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Operations that affect RootsMagic reports or provide a report missing from RM
The following is ChatGPT’s “Think” (free) response to the same prompt to which Gemini “Search” (free) responded in Status Report: AI in Genealogy and Family History. It’s much longer and references some different (and previously unknown to me) services. Perhaps the “Think” vs “Search” mode has some bearing on its greater breadth and depth. Curiously,…
This too is a Gemini response to the prompt “How does RootsMagic Family Tree software fit into AI assisted Genealogy and history research, analysis and reporting? How does it compare in this regard with other family tree software and services?” I had it replace its first single comparison table with two to accommodate more software…
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…
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…
Problem Many persons in my database have multiple Birth events created from different sources; likewise for other vital facts. Even though I may have marked one as Primary, the others still clutter reports: narratives look like repetitious gobbledygook; calendars have the same person multiple times, even on the same day. I want to clean up…
RootsMagic 6.3.1.0 introduced in 2014 some very nice options for control of paragraphing of narrative reports after we had developed a number of scripts in 2011ff described in Paragraphing. There remain some issues for some people as of RM 7.2.1.0. One was recently expressed by Wiki member aefgen: Now another problem that I see has…
Background RootsMagic Inc promised non-English language versions would be forthcoming when RootsMagic 4 was released in 2008. RootsMagic 4 was built on a database that supports Unicode and data can be stored in most languages. RoostMagic would seek volunteers to help translate the user interface and report strings into their languages. Nothing has ever come…
I recently went through an exercise of removing all sentence customization for specific events in my RM database. The purpose of this change was to allow my Point Form sentence templates from the Fact Type Table to be used in all cases. It is not possible in the RM user interface to search for specific…
RootsMagic 7 offers no means of using an Alternate Name value in its sentence template language for events for any fact type other than Alternate Name. Some users want to use a wife’s married name (husband’s surname) for her events after Marriage, especially the end-of-life events as the married name is commonly recorded or engraved…
Rev 2016-08-16 This is an extension of DummyFamily-Add.sql described below with added constraints so that the trick is applied only to those childless, spouseless persons having events other than Birth or Death or more than two of those or BD events with notes or having a General Note or an Alternate Name. Requested by wiki…