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TMG - What's next

TMG - What's next

Posted: 30 Jul 2014 2:47AM GMT
Classification: Query
With the announcement tonight of the discontinuance of TMG, what are the best alternatives moving forward?

Re: TMG - What's next

Posted: 30 Jul 2014 7:38AM GMT
Classification: Query
Wait and see... someone may buy the source code and continue to develop it.

Re: TMG - What's next

Posted: 30 Jul 2014 1:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
The current version should be good into the foreseeable future. Hopefully by then a worthy alternative will become available by then.

Imho, there is nothing on the market at the present time worth fooling with.

Re: TMG - What's next

Posted: 1 Aug 2014 2:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
So, I need a new computer (still running desktop on Windows XP and my Windows 7 laptop died a few months ago). Did I understand that the latest version of TMG will not run on Windows 8? My TMG version is Gold Edition v. 6.02. if I purchase a new computer, will my version of TMG work or should I consider a different software??????? Thoughts appreciated.

Re: TMG - What's next

Posted: 14 Aug 2014 1:32AM GMT
Classification: Query
I wouldn't hold my breath while waiting, unfortunately. TMG is built on top of FoxPro, which was discontinued by Microsoft in 2007. FoxPro is '90s technology, which severely limits TMG's forward momentum. The only way forward for TMG at this point would be a complete rewrite using modern tools. Bob is unable to do it; I don't see the financial viability in anyone else committing resources to it, either.

TMG will continue to work, at least until the next version of Windows breaks it. After that, who knows?

Re: TMG - What's next

Posted: 14 Aug 2014 5:27AM GMT
Classification: Query
It should work just fine... I abandoned TMG quite some time ago to go with the new version of Roots Magic. I find Roots Magic to be just as functional and it has customizable sentences as well. It is the ONLY other software that I have found out there that has witnesses as well as TMG.

The only drawback to TMG is when you export your data it does not translate the witnesses so you almost have to go back and re-do a lot of work. It was worth it to me as while my tree was detailed it was small but if you have a very large tree with a lot of time invested in adding "witnessed" events it will be a major undertaking.

The only thing I can suggest is to write Bruce, the author of Roots Magic, to see if he can do a direct import from a TMG database into RM that will preserve the witnesses.

The more I use some of the more modern softwares out there the more I find that it each one has it's kludges. As I have had to transition from Windows to Mac for my employment I am finding that I am using more and more a web based software called TNG (The Next Generation) it is the ultimate in collaboration software as multiple researchers can work it. It also allows me to share my information in ways I never dreamed of before.

To see it in action you can visit my site http://pagesfromourpast.com

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Allen
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