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Grow your family tree

Find new records, document every fact, and keep your research organized, all beside the people it’s about.

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Part of RootsMagic 12, for Windows and Mac. RootsMagic Essentials is free, with no time limit.

New in RootsMagic 12

Find records automatically

WebHints search for your family online as you work, and show matching records from Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast, and MyHeritage.

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SourceWizard in RootsMagic 12, suggesting source templates for “family bible”

Add a source by typing

New in 12Type a source type, a full citation, a web address, or text from a source you’ve already entered, and SourceWizard suggests a template, or a source you can reuse. Not sure which fits? “Help me choose” walks you through it, one question at a time (see step 1, step 2).

A 1940 census citation in RootsMagic 12, with its footnote, short footnote, and bibliography

Document every fact

Record where every fact came from. Pick a source template based on Evidence Explained, fill in the blanks, and RootsMagic writes the footnote, short footnote, and bibliography for you. You can even create your own source types.

New in 12The citation editor is organized into four tabs: Citation, Source Text, Quality, and Links.

New in 12The source template converter changes a free-form source, and all its citations, to a template, or a templated source back to free-form (see it).

Life Summary options in RootsMagic 12: choosing panels, their order, lifespans, and spouses

Life Summary your way

New in 12Choose which Life Summary panels you see (events, spouses and children, parents and siblings) and put them in any order. Show lifespans for family members, and the spouse for family events.

The new note editor in RootsMagic 12 with small caps, superscript, and strikethrough

A new note editor

New in 12Live spell check as you type (see it), plus superscript, subscript, small caps, and strikethrough.

New in 12KeyTips: tap Alt (Option on a Mac) on the main screen or the Edit Person screen, then press the letters shown to get where you’re going, without the mouse (see them).

Research tasks for Leroy Leander Harris in RootsMagic 12, with one in progress

Track your research

Tasks keep your research on track: set goals and priorities, log your searches, and record what you found (and what you didn’t), for a person, a family, or a whole project. (Full version.)

Leeds Method report in RootsMagic 12, grouping DNA matches into colored clusters

Put your DNA matches to work

Record DNA matches from any testing company, see the predicted relationships with their probabilities, and view shared matches. Cluster matches with the Leeds Method, and print detailed reports. (Full version.)

More ways RootsMagic helps

Who was there?

The Who Was There list shows everyone in your tree who was in a particular place at a particular time, estimating life spans when dates are missing. (Full version.)

Powerful searches

Advanced Search combines rules with And, Or, and But Not, even following a Y-DNA or mitochondrial line, and saves the results as a group. Find Everywhere searches every kind of record at once. (Full version.)

Weigh the evidence

Rate each citation’s source, information, and evidence, and mark facts and relationships Proven, Disproven, Disputed, or Proposed. Share one census entry with the whole household, each with a role.

Places on the map

A gazetteer of 3.5 million places finds the coordinates for your places, and maps the events for a whole group of people at once. (Full version.)

Everything in one window

Work with people, places, sources, media, tasks, and more from one place. Can’t find a command? Type it in the Command Palette.

Family health histories

Record health conditions to see family health trends. Print a family health history with the names replaced by “Private,” ready for a doctor.

What genealogists say

RootsMagic combines easy data entry with a very wide selection of reports and projects… RootsMagic offers the most comprehensive printing options in the group test.