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General Features

  • Runs under Windows Vista, XP, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and 2003
  • System requirements: 32MB RAM, 40MB hard drive space, CDROM drive
  • Available on CD or by download
  • Switch between pedigree, family, or descendant views
  • View 5 or 6 generations at once on the pedigree view
  • View 2 through 7 generations at once on the descendant view
  • Easily track multiple relationships, such as adoptions, foster parents, etc
  • Integrated backup and restore help safeguard your data
  • 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
  • Resize edit and search dialogs to see as much information as you want
  • Customize the tool bar to include the functions you use most
  • Select toolbar button style
  • Easy to use Explorer-like help system
  • Video tutorial included on CD

Organize Your Information

  • Open multiple databases on screen at the same time
  • Drag and drop people between databases
  • 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
  • See a person's age at every event on their edit page
  • Add private events that you can suppress from printing or exporting
  • Add private notes that you can suppress from printing or exporting
  • Display relationships to root person on status bar

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
  • 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)
  • Select the size of pictures in narrative reports (books)
  • Include pictures in narrative reports printed to rich text (RTF) files
  • Ancestor and descendant box charts
  • 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)
  • Easily merge duplicate sources from the master source list
  • Add a source to multiple people at once
  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Direct Family Tree Maker import
  • Direct PAF import (versions 2.x and later)
  • Direct Family Origins import (versions 4 and later)
  • Direct Family Origins backup import (versions 5 and later)
  • 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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