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We genealogy researchers now have a wealth of information and documents available on the internet. The 21st century has delivered a major breakthrough in discovering our ancestors, when compared to the days of visiting libraries and written requests by mail. ...
Hiding documents from view As genealogy hoarders (I meant: “organizers”), we all collect many documents on our ancestors. The more-organized amongst us have already uploaded the document images to TNG and then linked them to the correct individuals and families. Many fine examples of ...
How to manage Living and Privacy settings A main reason for hosting your family or surname study on a website is to share your research with other people in the world. After spending years gathering information on the family tree, it is rewarding to finally publish that ...
Clearing and Rebuilding a TNG Tree *** This procedure will delete ALL data including people, families, sources, repositories, media and branches in a tree. It must be used with extreme caution and only after taking a full backup as you will need to restore an item ...
Linking media to an uploaded GEDCOM file You learn something every day. I learnt something new about matching a GEDCOM file to images uploaded to TNG.
NOTE: this article is relevant to members using file transfer programs, such as ftp, to bulk upload media files to their TNG ...
Adding images to the homepage Some of our subscribers to TNG have had initial problems getting images uploaded and installed on their home pages.
It is a two-step process. The first step is to get a copy of your image uploaded from your computer to your ...
Search the TNG Site Your TNG site has a handy, built-in search tool. I find it has two purposes: to locate those obscure items you added sometime a year ago, and also to find out just how popular your family tree has become.
This tool is ...
Finding unlinked media in TNG TNG makes it very easy to add media; photographs, documents, headstones, into your family history site. Have a look at the articles on TNG: How to use media: an overview, TNG: How to add media, TNG: How to import media and ...
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 re-checked ...
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 ...
