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General Features
- Runs
under Windows Vista, XP, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and 2003
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System
requirements: 32MB RAM, 40MB hard drive space, CDROM drive
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 Available
on CD or by download -
Switch between pedigree, family, or descendant views
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View 5 or 6 generations at once on the pedigree view
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View 2 through 7 generations at once on the descendant view
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Easily
track multiple relationships, such as adoptions, foster
parents, etc
- Integrated
backup and restore help safeguard your data
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Back up directly to CD
Easy to Learn and Use
- Family
members are automatically linked as you add them
- Automatically
checks for duplicates as you add people
- Just
double click on a person's name to edit that person
- RootsMagic
Explorer lets you easily find and edit anyone in your family
tree
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Resize edit and search dialogs to see as much information as you
want
- Customize
the tool bar to include the functions you use most
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Select toolbar button style
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Easy
to use Explorer-like help system
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Video tutorial included on CD
Organize Your Information
- Open
multiple databases on screen at the same time
- Drag
and drop people between databases
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Automatically link dragged people into the other database
- Open
multiple copies (and views) of the same database
- Add
unlimited
people, facts/events, notes, sources, and more
- 60 predefined fact types (birth, marriage, death, occupation,
religion, etc)
- Create your own
user defined fact types
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See a person's age at every event on their edit page
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Add private events that you can suppress from printing or
exporting
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Add private notes that you can suppress from printing or
exporting
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Display relationships to root person on status bar
Publish Your Family History
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Make Shareable CDstm to give to others, with custom menu and a
read-only version of RootsMagic
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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
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Include table of contents
- Include free form text pages
- Customize your index format and number of columns
- Print to printer,
Adobe Acrobat (PDF), or export to your word processor (RTF)
- Customize
headers, footers, margins, fonts for any printout
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 57 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
Reports
- Pedigree
Charts (standard and cascading)
- Family
Group Sheets
- Narrative
reports (modified
register, register (NEHGS), indented descendancy, Henry descendancy, D'Aboville
descendancy, and ancestor)
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Select the
size of pictures in narrative reports (books)
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Include
pictures in narrative reports printed to rich text (RTF) files
- Ancestor
and descendant box charts
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Print
color coding in pedigree charts, group sheets, box charts,
narrative reports, wall charts, ahnentafel, descendant list, and
timelines
- Individual
summary prints everything you know about a person
- Calendars
with birthdays and anniversaries
- Custom
report designer
- Relationship
chart shows exactly how two people are related
- Scrapbook
of pictures for people, families, sources, and places
- Blank
pedigree charts, family group sheets, research logs, correspondence logs, and cemetery records forms
- Address
labels for mailings
- Dozens
of lists
Multimedia
- Attach
photographs, sound clips, video clips and documents to any person,
family, place,
source, or event
- Scan
photos directly into RootsMagic
Photo
editor lets you adjust sharpness, brightness, contrast, and
crop,
rotate, and zoom images
- Include
photos in your books, group sheets, and other printouts
- Copy photos from your scrapbook directly to the clipboard
Documenting Your Family History
- SourceWizard
automatically writes proper sources for you
- Add
notes and stories/notes to any fact or person
- Easy
to use source list tracks all your documentation
(certificates, census, books, etc)
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Easily merge duplicate sources from the master source list
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Add a source to multiple people at once
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Easily make a copy of a source
- Enter
each source only once, then reuse it elsewhere
- Add a
global source to each person when importing a GEDCOM file.
- Track
repositories where the sources are found
- Print
your documentation (notes and sources) in your reports, summaries, and forms
Internet Features
- Automatically
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
- Add
your own links to your home page
- "Privatize"
living persons in your website
- Automatically
check for updates to your software
- Family
Reunion Planner
Research Features
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GenSmarts
integration to get research suggestions from inside RootsMagic
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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
Tools
- Bookmark
any individuals in your database
- History list lets you backtrack through last 200 people
visited
- Back button moves back to previously visited people
- Spell
Checker checks the current notes, or all notes.
- Global
search and replace for notes, sources, names, places, etc.
- Color code groups of individuals in your database
- Counts the number of separate trees in your database.
- Date
calculator
- Pop up calendar when entering dates
- Relationship
calculator shows you the relationship between any two people
- Soundex
calculator (including alternate methods)
- Powerful
merge capabilities, including SmartMerge and ShareMerge
- Prioritized merge list
- Mark possible duplicates as "not a match"
- Interactive problem list
(edit problem person or family directly from problem list)
- Mark possible problems as "not a problem"
- Search
by name, record number, dates,
places, notes, and many other types of data
- Place
list lets you enter place history, latitude and longitude for each place
Compatibility
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Direct
Family Tree Maker
import
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Direct PAF
import (versions 2.x and later)
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Direct
Family Origins import (versions 4 and later)
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Direct
Family Origins backup import (versions 5 and later)
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Full
GEDCOM 5.5 support so you can exchange data with other
programs
GEDCOM
import option to combine into current database or create a new
database
- Full LDS support,
including full TempleReady support, automatic ordinance
updating, selection of qualified ordinances, and the ability
to view and edit all ordinance information from a single
screen. LDS support can be turned on or off.
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