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I would like to use the IDNO field to add the SOSA number to a person. How can I set this up? I have the same question regarding using the REFN as field to enter the generation number

People's names in older records aren't always written the same way. @Michel KIRSCH made a great mod Alternate spellings - TNG_Wiki to allow you to show the alternative spellings of a person's name. Unfortunaly this mod doesn't allow you to attach a hyperlink to the different spellings so you can't see in which document etc. the alternative spelling can be found. Creating these hyperlinks can be achieved in at least two other ways. By adding the Event type/Attribute ALIA By editing the Nickname field. Both methods work fine. The 1st method is already discribed in TNG but the second isn't. The 1st method could look like this: or like this: The 2nd method will look like this: As you can see the Alternative Spellings in the 2nd method are placed right beneath the Name field and the name of the Nickname field has been changed into "Also known as" which IMHO is a better. Both methods support the hyperlink option and in my case it looks like this: Hendrikus Severiens - Henricus Severiens - Henrici Severijn - Joannes Severeijn - Johannes Severijn - Joannis Severeijn - Henrici Severijns - Hendricus Severin - <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color:#7b6241" href="showmedia.php?mediaID=563&medialinkID=758">Henrici Severin</a> - <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color:#7b6241" href="showmedia.php?mediaID=507&medialinkID=747">Jan Hendrik Severijn</a> - Joannes Henricus Severin Changing the Nickname field into "Also known as" is possible via the language files text.php. If you want the Nickname field to appear right beneath the Name field even if a Title, Prefix or Suffix is given you need to find this code in getperson.php if( $row['nickname'] ) $persontext .= showEvent( array( "text"=>$text['nickname'], "fact"=>$row['nickname'], "event"=>"NICK", "entity"=>$personID, "type"=>"I" ) ); And place it right above if( $row['title'] ) $persontext .= showEvent( array( "text"=>$text['title'], "fact"=>$row['title'], "event"=>"TITL", "entity"=>$personID, "type"=>"I" ) ); Hope this helps. Unfortunatly I'm not able to write mods but whenever getperson.php is updated you will need to redo the steps for getperson.php Any questions or remarks are welcome.

When I add a child to a family, Save+Stay on the page and relaoad it, the child has dissapeared from the family. If I search the child among Persons, I find it and it sort of has a family but without id. If I try to find the family under Families, there is none to be found. Föräldrar = Parents Familj = Family TNG is installed on a local server, version 14.0.6. Installed from scratch in december. So far I have added 2100 people and it is only recently the problem has occured sometimes- but more and more frequently. Lately it is almost every person I try. It doesn't help to add a new person and browse to add. Usually I manage to add the person after some tries (about 2-5) by removing empty parents from person. Anyone else had the same problem and/or an idea how to solve this?

I used a mod in TNG V. 11 to suppress the term "Natural" for individuals, as I was told this suggested the individuals were illegitimate. I just upgraded to TNG V. 14 and this mod no longer works. Is there an updated version available or in the works?

In our earlier site we had the opportunity to code a default web link in the individual person page and add personal items to it as a search in another website we manage. I wonder if it is possible to do so in TNG. If, than please give a hint. Regards Ton van Steenoven

I use the MOD "Display Jobs Facts" Now I noticed that the job is displayed (for living people) even if you are not logged in. I created the settings so that you have to log in to see all information about living people. How can I prevent the job from being displayed at the top for living people???

Hello all. I've asked this before but never really got a definite answer. Attached are 2 screenshots, one is the searchform.php and how it appears in WordPress (I'm using the Kloosterman Method with Astra Theme). The other is how it appears in TNG v14.03 without WordPress. Can anyone offer any insight as how to change the appearance in WP to closely resemble the appearance in TNG? This one is straight TNG: This one is how it appears in WP (Astra Theme):

Is there a way to see if the person you want to add allready exists. When you ad new person and you are typing the name, surname, birthday date ... that there is a pop-up form with names that can possibly the person you are looking fore ore a warning (look there?)

First post. After searching the forum not finding an answer I am still looking for a solution. I imported from gedcom. Individuals started from I0000 and go up to I00276 (or something). Now I added a new individual (not too many yet) and found out that I now have an individual I0001 and I1; I0002 and I2 (up to I15 or something). Syntactically, I1 and I0001 differ. Semantically they are the same. What is the best way to solve this? Renumber the whole database? Write my own SQL? Resquence ID's in the utilities menu did not solve anything.

