TNG: How to set up trees

Before you start pumping in all of your relatives into TNG, you do need to set up one tree, at least.  TNG requires at least one tree to be in place to receive individuals, families, sources or repositories. A tree is basically a container of all information on one...

TNG: A tour of my first TNG site

So, what do you get, right out of the TNG box?  It’s a screen that is downright confusing, see below.  First, you see a rundown small-town beat-up string of stores, of a hundred years ago and a town that is nowhere near your ancestors.  And a welcoming paragraph in...

What is TNG?

First of all, “TNG” does stand for something.  It is The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding.  Okay, that doesn’t fully explain it.  Let’s try again. TNG is a fully functioning family tree application that can house your family trees, branches, ancestors, their...

TNG: Anatomy of a GEDCOM

If you have ever opened a GEDCOM file using your word processor, you have probably been faced with a seeming jumble of numbers, abbreviations, and bits and pieces of data. There are no blank lines and no indentations in a GEDCOM file. That’s because it is a...