The Demise of TMG (The Master Genealogist) and Alternatives?

[jcsturgis]

Thanks again Mike ... I've just been having a play with explorer and, on the face of it, there is an option to select the census fact along with a 'not exists', but it's not quite the full solution.  The scenario is ... I have a spare hour and I want to produce a list of all the people who should be on the 1851 census, but I haven't found yet.  In terms of the data, this means that there won't be a census fact containing 1851 in the date, but there may be others, for the other census entries that I may have found (1861, 1871 etc).  Because, as I said, TMG doesn't have a 'not exists' condition, I've created a set of flags (which when you create them, are applied to everyone in the project and set to a default value) for each of the censuses, which I then set to 'Y' when I find someone.  It's then very easy to produce a list based on 'On 1851 Census = N'.

I have looked at the possibility of designing a new 'fact type' for this purpose, but there doesn't appear to be a way of assigning this to everyone, so I don't really think it's an option as I have thousands of people that I'd have to go through individually, unless I'm missing something.

Any bright ideas would be very welcome.   

[jcsturgis]

Mike ... I've had another thought (difficult at this time of the morning) ... I could create a group (although I can't try this as it's disabled) containing all those people on (say) the 1851 census.  Couple of questions:  (1) Can I then produce a list using the selection criteria 'not in this group' and further refine it to also discount people who were born after 1851 and died before 1851?  (2) When creating said group, is it necessary (as it seems to be) to individually tag each person (as I said I have a few thousand) based on the selection criteria, and continually using 'Next Record', or is there an easier way?

I think I've had enough thoughts for one day!! 

[mike175]

I haven't done much complex filtering, but in the group selection box there is the option to either mark or unmark individuals. I would think you could start by marking everyone, then select the people on the 1851 census (with whatever other criteria you require) and unmark them, which would leave the group you need . . . probably 

I need to switch my brain back into genealogy mode for the winter months, having spent all my spare time over the summer removing a leylandii hedge and some trees and re-fencing my garden.

Mike.