RootsMagic Product Details
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General Features
- Runs under Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP
- Three navigation views: Pedigree, Family, Descendants
- Open multiple databases on screen at the same time
- Drag and drop people between databases
- 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
- Easily track multiple relationships, such as adoptions, foster parents, etc
- Integrated backup and restore help safeguard your data
- Easy to Learn and Use
- Work from pedigree, family, or descendants view (or switch back and forth)
- 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
- Customize the tool bar to include the functions you use most
- Easy to use Explorer-like help system
Publish Your Family History
- RootsMagic Publisher lets you create complete books with narrative, notes, charts, photos, source bibliography, index, and more.
- NEW Include cover page
- NEW Include title page
- NEW Include table of contents
- NEW Include copyright page
- NEW Include dedication page
- NEW Include acknowledgements page
- NEW Include preface
- NEW Include free form text pages
- NEW 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
- NEW Ancestor Wall Charts in any orientation (left to right, bottom to top, etc)
- NEW Descendant Wall Charts in any orientation (top to bottom, left to right, etc)
- NEW Hourglass Charts (combined ancestors and descendants) in any orientation (top to bottom, left to right, etc)
- NEW Timeline Charts
- NEW Drag and drop to resize and move individual boxes
- NEW Add a background image or color
- NEW Print charts up to 57 feet wide
- NEW Print charts on regular size paper and tape together, or print on large format printer
- NEW Export charts to JPG, EMF, and other graphic formats
- NEW Add freeform text, photos, and shapes to your charts
Reports
- Pedigree Charts (standard and cascading)
- Family Group Sheets
- Narrative reports (modified register, indented descendancy, Henry descendancy, D'Aboville descendancy, and ancestor)
- NEW Register format (NEHGS) descendant report
- NEW Ancestor box charts
- NEW Descendant box charts
- 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
- NEW Copy photos from your scrapbook directly to the clipboard
Documenting Your Family History
- SourceWizard automatically writes proper sources for you
- NEW More SourceWizard templates (newspaper clipping, diary or journal, military service file, marriage license, website, diploma, personal knowledge)
- Add notes and stories/notes to any fact or person
- 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.
- 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
Tools
- Correspondence Log lets you keep track of all your incoming and outgoing correspondence
- Bookmark any individuals in your database
- NEW History list lets you backtrack through last 200 people visited
- NEW Back button moves back to previously visited people
- pell Checker checks the current notes, or all notes.
- Global search and replace for notes, sources, names, places, etc.
- NEW Color code groups of individuals in your database
- Counts the number of separate trees in your database.
- "To do" list lets you keep track of research you still need to do for any person or family
- Date calculator
- NEW 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
- NEW Prioritized merge list
- NEW Mark possible duplicates as "not a match"
- NEW Interactive problem list
- NEW Edit problem person or family directly from problem list
- NEW 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 for each place
- NEW Place list lets you enter the latitude and longitude for each place
Compatibility
- 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 ordinances
System Requirements:
- Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT or Windows 95.
Screenshots:
A complete list of features and side-by-side comparisons are available on the Genealogy Software Review HomePage.
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