TMG Reports: Introduction

TMG's Custom Report Writer

One of our members, Dave Conover, said, "The best way to learn TMG is to start with the Custom Report Writer." How right he is. The decisions we make when entering information are dependent upon how we want to use that information. Our members frequently come up with ideas for reports. These are some of those ideas.

When using these pages, please read the comments carefully. They include the members' comments on why they chose certain options in TMG's Custom Report Writer. These comments may help you even more than the sample reports themselves. After all, we use this program in different ways. Use these samples to help you create your own Custom reports.

Wholly Genes is obviously a very responsive software company. As my annotations will show, many of the most frequently requested reports now come standard with TMG ver. 5.x. Of course, you should feel free to create your own versions.

You may view these samples by choosing a report problem below or click to view a List of Topics.

I need a quick report available to check my editing, especially my sentences. What's a good way to do this?

I wish TMG had an option to let me view all the sources I've used for an individual. I know I can go to each event and view the sources used event by event, but I want a quick way to see my "bibliography" for an individual.

I have over 300 families recorded from the 1850 census in one county. How do I get a list of these families in dwelling number order? I'd like to see who lives next to whom.
For this, and all census-related reports, please see Diana Begeman's web page, "Recording Census Data in TMG", for a unique way to deal with census information and reports.

I'm tracing all the descendants of my great-great-great grandfather. I'd like a report which gives me the census history of each of the descendants. This might help me see quickly which people are missing.

I want to set the accent colors differently for the descendants of five siblings. This way, I can see at a glance which sibling is a person's ancestor.

How do I find all the "original" ancestors in my data base?
Allen Mellen calls this report "Finding the Tops of Trees." Click on the button to visit his site and learn how to produce the filter for this report.

I'm going to the library and want a list of all people who might be found in the 1930 census, but haven't been.

If you prefer to examine various report options from a topic point-of-view rather problem reports, you may select them here.

Individual Narrative Report to HTML File
Customizing the Toolbar
Bibliography to HTML File Use TMG 5.x's easy toolbar report icon for this.
List of Events Report to Screen
Individual Detail Report to Word Processor File
List of People Report to Secondary Output
Customizing a Flag
Setting Accent Colors
Candidates for Specific Census Searches

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