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RootsMagic 6.3.2.0 imports the TMG_ID into a custom fact type TMG_ID. This fact type cannot be displayed after the name of the person. Some users would prefer that it did, either by having it as RIN or by a new feature specifically for TMG. (See also TMG-RM Convert TMG_ID to Record Number) This procedure makes…
Migrants to RootsMagic from other genealogy software are often disappointed in the invisibility of the Marriage Record Identification Number or MRIN and may have a filing system based thereon. While the individual’s record number (RIN) may be preserved in certain imports either in the RootsMagic RIN or in a custom fact type, no such mapping…
An earlier script copied the FamilySearch Family Tree ID into the Reference Number fact. One user uploaded a file to an Ancestry Member Tree where it was grown through online evidence-based research and then downloaded the GEDCOM back into RootsMagic. RootsMagic’s Auto-Match feature in FamilySearch Central failed to rematch all the previously matched people. However,…
Update 2023-11-22: #RM9 version Problem Description This script responds to a user’s problem posted on FaceBook: she had two databases with overlapping people in them. One was her master with people matched to FamilySearch; the other was developed independently using FamilySearch. Because the duplicated people were created independently, she cannot rely on the RootsMagic File>Compare…
Purpose This page responds to a request posted in the RootsMagic Forums by Forum member JoyceAE5 on 21 Jan 2014. Basically, what I want is a list of everyone in my database with the following information: Person’s RefNo, Person’s Name, Spouse’s RefNo, Spouse’s Name, Father’s RefNo, Father’s Name, Mother’s RefNo & Mother’s Name Building…
Some RootsMagic users would like to have a utility to add a Reference Number (REFN) fact to persons that would contain the current Record Number (RIN). The intent is that this REFN would persist through GEDCOM exports and imports, drag’n’drop transfers, and possibly merges, thus providing a reference to the record’s history. I have used…