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New UK User Group for the West Midlands [20th Aug 2004]

Covering the following area's Warwickshire, The former county of West Midlands, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire and the adjoining areas of adjoining counties. But I would be happy for anyone to join the group.

I am prepared to help members with any problems they have with TMG and offer advice to them.

Anybody who wishes to be on my mailings for this group please send a e-mail to TMGUsers@collybs.co.uk

I hope to hold meetings every two or three months at various places in the area. (Possibly at members' houses to commence with.)

At present I propose the first meeting to be on Saturday September 4 at my house time to arranged

Anybody who wishes to be on my mailings for this group or attend any of our meetings please send a e-mail to TMGUsers@collybs.co.uk

TMG at the SoG Show[1-2nd May 2004]

Firstly, from a SoG perspective, the Show was a great success, not least
because the number attending was above 3,000 over both days. In fact 2274
came on the Saturday and 1085 on the Sunday. The Show was the usual mix of
stands/tables set out in the main hall, help/advice on the dais and
demo/talks upstairs in the lecture & conference rooms. I am sure that you
will read lots about the Show in the next month or so (and I make no
pretension at running a newswire service) but for an alternative view go to
http://www.eogn.com/ and follow the link to "current newsletter".

Also present, on stand 80, was Bob Velke who was visiting the UK for the
very first time. Bob brought with him, for demo purposes, versions of the
forthcoming TMG UK Edition which visitors were able to touch & feel. I say
this deliberately because Bob brought with him not only the obligatory
laptop with the beta program installed but a flipchart easel with about 20
of his large format charts. These included several in the "new" UK dropline
style. As reported already by John Heckels, the UK Edition was sadly not
ready in time for release at the Show but it is on the way, honest!

During the Saturday afternoon, Teresa Pask - http://www.uridge.org/ -
demonstrated TMG 5 using the latest beta version of the UK Edition. The
room allocated was packed to capacity for Teresa's slick run through most of
the major features of TMG. As we all know, there are so many that an hour
is not time to do justice to the package and it was no surprise that Teresa
overran her slot, but she did so in order to round off the afternoon with a
look at SecondSite, John Cardinal's excellent website creator.

Bob was present throughout Teresa's demo and at the end of her demo, took
centre-stage to field the inevitable stream of queries and comments. I even
popped up to make a brief presentation to Bob, to mark his first visit to
London. Sadly, the RHS Hall has a 5pm deadline on closing and all too soon,
we were all heading downstairs.

As the foyer cleared, 10 hardy souls remained to sally forth to sample what
Westminster had to offer on the culinary front. A previous recommendation
suggested that "The Gourmet", a Chinese bar on Stanton Ground, 5 minutes
walk away, would be good for what was in mind, and so it proved. A set
price offer of £7.50 for all you could eat, Chinese-style, suited everyone
and the management seemed quite happy to let us in 15 minutes in advance of
the official opening time. We all then fell into a post-Show happy
camaraderie that saw us eating, drinking and, most importantly, talking
until just before 8pm.

Joining Bob and Cathleen, his wife, were Teresa Pask, Stephen Adey, Tony
Mooney, Judith Brooke, Ray Heaton, Graham Hart, Andy Evans and your scribe.
Something certainly to try and repeat next year (I think Bob may be
persuaded to come back) and there was even talk of another get-together
somewhere to the north-west of London sometime soon. Again, watch this
space.

Hugh Wilding
Berkshire, England

TMG v5.10 has been released[21 November 2003]

TMG v5.10.000 is now available. With this release, all of the
report formats (32 of them!) are now supported. We've also
fixed the Optimize problem that was reported in the last
newsletter. For good measure, we've thrown in a number of
exciting new features as itemized

Through the facilities of one the other Roadshow travellers, Rod Neep, Archive CD Books (UK), we have now set up a new mailing list on his www.british-genealogy.com site.

To subscribe to this new list, visit http://www.british-genealogy.com/mailman/listinfo/use-tmg-visual-chartform

The VCF list will provide a forum for discussing ways of achieving effects in VCF charts and to discuss proposals for enhancements to VCF.

See John Cardinal's web site