RootsMagic
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| Publisher / Author | RootsMagic, Inc. |
| Version | 5.0.3.1 |
| Latest Update | April 6, 2012 |
| Creation Date | 2000 |
| Operating System | Windows |
| License | Commercial |
| Category | Full Featured |
| Languages | English |
| Prices | $29.95 - Download $19.95 - Upgrade |
| Links | Website Product Page Downloads Forums |
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Description
RootsMagic is the award-winning genealogy software which makes researching, organizing, and sharing your family history easy! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced professional, RootsMagic is the perfect tool for you!
Features
- General Features
- Runs under Windows 7, Vista, XP, and 2000
- Single-file database format
- Support for international character sets through Unicode integration
- Integrated backup and restore help safeguard your data
- Back up directly to CD
- Customize the tool bar to include the functions you use most, or create your own toolbar
- Free technical support
- Navigation Views
- Easily switch between navigation views using tabs
- Pedigree View (5 or 6 generations)
- Family View
- Descendant View (2-7 generations)
- People List View (Customizeable)
- WebSearch
- Portability
- RootsMagic To-Go lets you run RootsMagic (program AND data) directly off your flash drive
- Easy to Learn and Use
- Easy file management
- Family members are automatically linked as you add them
- Automatically checks for duplicates as you add people
- Click in an empty parent or child slot on screen to add parents or children
- Just double click on a person's name to edit that person
- All information for a person is shown on a single streamlined 'Edit person' window
- Sidebar on main screen makes navigation easy
- Resize edit and search dialogs to see as much information as you want
- Easy to use Explorer-like help system
- Organize Your Information
- Open multiple databases on screen at the same time
- Open multiple copies (and views) of the same database
- Alternate names in lists makes it easy to find a person by their other names
- Display relationships to root person on status bar
- Drag and drop people between databases
- Automatically link dragged people into the other database
- Named Groups of People lets you create groups you can use in reports or other areas
- Editing
- Add unlimited people, facts/events, notes, sources, and more
- 60 predefined fact types (birth, marriage, death, occupation, religion, etc)
- Easily track multiple relationships, such as adoptions, foster parents, etc
- See a person's age at every event on their edit page
- Enter place history, latitude and longitude for each place
- Create your own user defined fact types, and add any number of roles
- Sharing events among multiple people lets you assign witnesses or other people involved in an event
- Craft your own customized sentence for each fact or role from the live-edit pane in "Edit person" window
- DNA test recording
- Add private events that you can suppress from printing or exporting
- Search Features
- RootsMagic Explorer lets you easily find and edit anyone in your family tree
- Search by name, record number, dates, places, notes, and many other types of data
- NameFind lets you easily find people by married name or nickname
- Search and replace for notes, names, places, media items, etc.
- Printing Features
- Print to any printer connected to your computer
- Customize headers, footers, margins, fonts for any printout
- Save reports to PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
- Save reports to your word processor (RTF)
- E-mail reports directly from the print preview
- Print color coding in pedigree charts, group sheets, box charts, narrative reports, wall charts, ahnentafel, descendant list, and timelines
- Include pictures in narrative reports printed to rich text (RTF) files
- Report Types
- Pedigree Charts (standard and cascading)
- Family Group Sheets
- Box chart reports (both ancestor and descendant)
- Box charts - Select box style
- Narrative reports (modified register and ancestor)
- Individual summary prints everything you know about a person
- Scrapbook of pictures for people, families, sources, and places
- Blank reports (pedigree chart, group sheet, research log, etc)
- Ahnentafel - A list of ancestors
- Birthday List - A list of birthdays and anniversaries in the database
- Descendant List - An indented list of the descendants for a person
- Duplicate List - A list of potential duplicate individuals in the database
- Individual List - A list of the people in the database
- Individual List - Include the facts, parents, spouses, and children of each person
- LDS Ordinance List - A list of LDS ordinances in the database
- Marriage List - A list of the couples in the database
- Place List - A list of the places in the database
- Place List - Print the events which happened in each place
- Place List - Include latitude, longitude, and notes for each place
- Repository List - A list of the repositories in the database
- Repository List - Include the sources, to-do items, and correspondence with each repository
- Source List - A list of the sources in the database (sorted and grouped)
- Narrative reports (register (NEHGS), indented descendancy, Henry descendancy, and D'Aboville descendancy)
- Calendars with birthdays and anniversaries
- Relationship chart shows exactly how two people are related
- Address labels for mailings
- Timeline (or chronology) list that can include events of other people
- Custom report designer, with fields that can span columns or rows and even include notes
- Photo Tree - Tree with 3 generations of pictures
- Address List - A list of the addresses in the database
- Correspondence List - A list of the correspondence in the database
- Fact List - A list of people with or without a particular fact
- Kinship List - A list of everyone related to an individual
- Missing Information List - A list of people missing selected information
- Multimedia List - A list of the media in the database
- Statistics List - Statistics for any group of people
- Surname List - Statistics on the surnames in the database
- Timeline (Chronology) List - A chronological timeline of events for a person or group of people
- To-Do List - A list of the to-do items in the database
- Publish Your Family History
- Make Shareable CDsTM to give to others, with custom menu and a read-only version of RootsMagic
- RootsMagic Publisher lets you create complete books with narrative, notes, charts, photos, source bibliography, index, and more.