TNG 14.0.3 Hello, folks, I have my TNG sites set up as in the attached screenshot, so details for living individuals (such as birth date, places, etc.) is hidden from the public, and is displayed only after a users logs in. Is there a way that I can do the same for deceased individuals? Currently, for deceased people, TNG displays all of their details. I would like to somehow have TNG display to the public only deceased individuals' names, and then only display the details of deceased people after a user logs in. Is this possible, either with a TNG setting that I haven't thought about, or maybe with a trick or some special coding? Anyone have any thoughts? There is a mod out there (Public Access Control) which we can use to restrict the public from seeing certain things until after they log in, but from reading about that mod & what it does, it doesn't appear to hide all details except for the names. It doesn't work (yet) with TNG 14.0.3 anyway. Thank you in advance & have yourselves a great day. Regards, John

I have used several systems for face recognition, as Picasa and Imatch by Photools. That means that my pictures has the resulting face tags from those systems hidden in the metadata. Would it be possible to include this in TNG? Perhaps in connection with the Image tags? There would not be needed a complete face recognition system in TNG, only the capacity to catch the info when it is there.

Hello, I am trying to make my person view as "light" as possible for visitors, and to remove all information that is not relevant for an outsider, like Person Id, Family ID, Tree ID, Last Modified, and maybe even Gender. I saw that Brett had developped some of mods that can achieve this, but they are marked as "private". is it possible to use them? Or are there other mods available that do the same? Regards, Olivier

I'm trying to add and edit events. First, marriage. I have went to that person --> "edit existing person" but marriage isn't an option that I see. I go to "other events" and there's plenty to chose from, but none just say "marriage." I would also like to add my own event names in the future, so is there a way to create a totally new event? Just as an example, "First Rode A Bike" or something. Is there a way to do that?

Hello everyone, I have two suggestions/requests regarding the What's new and Most Wanted information. What's new: (Solved: see further down the thread)) Adding a dropdown menu offering the user the choice to see the newly/changed informattion over the last 30, 60 or 90 days. Most wanted: On the person page add a new tab with the name Most wanted. The tab contains all the information regarding that person that is still missing and/or needs further research or investigation. The text should be entered as free text with the possibblity to format the entered text in font, color, style etc. just as in @Michel KIRSCH his Nicedit_media_description. The information on the Most wanted tab should be incorporated in the GEDCOM export and import. Last but not least the text should be printable as pdf or plain text. Printing and editing of the Most wanted information should be in accordance with the user rights policy's for each user. In essence this would likely result in two separate mods. Any further questions, advise or ideas are of course welcome.

Good day, I am asking for help. Maybe somewhere there is a FAQ or some kind of guide. How to upload photos correctly, so that later you can make an avatar? Thank you.

I want to add a link to the People record for a file that will be under the "histories" folder. <p class="center">My grandfather, William McCule Livingston.<br /> AND his father, Hugh Livingston<br /> AND his father, Reuben Livingston.</p> The words in bolded red -- each should link to the People record for that individual. --- William is I423 --- Hugh is I1172 --- Reuben is I1190 Thank you for your help.

Hello again, as i said in my last post i'm Mine and just joined the TNG13 users (https://stories-through-time.de/) Up till now i used Heredis 2021 as the software for my genealogy. There i set the people, sources and media as private that should be private. When i import the gedcom into tng this "private" flag is imported as a custom event with the value "privacy" and the person/media/source is not set as private. It actually creates 2 identical custom events, one linked to people and one linked to sources, but none for media. So i've been wondering what to do... As i understood it, if the media is linked to a living person and the user is not permitted to watch living people the media won't be shown. Did i understand that correctely? But then does this work with the private flag as well? I thought about using a SQL command to set everything with that custom event as private but i'm a bit scared to smash the db with the wrong command since i don't have a clue about SQL... And since there are quite a few jpegs which are private but the source its linked to is not (because i dont have publishing rights or don't want the scans to be shown, stuff like that) i still have the problem with the media. Still it would be better to set all the media as private and correct the ones which are not private manually, than to do it the other way.... Can anyone help me with this? Thanks! Mine P.S. Happy Easter!

