General Features

• Runs under Windows Vista, XP, and 2000
• System requirements: 64MB RAM, 160MB hard drive space, CDROM drive
• Available on CD or by download
• RootsMagic To-Go lets you run RootsMagic (program AND data) directly off your flash drive
• Switch between pedigree, family, descendant, people list, or WebSearch views
• View 5 or 6 generations at once on the pedigree view
• View 2 through 7 generations at once on the descendant view
• Person View gives a list view of everyone in your database
• Easily track multiple relationships, such as adoptions, foster parents, etc
• Single-file database format
• Integrated backup and restore help safeguard your data
• Back up directly to CD

Easy to Learn and Use

• Easier file management
• 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
• Streamlined edit screen is the easiest to use data entry screen available
• RootsMagic Explorer lets you easily find and edit anyone in your family tree
• Sidebar on main screen makes navigation easy
• Resize edit and search dialogs to see as much information as you want
• Customize the tool bar to include the functions you use most
• Color-coded record comparisons makes it easy to spot differences
• 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
• Sharing events among multiple people lets you assign witnesses or other people involved in an event
• Named Groups of People lets you create groups you can use in reports or other areas
• 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
• Alternate names in lists makes it easy to find a person by their other names
• DNA test recording
• 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
• Place index in reports
• 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

• Improved report engine
• Direct e-mailing of reports from the print preview
• 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
• Improved custom report designer
• Relationship chart shows exactly how two people are related
• Scrapbook of pictures for people, families, sources, and places
• Address labels for mailings
• Dozens of lists

Multimedia

• Improved multimedia handling
• 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 rotate and zoom images
• Include photos in your books, group sheets, and other printouts

Documenting Your Family History

• SourceWizard automatically writes proper sources for you
• Improved SourceWizard based on Evidence!, Evidence Explained, and Cite Your Sources
• Customizable sentence templates means you aren't limited by built-in source types
• BCG-standard source qualities lets you examine your evidence the way the professionals do
• 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

• Integrated WebSearch
• New FamilySearch certified synchronization (here are some tutorials)
• 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
• CSS-styled websites
• 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

• Place name standardization and geocoding
• Mapping people and places
• 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.
• Live spell checking
• Global search and replace for notes, 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 (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
• GEDCOM import option to combine into current database or create a new database
• Full LDS support. LDS support can be turned on or off.