Family Historian User Group

Good news, as discussed I have created a custom number in FH (a duplicate of the generated number) and imported to RootsMagic 8 using different options. In RootsMagic 8 Under settings you can choose the "Number to Display" which offers three numbering protocols for the empty project. The options are...

Hi Mike, sorry the terminology I was using (it seems incorrectly) was Record Id Number (RIN) as displayed in Family Historian in brackets. I have never used the Family Historian ARI (Automated Record Id) or the Unique Record Id (URI). The Custom no. I have used occasionally to reconcile to other fol...

RootsMagig 8 does have a RIN retention option. Roots Magic help desk insist the RIN retention option should be offered as a tick Box with all gedcom imports into empty RM8 databases but this is certainly not my experience on both the pc and mac version. I have sent them screen prints to prove it! Th...

Can anyone help? I have Family Historian 7 (Main genealogy programme) on my PC and Roots Magic 8 on my Mac. I would like to export my FH data to Rootsmagic, retaining the same numbering (RIN). Roots Magic should when importing a GEDCOM file to an empty database give the option to maintain RIM number...