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John, He might want to look at The Master Genealogist (TMG) even though he does not need all the charts. It permits the linking of many people through the 'Event tags' it supports. For instance, he could list all the pall bearers at a funeral as 'witnesses' and the deceased…

John – for the Amiga?? Or the IBM? (Must admit that I was surprised to find you over here!) Your friend probably wants something very simple and easy to use, rather than the most powerful ones that automatically print books. But most of the genealogy software depends on all people…

Thanks Dick, but many have been involved with the TT/TMS project. One of the biggest problem has been to develop the software to allow routing of queries and reports between bulletin boards. That has not been a trivial task as I'm sure you can appreciate since all kinds of possible…

Agreed as to who "the mover" is. As I understand it, 99% of the work involving TT's and the TMS effort was done by Howard and the other folks at CommSoft. We all owe them a vote of "Thanks". (Howard – are you reading this???). – Dick

You are right, Phil. The original idea for a Tiny-Tafel was proposed by Paul Andereck, then editor of Genealogical Computing. We took his idea and added to it to include a header (so you would know more about who originated the TT) and location information. One hope was that we…

Dick, I think it is also worth mentioning here that one of the driving forces in developing the Tiny Tafel was to implement a very structured data base that could compare TTs and provide a report on matches. The Tafel Matching System was developed to do this. There are a…

A good question. "Tiny Tafel" is a bit of a corruption of "Ahnentafel", a German word meaning "ancestor table". An ahnentafel is a method of listing a person's ancestors. In it, a rather formal numbering structure is used, but all the text is variable. Ahnentafels have been used by genealogists…