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This is a decoration for your person page. I don't have all flags cataloged in the script, but the source has a lot more. You do not need to upload any media, but you do need a live internet connection to see the flags. Heritage Flags Wiki to download Currently included: British Isles Eastern Europe Southern Europe Western Europe Scandinavia Historical European North America US States Central & South America Africa Middle East Asia Oceania British Colonies / Historical English counties Scottish counties Welsh counties Irish counties The concept of a country, as it pertains to country flags, can vary based on different criteria and perspectives. The id is based on Countries defined in ISO 3166-1 standards. I'm not going to make any judgement calls on which flags will or will not be included. The inclusion of certain nations should not be interpreted as a political statement, as an endorsement of specific national claims or political views. Works with: Relations Display (must be installed first) Count Visible Ancestors and Descendants This is Phase 1 - See the modern flags based on a person's place data A few historic flags, but depends on place data is presented Option to make the name plate taller to show more or shorter to show less of the flag Option to choose opaqueness Option to choose the amount of fade Phase 2 - Display historic flags, when available, based on person's places with years (e.g. Birth, Death, Christening/Baptism, Burial, Events) Phase 3 - Display options for the flag Option to suppress for a person to not display any flag Option to display State or County flags instead of country flags, when available Option to cut the flag in half diagonally Top left corner to display the person flag at birth Bottom right corner to display the person's flag at death Phase 4 - Ideas from others, if feasible, to include Thank you to the testers and the fixers for this, my first publicly shared mod for TNG.

Hi all! 👋 Long time watcher in the shadows, first time poster. I’ve been using TNG since 2003, off and on. Apparently, I was just letting my ancestors age gracefully before I caught up with them. 🥁 (don't worry I have more terrible jokes in the post) I officially retired three weeks ago. Three. Whole. Weeks. Hopefully, several hundreds more to enjoy! 😁 Now I have time on my hands, which is apparently very dangerous when you have relatives and opinions about how the family site works, and comments of 'oh you know how to fix that'. I haven’t slept much since retirement, and honestly… it’s glorious. My great-#-o'many grandparents didn’t cross oceans for me to waste time watching daytime TV. I'm thinking about making these updates into mods to share. I haven't dived into the Mod Manager yet, other than to use y'alls creations! Relation Display and Historic Places, I'm looking you! 🤩 I would deeply love feedback. Encouragement welcome. Gentle discouragement welcome. If I’m about to accidentally create a fourth cousin relationship vortex without a TARDIS, please tell me ... nicely. I'm just showing few projects right now. These work, not pretty but are the closest to possible mod ready. I have some others that the idea is more ambituses than the want. Maybe, someday, not. First thing I did, for my site, was move my passwords and delicates outside of public_html and point it to a secrets file. It feels safer, but its going to make future upgrades interesting. I also built a simple PROD-to-DEV cloning tool. It has already saved me twice. Which is good, because sometimes I click things with the same confidence my co-researchers (aka family) had when they wrote down grandma's birth year “from memory.” It can also migrate back to PROD after everything has been tested. Cross-References to online site, and FamilySearch consolidation. I’ve always wanted a clean way to cross-reference my TNG people with other sites and have those links auto-display right on the Person view page on a single line. So I built that. (see pic) I also started using FamilySearch IDs for merging because… well… if you’ve worked in shared trees lately, you know it can feel like playing genealogical Whac-A-Mole. Now that the FamilySearch PID lives in tng_person table, I can also use it as part of the OOB merge process. I added a new merge option that shows duplicates based on the same FamilySearch ID. (see pic) The big, ugly, green button is to a report to how me how many duplicates I have. The top of the report has a summary: Tree Statistics: 129,063 total people | 119,908 with FamilySearch PIDs | 527 duplicate PID groups found Still needs to be prettier and blend better with TNG themes, but it’s working. Relations Display Mod Update I love the existing Relations Display mod. LOVE it. What made me sad what how long it took to calculate on some of my pages. So I added relationship caching. Now once OOB relationship is calculated, it’s stored. No more recalculating your connection to your wife’s cousin’s husband’s aunt every time you move between pages. Even if you change the default person, it's fine. It will recalculate and remember the relationship. There’s also a recalc URL if I update something. Because I'm update something daily now. This one cracked me up... It's my mom. Research Status Indicator I added a research status indicator. It’s basic right now, but it works. If you use the RootsMagic sync (below), it can auto-update the status based on what you’ve confirmed or found. It’s surprisingly satisfying to see someone move from “Needs review” to “Verified.” RootsMagic | TNG Sync (Work in Progress) This is the big one. Imports your RootsMagic GEDCOM into staging tables only. Non-destructive. Your TNG data stays untouched unless you confirm changes. Added a RM-UID to the tng_person table so RM and TNG know exactly who is who. Auto-matching first by FamilySearch PID, then by exact name + birth/death year. Side-by-side comparisons with field differences and family context. Conflict resolution when multiple candidates match. Manual linking when auto-match fails. Tracks rejections so the same wrong match doesn’t keep popping back up. Discrepancy report to show where RM might have better data. Unmatched report listing RM-only people as potential additions. Can create new TNG records from unmatched RM data. Everything is logged. Nothing changes in TNG until you explicitly confirm it. Basically, it lets me review things calmly instead of discovering six accidental duplicates at 1:30 AM and questioning how many times I clicked the import button 3 years ago. Office Administration One of my pet peeves is when names get crowded with titles, royal styles, and everything else. “Sir Lord King Duke Bob III Esq.” starts to look like a parade banner. So I created an Office tracker. You can define any office: Royal, Noble, Military, Religious, Civic, Club, etc. Make new ones. Each office can have its own custom attributes, and they only display if populated. The display is expand/collapse enabled and remembers for logged in users. Anyway… Would love your thoughts. Looking forward to finally stepping out of the shadows! 👻

