RootsMagic 7, as does some other software, uses the date of the Christen event as a substitute birth date for age calculations and summary displays when there is no Birth event. But RootsMagic’s own mobile application for iOS and Android does not. Moreover, some users object to using the Christen fact type, on principle or…
RootsMagic 7 and prior has the peculiar shortcoming that ancestral lineage reports, charts and other important functions follow the lineage set by the parent family displayed in the last view of each person in one of the Main screens. If the last time you viewed your mother showed her stepfather as her father, then her…
Rebuilding the indexes of large databases using RootsMagic’s File > Database tools > Rebuild Indexes function is ponderously slow, still at version 6.0.0.2. A 162000 person database took over 100 minutes. This page provides procedures that take but a few minutes. In RootsMagic version 5.0.2, the Rebuild Indexes tool was introduced under Menu > File…
Lists individuals whose Birth Year is missing from the sidebar (and other views and reports where just the YEAR is outputted) or mismatches the value that has been stored in the Date field of the Birth fact. This is less of an issue as of RM 5.0.2.0, which incorporates an update of the BirthYear and…
The birth of a child is a major life event for a person so I thought it would be worth adding to the stream of events query for a person. This query is designed to be pasted into the AllFacts4Person5.sql file – it follows the same columnar format – or it can be run on…