All in all, the sentence template language is a lot more complicated than I think it needs to be, and of course queries are also. From what I have seen in the Facebook group, maybe at max, 20% of the current users are going to be able to pull this off. I have flippin' Masters in Computer Science and it is taking me much too long to learn some of this stuff. One has to sit down and figure out what order to string a bunch of 'Add if', 'Add unless', 'Exclude if' and 'Exclude unless' together to get simple AND/OR along with stringing in some of the built in functions before you can manage a NOT. As for queries, yes, they may well be powerful however there is still a freakin' learning curve when coming from life with relation databases and querying them, which is what I previously say. That is based on RM (and by extension the GEDCOM) using the date, place and description fields. FH says 'His Obit was 'Courier' on Octoin Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.' RM says 'Richard Marion Funk had his obituary published in the Courier on in Ottumwa, IA. FH has not mangled that data, and I don't recall saying that it had. I know that this is your pet program, but just because there are perceived problems.after,all, you are just as guilty of casting negative impressions in regards to RM. If I recall, this wish was nearly as old as some of the RM wishlist items. I couldn't help but note there was either a feature or plugin request for something to make entering queries easier. Inside you will find your Family Tree Maker 2012 database that you can now directly import into RootsMagic using File > Import > Family Tree Maker.On Sun,, 23:54 Kenneth Funk, wrote: I know that this is your pet program, but just because there are perceived problems.after,all, you are just as guilty of casting negative impressions in regards to RM.
zip file and select “Extract All” to unzip the file. Confirm Yes, you want to change the file name extension. Once the database file you extract, it will direct import without any issue. ftmb file to unzip first to access the database file inside it.
The Family Tree Maker 2012 export is a backup (.ftmb) file that will have the database file and your media files, making files too large to import.Īn added step is in these exceptional circumstances. Export to FTM 2014.1 and Open in that Version to Export Backward to FTM 2012 or 2014 or use a GEDCOMĪdditional Step for Family Tree Maker backup (.ftmb) files over 4 GB in size RootsMagic is unable to import backups larger than 4 GB, currently. Later updates to FTM 2017 and FTM 2019 removed the “Other” export options.