Category: Export/Import

bearing on GEDCOM and direct interchange with other systems and with other RootsMagic databases, e.g., via drag’n’drop…

GEDCOM & DnD transfer losses #gedcom

Background RM10 reportedly uses direct data transfer between databases for drag’n’drop, not GEDCOM, so it will have different issues, if any. 2024-06-20 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.…

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TreeShare – Rename Cryptic Filenames for Citation Media #TreeShare #media #citations #batch

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…

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TMG-RootsMagic Sentence Variables & Format Codes #tmg

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…

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