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This page provides some guidance to émigrés from Family Tree Maker to most completely and successful migrate their data to RootsMagic. It includes some operations in FTM itself in preparation for exporting data, the export itself, operations on the GEDCOM file before importing into RM, and then operations in RootsMagic and with SQLite that complete…
RootsMagic 7 direct import from Family Tree Maker (not GEDCOM) as of March 2016 imports event descriptions into two different places, depending on the fact type: to the RM event description or to the Place Detail for that event. Some users disagree with that decision and want the FTM event descriptions to remain event descriptions…
With the flurry of users of Family Tree Maker looking to migrate their database to RootsMagic, an outcry has gained volume because of the disappearance of some citations. This problem was described here in 2012 in Citations Invisible Revealed which offered two scripts, both of which are available in the RMtrix utility, one to find…
Under development This page attempts to find the best practices for working between RootsMagic and Ancestry.com with highest completeness, fidelity and efficiency. It supersedes an earlier page, Ancestry.com and RootsMagic 5, as a result of new understanding of the roles of certain custom GEDCOM tags and a change in what is exported by Ancestry.com. Summary…