Exploit your RootsMagic family tree database with SQLite Tools
RootsMagic 8 introduced indirection between citation data (text fields) and the fact to which a citation is attached, In RM7, the citation data and linkage was combined in the CitationTable. To use the same citation data for more than one fact meant that it had to be replicated in another record, making revisions to the…
Database Diagram for RootsMagic version 8 – there are probably more table relationships to be added.
Many tables within RootsMagic have fields which are know to mean something but do not have lookup tables. So far I have collected the following: (more to follow) Fields named OwnerType – see Understanding the RootsMagic 8 database – Ownership Addresses AddressType field Value Meaning 0 Correspondence 1 Repository Citations The Quality field in the…
The RootsMagic 8 database structure has seen a few changes from RM7 and one of these is that more objects can “own” other objects in the data. A task can have media, citations and web tags for example. To achieve this many tables have an OwnerType field and an OwnerID field and the owner type…
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…
Update 2021-03-11: added version by Pat Jones for RM8. This page brings together a set of scripts that: adds ‘friendly’ Waymarks in views of each database table to aid in navigating through RootsMagic to the responsible screen and to help understand the role of each table builds a Full Text Search table, first described on…