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Introducing a comprehensive research system representing a
revolution in genealogical software!
THE MASTER GENEALOGIST (TMG) is the result of more than five years
of design and promises to be the most flexible research environment
available to genealogists and family historians today.
TMG breaks through the many barriers normally encountered in
record-keeping systems and offers a professional environment for
your research.
TMG is intended for the serious historian and encourages good
research and documentation habits - beginning, of course, with
professional source citations. Every item of data can be
documented in as much or as little detail as the researcher
chooses. In addition, researchers are no longer forced to make
premature conclusions or compromises for the sake of data entry.
Every event in a person's life can be recorded in full detail including multiple variations of the same event.
Uncertain dates? Conflicting data? Multiple spellings? This only
touches on TMG's power and flexibility. Search by married names?
Uncertain parentage? Multiple lines of descent? TMG handles them
with ease.
THE MASTER GENEALOGIST puts the power in your hands.
In addition to the most flexible work environment available, TMG
offers all of the standard features you would expect from a
professional research tool, including an integrated research log,
a full-featured text editor, unlimited text fields, pop-up
calendar, GEDCOM import/export, customized reports, and support for
multiple date formats. You'll also find long-awaited features like
complete source citations and astonishing new innovations like onscreen full-color images!
TMG made its debut at the 1993 NGS Conference in Baltimore, MD, in
June, 1993, and received a very enthusiastic response. It began
shipping later that month.
THE MASTER GENEALOGIST - an abbreviated list of features:
NO LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF.....(*)
- people per database. (OK, actually it's 1,000,000,000)
- events per person (marriages, employment, military...)
- occurrences of a single event type (conflicting birth records...)
- children per person
- name variations per person (married, nickname, spelling)
- completely user-defined event types (Educated, Hospitalized ...)
- parents per person (conflicting data, adoptive parents...)
- witnesses to a single event! Any person can be associated with
any event in the database. One application is the capability to
link an unlimited number of witnesses to historical events (war,
epidemic, migration, politics), in effect defining a person's
life in the context of an historical timeline.
- characters in a memo/note field which can be tied to any name,
event, or parental relationship.
- master sources or total citations (see also below)
- independent data sets
In addition, TMG offers virtually unlimited field lengths for data
entry. No more awkward abbreviations are necessary!
SOURCES
- fully customizable master list of sources.
- independent source citations for each name, event, and parental
relationship.
- each citation can be weighted to reflect the reliability of the
data.
- each element of the data (date, place, memo, etc.) can be
weighted independently - even those that come from a single
source.
- classification of sources by media, fidelity, repository, call
number and numerous other categories.
- sources and surety features are easy to use but not required.
OTHER FEATURES
- automatic prompting/linking of relationships at the point of data
entry.
- on-screen graphic pedigree (scroll through generations).
- customized reporting capabilities, including user-defined report
fields and boolean filters (and/or).
- 13 customizable person flags with user-definable values.
- pop-up integrated research log, full-featured text editor,
relationship calculator, and pop-up calendar with date arithmetic.
- on-screen color scanned images (photos, maps, signatures,
original documents) on the same screen with text at a resolution
of up to 1024x768 in 256 colors (SVGA). Reads PCX, GIF, BMP,
IMG, TIFF and X11 formats.
- nine date formats (12/24/1861, 24 DEC 1861, etc.) to choose from
- customized screen layout and colors.
- GEDCOM import/export
- menu driven with hot-keys for experienced users
FEATURES continued:
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context-sensitive help
on-screen clock
Microsoft-compatible mouse support
sensitivity brackets {like this} to exclude private data from reports
text macros and other data-entry shortcuts...
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
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IBM compatible 386 or higher
3 Meg available RAM (expanded or extended)
Hard drive
Mono/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA monitor
Mouse (optional)
Printer (optional): more than 100 printers
including lasers are supported
Scanner (optional)
TMG is a powerful research tool which puts today's technology to
work for you in ways that have never before been possible. This is
the reason for its rather sophisticated hardware requirements.
Plans are underway for TMG/Mac and TMG for Windows. If you are
interested in these products or if you would like to make comments
or suggestions about their design, we'd love to hear from you.
(*) As would be expected, your hard drive may impose its own
limitations as to file size. If you want to record more than one
billion people, then you probably shouldn't be using a PC anyway.
--------------------------------------------------------------------The price of THE MASTER GENEALOGIST (TMG) version 1.0 is $99.00
plus $4 shipping and handling ($8 s&h for international orders).
California residents add 8.25% tax ($8.17 per copy).
Developed and owned by:
Distributed by:
Wholly Genes Software
Kent Supply Company
6868 Ducketts Lane
P.O. Box 4136
Elk Ridge, Maryland 21227
Chatsworth, CA 91313-4136
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A slide show demonstration of TMG is available for download from
various electronic services and bulletin board systems including
CompuServe (TMGDEM.ZIP in Library 3) and our own bulletin board as
listed above.