Open TMG files in your browser
The family trees of The Master Genealogist, a PJC and the tables named after it. Open a project right here without TMG, every person and how they're related. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your family tree opens on its people, each one's parents, partners, children, ancestors and descendants a click away.
- Every person • Filter and sort by name, birth or death
- Four generations of ancestors • Three of descendants
- Each life's events by date • Notes and sources
- Export • Save the people as CSV
About TMG
Bob Velke's Wholly Genes made The Master Genealogist for DOS in 1993 and for Windows after it, known for how closely it records sources and who took part in each event. Its last version, 9.05, came out in December 2014, when Wholly Genes stopped selling and supporting it.
A project is a folder of Visual FoxPro tables, each file named after the project: SAMPLE__.PJC holds its settings, SAMPLE_$.DBF its people, _N their names, _G their events, _E who took part in each, _P the places, _M the sources and _S the citations, with their notes in FPT files beside them. A name's and a place's parts are each kept once, in a dictionary of their own.
Filepeek reads the project's tables in your browser into a family tree: every person with their names, their events by date and place, notes and sources, their parents, partners and children, adopted and foster ones too, four generations of ancestors and three of descendants. Export saves the whole tree as GEDCOM 5.5.1 for any other family tree app, or the people as CSV.
The Master Genealogist project
.pjc • .dbf
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Wholly Genes, for The Master Genealogist
- Released
- 1993
Inside the file
- Project
- A PJC of settings
- Tables
- Visual FoxPro DBFs
- Notes
- FPT memo files
- Dates
- Before, after, between, circa and more
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens TMG 5 to 9 projects in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari: drop the project's folder, or all its files at once. On their own, browsers only download them, and TMG runs only on Windows.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open TMG
- WindowsThe Master Genealogist, no longer sold • RootsMagic imports a project
- MacNo app reads it
- iPhone and iPadNo app reads it
- AndroidNo app reads it
Questions
How do I open a TMG project without TMG?
Drop the project's folder on this page, or pick its PJC with every DBF and FPT beside it. Its people open as a family tree, on a Mac, a phone or any computer.
Why does a PJC open as text?
A PJC only holds the project's settings: its people are in the DBF and FPT files beside it, all named after the project. Open the project's folder, or pick every file in it together.
How do I move a TMG project to another app?
Choose Export, then Save as GEDCOM. The GEDCOM carries every person, family, event, place, note and source, which RootsMagic, Gramps, Family Tree Maker and other apps import.
What does it leave out?
Exhibits, the pictures and files a project links to, aren't carried along, and a witness who wasn't one of an event's principals isn't named on it. TMG's sentences, its own way of writing out each event, aren't used.