From: 6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: New Genealogy Program (IBM)
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 14:48:16 GMT

This announcement was posted on America On Line last night. I don't have
IBM so I haven't noticed it mentioned anywhere else yet. It is a very long
notice so **BE WARNED**.

STANDARD DISCLAIMER: I know nothing about this product or its manufacturers
and have not nor will I receive anything for posting it here. (DARN!) ;-)
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Subj:  The Master Genealogist part 1         92-09-08 21:32:32 EDT
From:  Eldoen

              ********** ANNOUNCEMENT ***********


Introducing a comprehensive research system representing a revolution in
genealogical software.

THE MASTER GENEALOGIST (TMG) is the result of more than five years of
design and promises to be the most flexible research environment
available to genealogists and family historians today.

TMG breaks through the many barriers normally encountered in record-
keeping systems and offers a professional environment for your research.

TMG is intended for the serious historian and encourages good research
and documentation habits - beginning, of course, with professional
source citations.  Every item of data can be documented in as much or as
little detail as the researcher chooses.  In addition, researchers are
no longer forced to make premature conclusions or compromises for the
sake of data entry.  Every event in a person's life can be recorded in
full detail - including multiple variations of the same event.

Uncertain dates?  Conflicting data?  Multiple spellings?  This only
touches on TMG's power and flexibility.  Search by married names?
Uncertain parentage?  Multiple lines of descent?  TMG handles them with
ease.

THE MASTER GENEALOGIST puts the power in your hands.

In addition to the most flexible work environment available, TMG offers
all of the standard features you would expect from a professional
research tool, including an integrated research log, a full featured
text editor, unlimited text fields, pop-up calendar, GEDCOM
import/export, customized reports, and support for multiple date
formats.  You'll also find long-awaited features like complete source
citations and astonishing new innovations like on-screen full-color
images!

TMG is currently in the latter stages of design and testing and is
expected to be shipping by August 1, 1992.  A public preview of TMG took
place at the 1992 NGS Convention in Jacksonville, Florida and received a
very enthusiastic response.

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THE MASTER GENEALOGIST - an abbreviated list of features:

NO LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF.....(*)
- people per database.  (OK, actually it's 1,000,000,000)
- events per person (marriages, employment, military...)
- occurrences of a single event type (conflicting birth records...)
- children per person
- name variations per person (married, nickname, spelling)
- completely user-defined event types (Educated, Hospitalized ...)
- parents per person (conflicting data, adoptive parents...)
- witnesses to a single event!  Any person can be associated with any
event in the database.  One application is the capability to link an
unlimited number of witnesses to historical events (war, epidemic,
migration, politics), in effect defining a person's life in the
context of an historical timeline.
- characters in a memo/note field which can be tied to any name and/or
event.
- master sources or total citations (see also below)
- independent data sets

In addition, TMG offers extremely liberal field lengths for data entry.
For example, 60 characters for city.

SOURCES
- fully customizable master list of sources
- up to five independent source citations for each name, event and
parent.
- each citation can be weighted to reflect the reliability of the data.
- each element of the data (date, place, memo, etc.) can be weighted
independently - even those that come from a single source.
- classification of sources by media, fidelity, repository, call number
and numerous other categories.
- sources and/or surety features can be disabled permanently or
temporarily.

OTHER FEATURES
- automatic prompting/linking of relationships at the point of data
entry.
- on-screen graphic pedigree (scroll through generations)
- customized reporting capabilities, including user-defined report
fields and filters (and/or/not).
- 13 customizable person flags with user-definable values
- pop-up integrated research log, full-featured text editor,
relationship calculator, and pop-up calendar with date arithmetic
- on-screen color scanned images (photos, maps, signatures, original
documents) on the same screen with text at a resolution of up to
1024x768 in 256 colors (SVGA).  Reads PCX, GIF, BMP, TIF, and TGA
formats.
- more than 100 printers (including lasers and Postscript) to choose
from
- seven date formats (12/24/1861 or 24 DEC 1861 etc) to choose from
- customized screen layout and colors.
- GEDCOM import/export
- menu driven with hot-keys for experienced users
- context-sensitive help
- on-screen clock
- full mouse support
- sensitivity brackets {like this} to exclude private data from reports
- navigation macros, text macros, and other data entry shortcuts...


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
            o           IBM compatible 386 or higher
            o           2-3 Meg available RAM
            o           Hard Drive
            o           Mono/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA
            o           Mouse (optional)
            o           Printer (optional)
            o           Scanner (optional)


TMG is a powerful research tool which puts today's technology to work
for you in ways that have never before been possible.  As such, we make
mo apologies for its rather sophisticated hardware requirements.

Plans are underway for TMG/Mac, TMG for Windows and TMG Light (for
laptops).  If you are interested in these products or you would like to
make comments or suggestions about their design we'd love to hear from
you.

(*)  As would be expected, your hardware may impose its own limitations
as to file size.  If you want to record more than one billion people
then you're probably not using a PC anyway.

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The current retail price of THE MASTER GENEALOGIST (TMG) is $89.00.

TMG is a product of:   Wholly Genes Software
       6868 Ducketts Lane
       Elk Ridge, Maryland 21227
       (410)796-2447

The author of TMG is:   Bob Velke
                        CIS# 76366,1760

We encourage your comments or suggestions by mail, phone, e-mail, or on
the ROOTS forum.


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