Hi. I use RM7 as my main genealogical software, but I also use Family Tree Maker 2014 because of the ease of integrating Ancestry.com citations. I would like to update my RM7 files occasionally with new information from Family Tree Maker. Is there an easy way to do that? Thank you, Tom McFarland
Same interest here because of the ease with which an evidence-based tree can be developed on Ancestry. I have explored this on and off over the last couple of years and it is neither easy nor nice nor have I come up with a best practice. I'm on the verge of experimenting with getting the UID hidden in RM brought out to a custom fact or REF# fact, manually copying these to FTM to sync them up to the Ancestry tree. Then, except for people new to the tree, the next export from FTM would have the UID for each person in a fact. I would import the GEDCOM to a new database, process it with SQLite to put the fact UID in place of the hidden UID and then import to or File Compare with my working database. Because the working and intermediate databases have matching UID's, File Compare readily pairs the identical people and ShareMerge is enabled. So goes the theory... the devil is in the details. Tom On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Tom McFarland via < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > I use RM7 as my main genealogical software, but I also use Family Tree > Maker 2014 because of the ease of integrating Ancestry.com citations. I > would like to update my RM7 files occasionally with new information from > Family Tree Maker. Is there an easy way to do that? > Thank you, > Tom McFarland > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Tom, You are way over my knowledge base! Is there any chance that an upgrade to RM7 could provide a tool to transfer FTM evidence to RM or am I a dreamer? I am not clipping your message just in case someone else missed it as I did. Thank you for always sharing your expertise! Regards, Mary McCanney Finley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Holden via" <[email protected]> To: "Tom McFarland" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [RMagic] updating RM7 with Family Tree Maker files > Same interest here because of the ease with which an evidence-based tree > can be developed on Ancestry. I have explored this on and off over the > last > couple of years and it is neither easy nor nice nor have I come up with a > best practice. I'm on the verge of experimenting with getting the UID > hidden in RM brought out to a custom fact or REF# fact, manually copying > these to FTM to sync them up to the Ancestry tree. Then, except for people > new to the tree, the next export from FTM would have the UID for each > person in a fact. I would import the GEDCOM to a new database, process it > with SQLite to put the fact UID in place of the hidden UID and then import > to or File Compare with my working database. Because the working and > intermediate databases have matching UID's, File Compare readily pairs the > identical people and ShareMerge is enabled. So goes the theory... the > devil > is in the details. > > Tom > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Tom McFarland via < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi. >> I use RM7 as my main genealogical software, but I also use Family Tree >> Maker 2014 because of the ease of integrating Ancestry.com citations. I >> would like to update my RM7 files occasionally with new information from >> Family Tree Maker. Is there an easy way to do that? >> Thank you, >> Tom McFarland >> >> >> =================================== >> RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS >> WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: >> http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Oh, I hope so! I have been finding tons of records from Ancestry to FTM 2014, but much prefer RM7....speedier, user friendly for this old lady....whereas FTM2014 is slow to load, difficult to use (although I deserve blame for not become more familiar with how it works). So, please answer to list how we can transfer from FTM to RM. Thank you! Mary McCanney Finley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom McFarland via" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 9:41 AM Subject: [RMagic] updating RM7 with Family Tree Maker files > Hi. > I use RM7 as my main genealogical software, but I also use Family Tree > Maker 2014 because of the ease of integrating Ancestry.com citations. I > would like to update my RM7 files occasionally with new information from > Family Tree Maker. Is there an easy way to do that? > Thank you, > Tom McFarland > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message