Hello all! First, wow... Just holy wow! I was looking for an alternative to Tribal Pages and saw someone mention TNG. Yesterday I spent a lot of time on the site, reading each link and looking at everything and how much you can do with this. Just WOW! Before I pull the trigger and buy, I have a couple of questions that was probably answered but I missed. 1 - Does this pull from Ancestry like FTM? Or --- After you have uploaded your GEDCOM --- add each ancestor and info as your research progresses? 2 -- I select a template and like the format, yadda, yadda, yadda.... Next year I change my mind/find another template I would like to use. Is that possible? Will I have to start all over? Will my img tags, etc. all stay intact? Thank you for the help, I can't wait to get into this! I just got my front end dev cert so this makes me very excited. Don

When persons are marked private or living they will show up as ‘Living’ or ‘Private’ and no personal data is shown. My question is if it is possible to not show the person at all. Reason is that by showing just the person as living or private with the gender you already reveal personal information that I would like to hide. Example: If a family has 5 children and 2 of those are living or private I want to see only 3 children and not 5.

I have 2 trees. One (Lathrop) I imported from their database - the other (Clark-Hart)... I am using template 12 In terms of size, they are way out of "balance" - Lathrop has about 20,000 while Clark-Hart has only abt 5,000 ... This "imbalance" seems to throw off the Surnames Cloud, making Lathrop huge compared to all the others. I would like the Surnames cloud to represent only the clark-hart tree ... is this possible ?? Maybe turn it off ?

If a person's ID begins with no I (eg I5) but "ind..." (e.g. ind66755), it indicates an error: "Length: Bad Person1 ID - Pleease Go Back and Correct" Connections v13.1.0.7 developed by Michał Jarociński. I tried to change the ID hand using the "Utilities >> Research IDs" procedure, to the TNG only for the 90's number! TNG 13.1.2 + PHP 8.1 + TEMPLATE 12. Thank you in advance for help AND suggestion! Pál.

I would love to have a report that shows the number of years married for 'families' where both parents are stilling living and either or both are deceased. Me and mysql are not compatible. I have found this, could it be modified to suit?? Is someone able to help please? Thanks in advance.

I was quite sure I had it set up like this for several persons before. But apparently this is not the case. So... How do I hide all details (for not logged in guests) of a deceased person, without cheating by leaving the 'Living' checkbox marked? I know there is a 'Private' checkbox, but with that active, the name is still fully visible, only some details seem to be hidden. What am I missing, or do I not understand? It would be cool if there was a 'Hide deceased' option, that would change the name of an individual to 'Deceased', similar to how the 'Living' checkbox changes the name to 'Living'. (Running v.13.1.1) Thanks!

I am working already some time with persondata. Now i want to generate reports of persons. When i input the lastname in criteria it works fine. Now i would like to have a universal report where i will be asked for the lastname. When i insert just the field lastname i get the header of the report but no box asking me to input the name. Is it possible to input a operator and a string and what might be syntax? Edit: Maybe my engish is not good enough to explain what i like to get: i like to have a namelist which asks me which name of persons in database should be listed. The name should be a variable in criteria. The fields to be displayed and the fields to be sorted should be inserted into reportgenerator. As i am not familar with SQL-Sintax i cannot write a complete sqlrequest in the lower box of reportgenerator. I have some experience in programming so i would be able to customize values. Uli

Hi there - and merry, merry Christmas! I suddenly have a new issue with media files: I can only add them to one person/ID. I.e. I have many gravestones as they are a wonderful source to death dates, and often there are more names on the stones, so I can use them for more individuals (i.e. both husband and wife). Just to illustrate: This image should be used by both individuals: https://tng.stegemueller.dk/showmedia.php?mediaID=736&amp;medialinkID=517 When I try to link the image to person number two, I get the message, that the image is already in use by another person, and therefore it can not be linked again. This is a new issue as I have tons of family images with several persons on them. You might need this extra information: Everything is updated: TNG v. 13.1 and template is 209 from Marsha Bryant. I add data from GEDCOM created by Legacy. I do not enter data directly in TNG except for geo codes. Kindest regards, Hanne