Exploit your RootsMagic family tree database with SQLite Tools
Please join me in welcoming Kevin McLarnon ( @kmclarnon ) in the role of Editor on this site and, especially, for volunteering to lead a renewed initiative to improve the documentation we have on the design of the RootsMagic v9 #database. He is counting on users better-versed than himself in sqlite3 and #RM9 to collaborate,…
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…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This page compares pictures of the #RM9 and Heredis 2023 databases (both SQLite 3) as automatically created by the same tool. Entity Relationship Diagrams An Entity-relationship Diagram (ERD) says a lot about a database. @patjones recently posted a RM9 Database Diagram with many of the linkages…
Database Diagram for RootsMagic version 9 – there are probably more table relationships to be added.
RootsMagic 9.0.0.0 was released on Feb 27, 2023 with some new features necessitating changes to the database design. All previous version #database files undergo an upgrade procedure to the RM9 structure and are not backward compatible. However, #RM9 and #RM8 table structures are identical with the following exceptions: PersonTable 9 new fields named color1, …,…
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…
RM9 Color Picker Changed & Color Coding Sets Added Versions prior to RM9 have but one set of color codes; RM9 added 9 more sets for a total of 10, any one of which can be active. Each color in each set and each set can be uniquely labelled to make it easier to understand…
Background RootsMagic Drag’n’Drop between the windows of two databases is a background GEDCOM export-import process. Both Drag’n’Drop and the explicit File>Export and Import process fail to fully transfer everything from one database to another. Drag’n’Drop and GEDCOM are governed by the settings for Export in Lists>Fact Type List so any fact type that is not…
Problem RootsMagic provides no means to change all events of one fact type to another fact type, e.g., convert Residence events to Census events or vice versa. Or convert events for a custom fact type to a standard one. All it offers as of version 7.6.3 is to do so for one person, one event…