Recent Tutorials

  • Cleaning up your data
    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 ...
  • Family Genes mapping update
    Your Family Genes TNG mapping has been updated for you.  TNG requires a unique access code for mapping to work.  This is called a Mapping API key, which is a long string of characters provided to us by Google, and ...
  • Creating image thumbnails
    Image thumbnails are those small-size images that represent your photos but do not occupy a large space on the screen.  Thumbnails have a visual appeal to your visitors, over using text lists.  People can quickly see any photo items of interest ...
  • Finding married names in custom events
    In a related tutorial article, we talked about Getting exposure on the search engines for our TNG site.  Now, how about letting the light shine a bit on our ancestor ladies? A big problem in searching for our female ancestors ...
  • Getting exposure on the search engines
    You have your TNG website set up, it is nicely populated with dead people, your photos are magnificent, and you are anxious to let the world know about it. So, how do you get the word out so that the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Add ‘Military’ to your collections
    Using Collections in your TNG site is a good way to organize your photographs.  See the tutorial section on Media Collections for other ideas. What about military photos?  How about images of earned medals, battlefields and cemeteries, army buddy group photos, ...
  • Regular backups of your TNG site
    You do backups of your TNG data and regularly, right?  Of course, we all have those great intentions.  We plan to back up weekly, or monthly or quarterly, or whatever inspires us.  Nope; instead we toil away every night, plowing ...
  • What’s New
    TNG has a handy way for sporting the latest information on your website.  One page features the most recent updates in the last 30 days: photos, documents, headstones, birth/marriage/death images, plus changes to individuals and families. This is a good ...
  • Version 12 is here!
    Version 12.0 of our TNG application has been released and is installed for you. There are 75 additions, enhancements and fixes in this release, so have fun trying them out. We will try to have more tutorials on the important ...