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TMG

TMG - Import from another genealogy program - Gramps wiki

TMG Database importer (reads Backup SQZ )

Information related to TMG Import 7591

My attempt to create an importer for TMG

Prerequisites

  • Ethan Furman's dbf-0.96.002 - First release to support python 2.x and 3.x - Allows reading/writing dBase, FoxPro, and Visual FoxPro .dbf files (including memos)
  • configparser - library brings the updated configparser from Python 3.5 to Python 2.6-3.5. (Instead of having custom code to read TMG's text files)

Gramps Enhancements to match TMG behavior

Only if it makes sense. eg: no matching ability in Gramps.

TMG's View/Windows

  • TMG Mainviews (=Details Window)
    • (Yes) TMG Person View - Good overview of all Tags and events related to a person (No real equivalent without running a report!)
    • (No ) TMG Family View - similar to a family group sheet (Simpler than Gramps Relationship Category View)
    • (No ) TMG Tree View - Graphical: pedigree-type display (Simpler than Gramps Charts Category > Pedigree view)
  • TMG's Additional windows
    • (?) TMG Flags Window -
    • ( ) TMG Children Window -
    • ( ) TMG Siblings Window -
    • (Yes) TMG Image Window - Displays Primary Exhibit only
    • ( ) TMG Associates Window -
    • (?) TMG Focus Group Window - collects groups of people into list that you can save and reuse in filters.
  • TMG Picklist (Searching)
    • (Yes) TMG Search by TMG ID# - dialog
      Possibly modify Gramps or have an additional Jump key to select an individual by TMG_ID#
      4970 Showing TMG ID# in Gramps
    • (?) TMG Simple Picklist
    • (?) TMG Expanded Picklist
    • (?) TMG Project Explorer - (Advanced)
  • TMG Masterlist (Gramps individual views are basically these but open the whole time)
    • TMG Master Source List (All sources recorded) -> (Can also access the "Source definition" screen)
    • TMG Master Repository List (Where source found)
    • TMG Master Place List (All places in Dataset/Project)
    • TMG Master Event List (All events contained in tags)
    • TMG Master Tag Type List (All Tag Types in alphabetical list)
    • TMG Master Style List (All name & place styles)
  • TMG Logs
    • ( ) TMG Research Log
    • ( ) TMG Exhibit Log
  • TMG Other features
    • (Yes) Accents (Ability to color a TMG tag/person that meets a condition)
  • TMG does not have these exactly but would be handy
    • (###) Master People List - "TMG Picklist"'s above is almost equivalent.
    • (###) Master Secrets List - All items that have some degree of privacy recorded against them would appear here.
      • In TMG Privacy record options include (See TMG User manual - "Excluding Information" pg:176):
        • (Yes) Exclusion Marker: this uses the "-"(Hyphen) entered in an entry field.
          One "-"(Hyphen) hides the contents of the field from display (makes it invisible.
          Two "--"(Double Hyphen) means to never print or export (Not sure if you can override).
        • (Yes) Sensitivity Brackets: this uses "{}"(Curly brackets or braces) to surround words that should not be printed to a report.

Notes

  • In TMG you can save a screens layout and have the ability to load those layouts. - (Gramps not so much :( )
  • In TMG the selected person is called the "Subject"
  • In TMG a "Project" may contain many "Dataset(s)" - (Gramps only one Family tree open at a time)
    • The "Dataset(s)" are real "sets" in that they share nothing but the "Project" container.
    • For each of the views and lists above unless you have hidden/filtered the dataset they can all be searched on at the same time.
    • To identify separate datasets TMG given them an identifying number and prepends that number to the TMG ID# separated by a ":"(colon)
      eg: 5:3045 means dataset 5 TMG Individual Number 3045

TMG Reports