- Include cover and title pages, copyright, dedication, acknowledgement, preface pages
- Include table of contents
- Include free form text pages
- Customize your index format and number of columns
- Place index in reports
- Spectacular Wall Charts
- Ancestor Wall Charts in any orientation (left to right, bottom to top, etc)
- Descendant Wall Charts in any orientation (top to bottom, left to right, etc)
- Hourglass Charts (combined ancestors and descendants) in any orientation (top to bottom, left to right, etc)
- Timeline Charts
- Drag and drop to resize and move individual boxes
- Add a background image or color
- Print charts up to 100 feet wide
- Print charts on regular size paper and tape together, or print on large format printer
- Export charts to JPG, EMF, and other graphic formats
- Add freeform text, photos, and shapes to your charts
- Multimedia
- Attach photographs, sound clips, and video clips to any person, family, place, source, or event
- Include photos in your books, group sheets, and other printouts
- Attach documents (Word, PDF, etc) to any person, family, place, source, or event
- Scan photos directly into RootsMagic
- Photo editor lets you adjust sharpness, brightness, contrast, and rotate and zoom images
- Sources - Documenting Your Information
- Add source documentation to any person, fact, or family
- SourceWizard automatically writes proper sources for you
- Almost 400 SourceWizard templates based on Evidence Explained, Evidence!, and Cite Your Sources
- Hints in the Source fields guide you in entering your sources
- Assign industry-standard quality terminology (for sources, information and evidence) to your master sources
- Easy to use source list tracks all your documentation (certificates, census, books, etc)
- Enter each source only once, then reuse it elsewhere
- Add a global source to each person when importing a GEDCOM file.
- Record repositories where the sources are found
- Create your own source templates using the powerful built-in template language
- Easily merge duplicate sources from the master source list
- Add a source to multiple people at once
- Easily make a copy of a source
- Copy (memorize) sources to reuse (paste) elsewhere
- Notes - Telling the Story
- Add notes and stories/notes to any fact, person, couple (family), or shared role, place, place details
- Notes print in books, group sheets, and other reports
- Print your documentation (notes and sources) in your reports, summaries, and forms
- Note formatting (bold, italics, underlining)
- Search and replace in notes
- Spell checking
- Live spell checking
- Thesaurus
- Add private notes that you can suppress from printing or exporting
- Internet Features
- New FamilySearch certified synchronization
- Automatically check for updates to your software
- Family Reunion Planner
- WebSearch searches the web using a variety of search engines or search specific genealogy sites, or add your own sites to search
- Create a website including photos, notes, sources, index, surname list, GEDCOM file, email, etc
- Six types of websites: pedigree charts, group sheets, combo pedigree chart / group sheet, descendant narrative, ancestor narrative, alphabetical narrative
- CSS-styled websites
- Add your own links to your home page
- "Privatize" living persons when creating your website
- Create outputs in Adobe Acrobat (PDF), or web files (HTML) to upload to a web site
- Research Features
- GenSmarts integration to get research suggestions from inside RootsMagic
- Add GenSmarts suggestions to your RootsMagic to-do list with one click
- "To do" list lets you keep track of research you still need to do for any person or family
- Correspondence Log keeps track of all your incoming and outgoing correspondence
- WebSearch searches the web using a variety of search engines or search specific genealogy sites, or add your own sites to search
- Tools
- Date calculator
- Pop up calendar when entering dates
- Soundex calculator (including alternate methods)
- Bookmark any individuals in your database
- History list lets you backtrack through last 200 people visited
- Back button moves back to previously visited people
- Potential problem list
- Problem list is interactive (edit problem person or family directly from problem list)
- Mark possible problems as "not a problem"
- Place name standardization and geocoding
- Mapping people and places
- Spell Checker checks the current notes, or all notes.
- Create groups of people that you can name and select by that name
- Color coding to highlight groups of people's names in color so they are easy to spot
- Counts the number of separate trees in your database.
- Relationship calculator shows you the relationship between any two people
- Merge Features
- Powerful merge capabilities
- Prioritized merge list
- Color-coded record comparisons makes it easy to spot differences
- Mark possible duplicates as "not a match"
- SmartMerge automatically handles the "obvious" duplicates
- ShareMerge helps when collaborating with other RootsMagic users
- Compatibility
- Direct Family Tree Maker import (version 16 and earlier)
- Direct PAF import (versions 2.x and later)
- Direct Family Origins import (versions 4 and later)
- Direct Legacy import (versions 2 and later)
- Full GEDCOM 5.5 support so you can exchange data with other programs
- New FamilySearch import
- Full LDS support. LDS support can be turned on or off.
- New FamilySearch Support
- Access Certified
- Update Certified
- Sync Certified
- Print Certified
- Ordinance Reservation Certified
- Ordinance Request (FOR) Certified
- Helper Certified
See Also
Export a GEDCOM File from RootsMagic
