2012 Site Update

 Announcements, Genealogy, Genealogy  6 Responses »
Jan 302012
 

Just in time for RootsTech 2012 and the imminent release of TNG Version 9 I’ve (finally I hope) completed an update to LisaAndRoger.com that includes a new theme – Suffusion – and the incorporation of TNG into the WordPress theme using the tng.php plugin for WordPress.

So the kind of dated http://roger.lisaandroger.com/ will be going away – replaced with what can now be seen on the Page http://LisaAndRoger.com/genealogy/

Another Page http://lisaandroger.com/genea-ramblings/ will be about genealogy blogging, and includes in the left sidebar a “feed” from the TNG database showing some statistics and other features.

So enjoy the new look 🙂

 Posted by Roger at 9:20 am

TNG 8 Released Today

 Genealogy, Genealogy, Software  No Responses »
May 282010
 

Congratulations to Darrin Lythgoe.

TNG 8 – under development for about a year since the release of TNG 7 – was released today.

New & Improved in TNG 8:

  • Better Search: Hover over the results to see a dynamic summary of each person or family on the list.
  • Look and Feel: Most pages have been restyled for easier use and a nicer appearance.
  • Easier Installation: Do more right up front and hit the ground running.
  • Media: Enjoy a new image viewer, plus a more streamlined slide show.
  • User Roles: New labels make it simple to assign rights to members of your family or research team.
  • Relationship: Now locate multiple relationships between people in your file.
  • Search Engines: A few key changes should make your pages more visible.
  • People: Build your tree right from the pedigree page if you’d like.
  • Dates: New calendar page summarizes family events.
  • “Mod Manager”: Allows you to easily add or remove custom code changes.
  • Plus more than 100 other improvements! See a complete list of all changes here. Tested on all major browser platforms.

Information about the software can be found here on Darrin’s site.

I’ve been testing this for quite a few weeks now, helping iron out the kinks along with several other users and Darrin. There are some great new features and capabilities added.

I’ve got my TNG Testing site upgraded, and hope to have my main site done this evening yet.

Now we can wonder what Darrin will choose to include in TNG 9 🙂

 Posted by Roger at 4:47 pm

FamilySearch Indexing on Macintosh

 FamilySearch Indexing, Genealogy, Genealogy, Software  No Responses »
Jul 242009
 

A few hours after I wrote the below…

FamilySearch Indexing support replied to my eMail(s) to them with this link

https://help.familysearch.org/publishing/202/104450_f.SAL_Public.html

which covers both Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS X 10.5.

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I noted with some excitement last evening that FamilySearch Indexing had a project underway with a New Zealand flavour to it – “New Zealand—Passenger Lists, 1871–1915”, so I thought this was the incentive I needed to get back to indexing – something I hadn’t done in quite a few months. But alas I couldn’t get the FamilySearchIdexing application to start up – no matter what I tried it generated an error “Unable to start the Application”.

Some Googling led me to this page https://help.familysearch.org/publishing/301/103757_f.SAL_Public.html which provided the hint as to where to look, but unfortunately those directions aren’t directly applicable to Mac OS X 10.5.7 which I’m running.

So this page lists what I did to fix this problem. NOTE – these instructions apply to Mac OS X 10.5.x

Go to your Macintosh HD ——> Applications ——> Utilities folder and find the icon “Java Preferences”. Double click that to open it, and then click on the Network tab

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 Posted by Roger at 9:07 am