RootsMagic Features
Below are the features of RootsMagic™
4.
= Feature new to version 4.
Features
- UK Version (only available through S&N Genealogy Supplies).
UK Live Spell Checker and Thesaurus
- UK Content
RootsMagic-To-Go - Carry your research with you on a USB memory
stick
Support for BMD quarter and Quaker dates
- 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
Sidebar on main screen
-
Easier file management with one file databases
Switch between pedigree, family, descendant, people and WebSearch
views
Alternate names in lists
Named Groups of People
Streamlined edit screen
- 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 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 Standard and Platinum Editions
- Easy to use Explorer-like help system
Organise Your Information
Sharing events among multiple people
- 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 CDs 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 colour
- Print charts up to 57 feet wide (Note: Windows prior to XP/NT
max. size 26 feet)
- 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 custom report designer
Improved report engine
Direct e-mailing of 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 colour 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 list
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 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
Customisable sentence templates
-
Customisable source templates
-
Improved SourceWizard
BCG-standard source qualities
DNA test recording
- 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
-
Integrated WebSearch
CSS-styled web sites
- Automatically create a web site including photos, notes, sources,
index, surname list, GEDCOM file, email, etc
- Six types of web sites: pedigree charts, group sheets, combo
pedigree chart / group sheet, descendant narrative, ancestor narrative,
alphabetical narrative
- Add your own links to your home page
- “Privatise” living persons in your web site
- Automatically check for updates to your software
- Family Reunion Planner
Tools
RootsMagic To-Go - Run RootsMagic direct from a USB memory stick
Mapping people and places
-
Live spell checking
Colour-coded record comparisons
Place name standardization and geocoding
- UK Spell Checker checks the current notes, or all notes.
- Bookmark any individuals in your database
- History list lets you backtrack through last 200 people visited
- Back button moves back to previously visited people
- Global search and replace for notes, sources, names, places,
etc.
- Colour 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
- Prioritised 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
- Import files from RootsMagic versions 1-3
- Direct Family Tree Maker import (prior to 2008 only)
- 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)
- Direct Legacy Import
- 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.
|
SEE ALSO... |
 |
|
|
 |
|