I've been having all sorts of issues with MAMP on my silicon Mac for months now...php crashes, app crashes etc. I've read a lot on how to resolve the issues, but they all seem to last for a very short time....so I went looking for a free alternative...and boy did I find one... https://www.servbay.com Available for Mac and PC by the looks of things. You can have up to 5 local sites running for free from what I read. It took me only about an hour to get set up..and that was just adjusting the TNG config settings correctly. I was thinking I might write up a 'how to' for the wiki, but I'm short of time...and then as I started taking screenshots to write up something, I spotted their help pages...and stopped writing. Well documented material support! Am about to delete MAMP and am very happy with how ServBay is running. Two useful links (well they were for me) if you want to give it a go... https://support.servbay.com/basic-usage/websites/adding-first-website https://support.servbay.com/database-management/getting-started/mysql-management-and-usage

For those interested. As of today there's a new mod available named Bot Manager It was created by @Steve1200 and adds an extra line of defense against abusive bots that create heavy traffic and slow down your website. This TNG mod was written to address unrestricted bot access and has options block all access, allow limited access or selective bot access and works with Google reCaptcha v2 or the Image Captcha mod.

Hello everyone, I'm currently having trouble uploading a GEDCOM file. It's taking several hours (including multiple clicks on "Continue") to import the people. So far (2 hours), 18,000 people out of 49,000 and 7,900 out of approximately 15,500 images have been uploaded. The images are uploaded, but they aren't being linked to all the people. I've also tried using an empty database. Why is this taking so long? Thank you for your help

On both of my sites I am now getting the message that "This page can't load Google Maps correctly," with a darkened image of the map. I'm not sure where to look for the error with this. Derrick

The Living Color mod stopped working on both of my sites. This is the full readout: line 24: %target getperson.php verified line 26: %location #1 %insert:after not installed line 42: %location #2 %insert:after not installed line 53: %location #3 %insert:after not installed line 67: %location #4 %insert:after not installed line 81: %location #5 v486 %insert:after Bad target line 94: %location #6 %insert:after not installed line 104: %location #7 %trimreplace not installed line 111: %target css/genstyle.css verified line 112: %location #1 %insert:after not installed line 140: %newfile js/popup_2.js not created line 235: %copyfile: familyprevlib101.php not copied Derrick

Seeking **paid remote assistance** from someone experienced with **The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG)** and standard PHP/MySQL hosting. My TNG website is my main family history archive, with many branches, photos, documents, and written histories. The live site is hosted with **EASYSolutions** using **cPanel with Softaculous**, phpMyAdmin, and File Manager/FTP. TNG is running there now and the site is actively managed, including backups and file downloads, but server and database work are outside my comfort zone. On my end, a **Mac Studio (M3 Ultra, 4 TB SSD, 68 GB RAM)** is available, and the goal is a **fully working local copy** of the TNG site on this Mac, plus a clear archive (files + SQL backup + short README) that family or a future host could restore on another server. ## Current local setup MAMP’s Apache, PHP, and MySQL are installed and working, matching what TNG needs for a local copy. - A working local web server at `localhost:8888` (Apache + PHP). - A working MySQL server with known connection details: host `localhost`, port `8889`, user `root`, password `root`. I need someone to: 1) Export the full TNG MySQL database and download all TNG application and media files using cPanel/phpMyAdmin/File Manager (or equivalent tools on the host). 2) Install and configure this TNG copy under MAMP on the Mac Studio so that the site runs locally with working media, histories, and admin functions. 3) Create a README describing the archive contents and explaining how to restore the site to another web server in the future (including database import and config updates). Work will be **remote with screen sharing** (Zoom or TeamViewer (preferred, already installed)), and the preference is to complete this **as soon as possible**. If interested, please reply with your TNG (or similar PHP/MySQL migration) experience, an estimated time to complete, and your fee.

