Tutorials for TNG

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In the Beginning - TNG Starters: An introduction to using TNG in your ONS What is TNG? How do I get a TNG account? A tour of my first TNG site Passwords: How to change your password when first starting Forgot your password? Videos: TNG Genealogy instruction videos Other: How to use the help section A couple of Do's and Don'ts for your TNG website

TNG Setup Getting Started: I just got my new TNG site, so now what do I do? Cleaning up your data General Settings:

Media - Images Media: How to use media: an overview What is media? How to add media How to import media Creating image thumbnails How to upload media How to customize media general settings How to change photo sizes Finding unlinked media in TNG

Media - Collections Collections: What are collections? How to add custom collections for media How to customize media general settings

Media - Albums Albums: What are albums, and why should I use them?

GEDCOM GEDCOM: GEDCOM: an introduction Anatomy of a GEDCOM Moving your GEDCOM to/from TNG: Exporting a GEDCOM to TNG How importing a GEDCOM is different from uploading How to import a GEDCOM Handling large GEDCOM files Overwriting a previous GEDCOM Archiving and downloading a GEDCOM GEDCOM files, images and documents GEDCOM and working with ZIP files GEDCOM and importing incomplete date data

General Settings General Settings: Basics: An introduction to Setup Your site design Media settings Privacy settings Names settings Mail and registration settings Miscellaneous settings Advanced: Language settings Checking of system diagnostics Data table creation

Templates Templates: Basics: An introduction to templates Comparison of template features Template settings: Welcome paragraph Main and header title Main image Adding images to the homepage

Users and Access Users: Users at your TNG site Setting up users Visitors: Reviews: Reviews: user account requests Reviews: suggestions Reviews: submissions Access: Limit the display of living individuals

Privacy and Security Privacy: Privacy, consent, cookies and data policy How to manage Living and Privacy settings Hiding documents from view Security: Security and users How to stop spam registration requests How to hide the 'Print' link

Trees and Branches Trees: How to set up trees Adding and deleting trees Deleting a tree: a caution Trees and GEDCOM downloads Trees versus branches Branches:

Places and Dates Places: Places to find people Dates:

Cemeteries Cemetery places and mapping

Utilities Utilities: Utilities: backing up your data files Utilities: restore, optimize and fine-tune your data files Search the TNG site Events: Adding your own custom events Other: TNG and DNA tests Data validation Fan charts Heat maps

Helpful Tips Text in TNG: Copying text from a word processor