Cleaning up your data

[This article can also be found in the Wiki at: TNG Setup]You may have your family research in paper form, on loose paper, in binders, printouts from websites.  But, at least you do have some form of organization.  If you are starting with paper, then you will likely...

Copying text to TNG from a word processor

TNG has a lot of places where you can enter text, such as the homepage welcoming paragraph and sidebar features.  You can add stories in the Histories area of media, add sources, notes and more.  You may find obituaries, marriages and other newspaper notices that can...

GEDCOM importing incomplete date data

One of our Guild MWP users, Maurice Hemingway, hemingway.one-name.net, reported an unusual problem.  After exporting a GEDCOM file from his Legacy program and importing it into TNG, there were several living relatives showing as visible to the public.  Maurice...

GEDCOM and working with ZIP files

The TNG version 11 now supports the uploading and extraction of your GEDCOM files in a zipped package.  This will be very convenient for TNG users with extra-large family tree files. A zipped package is a computer file that is compressed and ends in a .zip suffix.  If...