Exploit your RootsMagic family tree database with SQLite Tools
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…
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,…
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.
RootsMagic 8 introduced indirection between citation data (text fields) and the fact to which a citation is attached, In RM7, the citation data and linkage was combined in the CitationTable. To use the same citation data for more than one fact meant that it had to be replicated in another record, making revisions to the…
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…
RootsMagic 6.3.3.2 imports TMG Citation Detail memo field into CitationTable.Fields as the field [CD] defined in the SourceTemplateTable.Fields regardless of TMG memo splitter “||”. An issue which I’m sure many will detect is that sentences for sources with split Citation Detail (CD1, CD2,..) do not contain any of the Citation Detail. The full value is…
I don’t post here as often as I probably should. I find that most of my SQL queries are quite specific to my own personal research and are of little general interest. On the other hand, Tom has a genius for coming up with queries that are of very general utility. The queries I’m going…
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…
Update: 20 Jan 2021New versions of sql code added to original post All Citations – Query #citations I am running the following query in SQLite Expert Personal 5.2(x86): — AllCitations.sql — 2010-01-28 ve3meo — Lists citations for each person — 2010-01-29 rev by ve3meo to use LEFT OUTER JOINS to include the most orphaned citations…
Description Here are the most advanced and useful SQLite queries for reviewing citations in your RootsMagic 4-8 database. They provide some of the same info that you would get in the RootsMagic Source List report and then some you don’t… You have the advantage of sorting and filtering results in ways you cannot within RM…