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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…
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 Death Year is missing from RootsMagic Explorer (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 Death fact. Adapted from the query Birth Year Mismatch. New: see Rebuild Indexes and Update Birth and Death Years for…