Master Genealogist Silver Edition

by Wholly Genes

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005UE99
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 27, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,029 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

How often have you mused about creating a family tree? The Master Genealogist Silver Edition not only helps you get started, it also manages your family history projects. This edition provides novices with tools recommended and used by family history researchers. Customizable options for data entry and report generation deliver flexibility, while compatibility with Family Tree Maker, as well as other data formats, lets you import data with ease.

Choose from more than 30 formats, including customizable narratives, charts, forms, endnotes, and bibliographies, to create reports with professional source citations. Other tools range from integrated historical timelines to correspondence and multimedia logs, and even a to-do list. A tutorial and electronic help manual helps you assess conflicting records, spelling variations, adoptions, and other real-life research problems. You'll also receive a free trial subscription to Ancestry.com, as well as an offer for a free wall chart.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

62 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Master Genealogist helps to manage the unmanagable!, January 4, 2002

By 

Jeri J. Steele "Jeri J Steele, Pioneer Inform... (Bowling Green, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Master Genealogist Silver Edition (CD-ROM)

The Master Genealogist is a great genealogy tool to record all your family information. TMG as it's known by in the industry, lets you store unlimited events per person and cite unlimited number of sources on that event. You can records multimedia exhibits as well as research notes along with all your names, dates and places. Wholly Genes has the benchmark technology for importing data from other databases as well as the GEDCOM format. Even if you're currently using another piece of software, TMG will probably be able to import it directly.

The reports output by TMG are very customizable as to the sentences output as well as the format of the report. Even though there is a long list of items that can be customized, TMG comes configured so that there are defaults for all the reports and settings. Learn as little or as much as you like about customizing tags (events), sentences, and report formats. The charts include fan, descendants, pedigree, and hourglass charts as well as several `book' formats for genealogy narratives. The outstanding chart-printing program allows you to tweak the output to fit onto pages and add photographs or other graphics. These are great for family reunions.

Other tools include a master place list, relationship calculator, and date calculator. The master place list alone has greatly assisted me in cleaning up the place names in my database! You still have trouble remembering what 6th cousin 2 times removed means? Then use the relationship calculator on any two people in the database and let it do the tree climbing. The date calculator is always handy to figure out the birth date from the tombstone or obituary that says age: 21 years 6 months and 2 days.

You should know that this current product doesn't quite behave exactly like windows because it's a windows interface on top of a DOS program. Don't let this stop you from purchasing it though. The Windows product is coming shortly and you can use this product to learn about data entry and how to use the reports to show off your genealogy research.

Wholly Genes has always shown that it is committed to the integrity of your genealogy data. Even when bad things happen like the system powering down while in the middle of data entry, I didn't lose anything except the last line that I entered! I can't say that about many other programs.

Flexiblity, value, and integrity! What more can you ask for in one product?

Jeri Steele, CGRS

39 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best genealogy program I know!, January 2, 2002

By 

Allen Mellen (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Master Genealogist Silver Edition (CD-ROM)

I have been using The Master Genealogist, (which we all call TMG) for over five years. I picked TMG as my genealogy program because it offers me a way to enter every piece of relevant genealogical information, and record the source of that information. It also permits me to keep track of conflicting information, and even information that is known to be in error.
The current version of TMG (version 4.0d) takes some getting used to because was written for an older version of Windows. But it is still head and shoulders above the competition. There is a new version on the way. For a preview you might want to check out Family Tree SuperTools.
But don't wait! If you are just starting out, or if you are switching from another program, you won't go wrong if you join us satisfied users of TMG.
Two of the biggest benefits of buying TMG are that you will find a great group of users in the online TMG mailing list at Rootsweb, and you will find, if you happen to need it, excellent user support from Wholly Genes. Most people never need to contact technical support.
My advice to both beginning and experienced genealogists: Buy TMG , subscribe to TMG-L at Rootsweb, and vist Tmgtips on the web.

Special note: I also suggest upgrading to the Gold edition. Buy the Silver here at Amazon.com and you can get a downloadable upgrade to Gold from Wholly Genes. It might seem mildly expensive to upgrade, but it's worth it.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very powerful and rich with features, January 2, 2002

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L. N. Bell (Clayton, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Master Genealogist Silver Edition (CD-ROM)

If you are looking for a full-featured genealogy program which provides maximum flexibility in documenting the sources of information, you cannot beat this product. You have a wide variety of reporting options that should fill anyone's needs.

You such options as incorporating your own definitions of items to include in documenting a persons life as well as their wording on reports.

The fact that many professional genealogists use this program says a lot for it.