Just wondering if some clever person has an effective way of spell checking their TNG site? My site is hidden and a Reunion (Mac software) GEDCOM import, but Reunion uses a Mac’s inbuilt spelling, which I have not been able to fan of for a long time. I was viewing my site today and noticed some careless typos I had added in, in notes and also just things like photo captions. At the moment, I’ve taken to exporting a GEDCOM file and am using a word processing app (Pages on a Mac) to spell check…but is there some easier way? For example, is there a good GEDCOM file viewer that has a great spell checker included? Any tips appreciated. I’ve already checked the Reunion site and didn’t get any useful solution there. PS…I’m looking for a global spell checking solution…not a ‘check as you type’ solution

After some discussion on the Sources and their significance I decided to develop a Mod that makes the changes considered there. If you have any comments regarding this Mod, feel free to share them in this thread.

Hello! New TNG user here. I've put the media on my computer in folders matching the collections in TNG. I've linked all media in FTM, making sure that the path goes to those folders. I've created the collections in TNG and under "edit" (collection) I've set the local path to match that in the gedcom I've also set the local path under setup > import settings. The media itself is sitting in folders on my server that match the collection titles. However, all media links are somehow coming in as photos. Any advice? Thanks in advance! Edit: I'm being a luddite and put this in the wrong area but can't change it - this is on a server, not a home computer install.

It's been a while since I attempted to import a GEDCOM file into my site. I uploaded the file via FTP and went into TNG and went to select it. On both Safari and Firefox (on my Mac) clicking the select button just caused a new blank tab to appear in my browser? I can't figure out why. There was an easy workaround...I deleted the uploaded file and used the file select button, to upload from my Mac and import all in one go, but I'm trying to figure out why I can't select the GED file when it's been FTP'd. This is with TNG 15.0.3

TNG 15.0.2 Hello, folks, Would it be possible to somehow create a TNG report that lists all places in my TNG database, but have it displayed in reverse order? Rather than try to explain it, here is an example (generated by Legacy) of what I'm talking about: And although not a necessity, it would be nice if each of the above lines included a hyperlink to each. Would that be doable? Or would anyone already have such a report? Thanks in advance. Regards, John

As promised earlier I can hereby announce the release of my very first mod Safe External Links - TNG_Wiki This TNG modification causes all TNG page external links to open in a new Window or Tab with the noopener attribute. The noopener attribute increases security by preventing third-party control of the browser tab. Hope you enjoy it.

Hello, Just a heads up on an TNG15 issue I encountered regarding admin branch creation and branch labels. I have alerted Darrin to the issue and the situation under which it occurs. If you have branch ID's with at least two matching consecutive characters, processing of labels will or might affect both branches instead of the one. In my case, I had two ID's, one was 'ekm' and another 'km'. Once i avoided the matching characters, the processing worked normally. Darrin had said someone else had reported an issue with label creation as well, but this was before I tested and found out what I had to do to avoid the problem. Darrin's response: Ah, thanks Ron. Yes, that's a semi-intentional feature that allows you to grant a user access to more than one branch. In this case it unintentionally bit you though. Sorry about that, but I'm glad you figured it out. Darrin also stated this is not documented anywhere. Ron

I'm currently rewriting all my citations in order to make them APA-7 compliant. APA-7 states that there shouldn't be a period behind the hyperlink but TNG adds this period to a citation by default. Anyone an idea how to remove the period at the end of the hyperlink? I will also address this to Darrin for a possible update in the next TNG version

Can anyone confirm this issue I ran into. My site is multilingual (English & Dutch). When looking at the the person page, while the language is set to Dutch, all dates are translated correct, but when I look at the admin_editperson.php or admin_editfamily.php the dates are still presented in English. Not sure if this applies to other languages too.

