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Operations on persons and families and relationships, esp on PersonTable, FamilyTable and ChildTable.
In response to a request in the Forum, Adding Surname to Truncated Source Names in RM9, posted here is a script that may be of use to others. The user’s objective is to facilitate distinguishing which Master Sources (among many similar source names derived from imports from FamilySearch, Ancestry, et al) are relevant to families…
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 RootsMagic. Its results return many pages, from sites.rootsmagic.com and from other sites with content from…
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 which surnames are mixed case. How could the SURNAMES be converted to Surnames without editing…
TBA: Rev 2021-03-0x above script adapted for RM8 by Tom Holden from the #RM7 script described below by the original author, Jerry Bryan. Note that the custom fact type ‘Parents’ and the role ‘Birth_of_Child’ must be created separately in advance of executing this script. This is a query I wrote just for myself and I…
Migrants to RootsMagic from other genealogy software are often disappointed in the invisibility of the Marriage Record Identification Number or MRIN and may have a filing system based thereon. While the individual’s record number (RIN) may be preserved in certain imports either in the RootsMagic RIN or in a custom fact type, no such mapping…
I only recently recognised that the values that RootsMagic puts into the Relate1 and Relate2 fields of the PersonTable when the Set Relationships function is applied are more useful than merely codifying the relationship (e.g., see Relationships). Apart from special cases for Self and in-laws, the sum of the two values corresponds to the degree…
I created alternate names for wives so I can find the wife with her married name. I put the given and maiden name in the given for the alternate name. I put her husband’s surname in surname. I use Married as Name Type, Mrs. As Prefix and the husbands given name with parenthesis around it…
I have recently added a Parents “fact” to everyone in my RM database who has parents. These Parents events really are new rows added to the EventTable, even though parentage is already denoted in RM by entries in the ChildTable joined with entries in the FamilyTable. The reasons for the new events are two-fold. First,…
An earlier script copied the FamilySearch Family Tree ID into the Reference Number fact. One user uploaded a file to an Ancestry Member Tree where it was grown through online evidence-based research and then downloaded the GEDCOM back into RootsMagic. RootsMagic’s Auto-Match feature in FamilySearch Central failed to rematch all the previously matched people. However,…
The title of this page was really difficult to compose. It has to do with records in a RootsMagic database’s FamilyTable for which each record pairs the record numbers of a ‘husband’ and a ‘wife’, i.e., columns named “HusbandID” and “WifeID”. Set aside questions of gender. When a person is linked to a single parent,…