater you should have a supported version of VCF.EXE., John Cardinal's Home Page v5.10.000 21 Nov 2003RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.10 has been released - From: Bob Velke - 21 November 2003 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.11.000 05 Dec 2003RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v5.11 (CD Version!) has been released - From: Bob Velke - 5 December 2003 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.12.000 21 Apr 2004RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v5.12.000 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 21 April 2004 - Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v3.0RootsWeb: TMG-L Re: [TMG] TMG, FTST, and VCF - 29 May 2004 v5.13.000 17 May 2004RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v5.13.000 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 17 May 2004 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.14.000 07 Jun 2004RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v5.14.000 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 7 June 2004 - Upgrade/Patch. v5.15.000 25 Jul 2004RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v5.15.000 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 25 July 2004 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.00 21 Dec 2004RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.00 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 21 December 2004New Features in TMG Version 6 - Based on Visual FoxPro v7Anti-spyware removing VFP7r.dll (MS Visual FoxPro v7 Support Library) issue v6.01.000 28 May 2005RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.01 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 28 May 2005 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.02.000 11 Aug 2005RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.02 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 11 August 2005 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.03.000 02 Sep 2005RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.03 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 2 September 2005 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.04.000 27 Sep 2005RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.04 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 27 September 2005 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.05.000 30 Oct 2005RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.05 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 30 October 2005 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.06.000 04 Nov 2005RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.06 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 4 November 2005 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.07.000 04 Nov 2005TMG v6.07 is now available - Upgrade/Patch. v6.08.000 24 Mar 2006RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.08 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 24 March 2006 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.09.000 3 May 2006RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.09 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 3 May 2006 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.10.000 09 Oct 2006RootsWeb: TMG-L TMG v6.10 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 9 October 2006 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.11.000 15 Oct 2006RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v6.11 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 15 October 2006 - Upgrade/Patch. v6.12.000 04 Nov 2006RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v6.12 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 4 November 2006 TMG updated to run as a legacy application under Windows VistaTMG 6 and Windows Vista.pdf Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v3.2.0.2 (Note:VCF uses http://freeimage.sourceforge.net freeimage.sf.net]) v7.00 28 Dec 2007RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v7.0 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 28 December 2007New Features in TMG v7 Windows Vista (Support for 98, NT dropped) Based on Visual FoxPro v9.RootsWeb: TMG-L Re: [TMG] TMG 7 & GenSmarts Problem - 11 January 2008 CD-ROM version of TMG includes a free copy of The Universal British Directory of Great Britain 1791. v7.01.000 18 April 2008RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v7.01 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 18 April 2008 - Upgrade/Patch. Visual Chartform (VCF) v3.2.0.13 (Build date:1 Sep 2007). v7.02.000 24 May 2008RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v7.02 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 24 May 2008 - Upgrade/Patch. v7.03.000 28 Jun 2008RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v7.03 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 28 June 2008 - Upgrade/Patch. v7.04.000 13 Feb 2009RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v7.04 is now available! - From: Bob Velke - 14 February 2009 - Upgrade/Patch. v8.00.000 21 Dec 2011 Support for: Windows 7, 64-bit v8.01.000 19 Jan 2012RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v8.01 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 19 January 2012 Upgrade/Patch. v8.02.000 2 Mar 2012RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v8.02 is now available (again) - From: Bob Velke - 2 March 2012 Released, withdrawn,RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v8.02 is now available - stand by - From: Bob Velke - 5 February 2012 and re-released. Upgrade/Patch. v8.03.000 1 May 2012RootsWeb: TMG-L [TMG] TMG v8.03 is now available - From: Bob Velke - 1 May 2012 Upgrade/Patch, Add Swedish language v8.04.000 3 May 2012Wholly Genes Forum, The Master Genealogist v8.x Change Log, Date: regularly updated Upgrade/Patch, Add Dutch language support files v8.05.000 22 March 2013 - Upgrade/Patch. Major redesign of how Roles are stored in the database,Wholly Genes Forum, TMG v8.05 and the changed Role Design by Jim Bryam, 22 February 2013 Add support for WordPerfect, Add search in Subfolders v8.06.000 28 Mar 2013 Upgrade/Patch. v8.07.000 19 April 2013 Upgrade/Patch. v8.08.000 22 April 2013 Upgrade/Patch. v9.00.000 7 February 2014 v9.01.000 26 February 2014 Upgrade/Patch. v9.02.000 10 Jul 2014 Upgrade/Patch. v9.03.000 17 Jul 2014 Upgrade/Patch. v9.04.000 24 Sep 2014 Upgrade/Patch. A new GEDCOM export option has been added to facilitate transferring TMG data to other programs. v9.05.000 3 Dec 2014 Upgrade/Patch.
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