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bearing on GEDCOM and direct interchange with other systems and with other RootsMagic databases, e.g., via drag’n’drop…
Issue As of writing, still no Book Publisher feature in RM8 and along with other persistent issues, some users wish to return to the RM7.5 database from which they had ‘upgraded’. However, the only ways back using the RM user interface are lossy: A more complete conversion is wanted. 2023-05-04: Update re #RM9: despite the…
WARNING 2022-06-18: This script has been found defective in the handling of reused citations – see Comments at the bottom. UPDATE 2022-06-12: a version of the script now imports the RM8 ConfigTable to RM7 as it appears to be compatible with RM7, so far. Because the RM8 import or conversion of a RM7 files seems…
UPDATE 2022-05-14: better than GEDCOM is to convert directly from RM8 to RM7 for which there are a couple of possibilities: RM8’s File > Export Data > DropBox creates a copy of the active .RMTREE file to a RM7 compatible .RMGC file intended for use with the RootsMagic Mobile app (now retired for Android). It…
Background RootsMagic Drag’n’Drop between the windows of two databases is a background GEDCOM export-import process. Both Drag’n’Drop and the explicit File>Export and Import process fail to fully transfer everything from one database to another. Drag’n’Drop and GEDCOM are governed by the settings for Export in Lists>Fact Type List so any fact type that is not…
TreeShare downloads Ancestry media for citations with cryptic file names that mean nothing to humans. This set of scripts and batch or command-line operations prepends to the media filenames the name of one of the persons to whom the citation applies, their BirthYear-DeathYear and the name of the source cited, separated from the cryptic name…
RootsMagic 6.3.3.2 imports TMG Citation Detail memo field into CitationTable.Fields as the field [CD] defined in the SourceTemplateTable.Fields regardless of TMG memo splitter “||”. An issue which I’m sure many will detect is that sentences for sources with split Citation Detail (CD1, CD2,..) do not contain any of the Citation Detail. The full value is…
RootsMagic version 6.3.2.0 and later supports the direct import of project databases from The Master Genealogist. These programs have many similarities and, of course, many differences. They both support witness tags/shared events, sentence templates for facts, footnotes and bibliography and text formatting but names of variables, syntax, codes and database structure differ. Not all can…
RootsMagic 6.3.2.0 imports the TMG_ID into a custom fact type TMG_ID. This fact type cannot be displayed after the name of the person. Some users would prefer that it did, either by having it as RIN or by a new feature specifically for TMG. (See also TMG-RM Convert TMG_ID to Record Number) This procedure makes…
TMG has dual Principal, non-spousal events that RM does not support. Direct import converts these events to Individual type and variables of Spousal type may get through, i.e., [Spouse], [Husband], [Wife], which are invalid for a RM Indiv event. The name of the variable is outputted instead of nothing when it is unrecognised for a…
This is NOT SQLite! Rather, RMπ (RMpi) is a little application that tweaks a GEDCOM file you want imported into RootsMagic for potentially more complete data transfer. More development may come later but it could be useful now, especially to early emigres from The Master Genealogist 9.0.3 and earlier. Perhaps equally importantly for exchanges between…