I am trying to import my FamilySearch tree into a Gramps database using Roots Magic 10 as the intermediary. First I use RM to directly import my FS tree into RM. Then I use RM to export a GED, which I import into Gramps.
However, I find that RM puts the entire FS citation into the Gramps Source, specifically into the Gramps Source Title field. I would like Gramps Source Title to be simple, for example, “United States, 1910 Census”, rather than that info plus the entire remaining FS citation. I would also like the full FS Citation to be put into a Gramps Citation Note field.
Has anyone successfully migrated a tree from FS to RM to Gramps, so that the Sources and Citations move as described above? If so, how did you do it?
Every time I imported for Ancestry no matter which software, I got tons of totally messed up citations which depending on number of ancestors and sources can take a really long time to clean up. I would just go to Manage tree on Ancestry and download the gedcom and import that into Gramps. Just be prepared it won’t download images. I would then install the Isotammi addons and use the multimerge tool to merge duplicates citations.
I also downloaded a family tree from FamilySearch this way and am currently in the process of cleaning everything up. This is because a lot of the data in FS is entered in a jumbled manner and not consistently according to the same format.
If you want to change the gedcom, I can recommend the program GedTool.
For my 70,000 people, the conversion took almost a whole day.
If the sources are always structured the same way, perhaps something can be done with @kku Supertool.