{"id":72,"date":"2011-11-03T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2011\/11\/03\/to-really-mess-up-you-need-a-computer\/"},"modified":"2011-11-03T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:08:22","slug":"to-really-mess-up-you-need-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"To Really Mess Up You Need a Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/officeimg.vo.msecnd.net\/en-us\/images\/MH900448493.jpg\" height=\"94\" width=\"94\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When November rolls around, I begin my annual writing project for Christmas. Each year I focus my research on an ancestor or an ancestor couple. At the end of the year, I use my findings to write a biographical sketch for distribution to my relatives. This year my subject will be my great-grandfather, Samuel Harvey Reed.<\/p>\n<p>Over the research year, I use <em>The Master Genealogist<\/em> (TMG) software for compiling data. You can create a report on someone in TMG, but the text is awkward, and you cannot edit it. In the past I have been able to use TMG to generate a report on my subject, and then export it to a Word file where I can edit it into final form.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I encountered a problem right away. Earlier this year, I upgraded my Windows and Office programs, and TMG will no longer export to them. It will not even let me copy and paste the report into a Word document. The creators of TMG can only suggest waiting for their update to resolve this problem. When will that be?!!! We have been waiting for months for this upgrade. I find this completely unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>I have two choices:\u00a0 re-type the report from scratch or use an old computer with older versions of the operating and word processing software. I am so disappointed in TMG over this. I have used this software for about 4 years, but I am seriously considering migrating to another program or the cloud. Difficulties like these will not keep customers loyal to TMG. They need to &#8220;get with the program&#8221;, so to speak, and FAST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When November rolls around, I begin my annual writing project for Christmas. Each year I focus my research on an ancestor or an ancestor couple. At the end of the year, I use my findings to write a biographical sketch for distribution to my relatives. This year my subject will be my great-grandfather, Samuel Harvey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}