Back in February, I installed phpGedView on this site and while I was not overly thrilled with the look-and-feel of the product, I felt that it did have enough features and potential for me to customize its appearance to continue to occasionally make updates to the content. However, as I was going through the other night and doing a review of the stats for this website I noticed something that I thought was little odd. The monthly stats for the website showed a sudden spike in traffic coming from an unexpected source. The stats showed for the month of May that 24% of the traffic to this site was coming from the Russian Federation whereas only 3% of the traffic was coming from Canada, UK, and Australia with the all other traffic coming from the USA. I considered this odd, because most of the content on this site is in English and none of the content is in Russian.

TMG (The Master Genealogist) is a very powerful and flexible genealogical database tool and in some respects can be rather complicated to use. In this article I describe the use of flags, filters, and focus groups for the purpose of exporting out specific data from TMG to GEDCOM. For my purpose I wanted to export out information regarding specific branches within my TMG database for import into PhpGedView. My goal was to create three separate exports: one for my maternal grandmother's family, one for my maternal grandfather's family, and a one for my father's side of the family (in my case I do not have enough information on my paternal grandmother's family to warrant creating separate exports for my paternal grandparents). Also, I wanted to limit the exported information to non-living individuals.