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…
Introduction Conversion from #RM9 to #RM8 is pretty trivial with little loss except for RM9’s new features. From RM8 to #RM7 is much more complex given the significant structural changes between the two. To convert from RM9 to RM7 is simply a two-stage process with a RM8 compatible file as an intermediary. It’s possible to…
Introduction This script was prompted by a discussion in the RootsMagic Community on Feb 10 ’23: Notes are duplicated. The duplicate begins with MERGED NOTE. It is not uncommon, viz this Google search for the MERGED NOTE flag generated by RootsMagic. Its results return many pages, from sites.rootsmagic.com and from other sites with content from…
A user with this problem could not open their RM7 database file, contacted Tech Support which could not help and was referred by the agent to me. I warned them that there was probably nothing I could do because any version of SQLite I had would report the same error as RM7’s SQLite database engine…
TestExternalFiles by Richard J. Otter is a new Windows utility that helps identify these issues: A file on disk may get renamed, or moved, breaking the linkfrom the database. A file may be added to the media folder on disk but then not attached to thedesired database element. A file may be added to RM,…
Issue As of writing, still no Book Publisher feature in RM8 and along with other persistent issues, some users wish to return to the RM7.5 database from which they had ‘upgraded’. However, the only ways back using the RM user interface are lossy: A more complete conversion is wanted. 2023-05-04: Update re #RM9: despite the…
WARNING 2022-06-18: This script has been found defective in the handling of reused citations – see Comments at the bottom. UPDATE 2022-06-12: a version of the script now imports the RM8 ConfigTable to RM7 as it appears to be compatible with RM7, so far. Because the RM8 import or conversion of a RM7 files seems…
UPDATE 2022-05-14: better than GEDCOM is to convert directly from RM8 to RM7 for which there are a couple of possibilities: RM8’s File > Export Data > DropBox creates a copy of the active .RMTREE file to a RM7 compatible .RMGC file intended for use with the RootsMagic Mobile app (now retired for Android). It…
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 Community Preview was released Dec 31, 2020. Its database design has been substantially changed from the prior version, rendering much of the information and many of the scripts on this site inapplicable to or unusable with RM8 databases. This page attempts to collect in one spot references to posts and scripts for RM8…