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Ben

I have been using “Practical Citations” for several years using RM5, RM6, and now RM7.

Have you done any work on the format for RootsMagic?

Thanks
Roger

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Sounds great. I have not gotten all of mine done yet but working on them.

I just yesterday completed an applescript that I am using with typeit4me to create a citation for a book. This makes it very easy to enter the citations as I only have to fill in the blanks. Each blank that needs information is asked for using a dialog box. When I am done it puts the results in the clipboard and all I have to do is ctl v and it is posted to the citation field. I now don’t even have to remember anything just fill in the blanks so to speak.

I next have to get the other formats working and that should only be a matter of cutting my master script and placing the needed lines into a new script to make the new one.

Roger

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Sorry

RM5 Template is a Practical Citation templated formated for Roots Magic 5 another genealogy program. It runs on windows instead of a Mac. Ben has indicated that he would be producing a template for this sometime in the future.

Roger

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Liz

I did not include the name in the descriptive title because that means that I would have to have a unique source for each birth certificate. So if I had 100 birth certificates then I would have 100 sources. The way I decided to do it is that I would have only one birth certificate source but with 100 different citations. I also decided that the source would only tell me where I got the item and not contain what I found. The citation would tell me where in the source I found that exact certificate within the collection.

This is just the way I do it. That dose not make it the correct way. You just need to decide how you want to do it and stick with it. Your way is just as good as mine only we differ but in my opinion as long as you stick with the way you are doing it you will be just fine.

I keep waiting for Ben to come out with the RM5 template to see how mine looks compared to his.

Roger

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Ben

There seems to be no way except brute programming to get it to work.

I could not find anyone that had done it successfully. I searched the internet and even had some email from some but no easy way to get it done. Some had a few tags working but not much more.

So you really have to understand the gedcom format to make it work. Maybe with the new standards that are in the work it will become easier but at my age I may not last that long.

Roger

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Ben

I have used FileMaker 12 for a picture index project and did look at it for a genealogy project but had trouble with the gedcom part.

Maybe I will try again.

Roger

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I’m confused I put the name Descriptive Text in the title and it came across as it should be. I should have put in some better name.

So that is OK.

How about the format will they always come across as free form? Is there no way to get them into RM5 with some type of format?

Roger

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