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https://github.com/ricko2001/Genealogy-scripts Richard Otter is a skilled, professional developer who is also a RootsMagic user and has been building a library of scripts that are worthwhile checking out for possible solutions for your own needs. He publishes them on GitGub, list of them screenshotted below 2023-05-19. Check for updates and fuller descriptions. He has posted notices…
Issues This project arose from a request Fix & Merge Hundreds of Newspapers.com Sources in the Forum. The poster is a heavy consumer of the Newspapers.com sources through RM’s TreeShare with Ancestry.com and had issues with: Solution Because the sources were imported via TreeShare, they are Ancestry Record type, i.e., they are created using the…
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…
Issue As for earlier versions, the order in which Citations for a given fact are presented in RM8 is the order in which they were added. Some users wish for them to be sorted alphabetically by name. Solution A brute force method was described for earlier versions at Source Citation Sort . In that case,…
Yeah, really interesting… but you may notice some things are better than they have been: the Forum pages update from your post much more quickly images that previously were illegible and would not open to full size now do Forum It’s bothered me for quite a while that it would take several seconds for a…
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…
WARNING 2022-06-18: This script has been found defective in the handling of reused citations – see Comments at the bottom of Direct Import of RM8 database into RM7 – Part 2. Issue As described in Returning to RM7.5 custom reports, groups and Publisher from RM8 via GEDCOM, there are reasons some users of RM8 would like…
RM9 Color Picker Changed & Color Coding Sets Added Versions prior to RM9 have but one set of color codes; RM9 added 9 more sets for a total of 10, any one of which can be active. Each color in each set and each set can be uniquely labelled to make it easier to understand…
In RM8, citations are re-useable and have a name which is made by concatenating the contents of the citation fields.
So I run this script on my RM version 7 database so that it is ready for importing into RM version 8.