In the past I have put basic html codes into TNG notes. such as <b> and <i> etc. These are now not working and are being displayed as is. Can anyone inform me about why this is and whether there is any fix to it?

I have released a new mod called What's New after Import. It is intended for admins who frequently import data from PC or Apple computers into TNG via GEDCOM files. This often results in the last modified” time in the TNG database for media, people, and families being equal to the import time, which makes this description less useful. In particular, in the “What's New” tab, the set of new items presented does not correspond to the purpose of this tab. This mod allows you to take into account the last edit time stored in the metadata of media files, rather than in their description in the database. In addition, individuals and families whose description indicates a change time close to the import time are filtered out. The use of this metadata or the description in the database can be switched on an ongoing basis by selecting the appropriate option. The menu also allows you to select the time (age) of the oldest changes to be taken into account and to limit the number of items displayed. The mod has several parameters. They allow you to redefine the list of values used in the age and number menus, the initial values of age and number, and the initial value of the change time source (metadata or database). During data processing, which for a large database may require up to several dozen seconds of server time, a header and spinner are immediately displayed so that a blank screen does not confuse the user. This is a small detail that requires forcing an incomplete page to be sent to the browser - which was a new experience for me. Feel free to try out the mod and post your comments and suggestions for improvement here. If anyone is interested in further details before trying out the mod, I will be happy to provide them. Michał Jarociński Edit: you can see the mod in action in my site: jarocinscy.pl/genealogy/whatsnew.php (the page is public).

Hi, It is good not to display the notes about the person at the end of the person page, but above the card. It would be even better if they were displayed directly after the person card, before the family card. Is there any chance that this suggestion will be implemented? Best regards, Uwe

Hi all, I have a number of different, unconnected trees on my site and would like to be able to allow anyone to be able to switch between them. I like the idea of "Each Tree Its Template" which works ok for people who are logged in, but I've often wondered why there is no menu item to swap between trees. Or have I missed something? I welcome any comments.

I recently upgraded from TNG v14 to v15.0.3 on my local site using MAMP. All appears well except three of the v15 mods I use will not install. They are "Add Person Siblings Row", "Ancestor Map", and "Collapse Family Children". All three show that mod updates are required (see attachment). Is anyone else out there having similar problems with v15.0.3? Thanks for any help you can provide. Peter Weeks

Hi I'm still alive, and hopefully you are too! I'm using Relate-mod and I can see that there is still a small linguistic issue: If I select my grandfather, for example, I get the following in Danish: ‘Rudolph Reinholdt Felix STEGEMÜLLER er den bedstefar til STEGEMÜLLER.’ In that sentence, the word ‘den’ is incorrect/superfluous. Instead, it should say: ‘Rudolph Reinholdt Felix STEGEMÜLLER er bedstefar til STEGEMÜLLER.’. My genealogy website is here: https://tng.stegemueller.dk/ PS Remember that I am always happy to help with translations of mods into Danish. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

@mkoche - tagging you since it's your mod and I tried tagging tngrlkrz since it looks like he helped but my tag isn't working for some reason. This mod was working well for me until tonight. I've added a 2nd tree, if that has any bearing on things. Normally when it runs, I get the donut and a short list of ancestors, and the matriarch and patriarch. I think that's what it's supposed to do. Now when I run it, no matter who I do it on, it gives me over 300 names. That's when it doesn't time out first. I always get the matriarch and patriarch, they're at the bottom. But it doesn't seem to be running on the person I've selected as some of the results are not ancestors of this person. I tried removing the donut. That worked but I still got the same long 300+ person list. Then I turned the donut back on and tried changing this option: Origins Chart 3. Remove details on the donut origin chart" - A 1 will remove details from the chart legend - chartplace names links to connected ancestors and the drop-down arrow that shows secondary places. Defaults to (0) I changed it to 1 and it changed it to a 10 (I don't think I put in 10...but maybe I did - would it accept it if I did?). Then my whole subdomain stopped working and every page was blank. I don't know if that's related but that's when it happened. I had to do a restore from a backup on my server (thankfully they did the last one only an hour before). Any ideas on what the problem might be? Jodi

After installing a Full v15 on a new PC (test site), I installed all MODs without issue. However, when I upgraded the live site from v14-v15, only the user footer copyright MOD generated an error: "Cannot install for TNG 15.0.0" The MOD Manager status column is copied below. I must have botched a step in the upgrade process. Is there a ready fix? Thank you. Regis www.CarrFamilyTree.com v15.0.1