The Master Genealogist

The Master Genealogist (TMG) is genealogy software for Microsoft Windows. Official support for TMG ceased at the end of 2014.

File format
TMG's underlying database engine is Visual FoxPro v9. and does not support Unicode.


 * 1) File Structures for (TMG) for v9 - Last updated July, 2014 (Archived on wayback)
 * 2) TMG File Structure - Applicable to TMG v3.x, v4.x, v5.x, v6.x, v7.x

Note:
 * Each TMG v4.0 and earlier dataset contains 46 files (earlier versions may vary somewhat)
 * Each TMG v5.x, v6.x, v7.x, & v8.x project contains about 80 files

File types

 * PJC - TMG Project Configuration File (Plain text)
 * VCF/VCF2 - Visual Chart Form
 * .sqz - backup file for version 5.0 or earlier of The Master Genealogist