This is just an example of what might be used.  Any family may decide to use a different makeup.  There may be numerous introductory sections, overview sections, and/or narrative sections.  They may be oriented toward the entire family, a certain generation, family groups by geographic locations, etc.  Bibliography, index and endnotes may be at the end of a section/chapter or at the end of the entire book or any combination.

We’ll discuss more on this later as we start the actual design of the book in Book Manager. But for now, let us look at the Report Configuration.

Instead of a specific (non-)person, you may choose to base the report on a filter.  This may create a single report or many depending on the report type.  You will need to create each Report Configuration, and give it a trial run. This trial run may cause you to make changes in the data in TMG, and changes in the Report Configuration.  One change will almost certainly be the starting page number for each report.  The first will, of course, be page one.  The starting page for the next report will be one greater than the highest of the previous report.  Don’t forget to include page numbering for any sections, chapters, pages added from outside TMG.

Researcher data would normally not be needed unless sections or chapters came from different researchers.  Even then, you would probably want that data with the section/chapter title page possibly in a footnote to the byline. 

Other options may be that the Surety threshold is set as the users determines best.  Also the user should select the desired language for the report/book.  If one has family in another country may wish to create the report twice (once in the user’s home language and once for the other family’s language. 

Normally I ignore this tab except to choose the page number location that I prefer for the book.  If you are furnishing a printer with camera-ready copy, then you may prefer one of the Alternate choices.  If this is the case, you probably want the Odd Right option.  If you do choose an Alternate option, be sure that sections/chapters all start on the proper page – meaning you may need to include a blank filler page in some cases.

As usual, the default Fonts settings will work fine.  But you can really individualize a book/section/chapter by choosing different font, size or style for a particuler kind of data/  For example, you may choose to use something different for Given Names and Surnames to make them stand out. I would suggest that if you do, the change in size not be significantly larger.  Keep in mind that a different font and larger size may only be slightly larger than the remailing text.  Note that the default has only one difference.  Two or three difference may be too much and not worth it most times.  Other times, you might have five or six differences.  Try it and see.  If the page is too “busy” and hard to read, select fewer differences.

For most narrative reports (especially anything over a two ro three pages), I usually choose to use Endnotes for Sources.  In very large reports, I will use Unique Endnotes although that usually restricts me as to where the Endnotes are placed in the book.  Other options depend on the user’s preferences.

I rarely select the All images option since the Primary image is the one I prefer.  I may occasionally add an Exhibit via the report editing process in my word processor if I want a second (or more) images for a person.  The options at the lower left are active when the upper left option is selected.  These are mostly user choices.  You may want to run the report (or a small subset) two or more time using differing options to see how they affect the images.

The Master Document File(s) feature may be useful if you have a very large report.  There have been various reports of problems in the word processors with this feature although I have not had a problem.

I usually select the Use Place Styles option.  I rarely use the Short Place field option.  Most of my Selected Place fields are from L2 through L5 with an occasional addition of L6.  I usually de-select L10 unless I use it for a very rare special purpose where the other fields are already used.  I usually have use the At preposition, but that is a user preference partly from knowing how my Sentences are designed.  I find “At” to fit most default Sentences and when it doesn’t, I will have modified the Sentence to not need the preposition.

For previously created Report Configurations, just slect each in the right-hand column and click on the appropriate button in the center.  For example, highlight Cruise Book 1 on the right and click on the [<Add] button in the center.  When reports on the left are out of sequence, use the buttons on the left to move a report as needed.  If you decide to add a new Report Configuration, click on the desired report type on the right and then click on the [Add New…] button in the center.  This allows you to create the new Report Configuration “on the fly” as it were.

Note when copying a report having endnotes, don’t copy the actual endnotes ate the end of the report.  Stop the copy highlighting just after the Endnotes header.

The book is done.  You can use the combined file to work with a printer to publish your book.  The printer will tell you how they was the file and if they was a hard copy for comparison.

These are the lead paragraphs from the book example.  The book was created from an older project with 183 persons in it.  The latest version has about 425 persons.  A lack of time has precluded finding and entering all known family members.  This especially applies to the extended family and all known  relations – probably totaling another 50 or 75 more people.

Good Luck!!