Category: Export/Import

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

TreeShare – Link Pasted Ancestry Sources #ancestrycom #TreeShare #citations #sources

Facebook Discussion Forums Discussion EXPERIMENTAL When a TreeShare linked Ancestry Source is Memorised and Pasted through RootsMagic Citation Manager, the pasted source loses its TreeShare link. The TreeShare update to the Ancestry Tree creates a new Other Source rather than linking to the Ancestry Source. This script creates a TreeShare link for such pasted Ancestry…

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Exporting Data

My RootsMagic file has over 8,500 people in it, 23,000 events, 3,000 families, 3,000 citations, and 3,600 multimedia links I have a query that takes a bit to run. I am using sqlite expert Personal 5.2. I am trying to export the results of the query to a spreadsheet. So far I have not found…

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Groups – Extract most everything for one to a new database #namedgroup #TreeShare

RootsMagic GEDCOM and Drag’n’Drop transfer capabilities and performance leave some things to be desired. Its own File Compare tool shows that differences crop up from the loss of trailing blanks from Notes. Other things are not transferred at all, such as custom default sentences for built-in fact types and roles. The introduction of Ancestry TreeShare…

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Citations Invisible – Reveal and Revert #citations #sources #ftm2014 #ftm2012 #ancestrycom #gedcom

With the flurry of users of Family Tree Maker looking to migrate their database to RootsMagic, an outcry has gained volume because of the disappearance of some citations. This problem was described here in 2012 in Citations Invisible Revealed which offered two scripts, both of which are available in the RMtrix utility, one to find…

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