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.
Exploit your RootsMagic family tree database with SQLite Tools
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 group details are held in the database and can be queried using SQL scripts.
Comparing the CREATE statements for a database file of each version reveals changes to persisting tables in addition to tables deleted and added per First Look at RM8 #Database. This post provides DDL files from RM7.6.5 and the RM8 Preview 7.9.101. The two files can be compared line by line in Notepad++ using the Compare…
The following script was developed in response to the discussion Search for family by given names of children (was RM-8) — three_childrens_names.sql– Jerry Bryan, 22 May 2020– This query searches for parents based on given names of their children.– It gets a hit when three or more children have any primary or alternate– given names…
TBA: Rev 2021-03-0x above script adapted for RM8 by Tom Holden from the #RM7 script described below by the original author, Jerry Bryan. Note that the custom fact type ‘Parents’ and the role ‘Birth_of_Child’ must be created separately in advance of executing this script. This is a query I wrote just for myself and I…
Disconnect but preserve Ancestry Sources links for next Upload Subsequent to this script being published 2017-07-21, RootsMagic 7.5 was updated so that its File Option > TreeShare > Disconnect from Ancestry Tree behaves the same way or similarly in that the links with Ancestry Sources are not deleted. RootsMagic 7 Update History is silent on…
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…
As of 5.0.4.2, RootsMagic does not provide a comprehensive report on how each entry in the Address List is used – is it merely a Contact or is it the address of a Person or Family (couple) in the tree database? This query provides a list which helps answer that need. RM does provide a…