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Elizabeth Samwel

> During the week, I offered one-on-one assistance to several Macintosh owners who use The Master Genealogist on their Macs. (Hint: It works well on a Mac.)

So you discovered the ability to run virtual machines.
But WHY - other than following lectures - would you WANT to run TMG when you can run a so much better program like Reunion or MacFamilyTree?

Graeme Simpson

>But WHY - other than following lectures - would you WANT to run TMG when you can run a so much better program like Reunion or MacFamilyTree?

Maybe because it is MUCH cheaper to buy, or maybe they have other fellow researchers using TMG so it makes sense to use the same program, maybe they just like it as a program etc etc After all, choice of genealogy program is very much a personal one, often directed by what fellow researchers are using, availability of local support, desired features....

I think it is worth noting that TMG does work well on a MAC for those who want to use it in that way.This dosen't take away from the excellent Reunion program that most (down under at least) appear to use on their MACs.

Jeri Steele

TMG users tend to be people who seriously want to slice and dice their data as well as being able to customize how their data comes out in reports. Once I've invested the time in learning all the features of one program and writing custom reports, I'm not very motivated to change. Can Reunion output Excel spreadsheets of all information on sources, events, people, etc. with extensive filters so that I can print all events that happened in a county or show only my research to-dos for one repository? Even if they do how long is it going to take to learn it. Instead I've chosen to bring up parallels and run TMG on it. I'm a big fan of Mac and I choose to run just about everything else on the Mac side!

Elizabeth Samwel

> Even if they do how long is it going to take to learn it.
You may be interested to know that most programs are not as ridiculously hard to use as TMG, most are quite intuitive. Give them a try, it will be real eye opener to you.


BJ Lass

TMG isn't all that hard to use "right out of the box". Stay in Beginner mode, leave the helpful "Cue Cards" turned on and follow the prompts to start a new project. Enter data for a couple generations and see how the program works. Keep this project as a test project to experiment with as you learn the flexibility of TMG. Custom sentences, custom tags (events), place styles, name styles, reports, etc., etc., etc. Now, import your data, and you'll feel much more comfortable with TMG.

TMG is only hard when you try to learn everything at the same time. Remember when you learned to drive -- you started on the small slow roads, you didn't start at 65 mph on the expressway.

Cliff Venier

Without getting into the controversy over softwares, I want to second Dick's assessment of the Wholly Genes Cruise. The choice of speakers seemed to be based on both their family history knowledge and on their presentation skills. Never a dull moment with lots of examples and "lessons".

Dae Powell

Most genealogy programs cannot do what TMG can do. I like to think of it as a KIT, from which you can make the program display your data exactly the way you wish. You can also control its behaviour, import ALL the data stored on other systems, and create an incredible variety of web sites using Second Site.

The learning curve was short for me, but your mileage may vary. I've used 5 other programs besides TMG and this was my THIRD cruise with Bob Velke and crew. So I guess I'm hooked, eh? By the end of the week I'll have MY review of the cruise on my web site.

Happy Dae, in Puerto Rico
http://www.ShoeStringGenealogy.com

Marcella Brewer

> Most genealogy programs cannot do what TMG can do... , import ALL the data stored on other systems,
LOL. Funny girl. It cannot even import my PAF data. The backwards program still doesn't support Unicode. How dumb is that.
It is an awful interface on top of a limited, inflexible program.
It cannot even make a web site - but you that right? That's why you mention Second SIte....

Leon Salou

Cliff Venier wrote

"Without getting into the controversy over softwares, I want to second Dick's assessment of the Wholly Genes Cruise."

Cliff, this is not an honest assessment, just an advertisement in exchange for a free ticket. The TMG ppl haven't figured out yet how many of us stopped trusting Dick years ago.

BJ Lass

Leon, Where did that comment that "The TMG ppl haven't figured out yet how many of us stopped trusting Dick years ago" come from? Dick was on the Legacy, Roots Magic and the Wholly Genes sponsored cruise. All Cliff was saying is that he enjoyed the conference and cruise, same as Dick. So are you saying that since you don't trust Dick, he must have hated the cruise?

Make constructive remarks, don't just dis software that you don't like.

Randy Seaver

I too was on the WG/TMG cruise, and have posted daily summaries of my observations during the Wholly Genes Conference and my own cruise activities on my blog at www.geneamusings.com. If you go to my blog, scroll back to October 26th to read from the start of the cruise.

It was great to meet several readers of EOGN and Genea-Musings on the cruise - and to be able to put faces and voices to some of the names I know from the genealogy world.

I greatly appreciate that Dick linked back to one of my Genea-Musings posts just before the cruise - several EOGN readers told me that they had read Genea-Musings for the first time due to Dick's link.

I'm still in Puerto Rico enjoying my vacation -- Randy

George

I wasn't on the cruise but I'll add my two cents worth. The only reason I run TMG on my Macintosh is because there is no native Macintosh genealogy program that comes close to TMG's power and flexibility. If I could find a Mac genealogy program that was as good as TMG, I would switch immediately. I have tried all the Mac genealogy programs. I even paid a lot of money for Reunion, then found it didn't do half of what TMG does.

Cindy

Is there anyway to run TMG without having to run Windows on your Mac? We just got an iMac and I love it, the only part I don't love is dealing with Windows in Parallels. I want to tell Windows to forget it at this point!

I know Linux has Wine, is there something similar for running TMG on a Mac?

Kathy Moody

I attended my first Genealogy Cruise (Wholly Genes); the experience exceeded my expectations and was exceptionally good.

The Speakers were "the cream of the crop"..I would recommend it to anyone.. well worth it. I came away with lots of wonderful ideas,new ways of approaching this work and reinforced enthusiasm. A Huge Thank you to Dick Eastman for his work in making me and others aware of this wonderful opportunity ( and the great resource his site is) and to Bob Velke and his staff (and the speakers )for an incredibly enjoyable and well put together program. I look forward to future trips.

Dick Eastman

---> Is there anyway to run TMG without having to run Windows on your Mac?

No.

There are three competitive products: Parallels, VMware, and virtualBox. However, all three require that you pay the "Microsoft tax" by loading a copy of Windows onto the Mac. I do not know of any solution for Macintosh that allows the running of Windows programs without Windows.

- Dick Eastman

theKiwi

CrossOver does allow you to avoid the Microsoft Tax by letting you run "some" Windows software on an Intel Mac without needing a copy of Windows.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

But the downside is that the number of supported applications is somewhat limited.

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name

Legacy is listed as "known not to work". TMG is "untested".

Just last week for a 24 hour period code weavers were giving away CrossOver Mac because the price of petrol in Milwaukee had fallen to a level that triggered the give away

http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20081027/

Cheers

Roger

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