Kim, Thanks so much for doing this 'review' http://footstepspast.blogspot.ca/2013/11/importing-rootsmagic-shared-events-into.html These kind of explanations are invaluable to those of use who want to really understand all the various capabilities of the software.
Keep up the good work. Jay On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Kim <kim.mi...@wightman.ca> wrote: > I wouldn't normally post info about RootsMagic to this group, but since > there has been some discussion about shared events between Legacy and RM > maybe this might help someone. > > One of the reasons I started using RM was because using the shared > events saved me a huge amount of time. Especially when entering census > records for large families. The down side to this was if I wanted to > upload my gedcom to Ancestry, RootsWeb or send to a family member (not > using RM) they would only get the shared event entry for the primary > person. With a census example this would mean that each census shared > would not show for most of the people involved. This was obviously a > big problem and kept many from using shared events. > Last winter a few programmers started to work on a 3rd party utility > that would convert shared events into normal events. It has worked out > very well and I use this often. I do hope that this feature will be > intergrated right into RM and Legacy. > > Perhaps something similar could be developed for Legacy, maybe as part > of LTools? > > The free RM utility is RMTrix. > http://sqlitetoolsforrootsmagic.wikispaces.com/Bundled+Utilities+-+RMtrix > I did a tutorial on how to split shared events with it. > > http://footstepspast.blogspot.ca/2013/08/how-to-split-rootsmagic-shared-facts.html > I also tried importing my gedcom from RM into Legacy (free version) the > day it came out. I found that the shared events did import into Legacy, > but with some minor issues. Possibly this has been fixed since. With > the imported shared events the primary person was missing the event note > that showed, but all the people who had rolls a note in their shared > events had their notes just fine. > Screen shots of what I mean. > > http://footstepspast.blogspot.ca/2013/11/importing-rootsmagic-shared-events-into.html > > Kim > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
