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Yeah the citation merging issue was one that I reported to RM support the first time about March or so of 2021. And I've mentioned a couple of times in the RM forums. The duplicate citation merge in RM8 does NOT look to see if the weblinks (webtags) or attached media are different. If the citation t...

On a side note, and this is probably not something you can fix in your plugin, there is also the duplicate place name bug that I was told should be fixed in an upcoming update to FH (that is where if you run place clean for instance in RM8, you easily end up with multiple copies of the same location...

Hi Mark:
Once you have the revised plugin uploaded I'll do some testing today

Thank you for your work...

Matthew

I use Ancestral Sources Method 2. After submitting I've been going in and adding a link to the Citation: Note section. I just wanted to make sure I was missing a way this could be done when using method 2 (the note box doesn't show when using method 2). Example of where I'm talking about: https://i....

It would seem that the citation information would be uploaded to Ancestry. Instead of being in the normal citation field, it would show up in the "Other Information" part of the citation (merged onto whatever else might have been in that FH7 Note section). If someone really wanted to look up the cit...

Hi Mark: I completely forgot about this forum thread. I tried out the revised plugin and it works perfectly. I did get a pop-up that I was converting an attribute (the residence) to an event (census) so I read the help file. The place, address, sources are all good after the conversion... thanks. Ma...

Mike I'd say probably not to worry about a plugin (at least not for me). As I had mentioned I think, I never used the 'non-gedcom' parts of RM like tasks, research notes, etc. I was able to export a gedcom yesterday that imported into FH7 in the regular citation field (not as a template), all the me...

Hi Mike and Mark: I again did a direct import into FH7 and then an export to RM8 via gedcom from FH7. I set everything to the defaults for Rootsmagic. This time there was no errors listed in the log file. It looks like the citations (.page as listed in FH7) were imported but into the wrong field: ht...

Hi Mike and Mark: I've did a little more testing. I spend a good 20+ hours this weekend re-entering most of my data into the original RM 8 file that I had originally imported into FH 7 (I had entered that data into FH7). Anyways, I am able to export a gedcom from RM 8 and import it into FH 7 without...

When I export from FH7 to RM8, the citation field is not importing into the RM file (only place I can find it is in the import error log). So I have good news and bad i guess. First, I did an export of the RM 8 original database (after I had cleaned the places and the version of RM 8 tree that was i...

Thank you for helping Mike :) Yes, before exporting to RM so I could fix the places, The citation info was in the "Citation-specific: Where Within Source" field (which I just renamed citation for the label). Before when I've exported using a gedcom from Rm to FH, the fields stayed correct. Only with...

Like Helen I want to be able to export data from FH 7 that includes the sources and citations so others whether on Ancestry or FamilySearch can have access to them. There have been several times where every tree I have found on Ancestry has the wrong data on an Ancestor. After a lot of hard work I f...

Hi Folks: I'm looking to use RM 8 as a program to export to in order to upload to Ancestry and Familysearch. The Project I'm working with was a direct import from RM 8. When imported into FH 7 it imported the citations as a "Free-Form" template. The problem is that when doing a gedcom export using t...

Mark: Just to make sure it was not a file path issue, I moved the project to my (internal) D drive root and shortened the folder names. The error is still the same. Just in case it might help you, I zipped and uploaded the RootsMagic Import.fhf file that seems to be causing the error. https://family...

Hi Folks: I am trying to use the "Change Specific Fact Tag" plugin. I believe it will let me change some of my residence facts to census facts. Anyways the tree I'm running it on was a direct import from Rootsmagic 8. I get the following two errors: https://i.ibb.co/5k6hssC/error-fact-plugin.png Tha...

Thank you very much Mark for your help. This plugin worked perfect and saved a lot of time

Matthew

Thank you Mark, that would be so helpful

Matthew

Hi Folks: In a previous database I used the "Rename Selected Media Files (No ID)" to set the file name of media to be the same as the Title of the Media Record. Background: With this database I have a different issue: I had an issue at some point in the past with FTM 2019 with the media being attach...

H Arthurk: The Amazon Fire is really just an android OS. I don't have any experience with specific programs for viewing Gedcom files on my fire, but what I thought I'd mention is you can run pretty much any app that will run on an android phone or that comes from Google Play on your Fire. I used an ...

Thank you Mike, that worked perfect.

You saved me having to manually delete thousands of dupes

Matthew

Hi Mike: I hadn't noticed that section had been changed also. In RM8 I only used the default generic templates to avoid issues when moving to online trees, etc. with sources and citations. FH 7 during the direct import I guess makes some changes from the default. Here is a pic of that field: https:/...

Hi Mike:
Yes, they are always Weblinks and always type URL

Matthew

Hi Folks: I've been working on fixing up my wifes data on her side of the family. One issue I have is after importing from RM 8, I have weblinks that are duplicated on almost all citations (which is about 56,000). Here is what I'm talking about: https://familytreehelper.us/tree/Double_Links.JPG I fi...

Yes, after standardizing them, I had literally hundreds of dupes which I had to merge. If RM 8, you can have for example Canton, Ohio and Canton, Stark County, Ohio. Then you run the place clean function that can check a location database and add (as an example) United States to all locations in the...

I thought I would post what Support found was the problem in case anyone else has the same issue. I had spent about a week going through the places and trying to standardize them. I went from 3700+ places to about 2100. In the process I guess I missed a few duplicates. If there is a duplicate in RM ...