Dawn, I, too, am looking at eventually moving from TMG to another program. I came across the announcement a couple of months ago about Legacy building an import tool for TMG users. I couldn't find any updates on its status so recently joined this forum in hopes of learning more about the tool's development.
Discussion I have had with Wholly Genes and with Second Site creator John Cardinal trend to suggest that TMG 9 will continue to function on Windows platforms for several years of advancements with the Windows platform. So we don't have to rush to Legacy or another application, we have time for Legacy to fully develop the importer. My goal is to be able to import TMG tables into a new application without going through a gedcom. I fear the gedcom standard hasn't caught up to apps like TMG capabilities and we could loose or misidentify a lot of our TMG data importing to another app via a gedcom. I'd like to hear more from Barbara on how she converted TMG to Legacy and was it an accurate transfer. She blazed a trail I'm not ready to travel. If we can learn from her and others where the potholes are on that path, we can experience a better transition. I also use Second Site, the third party app to TMG for converting the data to html pages for my web site so our organization's members can access the tree. So any replacement to TMG must have a solution for converting to web pages. Jamie Diana Poindexter, Research Committee co-chair & webmaster Poindexter Descendants Association www.poindexterfamily.org Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
