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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…
Some RootsMagic users would like to have a utility to add a Reference Number (REFN) fact to persons that would contain the current Record Number (RIN). The intent is that this REFN would persist through GEDCOM exports and imports, drag’n’drop transfers, and possibly merges, thus providing a reference to the record’s history. I have used…
Paragraph control in the narrative reports in RootsMagic 4 and 5 leaves much to be desired. A richly facted person with many notes will be described in one long paragraph, apart from any paragraphing within the body of a fact note, unless special non-intuitive measures are taken. Likewise, another long paragraph of family facts and…
Users can mistakenly add image files to the Media Gallery with the wrong MediaType which prevents the images from being used in reports. MediaType is normally set by user selection in the Add Media Item dialog and cannot be changed from within RootsMagic 6.0.0.2 and earlier. Within RM the only option is to add the…
Importing and merging duplicates of persons, families, places and sources already in a database can give rise to unwanted proliferation of duplicate items in the Media Gallery and multiple links to the same media item from a person, family, event, place or source. RMGC_Properties – Query now reports the quantities of such duplicates. A problem…
Ever wanted to copy the same fact to a bunch of other people in your database? See the RootsMagic Forum thread Globally add fact to group for some background and an alternative method using GEDCOM. Here’s the braveheart method. See Copy RIN to REFN for a special variant of this query and a procedure that…