Exploit your RootsMagic family tree database with SQLite Tools
I don’t post here as often as I probably should. I find that most of my SQL queries are quite specific to my own personal research and are of little general interest. On the other hand, Tom has a genius for coming up with queries that are of very general utility. The queries I’m going…
You need a SQLite manager such as SQLiteSpy to read and modify a RootsMagic database using the queries or scripts from this wiki. That’s because RootsMagic incorporates the SQLite 3 database engine to write and read its database files. SQLite acts on the database in response to SQL statements or commands it is given. These…
This page has not been updated since 2012 but many scripts have been added since. The tag cloud on the home page and the search control are two good ways to find pages of interest. RootsMagic Queries Many of these were developed around RootsMagic 4 and should also work on RootsMagic 5 and 6 with…
Here’s a pretty dumb question. Why will the following extremely simple query not return the desired results? I’m trying to see the sentence templates just for the birth, death, marriage, and burial facts. SELECT FT.FactTypeID, FT.Name, FT.Sentence FROM FactTypeTable AS FT WHERE FT.Name IN (‘Birth’,’Death’,’Marriage’,’Burial’); To get the desired results, I instead do something like…