The Master Genealogist (TMG) is genealogy software for Windows first released in 1993^[1] by Bob Velke. In the Master Genealogist, data entry can be customized through the use of user-defined events, names, and relationship types.

Features

• In TMG information is displayed like a spreadsheet.
• TMG allows the user to record conflicting information, instead of being restricted to deciding which piece of evidence is correct.
• TMG can import from a standard GEDCOM file. Its GenBridge^[2] recognises 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. ^[3]

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^[4]. Source templates based upon Wholly Genes' interpretation of the source types in Richard S. Lackey's Cite Your Sources^[5] 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.^[6]

TMG version history

Please view the TMG talk page for the more information on past versions.

Languages Available

English (US), English (UK), German, Dutch, Norwegian - Bokmål only , French, Italian and Afrikaans.

File Format

TMG's underlying database engine is Visual FoxPro v9.
Visual FoxPro v9 does not support Unicode.

1. File Structures for (TMG) for DOS and Windows v3.6
2. TMG File Structure - Applicable to TMG v3.x, v4.x, and v5.x & v6.0

Platforms

TMG was designed to run on the Windows platform, however many users are running TMG on their Macintosh and Linux machines. Running TMG on a Macintosh requires special software such as Parallels, or Virtual PC for older non-Intel Macs. TMG runs on Linux with Wine^[7].

Migration from TMG

Because of the underlying database structure of TMG, it is not possible to perform a complete GEDCOM export. In particular, witness data is not exported.

See also:

1. tmg2gramps Convert TMG 6 to GRAMPS Free Software for Genealogy.
2. Forays Into Genealogy Data Base Modelling - Details how Leif moved his data out of TMG into a program of his own creation http://sourceforge.net/projects/urdabrunn.

External links

• Wholly Genes
• Lee Hoffman's TMG Tips
• Terry's TMG Tips
• TMG mailing list on Rootsweb
• The Master Genealogist Forum on Genealogy.com
• Wine AppDB - TMG Entry - Information on making TMG work with Wine (software).
• John Cardinal's Genealogy Programs

References

no:The Master Genealogist