Exploit your RootsMagic family tree database with SQLite Tools
Introduction This procedure responds to a call for help from a RootsMagic user who had received a 40,000 person GEDCOM file in which all the surnames were in capital letters and which he wanted to integrate with a database in which surnames are mixed case. How could the SURNAMES be converted to Surnames without editing…
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 of Direct Import of RM8 database into RM7 – Part 2. Issue As described in Returning to RM7.5 custom reports, groups and Publisher from RM8 via GEDCOM, there are reasons some users of RM8 would like…
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…
SQLite Expert now takes the lead as the most compatible with the RootsMagic RMNOCASE collation, thanks to the C extension unifuzz.dll authored or revised by Jean-Christophe Deschamps. Unifuzz can be used with other SQLite managers that support extensions, including the command-line shell sqlite3.exe but not, regrettably, SQLiteSpy. This is not simply a renamed equivalent of…
Background RootsMagic 4+ has an internal, proprietary collation sequence called RMNOCASE that controls the order in which names of people, places, sources, etc. are sorted. Fields that are defined to use this collation cannot be sorted by an external SQLite tool without overriding it with another collation sequence, e.g.: NOCASE, nor can they be edited…
This page collects info and queries about Source Templates. A Trio of Templates Framing Citations of the 1930 US Census with RootsMagic 5 Free Form, Standard and Custom Source Templates. This is a 15 page study of the usage and results of three very different templates, coming to the conclusion that RootsMagic 5’s Source Template…
Another possible candidate for a substitute collation for RMNOCASE is Nunicode. It would have to be compiled into a DLL as a loadable extension for use with certain SQLite managers or incorporated into a custom SQLite application.
Restricted in RootsMagic RootsMagic 4 users are sometimes frustrated that they cannot do a search or search/replace on certain fields within the application. RM4’s Search & Replace is especially restricted to a small set of fields: Person name fields, Place name, Multimedia filenames and Notes (General, Family & Facts). SQLite opens up all fields to…
Rebuilding the indexes of large databases using RootsMagic’s File > Database tools > Rebuild Indexes function is ponderously slow, still at version 6.0.0.2. A 162000 person database took over 100 minutes. This page provides procedures that take but a few minutes. In RootsMagic version 5.0.2, the Rebuild Indexes tool was introduced under Menu > File…