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https://github.com/ricko2001/Genealogy-scripts Richard Otter is a skilled, professional developer who is also a RootsMagic user and has been building a library of scripts that are worthwhile checking out for possible solutions for your own needs. He publishes them on GitGub, list ...
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Issues This project arose from a request Fix & Merge Hundreds of Newspapers.com Sources in the Forum. The poster is a heavy consumer of the Newspapers.com sources through RM's TreeShare with Ancestry.com and had issues with:

1. A long Source ...
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Introduction Conversion from #RM9 to #RM8 is pretty trivial with little loss except for RM9's new features. From RM8 to #RM7 is much more complex given the significant structural changes between the two. To convert from RM9 to RM7 is ...
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Sources view in RM9 after running the script to append Surnames of people using each Source. In response to a request in the Forum, Adding Surname to Truncated Source Names in RM9, posted here is a script that may be ...
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This page compares pictures of the #RM9 and Heritage 2023 databases (both SQLite 3) as automatically created by the same tool. Entity Relationship Diagrams An Entity-relationship Diagram (ERD) says a lot ...
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Database Diagram for RootsMagic version 9 – there are probably more table relationships to be added. RM9Database Diagram to Download ...
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RootsMagic 9.0.0.0 was released on Feb 27, 2023 with some new features necessitating changes to the database design. All previous version #database files undergo an upgrade procedure to the RM9 structure and are not backward compatible. However, #RM9 and #RM8 ...
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Introduction This script was prompted by a discussion in the RootsMagic Community on Feb 10 '23: Notes are duplicated. The duplicate begins with MERGED NOTE. It is not uncommon, viz this Google search for the MERGED NOTE flag generated by ...
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Introduction With all the excitement surrounding how well Artificial Intelligence is doing to write papers that can fool teachers and having seen someone post a message about using it to generate some software coding, I was curious to see what ...
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Introduction This procedure responds to a call for help from a RootsMagic user who had received a 40,000 person GEDCOM file in which all the surnames were in capital letters and which he wanted to integrate with a database in ...
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